Yi Pan, lead maintainer of Apache Samza discusses the internals of the Samza project as well as the Stream Processing ecosystem. Host Adam Conrad spoke with Pan about the three core aspects of the Samza framework, how it compares to other streaming...
Julie Lerman discusses Object Relational Mappers and Entity Framework with Jeremy Jung. They talk about why we use relational databases with object oriented languages; the benefits of ORM query languages; how specialized databases are reducing the...
Steven Skiena, author of The Algorithm Design Manual and a professor at Stony Brook University, discusses the use cases for data structures and algorithms in a professional setting. Adam Conrad spoke with Skiena about why these concepts need to be...
Jay Kreps, CEO and Co-Founder of Confluent discusses ksqlDB which is a SQL engine for data in Apache Kafka. Jay talks about stream processing, Kafka and how the data can now be queried with push/pull queries with ksqlDB, similar to a relational...
Brian D Foy, author of Mastering Perl and Learning Perl 6, and the co-author of Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl, Programming Perl, Effective Perl Programming, and others discusses Perl 7, why it is needed and what it enables for the future. Host...
Ken Youens-Clark, author of Tiny Python Projects discusses Python. Felienne spoke with Youens-Clark about new features in Python, including optional typing and immutable datatypes. They also discussed Youens-Clark’s upcoming book on how to teach...
Rob Skillingon discusses the difficulty of scaling monitoring and alerting to high dimensional spaces, as are typically found in modern applications at scale. High cardinality versus high dimension spaces. The episode begins with a review of...
Matt Lacey, author of the Usability Matters book discusses what mobile app usability is and why it can make or break an app destined for consumers, business users or in-house users. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Lacey about the “Six components of...
Sven Schleier and Jeroen Willemsen from the OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS) and Testing Guide (MSTG) project discuss mobile application security and how the verification standard and testing guide can be used to...
Philip Kiely discusses his recently published book, Writing for Software Developers. While software development primarily involves writing code, strong written communication skills are critical for multiple tasks. SE Radio’s Jeff Doolittle first...