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“As the scale continues to increase, certain effects of architecture become less and less efficient.” When you spend money online, you expect a receipt to come in your email. When you register for a new web site, you need to verify your sign up in your email. These types of emails are called “transactional email” and sending these types of email at scale is a complex engineering task. J.R. JaspersonContinue reading...

“Git is a fairly flexible tool – one of the ways that people often describe it is that it gives you enough rope to hang yourself.” Git is the most popular version control system. If you have been programming for less than a decade, it’s likely that you haven’t used any other method of version control. The git workflow of a software team defines how that team collaborates, builds, andContinue reading...

“SaaS, whether we want it or not, in enterprise technology or in our data centers, is coming.” Application delivery has become more complex as software architectures have moved into the cloud. Data center infrastructure has turned into code to be manipulated, and software engineering teams are adjusting their strategies. HashiCorp is a company that builds open-source software for application development and deployment. Mitchell Hashimoto is the founder of HashiCorp, andContinue reading...

“JavaScript as a language is evolving year over year with new implementations and new language features, and we need to make sure we stay on top of those.” Code analysis tools can help a developer understand code. One tool for code analysis is bitHound, which provides code and dependency analysis for NodeJS applications. On today’s episode, we discuss how to use a code analysis tool–and we also talk about howContinue reading...

“Be aggressive in vision, but conservative in operation.” Uber is a transportation company with a high volume of temporal spacial data, constantly being collected from the devices of its users. At any given time, the engineers and data scientists at Uber need to be able to query the system, and understand what is going on with drivers and riders. The unique real-time engineering requirements of Uber lead to an interestingContinue reading...

The last editorial we did was 10 Philosophies for Engineers. Listeners enjoyed that episode, so we decided to do another. 10 Philosophies was a collection of beliefs I have about the software engineering industry, and how we can find fulfillment in our work as engineers. The philosophies that I discussed were rooted in my experiences working as a computer science student and as an engineer at several different companies. BeforeContinue reading...

“The dirty secret of software is that you cannot fix every single bug.” Applications can and will crash — it is increasingly important for developers to have visibility into the reasons how and why the crash occurred. James Smith is the guest on the show today, and joins Jeff to discuss why modern applications crash, and how developer products are improving to tighten the gap between QA/support and dev. JamesContinue reading...

“It’s an amazing era for software developers – we have all this amazing infrastructure behind the scenes that we can build upon.” Ten years ago, building a highly scalable image delivery service would require millions of dollars in upfront costs, and hours of work configuring hardware server infrastructure. Today, it is possible to bootstrap this type of service, with minimal investment. Today’s episode is about building a content delivery networkContinue reading...

“Its not really about removing disk from the picture per se – it’s more like saying, ‘how do we leverage more and more resources from DRAM?’ ” Memory is king. The cost of memory and disk capacity are both decreasing every year–but only the throughput of memory is increasing exponentially. This trend is driving opportunity in the space of big data processing. Alluxio is an open source, memory-centric, distributed, andContinue reading...

“Why do we need any open source versions of proprietary implementations? I would argue that first of all, it’s just good for industry and the ecosystem.” Cloud service providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft provide both infrastructure as a service and platform as a service. Infrastructure as a service gives developers access to virtual machines, servers, and network infrastructure. Platform as a service is the software that runs on topContinue reading...