Vivek Ravisankar, the CEO and founder of HackerRank spoke with SE Radio’s Kishore Bhatia about automated coding skills assessments and the HackeRank platform. Topics include: HackerRank as a coding skills assessment platform and how such platforms help in skills assessments and coding interviews - both for developers and employers. The interview also covers the journey from developer learning to getting assessed & recruited through these platforms. Learning from Vivek’s experience giving coding interviews and automating the process of technical screening for Hiring Software Engineers.

Direct download: SE-Radio_Episode-350-Vivek-Ravisankar-on-HackerRank.mp3
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Gary Rennie, a core contributor to Phoenix and Plug, discusses the Phoenix, a web framework for Elixir. Host Nate Black talks with Gary about the parts of Phoenix, writing a Phoenix application, and troubleshooting performance issues.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-349-Gary-Rennie-on-Phoenix.mp3
Category:Episodes -- posted at: 8:04pm CET

Felienne interviews Riccardo Terrell on his book ‘Concurrency in .NET: Modern patterns of concurrent and parallel programming’ on concurrency, parallelism and immutability and common issues that developers run into when solving concurrent problems.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-348-Riccardo-Terrell-on-Concurrency.mp3
Category:Episodes -- posted at: 8:38pm CET

Guest Daniel Corbett discusses how to scale your application with the help of load balancing. Hear details on HAProxy and the load balancing ecosystem as a whole.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-347-Daniel-Corbett-on-Load-Balancing-and-HAProxy.mp3
Category:Episodes -- posted at: 6:46pm CET

Edaena Salinas talks with Stephen Ewen about streaming architecture. Stephen is one of the original creators of Apache Flink. Topics discussed: stream processing vs batch processing, architecture components of stream architectures, Apache Flink...

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-346-Stephan-Ewen-on-Streaming-Architecture.mp3
Category:Episodes -- posted at: 9:20pm CET

Learn how to protect and speed up your application with the help of a Content Delivery Network. You'll also hear about advancements in CDNs that allow you to handle application logic and dynamic content at the edge.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-345-Tyler-McMullen-on-Content-Delivery-Networks-CDNs.mp3
Category:Episodes -- posted at: 7:39pm CET

Edaena Salinas talks with Pat Helland about Web Scale. Pat is a Principal Software Architect at Salesforce where he works on a cloud based multi-tenant database technology. The discussion covers: Datacenters and hardware, DevOps, developing at scale, stateless vs stateful services, preparing a system for failures and sql vs nosql databases.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-344-Pat-Helland-on-Web-Scale.mp3
Category:Episodes -- posted at: 6:22pm CET

Kishore Bhatia discussed Ethereum and Smart Contracts with John Crain. Topics include: understanding the motivations for a decentralized computing model, Application architecture on Ethereum, development frameworks and tools. John’s experience developing and launching his own product Pixura on Ethereum mainnet, approaches,

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-343-John-Crain-on-Ethereum-and-Smart-Contracts.mp3
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István Lam of Tresorit talks with host Kim Carter about GDPR (the EU General Data Protection Regulation, which has been described as “the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years.”)  The discussion covers terminology, planning, implementation, users' rights regarding their personal data, managing personally identifiable information (PII) across an organization, and required documentation. István talks about establishing the intent of different types of PII; when data can be shared or sold, when PII can be stored; storage of backups, and the ability to reveal, modify, or remove all of a customer's PII.

Direct download: 342-istvan-lam-final.mp3
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Michael Hausenblas talks with host Kim Carter about topics covered in Michael’s ebook Container Networking, such as single vs. multi-host container networking, orchestration, Kubernetes, service discovery, and many more. Michael and Kim also discuss the roles that IPTables plays, how the allocation of IP addresses is handled, along with the assignment of ports. Overlay networks are covered along with topics such as the open Container Network Interface (CNI).

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Travis Kimmel talks with Lara Hogan and Deepa Subramaniam about evidence-based tactics that product and engineering leaders can use to can use to diagnose problems that are holding back their teams, and build healthier, high-performing organizations.


Jafar Soltani of Rare (Microsoft Studios) discusses Continuous Delivery in AAA Games and how it can increase quality, reduce crunch, and deliver games faster. Topics include implementation and architecture, asset and delivery pipelines, and special challenges of games.


Brent Laster, author of a book on Jenkins 2, speaks with host Robert Blumen about the Jenkins 2 build server, CI/CD, DevOps and “pipeline as code”.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-338-Brent-Laster-on-the-Jenkins-2-Build-Server_.mp3
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Ben Sigelman CEO of LightStep and co-author of the OpenTracing standard discusses distributed tracing, a form of event-driven observability for debugging distributed systems, understanding latency outlyers, and delivering "white box" analytics.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-337-Ben-Sigelman-on-Distributed-Tracing.mp3
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Saša Jurić, author of Elixir in Action, explains the Elixir programming language and how it unlocks the benefits of the Erlang ecosystem, revealing the “sweet spot” for Elixir programs: highly scalability and fault tolerant systems with a simple arc

Direct download: SE-Radio-336-Sasa-Juric-on-Elixir_1.mp3
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Edaena Salinas talks with Maria Gorlatova about Edge Computing. Maria Gorlatova is an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University Department of Electrical Engineering. The discussion covers: IoT, edge computing, the architecture of edge computing, running a machine learning model on the edge, and the benefits of edge computing.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-335-Maria-Gorlatova-on-Edge-Computing.mp3
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Jeremy Jung talks with David Calavera about zero-downtime migrations and rollbacks with Kubernetes. In this episode we define migrations, rollbacks, and discuss how Netlify was able to migrate to Kubernetes and roll back off of it multiple times without impacting their users. David explains how developers can run old and new systems simultaneously, the importance of defining errors in your system, and when to apply fixes vs rolling back. We also discuss their decision to move to Kubernetes, and the benefits they received.


Felienne interviews Marian Petre & André van der Hoek on their book ‘Software Design Decoded’, which contains 66 scientifically backed insights for the design process.


Learn how a business that struggled with outages, performance problems, and an inability to ship overcame their problems by introducing monitoring, docker, continuous integration, and some fresh perspectives.

Direct download: SE_Radio-Episode-332-John-Doran-Fixing-Broken-Development-Process.mp3
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Travis Kimmel and Kevin Goldsmith discuss the correspondence between organizational design and software architecture. Their conversation covers: what Conway’s Law is; Kevin’s experiences in different organizational structures (e.g., Avvo, Spotify, Adobe, and Microsoft) and how those structures influenced the software architecture; what the “Reverse Conway Maneuver” is and how organizations can leverage it; how organizations can evolve existing architectures.


Natalie Silvanovich and Kim Carter discuss reducing the attack surface of the software that Engineers are creating today. Code sharing, third-party code, Developer workflow, and a collection of 0 day bugs are all discussed.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-330-Natalie-Silvanovich-on-Attack-Surface-Reduction.mp3
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Felienne interviews Andreas Stefik about creating programs that are accessible for blind and visually impaired users. How do they consume and create software?

Direct download: SE-Radio_Episode_329_Andreas_Stefik_on_Accessibility_for_the_Visually.mp3
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Postgres developer Bruce Momjian joins Robert Blumen for a discussion of the SQL query optimizer in the Postgres RDBMS. They delve into the internals of query planning and look at how developers can make it work for their apps.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-328-Bruce-Momjian-on-the-Postgres-Query-Planner.mp3
Category:Episodes -- posted at: 8:17pm CET

Nate Black interviews Glynn Bird on using open source to develop your career or get a job, and how maximize productivity and learning. We discuss how to get your pull request accepted, how to make your own project successful, and how to survive updates.


Dmitry Jeremov and Svetlana Isakova speak to Matthew Farwell about the Kotlin programming language.


Edaena Salinas talks with Tammy Butow about Chaos Engineering. Tammy is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Gremlin. The discussion covers: how Chaos Engineering emerged, the types of chaos that can be introduced to a system, and how to structure...

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-325-Tammy-Butow-on-Chaos-Engineering.mp3
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What is code coverage, how can you measure it, and what are the pitfalls of this metric? Diomidis Spinellis talks with Marc Hoffmann, a key developer of the JaCoCo code coverage library for Java, on how code test coverage can improve software reliability


Lin Clark speaks to Matthew Farwell on WebAssembly

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-323-Lin-Clark-on-WebAssembly.mp3
Category:Episodes -- posted at: 10:43pm CET

Bill Venners speaks to Matthew Farwell about Property Based Tests, how they can be used, when they should not be used. We also cover how to define a property, how to generate the data required for a property based test.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-322-Bill-Venners-on-Property-Based-Tests.mp3
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Péter Budai and Kim Carter discuss End to End Encryption (E2EE), backdoors, the scenarios where E2EE can be and should be used. IM, VoIP, Email scenarios, interservice communication scenarios such as securing data in use.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-321-Peter-Budai-on-End-to-End-Encryption.mp3
Category:Episodes -- posted at: 10:47pm CET

Kishore Bhatia discusses with Nate Taggart about Serverless. Topics include: understanding the motivations for this computing model, deep dive learning about Serverless architecture, development frameworks and tools. Learn from Nate’s experience with Serverless paradigm developing Operations tools at Stackery and find out various approaches, challenges and best practices for architecting and building Serverless applications.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-320-Nate-Taggart-on-Serverless-Paradigm.mp3
Category:Episodes -- posted at: 8:18pm CET

Edaena Salinas talks with Nicole Hubbard at KubeCon 2017. They discuss why WP engine is migrating from VMs to Kubernetes and how the migration is structured. Nicole explained the VM infrastructure at WP Engine and why there was a need to move...


Felienne interviews Veronika Cheplygina about image recognition. We cover the basic concepts of computer vision, it’s applications and relationship to machine learning.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-318-Veronika-Cheplygina-on-Image-Recognition.mp3
Category:Episodes -- posted at: 6:29pm CET

Kishore Bhatia talks with Travis Kimmel about Engineering Impact: In the age of data-driven decision making, how does one go about measuring, communicating, and improving engineering productivity? We’ll learn from Travis’ experience building data analytics tools in this space, with insights and best practices for engineering teams and business stakeholders for measuring value and productivity.


Nate Black talks with Nicolai Parlog about Java 9. Topics include: a timeline of Java features; new patterns enabled by Java 8 lambdas, default interface implementations and how they enable code evolution; how Java 9 takes this further with private default methods; an introduction to Java modules: the Java Platform Module System (JPMS); “launch time” dependency validation; module “requires” and “exports”: documentation as code and a new topic for code reviews; how to migrate an existing codebase to Java 9 and modules; benefits of Java modules: reliable configuration and a smaller Java runtime; the new Java release schedule.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-316-Nicolai-Parlog-on-Java-9.mp3
Category:Episodes -- posted at: 9:21pm CET

Felienne interviews Jeroen Janssens about data science, examining the basic concepts, as well as the skills and tools needed to be(come) a data scientist.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-315-Jeroen-Janssens-on-Tools-for-Data-Science.mp3
Category:Episodes -- posted at: 1:22am CET

Scott Piper and Kim Carter discuss Cloud Security. The Shared Responsibility Model, assets, risks, and countermeasures, evaluation techniques for comparing the security stature of CSPs. Scott discusses his FLAWS CTF engine. Covering tools Security Monkey and StreamAlert.

Direct download: SE-Radio-Episode-314-Scott-Piper-on-Cloud-Security.mp3
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