Chess.com started in 2007 and grew steadily in the years following. The platform exploded in popularity during the pandemic, to the point that their servers struggled with the traffic. It was a great problem to have. Chess.com was instrumental

Mastodon with Eugen Rochko

Jan 31st, 2024 57m 39s

Mastodon is an open source, decentralized social network. Eugen Rochko started building Mastodon in response to his dissatisfaction with centralized social networks like Facebook and Twitter. In the Mastodon model, users can run their own nodes

AWS re:Invent Special: PartyRock Generative AI Apps with Mike Miller

Jan 12th, 2024 40m 27s

This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of AWS re:Invent 2023, which took place from November 27th through December 1st in Las Vegas. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Mike Miller who i

AWS re:Invent Special: The AWS Cloud Institute with Kevin Kelly

Jan 11th, 2024 27m 10s

AWS re:Invent Special: CircleCI with Rob Zuber

Jan 10th, 2024 43m 40s

CockroachDB with Jordan Lewis

Jan 4th, 2024 48m 53s

SQL databases were built for data consistency and vertical scalability. They did this very well for the long era of monolithic applications running in dedicated, single-server environments. However, their design presented a problem when the par

Kubefirst with Frédéric Harper

Dec 27th, 2023 35m 45s

Frédéric Harper is the Principal Developer Advocate at Kubefirst, which is an open source platform that integrates some of the most popular tools in the Kubernetes space. Frédéric has deep experience at major software companies having worked at

Supabase Security with Inian Parameshwaran

Dec 20th, 2023 57m 46s

Supabase is an open source backend-as-a-service platform and competes directly with Google’s Firebase. A key distinction between them is that Firebase is a document store, while Supabase uses Postgres, which is a SQL-based database management s

Kubernetes at Google with Ben Elder

Dec 14th, 2023 42m 53s

Containers make it possible to standardize the deployment of software to any compute environment. However, managing and orchestrating containers at scale is a major challenge. Kubernetes was originally created by Google and solves the problem o

KubeCon Special: Docker with Justin Cormack

Dec 4th, 2023 45m 2s

This episode of Software Engineering Daily is part of our on-site coverage of KubeCon 2023, which took place from November 6th through 9th in Chicago. In today’s interview, host Jordi Mon Companys speaks with Justin Cormack who is the CTO at Do

KubeCon Special: Acorn with Darren Shepherd

Dec 2nd, 2023 34m 11s

KubeCon Special: GitLab’s AI Vision with David DeSanto

Dec 1st, 2023 39m 7s

Shopify with Mike Shaver

Nov 21st, 2023 1h 4m

Shopify is an e-commerce platform focused on enabling small businesses to sell online. The company was founded in 2006 and since then has become a core technology of online business infrastructure. Mike Shaver is a Distinguished Engineer at Sho

A Different Monitoring Philosophy with Costa Tsaousis

Oct 26th, 2023 48m 39s

Observability is becoming an increasingly competitive space in the software world. Many developers have heard of Datadog and New Relic, but there are a seemingly countless number of observability products out there. Costa Tsaousis (he/him) is t

A Different Monitoring Philosophy with Costa Tsaousis

Oct 26th, 2023 48m 39s

Postman and the Growth of APIs with Joyce Lin

Oct 17th, 2023 48m 57s

If you’re a developer, you’ve probably worked with an API, or application programming interface. An API is a set of rules for how to communicate with an applications or device. For example, when you build an app and want to use Stripe to handle

Observability with Eduardo Silva

Oct 12th, 2023 44m 47s

There are hundreds of observability companies out there, and many ways to think about observability, such as application performance monitoring, server monitoring, and tracing. In a production application, multiple tools are often needed to get

The Future of HTTP with Nick Shadrin and Roman Arutyunyan

Oct 11th, 2023 40m 43s

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is used to load webpages using hypertext links, and it’s the foundation of the web. Tim Berners-Lee famously created HTTP version 0.9 in 1989, and defined the essential behavior of a client and a server

Flightcontrol and Going Beyond Heroku with Brandon Bayer

Oct 10th, 2023 48m 22s

A platform as a service, or PaaS, is the concept of a complete development and deployment environment in the cloud. One of the best examples is Heroku, which was created in 2007 and later acquired by Salesforce. Although these services are grea

Edge Databases with Glauber Costa

Sep 28th, 2023 51m 28s

Picture a user interacting with a web app on their phone. When they tap the screen the app triggers communication with a server, which in turn communicates with a database. This process then happens in reverse to eventually update what the user

AI-powered DevX at AWS with Deepak Singh

Sep 26th, 2023 52m 1s

Developer experience, or DevX, is a critical aspect of modern software development that focuses on creating a seamless and productive environment for developers. It encompasses everything from the tools and technologies used in the development

AutoCloud and Infrastructure as Code with Tyson Kunovsky

Sep 21st, 2023 33m 51s

Infrastructure as code refers to the use of software and configuration files to convey infrastructure specifications. This is in contrast to the traditional approach of manually provisioning servers, operating systems, storage, and other infras

Blameless with Ken Gavranovic

Sep 14th, 2023 26m 48s

Incident management is the process of responding to unplanned events or service interruptions, and then restoring service to an operational state. Having robust incident management is vital to many software teams. Blameless is a framework desig

Minimum Viable Security for Cloud Apps with David Melamed

Sep 12th, 2023 44m 40s

Cloud applications continue to grow in popularity, but ensuring the security of these applications often presents a formidable engineering challenge. This challenge motivated the creation of Jit. Jit is a continuous security platform for develo

Highly Scalable NoSQL with Dor Laor

Sep 7th, 2023 36m 27s

ScyllaDB is a fast and highly scalable NoSQL database designed to provide predictable performance at a massive cloud scale. It can handle millions of operations per second at a scale of gigabytes or petabytes. It’s also designed to be compatibl