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Episodes

Tonic and Synthetic Data with Andrew Colombi and Adam Kamor

3/28/2024
All robust technology platforms require testing to ensure that features work as intended. In many cases, tests require data, but getting access to valid and high quality test data is a common challenge, especially when the technology runs on sensitive data. Realistically mimicking data that would normally contain sensitive financial or personal information is not The post Tonic and Synthetic Data with Andrew Colombi and Adam Kamor appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:55:35

Netlify and Edge Computing with Erica Pisani

3/27/2024
Netlify is a popular hosting platform that provides build, deploy, and serverless backend services for web apps. The platform enables deployment directly from source files stored in a version control system like GitHub. Erica Pisani is a Senior Software Engineer at Netlify. She joins the show to talk about how she got started at Netlify, The post Netlify and Edge Computing with Erica Pisani appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:42:16

C# Compiler and Language Design at Microsoft with Jared Parsons

3/26/2024
Language and compiler design are fundamental aspects of computer science. High-level languages are how most developers interact with computers, so it’s hard to overstate the significance of compiler engineering or the aesthetics of language syntax. C# is a general-purpose high-level language that was created by Anders Hejlsberg at Microsoft in 2000, and was open-sourced in The post C# Compiler and Language Design at Microsoft with Jared Parsons appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:54:19

Biotech Special: Life Science Data Analysis with Nicholas Larus-Stone

3/25/2024
Sphinx Bio develops computational tools to accelerate scientific discovery. The company is focused on addressing the computational data analysis bottleneck by enabling scientists to do the analysis themselves. Nicholas Larus-Stone is the founder of Sphinx. He joins the show to talk about being a computer scientist at the interface with biology, the data analysis bottleneck The post Biotech Special: Life Science Data Analysis with Nicholas Larus-Stone appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:42:08

VMware’s Spring AI with Ryan Morgan and Mark Pollack

3/21/2024
Java is one of the top programming languages used today and Java code is ubiquitous. A key factor to the overall success of Java is the Spring framework, which is the most common framework for Java development. Spring is an open-source comprehensive application framework on top of the Java Virtual Machine that provides a consistent The post VMware’s Spring AI with Ryan Morgan and Mark Pollack appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:45:02

Going Open Source at Convex with James Cowling

3/20/2024
Convex is a serverless backend platform to simplify fullstack application development. Its underlying database is written in Rust, and it uses TypeScript to integrate with reactive UI frameworks. The platform is growing, which has presented new reasons to make the code open source, and Convex recently released the source code for a self-managed version of The post Going Open Source at Convex with James Cowling appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:45:18

Biotech Special: Computational Drug Discovery with Patrick Finneran

3/19/2024
Proteins are nanomachines inside cells and perform the incredible array of tasks required for cells to function. They are composed of a chain of hundreds to thousands of amino acid “building blocks”. Peptides are similar to proteins, but have only about 3 to 30 amino acids. Their smaller size gives them distinct properties that are The post Biotech Special: Computational Drug Discovery with Patrick Finneran appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:43:22

Design at GitHub Copilot with Adrián Mato Gondelle

3/14/2024
GitHub Copilot is an AI tool to assist software developers by autocompleting code. It is no understatement to say it has already transformed how developers write code. Adrián Mato Gondelle leads the Design team for GitHub Copilot. In this episode, recorded in 2023, Adrián joined the podcast to talk about his work. Jordi Mon Companys The post Design at GitHub Copilot with Adrián Mato Gondelle appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:53:53

Biometric Authentication with Vincent Delitz

3/13/2024
Corbado is an authentication platform that provides APIs for developers to replace passwords with passkeys such as Face ID or Touch ID. Vincent Delitz is a Co-Founder at Corbado and he joins the show to talk about the platform, the changing authentication landscape, the challenge of session management with passkeys, and more. Gregor Vand is The post Biometric Authentication with Vincent Delitz appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:41:25

Biotech Special: Life Sciences at Snowflake with Harini Gopalakrishnan

3/12/2024
The growing use of large datasets and ML in the life sciences has created new demand for data technologies. Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing company that provides a platform for storing and analyzing large volumes of data. Harini Gopalakrishnan is the Field CTO of Life Sciences at Snowflake. She joins the show to talk The post Biotech Special: Life Sciences at Snowflake with Harini Gopalakrishnan appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:46:01

Iceberg at Netflix and Beyond with Ryan Blue

3/7/2024
Apache Iceberg is an open source high-performance format for huge data tables. Iceberg enables the use of SQL tables for big data, while making it possible for engines like Spark and Hive to safely work with the same tables, at the same time. Iceberg was started at Netflix by Ryan Blue and Dan Weeks, and The post Iceberg at Netflix and Beyond with Ryan Blue appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:47:37

Bringing Godot to Mobile with Hein-Pieter van Braam

3/6/2024
Godot is a free, open-source game engine that’s growing rapidly in popularity. Ramatak is a new public benefit company founded by Godot engine veterans Hein-Pieter van Braam and Ariel Manzur. The goal of Ramatak is to help make Godot the number one choice for creating, deploying, and monetizing games on iOS and Android. Hein-Pieter joins The post Bringing Godot to Mobile with Hein-Pieter van Braam appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:40:08

Biotech Special: Scientific Computing Pipelines with Evan Floden

3/5/2024
NextFlow is a tool for managing scientific computation workflows. It’s increasingly popular for bioinformatics, computational biology, and other life science applications. Evan Floden is the Co-Founder and CEO of Seqera Labs which develops NextFlow. He joins the show today to talk about his background as a scientist and engineer, the modular design of NextFlow pipelines, The post Biotech Special: Scientific Computing Pipelines with Evan Floden appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:41:35

Stately with Laura Kalbag

2/29/2024
Stately is a web-based drag and drop editor for collaboratively developing code, diagrams, and documentation. Laura Kalbag is the Developer Advocate at Stately and she joins the show today to talk about Stately, state machines, building good documentation, and more. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He The post Stately with Laura Kalbag appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:01:06:55

Graphical Photorealism with Andrew Price the Blender Guru

2/28/2024
The power of 3D graphics hardware and rendering technology is improving at an astonishing pace. To achieve high graphical fidelity, assets that compose 3D worlds must feature an ever-increasing level of detail. Andrew Price is the founder of Poliigon, which is an asset production studio and store. Andrew also runs the highly popular Blender Guru The post Graphical Photorealism with Andrew Price the Blender Guru appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:55:43

Biotech Special: AI Protein Engineering with Eddie Abrams

2/27/2024
Antibodies are a type of protein molecule produced by the immune system. They recognize and attach to other molecules with remarkable precision. Typically antibodies target foreign objects, like viruses, to mark them for destruction. However, they can also be engineered to treat diseases like cancer, and they are one of the fastest growing classes of The post Biotech Special: AI Protein Engineering with Eddie Abrams appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:45:01

Portal 64 with James Lambert

2/22/2024
Portal is a 2007 game developed by Valve, where the player encounters puzzles that must be solved using the “portal gun”, a device that can create inter-spatial portals between surfaces. Portal 64 is an open-source re-write of Portal that can be run on original Nintendo 64 hardware. The game was developed by James Lambert and The post Portal 64 with James Lambert appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:42:43

Waymo and Autonomous Driving with David Margines

2/21/2024
Waymo is an autonomous driving company that had its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project. David Margines is a Director of Product Management at Waymo and he joins the podcast to talk about Waymo today, the sensing technologies underpinning their cars, the huge impact of AI on their systems in recent years, and more. The post Waymo and Autonomous Driving with David Margines appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:41:53

Biotech Special: ML at Recursion with Jordan Christensen and Imran Haque

2/20/2024
Recursion is at the leading edge of applying AI and ML to drug development. The company exemplifies a new wave of “techbio” companies, that tightly couple compute and robotics with biology and chemistry. The task of decoding biology requires vast amounts of biological data and innovative strategies to make use of that data. It also The post Biotech Special: ML at Recursion with Jordan Christensen and Imran Haque appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:50:32

NVIDIA and the Future of 3D Development with Aaron Luk

2/15/2024
Producing 3D films, games and simulations is a complex process, often involving multiple teams and tools. At Pixar, pipeline engineers needed to write lots of glue code to integrate different workflows and file formats, which was a big challenge, and led them to create the Universal Scene Description, or OpenUSD. OpenUSD implements abstract data models The post NVIDIA and the Future of 3D Development with Aaron Luk appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Duration:00:40:06