Online transaction processing, or OLTP, is designed for managing high volumes of short, fast, and concurrent transactions, such as data entry and retrieval operations. OLTP systems solve the problem of efficiently handling numerous simultaneous transactions, making them essential for sectors like banking and retail. Joran Greef is the Founder and CEO of TigerBeetle, which is The post Building a Fast Financial Transactions Database with Joran Greef appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Sep 12, 2024•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Since its first major release in 2004, it has stood out on the browser landscape for its emphasis on privacy, security, and customization. Brian Grinstead is a Senior Principal Engineer at Mozilla. He joins the podcast with Kevin Ball to talk about the The post Firefox Software Architecture with Brian Grinstead appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Sep 11, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Google needs no introduction, and is renowned for its data and analytics capabilities. Gerrit Kazmaier is the VP and GM for Database, Data Analytics and Looker at Google. He has a long history in the space, and in this episode he speaks with Sean Falconer about data and analytics in the AI era. Sean’s been The post AI Data Analytics at Google with Gerrit Kazmaier appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Sep 10, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast DevOps is a powerful model for managing the building and operational aspects of modern applications. Most developers are now familiar with DevOps, and the adoption of DevOps practices is widespread and growing. Adam Jacob was the original author of Chef, a popular early DevOps tool. He’s now the CEO of System Initiative, which develops an The post Building a Collaborative DevOps Platform with Adam Jacob appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Sep 05, 2024•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast React is an open-source front-end JavaScript library maintained by Meta. It was first released in 2013 and is now the most popular web framework. Ilya Gurevich is a Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times. Last winter, his team set out to implement React 18 for The Times’ flagship core news site. Ilya recently The post React 18 at The New York Times with Ilya Gurevich appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Sep 04, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Feature flagging tools have grown in popularity as a way to decouple releases and deployment, but they can introduce their own long-term problems and tech debt. Lekko is a startup democratizing the practice of dynamic configuration. Their motivating idea is to empower engineers to focus on software releases, and business teams and other stakeholders to The post Lekko and Dynamic Configuration with Konrad Niemiec appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Sep 03, 2024•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Harold Halibut is a 2024 narrative adventure video game developed by German developer Slow Bros. The game has a distinct look owing to its use of stop motion animation with 3D scans of physical sets and puppets. Onat Hekimoglu worked on Harold Halibut as the Director, Game Designer, Composer, and Person of Many Hats. He The post Crafting a Stop Motion Video Game with Onat Hekimoglu appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Aug 29, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Stack Overflow is a legendary question-and-answer site for programmers, and is likely well known to most SEDaily listeners. Svelte is an open-source front-end framework that was released in 2016 and continues to grow rapidly in popularity. Giamir Buoncristiani is a Staff Software Engineer at Stack Overflow. He is also the tech lead for the Stacks The post Why Stack Overflow Uses Svelte with Giamir Buoncristiani appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Aug 28, 2024•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Google Sheets calculation engine was originally written in Java and launched in 2006. In the early days of the product, all calculation happened on the server. However, starting in 2013 the engine has run in the browser using JavaScript. Google Sheets is now one of the first products at Google to use WebAssembly Garbage The post How Google Sheets Uses WasmGC with Michael Thomas and Thomas Steiner appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Aug 27, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Large datasets require large computational resources to process that data. More frequently, where you process that data geographically can be just as important as how you process it. Expanso provides job execution infrastructure that runs jobs where data resides, to help reduce latency and improve security and data governance. David Aronchick is the CEO of The post Containers at the Edge with David Aronchick appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Aug 22, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer who is involved in the development of the JavaScript language. He specified the JSON data format, and has developed various JavaScript related tools such as the static code analyzer JSLint. Crockford is also a game developer and worked at Atari. Douglas joins the podcast to talk about his The post Evolving JavaScript with Douglas Crockford appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Aug 21, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Damien Filiatrault is the founder and CEO of Scalable Path, a software staffing agency that matches companies and startups with vetted, remote software developers. The company was founded in 2010, and since then has worked on hundreds of client projects and has built a freelance network with 35,000 remote developers in 177 countries. Damien joins The post Developer Productivity with Damien Filiatrault appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Aug 20, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Tanzu GemFire is a distributed, in-memory, key-value store that performs read and write operations at fast speeds. It offers highly available parallel message queues, continuous availability, and a scalable event-driven architecture. It was developed to have sub-millisecond response times and accordingly found early application in automated trading environments on Wall Street. Ivan Novick is the The post GemFire with Ivan Novick appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Aug 15, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast In 2022, Stefan Li and Stew Fortier envisioned a document editor with language model features built in. They founded Type.ai, received backing from Y Combinator, and have since been at the frontier of building a next-generation document editor. However, to ensure a robust and performant frontend, Type.ai needed to take advantage of many modern browser The post Modern Frontend Engineering with Stefan Li appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Aug 14, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast A major challenge in applied AI is out-of-distribution detection, or OOD, which is the task of detecting instances that do not belong to the distribution the classifier has been trained on. OOD data is often referred to as “unseen” data, as the model has not encountered it during training. Bayan Bruss is the VP of The post AI Research at Capital One with Bayan Bruss appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Aug 13, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast DuckDB is an open-source column-oriented relational database that was first released in 2019. It’s designed to provide high performance on complex queries against large databases, and focuses on online analytical processing workloads. Hannes Mühleisen is the Co-Creator of DuckBD, and is the CEO and Co-Founder of DuckDB Labs. He joins the show to talk about The post DuckDB with Hannes Mühleisen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Aug 08, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Rerun is an open source SDK and viewer for visualizing and interacting with multimodal data streams. The SDK lets you send data from anywhere, and the viewer collects the data and aligns it so the user can scroll back and forth in time to interpret it. The tools have been applied in spatial computing, augmented The post Creating GUIs in Rust with Emil Ernerfeldt appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Aug 07, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Chroma is an open-source AI application database. Anton Troynikov is a Founder at Chroma. He has a background in computer vision and previously worked at Meta. In this episode Anton speaks with Sean Falconer about Chroma, and the goal of building the memory and storage subsystem for the new computing primitive that AI models represent. The post Chroma’s Vector Database with Anton Troynikov appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Aug 06, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast In 79 AD, in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, twenty meters of hot mud and ash buried an enormous villa once owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. Inside, there was a vast library of papyrus scrolls. The scrolls were carbonized by the heat of the volcanic debris, but they were trapped underground where The post The Vesuvius Challenge with Juli Schilliger and Youssef Nader appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Aug 01, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Traditionally, security checks and testing are performed towards the end of the software development lifecycle. However, discovering vulnerabilities at that stage can be costly and time-consuming. This observation has led to the shift-left movement, which advocates for implementing security testing earlier in the software development process. HoundDog AI is a startup focused on software to The post Shift-Left Security and Code Scanning with Amjad Afanah and Sudipta Mukherjee appeared first on So...
Jul 31, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Uber handles billions of trips and deliveries, and tens of billions of financial transactions across drivers, couriers, users, and merchants every quarter. LedgerStore is an immutable storage solution at Uber that provides verifiable data completeness and correctness guarantees to ensure data integrity for its transactions. Kaushik Devarajaiah is the Tech Lead for LedgerStore at Uber. The post Uber’s LedgerStore and its Trillions of Indexes with Kaushik Devarajaiah appeared first on Software Eng...
Jul 30, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast One of the fastest areas of growth in observability is frontend observability, or real user monitoring. This is the practice of monitoring and analyzing the performance, behavior, and user experience of web applications from the user’s perspective. Purvi Kanal is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb. She joins the podcast to talk about the evolution The post Frontend Observability with Purvi Kanal appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jul 25, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Inworld is a company that provides tools for game studios to add AI-driven gameplay. They are at the leading edge of using generative AI in game development, and have worked with companies such as Xbox, Ubisoft, and NVIDIA. Igor Poletaev is the VP of AI and Nathan Yu is the Director of Product and GM The post AI Tools for Game Development with Igor Poletaev and Nathan Yu appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jul 24, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Static analysis is the examination of code without executing the program. It’s used to identify potential errors, code quality issues, security vulnerabilities, and adherence to coding best practices. Abbas Sabra is a Principal Engineer at Sonar, which creates tools to help developers produce clean code. Abbas specializes in C++ static analysis, and began his career The post C++ Static Analysis with Abbas Sabra appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jul 23, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Bison Ventures invests in frontier technology companies that use innovative science and deep technology. A key pillar of their investment portfolio is climate technology. Tom Biegala is a co-founder of Bison Ventures. Prior to starting Bison Ventures, Tom worked at Cascade Asset Management Company, the investment office that manages the assets of the Bill & The post Climate Tech Investing with Tom Biegala appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jul 18, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Luma AI develops technologies at the forefront of AI and graphics. They created a text-to-3D tool that functions like Midjourney but for generating 3D models. Another tool makes photorealistic environments by reconstructing any scene in 3D from just a few photos. Karan Ganesan is a Software Engineer and Barkley Dai is the Product and Growth The post Luma AI with Barkley Dai and Karan Ganesan appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jul 17, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast Redis is an in-memory database that can be used for caching, vector search, and as a message broker. Brian Sam-Bodden is a Senior Applied AI Engineer at Redis. He joins the show to talk about his work and AI at the company. Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering The post AI at Redis with Brian Sam-Bodden appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jul 16, 2024•Transcript available on Metacast David Szymanski is a video game developer focused on short retro horror games. He created the hit FPS Dusk, along with Iron Lung, Chop Goblins, and the upcoming Butcher’s Creek. He’s also involved in the production of the upcoming Iron Lung film. David joins the podcast to talk about his work, how to capture an The post Dusk and the Art of Making Short Games with David Szymanski appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Retool is a platform to help engineers quickly build internal frontends. It does this by abstracting away repetitive aspects of frontend development. The platform was started in 2017 and has received funding from Sequoia, Stripe Co-Founders, and Nat Friedman. David Hsu is the founder and CEO of Retool. He joins the show to talk about The post Fast Frontend Development with David Hsu appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
Jul 10, 2024•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast ChatGPT has been out for more than a year and has since become the centerpiece of intense discussion and debate about AI. Christian Hubicki is a renowned robotics research scientist and an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Florida State University. In 2023, he was a guest on Software Engineering Daily, where he discussed ChatGPT The post One Year of ChatGPT with Christian Hubicki appeared first on Software Engineering Daily ....
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