Thu, 1 June 2023 SE Radio 566: Ashley Peacock on Diagramming in Software Engineering Ashley Peacock, author of the book Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques, speaks with SE Radio host Akshay Manchale about diagrams in software engineering. They discuss the power of diagramming and some reasons we don’t fully use it as often as we should. Ashley contrasts historical use of UML diagrams versus modern diagrams, which don't have hard rules about representations. The episode examines different types of diagrams through an example application and how it could be built with modern tools such as Streamy to simplify the building, versioning, and maintenance of diagrams. Direct download: 566_ashley_peacock_diagramming_software_engineering.mp3 Category:general -- posted at: 1:43am CEST

Wed, 24 May 2023 SE Radio 565: Luca Galante on Platform Engineering Luca Galante, head of product at Humanitec, joins host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about platform engineering. They begin by defining platform engineering and its relationship to, and distinction from, DevOps. Tracing platform engineering's history, Luca describes how internal developer platforms are fundamental, and then explores the goals of addressing complexity and reducing the cognitive load on developers by creating golden paths. Direct download: 565_luca_galante_platform_engineering.mp3 Category:general -- posted at: 12:25am CEST

Wed, 17 May 2023 SE Radio 564: Paul Hammant on Trunk-Based Development Paul Hammant, independent consultant, joins host Giovanni Asproni to speak about trunk-based development—a version control management practice in which developers merge small, frequent updates to a core “trunk” or main branch. The episode explores the technique in some detail, including its pros and cons and some examples from real projects, and offers suggestions on how to get started. The conversation touches on a set of related topics, including code reviews, feature flags, continuous integration, and testing. Direct download: 564_paul_hammant_trunk-based_development.mp3 Category:general -- posted at: 2:57am CEST

Wed, 10 May 2023 SE Radio 563: David Cramer on Error Tracking In this episode, David Cramer, co-founder and CTO of Sentry, joins host Jeremy Jung for a conversation about error tracking. The discussion starts with treating performance problems as errors, why you might not need logs, and how most applications share the same problems. From there they consider other topics including capturing information by hooking into runtimes and frameworks, issues with the quality of Open Telemetry data, how front-end applications are constantly changing and why that makes them hard to instrument. Finally, they discuss how Sentry's architecture has evolved, and why they switched from a permissive license to the Business Source License. Direct download: 563_david_cramer_error_tracking.mp3 Category:guest/technology -- posted at: 10:53pm CEST

Wed, 3 May 2023 SE Radio 562: Bastian Gruber on Rust Web Development Bastian Gruber, author of the book Rust Web Development, speaks with host Philip Winston about creating server-based web applications with Rust. They explore Rust language features, tooling, and web frameworks such as Warp and Tokio. From there, they examine the steps to build a simple web server and a RESTful API, as well as modules, logging and tracing, and other aspects of web development with Rust. Direct download: 562_bastian_gruber_rust_web_development.mp3 Category:guest/technology -- posted at: 10:07pm CEST