Software Engineering Daily

Apr 17 2025 100 ep. 46 mins 17.2k
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Technical interviews about software topics.

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Turing Award Special: A Conversation with Martin Hellman

Apr 17 2025 41 mins  
Martin Hellman is an American cryptographer known for co-inventing public-key cryptography with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle in the 1970s. Their groundbreaking Diffie-Hellman key exchange method allowed secure communication over insecure channels, laying the foundation for modern encryption protocols. Hellman has also contributed to cybersecurity policy and ethical discussions

Prometheus and Open-Source Observability with Eric Schabell

Apr 15 2025 46 mins  
Modern cloud-native systems are highly dynamic and distributed, which makes it difficult to monitor cloud infrastructure using traditional tools designed for static environments. This has motivated the development and widespread adoption of dedicated observability platforms. Prometheus is an open-source observability tool designed for cloud-native environments. Its strong integrati

Turing Award Special: A Conversation with David Patterson

Apr 10 2025 55 mins  
David A. Patterson is a pioneering computer scientist known for his contributions to computer architecture, particularly as a co-developer of Reduced Instruction Set Computing, or RISC, which revolutionized processor design. He has co-authored multiple books, including the highly influential Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. David is a UC Berkeley Pardee professor eme

Uber’s On-Call Copilot with Paarth Chothani and Eduards Sidorovics

Apr 08 2025 44 mins  
At Uber, there are many platform teams supporting engineers across the company, and maintaining robust on-call operations is crucial to keeping services functioning smoothly. The prospect of enhancing the efficiency of these engineering teams motivated Uber to create Genie, which is an AI-powered on-call copilot. Genie assists with on-call management by providing real-time response

Turing Award Special: A Conversation with John Hennessy

Apr 03 2025 38 mins  
John Hennessy is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and academic known for his significant contributions to computer architecture. He co-developed the RISC architecture, which revolutionized modern computing by enabling faster and more efficient processors. Hennessy served as the president of Stanford University from 2000 to 2016 and later co-founded MIPS Computer Systems and Athe

Sourcegraph and the Frontier of AI in Software Engineering with Beyang Liu

Apr 01 2025 44 mins  
Sourcegraph is a powerful code search and intelligence tool that helps developers navigate and understand large codebases efficiently. It provides advanced search functionality across multiple repositories, making it easier to find references, functions, and dependencies. Additionally, Sourcegraph integrates with various development workflows to streamline code reviews and collabor

Turing Award Special: A Conversation with Jeffrey Ullman

Mar 27 2025 37 mins  
Jeffrey Ullman is a renowned computer scientist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, celebrated for his groundbreaking contributions to database systems, compilers, and algorithms. He co-authored influential texts like Principles of Database Systems and Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (often called the “Dragon Book”), which have shaped generations of comp

Knowledge Graphs as Agentic Memory with Daniel Chalef

Mar 25 2025 53 mins  
Contextual memory in AI is a major challenge because current models struggle to retain and recall relevant information over time. While humans can build long-term semantic relationships, AI systems often rely on fixed context windows, leading to loss of important past interactions. Zep is a startup that’s developing a memory layer for AI agents using

React Remix with Ryan Florence

Mar 20 2025 48 mins  
Remix is a full-stack, open-source web framework that was developed by the creators of the popular React Router library. It focuses on features such as server-side rendering and efficient data loading, and it emphasizes developer experience. Ryan Florence is a co-creator of React Remix and in this episode he speaks with Josh Goldberg about the

Turing Award Special: A Conversation with Jack Dongarra

Mar 18 2025 49 mins  
Jack Dongarra is an American computer scientist who is celebrated for his pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and high-performance computing. He developed essential software libraries like LINPACK and LAPACK, which are widely used for solving linear algebra problems on advanced computing systems. Dongarra is also a co-creator of the TOP500 list, which ranks the world�