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• 02.01.2024

  Building Chess.com with Jay Severson

  Chess.com started in 2007 and grew steadily in the years following. The platform exploded in popularity during the pandemic, to the point that their servers struggled with the traffic. It was a great problem to have. Chess.com was instrumental in...

  
• 01.31.2024

  Mastodon with Eugen Rochko

  Mastodon is an open source, decentralized social network. Eugen Rochko started building Mastodon in response to his dissatisfaction with centralized social networks like Facebook and Twitter. In the Mastodon model, users can run their own nodes, and other users can...

  
• 01.12.2024

  AWS re:Invent Special: PartyRock Generative AI Apps with Mike Miller

  This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of AWS re:Invent 2023, which took place from November 27th through December 1st in Las Vegas. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Mike Miller who...

  
• 01.11.2024

  AWS re:Invent Special: The AWS Cloud Institute with Kevin Kelly

  This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of AWS re:Invent 2023, which took place from November 27th through December 1st in Las Vegas. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Kevin Kelly who...

  
• 01.10.2024

  AWS re:Invent Special: CircleCI with Rob Zuber

  This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of AWS re:Invent 2023, which took place from November 27th through December 1st in Las Vegas. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Rob Zuber who...

  
• 01.04.2024

  CockroachDB with Jordan Lewis

  SQL databases were built for data consistency and vertical scalability. They did this very well for the long era of monolithic applications running in dedicated, single-server environments. However, their design presented a problem when the paradigm changed to distributed applications...

  
• 12.27.2023

  Kubefirst with Frédéric Harper

  Frédéric Harper is the Principal Developer Advocate at Kubefirst, which is an open source platform that integrates some of the most popular tools in the Kubernetes space. Frédéric has deep experience at major software companies having worked at npm, Mozilla,...

  
• 12.20.2023

  Supabase Security with Inian Parameshwaran

  Supabase is an open source backend-as-a-service platform and competes directly with Google’s Firebase. A key distinction between them is that Firebase is a document store, while Supabase uses Postgres, which is a SQL-based database management system. Software Engineering Daily last...

  
• 12.14.2023

  Kubernetes at Google with Ben Elder

  Containers make it possible to standardize the deployment of software to any compute environment. However, managing and orchestrating containers at scale is a major challenge. Kubernetes was originally created by Google and solves the problem of scaling container deployment. Ben...

  
• 12.04.2023

  KubeCon Special: Docker with Justin Cormack

  This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of KubeCon 2023, which took place from November 6th through 9th in Chicago. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Justin Cormack who is the CTO...

  
• 12.02.2023

  KubeCon Special: Acorn with Darren Shepherd

  This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of KubeCon 2023, which took place from November 6th through 9th in Chicago.   In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Darren Shepherd who is the...

  
• 12.01.2023

  KubeCon Special: GitLab’s AI Vision with David DeSanto

  This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of KubeCon 2023, which took place from November 6th through 9th in Chicago. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with David DeSanto who is the Chief...

  
• 11.21.2023

  Shopify with Mike Shaver

  Shopify is an e-commerce platform focused on enabling small businesses to sell online. The company was founded in 2006 and since then has become a core technology of online business infrastructure. Mike Shaver is a Distinguished Engineer at Shopify and...

  
• 10.26.2023

  A Different Monitoring Philosophy with Costa Tsaousis

  Observability is becoming an increasingly competitive space in the software world. Many developers have heard of Datadog and New Relic, but there are a seemingly countless number of observability products out there. Costa Tsaousis (he/him) is the Founder and CEO...

  
• 10.17.2023

  Postman and the Growth of APIs with Joyce Lin

  If you’re a developer, you’ve probably worked with an API, or application programming interface. An API is a set of rules for how to communicate with an applications or device. For example, when you build an app and want to...

  
• 10.12.2023

  Observability with Eduardo Silva

  There are hundreds of observability companies out there, and many ways to think about observability, such as application performance monitoring, server monitoring, and tracing. In a production application, multiple tools are often needed to get proper visibility on the application....

  
• 10.11.2023

  The Future of HTTP with Nick Shadrin and Roman Arutyunyan

  The Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is used to load webpages using hypertext links, and it’s the foundation of the web. Tim Berners-Lee famously created HTTP version 0.9 in 1989, and defined the essential behavior of a client and a...

  
• 10.10.2023

  Flightcontrol and Going Beyond Heroku with Brandon Bayer

  A platform as a service, or PaaS, is the concept of a complete development and deployment environment in the cloud. One of the best examples is Heroku, which was created in 2007 and later acquired by Salesforce. Although these services...

  
• 09.28.2023

  Edge Databases with Glauber Costa

  Picture a user interacting with a web app on their phone. When they tap the screen the app triggers communication with a server, which in turn communicates with a database. This process then happens in reverse to eventually update what...

  
• 09.26.2023

  AI-powered DevX at AWS with Deepak Singh

  Developer experience, or DevX, is a critical aspect of modern software development that focuses on creating a seamless and productive environment for developers. It encompasses everything from the tools and technologies used in the development process to the documentation, libraries,...

  
• 09.21.2023

  AutoCloud and Infrastructure as Code with Tyson Kunovsky

  Infrastructure as code refers to the use of software and configuration files to convey infrastructure specifications. This is in contrast to the traditional approach of manually provisioning servers, operating systems, storage, and other infrastructure components. With the growth of cloud...

  
• 09.14.2023

  Blameless with Ken Gavranovic

  Incident management is the process of responding to unplanned events or service interruptions, and then restoring service to an operational state. Having robust incident management is vital to many software teams. Blameless is a framework designed to help software companies...

  
• 09.12.2023

  Minimum Viable Security for Cloud Apps with David Melamed

  Cloud applications continue to grow in popularity, but ensuring the security of these applications often presents a formidable engineering challenge. This challenge motivated the creation of Jit. Jit is a continuous security platform for developers, and seeks to enable every...

  
• 09.07.2023

  Highly Scalable NoSQL with Dor Laor

  ScyllaDB is a fast and highly scalable NoSQL database designed to provide predictable performance at a massive cloud scale. It can handle millions of operations per second at a scale of gigabytes or petabytes. It’s also designed to be compatible...

  
• 08.24.2023

  Modern Coding Superpowers with Varun Mohan

  Exafunction is a leader in deploying deep learning models at scale. One of their products is Codeium, a coding assistant for software developers based on Exafunction’s deep learning technology. Codeium provides AI-assisted autocompletion in your IDE, making it easier for...

  
• 07.25.2023

  CAP Theorem 23 Years Later with Eric Brewer

  The CAP theorem, also known as Brewer’s theorem, is a fundamental principle in distributed systems that states that it is impossible to simultaneously achieve three desirable properties in a distributed data system: Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance. Eric Brewer is...

  
• 07.18.2023

  Cloud-native Search with Paul Masurel

  Elasticsearch is the most established solution today to search and analyze large amounts of logs. However, it can be costly and complex to manage. Quickwit searches large amounts of append only cloud data like logs or ledgers in a fraction...

  
• 07.07.2023

  Shipping Oxide with Bryan Cantrill

  Hyperscalers refer to expansive cloud service providers capable of delivering enterprise-scale computing and storage services. These Hyperscalers like Google, Amazon, Facebook that have huge data centers and are either running their own software or renting out this infrastructure realized a...

  
• 06.26.2023

  Superfast JVM Startup with Gerrit Grunwald

  CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) is a new technology that can improve startup and warmup times by orders of magnitude. It is a project of OpenJDK that was proposed and led by Azul. The CRaC Project defines public Java APIs...

  
• 06.23.2023

  WebAssembly with Matt Butcher

  WebAssembly is a low-level binary format for the web that is compiled from other languages to offer maximized performance and is meant to augment the places where JavaScript isn’t sufficient. High Performance applications like AutoCAD, Figma and Photoshop are now...

  
• 06.22.2023

  Building Enterprise Applications with Robert Cooke

  In this episode, we are talking to Robert Cooke, founder and CTO of 3forge. He has spent the last decade creating a full stack software platform that revolutionized enterprise real-time data management, visualization, and workflows through its inventive “high impact...

  
• 06.19.2023

  Solving Usage-Based Pricing with Puneet Gupta

  Usage-Based Pricing is becoming more and more popular. Led by the wild popularity of cloud service providers such as AWS, customers are demanding more visibility into usage information and more accountability for the dollars they spend on a service. But...

  
• 06.01.2023

  Cloud Native Search with Vinayak Borkar

  Mach5 Search is a slide-in, cloud-native replacement for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch that immediately saves up to 90% in operating cost. Mach5 Search can run on top of Google BigQuery, Snowflake, and Databricks, or natively on Object Stores in all the...

  
• 05.30.2023

  Observability for Your Cloud Dependencies with Jeff Martens

  Metrist is an observability platform designed to commoditize application observability. Jeff Martens is the CEO of Metrist, and he joins us today. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud...

  
• 05.24.2023

  Cloud-native Control Planes with Bassam Tabbara

  Crossplane is an innovative open source control plane framework that helps companies provide managed access to cloud native control planes. Upbound provides a single global platform to build, deploy, and operate these internally managed control planes that are powered by...

  
• 05.23.2023

  PromptOps with Dev Nag

  When your application fails, finding the reason quickly is essential for limiting downtime. Often, most of the time it takes to repair a problem is taken by figuring out what exactly went wrong. PromptOps is a service designed to make...

  
• 05.04.2023

  Cloud Native in 2023 with Chris Aniszczyk

  Cloud native technologies empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs exemplify this approach. These techniques enable loosely coupled systems...

  
• 05.02.2023

  GitOps for Kubernetes with Priyanka Ravi and Stefan Prodan

  Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Although it improves the management and scaling of infrastructure and applications, Kubernetes frequently has challenges managing the complexity of releasing applications. Git is the most widely used...

  
• 04.24.2023

  Cloud-Oriented Programming (Part 2) with Elad Ben-Israel

  The cloud has become an all-encompassing platform for running diverse applications and enabling individuals and teams to add value by utilizing services and infrastructure that streamline the process of software building and operation. Nonetheless, the cloud has presented new hurdles...

  
• 04.19.2023

  Cloud-Oriented Programming (Part 1) with Elad Ben-Israel

  The cloud has become an all-encompassing platform for running diverse applications and enabling individuals and teams to add value by utilizing services and infrastructure that streamline the process of software building and operation. Nonetheless, the cloud has presented new hurdles...

  
• 04.13.2023

  Cloud Cost Management with Roi Ravhon

  Finout helps FinOps, DevOps, and Finance to manage & reduce cloud spend and improve the company’s profitability without adding code or changing existing tags. Roi Ravhon is the Co-founder and CEO at Finout and he joins us today. Full disclosure:...

  
• 04.03.2023

  Turso: Globally Replicated SQLite with Glauber Costa

  Distributed databases are necessary for storing and managing data across multiple nodes in a network. They provide scalability, fault tolerance, improved performance, and cost savings. By distributing data across nodes, they allow for efficient processing of large amounts of data...

  
• 03.31.2023

  Platform Engineering with Luca Galante

  The increasing complexity of modern cloud-native architectures has led to the emergence Platform Engineering. This practice involves the development and upkeep of an integrated product, known as an “Internal Developer Platform,” which serves as a flexible and supported abstraction layer...

  
• 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...