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Django is an open source web development framework that was initially released in 2005, around the same time as Ruby on Rails. In many ways, the two frameworks are similar – they expedited web development by modularizing common components of web apps and enabling developers to quickly prototype and launch their products. They both encouraged the use of the MVC architectural pattern, with each resp...

Ruby on Rails is a web app framework released 10 years ago that influenced the way websites were being built. Rails skyrocketed to popularity in the late 2000’s and empowered many small companies to quickly build and maintain robust web apps. While it is still a mainstay in web development, it has been overshadowed as of late by JavaScript, and Node.js on the backend. David joins Software Engineer...

Marty Haught is a director of Ruby Central, a nonprofit dedicated to the support and advocacy of the worldwide ruby community. Ruby Central also hosts the RubyConf and RailsConf software conferences.

Michael Hartl is the author of The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, a widely acclaimed guide to learning how to build Ruby on Rails webapps.

Soylent is a meal replacement beverage, available in both liquid and powdered forms. Soylent is designed with the goal of meeting all nutritional requirements for an average adult. John Coogan is the CTO of Soylent.

Druid is a column-oriented distributed database that excels as a data warehousing solution for fast queries on large data sets. Fangjin Yang is a core contributor to Druid, and is currently co-founder and CEO of Imply, which helps build interactive analytics powered by Druid.

Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University and the author of several books, including “The Go Programming Language” and “The C Programming Language”, a book more commonly referred to as K&R. Professor Kernighan also worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed to the development of Unix.

Kitematic is an open source project built to simplify and streamline using Docker on a Mac or Windows machine. It allows users to get up and running on Docker with a single click, and provides a user interface that makes running and managing Docker files easy. Kitematic was acquired by Docker in March 2015. Sean Li is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Kitematic. He is now working on prod...

Distributed computing is becoming an increasingly important and complex field within software engineering, with numbers of new data engineering and infrastructure frameworks being released each year. For a beginner, it can be tough to know where to start, so this episode may be considered a primer to learning about distributed systems independently. Alvaro Videla is a core developer for RabbitMQ a...

Michael Hausenblas is a developer and cloud advocate with Mesosphere, which builds the Datacenter Operating System (DCOS), a distributed OS that uses Apache Mesos as its kernel. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through Hired. Digital Ocean is the simplest cloud hosting provider. Use promo code S...

Vue.js is a lightweight front-end JavaScript framework that makes it simple to begin prototyping and building web interfaces. Vue.js provides a flexible API for MVVM data bindings, and can serve as an alternative to other front-end frameworks like Angular and React. Evan You is the creator of Vue and a core developer at Meteor. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.c...

Quora is a Q&A website where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. Shreyes Seshasai is the Director of Engineering at Quora. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through Hired. Digital Ocean is the simplest cloud hosting provider. Use promo code SEDAILY for $...

Triplebyte is a technical hiring platform that vets engineers using a comprehensive evaluation platform and connects them to companies that are interesting in hiring them. Triplebyte was part of the Y Combinator summer class of 2015. Ammon Bartram is the Chief Data Officer and cofounder of Triplebyte. Previously, Ammon was lead video developer at Justin.tv and also cofounded SocialCam. Hired.com i...

Eric Elliott is a JavaScript advocate, and the author of Programming JavaScript Applications. He is also an entrepreneur tackling social issues including homelessness and inequality in the tech industry. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through Hired. Digital Ocean is the simplest cloud hosting...

Tessel is an open-source microcontroller that is programmable in JavaScript and compatible with Node.js. Kelsey Breseman is a hardware engineer and Steering Committee Member on the Tessel Project. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through Hired. Digital Ocean is the simplest cloud hosting provide...

The stream processing paradigm is increasingly being adopted by applications that need to process and handle large volumes of data. Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed publish-subscribe messaging system that is built to support streaming data processing. Neha Narkhede is the one of the creators of Apache Kafka, which she built to address engineering challenges while working at LinkedIn. She...

Code Fellows in-person code school offering web and mobile development training in Seattle, Portland, and Chicago. Dave Parker is the CEO of Code Fellows and organizer of Seattle Startup Week. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through Hired. Digital Ocean is the simplest cloud hosting provider. U...

Scott Hanselman is a technologist, teacher and podcaster who works for Microsoft on its web platform team. Scott hosts several podcasts including Hanselminutes and This Developer’s Life, which cover various topics in software. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through Hired. Digital Ocean is the...

TensorFlow is an open source machine learning library intended to bring large-scale, distributed machine learning and deep learning to everyone. Google recently released the framework to the public as a second-generation API, having learned from the successes and failures of DistBelief. Greg Corrado is a senior research scientist and tech lead at Google, where he focuses on the research areas of m...

Rebecca Garcia is the creator of GeekGirlWeb and founder of CoderDojo NYC. She spends much of her time educating people about the importance of STEM education, particularly in the domain of programming. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through Hired. Digital Ocean is the simplest cloud hosting p...

Todd Bishop from The GeekWire Podcast recently interviewed Jeff for a discussion on various topics including programming languages, coding bootcamps and the philosophical question of whether programming is an art or a science. Thanks to GeekWire for the opportunity! You can find the show and more at Geekwire: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/is-software-development-art-or-science-geekwire-podcast-with...

Spotify is a streaming music service that uses data science and machine learning to implement product features such as recommendation systems and music categorization, but also to answer internal questions. Boxun Zhang is a data scientist at Spotify where he focuses on understanding user behavior within the product. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwaree...

The Internet of Things era is upon us, and with it the related concerns of security, privacy and reliability of the connected systems. This episode explores these issues and how companies can prevent these problems through better development processes and lifecycle management. Anders Wallgren is the CTO of Electric Cloud, which builds products to help companies optimize their software build, test,...

John K. Paul is an engineering manager and speaker, who has given several talks on Javascript, including JavaScript, the Real Bad Parts. He is the CTO of InRhythm and also an organizer of NYCHTML5. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through Hired. Digital Ocean is the simplest cloud hosting provid...

Richard Golden is the host of Learning Machines 101, a podcast that covers artificial intelligence and machine learning topics. Dr. Golden is also a full-time Professor of Cognitive Science and Electrical Engineering at UT Dallas. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through Hired. Digital Ocean is...