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52:09

React 18 at The New York Times with Ilya Gurevich

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2024/09/04

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 wrote a viral blog post about this decision, and how the team tackled some of the engineering challenges along the way. Today he joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to talk about

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41:08

Lekko and Dynamic Software Configuration with Konrad...

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2024/09/03

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 shape deployment. Konrad Niemiec is the Founder and CEO at Lekko. He previously worked at Uber where an internal tool called Flipr enabled dynamic

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47:35

Crafting a Stop Motion Video Game with Onat Hekimoglu

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2024/08/29

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 joins the podcast with Joe Nash to share the story and technical details of how he and his team developed their unique game. Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning

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46:37

Why Stack Overflow Uses Svelte with Giamir Buoncristiani

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2024/08/28

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 design system. Giamir joins the podcast to talk about modernizing Stack Overflow's front-end user interface and why the team has embraced Svelte. Gregor

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47:25

How Google Sheets Uses WasmGC with Michael Thomas and...

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2024/08/27

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 Collection, or WasmGC, on Chrome. Michael Thomas is the Multiplatform Lead for Google Workspace and Thomas Steiner is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google. They join the

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40:55

Containers at the Edge with David Aronchick

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2024/08/22

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 Expanso. He previously worked at Google on the Kubernetes team, which influenced his decision to start Expanso. David joins the show to talk

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54:32

Evolving JavaScript with Douglas Crockford

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2024/08/21

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 career and work in computer science. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help

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41:00

Developer Productivity with Damien Filiatrault

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2024/08/20

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 podcast to talk about software engineering management, the state of the software engineering job market, the challenge of hiring engineers, measuring

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34:12

GemFire with Ivan Novick

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2024/08/15

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 Product Manager for GemFire at the Tanzu Division of Broadcom. He joins the show to talk about Tanzu

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42:32

Modern Frontend Engineering with Stefan Li

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2024/08/14

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 features.Stefan Li is the CTO of Type.ai, and he joins the show to talk about the state of frontend dev, the service worker API, IndexedDB, the

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44:08

AI Research at Capital One with Bayan Bruss

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2024/08/13

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 AI Foundations at Capital One and in this role he works with academic researchers to translate the latest research to address fundamental problems in financial services. Bayan joins the

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47:33

DuckDB with Hannes Mühleisen

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2024/08/08

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 drawing inspiration from SQLite, why DuckDB was written in C++, the novel data processing scenarios it enables, and more. This episode is hosted

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45:42

Creating GUIs in Rust with Emil Ernerfeldt

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2024/08/07

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 reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality.Emil Ernerfeldt is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rerun. Emil is also the creator of egui which is a popular GUI library written in Rust. He joins the

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50:58

Chroma’s Vector Database with Anton Troynikov

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2024/08/06

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. Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing

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44:12

The Vesuvius Challenge with Juli Schilliger and...

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2024/08/01

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 they remained preserved. It wasn't until the 1750s that the scrolls were discovered, but they were fragile and resistant to being opened and read. Then, in 2015, researchers used X-ray

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53:34

Shift-Left Security and Code Scanning with Amjad...

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2024/07/31

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 enable shift-left security practices. Amjad Afanah and Sudipta Mukherjee are Co-Founders of HoundDog, and they

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34:45

Uber’s LedgerStore and its Trillions of Indexes with...

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2024/07/30

Uber handles billions of trips and deliveries, and tens of billions of financial transactions across earners, spenders, 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. He joins the show to talk about scaling Uber's data infrastructure. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler

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49:48

Frontend Observability with Purvi Kanal

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2024/07/25

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 and status of real user monitoring. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on

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65:35

AI Tools for Game Development with Igor Poletaev and...

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2024/07/24

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 of Labs at Inward. They join the show to talk about using AI in game development. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO

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47:52

C++ Static Analysis with Abbas Sabra

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2024/07/23

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 in the financial industry, where he identified inefficiencies within the C++ tooling ecosystem. He joins the show to talk about static

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