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SE Radio 336: Saša Jurić on Elixir Aug 28, 2018

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Saša Jurić, author of Elixir in Action, explains the Elixir programming language and how it unlocks the benefits of the Erlang ecosystem, revealing the "sweet spot" for Elixir programs: highly scalability and fault tolerant systems with a simple arc

SE Radio 335: Maria Gorlatova on Edge Computing Aug 20, 2018

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Edaena Salinas talks with Maria Gorlatova about Edge Computing. Maria Gorlatova is an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University Department of Electrical Engineering. The discussion covers: IoT, edge computing, the architecture of edge computing, running a machine learning model on the edge, and the benefits of edge computing.

SE Radio 334: David Calavera on Zero-downtime Migrations and Rollbacks with Kubernetes Aug 14, 2018

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Jeremy Jung talks with David Calavera about zero-downtime migrations and rollbacks with Kubernetes. In this episode we define migrations, rollbacks, and discuss how Netlify was able to migrate to Kubernetes and roll back off of it multiple times without impacting their users. David explains how developers can run old and new systems simultaneously, the importance of defining errors in your system, and when to apply fixes vs rolling back. We also discuss their decision to move to Kubernetes, and the benefits they received.

SE Radio 333: Marian Petre and André van der Hoek on Software Design Aug 06, 2018

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Felienne interviews Marian Petre & André van der Hoek on their book 'Software Design Decoded', which contains 66 scientifically backed insights for the design process.

SE Radio 332: John Doran on Fixing a Broken Development Process Jul 31, 2018

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Learn how a business that struggled with outages, performance problems, and an inability to ship overcame their problems by introducing monitoring, docker, continuous integration, and some fresh perspectives.

SE Radio 331: Kevin Goldsmith on Architecture and Organizational Design Jul 24, 2018

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Travis Kimmel and Kevin Goldsmith discuss the correspondence between organizational design and software architecture. Their conversation covers: what Conway's Law is; Kevin's experiences in different organizational structures (e.g., Avvo, Spotify, Adobe, and Microsoft) and how those structures influenced the software architecture; what the "Reverse Conway Maneuver" is and how organizations can leverage it; how organizations can evolve existing architectures.

SE Radio 330: Natalie Silvanovich on Attack Surface Reduction Jul 16, 2018

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Natalie Silvanovich and Kim Carter discuss reducing the attack surface of the software that Engineers are creating today. Code sharing, third-party code, Developer workflow, and a collection of 0 day bugs are all discussed.

SE Radio 329 Andreas Stefik on Accessibility for the Visually Jun 26, 2018

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Felienne interviews Andreas Stefik about creating programs that are accessible for blind and visually impaired users. How do they consume and create software?

SE Radio 328: Bruce Momjian on the Postgres Query Planner Jun 19, 2018

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Postgres developer Bruce Momjian joins Robert Blumen for a discussion of the SQL query optimizer in the Postgres RDBMS. They delve into the internals of query planning and look at how developers can make it work for their apps.

SE Radio 327: Glynn Bird on Developer Productivity with Open Source Jun 12, 2018

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Nate Black interviews Glynn Bird on using open source to develop your career or get a job, and how maximize productivity and learning. We discuss how to get your pull request accepted, how to make your own project successful, and how to survive updates.

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