
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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Aug 13, 2019 • 1h 14min
Episode 376: Justin Richer On API Security with OAuth 2
Justin Richer, lead author of the OAuth2 In Action book discusses the key technical features of the OAuth2 authorization protocol and the current best practices for selecting the right parts of it for your use case.

Aug 7, 2019 • 52min
Episode 375: Gabriel Gonzalez on Configuration
Gabriel Gonzalez, the creator of Dhall the programmable configuration language, discusses configuration, why it is important and how we can make it better. Adam Gordon Bell spoke Gonzalez about Dhall, yaml, total functional programming and dealing...

Jul 24, 2019 • 58min
Episode 374: Marcus Blankenship on Motivating Programmers
Motivation comes through relationships, safety, and environments which allow everyone to contribute.

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Jul 18, 2019 • 51min
Episode 373: Joel Spolsky on Startups Growth, and Valuation
Joel Spolsky on founding Stack Overflow, land grabs vs. bootstrapping with profitability, raising more money using proof points, what developers and companies get massively wrong, choosing your next job, and how to ask and answer on Stack Over

Jul 12, 2019 • 1h 12min
Episode 372: Aaron Patterson on the Ruby Runtime
Aaron Patterson of GitHub discusses the Ruby language and its runtime. Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Aaron about the Ruby language and how it works. They discuss the language virtual machine, concurrency, garbage collection, and JIT compilation.

Jun 25, 2019 • 49min
Episode 371: Howard Chu on the Lightning Memory Mapped Database (LMDB)
Howard Chu, CTO of Symas Corp and chief architect of the OpenLDAP Project, discusses the key technical features of the Lightning Memory-mapped Database (LMDB) that make it one of the fastest, most efficient and safest embedded data stores in the world.

Jun 18, 2019 • 1h 2min
Episode 370: Chris Richardson on Microservice Patterns
Chris Richardson of microservices.io and author of the book Microservice Patterns discuss microservice patterns which constitute a set of best practices and building-block solutions to problems inherent microservice architecture.

Jun 11, 2019 • 1h 9min
Episode 369: Derek Collison on Messaging Systems and NATS
Learn how to simplify your application architecture with the introduction of a messaging system. You'll hear how different messaging patterns can make your application more flexible, easier to maintain, and improve its performance.

May 30, 2019 • 1h 1min
Episode 368: Bryan Helmig on Managing Distributed Teams
The use of distributed and remote software teams have grown dramatically in the past five years, presenting new challenges for managers and engineers alike. Bryan Helmig talks about the best practices his company, Zapier, uses to manage remote software...

May 21, 2019 • 53min
Episode 367: Diomidis Spinellis on Debugging
Felienne talks to Diomidis Spinellis about different forms of debugging. From using print-statements to version-control systems and operating system tools. We also discuss debugging strategies for different types of programming systems.