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The banking industry uses technology that some modern software engineers may regard as out of date or old-fashioned.  Entrepreneurs wanting to create products in the banking space historically faced a steep curve to build software that could integrate with established banking systems. Christopher Dean seeks to change that.  He founded Treasury Prime, a company that The post Treasury Prime with Chr...

It wasn’t that long ago that companies scheduled downtime in order to release an updated version of the software running their website.  That’s rare today.  Most developers want continuous testing, integration, and deployment.  While that comes with many benefits, it also places greater demands on quality engineers who can no longer gate all updates into The post The Future of Quality Engineering...

Welcome to Software Engineering Daily; I’m your guest host, Joey Baruch. I’m the CTO at Alvarez and Marsal Data Intelligence Gateway (A&M DIG), prior to which I co-founded and was CTO of HuMoov, a vertical SaaS. I’ve been a software engineer at PayPal, IBM Research Labs, and Qualcomm via the acquisition of Wilocity.  Joining me The post Building Startups Around Deep Tech Innovations with Ferna...

Virtual meetings were growing in popularity before the need accelerated as a result of the pandemic. Gather is a place where you can create a space for your community today. Users who join find themselves in a shared virtual space that offers the ability to interact with other users as well as interact with the The post Online Communities on Gather with Phillip Wang appeared first on Software Engi...

The gig economy involves independent contractors engaging in flexible jobs. Today gig workers often get work from centralized platforms that facilitate the process of connecting workers with employers in exchange for a fee.  Some workers find the relationship between worker and platform to be adversarial in nature since the platform can establish and enforce rules The post The Future of Gig Work w...

Venture capital investment has continued to flow into technology startups.  No one builds technology from scratch.  There are cloud services, software libraries, 3rd party services, and software platforms that modern entrepreneurs must adopt to build their products efficiently and quickly.  These layers of infrastructure are a key area for many investors. In this episode, I The post Investing in I...

The expression firing on all cylinders dates back to the early 1900s and refers to a function of the internal combustion engine.  This expression poetically applies to successful businesses as well.  Each department must operate at peak performance and the couplings between departments need optimization as well. In this episode, I interview business coach Jon The post Getting Businesses Unstuck wi...

By most accounts, demand for software engineers exceeds supply.  Not just anyone can develop this skill set to the level required to deliver enterprise-grade production code.  For those that can, companies are incentivized to take extra measures to ensure software engineers are as productive as possible.  The pace of business is often throttled by the The post Developer Productivity with Utsav Sha...

Financial technology or fintech has always been a hot topic.  This is increasingly true in recent years as disruptive companies enter the market to give better alternatives and solutions to consumers. Current is focused on creating better financial outcomes.  In addition to providing banking services, their app has many tools and reminders to help users The post Reimagining Banking at Current with...

A software engineer will make many mistakes on their career journey.  In time, engineers learn to make smaller mistakes, recognize them faster, and build with appropriate guardrails.  The demands of delivering software in a timely and efficient fashion often demands developers carefully optimize tradeoffs to deliver solutions to the problems at hand. Software Mistakes and The post Software Mistake...

The Israeli Tech Radar is an opinionated map of the latest technologies and trends in the Israeli tech industry. Now in its fifth edition, the Tech Radar was built in collaboration with Monday, Wix, Riskified, Netapp, Tabula, and other tech companies. Lior Kanfi is the CEO of Tikal. In this episode, we interview Lior about The post The Tech Radar with Lior Kanfi appeared first on Software Engineer...

This episode is hosted by Kyle Polich of the Data Skeptic podcast. We’re glad to welcome Kyle to the Software Daily team. Becoming a contributor to an existing software project can be a daunting task for an engineer. A common convention is to add a README file to your repository to serve as a trailhead The post The Missing Readme with Chris Riccomini and Dmitriy Ryaboy appeared first on Soft...

This episode was published on the GeekWire podcast. Subscribe to GeekWire for more great content. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees recently that the company’s long-term goal is to “bring the metaverse to life” — helping to create an interconnected world of physical, virtual and augmented reality spaces that will reshape the way we work, interact with The post How Facebook Works: Compari...

Direct-to-Consumer companies sell their products without going through a traditional middleman like an outlet store or wholesaler. By posting content on platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube, companies can reach millions of users. TikTok, for example, has an estimated 1 billion monthly active users (wallaroomedia). The company Kindred Studios helps direct-to-consumer companies create consis...

In this episode we discuss venture capital and more with Preface Ventures Founder and General Partner Farooq Abbasi. This interview was also recorded as a video podcast. Check out the video on the Software Daily YouTube channel. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Preface with Farooq Abbasi appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

If you’ve ever googled a CS or programming question, you likely found an answer (or many) on Stack Overflow. Founded in 2008 and named after a common computing error, Stack Overflow empowers the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. More than 100 million people visit Stack Overflow every month making it one of the The post Stack Overflow for Teams: A Centralized Knowledge Shari...

Ashmeet Sidana is the founder of Engineering Capital. The post How to Convince Ashmeet Sidana to Invest in Your Business appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

In this episode we discuss the new Move Fast book, as well as many aspects of the current state of software engineering. Daliana Liu interviews Jeff Meyerson, host of Software Daily and author of Move Fast. This interview was also recorded as a video podcast. Check out the video on the Software Daily YouTube channel. The post Move Fast with Jeff Meyerson appeared first on Software Engineering Dail...

We talk to a lot of exciting startups from all over the world about their tech products. Recently we’ve heard from people innovating in the blockchain space, cloud infrastructure, databases, and automation tools. However, in today’s episode, we’re going to talk about how these tech startups get investments to build their great products in the The post Investment Strategy: Defining New Markets with...

In this episode we discuss coding bootcamps, fear, fitness, and more with Ruben Harris, CEO of Career Karma. This interview was also recorded as a video podcast. Check out the video on the Software Daily YouTube channel. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Career Karma with Ruben Harris appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

When I worked as an engineer at Amazon, I would arrive at the office every day before 6:30am. Amazon’s enormous campus is in downtown Seattle. The company expands across the city like a massive, growing organism composed of towering buildings and ecospheres. The constant wet mist of Seattle always seems lighter within Amazon campus, perhaps The post Build Your Own Amazon appeared first on Software...

The cloud has delivered amazing benefits like on-demand infrastructure that’s easy to use, pay-as-you-go subscription plans, and effortless scaling of applications. This flexibility minimizes the growing pains for businesses and explains why today’s startups and established companies are both building apps on the cloud.  However, the costs of using the cloud stack up once companies The post Cloud...

In this episode we discuss software investing, business, and the future with David Rosenthal, co-host of the Acquired podcast. This interview was also recorded as our very first video podcast. Check out the video on the Software Daily YouTube channel. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Software Investing with David Rosenthal appeared first on Software Engineering...

Yelp.com is a crowdsourced review platform focused on restaurants and local businesses. Originally created as an email-based recommendation service, Yelp re-launched in its modern form in 2005. At the time, its focus on user-created reviews and social interactions was fairly novel, and made it stand out from competitors such as Angie’s List and CitySearch. Since The post Yelp Early Days with Micha...

For startups that are still seeking product/market fit, pre-seed investments are critical to funding initial investments in the product and in the infrastructure needed to scale. Afore Capital is a pre-seed fund that invests in innovative companies across a wide variety of verticals. Afore focuses on startups with unique product insights and novel distribution approaches. The post Pre Seed Investi...