DevOps is a powerful model for managing the building and operational aspects of modern applications. Most developers are now familiar with DevOps, and the adoption of DevOps practices is widespread and growing. Adam Jacob was the original author of Chef, a popular early DevOps tool. He’s now the CEO of System Initiative, which develops an open-sour…

React is an open-source front-end JavaScript library maintained by Meta. It was first released in 2013 and is now the most popular web framework. Ilya Gurevich is a Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times. Last winter, his team set out to implement React 18 for The Times' flagship core news site. Ilya recently wrote a viral blog post about t…

Feature flagging tools have grown in popularity as a way to decouple releases and deployment, but they can introduce their own long-term problems and tech debt. Lekko is a startup democratizing the practice of dynamic configuration. Their motivating idea is to empower engineers to focus on software releases, and business teams and other stakeholder…

Harold Halibut is a 2024 narrative adventure video game developed by German developer Slow Bros. The game has a distinct look owing to its use of stop motion animation with 3D scans of physical sets and puppets. Onat Hekimoglu worked on Harold Halibut as the Director, Game Designer, Composer, and Person of Many Hats. He joins the podcast with Joe N…

Stack Overflow is a legendary question-and-answer site for programmers, and is likely well known to most SEDaily listeners. Svelte is an open-source front-end framework that was released in 2016 and continues to grow rapidly in popularity. Giamir Buoncristiani is a Staff Software Engineer at Stack Overflow. He is also the tech lead for the Stacks d…

The Google Sheets calculation engine was originally written in Java and launched in 2006. In the early days of the product, all calculation happened on the server. However, starting in 2013 the engine has run in the browser using JavaScript. Google Sheets is now one of the first products at Google to use WebAssembly Garbage Collection, or WasmGC, o…

Large datasets require large computational resources to process that data. More frequently, where you process that data geographically can be just as important as how you process it. Expanso provides job execution infrastructure that runs jobs where data resides, to help reduce latency and improve security and data governance. David Aronchick is th…

Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer who is involved in the development of the JavaScript language. He specified the JSON data format, and has developed various JavaScript related tools such as the static code analyzer JSLint. Crockford is also a game developer and worked at Atari. Douglas joins the podcast to talk about his career …

Damien Filiatrault is the founder and CEO of Scalable Path, a software staffing agency that matches companies and startups with vetted, remote software developers. The company was founded in 2010, and since then has worked on hundreds of client projects and has built a freelance network with 35,000 remote developers in 177 countries. Damien joins t…

Tanzu GemFire is a distributed, in-memory, key-value store that performs read and write operations at fast speeds. It offers highly available parallel message queues, continuous availability, and a scalable event-driven architecture. It was developed to have sub-millisecond response times and accordingly found early application in automated trading…

In 2022, Stefan Li and Stew Fortier envisioned a document editor with language model features built in. They founded Type.ai, received backing from Y Combinator, and have since been at the frontier of building a next-generation document editor. However, to ensure a robust and performant frontend, Type.ai needed to take advantage of many modern brow…

A major challenge in applied AI is out-of-distribution detection, or OOD, which is the task of detecting instances that do not belong to the distribution the classifier has been trained on. OOD data is often referred to as "unseen" data, as the model has not encountered it during training. Bayan Bruss is the VP of AI Foundations at Capital One and …

DuckDB is an open-source column-oriented relational database that was first released in 2019. It's designed to provide high performance on complex queries against large databases, and focuses on online analytical processing workloads. Hannes Mühleisen is the Co-Creator of DuckBD, and is the CEO and Co-Founder of DuckDB Labs. He joins the show to ta…

Rerun is an open source SDK and viewer for visualizing and interacting with multimodal data streams. The SDK lets you send data from anywhere, and the viewer collects the data and aligns it so the user can scroll back and forth in time to interpret it. The tools have been applied in spatial computing, augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed r…

Chroma is an open-source AI application database. Anton Troynikov is a Founder at Chroma. He has a background in computer vision and previously worked at Meta. In this episode Anton speaks with Sean Falconer about Chroma, and the goal of building the memory and storage subsystem for the new computing primitive that AI models represent. Sean’s been …

In 79 AD, in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, twenty meters of hot mud and ash buried an enormous villa once owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. Inside, there was a vast library of papyrus scrolls. The scrolls were carbonized by the heat of the volcanic debris, but they were trapped underground where they remained preserved. It wasn'…

Traditionally, security checks and testing are performed towards the end of the software development lifecycle. However, discovering vulnerabilities at that stage can be costly and time-consuming. This observation has led to the shift-left movement, which advocates for implementing security testing earlier in the software development process. Hound…

Uber handles billions of trips and deliveries, and tens of billions of financial transactions across earners, spenders, and merchants every quarter. LedgerStore is an immutable storage solution at Uber that provides verifiable data completeness and correctness guarantees to ensure data integrity for its transactions. Kaushik Devarajaiah is the Tech…

One of the fastest areas of growth in observability is frontend observability, or real user monitoring. This is the practice of monitoring and analyzing the performance, behavior, and user experience of web applications from the user's perspective. Purvi Kanal is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb. She joins the podcast to talk about the evolu…

Inworld is a company that provides tools for game studios to add AI-driven gameplay. They are at the leading edge of using generative AI in game development, and have worked with companies such as Xbox, Ubisoft, and NVIDIA. Igor Poletaev is the VP of AI and Nathan Yu is the Director of Product and GM of Labs at Inward. They join the show to talk ab…

Static analysis is the examination of code without executing the program. It's used to identify potential errors, code quality issues, security vulnerabilities, and adherence to coding best practices. Abbas Sabra is a Principal Engineer at Sonar, which creates tools to help developers produce clean code. Abbas specializes in C++ static analysis, an…

Bison Ventures invests in frontier technology companies that use innovative science and deep technology. A key pillar of their investment portfolio is climate technology. Tom Biegala is a co-founder of Bison Ventures. Prior to starting Bison Ventures, Tom worked at Cascade Asset Management Company, the investment office that manages the assets of t…

Luma AI develops technologies at the forefront of AI and graphics. They created a text-to-3D tool that functions like Midjourney but for generating 3D models. Another tool makes photorealistic environments by reconstructing any scene in 3D from just a few photos. Karan Ganesan is a Software Engineer and Barkley Dai is the Product and Growth Lead at…

Redis is an in-memory database that can be used for caching, vector search, and as a message broker. Brian Sam-Bodden is a Senior Applied AI Engineer at Redis. He joins the show to talk about his work and AI at the company. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information…

David Szymanski is a video game developer focused on short retro horror games. He created the hit FPS Dusk, along with Iron Lung, Chop Goblins, and the upcoming Butcher's Creek. He's also involved in the production of the upcoming Iron Lung film. David joins the podcast to talk about his work, how to capture an appealing retro game feel, why he mak…

Retool is a platform to help engineers quickly build internal frontends. It does this by abstracting away repetitive aspects of frontend development. The platform was started in 2017 and has received funding from Sequoia, Stripe Co-Founders, and Nat Friedman. David Hsu is the founder and CEO of Retool. He joins the show to talk about why he started…

ChatGPT has been out for more than a year and has since become the centerpiece of intense discussion and debate about AI. Christian Hubicki is a renowned robotics research scientist and an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Florida State University. In 2023, he was a guest on Software Engineering Daily, where he discussed ChatGPT and …

Databases underpin almost every user experience on the web, but scaling a database is one of the most fundamental infrastructure challenges in software development. PlanetScale offers a MySQL platform that is managed and highly scaleable. Sam Lambert is the CEO of PlanetScale and he joins the show to talk about why he started the platform, scaling …

GV, or Google Ventures, is an independent venture capital firm backed by Alphabet. Erik Norlander is a General Partner at GV and invests across enterprise software and frontier technology, focusing on developer tools, cloud infrastructure and machine learning. He has backed companies like Cockroach, Warp and Neo4j. Prior to joining GV in 2010 and o…

A common challenge for developers of SaaS products is integrating with existing services, including services that customers might already be using. For example, a SaaS product might need to integrate with customers using Salesforce, HubSpot, or another CRM system. However, this can be demanding for developers when 3rd party APIs are poorly document…

A headless software architecture decouples the frontend, or the "head", from the backend. This separation allows developers to manage the UI layer independently of the backend logic and data management. Hydrogen is Shopify's open-source headless framework for building custom storefronts. It's React-based and is focused on performance and flexible U…

Celeste is a critically acclaimed action platformer developed by Extremely OK Games. They recently released Celeste 64 which is an open source project to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the original Celeste, and development of their next major game, Earthblade, is underway. Noel Berry is a programmer at Extremely OK Games and he joins the show t…

DataStax is a generative AI data company that provides tools and services to build AI and other data-intensive applications. Ed Anuff is the Chief Product Officer at DataStax. He joins the show to talk about making Apache Cassandra accessible, adding vector support at DataStax, envisioning the future application stack for AI, and more. Full Disclos…

Kong is a software company that provides open-source platforms and cloud services for managing, monitoring, and scaling APIs and microservices. Marco Palladino is the CTO of Kong, and he joins the podcast to talk about the platform and APIs as the building blocks of the digital world. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a softwa…

Bitwarden is an open-source password management service that securely stores passwords, passkeys, website credentials, and other sensitive information Matt Bishop is the Principal Architect at Bitwarden. He joins the show to talk about the platform and his work there. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mai…

Codecademy is an online platform that offers classes on languages including Python, Go, JavaScript, C++, and many others. Zoe Bachman is the Senior Curriculum Director at Codecademy and designs courses for the platform. She joins the podcast to talk about her work there. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScr…

Akash Network is a decentralized cloud computing platform that leverages unused compute capacity around the world. It makes this capacity available to others, and provides a decentralized peer-to-peer model for managing and paying for these resources in an online marketplace. Greg Osuri is the CEO for OverClock Labs which created Akash Network. He …

Linting is the process of checking source code for programmatic as well as stylistic errors. Ruff is a highly popular Python linter written in Rust. It was developed by Charlie Marsh, who also founded Astral, which is focused on next-generation Python tooling. Charlie joins the podcast to talk about open source development, Ruff, the UV package ins…

Gabriel Gambetta is a Senior Software Engineer at Google where he works on YouTube. He’s an expect in computer graphics and game development, and is famous for his articles on engineering fast-paced multiplayer games. Gabriel joins the show to talk about his history with game development, client-server game architecture, rubber-banding, raytracing,…

The U.S. government recently released a report calling on the technical community to proactively reduce the attack surface area of software infrastructure. The report emphasized memory safety vulnerabilities, which affect how memory can be accessed, written, allocated, or deallocated. The report cites this class of vulnerability as a common theme i…

Figma is a cloud-based design and prototyping tool that is widely used in UI and UX work. It allows users to collaborate in real-time, a key feature that has helped drive its popularity. Figma is an impressive engineering feat, in part because of how far it pushes what’s possible in a web browser. Abhi Mathur is the VP of Engineering at Figma. He j…

The majority of enterprise data exists in heterogenous formats such as HTML, PDF, PNG, and PowerPoint. However, large language models do best when trained with clean, curated data. This presents a major data cleaning challenge. Unstructured is focused on extracting and transforming complex data to prepare it for vector databases and LLM frameworks.…

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market. The company recently announced changes to the availability of its source code. In response, CIQ, Oracle and SUSE formed the Open Enterprise Linux Association, or OpenELA, which aims to provide a consistent and secure upstream location for Enterprise Lin…

LLMs have become one of the most important technologies to emerge in recent years. Many of the most prominent LLM tools are closed source, which has led to great interest in developing open-source tools. Antonio Velasco Fernández is a Data Scientist and Jose Pablo Cabeza García is a Lead Data Engineer, both at Elastacloud. In this episode, recorded…

A deepfake is a synthetic media technique that uses deep learning to create or manipulate video, audio, or images to present something that didn't actually occur. Deepfakes have gained attention in part due to their potential for misuse, such as creating forged videos for political manipulation or spreading misinformation. Ryan Ofman is a Lead Engi…

Decompilation is the process of translating a compiled program's bytecode back into a higher-level programming language, like C. There’s a vibrant and growing scene of engineers working to decompile classic video games, and some of the most prominent projects have focused on the Nintendo 64. Recent successes include Super Mario 64, The Legend of Ze…

CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a fundamental technology in web development that defines the presentation and layout of HTML documents. It serves as a styling language that allows developers to control the appearance of web pages. Rachel Andrew is a Staff Technical Writer on the Google Chrome Team. Before that she worked for Mozilla and was also…

Security Operations, or SecOps, refers to the collaboration between security and operations teams to secure an organization's systems, applications, and data. Maxime Lamothe-Brassard is a Co-Founder of LimaCharlie which is a cloud SecOps platform. He has a background in security and has previously worked at the Canadian Intelligence service, Crowds…

Microsoft Copilot is a chatbot developed by Microsoft that launched in 2023 and is based on a large language model. Justin Harris is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft and has an extensive background in classical machine learning and neural networks, including large language models. He joins the show to talk about Microsoft Copilot, natural…

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 and Pinata. This episode is …