Container management systems like Kubernetes and Docker Swarm give us a higher level management tool for architectures built out of distributed containers.   Container platforms like Rancher provide a higher layer of usability, and today’s guest Darren Shepherd of Rancher Labs takes us through what a container platform is. This interview is part of our continued coverage of Kubernetes, Docker, and the other components of the growing container ecosystem. SponsorsContinue reading...

Breakthroughs in modern data research tend to come from companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon, with projects like MapReduce, Cassandra, and Dynamo.   Twenty years ago, this types of breakthroughs would be happening in academia, which causes today’s guest Peter Bailis to ask: is the academic data community having an identity crisis?   Peter is an assistant professor at Stanford University, where he works on an analytic monitoring system calledContinue reading...

In a typical data analytics system, there are a variety of technologies interacting. HDFS for storing files, Spark for distributed machine learning, pandas for data analysis in Python–each of these different technologies has a different format for how data is represented.   Serialization and deserialization between these different formats causes significant latency across the overall system. Apache Arrow is a tool for improving performance of in-memory analytics systems, and today’sContinue reading...

EconTalk is a weekly economics podcast that has been going for a decade. On EconTalk, Russ Roberts brings on writers, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs for engaging conversations about the world as seen through the lens of economics.   Russ Roberts is today’s guest, and it is a treat because I have been listening to EconTalk since 2006 and it was a central point of inspiration for what Software Engineering Daily hasContinue reading...

Data modeling is the process of creating relationships and rules about objects, so that we can decide how to store them in a database. Data modeling defines how we store and query our database systems.   Today’s episode features a discussion of data modeling in Cassandra with Jon Haddad, an evangelist at Datastax. The distributed nature of Cassandra creates some unique rules around how we should model our Cassandra tables.Continue reading...

On smart thermostats, sensor-driven assembly lines, and electronically monitored farms, the internet of things is producing huge volumes of data.   To take advantage of that data, an application needs tools for storing and analyzing that data. Today’s guest is Jean-Cristophe Cimono, the CTO of mnubo, a cloud platform for connected objects. Today we walk through the architecture of mnubo and the use cases of an IoT analytics platform.  Continue reading...

At software conferences, I like to walk around the vendor booths and talk to the representatives from different companies. By talking to the vendors about their marketing pitches, I get an idea of how those companies are positioning themselves for the future, and the complex business landscape of software becomes slightly easier to understand.   At recent conferences, many of the big vendors have been talking about their cloud platform. WithContinue reading...

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 web technology companies, Lee has written the book Architecting for Scale, from O’Reilly.   As an application scales, it becomes significantly more complicated while at the same time receivingContinue reading...

Call centers are a vulnerable point of attack for large enterprises. Fraud accounts for more than $20 billion in lost money every year, and a significant portion of that fraud is due to customer service representatives being fraudulent social engineering attacks.   Chris Halaschek joins the show today to discuss how Pindrop Security is addressing this attack vector. Every phone call that gets made to a call center has aContinue reading...

In 1999, it took $50,000 to buy a server. Once you bought that server, you had to know how to operate and maintain it. Today, cloud service providers have changed how we build software. Servers, load balancers, networking, storage–these hardware concerns have been turned into software. Don Pezet joins the show today to discuss the fundamentals of a cloud service provider. These are the basics that you need to knowContinue reading...