Wed, 23 February 2022 Episode 500: Sergey Gorbunov on Blockchain Interoperability Sergey Gorbunov of Axelar discusses blockchain interoperability, a technology that enables decentralized applications to work across multiple blockchain ecosystems. Host Philip Winston spoke with Gorbunov about programmable blockchains, distributed vs. centralized changes, the Ethereum virtual machine, Axelar's Cross-Chain Gateway Protocol and Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol, security issues, delegated proof of stake... Direct download: 500-sergey-gorbunov-blockchain-interoperability.mp3 Category:Episodes -- posted at: 7:21pm CEST

Tue, 15 February 2022 Episode 499: Uma Chingunde on Building a PaaS Uma Chingunde of Render compares building a PaaS with her previous experience running the Stripe Compute team. Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Chingunde about the role of a PaaS, building on public cloud providers, build vs buy, choosing features, user experience, managing databases, Series A vs later stage startups, and why internal infrastructure teams should run themselves like product teams. Direct download: 499-uma-chingunde-building-a-paas.mp3 Category:Episodes -- posted at: 10:13pm CEST

Wed, 9 February 2022 Episode 498: James Socol on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD) James Socol of Policygenius discusses continuous integration and continuous delivery, ways to test and deploy software quickly and easily. SE Radio host Felienne spoke with Socol about why CI and CD matter for the development process, what tools to use... Direct download: 498-james-socol-on-continuous-integration-and-continuous-delivery-CICD.mp3 Category:Episodes -- posted at: 6:58pm CEST

Tue, 1 February 2022 Episode 497: Richard L. Sites on Understanding Software Dynamics Richard L. Sites discusses his new book Understanding Software Dynamics, which offers expert methods and advanced tools for understanding complex, time-constrained software dynamics in order to improve reliability and performance. Philip Winston spoke with Sites about the five fundamental computing resources CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, and Locks, as well as methods for observing and reasoning when investigating performance problems using the open-source utility KUtrace. Direct download: 497-richard-sites-understanding-software-dynamics.mp3 Category:Episodes -- posted at: 9:27pm CEST