
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

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Dec 8, 2020 • 1h 14min
Episode 437: Architecture of Flutter
Tim Sneath, product management for Flutter and Dart at Google discusses what Flutter is, why it was created, where Dart came from, what the different layers of Flutter are, why it is so popular and why it makes a developers life much easier.

Nov 24, 2020 • 1h 3min
Episode 436: Apache Samza with Yi Pan
Yi Pan is the lead maintainer of the Apache Samza project and discusses the use cases for stream processing frameworks, how to use them, and the benefits & drawbacks of a framework like Samza.

Nov 17, 2020 • 1h 5min
Episode 435: Julie Lerman on Object Relational Mappers and Entity Framework
Julie Lerman discusses Object Relational Mappers and Entity Framework with Jeremy Jung.

Nov 10, 2020 • 59min
Episode 434: Steven Skiena on Preparing for the Data Structures and Algorithm Job Interview
Steven Skiena speaks with SE Radio’s Adam Conrad about practical applications for data structures and algorithms, as well as take-aways on how to best study Skiena’s book when prepping for the technical interview process.

Nov 6, 2020 • 58min
Episode 433: Jay Kreps on ksqlDB
Jay Kreps, CEO and Co-founder of Confluent discusses ksqlDB, a database for stream processing. Topics include querying data with ksqlDB, its architecture and scalability, handling changes and schema, query planning and optimization, stream processing anti-patterns, the future of ksqlDB, and the importance of event streaming.

Oct 30, 2020 • 1h 9min
Episode 432: brian d foy on Perl 7
brian d foy, author of many Perl books discusses what Perl 7 is, where it’s going, what you need to do to get ready and various pieces advice on making the most of your Perl and programming life.

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Oct 23, 2020 • 1h 10min
Episode 431: Ken Youens-Clark on Learning Python
Felienne spoke with Youens-Clark about new features in Python, why you should teach testing to beginners from the start and the importance of the Python ecosystem.

Oct 16, 2020 • 1h 7min
Episode 430: Marco Faella on Seriously Good Software
Felienne interviews Marco Faella about his book ‘Seriously Good Software,’ which aims to teach programmers to use six key qualities to better analyze the quality of their code bases.

Oct 8, 2020 • 57min
Episode 429: Rob Skillington on High Cardinality Alerting and Monitoring
Rob Skillington discusses the architecture, data management, and operational issues around monitoring and alerting systems with a large number of metrics and resources.

Sep 30, 2020 • 1h 5min
Episode 428: Matt Lacey on Mobile App Usability
Matt Lacey, author of the Usability Matters book discusses what mobile app usability is and why it can make or break an app destined for consumers, business users or in-house users and what you can do to make the best app possible.