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66:58

Homebrew and macOS Package Management with Mike McQuaid

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2025/10/21

Homebrew is a widely used package manager that simplifies the installation of open-source software on macOS. It was created in response to the growing demand for a lightweight, developer-friendly tool suited to an increasingly Mac-centric development ecosystem. Today, Homebrew is a near-essential part of the macOS software development toolkit.Mike McQuaid joined the project early on and collaborated closely with its creator, Max Howell. He joins the podcast with Kevin Ball to discuss Homebrew’s

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50:05

Engineering in the Age of Agents with Yechezkel...

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2025/10/16

Modern software platforms are increasingly composed of diverse microservices, third-party APIs, and cloud resources. The distributed nature of these systems makes it difficult for engineers to gain a clear view of how their systems behave, which can slow down troubleshooting and increase operational risk.groundcover is an observability platform that uses eBPF sensors to capture logs, metrics, and traces directly from the kernel. Critically, groundcover runs on a bring-your-own-cloud model so all

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48:15

Static Analysis for Ruby with Jake Zimmerman

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2025/10/14

Dynamic languages, like Ruby, Python, and JavaScript, determine the types of variables at runtime rather than at compile time. This flexibility allows for rapid development and concise code, but it also makes it harder to catch certain classes of bugs before execution. Type checkers for dynamic languages add structure and safety without compromising their expressive power. Sorbet is a static type checker developed by the Stripe team and designed specifically for Ruby. The motivation behind Sorbet

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52:04

Scaling AI in Enterprise Codebases with Guy Gur-Ari

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2025/10/09

The rise of language-model coding assistants has led to the creation of the vibe coding paradigm. In this mode of software development, AI agents take a plain language prompt and generate entire applications, which dramatically lowers the barriers to entry and democratizes access to software creation.However, many enterprise environments have large, legacy codebases and these sprawling systems are complex, interdependent, and far less amenable to the greenfield style of vibe coding. Working

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54:35

SED News: NVIDIA Bets on Intel, Meta’s Demo Crash,...

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2025/10/07

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 cover NVIDIA's $5B investment in Intel and $100M stake in OpenAI, Meta’s stumble with its AR glasses demo, and the surprise $50B private equity acquisition of Electronic Arts. They also break down Anthropic’s record-setting Series F round and what Google’s Genie 3 “world

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46:44

Orkes and Agentic Workflow Orchestration with Viren...

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2025/10/02

Modern software systems are composed of many independent microservices spanning frontends, backends, APIs, and AI models, and coordinating and scaling them reliably is a constant challenge. A workflow orchestration platform addresses this by providing a structured framework to define, execute, and monitor complex workflows with resilience and clarity.Orkes is an enterprise-scale agentic orchestration platform that builds on the open-source Conductor project, which was pioneered at Netflix. The

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51:29

Turbopuffer with Simon Hørup Eskildsen

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2025/09/30

Vector search has become a foundational technology for AI applications, enabling everything from semantic code search to contextual retrieval for large language models. However, a major challenge with vector databases has been the cost as data storage scales.Turbopuffer is a vector database that focuses on speed, cost and scalability. It was created by Simon Hørup Eskildsen and Justin Li in 2023 and has seen adoption from high-profile companies such as Cursor and Notion. Simon joins the podcast

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43:07

Building an Indie Hit in Godot with Jay Baylis and...

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2025/09/25

Cassette Beasts is a turn-based monster-battling RPG that lets players record creatures onto cassette tapes and transform into them during battle. The game was an indie hit, and is also one of the most successful games built with the open source Godot Engine.Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon are the creators of Cassette Beasts at Bytten Studio. They join the show with Joe Nash to talk about the development of their game. Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has

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38:50

Rethinking GraphQL Frontends with Robert Balicki

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2025/09/23

A challenge in modern frontend application design is efficiently fetching and managing GraphQL data while keeping UI components responsive and maintainable. Developers often face issues like over-fetching, under-fetching, and handling complex query dependencies, which can lead to performance bottlenecks and increased development effort. Relay is a JavaScript framework developed by Meta for managing GraphQL data in React applications. It's designed to optimize data fetching by colocating queries

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37:26

pnpm with Zoltan Kochan

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2025/09/18

Traditional package management systems for JavaScript have faced several inefficiencies related to dependency storage, resolution, and project performance.pnpm is a fast, disk-efficient package manager for JavaScript and TypeScript projects, serving as an alternative to npm and Yarn. Due to its efficiency and reliability, pnpm is increasingly popular for managing monorepos and large-scale applications. Zoltan Kochan is a full stack web developer and the creator of pnpm. He joins the show with

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55:18

SurrealDB 3.0 and Building Event-Driven AI...

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2025/09/16

Modern application development often involves juggling multiple types of databases to handle diverse data models. The lack of unification can lead to complex architectures with attendant security concerns and fragmented development workflows. SurrealDB is an open-source, multi-model database developed in Rust and integrates functionalities of many databases including relational, document, graph, time series, search and vector databases. It supports both schema-less and schema-full data models and

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52:37

Angular with Jessica Janiuk

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2025/09/11

Modern web development faces several challenges, particularly when building scalable, maintainable, and high-performance applications. As applications grow, managing complex user interfaces, and ensuring efficient data handling and modular code structures, becomes increasingly difficult.Angular is a TypeScript-based web framework developed by Google. It’s component-driven and designed for building single-page applications with a strong emphasis on modular architecture and performance optimization

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49:38

SED News: Perplexity’s Chrome Play, Meta’s AI Freeze,...

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2025/09/09

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 discuss Perplexity’s headline-grabbing offer to buy Google Chrome, the U.S. government's large stake in Intel, Meta’s abrupt pause on AI hiring, and a reality check on what “agentic” systems can actually deliver today versus the hype. They also dive into standout

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41:37

Context-Aware SQL and Metadata with Shinji Kim

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2025/09/04

A common challenge in data-rich organizations is that critical context about the data is often hard to capture and even harder to keep up to date. As more people across the organization use data and data models get more complex, simply finding the right dataset can be slow and create bottlenecks. Select Star is a data discovery and metadata platform that builds a continuously updated knowledge graph of an organization’s data by analyzing both its structure and how it’s actually used. It enriches

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50:48

Modern Data Visualization with Robert Kosara

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2025/09/02

Data visualization is increasingly important as organizations prioritize data-driven decision-making. Tools that transform complex datasets into intuitive, interpretable visualizations are arguably just as critical as the data itself. Robert Kosara is a Data Visualization Developer at Observable which is a platform for creating interactive data visualizations, and which makes extensive use of the popular D3 JavaScript library. Robert previously worked at companies including Salesforce and

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49:32

A Conversation with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels

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2025/08/28

Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon, where he has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technology vision for over two decades. Before joining Amazon in 2004, Werner was a research scientist at Cornell University where he focused on distributed systems and scalability, both of which are concepts that would later influence the design of AWS. He holds a PhD in computer science and has authored numerous academic papers on the reliability and performance of large-scale

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48:35

Redis and AI Agent Memory with Andrew Brookins

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2025/08/26

A key challenge with designing AI agents is that large language models are stateless and have limited context windows. This requires careful engineering to maintain continuity and reliability across sequential LLM interactions. To perform well, agents need fast systems for storing and retrieving short-term conversations, summaries, and long-term facts.Redis is an open‑source, in‑memory data store widely used for high‑performance caching, analytics, and message brokering. Recent advances have

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40:33

Complex Workload Deployment with Will Stewart

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2025/08/21

Deploying and managing cloud workloads is a complex task that requires developers to handle infrastructure, scaling, CI/CD pipelines, and database hosting. Configuring and maintaining Kubernetes, ensuring smooth deployments, and integrating various services efficiently is a common challenge.Will Stewart is the co-founder and CEO of Northflank, which is a platform focused on streamlining application deployment and management. In this episode, he joins the show to talk about the contemporary

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46:28

Empowering Cross-Functional Product Teams with Tobias...

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2025/08/19

Modern software teams typically rely on a patchwork of tools to manage planning, development, feature rollout, and post-release analysis. This fragmentation is a known challenge that can create friction and slow down software development iteration. It's especially problematic for cross-functional teams, where differences in roles, expertise, and work culture can further complicate collaboration.There is growing consensus that successful software product development requires continuous

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63:37

Carbon and Modernizing C++ with Chandler Carruth

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2025/08/14

Carbon is a programming language developed by Google as a successor to C++, and it aims to provide modern safety features while maintaining high performance. It's designed to offer seamless interoperability with C++ while addressing shortcomings of C++ such as slow compilation times and lack of memory safety. Carbon also introduces features like a more readable syntax, improved generics, and automatic memory management while still allowing low-level control.Chandler Carruth is the creator of

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