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What are the reasons why we need to improve performance? The JVM is a powerful piece of software – this is the reason why Java has maintained its popularity over the past 26+ years. But… there are some ways that ...

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03.13.2023 Improved Java Performance Sans Code Changes with Simon Ritter What are the reasons why we need to improve performance? The JVM is a powerful piece of software – this is the reason why Java has maintained its popularity over the past 26+ years. But… there are some ways that ...
03.02.2023 Netlify with Mathias Biilmann Christensen Netlify is a cloud-based platform that provides web developers with an all-in-one workflow to build, deploy, and manage modern web projects. Matt Biilmann is the CEO of Netlify and he joins us today. This episode is hosted by Mike Bifulco. ...
08.31.2022 Cloud Native Observability with Martin Mao Maintaining availability in a modern digital application is critical to keeping your application operating and available and to keep meeting your customers growing demands. There are many observability platforms out there and certainly Prometheus is a popular open source solution ...
08.24.2022 Architecting for Scale with Lee Atchison Originally published on February 12, 2022. Lee Atchison spent seven years at Amazon working in retail, software distribution, and Amazon Web Services. He then moved to New Relic, where he has spent four years scaling the company’s internal architecture. From ...
08.16.2022 K8s Troubleshooting with Itiel Shwartz Cloud native applications utilizing microservice architectures has grown into one of the most popular application architectural patterns in recent years. The value of leveraging dynamic cloud resources, along with the flexibility and scalability of microservice architectures, creates a strong paradigm ...
07.06.2022 WorkOS with Michael Grinich Enterprise-grade authentication is often an essential ingredient to virtually all applications in today’s world. However, companies often have a hard time understanding the value of that authentication especially during the early stages of product development. And hardening of an application ...
06.28.2022 Mailchimp Engineering with Eric Muntz Mailchimp is an all-in-one marketing platform for growing businesses, empowering millions of customers around the world to launch, build, and grow their businesses with world-class marketing technology, award-winning customer support, and inspiring content. Eric Muntz is Mailchimp’s CTO, responsible for ...
06.27.2022 Technical Venture Capital with Tim Tully Venture capital investment has continued to flow into technology startups. No one builds technology from scratch. There are cloud services, software libraries, 3rd party services, and software platforms that modern entrepreneurs must adopt to build their products efficiently and quickly. ...
06.17.2022 Kubernetes Spend with Webb Brown This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His most recent book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media) is an essential resource for technical teams looking ...
06.01.2022 Kubernetes Security Compliance with Jimmy Mesta The Kubernetes ecosystem has drastically changed how development teams ship software. While Kubernetes has provided many advancements in cloud infrastructure, it has also left organizations with massive security blindspots. KSOC was created to give developers and security teams a single ...
05.28.2022 New Relic Architecture with Nic Benders In software engineering, telemetry is the data that is collected about your applications. Unlike logging, which is used in the development of apps to pinpoint errors and code flows, telemetry data includes all operational data including logs, metrics, events, traces, ...
05.26.2022 Conductor Orchestration with Boney Sekh One of the challenges with Microservices architecture is how you manage dependencies between your services when implementing workflows. Conductor is an open-source microservices and workflow orchestration platform. Boney Sekh co-founded Orkes Inc – a company focused on offering Conductor as ...
05.21.2022 CloudGraph with Tyson Kunovsky The advent of the cloud introduced a new form of technical debt in which organizations can lose track of what infrastructure they have and how it relates to the business. While the cloud’s native APIs offer some transparency into your ...
05.03.2022 Scaling WordPress with Brandon DuRette WP Engine is a domain specific cloud provider that hosts high performance WordPress infrastructure. This website, Software Engineering Daily, runs on WP Engine. Scaling a domain specific cloud provider for WordPress includes complexities at the level of the database, application, ...
04.21.2022 Loft Kubernetes Namespaces with Lukas Gentele Loft is a platform for Kubernetes self-service and multi-tenancy. Loft allows you to control Kubernetes clusters with added multi-tenancy and self-service capabilities to get more value out of Kubernetes beyond simply cluster management. It allows for cost optimization, more efficient ...
04.19.2022 Distributed Tracing Infrastructure with Ben Sigelman and Alex Kehlenbeck Ben Sigelman Alex Kehlenbeck Observability consists of metrics, logs, and traces. Lightstep is a company that builds distributed tracing infrastructure, which requires them to store and serve high volumes of trace data. There are numerous architecture challenges that come with ...
03.29.2022 SingleStore with Jordan Tigani SingleStore is a multi-use, multi-model database designed for transactional and analytic workloads, as well as search and other domain specific applications. SingleStore is the evolution of the database company MemSQL, which sought to bring fast, in-memory SQL database technology to ...
03.24.2022 Vantage Engineering with Ben Schaechter Vantage is a system for optimizing cloud costs. It provides tools and interfaces for developers to analyze how they are spending on AWS resources, and has recently expanded into GCP as well. Vantage users gain an easy interface into their ...
03.17.2022 Substack with Chris Best Substack is a platform for subscription based content, covering newsletters, podcasts, and soon video. The design and speed of the platform are notable–with a minimalistic format that simply gets creators paid for its work, Substack has gained massive popularity. Chris ...
03.16.2022 Nodeless Kubernetes with Madhuri Yechuri Managing Kubernetes nodes leads to operational complexity, security issues, and nodes that are perhaps more expensive to run than necessary. Deferring the node management to an underlying platform abstracts away these problems and can improve operations. Madhuri Yechuri runs Elotl, ...
02.13.2022 Architecting for Scale with Lee Atchison Lee Atchison spent seven years at Amazon working in retail, software distribution, and Amazon Web Services. He then moved to New Relic, where he has spent four years scaling the company’s internal architecture. From his decade of experience at fast-growing ...
02.04.2022 Buoyant Cloud with William Morgan Linkerd is a service mesh that runs efficiently with a low memory footprint. We have covered the details of Linkerd in previous episodes. Buoyant is the company that sells Linkerd as a service, and today’s show focuses on the engineering ...
01.31.2022 Scaling PlanetScale with Sugu Sougoumarane Database product companies typically have a few phases. First, the company will develop a technology with some kind of innovation such as speed, scalability, or durability. The company will offer support contracts around that technology for a period of time, ...
01.27.2022 Rackspace with Jeff DeVerter Rackspace is a multi cloud solutions provider that has evolved beyond its cloud computing origins into a diverse set of services and support offerings. Customers work with Rackspace to adopt cloud application deployments, modern data analytics, and all the other ...
01.14.2022 Infrastructure as Code with Rob Hirschfeld Infrastructure as code is a concept that has delighted software engineers, dev ops, and engineering management across the board. It’s neither fun nor efficient to configure the infrastructure and environments software teams require. Operating software at scale on a cloud, ...
12.08.2021 Render with Anurag Goel As cloud providers enable greater levels of specificity and control, they empower compliance-driven enterprise companies. This level of parameterization is downright inhospitable to a new software engineer and can be a cognitive barrier to entry for a senior professional with ...
11.20.2021 Software Engineering at Google with Titus Winters Thanks to the amazing books, blogs, videos, quickstarts, frameworks, and other software-related resources, getting started as a software engineer is easier than ever. Although you can get started in a day, it can take years to become a master of ...
11.16.2021 Yotascale with Jake Reichert Modern businesses run on the cloud and increasingly so they run on multi-cloud infrastructure. As any growing company can tell you, cloud costs can easily run far out of control. Today’s enterprises are trying to deliver new products and services ...
11.10.2021 #FREEZUCK \| ?masked…?… !(DOCTORS)!! Software Engineering Daily invites Owen Frank Davis, Paul Davis, Kyle Davis, and Robbie Davis for a joint interview on the subject of reproduction and teething, as well as Lisch fascitis. Aledade and Kubernetes are both inconsiderate ideas for navigation. They ...
10.27.2021 Remote Development in the Cloud with Gitpod & OpenVSCode Server with Sven Efftinge One of the most painful parts of getting started on a new development team is getting one’s environment set up. Whether it’s undocumented steps, overly complex setups, or simply the challenges of understanding how the pieces fit together, getting a ...
10.18.2021 Developer Relations at Google with Luke Mahe The last 15 years have seen the emergence of cloud-based developer APIs and services as dominant components of the developer toolchain. As a result, there has never been more power at developers’ fingertips. But making that power usable and accessible ...
09.27.2021 Darklang Deployless Applications with Paul Biggar The way we write, compile, and run software has continued to evolve since computer programming began. The cloud, serverless, no-code, and CI/CD are all contemporary ideas introduced to help software engineers spend more time on their application and less time ...
09.10.2021 Tetrate: Application Aware Networking with Varun Talwar An application network is a way to connect applications, data and devices through APIs that expose some or all of their assets and data on the network. That network allows other consumers from other parts of the business to come ...
08.31.2021 ClickUp: Workflow Vision with Zeb Evans Whether organizing projects, working from home, or conducting business, you need to use many necessary apps and cloud services to do the job. Despite these apps being necessary, switching between them and keeping them interconnected and updated is a challenge. ...
08.30.2021 Argo: Kubernetes-Native Tools with Alex Collins Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration service released by Google in 2014. It has quickly grown into a platform with a huge community of enthusiasts and professionals. Besides becoming the de facto standard for container orchestration, it has fostered ...
08.17.2021 getoctane.io: Pay-As-You-Go Pricing with Akash Khanolkar Pay-as-you-go pricing has become a strong selling point for modern SaaS companies as well as cloud-based companies. Public cloud providers, for example, typically only charge you for only what you use. But implementing this option is challenging because it requires ...
08.12.2021 Cloud Run: Serverless Applications with Steren Giannini Serverless computing is a cloud computing solution that lets developers deploy applications to containers without managing the servers themselves. Servers and resources are provisioned automatically, pay only for what you use, and experience little to no errors or downtime (ionos). ...
08.10.2021 Fly.io: Geographic App Deployment with Kurt Mackey Latency is the time it takes to get from point A to point B. In programming, this might be the time from a user selecting their photos library to the pictures reaching their computer screen from the database. Fly.io is ...
08.04.2021 Okteto: Cloud-Native Applications on Kubernetes with Ramiro Berreleza Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system. It makes managing container clusters possible as well as deploying code changes to these containers. Microservice architecture is widely used today in large part because of Kubernetes. However, using it can require a ...
07.29.2021 Shoreline: Fleet Automation with Anurag Gupta In today’s containerized world, it’s common to encounter similar issues with known solutions across multiple pods. For most people there are 2 solutions: go pod-by-pod finding and fixing the problem, or do that while also spending months trying to automate ...
07.23.2021 Pulsar Revisited with Jonathan Ellis Apache Pulsar is a cloud-native, distributed messaging and streaming platform originally created at Yahoo! and now a top-level Apache Software Foundation project (pulsar.apache.org). Pulsar is used by many large companies like Yahoo!, Verizon media, Tencent, and Splunk. The company DataStax, ...
07.08.2021 Dynatrace for DevOps and SRE with Aloïs Reitbauer The company Dynatrace provides intelligent observability, continuous automation, and causation-based AI to help Cloud Ops, DevOps, and SRE teams transform faster, innovate more, and deliver better business outcomes. They offer application performance monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, cloud automation, application security, and ...
06.11.2021 Oracle Cloud with Salman Paracha Corey Quinn is guest hosting on Software Engineering Daily this week, presenting a Tour of the Cloud. Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, where he helps companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller ...
06.10.2021 Digital Ocean with John Allspaw Corey Quinn is guest hosting on Software Engineering Daily this week, presenting a Tour of the Cloud. Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, where he helps companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller ...
06.09.2021 GCP with Liz Fong-Jones Corey Quinn is guest hosting on Software Engineering Daily this week, presenting a Tour of the Cloud. Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, where he helps companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller ...
06.08.2021 Azure with Troy Hunt Corey Quinn is guest hosting on Software Engineering Daily this week, presenting a Tour of the Cloud. Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, where he helps companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller ...
06.07.2021 AWS with Pete Cheslock Corey Quinn is guest hosting on Software Engineering Daily this week, presenting a Tour of the Cloud. Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, where he helps companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller ...
06.03.2021 Special Edition Repeat: AWS Analysis with Corey Quinn Next week Corey Quinn will be guest hosting on Software Engineering Daily, presenting a Tour of the Cloud. Corey Quinn is the Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, where he helps companies fix their AWS bill by making it ...
06.01.2021 AWS Outpost Engineering with Joshua Burgin AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. AWS Outposts is ideal for workloads that ...
05.24.2021 Portainer: Container Management with Neil Cresswell Running applications in containerized environments involves regularly organizing, adding and replacing containers. This complex job may involve managing clusters of containers in different geographic locations with different configuration requirements. Platforms like Kubernetes are great for managing this complexity, but include ...

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Cloud Engineering – Software Engineering Daily episodes:

Improved Java Performance Sans Code Changes with Simon Ritter

Netlify with Mathias Biilmann Christensen

Cloud Native Observability with Martin Mao

Architecting for Scale with Lee Atchison

K8s Troubleshooting with Itiel Shwartz

WorkOS with Michael Grinich

Mailchimp Engineering with Eric Muntz

Technical Venture Capital with Tim Tully

Kubernetes Spend with Webb Brown

Kubernetes Security Compliance with Jimmy Mesta

New Relic Architecture with Nic Benders

Conductor Orchestration with Boney Sekh

CloudGraph with Tyson Kunovsky

Scaling WordPress with Brandon DuRette

Loft Kubernetes Namespaces with Lukas Gentele

Distributed Tracing Infrastructure with Ben Sigelman and Alex Kehlenbeck

SingleStore with Jordan Tigani

Vantage Engineering with Ben Schaechter

Substack with Chris Best

Nodeless Kubernetes with Madhuri Yechuri

Architecting for Scale with Lee Atchison

Buoyant Cloud with William Morgan

Scaling PlanetScale with Sugu Sougoumarane

Rackspace with Jeff DeVerter

Infrastructure as Code with Rob Hirschfeld

Render with Anurag Goel

Software Engineering at Google with Titus Winters

Yotascale with Jake Reichert

#FREEZUCK | ?masked…?… !(DOCTORS)!!

Remote Development in the Cloud with Gitpod & OpenVSCode Server with Sven Efftinge

Developer Relations at Google with Luke Mahe

Darklang Deployless Applications with Paul Biggar

Tetrate: Application Aware Networking with Varun Talwar

ClickUp: Workflow Vision with Zeb Evans

Argo: Kubernetes-Native Tools with Alex Collins

getoctane.io: Pay-As-You-Go Pricing with Akash Khanolkar

Cloud Run: Serverless Applications with Steren Giannini

Fly.io: Geographic App Deployment with Kurt Mackey

Okteto: Cloud-Native Applications on Kubernetes with Ramiro Berreleza

Shoreline: Fleet Automation with Anurag Gupta

Pulsar Revisited with Jonathan Ellis

Dynatrace for DevOps and SRE with Aloïs Reitbauer

Oracle Cloud with Salman Paracha

Digital Ocean with John Allspaw

GCP with Liz Fong-Jones

Azure with Troy Hunt

AWS with Pete Cheslock

Special Edition Repeat: AWS Analysis with Corey Quinn

AWS Outpost Engineering with Joshua Burgin

Portainer: Container Management with Neil Cresswell