Business and Philosophy

Low code tools can be used to build an increasing number of applications. Knowledge workers within a large corporation can use low code tools to augment their usage of spreadsheets. Entrepreneurs can use low code tools to start businesses even without knowing how to code. Modern low code tools have benefited from steady improvements in The post Makerpad: Low Code Tools with Ben Tossell appeared fi...

Every company has a large number of routine data workflows. These data workflows involve spreadsheets, CSV files, and tedious manual work to be done by a knowledge worker.  For example, data might need to be taken from Salesforce, filtered for new customers, and piped into Mailchimp. Or perhaps you need to sort all your customers The post Parabola: No-Code Data Workflows with Alex Yaseen appeared...

A gig economy application generates lots of notifications.  There is SMS, mobile phone updates, emails, and native application updates. If you order a ride from Uber, you might receive a text message and a push notification at the same time. If an app overloads the user with notifications, the user might end up annoyed and The post Courier with Troy Goode appeared first on Software Engineering Dai...

Animations can be used to create games, app tutorials, and user interface components. Animations can be seen in messaging apps, where animated reactions can convey rich feelings over a text interface. Loading screens can become less boring through animation, and voice assistant products can feel more alive through animation. But we still don’t see much The post Rive: Animation Tooling with Guido a...

Robotics has changed modern agriculture. Autonomous systems are powering the tractors, cotton pickers, and corn cutters that yield plants at industrial scale. John Deere is a company that has been making farm equipment for 183 years. Over that period, the planting and harvesting process has become increasingly mechanized, and John Deere has been at the The post John Deere: Farm Software with Ryan...

Venture capital investing requires an understanding of market dynamics, technology, and finance.  There is also an element of human nature. Consumer trends can make or break the viability of a new product. And early stage venture investing is always a bet on a small team or individual founder. Early stage investments are usually into companies The post Venture Stories with Erik Torenberg appeared...

Chat systems have been a part of software development for decades. Older systems like Pidgin and Yammer were surpassed by newer systems like HipChat. And when Slack was created, it quickly became a part of most software companies. But Slack does not fulfill the needs of every company. Mattermost is an open-source chat system. Mattermost The post Mattermost with Ian Tien appeared first on Software...

The word “DevOps” has a different definition depending on who you ask.  For some people, it is about the process of managing and releasing code. It can involve container management and server orchestration. It can involve infrastructure-as-code, and safer configuration management. In addition to a set of technologies, DevOps can be seen as a management The post GitLab Strategy with Sid Sibrandij a...

Webflow is a visual programming tool used by designers, developers, and other technical users. Webflow is a leader in the “low code” or “no code” category of software tools that has become prominent in the last few years.  Webflow has been years in the making. In a previous show with Webflow CEO Vlad Magdalin, he The post Webflow Engineering with Bryant Chou appeared first on Software Engineering...

Software has changed the way the world functions. The rapid pace of change has made it difficult to know how to navigate the new world. Knowledge workers who want to keep advancing in their careers develop a strategy of continuous learning in order to adapt to these changes. O’Reilly Media has existed for almost 40 The post Software Media with Tim O’Reilly appeared first on Software Engineer...

freeCodeCamp was started five years ago with the goal of providing free coding education to anyone on the Internet. freeCodeCamp has become the best place to begin learning how to write software. There are many other places that a software engineer should visit on their educational journey, but freeCodeCamp is the best place to start, The post freeCodeCamp with Quincy Larson appeared first on Soft...

GitLab is a company that builds an open source platform for managing git repositories. GitLab was started in 2012, and has grown to have a large enterprise business with additional products such as continuous integration and security tooling. GitLab is also known for being a large, entirely remote workforce. GitLab does not have any offices, The post GitLab Engineering with Marin Jankovski appeare...

Automation has the potential to eliminate rote jobs such as call center workers and truck drivers. The downstream effects of automation also leads to new jobs, such as data labeling and robot operations. The net effect of modern automation technology is unclear, but it is likely to cause some disruption in the job market. Universal The post Basic Income with Floyd Marinescu appeared first on Softw...

Offices have historically been the place where most knowledge work takes place. An office is a central meeting point for everyone in an organization. Offices allow for high bandwidth, in-person communication. Employees have access to shared resources, such as food, tables, and quiet working space. Offices provide a means of encouraging a common culture within The post Remote Work with Philip Thoma...

Originally published July 14, 2016 EconTalk is a weekly economics podcast that has been going for a decade. On EconTalk, Russ Roberts brings on writers, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs for engaging conversations about the world as seen through the lens of economics. Russ Roberts is today’s guest, and it is a treat because I have been The post Economics of Software with Russ Roberts Holiday Repeat...

Crash monitoring emerged as a software category over the last decade. Crash monitoring software allows developers to understand when their applications are crashing on client devices. For example, we have an app for Software Engineering Daily that people download on Android or iOS. Users download the app to their smartphone. When the user is playing The post Bugsnag Business with James Smith appea...

Drones will deliver food to us. Drones will be able to extinguish fires. Drones will be used to relay Internet signals and make the world more connected.  These all sound like great ideas, so why aren’t there more drones in the sky today? There are many answers to that question, some of which relate to The post Drones with Chris Anderson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .

Photo credit: Elisabeth Fall Ben Horowitz started Loudcloud with Marc Andreessen in 1999. He ran the company for eight years and chronicled his experience in his first book The Hard Thing About Hard Things. In his time running Loudcloud, the dotcom bubble burst, but Loudcloud needed cash so badly that he took the company public The post Leadership with Ben Horowitz appeared first on Software Engin...

Facebook leadership has a significant amount of engineers in its ranks, and engineers understand how to create an environment that appeals to other engineers.  Engineers do not like working on projects that they are not interested in, so Facebook optimizes for matching engineers to enjoyable work. Engineers do not like taking orders from managers, so The post Facebook Leadership with Arturo Bejar...

Chaos Monkeys is a book about Silicon Valley startups and Facebook. It is one of the most accurate books written about the modern technology industry, and captures both the negatives and the positives of software companies. Antonio Garcia Martinez is the author of Chaos Monkeys. He wrote the book after going through a gauntlet of The post Facebook Fallout with Antonio Garcia Martinez appeared firs...

Facebook engineering is unique. Software is built at Facebook in a way that is distinctly different than any other company. In our series of shows about Facebook engineering, we have mostly covered the positive side of Facebook’s practices. In today’s show, we explore the downsides.  Facebook moves fast. Engineers within the company must move fast, The post Facebook Reflections with Pete Hunt and...

Peter Deng has worked on most of Facebook’s major products: Newsfeed, Instagram, Oculus, and Messenger. These different products have different requirements, but are all part of the same ethos of connecting people through social networks.  Facebook is a consumer product company that is powered by a strong engineering workforce. The relationship between product managers and The post Facebook Produc...

Jeff Rothschild was one of the earliest engineers to join Facebook. In the 1990s, Jeff had co-founded Veritas Software and helped it to its IPO in 2004. After Veritas, Jeff worked on several other of his own companies. He was working with Accel Partners on investments when he started to learn about Facebook. Accel was The post Facebook Entrepreneurship with Jeff Rothschild appeared first on Softwa...

Cryptocurrencies are a fundamental computer science invention.  Cryptocurrencies crashed in 2018 but the technology remains as promising as ever. Bitcoin is a decentralized currency, and a plausible end state that is implied by Bitcoin’s current trajectory is a permissionless, decentralized financial system. This idea of decentralized finance or “DeFi” begs numerous questions: who will build The p...

We are republishing a podcast from the freeCodeCamp Podcast as a weekend episode. Jeff Meyerson is the creator and host of the Software Engineering Daily podcast. Jeff grew up in Texas. He spent most of his childhood playing competitive strategy games like Magic: the Gathering. This lead him to making a lot of money – The post freeCodeCamp’s Quincy Larson interviews Jeff Meyerson appeared fi...