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The interplanetary filesystem, or IPFS, is a peer-to-peer network that uses a distributed and decentralized model. Functionally, IPFS allows users to store and share files without having to rely on a single source of truth for those files. Matt Ober is the Co-Founder & CTO of Pinata. He joins the show to talk about IPFS The post Pinata and the Interplanetary File System with Matt Ober appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Animal Well is a Metroidvania game developed as a solo project by Billy Basso over the course of seven years. It’s the first game released by publisher Bigmode, which was founded by Jason “Dunkey” Gastrow. Billy joins the show to talk about creating Animal Well’s engine from scratch, how the game handles animation, fine-tuning character The post Animal Well with Billy Basso appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

One of the most promising applications of large language models is giving non-experts the ability to easily query their own data. A potential positive side effect is reducing ad-hoc data analysis requests that often strain data teams. Sarah Nagy is the Co-founder and CEO at Seek which is using natural language processing to change how The post LLMs for Data Queries with Sarah Nagy appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Almost every application or system involves some sort of user onboarding. Increasingly, companies must implement know-your-customer and know-your-business compliance, or KYC and KYB, as part of that process. In addition, they often handle personal identifiable information, or PII. Footprint is a developer platform that was co-founded by Alex Grinman for handling identity, security, fraud, and The post Implementing KYC and User Verification with Alex Grinman appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Vue is a popular JavaScript frontend framework, and Nuxt is an open source meta-framework on top of Vue. Anthony Fu is a Framework Developer on the Nuxt team. He joins the show to talk about Vue, Nuxt, open source development, and more. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript The post Nuxt JS with Anthony Fu appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The size of ML models is growing into the many billions of parameters. This poses a challenge for running inference on non-dedicated hardware like phones and laptops. Argmax is a startup focused on developing methods to run large models on commodity hardware. A key observation behind their strategy is that the largest models are getting The post Scaling Large ML Models to Small Devices with Atila Orhon appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Anaconda is a popular platform for data science, machine learning, and AI. It provides trusted repositories of Python and R packages and has over 35 million users worldwide. Rob Futrick is the CTO at Anaconda, and he joins the show to talk about the platform, the concept of an OS for AI, and more. This The post Anaconda and Accelerating AI Development with Rob Futrick appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Panic has created games such as Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game. They recently ventured into gaming hardware with the Playdate. The console is unique for its inputs, which include a hand crank, and because Panic provides a free SDK, so anyone can develop games for it. James Moore is a DevOps Engineer and Dave Hayden The post Engineering the Playdate Gaming Handheld with James Moore and Dave Hayden appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Machine learning models learn patterns and relationships from data to make predictions or decisions. The quality of the data influences how well these models can represent and generalize from the data. Nihit Desai is the Co-founder and CTO at Refuel.ai. The company is using LLMs for tasks such as data labeling, cleaning, and enrichment. He The post Using LLMs for Training Data Preparation with Nihit Desai appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Kentik is a network observability platform that focuses on letting users easily ask questions and get answers about their network. Avi Freedman is the CEO of Kentik and he joins the podcast to talk about the platform, his observability philosophy, the role of AI in observability, and much more. Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored The post AI-Driven Observability at Kentik with Avi Freedman appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Solid.js is a popular JavaScript framework known for its reactive and efficient rendering system. Instead of using a Virtual DOM, it compiles its templates to real DOM nodes and updates them with fine-grained reactions. Ryan Carniato is the creator of SolidJS, and he joins the show to talk about the framework. Taylor Nodell is a The post SolidJS with Ryan Carniato appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Sammy Steele is a Senior Staff Engineer at Figma, and the tech lead for their databases team. She previously worked at Dropbox, where she built out their petabyte-scale metadata storage and search systems. Sammy recently published a blog called “How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale”. The blog went viral and made it The post Database Scaling at Figma with Sammy Steele appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Autonomous vehicle engineering is a huge challenge and requires the integration of many different technologies. A self-driving car needs data from multiple sensors, ML models to process that data, engineering to couple software and mechanical systems, and much more. Ian Williams is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Cruise, and before that worked at Google, The post Bonus Episode: How to Build a Self-Driving Car with Ian Williams appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Ben Huber is a security engineer who has worked at companies including Crypto.com and Blackpanda. He joins the podcast to talk about his career, penetration or “pen” testing, attack vectors, security tools, and much more. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across The post Security Engineering with Ben Huber appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

George Mathew is a Managing Director at Insight Partners where he invested in Weights & Biases, Jasper, and others. He has over 20 years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being CEO of Kespry. George joins the podcast to talk about his path to becoming an investor, his data-first thesis about investment, The post Startup Investing with George Mathew appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Event-driven architecture is a software design pattern where system components communicate through events that are generated by producers, and pushed to consumers. This design is often contrasted with a request-driven architecture, where components communicate with each other by sending requests and receiving responses. Hookdeck is an event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages. The post Hookdeck and Building an Event Gateway with Alex Bouchard appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

OAuth is an open standard for access delegation. It lets users grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites, but without giving away passwords. OpenID Connect is an identity layer on top of OAuth. Even if you haven’t programmed using OAuth and OpenID Connect, you’ve certainly used them for authentication on Google, The post Authlete and Making OAuth Accessible with Justin Richer appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Today, you can access Netflix on virtually any device. For a Netflix user, this seamless experience can be easy to take for granted, but it requires an enormous engineering effort. Jay Phelps is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix where he works on Shared Client Foundations. He joins the show to talk about the start The post Netflix Engineering with Jay Phelps appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Snowflake is one of the most prominent platforms for interacting with data and building data-intensive applications. Dan Myers works in Developer Relations at Snowflake and he joins the show to talk about the future of application development, and building native data apps on the platform. Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has The post Data Applications on Snowflake with Daniel Myers appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Kaze Emanuar is a ROM hacker who’s famous for the array of mods he’s made for Super Mario 64. He’s implemented remarkable optimization to the decompiled game code, even pushing Super Mario 64 to run at 60 frames per second. Kaze joins the show to talk about his interest in Super Mario 64, ROM hacking, The post Bonus Episode: Optimizing Nintendo 64 Code with Kaze Emanuar appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.