Software Engineering Daily

On this show, we spend a lot of time talking about CI/CD, data engineering, and microservices. These technologies have only been widely talked about for the last 5-10 years. That means that they are easy to adopt for startups that get founded in the last 5-10 years, but not necessarily for older enterprises. Within a large enterprise, it can be challenging to make significant changes to how technology is used.Continue reading...

Sue Loh is a software engineer and author of a book with the goal of breaking developer stereotypes. Stereotyping among developers leads to bad outcomes. When incorrect assumptions are made about certain populations, those populations feel marginalized and engineering resources get misallocated. From the perspective of Sue, the main problem is about how children are socialized. Young girls in particular are discouraged from programming, leading to a steady decline inContinue reading...

Functional programming can improve the overall design of an application architecture. Runar Bjarnason has been exploring how writing in a functional style increases modularity and compositionality of software for many years. He is co-author of Functional Programming in Scala, a book that explores the relationship between functional programming and software design. In this interview with guest host Adam Bell, Runar explains how writing in a functional style involves limiting sideContinue reading...

Training a deep learning model involves operations over tensors. A tensor is a multi-dimensional array of numbers. For several years, GPUs were used for these linear algebra calculations. That’s because graphics chips are built to efficiently process matrix operations. Tensor processing consists of linear algebra operations that are similar in some ways to graphics processing–but not identical. Deep learning workloads do not run as efficiently on these conventional GPUs asContinue reading...

At KubeCon, I had the chance to catch up with Adam Stacoviak of the Changelog, a podcast that was an inspiration for starting Software Engineering Daily. Changelog has long been one of my favorite podcasts about engineering, thanks in part to Adam’s personality. This was a spontaneous conversation, but it was a good one. Transcript Transcript provided by We Edit Podcasts. Software Engineering Daily listeners can go to weeditpodcasts.com/sed to get 20%Continue reading...

A modern farm has hundreds of sensors to monitor the soil health, and robotic machinery to reap the vegetables. A modern shipping yard has hundreds of computers working together to orchestrate and analyze the freight that is coming in from overseas. A modern factory has temperature gauges and smart security cameras to ensure workplace safety. All of these devices could be considered “edge” devices. Over the last decade, these edgeContinue reading...

After two weeks of episodes about Kubernetes, our in-depth coverage of container orchestration is drawing to a close. We have a few more shows on the topic before we move on to covering other aspects of software. If you have feedback on this thematic format (whether you like it or not), send me an email: [email protected] Today’s episode fits nicely into some of the themes we have covered recently–Cloud Foundry,Continue reading...

Last month, Software Engineering Daily had our 4th Meetup at Cloudflare in San Francisco. For this Meetup, the format was short interviews with security specialists from Pinterest, Cloudflare, and Segment. Each of these companies has unique security challenges, but they also have overlap in their security strategies. Nick Sullivan, Amine Kamel, and Evan Johnson are all seasoned engineers, and it was a privilege to sit down with each of them.Continue reading...

Creating a podcast is still too difficult. One of the main barriers to entry is the editing process. After recording a podcast, the podcast producer needs to line up soundwaves in a digital audio workstation and clip the raw audio files to remove sections that need to be removed. As someone who has edited a lot of podcasts, I know that this is difficult and tedious. One way of simplifyingContinue reading...

In 2011, platform-as-a-service was in its early days. It was around that time that Gabe Monroy started a container platform called Deis, with the goal of making an open source platform-as-a-service that anyone could deploy to whatever infrastructure they wanted. Over the last six years, Gabe had a front row seat to the rise of containers, the variety of container orchestration systems, and the changing open source landscape. Every containerContinue reading...