
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers
Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. SE Radio 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 brought to you by the IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software magazine.
Latest episodes

Apr 27, 2021 • 1h 1min
Episode 457: Jeffery D Smith on DevOps Anti Patterns
Jeffery D Smith, author of Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions, talks about how things can go wrong in development organizations and what DevOps has to offer with host Robert Blumen.

Apr 21, 2021 • 48min
Episode 456: Tomer Shiran on Data Lakes
Tomer Shiran, co-founder of Dremio, talks about managing data inside a data lake, historical changes and motivations for managing data as a data lake, and the common tools and methods for ingestion, storage, and analytics on top of the underlying data.

Apr 13, 2021 • 1h 4min
Episode 455: Jamie Riedesel on Software Telemetry
Jamie author of Software Telemetry book discusses Software Telemetry, why telemetry data is so important and the discipline of tracing, logging, and monitoring infrastructure.

Apr 9, 2021 • 56min
Episode 454: Thomas Richter Postgres as an OLAP database
Thomas Richter is the founder of Swarm64, a Postgres extension company designed to boost performance of your Postgres instance. This episode examines the internals of Postgres, performance considerations, and relational database types.

Mar 30, 2021 • 1h 11min
Episode 453: Aaron Rinehart on Security Chaos Engineering
Aaron Rinehard, CTO of Verica and author, discusses security chaos engineering (SCE) and how it can be used to enhance the security of modern application architectures.

Mar 23, 2021 • 55min
Episode 452: Scott Hanselman on .NET
Scott Hanselman discusses .NET with Jeremy Jung

Mar 16, 2021 • 48min
Episode 451: Luke Kysow on Service Mesh
Luke Kysow from Hashicorp does a deep dive into the key features of Consul with host Priyanka Raghavan.

Mar 9, 2021 • 51min
Episode 450: Hadley Wickham on R and Tidyverse
Hadley Wickham, chief scientist at RStudio and creator of the Tidyverse, discusses how R and its data science package the TidyVerse are used and created. Host Felienne speaks with Wickham about the design philosophy of the Tidyverse, and how it supports..

Mar 5, 2021 • 56min
Episode 449: Dan Moore on Build vs Buy
Dan Moore, cofounder of Vaporware, discusses the benefits and drawbacks of building or buying software solutions, including evaluation criteria, how to inspect an API, and cost considerations for purchasing software from external vendors.

Feb 27, 2021 • 50min
Episode 448: Matt Arbesfeld Starting Your Own Software Company
Matt Arbesfeld, cofounder of LogRocket, discusses the benefits and drawbacks of starting a software company as a software engineer, including finding cofounders, fundraising, and determining what ideas are worth pursuing.