Software Engineering Daily

Today, you can access Netflix on virtually any device. For a Netflix user, this seamless experience can be easy to take for granted, but it requires an enormous engineering effort. Jay Phelps is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix where he works on Shared Client Foundations. He joins the show to talk about the start of his career, his work at Netflix, and much more. Josh Goldberg is an independe...

Snowflake is one of the most prominent platforms for interacting with data and building data-intensive applications. Dan Myers works in Developer Relations at Snowflake and he joins the show to talk about the future of application development, and building native data apps on the platform. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics...

Kaze Emanuar is a ROM hacker who's famous for the array of mods he's made for Super Mario 64. He's implemented remarkable optimization to the decompiled game code, even pushing Super Mario 64 to run at 60 frames per second. Kaze joins the show to talk about his interest in Super Mario 64, ROM hacking, the N64 architecture, coding in assembly, and more. Be sure to check out Kaze's YouTube channel t...

Managing data and access to data is one of the biggest challenges that a company can face. It’s common for data to be siloed into independent sources that are difficult to access in a unified and integrated way. One approach to solving this problem is to build a layer on top of the heterogenous data sources. This layer can serve as an interface for the data and provide governance and access contro...

Blasphemous and Blasphemous II are Metroidvania action-adventure games developed by the Spanish studio, The Game Kitchen. The games have a stunning, distinctive pixel art style and atmospheric world which is inspired by Spanish folklore and religious themes. They are known for their challenging combat and intricate level design. David Erosa is the Lead Producer and Dani Márquez is a Senior Program...

Python is famed for it’s intuitive syntax, powerful standard library, and rich ecosystem of packages and frameworks. It’s also dynamically typed which is part of what makes the language so accessible. Paul Everitt is the Python and Web Developer Advocate at JetBrains. He joins the show to talk about developing the PyCharm IDE, the challenge of static analysis in Python, browser-based IDEs, and mor...

All robust technology platforms require testing to ensure that features work as intended. In many cases, tests require data, but getting access to valid and high quality test data is a common challenge, especially when the technology runs on sensitive data. Realistically mimicking data that would normally contain sensitive financial or personal information is not easy. Tonic.ai was started in 2018...

Netlify is a popular hosting platform that provides build, deploy, and serverless backend services for web apps. The platform enables deployment directly from source files stored in a version control system like GitHub. Erica Pisani is a Senior Software Engineer at Netlify. She joins the show to talk about how she got started at Netlify, edge computing, edge functions, private integrations, and mo...

Language and compiler design are fundamental aspects of computer science. High-level languages are how most developers interact with computers, so it's hard to overstate the significance of compiler engineering or the aesthetics of language syntax. C# is a general-purpose high-level language that was created by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft in 2000, and was open-sourced in 2014. Jared Parsons is t...

Sphinx Bio develops computational tools to accelerate scientific discovery. The company is focused on addressing the computational data analysis bottleneck by enabling scientists to do the analysis themselves. Nicholas Larus-Stone is the founder of Sphinx. He joins the show to talk about being a computer scientist at the interface with biology, the data analysis bottleneck in biology, designing a...

Java is one of the top programming languages used today and Java code is ubiquitous. A key factor to the overall success of Java is the Spring framework, which is the most common framework for Java development. Spring is an open-source comprehensive application framework on top of the Java Virtual Machine that provides a consistent programming and configuration model. Ryan Morgan is a Senior Direc...

Convex is a serverless backend platform to simplify fullstack application development. Its underlying database is written in Rust, and it uses TypeScript to integrate with reactive UI frameworks. The platform is growing, which has presented new reasons to make the code open source, and Convex recently released the source code for a self-managed version of their platform. The question of whether or...

Proteins are nanomachines inside cells and perform the incredible array of tasks required for cells to function. They are composed of a chain of hundreds to thousands of amino acid "building blocks". Peptides are similar to proteins, but have only about 3 to 30 amino acids. Their smaller size gives them distinct properties that are useful in therapeutic applications. Menten AI is using cutting-edg...

GitHub Copilot is an AI tool to assist software developers by autocompleting code. It is no understatement to say it has already transformed how developers write code. Adrián Mato Gondelle leads the Design team for GitHub Copilot. In this episode, recorded in 2023, Adrián joined the podcast to talk about his work. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that specializes in software de...

Corbado is an authentication platform that provides APIs for developers to replace passwords with passkeys such as Face ID or Touch ID. Vincent Delitz is a Co-Founder at Corbado and he joins the show to talk about the platform, the changing authentication landscape, the challenge of session management with passkeys, and more. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and C...

The growing use of large datasets and ML in the life sciences has created new demand for data technologies. Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing company that provides a platform for storing and analyzing large volumes of data. Harini Gopalakrishnan is the Field CTO of Life Sciences at Snowflake. She joins the show to talk about data challenges and solutions in biotech. Sean's been an academ...

Apache Iceberg is an open source high-performance format for huge data tables. Iceberg enables the use of SQL tables for big data, while making it possible for engines like Spark and Hive to safely work with the same tables, at the same time. Iceberg was started at Netflix by Ryan Blue and Dan Weeks, and was open-sourced and donated to the Apache Software Foundation in November 2018. It has now be...

Godot is a free, open-source game engine that's growing rapidly in popularity. Ramatak is a new public benefit company founded by Godot engine veterans Hein-Pieter van Braam and Ariel Manzur. The goal of Ramatak is to help make Godot the number one choice for creating, deploying, and monetizing games on iOS and Android. Hein-Pieter joins the show today to talk about his early career in Linux infra...

NextFlow is a tool for managing scientific computation workflows. It’s increasingly popular for bioinformatics, computational biology, and other life science applications. Evan Floden is the Co-Founder and CEO of Seqera Labs which develops NextFlow. He joins the show today to talk about his background as a scientist and engineer, the modular design of NextFlow pipelines, the unique challenges of g...

Stately is a web-based drag and drop editor for collaboratively developing code, diagrams, and documentation. Laura Kalbag is the Developer Advocate at Stately and she joins the show today to talk about Stately, state machines, building good documentation, and more. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developer...

The power of 3D graphics hardware and rendering technology is improving at an astonishing pace. To achieve high graphical fidelity, assets that compose 3D worlds must feature an ever-increasing level of detail. Andrew Price is the founder of Poliigon, which is an asset production studio and store. Andrew also runs the highly popular Blender Guru YouTube channel where he teaches viewers how to use...

Antibodies are a type of protein molecule produced by the immune system. They recognize and attach to other molecules with remarkable precision. Typically antibodies target foreign objects, like viruses, to mark them for destruction. However, they can also be engineered to treat diseases like cancer, and they are one of the fastest growing classes of drugs. Recently, AI-driven antibody engineering...

Portal is a 2007 game developed by Valve, where the player encounters puzzles that must be solved using the "portal gun", a device that can create inter-spatial portals between surfaces. Portal 64 is an open-source re-write of Portal that can be run on original Nintendo 64 hardware. The game was developed by James Lambert and gained enormous praise as a technical and creative achievement. The proj...

Waymo is an autonomous driving company that had its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project. David Margines is the Director of Product Management at Waymo and he joins the podcast to talk about Waymo today, the sensing technologies underpinning their cars, the huge impact of AI on their systems in recent years, and more. This episode is hosted by Tyson Kunovsky. Tyson is the co-founder and CE...

Recursion is at the leading edge of applying AI and ML to drug development. The company exemplifies a new wave of "techbio" companies, that tightly couple compute and robotics with biology and chemistry. The task of decoding biology requires vast amounts of biological data and innovative strategies to make use of that data. It also requires close coordination between experts across a wide range of...