Vespa is a fully featured search engine and vector database, and it has integrated ML model inference. The project open sourced in 2017, and since then has grown to become a prominent platform for applying AI to big data sets at serving time. Vespa began as a project to solve Yahoo’s use cases in search, The post Vespa.ai with Jon Bratseth appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
SurrealDB is the result of a long-time collaboration between brothers Tobie and Jaime Morgan Hitchcock. The project has modest origins and started merely to support other projects the brothers were working on. However, over time the project grew and in 2021 they started working on it full-time. Since then the project has gained serious adoption. The post Bonus Episode: SurrealDB with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Responsible AI is an approach to developing and deploying AI in a safe, trustworthy and ethical fashion. The concept has gained considerable attention with the rise of generative AI technologies. Ezequiel Lanza is an AI Open Source Evangelist at Intel and he joins the show today to talk about responsible AI, and the practices and The post Bonus Episode: Responsible AI with Ezequiel Lanza appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Ransomware attacks involve the deployment of malware that blocks access to a user’s or organization’s computer files by encrypting them. The attackers then demand a ransom payment in exchange for the decryption key that will restore access to the files. These attacks are often directed at governments and corporations, and can be costly. Veeam is The post Blocking Ransomware Attacks with Anthony Cusimano appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Supabase is an open source backend-as-a-service platform and competes directly with Google’s Firebase. A key distinction between them is that Firebase is a document store, while Supabase uses Postgres, which is a SQL-based database management system. Software Engineering Daily last covered Supabase in 2020 when its Founder Paul Copplestone came on the show, and a The post Supabase Security with Inian Parameshwaran appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
GitHub Copilot is an AI tool developed by GitHub and OpenAI to assist software developers by autocompleting code. Copilot kicked off a revolution in software engineering, and AI assistants are now considered essential tools to many developers. Joseph Katsioloudes is a cyber security specialist and works at the GitHub Security Lab. He joins the show The post GitHub Copilot with Joseph Katsioloudes appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Build systems coordinate all the steps to transform source code into a production application. Bazel is a build system and testing tool that was first released in 2015 as a free and open-source port of Google’s internal build system called Blaze. Historically, each language has its own build system which can create complexity when developing The post Bonus Episode: Bazel with Julio Merino appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Containers make it possible to standardize the deployment of software to any compute environment. However, managing and orchestrating containers at scale is a major challenge. Kubernetes was originally created by Google and solves the problem of scaling container deployment. Ben Elder is a Senior Software Engineer at Google, and an Elected Member of the Kubernetes The post Kubernetes at Google with Ben Elder appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Deno is a free and open source JavaScript runtime built on Google’s V8 engine, Rust, and Tokio. The project was announced by Ryan Dahl in 2018 with the goal of addressing shortcomings of Node.js, which Ryan also created. Since then, the Deno project has grown tremendously in popularity, and they recently announced Deno KV which The post Deno with Luca Casonato appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Machine learning model research requires running expensive, long-running experiments where even a slight mis-calibration can cost millions of dollars in underutilized compute resources. Once trained, model deployment, production monitoring, and observability requirements all present unique operational challenges. Chris Van Pelt is the Chief Information Officer of Weights and Biases, which is the industry standard in The post Weights & Biases with Chris Van Pelt appeared first on Software Enginee...
Maritime logistics is the process organizing the movement of goods across the ocean. Historically, this has been a challenging problem because of the multinational nature of shipping, as well as piracy, smuggling, and legacy technology. It’s also profoundly important for security reasons, and because 90% of what we buy travels over the oceans. Ocean vessels The post Tracking Drug Smugglers and Migrating Databases with Benny Keinan and Lior Resisi appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
One of the most famous software exploits in recent years was the SolarWinds attack in 2020. In this attack, Russian hackers inserted malicious code into the SolarWinds Orion system, allowing them to infiltrate the systems of numerous corporations and government agencies, including the U.S. executive branch, military, and intelligence services. This was an example of The post Software Supply Chain Security with Michael Lieberman appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Hugging Face was founded in 2016 and has grown to become one of the most prominent ML platforms. It’s commonly used to develop and disseminate state-of-the-art ML models and is a central hub for researchers and developers. Sayak Paul is a Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face and a Google Developer Expert. He joins the The post Hugging Face with Sayak Paul appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of KubeCon 2023, which took place from November 6th through 9th in Chicago. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Justin Cormack who is the CTO at Docker. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that specializes in software The post KubeCon Special: Docker with Justin Cormack appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of KubeCon 2023, which took place from November 6th through 9th in Chicago. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Santiago Torres-Arias who is a contributor to Sigstore, which is a system to register software supply chain actors using federated identity The post KubeCon Special: Sigstore with Santiago Torres-Arias appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of KubeCon 2023, which took place from November 6th through 9th in Chicago. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Darren Shepherd who is the Chief Architect and Co-Founder at Acorn Labs. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and The post KubeCon Special: Acorn with Darren Shepherd appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of KubeCon 2023, which took place from November 6th through 9th in Chicago. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with David DeSanto who is the Chief Product Officer at GitLab. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that specializes The post KubeCon Special: GitLab’s AI Vision with David DeSanto appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Josh Prismon is a veteran software architect, having worked at FICO for 17 years before shifting to Index Exchange in 2022. In this episode, Josh joins the podcast to speak with host Lee Atchison, who also has deep experience in software architecture from his time at Amazon, New Relic, and other companies. Josh and Lee The post Software Architecture with Josh Prismon appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Data breaches at major companies are so now common that they hardly make the news. The Wikipedia page on data breaches lists over 350 between 2004 and 2023. The Equifax breach in 2017 was especially notable because over 160 million records were leaked, and much of the data was acquired by Equifax without individuals’ knowledge The post The Right to Be Forgotten with Gal Ringel appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
If you’re a sports fan and like to track sports statistics and results, you’ve probably heard of Sofascore. The website started in 2010 and ran on a modest single server. It now has 25 million monthly active users, covers 20 different sports, 11,000 leagues and tournaments, and is available in over 30 languages. Josip The post Sofascore with Josip Stuhli appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Cloud-based software development platforms such as GitHub Codespaces continue to grow in popularity. These platforms are attractive to enterprise organizations because they can be managed centrally with security controls. However, many, if not most, developers prefer a local IDE. Daytona is aiming to bridge that gap. It’s a layer between a local IDE and a The post Daytona with Ivan Burazin appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Knowledge graphs are an intuitive way to define relationships between objects, events, situations, and concepts. Their ability to encode this information makes them an attractive database paradigm. Hume is a graph-based analysis solution developed by GraphAware. It represents data as a network of interconnected entities and provides analysis capabilities to extract insights from the data. The post GraphAware with Luanne Misquitta appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Shopify is an e-commerce platform focused on enabling small businesses to sell online. The company was founded in 2006 and since then has become a core technology of online business infrastructure. Mike Shaver is a Distinguished Engineer at Shopify and previously worked at Facebook, Mozilla, Oracle and others. At Shopify he works on the core The post Shopify with Mike Shaver appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
When Adam Berger was at Uber, his team was responsible for ensuring that Uber Eats merchants correctly receive and fulfill orders. This required them to think hard about engineering workflows and state management systems. Six years of experience at Uber motivated Adam to create State Backed, which is an open-source backend system written in Typescript. The post Building a State Machine Backend with Adam Berger appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
One of the key challenges that teams encounter is how to smoothly collaborate on converting a design into code. For example, if a designer designs a web component, how can it be most efficiently implemented by a developer? What happens if the designer needs to adjust the design and communicate this change to the developer? The post Figma Dev Mode with Marcel Weekes appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Frontend web frameworks are software toolkits that handle many of the low-level and repetitive aspects of building a website. These frameworks have made it easier than ever to build a modern website. The open-source Astro framework was created in 2021 for the purpose of creating simple static sites that load quickly. A key factor to The post The Astro Framework with James Quick appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Observability software helps teams to actively monitor and debug their systems, and these tools are increasingly vital in DevOps. However, it’s not uncommon for the volume of observability data to exceed the amount of actual business data. This creates two challenges – how to analyze the large stream of observability data, and how to keep The post Chronosphere with Martin Mao appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
The open source coding philosophy has enormous appeal to many software engineers, and with good reason. Open source libraries, applications, and operating systems are now essential to the overall technology ecosystem. And the number of open source projects is only increasing. But many developers don’t know how to get involved in open source. Or, they The post Open Source Contributing with Brian Douglas appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
There are countless real world scenarios where a workflow or process has multiple steps, and some steps must be completed before others can be started. Think of something as simple as cooking dinner. First you look up a recipe, then you write down the ingredients you need, you go shopping, and then you cook. These The post Temporal with Max Fateev appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Speech technology has been around for a long time, but in the last 12 months it’s undergone a quantum leap. New speech synthesis models are able to produce speech that’s often indistinguishable from real speech. I’m sure many listeners have heard deep fakes where computer speech perfectly mimics the voice of famous actors or public The post Speechlab and Realtime Translation with Ivan Galea appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
