
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

Jul 16, 2020 • 56min
Episode 417: Alex Petrov on Database Storage Engines
Alex Petrov, author of Database Internals explains the ins and outs of database storage engines. What are they? How do they differ? What problems do they solve? Host Adam Gordon Bell spoke with Alex about these questions as well as how information...

Jul 9, 2020 • 1h 18min
416: Adam Shostack on Threat Modeling
Adam Shostack of Shostack & Associates and author of Threat Modeling: Designing for Security discussed different approaches to threat modeling, the multiple benefits it can provide, and how it can be added to an organization’s existing software proc

Jun 30, 2020 • 1h 1min
Episode 415: Berkay on Incident Management
Berkay Mollamustafaoglu, founder of Ops Genie, discusses the keys to effective incident management and the counterintuitive aspects of incident management. Topics include how frequent changes can increase system stability, the benefits of feature flagging and cannery builds for managing failures, the cultural change in incident management, the importance of post mortems and involving non-technical personnel, and the significance of incident management in the software industry.

Jun 23, 2020 • 1h 10min
Episode 414: Jens Gustedt on Modern C
Jens Gustedt, author of the Modern C book discusses Modern C, what is legacy C and all aspects of the C programming world with its historic flaws, modern improvements and simple beauty.

Jun 16, 2020 • 55min
Episode 413: Spencer Kimball on CockroachDB
Spencer Kimball talks to Akshay Manchale about CockroachDB which is a distributed, resilient, SQL database system. He talks about challenges of using single node databases and features and principles behind CockroachDB that make it a better alternative open source database.

Jun 9, 2020 • 1h 2min
Episode 412: Sam Gavis Hughson on Technical Interviews
Felienne spoke with Gavis-Hughson about how to prepare for the dreaded 'whiteboard interview'.

May 28, 2020 • 1h 3min
Episode 411: Aaron Vonderhaar on Elm
Aaron Vonderhaar, maintainer and open source contributor to the Elm programming language, talks with host Adam Conrad about the Elm language, its foundations, features, and applications in the front end web development ecosystem.

May 19, 2020 • 1h 12min
Episode 410: Sara Leen on Localizing and Porting Japanese Games
Sara Leen discusses localizing, porting, and modernizing Japanese games with Jeremy Jung.

May 14, 2020 • 56min
Episode 409: Joe Kutner on the Twelve Factor App
Joe Kutner, Software Architect for Heroku at Salesforce.com, spoke with host Kanchan Shringi about the 12-Factor App methodology, which aids development of modern apps that are portable, scalable, easy to test, and continuously deployable.

May 4, 2020 • 53min
Episode 408: Mike McCourt on Voice and Speech Analysis
Felienne spoke with Mike McCourt on difficulties in processing voice data using machine learning.