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Technical interviews about software topics.

Making React 70% faster with Aiden Bai of Million.js
React is an immensely popular JavaScript library that is used to build website user interfaces. A key feature of React is that it uses a virtual Document Object Model, or DOM, to selectively update the desired regions of the web page, which provides major performance advantages. Million.js is an open source project that provides an The post Making React 70% faster with Aiden Bai of Million.js appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Tue, September 5, 2023
Engineering Transformation at Scale with Chris Dillon
Cox Automotive has been at the frontier of digitizing the automotive space with popular products such as AutoTrader, Kelly Blue Book, and Dealertrack. To deliver these products the company manages large quantities of data and diverse engineering teams. Scaling its operations required an engineering transformation of the company. Chris Dillon is the VP of Architecture The post Engineering Transformation at Scale with Chris Dillon appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Thu, August 31, 2023
Building a Full Cloud Backend with James Cowling
Serverless backend platforms are cloud services that simplify the process of building a backend. These platforms are growing rapidly in popularity because they can greatly accelerate application development, and improve the developer experience. Convex is a real-time backend platform that uses 100% TypeScript and is designed with reactive UI frameworks in mind. The team behind The post Building a Full Cloud Backend with James Cowling appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Tue, August 29, 2023
Modern Coding Superpowers with Varun Mohan
Exafunction is a leader in deploying deep learning models at scale. One of their products is Codeium, a coding assistant for software developers based on Exafunction’s deep learning technology. Codeium provides AI-assisted autocompletion in your IDE, making it easier for you to incorporate deep learning technology in your software development workflow. Varun Mohan is the The post Modern Coding Superpowers with Varun Mohan appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Thu, August 24, 2023
The Latest on RedwoodJS with Tom Preston-Werner
Tom Preston-Werner is a renowned software developer, inventor and entrepreneur. He co-founded GitHub and is the creator of the avatar service Gravatar, the TOML configuration file format, and the static site generator software Jekyll. Tom is currently working on the full-stack web framework, RedwoodJS. He joins us today to tell us the latest about RedwoodJS, The post The Latest on RedwoodJS with Tom Preston-Werner appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Tue, August 22, 2023
Cross-functional Incident Management with Ashley Sawatsky and Niall Murphy
Incident management is the process of managing and resolving unexpected disruptions or issues in software systems, especially those that are customer-facing or critical to business operations. Implementing a robust incident management system is often a key challenge in technical environments. Rootly is a platform to handle incident management directly from Slack, and is used by The post Cross-functional Incident Management with Ashley Sawatsky and Niall Murphy appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Thu, August 17, 2023
AI for Software Delivery with Birgitta Böckeler
AI-assisted software delivery refers to the utilization of artificial intelligence to assist, enhance, or automate various phases of the software development lifecycle. AI can be used in numerous aspects of software development, from requirements gathering to code generation to testing and monitoring. The overarching aim is to streamline software delivery, reduce errors and, ideally, reduce The post AI for Software Delivery with Birgitta Böckeler appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Tue, August 15, 2023
Expanding B2B Payments with Sohil Pandya
The Buy Now, Pay Later model, or BNPL, is traditionally a business-to-consumer model that is gaining traction in the business-to-business domain. Adoption of BNPL in business-to-business scenarios offers benefits like improved cash flow management for buyers, and increased sales for suppliers, often leading to higher order value. However, this model introduces complexities, including the need The post Expanding B2B Payments with Sohil Pandya appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Thu, August 10, 2023
Database Caching with Ben Hagan
Database caching is a fundamental challenge in database management and there are hundreds of techniques to satisfy different caching scenarios. PolyScale is a fully automated database cache. It offers an innovative approach to database caching, leveraging AI and automated configuration to simplify the process of determining what should and should not be cached. Ben Hagan The post Database Caching with Ben Hagan appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Tue, August 8, 2023
An update about SED from Jeff’s family
In memory of Software Engineering Daily Founder, Jeff Meyerson. 1988 – 2022 Jeff founded Software Engineering Daily in 2015 and hosted the podcast until 2022. He was willful, hard working, and a strong advocate for self-direction. To hear more about what Jeff was like, please listen to Remembering Jeff Meyerson with Erika Hokanson. If you’d The post An update about SED from Jeff’s family appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Sat, August 5, 2023
Simplifying Documentation with Sébastien Lorber
In the realm of modern software development, clear and comprehensive documentation is essential for guiding users and contributors alike. Developers often struggle to create, manage, and maintain documentation that is both user-friendly and visually appealing. In this episode, we sit down with Sebastian Lorber, the lead maintainer of Docusaurus, a widely acclaimed open-source static site The post Simplifying Documentation with Sébastien Lorber appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Thu, August 3, 2023
SDKs for your API with Sagar Batchu
APIs are ubiquitous and critical to building modern software, and developers must frequently develop custom APIs to streamline user access to their services. However, making an API that provides a great developer experience can be a time-consuming endeavor. As a result, API teams often leave the final mile of integration up to their users. Speakeasy The post SDKs for your API with Sagar Batchu appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Tue, August 1, 2023
Ethical GPTs with Amruta Moktali
Generative pre-trained transformer models, or GPT models, have countless applications and are being rapidly deployed across a wide range of domains. However, using GPT models without appropriate safeguards can lead to leakage of sensitive data. This concern underscores the critical need for privacy and data protection. Skyflow LLM Privacy Vault prevents sensitive data from reaching The post Ethical GPTs with Amruta Moktali appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Thu, July 27, 2023
CAP Theorem 23 Years Later with Eric Brewer
The CAP theorem, also known as Brewer’s theorem, is a fundamental principle in distributed systems that states that it is impossible to simultaneously achieve three desirable properties in a distributed data system: Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance. Eric Brewer is the VP of Infrastructure & Google Fellow at Google and he joins us today. This The post CAP Theorem 23 Years Later with Eric Brewer appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Tue, July 25, 2023
Data-Centric AI with Alex Ratner
Companies have high hopes for Machine learning and AI to support real-time product offerings, prevent fraud and drive innovation. But there was a catch – training models require labeled data that machines can digest. As data volumes increase, the opportunity to get great ML results rises, but so does the problem of labeling all the The post Data-Centric AI with Alex Ratner appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Thu, July 20, 2023
Shipping Oxide with Bryan Cantrill
Hyperscalers refer to expansive cloud service providers capable of delivering enterprise-scale computing and storage services. These Hyperscalers like Google, Amazon, Facebook that have huge data centers and are either running their own software or renting out this infrastructure realized a long time back that the traditional Network, Storage & Compute server racks were not enough The post Shipping Oxide with Bryan Cantrill appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Fri, July 7, 2023
Trusted Software Supply Chain with Vincent Danen
Available as a cloud service, Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain provides a DevSecOps framework to create applications more securely. Vincent Danen is the VP of Product Security at Red Hat and joins us in this episode. Red Hat has been a Secure Open Source software provider for very long. We discuss how the Red The post Trusted Software Supply Chain with Vincent Danen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Wed, July 5, 2023
Customer-facing Analytics with Tyler Wells
The state of Data inside most companies is chaotic. It takes significant time and investment to tame this chaos. When you are a platform provider you are gathering tons of data from the developers using your platform. These developers building products on your platform need insight into that data to better understand how their application The post Customer-facing Analytics with Tyler Wells appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Fri, June 30, 2023
Resale Revolution with Richie Ganney and Harry Riley
The company Continue has a new take on the resale marketplace. By partnering with brands and pulling post-purchase data onto their platform, this innovative solution simplifies and enhances the resale process, empowering consumers to participate in a more sustainable and circular economy. Richie Ganney and Harry Riley are the Co-founders of Continue and they join The post Resale Revolution with Richie Ganney and Harry Riley appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Thu, June 29, 2023
Superfast JVM Startup with Gerrit Grunwald
CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) is a new technology that can improve startup and warmup times by orders of magnitude. It is a project of OpenJDK that was proposed and led by Azul. The CRaC Project defines public Java APIs that allow for the coordination of resources during checkpoint and restore operations. With CRaC, a The post Superfast JVM Startup with Gerrit Grunwald appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Mon, June 26, 2023
WebAssembly with Matt Butcher
WebAssembly is a low-level binary format for the web that is compiled from other languages to offer maximized performance and is meant to augment the places where JavaScript isn’t sufficient. High Performance applications like AutoCAD, Figma and Photoshop are now leveraging the capabilities of WebAssembly to provide native experiences on the web. Matt Butcher is The post WebAssembly with Matt Butcher appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Fri, June 23, 2023
Building Enterprise Applications with Robert Cooke
In this episode, we are talking to Robert Cooke, founder and CTO of 3forge. He has spent the last decade creating a full stack software platform that revolutionized enterprise real-time data management, visualization, and workflows through its inventive “high impact code” concept. With offices in New York, London, and Singapore, 3forge has been serving a The post Building Enterprise Applications with Robert Cooke appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Thu, June 22, 2023
Solving Usage-Based Pricing with Puneet Gupta
Usage-Based Pricing is becoming more and more popular. Led by the wild popularity of cloud service providers such as AWS, customers are demanding more visibility into usage information and more accountability for the dollars they spend on a service. But historically service oriented products have shied away from usage based pricing because of the complexity The post Solving Usage-Based Pricing with Puneet Gupta appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Mon, June 19, 2023
Shipping Features with Ben Rometsch
Feature flags also known as feature toggles, release toggles or feature flippers are a way to enable or disable a particular feature from your app without making any changes to the source code. You can turn on or off a particular functionality without deploying new code. Feature flags can also be used to serve different The post Shipping Features with Ben Rometsch appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
Thu, June 15, 2023
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