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A clear look at state machines in backend workflows.
Adam Berger and Lee Atchison keep the discussion centered on how state machines can shape backend workflows. Berger frames State-Backed, his open-source TypeScript backend, as a way to model application logic as transitions while the platform handles persistence, infrastructure,…
A practical open source conversation about contribution, discovery, and what healthy projects actually look like.
Open source is treated less as a slogan than as a question of access: how do developers move from admiring a project to contributing to it? Brian Douglas makes a credible case for looking past star counts and paying attention to new contributors as a healthier sign of project…
A clear software-engineering review of how Temporal helps long-running workflows survive worker failure.
Temporal with Maxim Fativ turns the everyday rhythm of making dinner into a serious software problem: how a long-running workflow keeps its place when the machines doing the work fail.
AI for saving and sharing coding context teams keep losing.
The piece looks at how Pieces uses AI to save and shape coding material for developers and teams. It keeps coming back to the everyday mess people actually try to keep track of: snippets, links, messages, and screenshots.
A grounded discussion of how a React-based documentation tool can support docs, blogs, portfolios, and product sites.
Documentation lives at the point where software engineering meets the everyday work of helping people use and contribute to a product. Here, Mike Bifulco and Sebastian Lorber, lead maintainer of DocuSaurus, give that problem a practical frame: building documentation sites with…
A grounded look at turning authorization policy into workable governance across cloud-native environments.
Cloud-native authorization sits at the center of this review, framed as the work of turning business context into policy that can run across API gateways, Kubernetes provisioning, and delivery automation.
A grounded tour of CloudQuery, from SQL-based cloud inventory to production deployment and open-source business realities.
CloudQuery makes a sprawling cloud estate feel like something an SRE or security team can ask about directly in SQL. Yevgeny Pats explains how the open-source project ingests and structures resources across cloud accounts, helping teams trace where infrastructure came from and…
A grounded tour of InfluxDB across IoT monitoring, energy data, and developer feedback.
InfluxData's InfluxDB is framed as a practical bridge between time-series data and decisions about energy production, sensor health, and IoT systems.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
The engineering decisions behind code, agents, and control.
Python tools, practical trade-offs, and the occasional programming joke.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
James Reinders of Intel tells host Lee Atchison that oneAPI is both a set of Intel tools and an effort to make accelerator code 'performance portable' across vendors.
State machines scale from 10 to 100 million concurrent users without infrastructure pain.
Open source developer Josh Goldberg hosts Brian Douglas, founder of OpenSauced and former GitHub Director of Developer Experience, for a conversation covering how to get involved in open source, what makes good first issues actually useful, the difference between DevRel at a startup versus GitHub scale, how Brian built his career from collections agent to developer advocate, the 101/201/301/401 content framework, and how OpenSauced measures new contributors as a better signal than GitHub stars.
Software Engineering Daily host Sean Falconer interviews Temporal co-founder and CEO Maxim Fativ about durable execution, distributed workflows, and the company’s open-source origins at Uber.
Savo Knott says Pieces is building “a place to put things” for developers, combining file fragments, enrichment, and on-device AI across macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Mike Bifulco interviews Sebastian Lorber about Docusaurus, the static site generator created at Facebook after copied Jekyll templates became difficult to maintain across documentation sites.
Jocelyn Byrne-Huhl interviews Tim Hendricks, CTO and founder of Styra, about authorization across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and applications.
Yevgeny Pats explains CloudQuery, an open-source cloud asset inventory that loads AWS, GCP, and Azure configuration into Postgres for SQL queries.
Zoe Steinkamp, a software engineer and developer advocate at InfluxData, explains how InfluxDB handles time-series data from ingestion through visualization and alerts.
Software Engineering Daily host interviews Alexander Lichter, a Nuxt.js maintainer and Development consultant, about using Nuxt to add server-side rendering, routing, and deployment flexibility to Vue.js applications.
Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo review 10 years of The Changelog, from GitHub's pull requests to Kubernetes and React.