React is an immensely popular JavaScript library that is used to build website user interfaces. A key feature of React is that it uses a virtual Document Object Model, or DOM, to selectively update the desired regions of the web page, which pro

Cross-functional Incident Management with Ashley Sawatsky and Niall Murphy

Aug 17th, 2023 50m 38s

Incident management is the process of managing and resolving unexpected disruptions or issues in software systems, especially those that are customer-facing or critical to business operations. Implementing a robust incident management system is

SDKs for your API with Sagar Batchu

Aug 1st, 2023 37m 54s

APIs are ubiquitous and critical to building modern software, and developers must frequently develop custom APIs to streamline user access to their services. However, making an API that provides a great developer experience can be a time-consum

Shipping Features with Ben Rometsch

Jun 15th, 2023 1h 9m

Feature flags also known as feature toggles, release toggles or feature flippers are a way to enable or disable a particular feature from your app without making any changes to the source code. You can turn on or off a particular functionality

Modern Robotics Platform with Eliot Horowitz

Jun 6th, 2023 40m 48s

Programming robotics software has traditionally been a specialized field. The software industry has seen rapid progress, the operating system that provides the foundation for our software applications is taken care of by companies like Google,

Bug Reporting is Broken and how Jam is Fixing that with Dani Grant & Mohd Irtefa

May 1st, 2023 34m 39s

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 r

#FREEZUCK | ?masked…?… !(DOCTORS)!!

Nov 10th, 2021 2m 45s

Software Engineering Daily invites Owen Frank Davis, Paul Davis, Kyle Davis, and Robbie Davis for a joint interview on the subject of reproduction and teething, as well as Lisch fascitis. Aledade and Kubernetes are both inconsiderate ideas for

Where is Edaena Salinas?

Nov 9th, 2021 4m 1s

My ex-girlfriend is missing and I am hoping to reach her. This song is a message to her potential enemies. See other recent episodes.The post Where is Edaena Salinas? appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Meme.com with Johan Unger

Oct 19th, 2021 39m 44s

Whether you love them or hate them, share them or ignore them, you encounter memes all over the internet. Those that are popular can often take off and spawn a long history of remixes, variants, derivatives, and inspired works. In this episode

Roblox Engineering with Claus Moberg

Dec 18th, 2019 53m 41s

Roblox is a gaming platform with a large ecosystem of players, creators, game designers, and entrepreneurs. The world of Roblox is a three-dimensional environment where characters and objects interact through a physics engine. Roblox is multipl

Indie Hackers with Courtland Allen Holiday Repeat

Nov 25th, 2019 1h 4m

Originally published November 4, 2016 Indie Hackers is a website that profiles independent developers who have made profitable software projects, usually without raising any money. These projects make anywhere from a few hundred dollars a month

Indie Hack or Venture Back with Lynne Tye

Nov 20th, 2019 58m 23s

Key Values is a platform where companies are profiled with descriptions of their company values. These profiles describe features such as work-life balance, company culture, daily routines, and strategy. Lynne Tye created Key Values with the go

FindCollabs Hackathon Winners: Kitspace and Rivaly

Jun 29th, 2019 1h

FindCollabs is a platform for finding collaborators and building projects. Three months ago we had our first hackathon, with lots of projects being created and collaborated on. In an earlier episode, we showcased the first place winner ARhythm.

Gaming with Eli Brown

May 23rd, 2019 49m 33s

Gaming is becoming mainstream. Popular multiplayer games such as Fortnite and Minecraft present players with a massive virtual world to explore, build, and compete within. Turn-based games such as Hearthstone and Magic are breeding a new genera

Emerging Markets: Kenya with Nelly Cheboi

May 20th, 2019 57m 7s

Africa is rapidly adopting the same software and hardware technologies that have transformed the western world over the last few decades. But access to computers and technology education is still uneven. Where there is access to computers, smar

SPIFFE: Zero Trust Workload Identification with Evan Gilman

Nov 14th, 2018 52m 34s

Modern software consists of sprawling international networks of servers. Users contact these servers to access applications. Microservices talk to each other to fulfill complicated requests. Databases and machine learning frameworks crunch tera

Jailbreaking Apple Watch with Max Bazaliy

Jul 31st, 2018 48m 29s

Apple operating systems are closed source. This closed source nature gives Apple an extremely successful business model–and a very different software developer ecosystem than Linux-based systems. Since Linux is open source, the information on h

Counting People with Andrew Farah

Jul 16th, 2018 44m 41s

If you operate a restaurant, you want to know how many people are inside your restaurant at any given time. You also want to be able to know your occupancy if you operate a movie theater, coffee shop, or apparel store. Knowing how many people a

Kademlia: P2P Distributed Hash Table with Petar Maymounkov

Jul 2nd, 2018 51m 31s

Napster, Kazaa, and Bittorrent are peer-to-peer file sharing systems. In these P2P systems, nodes need to find each other. Users need to be able to search for files that exist across the system. P2P systems are decentralized, so these routing p

Browser Building with Osine Ikhianosime

Jun 23rd, 2018 29m 18s

Crocodile Browser is a fast browser built by Osine and Anesi Ikhianosime, a pair of brothers from Nigeria. I interviewed them 3 years ago, and in this episode I caught up with Osine to learn what he and his brother have been working on since th

Necto: Build an ISP with Adam Montgomery

Jun 12th, 2018 58m 4s

In the tech industry, we have all grown to fear “lock-in.” Lock-in is a situation in which you have no choice but to pay a certain provider for some aspect of your computer services. Since computers are so fundamental to our lives, we sometimes

Profilers with Julia Evans

Jun 5th, 2018 51m 20s

When software is performing suboptimally, the programmer can use a variety of tools to diagnose problems and improve the quality of the code. A profiler is a tool for examining where a program is spending time. Every program consists of a set

Pi Hole: Ad Blocker Hardware with Jacob Salmela

May 29th, 2018 46m 53s

Ad blockers in the browser protect us from the most annoying marketing messages that the Internet tries to serve to us. But we still pay a price for these ads. We pay the bandwidth costs of requesting these pages. Our browsers are slowed down b

Design Principles From Functional Programming with Runar Bjarnason

Jan 30th, 2018 35m 11s

Functional programming can improve the overall design of application architecture. Runar Bjarnason has been exploring how writing in a functional style increases the modularity and compositionality of software for many years. He is co-author of

Dwarf Fortress with Tarn Adams Holiday Repeat

Dec 29th, 2017 1h 2m

Originally published October 22, 2015 “The official motto that we have in our help manual is ‘Losing is fun!’ ” Dwarf Fortress is a construction and management simulation computer game set in a procedurally generated fantasy world in which the