Software Engineering Daily

Mar 06 2025 2068 ep. 53 mins 140
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Software Daily: The world through the lens of software.

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StackHawk and Shift-Left API Security with Scott Gerlach

Mar 06 2025 46 mins  
StackHawk is a company that scans and monitors source code to obtain the full scope of an organization's APIs and applications, and runs tests to identify vulnerabilities and address them pre-production. Scott Gerlach is the Co-Founder and Chief Security Officer at StackHawk and previously worked at SendGrid and GoDaddy. He has an extensive background running security operations an

NVIDIA RAPIDS and Open Source ML Acceleration with Chris Deotte and Jean-Francois Puget

Mar 04 2025 42 mins  
NVIDIA RAPIDS is an open-source suite of GPU-accelerated data science and AI libraries. It leverages CUDA and significantly enhances the performance of core Python frameworks including Polars, pandas, scikit-learn and NetworkX. Chris Deotte is a Senior Data Scientist at NVIDIA and Jean-Francois Puget is the Director and a Distinguished Engineer at NVIDIA. Chris and Jean-Francois ar

Browser Security with Jeswin Mathai

Feb 27 2025 50 mins  
Browser security aims to protect users from cyber threats encountered online, such as phishing, malicious extensions, and malware. It's a complex, multifaceted challenge that's increasingly important as cloud-based tools, SaaS platforms, and collaborative applications become the backbone of modern workflows. Jeswin Mathai is the Chief Architect at SquareX which is a cybersecurity c

Troubleshooting Microservices with Julia Blase

Feb 25 2025 43 mins  
A distributed system is a network of independent services that work together to achieve a common goal. Unlike a monolithic system, a distributed system has no central point of control, meaning it must handle challenges like data consistency, network latency, and system failures. Debugging distributed systems is conventionally considered challenging because modern architectures cons

Vercel’s Developer Frameworks with Ary Khandelwal and Max Leiter

Feb 20 2025 53 mins  
The availability of high-quality AI model APIs has drastically lowered the barriers developing AI applications. These tools abstract away complex tasks such as model deployment, scaling, data retrieval, natural language processing, and text generation. Vercel has developed a complementary set of tools for building AI web applications, including their AI SDK, v0, and the shadcn/ui c

Docusign for Developers with Dan Selman and Larry Jin

Feb 18 2025 45 mins  
They function as trusted artifacts to capture the nature of a commitment and provide clarity and accountability. Software has revolutionized many business functions, including the basic mechanics of digitally signing an agreement. However, the process of managing agreements systematically and at scale with type definitions, programmatic document creation, and storage schemas remain

The Subsea Cable Network with Josh Dzieza

Feb 13 2025 45 mins  
Subsea cables are high-capacity fiber-optic lines laid along the ocean floor to enable global communication by transmitting data between continents. Spanning thousands of miles, they carry an estimated 95% of international internet, phone, and data transmissions. Critically, these cables are vulnerable to sabotage by state actors, as they form critical infrastructure for global com

LangChain and Agentic AI Engineering with Erick Friis

Feb 11 2025 43 mins  
LangChain is a popular open-source framework to build applications that integrate LLMs with external data sources like APIs, databases, or custom knowledge bases. It’s commonly used for chatbots, question-answering systems, and workflow automation. Its flexibility and extensibility have made it something of a standard for creating sophisticated AI-driven software. Erick Friis is

Secure Communications in Embedded Systems with Ismael Valenzuela and John Wall

Feb 06 2025 46 mins  
BlackBerry is a Canadian company known for its pivotal role in the smartphone market during the 2000s. Today, BlackBerry has adopted a major focus on cybersecurity. John Wall is SVP and Head of BlackBerry QNX, overseeing engineering, product and operations. Ismael Valenzuela is Vice President of Threat Research and Intelligence at BlackBerry, where he leads threat research, intelli

Caves of Qud with Brian Bucklew

Feb 05 2025 47 mins  
Caves of Qud is a roguelike game set in a richly detailed, post-apocalyptic world blending science fiction and fantasy. The game is known for its deep lore, emergent gameplay, and wildly creative character customization. It is a massive indie success, and recently hit a major milestone with the release of version 1.0 after 15 years of development. Brian Bucklew is the cofounder of