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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May 15, 2024 • 55min
SE Radio 616: Ori Saporta on the Role of the Software Architect
Ori Saporta, Co-founder and Systems Architect at vFunction, discusses the role of the software architect with a focus on continuous design evolution. Topics include the importance of soft skills, system integration, design in agile settings, and quality management. The conversation highlights the architect's role in decision-making, dependency management, and bridging gaps between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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May 10, 2024 • 1h 2min
SE Radio 615: Kent Beck on "Tidy First?"
Kent Beck, inventor of Extreme Programming and Test-Driven Development, discusses software design and the concept of 'Tidy First?' with SE Radio host. They delve into tidying code, cohesion, coupling, balancing design decisions, and the impact of AI on software development.
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May 3, 2024 • 51min
SE Radio 614: Wouter Groeneveld on Creative Problem Solving for Software Development
Wouter Groeneveld, author of The Creative Programmer and PhD researcher, discusses evaluating projects, team constraints, maintaining flow state, critical thinking fallacies, and fostering creativity in software development on this insightful podcast.
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Apr 24, 2024 • 56min
SE Radio 613: Shahar Binyamin on GraphQL Security
Shachar Binyamin, CEO and co-founder of Inigo, discusses GraphQL security with a focus on adoption, known security issues, mitigation strategies, and top recommendations. Topics include authentication, authorization, denial of service attacks, and solutions for building safe GraphQL applications.
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Apr 16, 2024 • 54min
SE Radio 612: Eyal Solomon on API Consumption Management
CEO and co-founder of Lunar.dev, Eyal Solomon, discusses the importance of API consumption management. They explore unique issues for API consumers, gaps in existing tools, and the evolution of middleware to solve these challenges. Eyal shares Lunar.dev's vision as an open source platform for addressing API management issues.
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Apr 9, 2024 • 1h 12min
SE Radio 611: Ines Montani on Natural Language Processing
Ines Montani, CEO of Explosion, discusses NLP topics including generative vs predictive tasks, creating pipelines, labeling examples, fine-tuning models, using LLMs, and the spaCy NLP library with host Jeremy Jung. They explore solving problems with NLP, language structures, user responsibility, engineering challenges, data filtering for privacy, rule-based code, and optimizing text extraction processes.
Apr 3, 2024 • 1h 5min
SE Radio 610: Phillip Carter on Observability for Large Language Models
Phillip Carter, Principal Product Manager at Honeycomb, discusses observability for large language models. They delve into how observability helps in testing, refining functionality, debugging, and enabling incremental development for LLMs. Carter offers tips on implementing observability and highlights current technology limitations.
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Mar 28, 2024 • 57min
SE Radio 609: Hyrum Wright on Software Engineering at Google
Hyrum Wright, Senior Staff Engineer at Google, shares insights on software engineering at Google. Topics include measuring engineering productivity, writing effective test cases, challenges of software engineering at Google, style guides, code reviews, testing techniques, test doubles, Google's testing scale, static analysis power, implementing large-scale code changes, and book feedback.
Mar 20, 2024 • 1h 8min
SE Radio 608: Lane Wagner on Revisiting the Go Language
Explore Go language with Lane Wagner as he discusses its fast compilation speed, object-oriented concepts, struct embedding, concurrency, memory management, and advanced database interaction in a deep dive with Philip Winston.
Mar 12, 2024 • 1h 2min
SE Radio 607: John Frandsen on Geospatial Technologies
Explore the evolution of mapping technology and geospatial technologies, from base maps to data overlays. Learn about challenges and innovations in the space, like the transition towards vector tiles. Discover how developers can customize map visibility with tools like Mapbox and Maputnik, and the value of geospatial technologies in software solutions.
