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Static Analysis for Ruby with Jake Zimmerman - Software Engineering Daily 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...

Jake Zimmerman is a software engineer at Stripe and he leads development on Sorbet. Jake joins the podcast with @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss his background, the challenges of typing in Ruby, the motivation behind Sorbet, its architecture, performance optimizations, and more.

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Scaling AI in Enterprise Codebases with Guy Gur-Ari - Software Engineering Daily 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 appli...

Guy Gur-Ari is a Co-Founder at @augmentcode.com and he joins the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about the company, full context for enterprise codebases, code review as the new bottleneck in AI-driven dev, and more.

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SED News: NVIDIA Bets on Intel, Meta’s Demo Crash, and Anthropic’s Explosive Growth - Software Engineering Daily 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 in...

In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover nvidia's $5B Intel deal, Meta's AR stumble, Electronic Art’s $50B acquisition, AnthropicAI's record Series F, Google's Genie 3, and more.

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Orkes and Agentic Workflow Orchestration with Viren Baraiya - Software Engineering Daily 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...

Viren Baraiya is the Founder and CTO at Orkes and he’s the creator of Netflix Conductor. Viren joins Gregor Vand to discuss microservice orchestration, rule-based vs programmatic workflows, agentic orchestration, MCP, and more.

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Turbopuffer with Simon Hørup Eskildsen - Software Engineering Daily 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...

Turbopuffer is a vector database startup that's steadily gaining popularity for AI applications. The company’s founder, @sirupsen.bsky.social, joins Gregor Vand to discuss @turbopuffer.bsky.social's origin, design, the economics of vector storage, and more.

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Building an Indie Hit in Godot with Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon - Software Engineering Daily 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 mos...

Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon are the creators of Cassette Beasts at @byttenstudio.bsky.social. They join the show with Joe Nash to talk about the development of their game.

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Rethinking GraphQL Frontends with Robert Balicki - Software Engineering Daily 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-fetc...

Robert Balicki is a Staff Engineer at Pinterest and creator of the open-source project Isograph. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss challenges and solutions for managing data in frontend apps.

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pnpm with Zoltan Kochan - Software Engineering Daily 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 manag...

Zoltan Kochan is a full stack web developer and the creator of @pnpm.io. He joins the show with @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about the state of package management for web dev.

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SurrealDB 3.0 and Building Event-Driven AI Applications with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock - Software Engineering Daily 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 conc...

Tobie Morgan Hitchcock is the CEO and co-founder of @surrealdb.com com He joins @kball.llc to talk about handling multi-model and unstructured data, building event-driven AI apps, and coupling databases with AI models.

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Angular with Jessica Janiuk - Software Engineering Daily Modern web development faces several challenges, particularly when building scalable, maintainable, and high-performance applications. As applications grow, managing complex user interfaces, and ensur...

Jessica Janiuk is a Staff Software Engineer at Google where she works on @angular.dev, which recently hit version 19. In this episode, Jessica joins the show with @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about the Angular project.

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SED News: Perplexity’s Chrome Play, Meta’s AI Freeze, and Intel Becomes Too Big to Fail - Software Engineering Daily 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 in...

In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social discuss Perplexity’s bid for Chrome, the US stake in Intel, Meta’s AI hiring pause, what agentic AI can really do, and highlights from Hacker News.

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Context-Aware SQL and Metadata with Shinji Kim - Software Engineering Daily 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 d...

Shinji Kim is the founder and CEO of Select Star. She joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to discuss solving metadata curation challenges, managing data context at scale, using LLMs for SQL generation, emerging trends in metadata management, and more.

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Modern Data Visualization with Robert Kosara - Software Engineering Daily Data visualization is increasingly important as organizations prioritize data-driven decision-making. Tools that transform complex datasets into intuitive, interpretable visualizations are arguably ju...

Robert Kosara is a Data Visualization Developer at Observable. He joins the show with @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about modern data visualization and his work at Observable.

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A Conversation with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels - Software Engineering Daily 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...

Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon and he joins @kball.llc to discuss his more than 20-year career at Amazon, the birth of AWS, the principles of the Frugal Architect, and much more.

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Redis and AI Agent Memory with Andrew Brookins - Software Engineering Daily 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 s...

Andrew Brookins is a Principal Applied AI Engineer at Redis. He joins the show with Sean Falconer to discuss the challenges of building AI agents, the role of memory in agents, hybrid search versus vector-only search, and more.

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Complex Workload Deployment with Will Stewart - Software Engineering Daily 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, ensu...

Will Stewart is the co-founder and CEO of Northflank. In this episode, he joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about the contemporary challenges and solutions around workload deployment.

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Empowering Cross-Functional Product Teams with Tobias Dunn-Krahn and Doug Peete - Software Engineering Daily 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 fricti...

Tobias Dunn-Krahn is the CTO and Doug Peete is the Chief Product Officer of Atono. They join the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about the challenges of modern product development, the importance of low-friction UX, and the role of AI in product tooling.

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Carbon and Modernizing C++ with Chandler Carruth - Software Engineering Daily 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 interopera...

Chandler Carruth is the creator of Carbon, and he leads the C++, C Lang, and LLVM teams at Google. In this episode, he joins @kball.llc to talk about Carbon and the future of the language.

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Podman with Brent Baude - Software Engineering Daily 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 compat...

Brent Baude is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat where he works on @podmanio.bsky.social, which is an open source container engine. In this episode, Brent joins the show with Jordi Mon Companys to talk about the project.

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SED News: Meta’s AI Gambit, Windsurf Shake‑Up, and the UK VPN Surge - Software Engineering Daily 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 in...

In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social discuss Meta’s AI gambit, the @windsurfai.bsky.social shake up, the UK VPN surge and highlights from Hacker News.

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Electron and Desktop App Engineering with Shelley Vohr - Software Engineering Daily 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 b...

Shelley Vohr is a Principal Software Engineer at @microsoft.com where she works on @electronjs.org. She joins the podcast with @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about her work on the Electron project.

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Modal and Scaling AI Inference with Erik Bernhardsson - Software Engineering Daily 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 autoscal...

Erik Bernhardsson is the founder of @modal-labs.bsky.social. In this episode, he joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about scaling AI inference, fixing ML tooling gaps, cold start optimization, and building for AI teams.

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RxJS with Ben Lesh - Software Engineering Daily 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...

Ben Lesh is the creator of RxJS which is a popular JavaScript library for managing async data streams. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about his path into engineering and the RxJS library.

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Small AI Models with Yoeven Khemlani - Software Engineering Daily 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, ...

Yoeven Khemlani is the Founder of JigsawStack. He joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to talk about making use of small models for diverse applications.

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Streamlining Cloud Infrastructure Deployments with Jake Cooper - Software Engineering Daily 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...

Jake Cooper is the Founder and CEO at @railway.com. He joins the podcast with @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about the company and its platform.

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Building Open Infrastructure for AI with Illia Polosukhin - Software Engineering Daily 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 ha...

Illia Polosukhin is a veteran AI researcher and his current venture is called @nearprotocol.bsky.social. He joins the show with @kball.llc to discuss his career, the origins of the Transformer model, and open AI infrastructure.

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TypeScript with Jake Bailey - Software Engineering Daily 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 perf...

Jake Bailey is a Senior Software Engineer at @microsoft.com where he works on @typescriptlang.org. Jake joins the podcast with @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about TypeScript and his work.

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MCP Security at Wiz with Rami McCarthy - Software Engineering Daily 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 machin...

Rami McCarthy is a Principal Security Researcher at Wiz. He joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to talk about security research, AI and secrets leakage, MCP security, supply chain attacks, career advice, and more.

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SED News: Data Land Grabs, Copyright Fights, and the Great AI Talent War - Software Engineering Daily 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 wide...

In this episode, Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social dive into Meta’s legal battle over AI training data, its $14B bet on Scale AI, intense competition in the AI space, and highlights from Hacker News.

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AI at Anaconda with Greg Jennings - Software Engineering Daily 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...

Greg Jennings is the VP of Engineering and AI at @anacondainc.bsky.social. He joins the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about the tooling ecosystem around AI app development, the Anaconda Toolbox, the rapidly evolving role of AI in engineering, and more.

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