Software Engineering Daily

10/02/2022

Snyk is a platform for security that started with open source scanning and has expanded into container security, infrastructure as code, and other products. Snyk is a simple product to use, but has hidden complexities that build large data structures to manage and scan code dynamically.
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2022/02/07/snyk-engineering-with-guy-podjarny/

Snyk is a platform for security that started with open source scanning and has expanded into container security, infrastructure as code, and other products. Snyk is a simple product to use, but has hidden complexities that build large data structures to manage and scan code dynamically. In a previou...

07/02/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUlbVgZdnpE

The world of commodity engineering is coming to an end. Developers are becoming more productive, more flexible, and more entrepreneurial. How does this impac...

31/01/2022

Database product companies typically have a few phases. First, the company will develop a technology with some kind of innovation such as speed, scalability, or durability. The company will offer support contracts around that technology for a period of time, before eventually building a managed, hosted offering.

PlanetScale is a database company built around the Kubernetes-based Vitess technology. Sugu Sougoumarane is the CTO of PlanetScale, and formerly worked at YouTube, where he built large-scale SQL databases. In today’s show, he talks about building out the core PlanetScale technology, tuning PlanetScale’s consensus model, and the development of the hosted cloud service offering of the company.

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2022/01/31/scaling-planetscale-with-sugu-sougoumarane/

Database product companies typically have a few phases. First, the company will develop a technology with some kind of innovation such as speed, scalability, or durability. The company will offer support contracts around that technology for a period of time, before eventually building a managed, hos...

29/01/2022

In this episode, I interview Ravi Mayuram, SVP Products and Engineering at Couchbase about the architecture and the history of Couchbase.
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2022/01/28/couchbase-architecture-with-ravi/

Couchbase is a distributed NoSQL cloud database. Since its creation, Couchbase has expanded into edge computing, application services, and most recently a database-as-a-service called Capella. Couchbase started as an in-memory cache and needed to be rearchitected to be a persistent storage system. I...

04/09/2020

Robotic Process Automation with Antti Karjalainen

Robotic Process Automation with Antti Karjalainen
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/09/04/robotic-process-automation-with-antti-karjalainen/

Robotic process automation involves the scripting and automation of highly repeatable tasks. RPA tools such as UIPath paved the way for a newer wave of automation, including the Robot Framework, an open source system for RPA. Antti Karjalainen is the CEO of Robocorp, a company that provides an RPA t...

03/09/2020

Modern Venture with Jerry Chen

Modern Venture with Jerry Chen
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/09/03/modern-venture-with-jerry-chen/

After working at VMware for 10 years, Jerry Chen developed an expertise in technology companies. Today, he works at Greylock, where he looks at deals in the infrastructure and developer tooling space. Jerry is an expert in go-to-market strategy and makes investments in technologies that have a good....

02/09/2020

API Change Management with Aidan Cunniffe

API Change Management with Aidan Cunniffe
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/09/02/api-change-management-with-aidan-cunniffe/

APIs within a company change all the time. Every service owner has an API to manage, and those APIs have upstream and downstream connections. APIs need to be tested for integration points as well as for their “contract”, the agreement between an API owner and the consumers of that API. Aidan Cun...

01/09/2020

WebAssembly Migration with Nicolo Davis

WebAssembly Migration with Nicolo Davis
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/09/01/webassembly-migration-with-nicolo-davis/

WebAssembly allows for the ex*****on of languages other than JavaScript in a browser-based environment. But WebAssembly is still not widely used outside of a few particular niches such as Dropbox and Figma. Nicolo Davis works on an application called Boardgame Lab, and he joins the show to explain w...

28/08/2020

Hyperparameter Tuning with Richard Liaw

Hyperparameter Tuning with Richard Liaw
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/08/28/hyperparameter-tuning-with-richard-liaw/

Hyperparameters define the strategy for exploring a space in which a machine learning model is being developed. Whereas the parameters of a machine learning model are the actual data coming into a system, the hyperparameters define how those data points are fed into the training process for building...

27/08/2020

Anduril Engineering with Gokul Subramanian

Anduril Engineering with Gokul Subramanian
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/08/27/anduril-engineering-with-gokul-subramanian/

Anduril is a technology defense company with a focus on drones, computer vision, and other problems related to national security. It is a full-stack company that builds its own hardware and software, which leads to a great many interesting questions about cloud services, engineering workflows, and m...

26/08/2020

In with the New: Python Plotting and Data Wrangling Libraries

In with the New: Python Plotting and Data Wrangling Libraries
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/08/26/in-with-the-new-python-plotting-and-data-wrangling-libraries/

by Markus Schmitt of Data Revenue Is it time to replace Matplotlib and Pandas? Programmers enjoy pitting different pieces of software libraries against each other. Tensorflow vs. Pytorch? Vim vs. Emacs? Python vs. R? If we accept this metaphor of software competing in a kind of global popularity con...

26/08/2020

Machine Learning Labeling and Tooling with Lukas Biewald

Machine Learning Labeling and Tooling with Lukas Biewald
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/08/26/machine-learning-labeling-and-tooling-with-lukas-biewald/

CrowdFlower was a company started in 2007 by Lukas Biewald, an entrepreneur and computer scientist. CrowdFlower solved some of the data labeling problems that were not being solved by Amazon Mechanical Turk. A decade after starting CrowdFlower, the company was sold for several hundred million dollar...

25/08/2020

Software and the Law with Mark Radcliffe

Software and the Law with Mark Radcliffe
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/08/25/software-and-the-law-with-mark-radcliffe/

As software permeates our lives, there are an increased number of situations where the legal system must be designed to account for that software. Whether the issues are open source licensing, cryptocurrencies, or worker classifications, software overlaps heavily with the law. Just as software is cr...

24/08/2020

Data Version Control with Dmitry Petrov

Data Version Control with Dmitry Petrov
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/08/24/data-version-control-with-dmitry-petrov/

Code is version controlled through git, the version control system originally built to manage the Linux codebase. For decades, software has been developed using git for version control. More recently, data engineering has become an unavoidable facet of software development. It is reasonable to ask.....

21/08/2020

Release Apps with Tommy McClung

Release Apps with Tommy McClung
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/08/21/release-apps-with-tommy-mcclung/

Every software company works off of several different development environments–at the very least there is staging, testing, and production. Every push to staging can be spun up as an application to be explored, tinkered with, and tested. These ad hoc spin-ups are known as release apps. A release a...

20/08/2020

ParlAI: Facebook Dialogue Platform with Stephen Roller

ParlAI: Facebook Dialogue Platform with Stephen Roller
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/08/20/parlai-facebook-dialogue-platform-with-stephen-roller/

Chatbots are useful for developing well-defined applications such as first-contact customer support, sales, and troubleshooting. But the potential for chatbots is so much greater. Over the last five years, there have been numerous platforms that have arisen to allow for better, more streamlined chat...

19/08/2020

SuperAnnotate: Image Annotation Platform with Vahan and Tigran Petrosyan

SuperAnnotate: Image Annotation Platform with Vahan and Tigran Petrosyan
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/08/19/superannotate-image-annotation-platform-with-vahan-and-tigran-petrosyan/

Image annotation is necessary for building supervised learning models for computer vision. An image annotation platform streamlines the annotation of these images. Well-known annotation platforms include Scale AI, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and Crowdflower. There are also large consulting-like companie...

18/08/2020

Metabase: Business Intelligence Open Source with Sameer Al-Sakran

Metabase: Business Intelligence Open Source with Sameer Al-Sakran
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/08/18/metabase-business-intelligence-open-source-with-sameer-al-sakran/

Business intelligence tooling allows analysts to see large quantities of data presented to them in a flexible interface including charts, graphs, and other visualizations. BI tools have been around for decades, and as the world moves towards increased open source software, the business intelligence....

17/08/2020

Gitlab Courseware as Code with Ben Allison

Gitlab Courseware as Code with Ben Allison
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/08/17/gitlab-courseware-as-code-with-ben-allison/

The US Army Cyber School is a training program which trains cyber soldiers and leaders to be adept in cyber military strategy and tactics. In order to teach these skills, the cyber school uses a system they call “courseware as code”, a workflow that allows updates to the curriculum in a reversio...

11/08/2020

The collaborative browser based IDE

Repl it is a browser-based coding environment, compute engine, and collaborative workspace. It has found significant traction among new programmers who begin their programming journey. https://bit.ly/3kruPMk

Repl.it is a simple yet powerful online IDE, Editor, Compiler, Interpreter, and REPL. Code, compile, run, and host in 50+ programming languages: Clojure, Haskell, Kotlin (beta), QBasic, Forth, LOLCODE, BrainF, Emoticon, Bloop, Unlambda, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Scheme, APL, Lua, Python 2.7, Ruby, R...

11/08/2020

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Render is a layer 2 cloud provider that optimizes for specific developer workflows, such as deploying a NodeJS web server, a static site, or a container.

11/08/2020

Blitzscaling with Chris Yeh | Software Daily

Blitzscaling is a strategy for growing a company that has found product market fit. Blitzscaling prioritizes speed over efficiency, arguing that fast growth is necessary to achieve “first scaler advantage.”

Chris Yeh is an entrepreneur, investor, and author. He co-wrote Blitzscaling  with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman.   Blitzscaling is a strategy for growing a company that has found product market fit. Blitzscaling prioritizes speed over efficiency, arguing that fast growth is necessary to achieve ....

10/08/2020

Policy Enforcement with Shimon Tolts | Software Daily

Datree, is a platform for policy enforcement and code compliance. We talk about continuous delivery, configuration management, and policy enforcement.

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10/08/2020

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Stitch Fix is a company that recommends packages of clothing based on a set of preferences that the user defines and updates over time.

10/08/2020

DoorDash Engineering with Raghav Ramesh | Software Daily

In order to perform this matching of drivers and orders, DoorDash builds machine learning models that take into account historical data.

DoorDash is a logistics company that connects customers, restaurants, and drivers that can move food to its destination. When a customer orders from a restaurant, DoorDash needs to identify the ideal driver for picking up the order from the restaurant and dropping it off with the customer. This proc...

31/07/2020

Security Monitoring with Marc Tremsal

Logs are the source of truth. If a company is sufficiently instrumented, the logging data that streams off of the internal infrastructure can be refined to tell a comprehensive story for what is changing across that infrastructure in real time. This includes logins, permissions changes, other events that could signal a potential security compromise. Datadog is a company that was built around log management, metrics storage, and distributed tracing. [ 64 more words ]
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/07/31/security-monitoring-with-marc-tremsal/

Logs are the source of truth. If a company is sufficiently instrumented, the logging data that streams off of the internal infrastructure can be refined to tell a comprehensive story for what is changing across that infrastructure in real time. This includes logins, permissions changes, other events...

30/07/2020

DEV and Forem with Ben Halpern

DEV and Forem with Ben Halpern
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/07/30/dev-and-forem-with-ben-halpern/

Dev.to has become one of the most popular places for developers to write about engineering, programming languages, and everyday life. For those who have not seen it, DEV is like a cross between Twitter and Medium, but targeted at developers. The content on DEV ranges from serious to humorous to tech...

29/07/2020

Drug Simulations with Bryan Vicknair and Jason Walsh

Drug Simulations with Bryan Vicknair and Jason Walsh
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/07/29/drug-simulations-with-bryan-vicknair-and-jason-walsh/

Drug trials can lead to new therapeutics and preventative medications being discovered and placed on the market. Unfortunately, these drug trials typically require animal testing. This means animals are killed or harmed as a result of needing to verify that a drug will not kill humans. Animal testin...

28/07/2020

Access Control Management with Fouad Matin and Dan Gillespie

Access Control Management with Fouad Matin and Dan Gillespie
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/07/28/access-control-management-with-fouad-matin-and-dan-gillespie/

Across a company, there is a wide range of resources that employees need access to. Documents, S3 buckets, git repositories, and many others. As access to resources changes across the organization, a history of the changes to permissions can be useful for compliance and monitoring. Indent is a syste...

27/07/2020

Acquired Podcasting with David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert

Acquired Podcasting with David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/07/27/acquired-podcasting-with-david-rosenthal-and-ben-gilbert/

Acquisitions are part of the technology industry. A successful corporation will often have an “exit”, either going public or becoming acquired. And with each of these corporations, there is a set of stories that narrate the company from beginning to end. Acquired is a podcast that tells the stor...