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“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 The post Bootstrapping a SaaS for Developers with I...

“Its sort of like the old joke in computer science – what do you do when you have a problem? Well, add a layer of abstraction.” Today’s guest is Calvin French-Owen, the CTO of Segment, a tool that companies use to aggregate their analytics into once place. As Segment has scaled, the company has had The post Developer Analytics with Calvin French-Owen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“It’s Friday night and you’re basically out of the office on your way to meet with friends. And you just merge this thing and put it into production because you have that trust – that the system will capture any kind of problem.” Continuous integration and deployment are important tools for modern software development. With The post Continuous Delivery and Test Automation with Flo Motlik app...

This episode is a republication from my interview with Leslie Lamport on Software Engineering Radio. Leslie Lamport won a Turing Award in 2013 for his work in distributed and concurrent systems. He also designed the document preparation tool LaTex. Leslie is employed by Microsoft Research, and has recently been working with TLA+, a language that is The post Distributed Systems with Leslie Lamport...

“A lot of our customers are kind of AWS refugees who really don’t want all the stuff amazon has, and they just want a really easy to use system that is reliable.” Continue reading… The post Engineering Cloud Services with Sam Kottler appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“You can have a monolith, and it can be a perfectly good thing.” Continue reading… The post Moving to Microservices at SoundCloud with Lukasz Plotnicki appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“If an engineer is doing something repeatedly over and over again, their mind is immediately going to jump to that place where it’s like ‘Okay how can I make this faster?’ or ‘How can I save myself time?’” Quora is a Q&A website where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of The post Engineering at Quora with Shreyes Seshasai appeared first on Softwar...

“If you can make a system that can survive this random failure testing, then you will more or likely survive whatever other chaotic conditions exist.” Continue reading… The post Scaling Uber with Matt Ranney appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

“Sometimes there’s a misconception that Genie is a job scheduling platform... Genie really represents our extraction layer, from what our computational resources are, to our end user jobs.” Genie is an open-source tool that provides job and resource management for the Hadoop ecosystem in the cloud. Continue reading… The post Netflix Genie with Tom Gianos appeared first on Software Engineering Dail...

Distributed systems programming will always be a world of tradeoffs -- there is no silver bullet in the future. But life can be made easier with tactics such as the actor pattern and the use of conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs). Caitie McCaffrey is a distributed systems engineer who currently works at Twitter. She previously worked on Halo 4 at Microsoft and 343 Industries. At QCon San F...

“DevOps is not a thing. It is a set of problem statements and solution possibilities that are always growing.” The hosts of DevOps Cafe joined Software Engineering Daily for a conversation about DevOps culture and misconceptions. Questions What do software engineers need to know about DevOps? What are the biggest misconceptions around DevOps? Is DevOps The post Origin of DevOps with John and Damon...

Jenkins is an extensible open source continuous integration server. Kohsuke Kawaguchi is the primary developer of Jenkins CI and the CTO of CloudBees, a provider of enterprise Jenkins. Questions: How does continuous integration affect DevOps? What has changed in the five years since Jenkins was created? In what ways is Jenkins opinionated? What are the The post Continuous Delivery with Jenkins Cre...

Container infrastructure has benefits of security, scalability and efficiency. Containers are a central component of the DevOps movement. Joyent provides simple, secure deployment of containers with bare metal speed on container-native infrastructure Bryan Cantrill is the CTO of Joyent, the father of DTrace and an OS kernel developer for 20 years. Questions: Why are containers The post Containers...

Rocana applies big data, advanced analytics, and visualizations to dev ops in order to guide users to the root causes of problems. Eric Sammer is the co-founder and CTO of Rocana. At Cloudera, he served as an Engineering Manager responsible for tools and partner integrations. Within that role, he developed many of Cloudera’s best practices for The post Hadoop Ops: Rocana CTO Eric Sammer Inte...