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Managing data and access to data is one of the biggest challenges that a company can face. It’s common for data to be siloed into independent sources that are difficult to access in a unified and integrated way.

One approach to solving this problem is to build a layer on top of the heterogenous data sources. This layer can serve as an interface for the data and provide governance and access control.

Cube is a semantic layer between the data source and data applications. Artyom Keydunov is the founder of Cube and he joins the show to talk about the approach Cube is taking.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

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Blasphemous and Blasphemous II are Metroidvania action-adventure games developed by the Spanish studio, The Game Kitchen. The games have a stunning, distinctive pixel art style and atmospheric world which is inspired by Spanish folklore and religious themes. They are known for their challenging combat and intricate level design.

David Erosa is the Lead Producer and Dani Márquez is a Senior Programmer on Blasphemous II. David and Dani join the show today to talk about designing the game systems, the game’s development framework, engineering character movement, console optimizations, and much more.

Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal. Joe got his start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Garry’s Mod, and game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts.

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Python is famed for it’s intuitive syntax, powerful standard library, and rich ecosystem of packages and frameworks. It’s also dynamically typed which is part of what makes the language so accessible.

Paul Everitt is the Python and Web Developer Advocate at JetBrains. He joins the show to talk about developing the PyCharm IDE, the challenge of static analysis in Python, browser-based IDEs, and more.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .

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All robust technology platforms require testing to ensure that features work as intended. In many cases, tests require data, but getting access to valid and high quality test data is a common challenge, especially when the technology runs on sensitive data. Realistically mimicking data that would normally contain sensitive financial or personal information is not easy.

Tonic.ai was started in 2018 to provide developer tools to transform production data into safe testing data. Andrew Colombi is the CTO and Adam Kamor is the Head of Engineering at Tonic. They join the show to talk about creating realistic synthetic data, data de-identification, validating LLM RAG output, Tonic’s subsetting engine, and much more.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Tonic.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

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Netlify is a popular hosting platform that provides build, deploy, and serverless backend services for web apps. The platform enables deployment directly from source files stored in a version control system like GitHub.

Erica Pisani is a Senior Software Engineer at Netlify. She joins the show to talk about how she got started at Netlify, edge computing, edge functions, private integrations, and more.

Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript.

Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development.

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Language and compiler design are fundamental aspects of computer science. High-level languages are how most developers interact with computers, so it’s hard to overstate the significance of compiler engineering or the aesthetics of language syntax.

C# is a general-purpose high-level language that was created by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft in 2000, and was open-sourced in 2014.

Jared Parsons is the Principal Developer Lead on the C# Language Team at Microsoft, where he’s worked for 20 years. He joins the show to talk about how the C# compiler is developed, the compiler as an API, language creation as an art, the experience of open-sourcing C#,  and much more.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .

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Sphinx Bio develops computational tools to accelerate scientific discovery. The company is focused on addressing the computational data analysis bottleneck by enabling scientists to do the analysis themselves.

Nicholas Larus-Stone is the founder of Sphinx. He joins the show to talk about being a computer scientist at the interface with biology, the data analysis bottleneck in biology, designing a software tool for scientists, their go-to-market strategy, and more.

Nicholas also started Bits in Bio which is a popular community for people building software for science. You can check out their upcoming meetups and hackathons at bitsinbio.org.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .

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Java is one of the top programming languages used today and Java code is ubiquitous. A key factor to the overall success of Java is the Spring framework, which is the most common framework for Java development.

Spring is an open-source comprehensive application framework on top of the Java Virtual Machine that provides a consistent programming and configuration model.

Ryan Morgan is a Senior Director and Mark Pollack is a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware Tanzu, a division of Broadcom. They join the show to talk about the origins of Spring, the problems it solves, building APIs for AI models in Java, and much more.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by VMware.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

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Sponsorship inquiries: [email protected]

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Proteins are nanomachines inside cells and perform the incredible array of tasks required for cells to function. They are composed of a chain of hundreds to thousands of amino acid “building blocks”. Peptides are similar to proteins, but have only about 3 to 30 amino acids. Their smaller size gives them distinct properties that are useful in therapeutic applications.

Menten AI is using cutting-edge generative methods to engineer new peptide therapeutics, and are backed by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, and others.

Patrick Finneran is the Associate Director of Biochemistry at Menten. He joins the show to tell us about the drug development process, handling noisy biological data, building a hybrid team of software engineers and biologists, and more.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .

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Sponsorship inquiries: [email protected]

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GitHub Copilot is an AI tool to assist software developers by autocompleting code. It is no understatement to say it has already transformed how developers write code.

Adrián Mato Gondelle leads the Design team for GitHub Copilot. In this episode, recorded in 2023, Adrián joined the podcast to talk about his work.

Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that specializes in software delivery, developer experience, cloud native and open source. He has developed his career at companies like GitLab, Weaveworks, Harness and other platform and devtool providers. His interests range from software supply chain security to open source innovation. You can reach out to him on Twitter at @jordimonpmm

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