Podcast Episodes

Engineering in the Age of Agents with Yechezkel Rabinovich

Modern software platforms are increasingly composed of diverse microservices, third-party APIs, and cloud resources. The distributed nature of these systems makes it difficult for engineers to gain a…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Static Analysis for Ruby with Jake Zimmerman

Dynamic languages like Ruby, Python, and JavaScript determine the types of variables at runtime rather than at compile time. This flexibility allows for rapid development and concise code, but it al…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Scaling AI in Enterprise Codebases with Guy Gur-Ari

The rise of language-model coding assistants has led to the creation of the vibe coding paradigm. In this mode of software development, AI agents take a plain language prompt and generate entire appl…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

SED News: NVIDIA Bets on Intel, Meta’s Demo Crash, and Anthropic’s Explosive Growth

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech i…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Orkes and Agentic Workflow Orchestration with Viren Baraiya

Modern software systems are composed of many independent microservices spanning frontends, backends, APIs, and AI models, and coordinating and scaling them reliably is a constant challenge. A workflo…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Turbopuffer with Simon Hørup Eskildsen

Vector search has become a foundational technology for AI applications, enabling everything from semantic code search to contextual retrieval for large language models. However, a major challenge wi…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Building an Indie Hit in Godot with Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon

Cassette Beasts is a turn-based monster-battling RPG that lets players record creatures onto cassette tapes and transform into them during battle. The game was an indie hit, and is also one of the mo…

Published on 3 months ago

Rethinking GraphQL Frontends with Robert Balicki

A challenge in modern frontend application design is efficiently fetching and managing GraphQL data while keeping UI components responsive and maintainable. Developers often face issues like over-fet…

Published on 3 months ago

pnpm with Zoltan Kochan

Traditional package management systems for JavaScript have faced several inefficiencies related to dependency storage, resolution, and project performance.

pnpm is a fast, disk-efficient package mana…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

SurrealDB 3.0 and Building Event-Driven AI Applications with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock

Modern application development often involves juggling multiple types of databases to handle diverse data models. The lack of unification can lead to complex architectures with attendant security co…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago