Software Engineering Daily

Software Engineering Daily

WebAssembly Future with Steve Klabnik

Aug 17 • 61 min

WebAssembly is a low-level compilation target for any programming language that can be interpreted into WebAssembly. Alternatively, WebAssembly is a way to run languages other than JavaScript in the browser. Or, yet another way of describing WebAssembly…

DoorDash Engineering with Raghav Ramesh

Aug 16 • 58 min

DoorDash is a logistics company that connects customers, restaurants, and drivers that can move food to its destination. When a customer orders from a restaurant, DoorDash needs to identify the ideal driver for picking up the order from the restaurant and…

Casa: Crypto Wallet Security with Jameson Lopp

Aug 15 • 66 min

Cryptocurrency security is a concern to anyone who has a significant amount of money in the form of Bitcoin, Ethereum, or other crypto assets. Most Bitcoin is held in either a Bitcoin wallet or a Bitcoin bank. Your Bitcoin holdings are recorded on a…

Infrastructure Monitoring with Mark Carter

Aug 14 • 56 min

At Google, the job of a site reliability engineer involves building tools to automate infrastructure operations. If a server crashes, there is automation in place to create a new server. If a service starts to receive a high load of traffic, there is…

GitOps: Kubernetes Continuous Delivery with Alexis Richardson

Aug 13 • 48 min

Continuous delivery is a way of releasing software without requiring software engineers to synchronize during a release. Over the last decade, continuous delivery workflows have evolved as the tools have changed. Jenkins was one of the first continuous…

Klarna Engineering with Marcus Granström

Aug 10 • 51 min

Klarna is a payments company headquartered in Sweden. Since being established in 2005 it has grown to handling $21 billion in online sales in 2017. Roughly 40% of all e-commerce sales in Sweden go through Klarna. Klarna’s original differentiator was that…

Stripe Engineering with Raylene Yung

Aug 9 • 48 min

Stripe is a payments API that allows merchants to transact online. Since the creation of the payments API, Stripe has expanded into adjacent services such as fraud detection, business management, and billing. These other verticals leverage the existing…

Self-Driving Engineering with George Hotz

Aug 8 • 64 min

In the smartphone market there are two dominant operating systems: one closed source (iPhone) and one open source (Android). The market for self-driving cars could play out the same way, with a company like Tesla becoming the closed source iPhone of cars,…

Future Architecture with Chad Fowler

Aug 7 • 68 min

Chad Fowler was the CTO of Wunderlist prior to its acquisition by Microsoft. Since the acquisition, Chad has become the general manager of developer advocacy at Microsoft. He also works as a venture capitalist at BlueYard Capital, an early stage…

Splice: Music Collaboration with Matt Aimonetti

Aug 6 • 64 min

Music collaboration has historically been accomplished by musicians gathering in bands. A band is usually an in-person, physical manifestation: a drummer, a guitarist, a piano player. Or, on a large scale, a symphony of classical instruments led by a…

GraalVM with Thomas Wuerthinger

Aug 3 • 56 min

Java programs compile into Java bytecode. Java bytecode executes in the Java Virtual Machine, a runtime environment that compiles that bytecode further into machine code, and optimizes the runtime by identifying “hot” code paths and keeping those hot code…

Token Types with Felipe Pereira

Aug 2 • 56 min

A token is a unit of virtual currency. Most tokens are built on a blockchain-based cryptocurrency platform, such as Ethereum. Building on top of a platform like Ethereum allows these tokens to form their own financial ecosystem while leveraging the scale…

Castor EDC with Derk Arts

Aug 1 • 55 min

Medical breakthroughs require medical research. Medical research requires patient testing and data collection. The most common form of capturing patient data is through surveys–and most of those surveys today are done on paper. Surveying patients to…

Jailbreaking Apple Watch with Max Bazaliy

Jul 31 • 48 min

Apple operating systems are closed source. This closed source nature gives Apple an extremely successful business model–and a very different software developer ecosystem than Linux-based systems. Since Linux is open source, the information on how to…

Edge Kubernetes with Venkat Yalla

Jul 30 • 57 min

“Edge computing” is a term used to define computation that takes place in an environment outside of a data center. Edge computing is a broad term. Your smartphone is an edge device. A self-driving car is an edge device. A security camera with a computer…

React Native at Airbnb with Gabriel Peal

Jul 27 • 61 min

React Native allows developers to reuse frontend code between mobile platforms. A user interface component written in React Native can be used in both iOS and Android codebases. Since React Native allows for code reuse, this can save time for developers,…

Ghost: Open Source Publishing Platform with John O’Nolan

Jul 26 • 67 min

Blogging is more than 20 years old. Over that period of time, numerous publishing platforms have been created. Squarespace, Blogger, Medium, and Twitter are popular closed source platforms. WordPress has been the most popular open source blogging…

Video Games and Funding Techniques with Howard Marks

Jul 25 • 68 min

Howard Marks ran two video game companies in the 90’s: Activision and Acclaim. While running these companies, he developed a love for entrepreneurship that he maintains today. Howard is the CEO of StartEngine, a company that functions as an accelerator, a…

Video Machine Learning with Ben Dodson

Jul 24 • 53 min

Video streaming platforms like Netflix offer a convenient way to watch video content. We are now able to watch our favorite TV shows, movies, or content creators on a range of devices. However, buffering while watching videos can be a painful experience…

Kubernetes in the Enterprise with Aparna Sinha

Jul 23 • 59 min

Enterprises want to update their technology faster. One way an enterprise can accelerate the adoption of new tools is to move more aggressively towards the cloud. By giving internal developers access to the cloud, it becomes easier to provision new…

WebAssembly with Lin Clark

Jul 20 • 60 min

JavaScript has been the exclusive language of the web browser for the last 20 years. Whether you use Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari, your browser interprets and executes code in a virtual machine–and that virtual machine only runs…

Botchain with Rob May

Jul 19 • 53 min

“Bots” are becoming increasingly relevant to our everyday interactions with technology. A bot sometimes mediates the interactions of two people. Examples of bots include automated reply systems, intelligent chat bots, classification systems, and…

Build a Bank: N26 with Pat Kua

Jul 18 • 60 min

Banking has been a part of the economy for 600 years. Banking has always been evolving. The most recent evolution: the financial industry has been going digital. Newer “fintech” companies have created innovative ways of doing everything related to…

Git Vulnerability with Edward Thomson

Jul 17 • 55 min

Git is a distributed file system for version control. Git is extremely reliable, fast, and secure, owing to the fact that it is one of the oldest pieces of open source software. But even battle-tested software can have vulnerabilities. In this episode, we…

Counting People with Andrew Farah

Jul 16 • 50 min

If you operate a restaurant, you want to know how many people are inside your restaurant at any given time. You also want to be able to know your occupancy if you operate a movie theater, coffee shop, or apparel store. Knowing how many people are in your…

Machine Learning Deployments with Diego Oppenheimer

Jul 13 • 60 min

Machine learning models allow our applications to perform highly accurate inferences. A model can be used to classify a picture as a cat, or to predict what movie I might want to watch. But before a machine learning model can be used to make these…

Ballerina Language with Tyler Jewell

Jul 12 • 54 min

Modern programming requires lots of integration between APIs. Some of these integrations are trivial–such as using Twilio or Stripe. But there are many more complex integrations. For example, when a large company acquires a smaller company, the acquiring…

Flutter in Practice with Randal Schwartz

Jul 11 • 62 min

Flutter allows developers to build cross-platform mobile apps. In our previous show about Flutter, Eric Seidel from Google described the goals of Flutter, why he founded the project, and how Flutter is built. In today’s show, Randal Schwartz talks about…

Build a Bank: Nubank with Edward Wible

Jul 10 • 59 min

Nubank was started in 2013 with a credit card that was controlled through a mobile app. At the time, it was the first service in Brazil that allowed customers to do banking without going to a physical bank branch. Since then, Nubank has expanded into…

Flutter with Eric Seidel

Jul 9 • 55 min

Flutter is a project from Google that is rebuilding user interface engineering from the ground up. Today, most engineering teams have dedicated engineering resources for web, iOS, and Android. These different platforms have their own design constraints,…

Future Projection with Tim O’Reilly

Jul 6 • 66 min

Tim O’Reilly’s book What’s the Future? is an overview of business, technology, and society. As the founder of O’Reilly Media, Tim has been steeped in technology trends for the last 40 years. From his vantage point running conferences and publishing…

Machine Learning Stroke Identification with David Golan

Jul 5 • 57 min

When a patient comes into the hospital with stroke symptoms, the hospital will give that patient a CAT scan, a 3-dimensional imaging of the patient’s brain. The CAT scan needs to be examined by a radiologist, and the radiologist will decide whether to…

Fintech Environment with Michael Walsh

Jul 3 • 57 min

Computer systems consume memory, CPU, battery, data, and network bandwidth as inputs. These systems provide value for the end user by delivering information, virtual objects, and physical products as outputs. Another fundamental resource that is becoming…

Kademlia: P2P Distributed Hash Table with Petar Maymounkov

Jul 2 • 57 min

Napster, Kazaa, and Bittorrent are peer-to-peer file sharing systems. In these P2P systems, nodes need to find each other. Users need to be able to search for files that exist across the system. P2P systems are decentralized, so these routing problems…

Data Engineering Automation with Mike Kim

Jun 29 • 62 min

Every company has the idea of the “nightly report.” A business analyst comes into the office, sits down in front their inbox, and looks at yesterday’s data. Did sales go up? Did the marketing campaigns bring in the expected number of customers? Was there…

Chrome and Chromium with David Bokan

Jun 28 • 56 min

Chromium is an open source browser that shares code with the Chrome browser from Google. A browser is a large piece of software, with engineering challenges around threading, rendering, resource management, and networking. To add to the complexity, Chrome…

Shopify Infrastructure with Niko Kurtti

Jun 27 • 53 min

Shopify runs more than 600,000 small business websites. When Shopify was figuring out how to scale, the engineering teams did not have a standard workflow for how to deploy and manage services. Some teams used AWS, some teams used Heroku, some teams used…

Function Platforms with Chad Arimura and Matt Stephenson

Jun 26 • 52 min

“Serverless” is a word used to describe functions that get deployed and run without the developer having to manage the infrastructure explicitly. Instead of creating a server, installing the dependencies, and executing your code, the developer just…

Build a Bank: Monzo with Richard Dingwall

Jun 25 • 57 min

When you interact with your bank, it probably feels different than when you interact with a software technology company. That’s because the biggest banks in the world were started before software became such a universally important tool. Their core…

Browser Building with Osine Ikhianosime

Jun 23 • 29 min

Crocodile Browser is a fast browser built by Osine and Anesi Ikhianosime, a pair of brothers from Nigeria. I interviewed them 3 years ago, and in this episode I caught up with Osine to learn what he and his brother have been working on since then. Osine…

Video Search with Rasty Turek

Jun 22 • 65 min

Searching through all of the videos on the Internet is not a simple problem. In order to search through all the videos, you need to build a search index. In order to build a search index, you need to build a web crawler. Video files are large. To store…

Babel with Henry Zhu

Jun 21 • 66 min

Different browsers consume JavaScript in different ways. When a new version of JavaScript comes out, developers are eager to use the new functionality of that language version. But if you are writing frontend JavaScript code, that code needs to be…

Database Reliability Engineering with Laine Campbell

Jun 20 • 63 min

Over the last decade, cloud computing made it easier to programmatically define what infrastructure we have running, and perform operations across that infrastructure. This is called “infrastructure as code.” Whether you want to backup a database, deploy…

Rust Networking with Carl Lerche

Jun 19 • 53 min

Rust is a systems programming language with a distinct set of features for safety and concurrency. In previous shows about Rust, we explored how Rust can prevent crashes and eliminate data races through its approach to type safety and memory management.…

Dremio Data Engineering with Tomer Shiran

Jun 18 • 62 min

Twenty years ago, all of the data in an organization could fit inside of relational databases. Imagine a company like Proctor and Gamble. P&G is a consumer packaged goods company with hundreds of business sectors–shaving products, toothpaste, shampoo,…

Digital Evolution with Joel Lehman, Dusan Misevic, and Jeff Clune

Jun 15 • 57 min

Evolutionary algorithms can generate surprising, effective solutions to our problems. Evolutionary algorithms are often let loose within a simulated environment. The algorithm is given a function to optimize for, and the engineers expect that algorithm to…

Hacking Your Short-Term Rental with Jeremy Galloway

Jun 14 • 54 min

If you have ever stayed in a short-term rental (like an Airbnb, HomeAway, or CouchSurfing), you have probably used the wifi network at that rental property. Why wouldn’t you? It’s no different than hopping on an open wifi network at an airport, or a…

Postgres Sharding and Scalability with Marco Slot

Jun 13 • 61 min

Relational databases have been popular since the 1970s, but in the last 20 years the amount of data that applications need to collect and store has skyrocketed. The raw cost to store that data has decreased. There is a common phrase in software companies:…

Necto: Build an ISP with Adam Montgomery

Jun 12 • 65 min

In the tech industry, we have all grown to fear “lock-in.” Lock-in is a situation in which you have no choice but to pay a certain provider for some aspect of your computer services. Since computers are so fundamental to our lives, we sometimes have no…

Bitcoin Lightning Network with Jameson Lopp

Jun 11 • 67 min

Big blocks or small blocks: this is the fundamental question of Bitcoin scalability. The argument for big blocks is also known as “on-chain scalability.” Under this strategy, each block in the append-only chain of Bitcoin transaction blocks would grow in…

Investment Games with Brian Singerman

Jun 8 • 62 min

Investing is an infinite game. In a game, a player can formulate a strategy based on the available resources, the apparent variance of the environment, and the metagame of the other actors involved. For an investor, the game board includes companies,…

Future of Computing with John Hennessy

Jun 7 • 61 min

Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years. Moore’s Law is less like a “law” and more like an observation or a prediction. Moore’s Law is ending. We can no longer fit an increasing amount…

Container Storage with Jie Yu

Jun 6 • 59 min

A database stores data to an underlying section of storage. If you are an application developer, you might think of your persistent storage system as being the database itself–but at a lower level, that database is writing to block storage, file storage,…

Profilers with Julia Evans

Jun 5 • 51 min

When software is performing suboptimally, the programmer can use a variety of tools to diagnose problems and improve the quality of the code. A profiler is a tool for examining where a program is spending time. Every program consists of a set of different…

OpenAI: Compute and Safety with Dario Amodei

Jun 4 • 63 min

Applications of artificial intelligence are permeating our everyday lives. We notice it in small ways–improvements to speech recognition; better quality products being recommended to us; cheaper goods and services that have dropped in price because of…

Scaling Ethereum with Raul Jordan and Preston Van Loon

Jun 1 • 53 min

Cryptocurrency infrastructure is a new form of software. Thousands of developers are submitting transactions to Bitcoin and Ethereum, and this transaction volume tests the scalability of current blockchain implementations. The bottlenecks in scalability…

Life Science R&D with Sherwin Yu

May 31 • 62 min

Ten years ago, a biology researcher was limited by the software tools available. Most of the electronic record keeping was done using Excel and other general purpose tools. Benchling is a suite of software tools that were designed to simplify the lives of…

Container Native Development with Ralph Squillace

May 30 • 55 min

Containers have improved deployments and resource utilization. Kubernetes created a platform to manage those containers and orchestrate them into distributed applications. In today’s episode, we explore tools that improve the workflow of the application…

Pi Hole: Ad Blocker Hardware with Jacob Salmela

May 29 • 52 min

Ad blockers in the browser protect us from the most annoying marketing messages that the Internet tries to serve to us. But we still pay a price for these ads. We pay the bandwidth costs of requesting these pages. Our browsers are slowed down by these…

Autonomy with Frank Chen

May 25 • 59 min

Self-driving, electric cars will someday outnumber traditional automobiles on the road. As transportation becomes autonomous, it is hard to imagine an industry that will not be affected by the downstream effects of this change. These cars will likely be…

Uber’s Data Platform with Zhenxiao Luo

May 24 • 62 min

When a user takes a ride on Uber, the app on the user’s phone is communicating with Uber’s backend infrastructure, which is writing to a database that maintains the state of that user’s activity. This database is known as a transactional database or…

Software Law: GDPR, Patents, and Antitrust with Micah Kesselman

May 23 • 62 min

The world of software moves faster than the laws that regulate it. When software companies do get regulated, that regulation is often enforced unevenly among different companies. Software continually presents the legal system with new requirements.…

Container Security with Maya Kaczorowski

May 22 • 47 min

Deploying software to a container presents a different security model than deploying an application to a VM. There is a smaller attack surface per container, but the container is colocated on a node with other containers. Containers are meant to have a…

Voice with Rita Singh

May 21 • 62 min

A sample of the human voice is a rich piece of unstructured data. Voice recordings can be turned into visualizations called spectrograms. Machine learning models can be trained to identify features of these spectrograms. Using this kind of analytic…

Machine Learning with Data Skeptic and Second Spectrum at Telesign

May 19 • 70 min

Data Skeptic is a podcast about machine learning, data science, and how software affects our lives. The first guest on today’s episode is Kyle Polich, the host of Data Skeptic. Kyle is one of the best explainers of machine learning concepts I have met,…

Alexa Voice Design with Paul Cutsinger

May 18 • 55 min

Voice interfaces are a newer form of communicating with computers. Alexa is a voice interface platform from Amazon. Alexa powers the Amazon Echo, as well as Alexa-enabled cars, refrigerators, and dishwashers. Any developer can build a device with a voice…

Pulsar Messaging with Lewis Kaneshiro

May 17 • 60 min

Message broker systems decouple the consumers and producers of a message channel. In previous shows, we have explored ZeroMQ, PubNub, Apache Kafka, and NATS. In this episode, we talk about another message broker: Apache Pulsar. Pulsar is an open source…

Gloo: Function Gateway with Idit Levine

May 16 • 56 min

Gloo is a function gateway built on top of the popular open source project Envoy. The goal of Gloo is to decouple client-facing APIs from upstream APIs. Gloo is similar to an API gateway, which is a tool that software companies can use to collect all…

Vitess: Scaling MySQL with Sugu Sougoumarane

May 15 • 59 min

YouTube runs a large MySQL database to hold the metadata about its videos. As YouTube scaled, the database was sharded, and applications within YouTube had to write queries that were aware of the sharding layout of that database. This is problematic,…

Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Chris Aniszczyk and Dan Kohn

May 14 • 53 min

The Kubernetes ecosystem consists of enterprises, vendors, open source projects, and individual engineers. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation was created to balance the interests of all the different groups within the cloud native community. CNCF has…

Cluster Schedulers with Ben Hindman

May 11 • 68 min

Mesos is a system for managing distributed systems. The goal of Mesos is to help engineers orchestrate resources among multi-node applications like Spark. Mesos can also manage lower level schedulers like Kubernetes. A common misconception is that Mesos…

Deep Learning Topologies with Yinyin Liu

May 10 • 60 min

Algorithms for building neural networks have existed for decades. For a long time, neural networks were not widely used. Recent changes to the cost of compute and the size of our data have made neural networks extremely useful. Our smart phones generate…

Data Engineering Podcast with Tobias Macey

May 9 • 58 min

Cloud computing lowered the cost and improved accessibility to tools for storing large volumes of data. In the early 2000s, Hadoop caused a revolution in large scale batch processing. Since then, companies have been building ways to store and access their…

Stripe Atlas with Patrick McKenzie

May 8 • 56 min

Starting an Internet business is harder than it should be. You need to incorporate, create an operating agreement, set up a system to accept payments, and many other straightforward tasks. In the 1990s, this was how it felt to set up anything on the…

Affirm Engineering with Libor Michalek

May 7 • 59 min

When I buy a mattress online, I pay for it with my credit card. Behind the scenes, a complex series of transactions occur between a payment gateway, the credit card company, and a few banks. There are problems with this process–it is slow, complex, and…

Superpedestrian Robotic Wheel / Infrastructure at HubSpot Meetup Talks

May 5 • 62 min

Superpedestrian is a robotic bicycle wheel that learns how you pedal and personalizes your bicycle ride. The engineering challenges of Superpedestrian are at the intersection of robotics, software, and real-time analytics. The first half of today’s show…

Spark Geospatial Analytics with Ram Sriharsha

May 4 • 58 min

Phones are constantly tracking the location of a user in space. Devices like cars, smart watches, and drones are also picking up high volumes of location data. This location data is also called “geospatial data.” The amount of geospatial data is rapidly…

WannaCry’s Gray Hat with Reeves Wiedeman

May 3 • 43 min

Last year, the WannaCry ransomware attack shut down hospitals, public transportation systems, and governments, demanding payment to unlock key computer systems. A programmer named Marcus Hutchins was able to stop WannaCry by registering a DNS entry buried…

Building Datadog with Alexis Le-Quoc

May 2 • 52 min

Alexis Le-Quoc started Datadog in 2010, after living through the Internet boom and bust cycle of the late 90s and early 2000s. In 2010, cloud was just starting to become popular. There was a gap in the market for infrastructure monitoring tools, which…

Technology Utopia with Michael Solana

May 1 • 48 min

Technology is pushing us rapidly toward a future that is impossible to forecast. We try to imagine what that future might look like, and we can’t help having our predictions shaped by the media we have consumed. 1984, Terminator, Gattaca, Ex Machina,…

Epicenter Cryptocurrencies with Brian Fabian Crain

Apr 30 • 60 min

Podcasting about cryptocurrencies is a strange occupation. You get emails all the time from companies doing a token sale that you would never want to be affiliated with. You get angry tweets from anonymous Twitter accounts that are on one side of the…

Keybase Architecture / Clarifai Infrastructure Meetup Talks

Apr 28 • 72 min

Keybase is a platform for managing public key infrastructure. Keybase’s products simplify the complicated process of associating your identity with a public key. Keybase is the subject of the first half of today’s show. Michael Maxim, an engineer from…

Google Cluster Evolution with Brian Grant

Apr 27 • 51 min

Google’s central system for managing compute resources is called Borg. On Borg, millions of Linux containers process a wide variety of workloads. When a new application is spun up, Borg provides that application with the resources it needs. Workloads at…

TensorFlow Applications with Rajat Monga

Apr 26 • 56 min

Rajat Monga is a director of engineering at Google where he works on TensorFlow. TensorFlow is a framework for numerical computation developed at Google. The majority of TensorFlow users are building machine learning applications such as image…

Siftery Engineering with Ayan Barua

Apr 25 • 53 min

There are hundreds of different databases. There are tens of continuous delivery products. There is an ocean of cloud providers and CRM systems and monitoring platforms and sales prospecting tools. The range of available software products is so diverse…

NATS Messaging with Derek Collison

Apr 24 • 66 min

A message broker is an architectural component that sends messages between different nodes in a distributed system. Message brokers are useful because the sender of a message does not always know who might want to receive that message. Message brokers can…

Stripe Observability Pipeline with Cory Watson

Apr 23 • 68 min

Stripe processes payments for thousands of businesses. A single payment could involve 10 different networked services. If a payment fails, engineers need to be able to diagnose what happened. The root cause could lie in any of those services. Distributed…

Bitcoin Debates with Roger Ver

Apr 20 • 62 min

Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash are two cryptocurrencies with similar properties. But the supporters of each of these Bitcoin versions have strongly divergent opinions on the direction of the Bitcoin project. At the center of this debate is the subject of block…

React Stack with G2i Team

Apr 19 • 62 min

Most new frontend webapps today use ReactJS. An increasing number of mobile apps are created using the cross-platform components of React Native. GraphQL, Facebook’s open source data-fetching middleware tool is being used by more and more companies, who…

SafeGraph with Auren Hoffman

Apr 18 • 69 min

Machine learning tools are rapidly maturing. TensorFlow gave developers an open source version of Google’s internal machine learning framework. Cloud computing provides a cost effective, accessible way of training models. Edge computing allows for low…

Talking Bitcoin with Adam B. Levine

Apr 17 • 61 min

Let’s Talk Bitcoin is one of the most popular podcasts about cryptocurrencies. Adam B. Levine started it after three other podcasts he started did not get the traction he had hoped for. Adam parlayed the success of Let’s Talk Bitcoin into a network of…

Monitoring Kubernetes with Ilan Rabinovitch

Apr 16 • 50 min

Monitoring a Kubernetes cluster allows operators to track the resource utilization of the containers within that cluster. In today’s episode, Ilan Rabinovitch joins the show to explore the different options for setting up monitoring, and some common…

Unchained with Laura Shin

Apr 13 • 61 min

Laura Shin is the host of Unchained, a podcast about cryptocurrencies and decentralized technology. For every episode, Laura does significant research and preparation, so the content turns out polished and high quality. Her enthusiasm for the subject of…

Mastodon: Federated Social Network with Eugen Rochko

Apr 12 • 60 min

Social networks can make you feel connected to a global society. But those social networks are controlled by a corporate entity. The profit motivations of the corporation are not directly aligned with the experience of the users. Mastodon is an open…

Go Systems with Erik St. Martin

Apr 11 • 57 min

Go is a language designed to improve systems programming. Go includes abstractions that simplify aspects of low level engineering that are historically difficult—concurrency, resource allocation, and dependency management. In that light, it makes sense…

Database Chaos with Tammy Butow

Apr 10 • 59 min

Tammy Butow has worked at Digital Ocean and Dropbox, where she built out infrastructure and managed engineering teams. At both of these companies, the customer base was at a massive scale. At Dropbox, Tammy worked on the database that holds metadata used…

Site Reliability Management with Mike Hiraga

Apr 9 • 47 min

Software engineers have interacted with operations teams since software was being written. In the 1990s, most operations teams worked with physical infrastructure. They made sure that servers were provisioned correctly and installed with the proper…

IPFS Design with David Dias

Apr 6 • 60 min

The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is a decentralized global, peer-to-peer file system. IPFS combines ideas from BitTorrent, Git, and Bitcoin, creating a new way to store and access objects across the Internet. When you access an object on almost any…

Ethereum Governance with Hudson Jameson

Apr 5 • 56 min

The Ethereum community started as a small group of dedicated engineers. It has ballooned to thousands of engineers, entrepreneurs and investors, all of whom have a stake in the direction of Ethereum. Ethereum is an open source project, and the direction…

PubSub Infrastructure with Stephen Blum

Apr 4 • 60 min

The pubsub pattern allows a developer to create channels, which messages can be written to and read from. Pubsub messaging is useful for multicast messaging–when you want to publish messages from a producer, and have multiple consumers who are subscribed…