Machine learning models learn patterns and relationships from data to make predictions or decisions. The quality of the data influences how well these models can represent and generalize from the data. Nihit Desai is the Co-founder and CTO at Refuel.ai. The company is using LLMs for tasks such as data labeling, cleaning, and enrichment. He The post Using LLMs for Training Data Preparation with Nihit Desai appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 30, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kentik is a network observability platform that focuses on letting users easily ask questions and get answers about their network. Avi Freedman is the CEO of Kentik and he joins the podcast to talk about the platform, his observability philosophy, the role of AI in observability, and much more. Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored The post AI-Driven Observability at Kentik with Avi Freedman appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 25, 2024•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Solid.js is a popular JavaScript framework known for its reactive and efficient rendering system. Instead of using a Virtual DOM, it compiles its templates to real DOM nodes and updates them with fine-grained reactions. Ryan Carniato is the creator of SolidJS, and he joins the show to talk about the framework. Taylor Nodell is a The post SolidJS with Ryan Carniato appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 24, 2024•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sammy Steele is a Senior Staff Engineer at Figma, and the tech lead for their databases team. She previously worked at Dropbox, where she built out their petabyte-scale metadata storage and search systems. Sammy recently published a blog called “How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale”. The blog went viral and made it The post Database Scaling at Figma with Sammy Steele appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 23, 2024•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Autonomous vehicle engineering is a huge challenge and requires the integration of many different technologies. A self-driving car needs data from multiple sensors, ML models to process that data, engineering to couple software and mechanical systems, and much more. Ian Williams is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Cruise, and before that worked at Google, The post Bonus Episode: How to Build a Self-Driving Car with Ian Williams appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 19, 2024•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ben Huber is a security engineer who has worked at companies including Crypto.com and Blackpanda. He joins the podcast to talk about his career, penetration or “pen” testing, attack vectors, security tools, and much more. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across The post Security Engineering with Ben Huber appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 18, 2024•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast George Mathew is a Managing Director at Insight Partners where he invested in Weights & Biases, Jasper, and others. He has over 20 years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being CEO of Kespry. George joins the podcast to talk about his path to becoming an investor, his data-first thesis about investment, The post Startup Investing with George Mathew appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 17, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Event-driven architecture is a software design pattern where system components communicate through events that are generated by producers, and pushed to consumers. This design is often contrasted with a request-driven architecture, where components communicate with each other by sending requests and receiving responses. Hookdeck is an event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages. The post Hookdeck and Building an Event Gateway with Alex Bouchard appeared first on...
Apr 16, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast OAuth is an open standard for access delegation. It lets users grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites, but without giving away passwords. OpenID Connect is an identity layer on top of OAuth. Even if you haven’t programmed using OAuth and OpenID Connect, you’ve certainly used them for authentication on Google, The post Authlete and Making OAuth Accessible with Justin Richer appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, you can access Netflix on virtually any device. For a Netflix user, this seamless experience can be easy to take for granted, but it requires an enormous engineering effort. Jay Phelps is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix where he works on Shared Client Foundations. He joins the show to talk about the start The post Netflix Engineering with Jay Phelps appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Snowflake is one of the most prominent platforms for interacting with data and building data-intensive applications. Dan Myers works in Developer Relations at Snowflake and he joins the show to talk about the future of application development, and building native data apps on the platform. Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has The post Data Applications on Snowflake with Daniel Myers appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 09, 2024•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kaze Emanuar is a ROM hacker who’s famous for the array of mods he’s made for Super Mario 64. He’s implemented remarkable optimization to the decompiled game code, even pushing Super Mario 64 to run at 60 frames per second. Kaze joins the show to talk about his interest in Super Mario 64, ROM hacking, The post Bonus Episode: Optimizing Nintendo 64 Code with Kaze Emanuar appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 05, 2024•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Managing data and access to data is one of the biggest challenges that a company can face. It’s common for data to be siloed into independent sources that are difficult to access in a unified and integrated way. One approach to solving this problem is to build a layer on top of the heterogenous data The post A Semantic Layer for Data with Artyom Keydunov appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 04, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Blasphemous and Blasphemous II are Metroidvania action-adventure games developed by the Spanish studio, The Game Kitchen. The games have a stunning, distinctive pixel art style and atmospheric world which is inspired by Spanish folklore and religious themes. They are known for their challenging combat and intricate level design. David Erosa is the Lead Producer and The post Developing Blasphemous II with David Erosa and Dani Márquez appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 03, 2024•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Python is famed for it’s intuitive syntax, powerful standard library, and rich ecosystem of packages and frameworks. It’s also dynamically typed which is part of what makes the language so accessible. Paul Everitt is the Python and Web Developer Advocate at JetBrains. He joins the show to talk about developing the PyCharm IDE, the challenge The post Building the PyCharm IDE at JetBrains with Paul Everitt appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Apr 02, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast All robust technology platforms require testing to ensure that features work as intended. In many cases, tests require data, but getting access to valid and high quality test data is a common challenge, especially when the technology runs on sensitive data. Realistically mimicking data that would normally contain sensitive financial or personal information is not The post Tonic and Synthetic Data with Andrew Colombi and Adam Kamor appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Mar 28, 2024•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Netlify is a popular hosting platform that provides build, deploy, and serverless backend services for web apps. The platform enables deployment directly from source files stored in a version control system like GitHub. Erica Pisani is a Senior Software Engineer at Netlify. She joins the show to talk about how she got started at Netlify, The post Netlify and Edge Computing with Erica Pisani appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Mar 27, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Language and compiler design are fundamental aspects of computer science. High-level languages are how most developers interact with computers, so it’s hard to overstate the significance of compiler engineering or the aesthetics of language syntax. C# is a general-purpose high-level language that was created by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft in 2000, and was open-sourced in The post C# Compiler and Language Design at Microsoft with Jared Parsons appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Mar 26, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sphinx Bio develops computational tools to accelerate scientific discovery. The company is focused on addressing the computational data analysis bottleneck by enabling scientists to do the analysis themselves. Nicholas Larus-Stone is the founder of Sphinx. He joins the show to talk about being a computer scientist at the interface with biology, the data analysis bottleneck The post Biotech Special: Life Science Data Analysis with Nicholas Larus-Stone appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ...
Mar 25, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Java is one of the top programming languages used today and Java code is ubiquitous. A key factor to the overall success of Java is the Spring framework, which is the most common framework for Java development. Spring is an open-source comprehensive application framework on top of the Java Virtual Machine that provides a consistent The post VMware’s Spring AI with Ryan Morgan and Mark Pollack appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Mar 21, 2024•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Convex is a serverless backend platform to simplify fullstack application development. Its underlying database is written in Rust, and it uses TypeScript to integrate with reactive UI frameworks. The platform is growing, which has presented new reasons to make the code open source, and Convex recently released the source code for a self-managed version of The post Going Open Source at Convex with James Cowling appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Mar 20, 2024•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Proteins are nanomachines inside cells and perform the incredible array of tasks required for cells to function. They are composed of a chain of hundreds to thousands of amino acid “building blocks”. Peptides are similar to proteins, but have only about 3 to 30 amino acids. Their smaller size gives them distinct properties that are The post Biotech Special: Computational Drug Discovery with Patrick Finneran appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Mar 19, 2024•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast GitHub Copilot is an AI tool to assist software developers by autocompleting code. It is no understatement to say it has already transformed how developers write code. Adrián Mato Gondelle leads the Design team for GitHub Copilot. In this episode, recorded in 2023, Adrián joined the podcast to talk about his work. Jordi Mon Companys The post Design at GitHub Copilot with Adrián Mato Gondelle appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Mar 14, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Corbado is an authentication platform that provides APIs for developers to replace passwords with passkeys such as Face ID or Touch ID. Vincent Delitz is a Co-Founder at Corbado and he joins the show to talk about the platform, the changing authentication landscape, the challenge of session management with passkeys, and more. Gregor Vand is The post Biometric Authentication with Vincent Delitz appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Mar 13, 2024•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast The growing use of large datasets and ML in the life sciences has created new demand for data technologies. Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing company that provides a platform for storing and analyzing large volumes of data. Harini Gopalakrishnan is the Field CTO of Life Sciences at Snowflake. She joins the show to talk The post Biotech Special: Life Sciences at Snowflake with Harini Gopalakrishnan appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Mar 12, 2024•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Apache Iceberg is an open source high-performance format for huge data tables. Iceberg enables the use of SQL tables for big data, while making it possible for engines like Spark and Hive to safely work with the same tables, at the same time. Iceberg was started at Netflix by Ryan Blue and Dan Weeks, and The post Iceberg at Netflix and Beyond with Ryan Blue appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Mar 07, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Godot is a free, open-source game engine that’s growing rapidly in popularity. Ramatak is a new public benefit company founded by Godot engine veterans Hein-Pieter van Braam and Ariel Manzur. The goal of Ramatak is to help make Godot the number one choice for creating, deploying, and monetizing games on iOS and Android. Hein-Pieter joins The post Bringing Godot to Mobile with Hein-Pieter van Braam appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Mar 06, 2024•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast NextFlow is a tool for managing scientific computation workflows. It’s increasingly popular for bioinformatics, computational biology, and other life science applications. Evan Floden is the Co-Founder and CEO of Seqera Labs which develops NextFlow. He joins the show today to talk about his background as a scientist and engineer, the modular design of NextFlow pipelines, The post Biotech Special: Scientific Computing Pipelines with Evan Floden appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Mar 05, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Stately is a web-based drag and drop editor for collaboratively developing code, diagrams, and documentation. Laura Kalbag is the Developer Advocate at Stately and she joins the show today to talk about Stately, state machines, building good documentation, and more. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He The post Stately with Laura Kalbag appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast The power of 3D graphics hardware and rendering technology is improving at an astonishing pace. To achieve high graphical fidelity, assets that compose 3D worlds must feature an ever-increasing level of detail. Andrew Price is the founder of Poliigon, which is an asset production studio and store. Andrew also runs the highly popular Blender Guru The post Graphical Photorealism with Andrew Price the Blender Guru appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
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