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.
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Dec 9, 2014 • 1h 9min
Episode 216: Adrian Cockcroft on the Modern Cloud-based Platform
Adrian Cockcroft discusses the challenges in creating a dynamic, flexible, cloud-based platform with SE Radio host Stefan Tilkov. After briefly discussing the definition of “cloud computing,” Adrian explains the history behind Netflix’s move to the cloud (which he led). After highlighting some of the differences that have developers and architects must face, Adrian talks about […]
Nov 20, 2014 • 1h 13min
Episode 215: Gang of Four – 20 Years Later
Johannes Thönes talks with Erich Gamma, Ralph Johnson and Richard Helm from the Gang of Four about the 20th anniversary of their book Design Patterns. They discuss the following topics: the definition of a design pattern and each guest’s favorite design pattern; the origins of the book in architecture workshops; the writing of the book […]
Nov 11, 2014 • 1h 4min
Episode 214: Grant Ingersoll on his book, Taming Text
Grant Ingersoll, founder and CTO of LucidWorks, talks with Tobias Kaatz about his book Taming Text: How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It. They begin by discussing popular existing systems for the automated understanding of contextual information. One such system, IBM Watson, drew attention for its victory in the “Jeopardy” game show. They proceed to […]
Oct 29, 2014 • 1h 3min
Episode 213: James Lewis on Microservices
Johannes Thönes talks to James Lewis, principal consultant at ThoughtWorks, about microservices. They discuss microservices’ recent popularity, architectural styles, deployment, size, technical decisions, and consumer-driven contracts. They also compare microservices to service-oriented architecture and wrap up the episode by talking about key figures in the microservice community and standing on the shoulders of giants. Recording […]
Oct 22, 2014 • 1h 1min
Episode 212: Randy Shoup on Company Culture
Tobias Kaatz talks to former Kixeye CTO Randy Shoup about company culture in the software industry in this sequel to the show on hiring in the software industry (Episode 208). Prior to Kixeye, Randy worked as director of engineering at Google for the Google App Engine and as chief engineer and distinguished architect at eBay. […]
Sep 30, 2014 • 1h 4min
Episode 211: Continuous Delivery on Windows with Rachel Laycock and Max Lincoln
Johannes talks with Rachel Laycock and Max Lincoln from ThoughtWorks about continuous delivery on Windows. The outline includes: introduction to continuous delivery; continuous integration; DevOps and ChatOps; decisions to be taken when implementing continuous delivery on windows; build tools on windows; packaging and deploy on windows; infrastructure automation and infrastructure as code with chef, puppet […]
Sep 17, 2014 • 55min
Episode 210: Stefan Tilkov on Architecture and Micro Services
Micro services is an emerging trend in software architecture that focuses on small, lightweight applications as a means to avoid large, unmaintainable, monolithic systems. This approach allows for individual technology stacks for each component and more resilient systems. Micro services uses well-known communication schemes such as REST but also require new technologies for the implementation. […]
Sep 5, 2014 • 1h 8min
Episode 209: Josiah Carlson on Redis
Josiah Carlson discusses Redis, an in-memory single-threaded data structure server. A Redis mailing list contributor and author, Josiah talks with Robert about the differences between Redis and a key-value store, client-side versus server-side data structures, consistency models, embedding Lua scripts within the server, what you can do with Redis from an application standpoint, native locking […]
Aug 26, 2014 • 1h 6min
Episode 208: Randy Shoup on Hiring in the Software Industry
Randy Shoup, former CTO at KIXEYE and director of engineering at Google, shares invaluable insights on hiring in the software industry. He discusses the critical role of company culture and effective recruitment strategies, emphasizing the importance of personal branding and networking. The conversation dives into the balance between technical skills and cultural fit in interviews, highlighting how team dynamics can shape hiring practices. Randy also reflects on the evolution of hiring strategies, showcasing his commitment to finding top talent.
Jul 28, 2014 • 48min
Episode 207: Mitchell Hashimoto on the Vagrant Project
Charles Anderson talks to Mitchell Hashimoto about the Vagrant open source project, which can be used to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. Vagrant aims to make new developers on a project productive within minutes of joining the project instead of spending hours or days setting up the developer’s workstation. The outline […]
