Antibodies are a type of protein molecule produced by the immune system. They recognize and attach to other molecules with remarkable precision. Typically antibodies target foreign objects, like viruses, to mark them for destruction. However, they can also be engineered to treat diseases like cancer, and they are one of the fastest growing classes of The post Biotech Special: AI Protein Engineering with Eddie Abrams appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Feb 27, 2024•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Portal is a 2007 game developed by Valve, where the player encounters puzzles that must be solved using the “portal gun”, a device that can create inter-spatial portals between surfaces. Portal 64 is an open-source re-write of Portal that can be run on original Nintendo 64 hardware. The game was developed by James Lambert and The post Portal 64 with James Lambert appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Feb 22, 2024•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Waymo is an autonomous driving company that had its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project. David Margines is a Director of Product Management at Waymo and he joins the podcast to talk about Waymo today, the sensing technologies underpinning their cars, the huge impact of AI on their systems in recent years, and more. The post Waymo and Autonomous Driving with David Margines appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Feb 21, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Recursion is at the leading edge of applying AI and ML to drug development. The company exemplifies a new wave of “techbio” companies, that tightly couple compute and robotics with biology and chemistry. The task of decoding biology requires vast amounts of biological data and innovative strategies to make use of that data. It also The post Biotech Special: ML at Recursion with Jordan Christensen and Imran Haque appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Feb 20, 2024•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Producing 3D films, games and simulations is a complex process, often involving multiple teams and tools. At Pixar, pipeline engineers needed to write lots of glue code to integrate different workflows and file formats, which was a big challenge, and led them to create the Universal Scene Description, or OpenUSD. OpenUSD implements abstract data models The post NVIDIA and the Future of 3D Development with Aaron Luk appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Feb 15, 2024•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast SimpleWebAuthn is an open source TypeScript-centric pair of libraries – frontend and backend – that make it easier for devs to implement WebAuthn on the web. Matthew Miller started the project in 2019 and it has grown in tandem with the popularization of WebAuthn. He joins the podcast today to talk about the history of The post SimpleWebAuthn with Matthew Miller appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast There is a revolution unfolding in biotech. The confluence of new biological methods like CRISPR, virtually unlimited computational capacity, and machine learning has fundamentally transformed our ability to engineer biology for wide-ranging applications. Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, is a venture capital firm that was founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Vijay Pande is a The post Biotech Special: a16z and the Biotech Revolution with Vijay Pande appeared first on Software Engineering Dai...
Feb 13, 2024•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast oneAPI is an open standard for a unified API to be used across different computing accelerator architectures. This including GPUs, AI accelerators, and FPGAs. The goal of oneAPI is to eliminate the need for developers to maintain separate code bases, multiple programming languages, tools, and workflows for each architecture. James Reinders is an engineer at The post Building a Unified Hardware API at Intel with James Reinders appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Feb 08, 2024•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast A game engine is a system used to build and run games. Game engines let the programmer work at a high level of abstraction by providing interfaces for graphics, physics, and scripting. Godot is an open source and free to use game engine, which makes it unusual. Its first release was in 2014 and its The post The Godot Game Engine with Emilio Coppola appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Feb 07, 2024•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Starburst is a data lake analytics platform. It’s designed to help users work with structured data at scale, and is built on the open source platform, Trino. Adam Ferrari is the SVP of Engineering at Starburst. He joins the show to talk about Starburst, data engineering, and what it takes to build a data lake. The post Building a Data Lake with Adam Ferrari appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Feb 06, 2024•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chess.com started in 2007 and grew steadily in the years following. The platform exploded in popularity during the pandemic, to the point that their servers struggled with the traffic. It was a great problem to have. Chess.com was instrumental in helping to elevate chess to its current height of mainstream popularity. But how did Chess.com The post Building Chess.com with Jay Severson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Feb 01, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mastodon is an open source, decentralized social network. Eugen Rochko started building Mastodon in response to his dissatisfaction with centralized social networks like Facebook and Twitter. In the Mastodon model, users can run their own nodes, and other users can connect to them. You can follow users whose accounts reside in other nodes. Eugen joins The post Mastodon with Eugen Rochko appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 31, 2024•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Vercel provides a cloud platform to rapidly deploy web projects, and they develop the highly successful Next.js framework. The company recently made headlines when they announced v0 which is a generative AI tool to create React code from text prompts. The generated code uses open-source tools like Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui. Lee Robinson is the The post Vercel AI with Lee Robinson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 30, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Blender is a free and open-source 3D graphics tool that was initially released in 1994 and just hit version 4.0. It’s one of the triumphs of open-source software development and is used for creating animated films, art, 3D games, and more. Sybren Stüvel is a Senior Software Developer at Blender. He joins the show today The post Blender with Sybren Stüvel appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 25, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Netflix needs no introduction and is renowned for its engineering talent. Shaundai Person is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, blogger, and conference speaker. She joins the show today to talk about getting her position at Netflix, developing internal tools at the company, the value of TypeScript, what makes a great software engineering manager, and The post Netflix UIs at Scale with Shaundai Person appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 24, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Algolia is a platform that provides search as a service. The company was founded in 2012, was part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2014 class, and has become highly popular for integrating modern search functionality into web-facing services. Sean Mullaney is the CTO of Algolia and has worked at Google X, Stripe, and Zolando. He joins The post Algolia with Sean Mullaney appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 23, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Software security is a critical issue for everyone, but it takes on an entirely different dimension when your life, or the lives of others, depend on it. Consider the security needs of an environmentalist whistle blower inside a chemical corporation, or a human rights activist in Iran. Hyper-secure and fully anonymous operating systems are vital The post Edward Snowden’s Operating System with REDACTED appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 18, 2024•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Security issues can often be traced back to small misconfigurations in a database or cloud service, or an innocent code commit. OpsHelm is a security platform that’s oriented around identifying and fixing these issues. Kyle McCullough is the Co-Founder and CTO of OpsHelm and he has deep experience in backend and data engineering. He joins The post OpsHelm with Kyle McCullough appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 17, 2024•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jodie Burchell is the Data Science Developer Advocate at JetBrains, which makes integrated development environments or, IDEs, for many major languages. After observing the rapid growth of the AI coding assistant landscape, the company recently announced integration of an AI assistant into their IDEs. Jodie joins the show today to talk about why the company The post JetBrains AI with Jodie Burchell appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 16, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of AWS re:Invent 2023, which took place from November 27th through December 1st in Las Vegas. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Mike Miller who is the Director of AWS AI Devices. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and The post AWS re:Invent Special: PartyRock Generative AI Apps with Mike Miller appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 12, 2024•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of AWS re:Invent 2023, which took place from November 27th through December 1st in Las Vegas. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Kevin Kelly who is the Director of the AWS Cloud Institute. Visit https://aws.amazon.com/training to learn more about AWS’s The post AWS re:Invent Special: The AWS Cloud Institute with Kevin Kelly appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 11, 2024•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of AWS re:Invent 2023, which took place from November 27th through December 1st in Las Vegas. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Rob Zuber who is the CTO at CircleCI. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that The post AWS re:Invent Special: CircleCI with Rob Zuber appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 10, 2024•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of AWS re:Invent 2023, which took place from November 27th through December 1st in Las Vegas. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Ankur Mehrotra who is the Director and GM of Amazon SageMaker. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager The post AWS re:Invent Special: Sagemaker with Ankur Mehrotra appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 09, 2024•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hypnospace Outlaw is a hit indie game which features an internet and operating system simulator set in a surreal, alternate version of 1999. The game is entirely unique both in its design and aesthetic, and it has an impressive development history. Jay Tholen is the developer of Hypnospace Outlaw and he joins the show to The post Bonus Episode: Hypnospace Outlaw with Jay Tholen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 05, 2024•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast SQL databases were built for data consistency and vertical scalability. They did this very well for the long era of monolithic applications running in dedicated, single-server environments. However, their design presented a problem when the paradigm changed to distributed applications in the cloud. This shift eventually ushered in the rise of distributed SQL databases. One The post CockroachDB with Jordan Lewis appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 04, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Software supply chain security is a major challenge in the modern engineering environment. Many teams are working to establish best practices to proactively identify, fix, and prevent risks in their applications. Apiiro is a platform designed to solve this problem and gives risk visibility, prioritization, and remediation. Yonatan Eldar is the Co-Founder and CTO at The post Apiiro Security Posture Management with Yonatan Eldar appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 03, 2024•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast An embedding is a concept in machine learning that refers to a particular representation of text, images, audio, or other information. Embeddings are designed to make data consumable by ML models. However, storing embeddings presents a challenge to traditional databases. Vector databases are designed to solve this problem. Pinecone has developed one of the most The post Pinecone Vector Database with Marek Galovic appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jan 02, 2024•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Carlos Sanchez is a Principal Scientist at Adobe where he works on the Adobe Experience Manager. AEM is a content management system and provides a platform for site creation and content delivery. In addition to his work at Adobe, Carlos has a long history contributing to open source projects, including Apache Maven. He joins The post Bonus Episode: Adobe Cloud Native with Carlos Sanchez appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Dec 29, 2023•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Building scalable software applications can be complex and typically requires dozens of different tools. The engineering often involves handling many arcane tasks that are distant from actual application logic. In addition, a lack of a cohesive model for building applications can lead to substantial engineering costs. Nathan Marz is the creator of Rama, which is The post Rama with Nathan Marz appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Dec 28, 2023•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Frédéric Harper is the Principal Developer Advocate at Kubefirst, which is an open source platform that integrates some of the most popular tools in the Kubernetes space. Frédéric has deep experience at major software companies having worked at npm, Mozilla, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, Fitbit, and others. He joins the show to talk about the challenges and The post Kubefirst with Frédéric Harper appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
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