Software Engineering Daily

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....

Information retrieval and search engineering are becoming more intertwined with machine learning and natural language processing, leading to a wealth of work to be done in the field. Grant Ingersoll is a founder and CTO of LucidWorks, which helps clients make sense of their data and deploy search applications built on Apache Lucene and Solr. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers....

CodeCombat is a multiplayer live coding strategy game where the players write code to control their characters. Nick Winter is the CEO and Co-founder of CodeCombat. 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 $1...

Seth Godin is a writer, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is the author of many books, including most recently, What To Do When It’s Your Turn. 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 $10 in free credit.

Technical debt, referring to the compounding cost of changes to software architecture, can be especially challenging in machine learning systems. D. Sculley is a software engineer at Google, focusing on machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval. He recently co-authored the paper Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt. Hired.com is the job marketplace for s...

MotherCoders is a program that helps mothers gain technical skills with the support of a community and benefits like on-site childcare. Tina Lee is the Founder of MotherCoders, having created the program to meet her own need after trying to find existing support systems while learning how to code. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to...

SQLite is an SQL database engine that can be used in applications as a library for quick read-write operations. Unlike other database management systems, SQLite is not a client-server database designed to run in a data center. D. Richard Hipp is the architect and primary author of SQLite and the Fossil SCM. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineerin...

Trisha Gee is a Java developer and Java Champion. She is currently a Developer Advocate at JetBrains, where she focuses on educating developers on various tools and IDEs. 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...

Apache Flink is an open-source framework for distributed stream and batch data processing. Stephan Ewen is a committer and PMC member of the Flink project, and the CTO of Data Artisans. 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 prom...

Wolfram Research makes computing software powered by the Wolfram language, a knowledge-based programming language that draws from symbolic and functional programming paradigms. Stephen Wolfram is the Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, and also the author of A New Kind of Science. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus...

Jane Street Capital is a quantitative trading firm known for its emphasis on technology and specifically functional programming. OCaml is the main programming language used at Jane Street, chosen for its performance, correctness and dynamism. Yaron Minsky is the Head of Technology at Jane Street and was responsible for introducing OCaml to the company and transitioning its architecture. Hired.com...

Caml is a functional programming language that is a dialect of the ML programming language family, developed at INRIA and formerly at ENS. Gérard Huet is a senior researcher at INRIA, the French Institute for Research and Automation. He helped develop the Caml programming language in the 80s, and has a variety of other accomplishments in the world of computer science, including developing the Coq...

Haskell is a purely functional programming language that employs lazy evaluation. Lennart Augustsson is a computer scientist who is heavily involved with Haskell, and created the first publicly available Haskell compiler. He is also the author of the Cayenne programming language. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus u...

Racket is a functional programming language similar to Lisp and Scheme. Matthew Flatt is a member of the Racket core development team and also a professor of computer science at the University of Utah. 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 pr...

Elm is a functional programming language for web browsers. Richard Feldman and Srinivas Rao are front­-end developers who work with Elm at NoRedInk. 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 $10 in free credit...

Erlang is a functional, concurrent programming language that was originally designed within Ericsson in the 1980’s. It was built to support distributed, fault-tolerant, non-stop applications suitable for telecommunications infrastructure. Joe Armstrong is one of the designers of Erlang, and the chief architect of the Open Telecom Platform (OTP), a framework for building Erlang applications. Hired....

Treehouse is an online school that teaches software development, design and strategy. Ryan Carson is the CEO and Founder of Treehouse. 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 $10 in free credit.

Galvanize Data Science is a 12-week data science program born out of Zipfian Academy, which was acquired by Galvanize in 2014. Jonathan Dinu and Ryan Orban were the founders of Zipfian, and are now continuing their work to teach data science at Galvanize. Hired.com is the job marketplace for software engineers. Go to hired.com/softwareengineeringdaily to get a $600 bonus upon landing a job through...