Software Engineering Daily

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...

Real-time stream processing of data is becoming widely adopted in the efforts to manage and process “big data”. Some of the top frameworks for processing data streams include Storm, Spark, Samza and Flink. Satish Mittal is an architect at InMobi, an ad platform that needs to deal with processing large volumes of ad data with tight time demands. He recently conducted an analysis of streaming framew...

Uber is a transportation and logistics company that manages many aspects of its ride-sharing services through mobile apps and distributed technology. Uber faces unique challenges in rapidly scaling its services internationally, and at one point increased its developer headcount from 200 to over 1000 in less than a year. Matt Ranney is the Chief Systems Architect at Uber and was previously a founde...

React Native is leading to a future where a developer can build native experiences on web, iOS and Android platforms without having to write 3x the code. Christopher Chedeau is an engineer at Facebook who works on the React team. 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 t...

Data engineering is a newly emerging field that exists at the intersection of software engineering and data science. Data engineers are increasingly in demand for their abilities to use the various open source big data frameworks to build efficient and robust data pipelines. David Drummond and Austin Ouyang are program directors for the Insight Data Engineering Fellows Program, where they help tra...

This is episode 100 of Software Engineering Daily, and is a behind the scenes episode on the show that explores the challenges and motivations behind building a daily software podcast. Pranay Mohan is the Producer of Software Engineering Daily.

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority developed by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). The ISRG is a non-profit whose mission is to reduce financial, technological, and education barriers to secure communication over the Internet. Josh Aas is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the ISRG. He is also a Senior Technology Strategist at Mozilla. Hired.com is t...

Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF) is a novel lossless image format which outperforms PNG, lossless WebP, lossless BPG and lossless JPEG2000 in terms of compression ratio. Jon Sneyers is one of the core contributors to FLIF. 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 sim...

Popcorn Time was a free, open-source application that allowed for streaming of movie and television show torrents. Niv Sardi is an activist and developer based in Argentina, who previously worked on the main fork of Popcorn Time, popcorntime.io. Niv is also the founder of the Butter Project, a spin out project from Popcorn Time. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired....