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SE-Radio Episode 262: Software Quality with Bill Curtis

Sven Johann talks with Bill Curtis about Software Quality. They discuss examples of failed systems like Obama Care; the role of architecture; move an org from chaos to innovation; relation between Lean, quality improvement and CMM; Team Software Process.




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Camille Fournier on Real-World Distributed Systems

Stefan Tilkov talks to Camille Fournier about the challenges developers face when building distributed systems, whether the can avoid building them at all, and what changes occur once they do.




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SE-Radio-Episode-275:-Josh-Doody-on-Salary-Negotiation-for-Software-Engineers

Marcus Blankenship talks with Josh Doody about salary negotiation. Topics include a framework for thinking about salary negotiations, how you can know what you're worth, the employers view of salary negotiation, and missed negotiation opportunities. Also discussed are common fears about negotiating and how to overcome them, common mistakes during negotiations, and how negotiation makes your more desirable as an employee.




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SE-Radio-Episode-280-Gerald-Weinberg-on-Bugs-Errors-and-Software-Quality

Host Marcus Blankenship talks with Gerald Weinberg about his new book, Errors: Bugs, Boo-boos, and Blunders, focusing on why programmers make errors, how teams can improve their software, and how management should think of and discuss errors.




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SE-Radio Episode 283: Alexander Tarlinder on Developer Testing

Felienne talks with Alexander Tarlinder on how to test as a developer. What can and should developers test?




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SE-Radio Episode 284: John Allspaw on System Failures: Preventing, Responding, and Learning From

John Allspaw CTO of Etsy speaks with Robert Blumen about systemic failures and outages. Why they cannot be totally prevented, how to respond, and what we can learn from them.




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SE-Radio-Episode-286-Katie-Malone-Intro-to-Machine-Learning

Show host Edaena Salinas talks with Katie Malone about Machine Learning.  Katie Malone is a Data Scientist in the Research and Development department at Civis Analytics. She is also an instructor of the Intro to Machine Learning online course from Udacity and host of Linear Digressions, a podcast about machine learning. Topics include: machine learning, data science, a career in machine learning.




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SE-Radio-Episode-294-Asaf-Yigal-on-Machine-Learning-in-Log-Analysis

Asaf Yigal talks with SE Radio’s Edaena Salinas about machine learning in log analysis. The discussion starts with an overview of the structure of logs and what information they can contain. Asaf discusses what the log analysis process looks like without machine learning -- and the role of humans in this – before moving on to how the process is improved by incorporating external resources using machine learning. Topics include: log analysis, machine learning, operations.




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SE-Radio Episode 324: Marc Hoffmann on Code Test Coverage Analysis and Tools

What is code coverage, how can you measure it, and what are the pitfalls of this metric? Diomidis Spinellis talks with Marc Hoffmann, a key developer of the JaCoCo code coverage library for Java, on how code test coverage can improve software reliability




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SE-Radio Episode 329 Andreas Stefik on Accessibility for the Visually

Felienne interviews Andreas Stefik about creating programs that are accessible for blind and visually impaired users. How do they consume and create software?




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SE-Radio Episode 330: Natalie Silvanovich on Attack Surface Reduction

Natalie Silvanovich and Kim Carter discuss reducing the attack surface of the software that Engineers are creating today. Code sharing, third-party code, Developer workflow, and a collection of 0 day bugs are all discussed.




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SE-Radio Episode 331: Kevin Goldsmith on Architecture and Organizational Design

Travis Kimmel and Kevin Goldsmith discuss the correspondence between organizational design and software architecture. Their conversation covers: what Conway’s Law is; Kevin’s experiences in different organizational structures (e.g., Avvo, Spotify, Adobe, and Microsoft) and how those structures influenced the software architecture; what the “Reverse Conway Maneuver” is and how organizations can leverage it; how organizations can evolve existing architectures.




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SE-Radio Episode 334: David Calavera on Zero-downtime Migrations and Rollbacks with Kubernetes

Jeremy Jung talks with David Calavera about zero-downtime migrations and rollbacks with Kubernetes. In this episode we define migrations, rollbacks, and discuss how Netlify was able to migrate to Kubernetes and roll back off of it multiple times without impacting their users. David explains how developers can run old and new systems simultaneously, the importance of defining errors in your system, and when to apply fixes vs rolling back. We also discuss their decision to move to Kubernetes, and the benefits they received.




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SE-Radio Episode 340: Lara Hogan and Deepa Subramaniam on Revitalizing a Cross-Functional Product Organization

Travis Kimmel talks with Lara Hogan and Deepa Subramaniam about evidence-based tactics that product and engineering leaders can use to can use to diagnose problems that are holding back their teams, and build healthier, high-performing organizations.




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SE-Radio Episode 344: Pat Helland on Web Scale

Edaena Salinas talks with Pat Helland about Web Scale. Pat is a Principal Software Architect at Salesforce where he works on a cloud based multi-tenant database technology. The discussion covers: Datacenters and hardware, DevOps, developing at scale, stateless vs stateful services, preparing a system for failures and sql vs nosql databases.




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SE-Radio Episode 347: Daniel Corbett on Load Balancing and HAProxy

Guest Daniel Corbett discusses how to scale your application with the help of load balancing. Hear details on HAProxy and the load balancing ecosystem as a whole.




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SE-Radio episode 352: Johanathan Nightingale on Scaling Engineering Management

Travis Kimmel talks with Johnathan Nightingale about scaling engineering management. Their discuss when to hire additional engineering managers and how to set them up for success, how leaders can prepare for “growing pains” as an organization scales,




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SE-Radio Episode 355: Randy Shoup Scaling Technology and Organization

Randy Shoup talks with SE-Radio’s Travis Kimmel about how to scale technology and organizations together, so that an organization can move faster as they grow (and not slow down). Their discussion covers how to effectively scale culture, process...




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SE-Radio Episode 357: Adam Barr on Code Quality

Felienne interviews Adam Barr about code quality? Why do programmers pick up bad habits about programming and what can be done to improve that?




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365: Thorsten Ball on Building an Interpreter

Today's guest is Thorsten Ball, author of Writing an interpreter in Go as well as its sequel Writing a Compiler in Go. Thorsten lives near Frankfurt, Germany. Thorsten loves to deep dive into programming topics like programming languages, interpreters...




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Episode 373: Joel Spolsky on Startups Growth, and Valuation

Joel Spolsky on founding Stack Overflow, “land grabs” vs. “bootstrapping with profitability”, raising more money using “proof points”, what developers and companies get massively wrong, choosing your next job, and how to ask and answer on Stack Over




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Episode 375: Gabriel Gonzalez on Configuration

Gabriel Gonzalez, the creator of Dhall the programmable configuration language, discusses configuration, why it is important and how we can make it better. Adam Gordon Bell spoke Gonzalez about Dhall, yaml, total functional programming and dealing...




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Episode 401: Jeremy Miller on Waterfall Versus Agile

Jeremy Miller, Senior Software Architect at Calavista Software, compares and contrasts his experiences with waterfall and agile methodologies. Host Jeff Doolittle spoke with Miller about the history of these methodologies and how teams can experience...




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Episode 406: Torin Sandall on Distributed Policy Enforcement

Torin Sandall of Styra and Open Policy Agent discussed OPA and policy engines and how they can benefit software projects security and compliance. Host Justin Beyer spoke with Sandall about the benefits of removing authorization logic from your application...




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Episode 407: Juval Lowy on Righting Software

Juval Löwy, Software Legend and Founder of IDesign discusses his recently published book, Righting Software, with host Jeff Doolittle. This episode focuses on Löwy’s belief that the software industry is in a deep crisis, evident from the numerous...




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Episode 408: Mike McCourt on Voice and Speech Analysis

Felienne spoke with Mike McCourt on difficulties in processing voice data using machine learning.




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Episode 410: Sara Leen on Localizing and Porting Japanese Games

Sara Leen discusses localizing, porting, and modernizing Japanese games with Jeremy Jung.




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Episode 412: Sam Gavis Hughson on Technical Interviews

Felienne spoke with Gavis-Hughson about how to prepare for the dreaded 'whiteboard interview'.




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Episode 413: Spencer Kimball on CockroachDB

Spencer Kimball talks to Akshay Manchale about CockroachDB which is a distributed, resilient, SQL database system. He talks about challenges of using single node databases and features and principles behind CockroachDB that make it a better alternative open source database.




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Episode 417: Alex Petrov on Database Storage Engines

Alex Petrov, author of Database Internals explains the ins and outs of database storage engines. What are they? How do they differ? What problems do they solve? Host Adam Gordon Bell spoke with Alex about these questions as well as how information...




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Episode 418: Functional Programming in Enterprise Applications

Vladimir Khorikov discusses functional programming in enterprise applications with Jeremy Jung.




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Episode 425: Paul Smith on The Crystal Programming Language and the Lucky Web Framework

Paul Smith discusses the Crystal Programming Language and the Lucky web framework with Jeremy Jung.




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Episode 429: Rob Skillington on High Cardinality Alerting and Monitoring

Rob Skillington discusses the architecture, data management, and operational issues around monitoring and alerting systems with a large number of metrics and resources.




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Episode 434: Steven Skiena on Preparing for the Data Structures and Algorithm Job Interview

Steven Skiena speaks with SE Radio’s Adam Conrad about practical applications for data structures and algorithms, as well as take-aways on how to best study Skiena’s book when prepping for the technical interview process.




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Episode 435: Julie Lerman on Object Relational Mappers and Entity Framework

Julie Lerman discusses Object Relational Mappers and Entity Framework with Jeremy Jung.




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Episode 435: Julie Lerman on Object Relational Mappers and Entity Framework

Julie Lerman discusses Object Relational Mappers and Entity Framework with Jeremy Jung.




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Episode 440: Alexis Richardson on gitops

Alexis Richardson discusses gitops - a deployment model based on convergent infrastructure as code with host Robert Blumen.




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Episode 444: Tug Grall on Redis

Tug Grall of Redis Labs discusses Redis, its evolution over the years and emerging use cases today,its module based ecosystem and Redis’ applicability in a wide range of applications beyond being a layer for caching data such as search, machine learning




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Episode 446: Nigel Poulton on Kubernetes Fundamentals

Nigel Poulton, author of The Kubernetes Book and Docker Deep Dive, discusses Kubernetes fundamentals, why Kubernetes is gaining so much momentum, deploying an example app, and why Kubernetes is considered "the" Cloud OS.




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Episode 461 Michael Ashburne and Maxwell Huffman on Quality Assurance

Michael Ashburne and Maxwell Huffman discuss Quality Assurance with Jeremy Jung.




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Episode 463: Yaniv Tal on Web 3.0 and the Graph

Yaniv Tal discusses The Graph’s key features and also explains to user basics of blockchain infrastructure, Ethereum.




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Episode 466: Casey Aylward on Venture Capital for Software Investing

Casey Aylward, Principal at Costanoa Ventures discusses Venture capital with a focus on early stage investing from the perspective of the entrepreneur and the VC with host Kanchan Shringi.




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Episode 469: Dhruba Borthakur on Embedding Real-time Analytics in Applications

Dhruba Borthakur, CTO and co-founder of Rockset, discusses the use cases and core requirements of real-time analytics, as well as the evolution from batch to real time and the need for a new architecture with host Kanchan Shringi.




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Episode 470: L. Peter Deutsch on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing

L Peter Deutsch of Aladdin Enterprises and formerly of Sun Microsystems joined host Jeff Doolittle to discuss the fallacies of distributed computing. Peter retold the history and origin of the fallacies and how they have been addressed over...




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Episode 473: Mike Del Balso on Feature Stores

Mike Del Balso, co-founder of Tecton discusses Feature Stores which are data platforms to operationalize Machine Learning applications. He talks about challenges faced by teams in creating custom data pipelines to serve models in production...




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Episode 476: Leonid Shevtsov on Transactional Email

Leonid Shevtsov talks with host Robert Blumen about email protocols and transactional email.




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Episode 481: Ipek Ozkaya on Managing Technical Debt

Ipek Ozkaya joined host Jeff Doolittle to discuss a book she co-authored entitled Managing Technical Debt. In the book, Ozkaya describes nine principles of technical debt management to aid software companies in identifying, measuring, tracking...




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Episode 483: Alexander Pugh on Robotic Process Automation

Alexander Pugh discusses why and when to use Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Pugh about interacting with systems without APIs like mainframes; the importance of having developers involved when building bots; the difficulty...




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Episode 492: Sam Scott on Building a Consistent and Global Authorization Service

Sam Scott, CTO of Oso discusses how to build a global authorization service and challenges with host Priyanka.




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Episode 501: Bob Ducharme on Creating Technical Documentation for Software Projects

Nikhil Krishna speaks to Bob DuCharme an experienced technical writer and author about how to write and maintain technical documentation for software products. In the episode different mediums to distribute documentation and tools to maintain documentation are discussed.