Aino explains to Sven what skills are required to make meetings more successful. They talk aboutthe different roles of meeting attendees. They continue with the thinking process to organize ameeting: do we need it at all? What is the expected

Angelo Veltens on Solid

May 16th, 2022 44m 25s

Solid is a specification that lets people store their data securely in decentralized data stores called Pods. But why do we want to keep our data decentralized? What problems does Solid solve? In this episode, Angelo Veltens explains to Lucas D

Mark Seemann on heuristics for software engineering

Mar 14th, 2022 1h

Stefan Tilkov talks to Mark Seemann about his book “Code that fits in your head”, heuristics about software engineering, and the role of craftspeople and engineers. They dive into three selected topics: Vertical slices, triangulation, and rhyth

Chris Richardson on Service Templates and Service Chassis

Feb 21st, 2022 1h

How do you enable a developer to quickly start the development of business logic of a new microservice without losing too much time on setting up everything else like monitoring, tracing, dependency management, security, configuration and much

Adam Tornhill on Software Design X-Rays

Jan 17th, 2022 54m 32s

Sven Johann talks to Adam Tornhill about the link between how organizations write code and how teams work together. Adam Tornhill can make this link visible to help improve your team’s code and your organization's work. The interview is based o

Manuel Pais on Team Topologies

Oct 25th, 2021 1h 2m

Sven Johann talks with Manuel Pais about the challenges of development teams being asked to be responsible for many topics like their problem domain, technology/programming languages, security, infrastructure and operations, UX, etc. Manuel exp

Michele Hansen on Customer Interviews and Deploying Empathy

Oct 4th, 2021 49m 20s

Michele shares her journey in the software industry and how she got involved in product development. Customer interviews are not just something for product people -- Michele shares concrete ways that developers can get value from talking to the

Eric Normand on Functional Thinking

Jun 21st, 2021 1h 36m

In this conversation about software engineering, Lucas Dohmen talks with Eric Normand. Eric first explains the origins of his book, Grokking Simplicity. He explains how to think in calculations, actions, and data. Lucas asks him about real-life

Nicolas Steenhout on Accessibility

Jun 1st, 2021 54m 38s

In this episode, web accessibility expert Nicolas Steenhout talks to Stefan Tilkov about ways to improve web sites to make them usable by everyone. They cover the basics of web accessibility, the role of frameworks, common pitfalls and how to o

Joy Heron on Responsible Web Applications

May 10th, 2021 1h 14m

In this episode of the CaSE Podcast, Lucas Dohmen talks to Joy Heron about Responsible Web Applications. They start talking about responsive web design and how it works nowadays with features like CSS Grid and Flexbox. Then Joy explains how to

Alex Bramley on The Art of SLO, Part 3

May 3rd, 2021 1h 17m

Alex Bramley continuous his conversation with Sven Johann. They begin with how granular you should monitor your user journeys and then discuss error budget policies in depth. They continue on how to iterate on SLIs, SLOs and error budget polici

Alex Bramley on The Art of SLO, Part 2

Apr 26th, 2021 55m 35s

Alex Bramley continuous his conversation with Sven Johann. They start with what external and internal dependencies do with your availability requirements and how you calculate availability if you have a microservices dependency tree. They look

Alex Bramley on The Art of SLO, Part 1

Apr 19th, 2021 1h 10m

Alex Bramley talks to Sven Johann about the basics of service level objectives. They begin with terminologies (SLI, SLO, SLA, Error Budget), look at costs of outages and discuss what reliability has to do with customer happiness. They continue

Simon Brown on Software Architecture

Mar 29th, 2021 47m 35s

Simon Brown talks to Stefan Tilkov about software architecture – the importance for developers, its role in agile software development, documentation and tooling, and the importance (or lack of importance) of UML.

Eoin Woods on Bringing Systems into Production and Keeping them there

Mar 1st, 2021 1h 29m

Eoin Woods discusses with Sven Johann all the things developers need to know to bring systems successfully into production and how to keep them there. They discuss production environments, what goes wrong in production, architectural requiremen

Christin Gorman on Why large projects fail and what to do about it

Jan 28th, 2021 1h 1m

In this episode, Stefan talks to software developer Christin Gorman about her experience with very large software projects and the reasons why they fail, especially in the public sector. The two address issues of size, approaches that do and do

Artur Ortega on GraphQL

Jan 4th, 2021 1h 6m

In this episode, Artur Ortega explains to Stefan Tilkov what GraphQL is, how it came to be, and how it differs from REST. Predictably, the two debate whether it’s better or not, but also spend some time going over its technical details and appl

Markus Völter on Language Engineering

Oct 7th, 2020 1h 21m

In this episode, Markus Völter talks with Stefan Tilkov about language engineering and its connection to domain-driven design. Picking up from their past interactions in various different podcasts, the two agree and disagree fundamentally in eq

Birgitta Böckeler on Cultivating Architecture Principles

Aug 24th, 2020 44m 9s

Birgitta Böckeler talks with Sven Johann about cultivating architecture principles. They first discuss what architecture principles are, why they are useful, how they are structured and how they help to guide decision making across multiple tea

Rachel Andrew on contributing to CSS and CSS Layout

May 28th, 2020 46m 34s

Joy Heron talks with Rachel Andrew about CSS Layout. Rachel shares her journey as a web developer and how the web has changed over that time. They discuss Rachel’s work with the CSS working group and how developers can get involved to improve t

Daniel Bryant on Service Meshes and API Gateways for Application Modernization

May 7th, 2020 1h 33m

Daniel Bryant talks with Sven Johann about the business problems to modernize applications. They need to be decoupled from the compute fabric and the network fabric and Daniel explains the reasons for that, what products are available and what

Mike Sperber on Functional Architecture

Apr 16th, 2020 1h 7m

Does functional programming matter? Stefan and Mike continue an interesting conversation they had on Twitter: Does the style of programming matter if you look at it from a larger distance? Mike describes two distinguishing characteristics of fu

Peter Elger on Commodity AI

Feb 27th, 2020 1h 3m

Peter Elger talks with Sven Johann about AI as a service - commodity web services offered by large cloud providers, which make it very easy to use AI in your application just by using an API. They start the discussion with the typical AI use ca

Lars Hupel on Algebraic Design

Feb 6th, 2020 1h 1m

In this episode of the CaSE podcast, Lucas talks to Lars Hupel of Typelevel-fame about algebraic design. Lars starts to explain how the expression problem views the difference between the functional and Object Oriented style of programming. He

Ryan Singer on Shape Up

Jan 9th, 2020 1h 19m

In this Conversation about Software Engineering, Stefan Tilkov talks with Ryan Singer about Shape Up. Ryan works on the product strategy for Basecamp. Over time the company started growing, and they needed to step up how they managed their prod