Greatest Hits Archives - Software Engineering Daily

This episode explores Netlify as a niche cloud provider for modern web projects, featuring an interview with CEO Matthias Biilmann Christensen.

This episode explores the intersection of software engineering and management, emphasizing how building software involves messy iteration, adapting to new tools, and considering human psychology in organizational scaling.

This episode discusses P.W.

This episode explores how Facebook developed GraphQL to solve mobile latency issues with recursive data fetching, featuring co-creator Lee Byron discussing its origins and widespread adoption.

This episode explores the development of RISC architecture by Dave Patterson and John Hennessey, discussing its impact on computer efficiency and Patterson's ongoing work in computer science and machine learning.

Host Sean Falconer interviews Christian Hubicki about using data analysis and machine learning to predict Survivor winners, connecting it to broader topics like ChatGPT and robotics.

This episode features Surabhi Gupta discussing her experience scaling Airbnb's engineering infrastructure from a monolithic Rails application to a service-based architecture, with a focus on search engine challenges.

This episode explores how Prisma automates GraphQL infrastructure to simplify data access across various backends, featuring an interview with CTO and co-founder Soren Bramer Schmidt.

This episode explores how Netflix uses Jupyter Notebooks as a key tool for data engineering and analysis across various roles to handle petabytes of data and improve workflows.

This episode features Or Hiltch, CTO of Skyline.ai, discussing how machine learning and comparable analysis are applied to real estate investing, along with insights into their serverless architecture.

This episode features venture investor Tom Tunguz discussing his analysis of S-1 documents from recent software IPOs like Slack and Zoom, exploring what these filings reveal about company building and growth dynamics.

This episode discusses how modern developer tools like Firebase and AppSync have accelerated software development by abstracting away scalability concerns and allowing developers to focus on higher-level application components.

Ryan Hoover, founder of Product Hunt and host of Product Hunt Radio, discusses products as an art form, the process of creating useful things, and his investing strategy with The Weekend Fund.

This episode features an interview with Chad Fowler discussing his experiences with software architecture at Wunderlist, his current role at Microsoft, and his insights on future technologies like Kubernetes, blockchain, and AI in development.

This episode features Matt Klein discussing Envoy Mobile, an open-source network proxy for mobile applications that brings advanced networking features like HTTP2, GRPC, and QUIC to mobile developers.

This interview with GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij explores the company's open-source platform for managing the full software development lifecycle, its enterprise business model, and ambitious vision for integrating tools to reduce costs.

This episode discusses the importance and competition in service mesh technology within the Kubernetes ecosystem, highlighting its role in simplifying operations for distributed applications.

This episode features an interview with George Hotz, president of Korma, discussing the company's open-source driver assistance system OpenPilot and his background as a programmer.

Economist Tyler Cowen discusses his book 'Big Business' and explores the scrutiny of large technology companies, comparing it to historical criticisms of banks and oil companies, while touching on various sectors including banking and venture capital.

This episode explores the narrator's personal journey through the online poker bubble, detailing his relationship with Haseeb Qureshi and the emotional and financial impact of the bubble's collapse.

This episode features an interview with Martin Ford about his book 'Architects of Intelligence', which compiles insights from top AI researchers on the development and societal implications of artificial intelligence.

This episode explores generative models, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), with Doug Eck, explaining how they use neural networks to create new data like cat images through a generator and discriminator system.

Sonal Chokshi discusses the success and editorial approach of the a16z Podcast, exploring how technology and podcasting intersect.

This episode explores Google's cloud computing strategy focused on open-source systems and developer experience, contrasting it with AWS's market dominance and proprietary approach.

George Hotz discusses how Comma.ai develops open-source self-driving technology using affordable hardware and crowdsourced data to compete with closed systems like Tesla's Autopilot.

This episode discusses memory safety issues in C++ with its creator Bjarne Stroustrup, prompted by recent pushes from governments and organizations to move away from the language.

This episode features Ciera Jaspan, a staff software engineer at Google, discussing Google's monolithic repository system, its tooling, and research on developer productivity compared to smaller repositories.

This episode features an interview with Mike Tung, founder of Diffbot, discussing how his company uses AI to structure unstructured web data into a knowledge graph accessible via APIs.

This episode features an interview with Ben Hindman discussing the evolution of multicloud infrastructure, his work on Apache Mesos, and the mindset shifts needed to turn research into successful enterprise products.

This episode discusses how open source software creators monetize their projects through business models like enterprise add-ons and hosting, and explores the impact of cloud providers like AWS on these models, highlighting the Commons Clause as a licensing strategy to protect profits.

This keynote argues that software engineers are evolving beyond being treated as interchangeable commodities, becoming more productive and entrepreneurial, which impacts both individual careers and large companies.

This episode features Rob Skillington, a staff software engineer at Uber, discussing how Uber scales its monitoring platform using M3 to handle massive amounts of data from Prometheus for system health and business metrics.

This episode explores how Facebook scaled its PHP monolith instead of adopting microservices architecture, comparing it to applications like Excel where centralized logic is advantageous.

This episode features Marco Palladino, co-founder and CTO of Kong, discussing the role of API gateways in modern applications, the evolution of Kong's API management platform, and its future developments including the Kong service mesh.

This episode explores Facebook's strategic approach through the lens of former VP Mike Vernal, examining how the company balances long-term vision with short-term requirements in areas like mobile computing and competitive threats.

This episode features Howie Liu, CEO of Airtable, discussing how Airtable makes application development more accessible by combining spreadsheet familiarity with powerful database and programming capabilities.

This episode explores the economics and sales strategies of infrastructure software businesses, featuring insights from Martin Casado, a successful entrepreneur and investor.

This episode explores how Google Search uses advanced JavaScript engineering to dynamically load interactive widgets and optimize performance, bridging back-end tools with front-end user experiences.

This episode explores Blitzscaling, a business growth strategy that prioritizes speed over efficiency to achieve market dominance, featuring examples from companies like Airbnb, LinkedIn, Amazon, and Facebook.

Shang Liang, the former lead developer on the original Java Virtual Machine and CEO of Rancher Labs, says the container orchestration wars almost killed Rancher because the company had to rewrite its platform around Kubernetes.

Software Engineering Daily’s conversation with Guillermo Rauch centers on Zite, the serverless deployment platform he founded, and on the Now product that turns GitHub pushes into deployments.

Render founder Anurag Goel argues that AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure sell commodity infrastructure, while Render hides Kubernetes, VMs, SSL, and deploy plumbing behind a few product choices.

Software Engineering Daily's "Scaling Lyft with Matt Klein" follows Matt Klein, the Envoy creator and Lyft infrastructure engineer, as he explains why he wrote about the "human scalability of DevOps." Klein draws on Amazon Web Services, Twitter, and Lyft to argue that cloud and serverless tooling still needs alarms, observability, SLOs, SLAs, and real support.

This episode features Saad Ali from Google discussing how Kubernetes manages storage and stateful workloads, particularly in on-prem and cloud environments.

Brian Singerman, a partner at Founders Fund, discusses how game theory and mathematical modeling apply to venture capital investing, drawing parallels with board games.

This episode features Gabriel Peal, an Airbnb engineer, discussing Airbnb's two-year journey with React Native, including its adoption for code reuse across mobile platforms and the eventual decision to stop using it.

Tim O'Reilly discusses how artificial intelligence will impact society in coming decades, emphasizing human agency in shaping technological futures.