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Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. Every 10 days, a new episode is published that covers all topics software engineering. Episodes are either tutorials on a specific topic, or an interview with a well-known character from the software engineering world. All SE Radio episodes are original content — we do not record conferences or talks given in other venues. Each episode comprises two speakers to ensure a lively listening experience. SE Radio is an independent and non-commercial organization.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Careful interviews connect software architecture to production constraints, making complex engineering tradeoffs concrete without flattening the technical detail.
Software Engineering Radio turns engineering practice into careful interviews, with hosts who define the system at hand before pressing on its operational consequences.
An HTMX conversation can turn your next API design meeting into a much better argument.
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Bob Nystrom makes Dart's async and await mechanics clear, from syntax down to the scheduler.
Dart gets a grounded technical introduction through Bob Nystrom's explanation of async and await. As a Google software engineer working on the Dart programming language, he walks through the machinery behind the syntax: await splits a function, moves the remaining work into a…
A grounded walkthrough of branch factor, node maintenance, and logarithmic search with Howard Chu.
B-tree data structures feel clearer when the focus stays on the choices an engineer actually has to make. Howard Chu lays out why the structure behaves logarithmically, how branch factor changes the base of that logarithm, and why packing more elements into a node can reduce…
A practical look at how Timestream handles fresh writes, durable storage, and replicated reads.
Software Engineering Radio uses Audrey Lawrence's account of Amazon Timestream to frame why time series databases matter when data has to be ingested and queried quickly.
A measured look at why recording human clicks still leaves real engineering work.
Robotic process automation is presented here as a friendly recording tool, but the episode keeps one foot in software engineering reality. Alexander Pugh, a solutions architect with over five years of experience in robotic process automation and cognitive services, explains the…
A focused look at infrastructure code growing from flat definitions into reusable, packageable engineering.
Software Engineering Radio frames infrastructure as code as a programming problem with a recognizable life cycle. Teams start by putting infrastructure into a flat format, then run into versioning boundaries and the need for better abstractions as systems grow.
A grounded look at durable workflows, Kafka delivery guarantees, and Postgres-based operational visibility.
The episode makes durable execution feel practical by asking whether a workflow can hold together across the systems that rely on it. Chan Lee, D-Boss's co-founder and chief architect, connects the platform to a Stanford-MIT research collaboration that began in 2020, then brings…
A practical look at cluster security, centered on updates, network boundaries, and managed services.
The episode treats Kubernetes security as ordinary engineering work that just gets stricter in containers. It keeps coming back to the basics: keep software and dependencies current, including container dependencies and the host Bash version, and harden the system instead of…
Type-driven development without the usual framework scaffolding.
This episode treats OCaml and zero-framework development as a way to close the gap between what code promises and what it will actually accept.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Stack Overflow's Ryan Donovan interviews founders and engineers on AI agents, protocols, and dev tools.
Michael Kennedy interviews Python maintainers on packaging, security, web tools, and AI.
Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken run down the week's Python tooling, typing, and packaging news.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
Carson Gross discusses HTMX, a library that extends hypermedia principles to simplify web development by reducing client-side complexity.
Matthias Endler discusses prototyping in Rust, debunking myths that it's unsuitable for quick iterations.
Luke Hintz discusses the privacy and security risks of AI coding assistants, including data exfiltration, stale knowledge, and dependency vulnerabilities.
Sahaj Garg, co-founder and CTO of Whisper, tells host Amey Ambade that ambiguity in human input is resolved only with extra context, using the tonal difference in "that's great" as his example.
Vilhelm von Ehrenheim discusses autonomous testing, explaining how AI agents adapt to application changes without manual intervention, contrasting with traditional automated testing.
Malcolm Matalka discusses developing TerraTeam in OCaml with a zero-frameworks approach, emphasizing how personal preference, community size, and control over tooling drive technical decisions.
Durable execution gets the main seat.
Wesley Beary discusses API design principles, emphasizing iterative development, user feedback through blind playtesting, and avoiding common pitfalls like overloading CRUD operations.
Security starts with the test station.
Toolchain observability starts with build pain.
Tab9 is the object under the microscope.
Chris Love discusses Kubernetes security, covering key layers like cluster setup, node security, network policies, and container best practices.
Ashley Peacock discusses Cloudflare's evolution from a CDN/security company to a full-featured serverless developer platform, comparing it to AWS.
Conor Goodrum and Jacob Biswati from DeepGram discuss the challenges of testing machine learning models for enterprise products, covering differences from traditional software testing, the impact of LLMs, and strategies like synthetic data and observability.
This episode of Software Engineering Radio features Emre Baran and Alex Olivier discussing stateless decoupled authorization frameworks.
Luca Palmieri discusses deploying Rust applications in production, covering topics like Docker optimization, compilation profiles, error handling, and performance metrics.
Will McGugan discusses text-based user interfaces (TUIs) and command-line interfaces (CLIs), focusing on his Python libraries Rich and Textual.
Samuel Colvin discusses the Pydantic ecosystem, including Pydantic for data validation in Python, Pydantic AI for LLM interactions, and LogFire for observability.
Priyanka Raghavan interviews Abhinav Kimothi on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), covering its basics, how it combats LLM hallucinations, key components like retrieval and augmentation, and real-world applications.
An Atlassian survey says engineers code 16% of the time, so 84% of the work is still open to pairing.
Bob Nystrom says Dart is a "client optimized language" because UI code must stay fast on hardware the programmer does not control.
Howard Chu and host Gavin Henry use Software Engineering Radio Episode 485 to build from binary search trees to B-trees and B+ trees.
Audrey Lawrence explains why Timestream uses a “2D grid” of time and space instead of time alone.
Alexander Pugh, a solutions architect with more than five years in robotic process automation and cognitive services, explains RPA on Software Engineering Radio as automating tasks "the way a human does them" on the operating system.
Luke Hoban, CTO at Pulumi and a former AWS and Microsoft engineer, explains how infrastructure as code turns cloud setup into code, source control, and reusable software patterns.