Software Engineering Daily

Superpedestrian is a robotic bicycle wheel that learns how you pedal and personalizes your bicycle ride. The engineering challenges of Superpedestrian are at the intersection of robotics, software, and real-time analytics. The first half of today’s show is about Superpedestrian. Goss Nuzzo Jones and Matt Cole are engineers at Superpedestrian. The slides for their presentation are also in the show notes. The second half of today’s show is about HubSpot,Continue reading...

Phones are constantly tracking the location of a user in space. Devices like cars, smart watches, and drones are also picking up high volumes of location data. This location data is also called “geospatial data.” The amount of geospatial data is rapidly increasing, and there is a growing demand for software to perform operations over that data. Geospatial data sets are often massive–so it is non-trivial to perform operations overContinue reading...

Last year, the WannaCry ransomware attack shut down hospitals, public transportation systems, and governments, demanding payment to unlock key computer systems. A programmer named Marcus Hutchins was able to stop WannaCry by registering a DNS entry buried in the WannaCry code. Not long after he stopped the WannaCry attack, Marcus Hutchins was arrested at a security conference in Las Vegas. Marcus’s arrest was due to actions that were unrelated toContinue reading...

Alexis Le-Quoc started Datadog in 2010, after living through the Internet boom and bust cycle of the late 90s and early 2000s. In 2010, cloud was just starting to become popular. There was a gap in the market for infrastructure monitoring tools, which Alexis helped fill with the first version of Datadog. Since 2010, the number of different cloud infrastructure products has proliferated. There were new databases, queueing systems, virtualizationContinue reading...

Podcasting about cryptocurrencies is a strange occupation. You get emails all the time from companies doing a token sale that you would never want to be affiliated with. You get angry tweets from anonymous Twitter accounts that are on one side of the Bitcoin scaling debate. You get to interview extreme personalities, and the technical discussions can be highly educational. Brian Fabian Crain started the Epicenter podcast four years ago.Continue reading...

Keybase is a platform for managing public key infrastructure. Keybase’s products simplify the complicated process of associating your identity with a public key. Keybase is the subject of the first half of today’s show. Michael Maxim, an engineer from Keybase gives an overview for how the technology works and what kinds of applications Keybase unlocks. The second half of today’s show is about Clarifai. Clarifai is an AI platform thatContinue reading...

Rajat Monga is a director of engineering at Google where he works on TensorFlow. TensorFlow is a framework for numerical computation developed at Google. The majority of TensorFlow users are building machine learning applications such as image recognition, recommendation systems, and natural language processing–but TensorFlow is actually applicable to a broader range of scientific computation than just machine learning. TensorFlow has APIs for decision trees, support vector machines, and linearContinue reading...

There are hundreds of different databases. There are tens of continuous delivery products. There is an ocean of cloud providers and CRM systems and monitoring platforms and sales prospecting tools. The range of available software products is so diverse that it can be overwhelming to figure out which products to buy. Siftery is a company that was started to index software products and help buyers make decisions. Siftery can buildContinue reading...

Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash are two cryptocurrencies with similar properties. But the supporters of each of these Bitcoin versions have strongly divergent opinions on the direction of the Bitcoin project. At the center of this debate is the subject of block size. Bitcoin’s block size determines how many transactions fit into each block that is mined. A larger block size leads to faster transactions and lower fees, but creates higherContinue reading...

Most new frontend webapps today use ReactJS. An increasing number of mobile apps are created using the cross-platform components of React Native. GraphQL, Facebook’s open source data-fetching middleware tool is being used by more and more companies, who are finding that it simplifies their development. Facebook’s open source suite of technologies created a new developer ecosystem. There is an increased demand for engineers who know how to build software withContinue reading...