Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers
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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. 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.
Episodes
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Mar 28, 2017 • 49min
SE-Radio-Episode-286-Katie-Malone-Intro-to-Machine-Learning
Show host Edaena Salinas talks with Katie Malone about Machine Learning. Katie Malone is a Data Scientist in the Research and Development department at Civis Analytics. She is also an instructor of the Intro to Machine Learning online course from Udacity and host of Linear Digressions, a podcast about machine learning. Topics include: machine learning, data science, a career in machine learning.
Mar 14, 2017 • 46min
SE-Radio Episode 285: James Cowling on Dropbox’s Distributed Storage System
James Cowling of Dropbox tells Robert Blumen about their massive migration from Amazon’s S3 to their own distributed storage system.
Mar 7, 2017 • 52min
SE-Radio Episode 284: John Allspaw on System Failures: Preventing, Responding, and Learning From
John Allspaw CTO of Etsy speaks with Robert Blumen about systemic failures and outages. Why they cannot be totally prevented, how to respond, and what we can learn from them.
Feb 28, 2017 • 1h 10min
SE-Radio Episode 283: Alexander Tarlinder on Developer Testing
Felienne talks with Alexander Tarlinder on how to test as a developer. What can and should developers test?
Feb 14, 2017 • 1h 8min
SE-Radio-Episode-282-Donny-Nadolny-on-Debugging-Distributed-Systems
Donny Nadolny of PagerDuty joins Robert Blumen to tell the story of debugging an issue that PagerDuty encountered when they set up a Zookeeper cluster that spanned across two geographically separated datacenters in different regions.
Feb 7, 2017 • 50min
SE-Radio-Episode-281-James-Whittaker-on-Career-Strategy
Edaena Salinas talks with James Whittaker about Career Strategy in the technology field. James is a Distinguished Technical Evangelist at Microsoft and author of “How Google Tests Software” and the viral blog post “Why I left Google”. Topics include: Career Management, the role of mentors and managers in your career, a discussion on 1:1 meetings, job specialization and advice on when to switch jobs.
Jan 24, 2017 • 58min
SE-Radio-Episode-280-Gerald-Weinberg-on-Bugs-Errors-and-Software-Quality
Host Marcus Blankenship talks with Gerald Weinberg about his new book, Errors: Bugs, Boo-boos, and Blunders, focusing on why programmers make errors, how teams can improve their software, and how management should think of and discuss errors.
Jan 10, 2017 • 1h 11min
SE-Radio Episode 279: Florian Gilcher on Rust
Eberhard talks with Florian Gilcher about the programming language Rust. Rust originates from Mozilla research. Its focus is on system programming and it is often used to replace C or C++. Topics include the concepts behind Rust; concurrent and safe programming; advanced and unique features like ownership and borrowing; the rust type system (which supports other features like traits, generics and macros). The show finishes with: the evolution of Rust based, features of libraries, and how the community works.
Dec 20, 2016 • 49min
SE-Radio Episode 278: Peter Hilton on Naming
Felienne talks with Peter Hilton on how to name things. The discussion covers: why naming is much harder than we think, why naming matters in programming and program comprehension, how to create good names, and recognize bad names, and how to improve your naming skills.
Dec 14, 2016 • 1h 3min
SE-Radio Episode 277: Gil Tene on Tail Latency
Gil Tene joins Robert Blumen for a discussion of tail latency. What is latency? What is "tail latency"? Why are the upper percentiles of latency more relevant to humans? How is human interaction with an application influenced by tail latency? What are the economics of tail latency? What are the origins of tail latency within a system? What is the difference between response time and service time? How does queuing within a system contribute to response time? Java garbage collection and its contribution to latency outliers. How can we build systems with bounded tail latency out of components with variable latency? What type of observability to do we need to build systems with bounded latency? How is latency a driver of capacity planning?
