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43:59

SolidJS with Ryan Carniato

Software Engineering Daily ·

2024/04/24

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. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

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56:13

Database Scaling at Figma with Sammy Steele

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2024/04/23

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 to the top of Hacker News. We invited Sammy on the podcast to learn more, and she is our guest today. Check out Figma Config at https://config.figma.com/. Sean's been an

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37:00

Bonus Episode: How to Build a Self-Driving Car with...

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2024/04/19

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, Lyft, and eBay. He joins the show to talk about the diverse engineering challenges and strategies associated with building self-driving

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52:47

Security Engineering with Ben Huber

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2024/04/18

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 cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his

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53:59

Startup Investing with George Mathew

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2024/04/17

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 AI business landscape, his book recommendations, and more. Starting her career as a software developer, Jocelyn Houle is now a Senior Director of

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47:01

Hookdeck and Building an Event Gateway with Alex...

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2024/04/16

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. It centralizes and streamlines communication between services, like a 3rd party API such

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60:47

Authlete and Making OAuth Accessible with Justin Richer

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2024/04/11

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, Facebook, Spotify, and countless other services. Authlete is a service that provides a set of APIs to implement OAuth authorization servers, and OpenID

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61:38

Netflix Engineering with Jay Phelps

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2024/04/10

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 of his career, his work at Netflix, and much more. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help

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39:20

Data Applications on Snowflake with Daniel Myers

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2024/04/09

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 published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer

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14:55

Bonus Episode: Optimizing Nintendo 64 Code with Kaze...

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2024/04/05

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 N64 architecture, coding in assembly, and more. Be sure to check out Kaze's YouTube channel to see his work, including breakdowns of how he accomplished his optimizations. Joe Nash is a developer,

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47:04

A Semantic Layer for Data with Artyom Keydunov

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2024/04/04

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 sources. This layer can serve as an interface for the data and provide governance and access control. Cube is a semantic layer between the data source and data applications. Artyom Keydunov is the

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51:16

Developing Blasphemous II with David Erosa and Dani...

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2024/04/03

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 Dani Márquez is a Senior Programmer on Blasphemous II. David and Dani join the show today to talk about designing the game systems, the

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46:22

Building the PyCharm IDE at JetBrains with Paul Everitt

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2024/04/02

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 of static analysis in Python, browser-based IDEs, and more. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range

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55:34

Tonic and Synthetic Data with Andrew Colombi and Adam...

Software Engineering Daily ·

2024/03/28

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 easy.Tonic.ai was started in 2018 to provide developer tools to transform production data into safe testing data. Andrew Colombi is the

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41:55

Netlify and Edge Computing with Erica Pisani

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2024/03/27

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, edge computing, edge functions, private integrations, and more. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He

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55:06

C# Compiler and Language Design at Microsoft with...

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2024/03/26

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 2014. Jared Parsons is the Principal Developer Lead on the C# Language Team at Microsoft, where he's worked for 20 years. He

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42:03

Biotech Special: Life Science Data Analysis with...

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2024/03/25

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 in biology, designing a software tool for scientists, their go-to-market strategy, and more. Nicholas also started Bits in Bio

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45:02

VMware’s Spring AI with Ryan Morgan and Mark Pollack

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2024/03/21

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 programming and configuration model. Ryan Morgan is a Senior Director and Mark Pollack is a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware Tanzu, a division of Broadcom. They join the

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45:18

Going Open Source at Convex with James Cowling

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2024/03/20

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 their platform. The question of whether or not to open source is one that many companies consider. We were curious to explore the decision making

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43:11

Biotech Special: Computational Drug Discovery with...

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2024/03/19

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 useful in therapeutic applications. Menten AI is using cutting-edge generative methods to engineer new peptide therapeutics, and are backed by Y Combinator, Khosla

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