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43:48

Podman with Brent Baude

Software Engineering Daily ·

2025/08/12

Podman is an open-source container management tool that allows developers to build, run, and manage containers. Unlike Docker, it supports rootless containers for improved security and is fully compatible with standards from the Open Container Initiative, or OCI.Brent Baude is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat where he works on Podman. In this episode, Brent joins the show to talk about the project. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that specializes in

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47:24

SED News: Meta’s AI Gambit, Windsurf Shake‑Up, and...

Software Engineering Daily ·

2025/08/07

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry.In this episode, they explore Meta’s bold push into AI with the launch of Meta Superintelligence Labs, the dramatic twists in the Windsurf acquisition saga, Lyft’s re-entry into the autonomous vehicle race, and how new UK online safety rules have fueled a surge in VPN use. They also dive into

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52:04

Electron and Desktop App Engineering with Shelley Vohr

Software Engineering Daily ·

2025/08/05

Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It allows developers to package web apps with a native-like experience by bundling them with a Chromium browser and Node.js runtime. Electron is widely used for apps like VS Code, Discord, and Slack because it enables a single codebase to run on Windows, macOS, and Linux.Shelley Vohr is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft where she works on Electron. She joins

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40:55

Modal and Scaling AI Inference with Erik Bernhardsson

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2025/07/31

Modal is a serverless compute platform that's specifically focused on AI workloads. The company’s goal is to enable AI teams to quickly spin up GPU-enabled containers, and rapidly iterate and autoscale. It was founded by Erik Bernhardsson who was previously at Spotify for 7 years where he built the music recommendation system and the popular Luigi workflow scheduler. In this episode, Erik joins Sean Falconer to talk about the motivation for founding his company, the market gap in ML and AI

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50:53

RxJS with Ben Lesh

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2025/07/29

RxJS is an open-source library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs. It provides powerful operators for transforming, filtering, combining, and managing streams of data, from user input and web requests to real-time updates.Ben Lesh is the creator of RxJS. He joins Josh Goldberg to talk about his path into engineering and the RxJS library. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write

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42:20

Small AI Models with Yoeven Khemlani

Software Engineering Daily ·

2025/07/24

JigsawStack is a startup that develops a suite of custom small models for tasks such as scraping, forecasting, vOCR, and translation. The platform is designed to support collaborative knowledge work, especially in research-heavy or strategy-driven environments.Yoeven Khemlani is the Founder of JigsawStack and he joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to talk about making use of small models for diverse applications. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of

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43:25

Streamlining Cloud Infrastructure Deployments with...

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2025/07/22

Railway is a software company that provides a popular platform for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. It automates tasks such as infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and deployment and is particularly known for having a developer-friendly interface.Jake Cooper is the Founder and CEO at Railway. He joins the show to talk about the company and its platform. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from AI to

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50:12

Building Open Infrastructure for AI with Illia...

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2025/07/17

Illia Polosukhin is a veteran AI researcher and one of the original authors of the landmark Transformer paper, Attention is All You Need, which he co-authored during his time at Google Research. He has a deep background in machine learning and natural language processing, and has spent over a decade working at the intersection of AI and decentralized technologies. His current venture is called NEAR AI, and He's focused on building open-source infrastructure, tools, and products for Agentic,

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48:10

TypeScript with Jake Bailey

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2025/07/15

TypeScript is a statically typed superset of JavaScript that adds optional type annotations and modern language features to improve developer productivity and code safety. The TypeScript compiler performs type checking at compile time, catching errors before code is run, and also transforms TypeScript code into clean, standards-compliant JavaScript.Jake Bailey is Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft where he works on TypeScript, and has made major contributions to the TypeScript compiler. Jake

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56:07

MCP Security at Wiz with Rami McCarthy

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2025/07/10

Wiz is a cloud security platform that helps organizations identify and remediate risks across their cloud environments. The company’s platform scans layers of the cloud stack, including virtual machines, containers, and serverless configurations, to detect vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in context.The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is emerging as a potential standard for connecting LLM applications to external data sources and tools. It has rapidly gained traction across the industry

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47:14

SED News: Data Land Grabs, Copyright Fights, and the...

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2025/07/08

Welcome back to SED News, a podcast series from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the latest stories in software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the wider tech industry.In this episode, Gregor and Sean dig into Meta’s legal battle over AI training data, discuss the strategic implications of Meta’s $14 billion stake in Scale AI, and examine how competition in the AI space is reshaping relationships between tech giants like Microsoft, OpenAI, and

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49:47

AI at Anaconda with Greg Jennings

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2025/07/03

Anaconda is a software company that's well-known for its solutions for managing packages, environments, and security in large-scale data workflows. The company has played a major role in making Python-based data science more accessible, efficient, and scalable. Anaconda has also invested heavily in AI tool development.Greg Jennings is the VP of Engineering and AI at Anaconda. He joins the podcast with Kevin Ball to talk about the tooling ecosystem around AI app development, the Anaconda Toolbox,

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47:57

ByteDance’s Container Networking Stack with Chen Tang

Software Engineering Daily ·

2025/07/01

ByteDance is a global technology company operating a wide range of content platforms around the world, and is best known for creating TikTok. The company operates at a massive scale, which naturally presents challenges in ensuring performance and stability across its data centers. It has over a million servers running containerized applications, and this required the company to find a networking solution that could handle high throughput while maintaining stability.eBPF is a technology for

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46:02

WayForward Games with Tomm Hulett and Voldi Way

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2025/06/26

WayForward is a renowned video game studio that was founded in 1990. The company has developed games for publishers such as Capcom, Konami, and Nintendo and has released their games across major hardware platforms from the last 35 years. They are also the creators of the Shantae series of 2D platformers.WayForward recently developed the latest game in the storied Contra series, called Operation Galuga, which is a reimagining of the original Contra from 1987. Voldi Way is the founder and CEO of

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48:42

CodeRabbit and RAG for Code Review with Harjot Gill

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2025/06/24

One of the most immediate and high-impact applications of LLMs has been in software development. The models can significantly accelerate code writing, but with that increased velocity comes a greater need for thoughtful, scalable approaches to codereview. Integrating AI into the development workflow requires rethinking how to ensure quality,security, and maintainability at scale.CodeRabbit is a startup that brings generative AI into the code review process. It evaluates code quality and security

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61:34

Emulating Retro Games on Modern Consoles with Robin...

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2025/06/19

Emulating retro games on modern consoles is a growing trend, and allows players to experience classic titles with improved performance, enhanced resolution, and added features like save states and rewinding. However, this process raises many challenging technical questions related to hardware compatibility, performance optimization, rendering, and state management.Implicit Conversions is a company focused on emulating retro PlayStation games on modern consoles. Robin Lavallée is the CEO and Bill

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44:38

SED News: Corporate Spies, Postgres, and the Weird...

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2025/06/17

Welcome back to SED News, a podcast series from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the latest stories in software engineering, Silicon Valley, and wider tech world.In this episode, Gregor and Sean unpack what’s going with Deel and Rippling, explore why Databricks and Snowflake are making big bets on Postgres, and reflect on how AI-powered tools like Cursor are reshaping what it means to be a developer today. They also surface highlights from Hacker

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55:13

TanStack and the Future of Frontend with Tanner Linsley

Software Engineering Daily ·

2025/06/12

TanStack is an open-source collection of high-performance libraries for JavaScript and TypeScript applications, primarily focused on state management, data fetching, and table utilities. It includes popular libraries like TanStack Query, TanStack Table, and TanStack Router. These libraries emphasize declarative APIs, optimized performance, and developer-friendly features, and they are increasingly popular for modern frontend development.Tanner Linsley is the creator of TanStack and he joins the

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45:22

The Challenge of AI Model Evaluations with Ankur Goyal

Software Engineering Daily ·

2025/06/10

Evaluations are critical for assessing the quality, performance, and effectiveness of software during development. Common evaluation methods include code reviews and automated testing, and can help identify bugs, ensure compliance with requirements, and measure software reliability.However, evaluating LLMs presents unique challenges due to their complexity, versatility, and potential for unpredictable behavior. Ankur Goyal is the CEO and Founder of Braintrust Data, which provides an

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41:20

Modern Distributed Applications with Stephan Ewen

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2025/06/05

A major challenge with creating distributed applications is achieving resilience, reliability, and fault tolerance. It can take considerable engineering time to address non-functional concerns like retries, state synchronization, and distributed coordination. Event-driven models aim to simplify these issues, but often introduce new difficulties in debugging and operations.Stephan Ewen is the Founder at Restate which aims to simplify modern distributed applications. He is also the co-creator of

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