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In this podcast episode, we take a look at the intricacies of low-code data pipelines with Raj Bains, the founder of Prophecy.io. Raj shares valuable insights into how performant low-codedata pipelines are revolutionizing industries and transforming everyday operations. Raj discusses the founding story of Prophecy.io, the company’s mission, and its…

Crossplane is an innovative open source control plane framework that helps companies provide managed access to cloud native control planes. Upbound provides a single global platform to build, deploy, and operate these internally managed control planes that are powered by cross plane. Bassam Tabbara is the CEO of Upbound, and he joins us today. Free…

When your application fails, finding the reason quickly is essential for limiting downtime. Often, most of the time it takes to repair a problem is taken by figuring out what exactly went wrong. PromptOps is a service designed to make tracing the answer to why something happened back to the original cause. Dev Nag is the CEO of PromptOps, and he jo…

In the Software Industry, Conferences are crucial for developers, offering learning, networking, and collaboration opportunities. Attendees stay updated on the latest technologies, gain new skills, and connect with peers. These events expose developers to industry trends, inspire innovation, and foster professional growth. Overall, Conferences play…

The software supply chain refers to the process of creating and distributing software products. This includes all of the steps involved in creating, testing, packaging, and delivering software to end-users or customers. Socket is a new security company that can protect your most critical apps from supply chain attacks. They are taking an entirely n…

Chaos engineering is a discipline within the field of software engineering that focuses on testing and improving the resilience and stability of a system by intentionally introducing controlled instances of chaos and failure. The primary goal of chaos engineering is to identify and address potential weaknesses and vulnerabilities in a system, ultim…

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 …

Astasia is a Partner on Quiet Capital’s enterprise team. Prior to joining Quiet, she was an investor on Redpoint Venture’s early stage enterprise team. Astasia joins the show to talk about Early Stage Venture Capital. Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visua…

Ian Coldwater is a DevSecOps engineer turned red teamer who specializes in breaking and hardening Kubernetes, containers, and cloud native infrastructure. In their spare time, they like to go on cross-country road trips, capture flags, and eat a lot of pie. Ian lives in Minneapolis and tweets as @IanColdwater. This Interview was recorded at KubeCon…

Cloud native technologies empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs exemplify this approach. These techniques enable loosely coupled systems that are resilient, mana…

Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Although it improves the management and scaling of infrastructure and applications, Kubernetes frequently has challenges managing the complexity of releasing applications. Git is the most widely used version-control system in the so…

Bug reporting hasn’t changed since the 1990’s. Despite all the technological advancements we’ve made in the rest of software development, the way we handle bugs has stayed the same. It is common practice for non technical teams to provide bug reports that are missing vital information for developers to identify and quickly fix code, such as: networ…

In this episode we have two guests Ramiro Berrelleza is the founder and CEO of Okteto, a developer tool that helps you create production like dev environments in the cloud for every developer. Ramiro will tell us how to easily make replica environments for your day to day development , but computing related infrastructure is only half the battle. I…

The cloud has become an all-encompassing platform for running diverse applications and enabling individuals and teams to add value by utilizing services and infrastructure that streamline the process of software building and operation. Nonetheless, the cloud has presented new hurdles for developers as it is intricate, and application development de…

Chroma is an open source embedding database that is designed to make it easy to build large language model applications by making knowledge, facts and skills pluggable. Anton Troynikov is the co-founder of Chroma and he is our guest today. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cl…

The cloud has become an all-encompassing platform for running diverse applications and enabling individuals and teams to add value by utilizing services and infrastructure that streamline the process of software building and operation. Nonetheless, the cloud has presented new hurdles for developers as it is intricate, and application development de…

Code editors are complex and demanding pieces of software that are both essential tools and constant companions for developers. Today, we are interviewing Nathan Sobo to hear about Zed, a code editor focused on “multiplayer” experiences, performance and a streamlined, minimalist design. Nathan Sobo was a member of the Atom editor team at GitHub, wh…

Most companies aren’t in the building business yet they need to deal with pricing and billing as a core piece of technology whether they want to or not. Stigg is an easy to implement headless pricing and packaging platform that takes a lot of the hassle out of pricing and billing for your SaaS application. Their APIs help developers launch new pric…

Finout helps FinOps, DevOps, and Finance to manage & reduce cloud spend and improve the company’s profitability without adding code or changing existing tags. Roi Ravhon is the Co-founder and CEO at Finout and he joins us today. Full disclosure: Finout is a sponsor of Software Engineering Daily. Alex is an AWS Data Hero, an independent consultant, …

Data Activation is the method of unlocking the knowledge sorted within your data warehouse, and making it actionable by your business users in the end tools that they use every day. In doing so, Data Activation helps bring data people toward the center of the business, directly tying their work to business outcomes. Hightouch is the simplest and fa…

Enabling data engineers to create data pipelines easily while delivering data streams that meet low-latency, production requirements is a difficult balancing act. David Yaffe and Johnny Gaettinger join us today to share how they have created that balance at Estuary. Estuary is a data operations platform that synchronizes data across the systems whe…

A data catalog provides an index into the data sets and schemas of a company.Data teams are growing in size, and more companies than ever have a data team, so the market for data catalog is larger than ever. Mark is the CEO of Stemma and the co-creator of Amundsen, a data catalog that came out of Lyft. In today’s show Mark shares how his history as…

Streaming analytics refers to the process of analyzing real-time data that is generated continuously and rapidly from various sources, such as sensors, applications, social media, and other internet-connected devices. Streaming analytics platforms enable organizations to extract business value from data in motion, similar to how traditional analyti…

Observability refers to the capability of comprehending the internal functioning of a complex system by observing its external outputs. Observability tools help developers understand the entire scenario of an application by digging into the data that is being used and recorded. And can help pipe data across various solutions used within enterprises…

Distributed databases are necessary for storing and managing data across multiple nodes in a network. They provide scalability, fault tolerance, improved performance, and cost savings. By distributing data across nodes, they allow for efficient processing of large amounts of data and redundancy against failures. They can also be used to store data …

The increasing complexity of modern cloud-native architectures has led to the emergence Platform Engineering. This practice involves the development and upkeep of an integrated product, known as an “Internal Developer Platform,” which serves as a flexible and supported abstraction layer between application developers and the underlying technologies…

C++ is a powerful programming language that has been in use for several decades. Its importance lies in its versatility and efficiency, making it a popular choice for developing software and systems across different domains. The impact of C++ is significant, as it has been used to create numerous high-performance applications, including operating s…

A SIEM platform provides organizations with a powerful tool for improving their security posture, by providing insights into potential security threats and enabling proactive security measures. Panther is a Cloud based security monitoring platform that helps teams detect and respond to security breaches quickly and intelligently. Jack Naglieri is t…

DataSet is a log analytics platform provided by Sentinel One that helps DevOps, IT engineering, and security teams get answers from their data across all time periods, both live streaming and historical. It’s powered by a unique architecture that uses a massively parallel query engine to provide actionable insights from the data available. John Har…

Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration. Vercel’s Edge Functions enable you to deliver dynamic, personalized content with the lightweight Edge Runtime. Guillermo Rauch is the CEO at Vercel and he joins us today. This episode is hosted by Mike Bifulco.…

What are the reasons why we need to improve performance? The JVM is a powerful piece of software – this is the reason why Java has maintained its popularity over the past 26+ years. But… there are some ways that the JVM works that can impact the performance of your applications. One of the biggest challenges is latency – how quickly can we respond …

There are many types of early stage funding available from friends and family to seed to series A. Some firms invest across a wide set of technologies and seek only to provide capital. Others are in it for the long haul – they focus on specific areas of technology and develop both long term relationships and deep expertise over time. Today, we are …

eBPF stands for “extended Berkeley Packet Filter” and is a technology that allows developers to write and run highly efficient and secure programs that can analyze and modify data packets as they move through a system. eBPF programs can be used for a wide range of purposes, including network monitoring, security, and performance optimization. Thoma…

Netlify is a cloud-based platform that provides web developers with an all-in-one workflow to build, deploy, and manage modern web projects. Matt Biilmann is the CEO of Netlify and he joins us today. This episode is hosted by Mike Bifulco. To learn more about Mike visit mikebifulco.com Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The…

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language model developed by OpenAI. It is part of the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) family of models, which are designed to generate human-like text based on input prompts. ChatGPT is specifically trained to carry out conversational tasks, such as answering questions, completing sentences, and engagi…

Lee Edwards is a Partner at Root Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups that are focused on solving hard engineering problems. Lee is an investor in Privacy Dynamics, a company that offers data anonymisation as a service. You can listen to our interview with the CTO of Privacy Dynamics, John Craft here. Lee is interes…

API mocking is a technique used to simulate the behavior of an API without actually connecting to the real API. It is useful for various reasons, including testing, isolation, development, and cost reduction. By using API mocking, developers can test their code without relying on the availability of the real API, isolate the code being tested from …

Keith Adams has worked previously at Facebook and has also been a Chief Architect at Slack. He joins us today to discuss technology, startups, investing, and like all conversations that exist today, ChatGPT. The post Pebblebed with Keith Adams appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.Af Podcast – Software Engineering Daily

As companies move more and more workloads to the cloud, cost management in the cloud is becoming critically important. Modern application development methodology increasingly involves moving to service and microservice architectures enabled by the cloud and kubernetes is the backbone of this modern infrastructure trend. Managing costs of kubernetes…

Jeli.io is an end to end incident management tool. Jeli helps you understand why an incident took place, how it could’ve been prevented, and allows you to dive deep into uncovered themes, patterns, or problem areas! Nora Jones is the Founder and CEO at Jeli.io and she joins us today. Full disclosure: Jeli.io is a sponsor of Software Engineering Dai…

Data observability is the idea of creating a unified view of all the data so you can head off problems early, identify outages, and address any conflicts in real time. Today we’re interviewing Streamdal’s founders Ustin Zarubin and Dan Selans. They’re gonna share with us how they’re using an application monitoring approach to address the challenges…

Let’s say you have a set of microservices running on a Kubernetes cluster. In the past, developers used to program features like service discovery, observability, who’s allowed to talk to whom and other security related features directly into the application code. This slowed down the dev cycle and it made these microservices bigger and just genera…

Kubernetes is an open-source platform for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. The company Komodor started as a Kubernetes diagnostics platform focusing on Kubernetes troubleshooting for the entire Kubernetes stack. More recently, Komodor is taking a step towards becoming a single-pane-of-glass to simpli…

Permissions are Hard! And they are becoming harder as we move more into the Cloud-native ecosystem. If we go back in time to the point where it was just a single monolith that you were building on your own. You’ll probably have a framework to manage the permissions for you. But when you are working with distributed microservices, especially if you …

Data catalogs are one way to address the tension between wanting to use all the data for business advantage and needing to govern all the data for compliance. Today, Zeashan Pappa, a Databricks Product Specialist for the Unity Catalog, joins us to discuss how catalogs can help companies capture the full value of their data. Zeashan Pappa is a techn…

Webhooks are used in connecting two different online applications. Webhooks allow one program to send data to another as soon as a certain event takes place.And because they are event-driven, webhooks are ideal for things like real-time notifications and data updates. The company Hookdeck helps build webhook integrations at scale. In this episode, …

Twitter is a social media platform that does some incredibly complex stuff when it comes to distributed systems engineering to keep the website up and running. Twitter has open sourced a lot of projects for others to use. Twitter created a fork of Memcached called Twemcache and also a fork of Redis to handle the caching issues. In this episode we t…

Java is a write once run anywhere programming language. The way you do that is you use the javac compiler and compile the source files down to the class files. Those class files can run on any system in interpreted mode. But those class files that are run in interpreted mode, they are not machine code specific. To get that code to run fast you need…

 Although we like to think about ML workflows as straight-line narratives from experiment to training to production, and then finally monitoring; the reality for large companies is that all the steps are happening at one time in concert with other models, with shifting data, and, sometimes, misaligned key feature inputs. Moreover, regulated firms a…

Mingsheng Hong, is CEO and co-founder (along with Zheng Shao) of Bluesky. He is a thought leader for machine learning and has built data infrastructure to support some of the world’s most challenging workloads. Most recently, Mingsheng was at Google, where he led teams to build storage and querying stacks that power Google’s $100 billion ads busine…