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Gabe Greenberg Michelle Bakels Software engineering can be a surprisingly grueling career. It is both physically and mentally demanding to sit in front of a screen for hours on end producing code. During the pandemic, the strains of being an engineer became even more acute, as we were secluded in our homes, in some cases The post Developer Health with Gabe Greenberg and Michelle Bakels appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Vantage is a system for optimizing cloud costs. It provides tools and interfaces for developers to analyze how they are spending on AWS resources, and has recently expanded into GCP as well. Vantage users gain an easy interface into their costs that would otherwise be hard to analyze via the raw AWS console. Ben Schaechter The post Vantage Engineering with Ben Schaechter appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Substack is a platform for subscription based content, covering newsletters, podcasts, and soon video. The design and speed of the platform are notable–with a minimalistic format that simply gets creators paid for its work, Substack has gained massive popularity. Chris Best is the CEO of Substack and joins the show to talk about the platform, The post Substack with Chris Best appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

National Instruments develops software and hardware for engineering in a wide variety of domains, from aerospace to government technology to application testing. The interface between hardware and software presents a variety of difficult engineering challenges. Luke Schreier is a Senior Vice President at National Instruments and joins the show to discuss the engineering and management The post National Instruments with Luke Schreier appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Increasingly, technology groups need to be strategic about the cloud services they adopt to ensure their vendor's pricing is both fair and measured exactly right for the application's unique access pattern.  Definitely answering questions like these can take a significant amount of time and energy from your most valuable engineers.  Taloflow is a company trying The post Taloflow with LV Jadavji appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Online poker was deemed illegal in the United States ten years ago. Since then, poker has decreased in popularity, then found new invigoration thanks to live streaming and a large volume of bored gamers looking for something to do during the pandemic. Poker is a strategy game that can be played even without the financial The post Clubs Poker with Taylor Crane appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Pinterest is a visual discovery engine people use to find ideas in home, food, style, beauty, and more. The service grew quickly after its founding in 2010 and the company has grown to be a global team of thousands of professionals spanning time zones and continents. To deliver the smooth experience Pinterest users have come The post Pinterest Engineering appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

TechLit Africa is a non-profit on a mission to lessen African poverty by leveraging the internet.  Rural Africans lack digital skills and computers to gain from the digital economy, even though developed countries have an abundance of used computers.  That's where TechLit Africa comes in.  They accept used computers, refurbish them with custom classroom code, The post TechLit Africa with Nelly Cheboi appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

As the internet has grown, increasingly, we are consumers of services provided by corporations rather than owners and operators of our own systems.  To many, this trend towards centralization is antithetical to the spirit of a free and open internet. Urbit is a new operating system and peer-to-peer network.  There are several layers of novel The post Urbit with Galen Wolfe-Pauly appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Robotic process automation or RPA refers to software robots constructed to automate some business process.  Perhaps the most ubiquitous example is adding filters to your email inbox.  I've worked with a lot of salespeople that configure complex email follow-up campaigns when inbound emails come in, but even that's a fairly basic example compared to what's The post UiPath with Boris Krumrey appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Climate modeling is increasingly important as supply chains, emergency management, and dozens of other efforts need to make predictions about future conditions and how they will impact business.  Analyzing climate data requires geospatial systems, and those systems need a full-stack geospatial technology solution. Gopal Erinjippurath serves as CTO and Head of Product at Sust Global, The post The Software of Climate Adaptation with Gopal Erinjippurath appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Internships can be an incredibly valuable resource to new professionals and are often the first professional work experience for many participants.  It’s often the case that internship programs are suboptimal.  Employers don't always provide a clear path to success for the intern.  Interns in turn don't always have a resource to reach out for help The post Internship Management Solutions with Nikita Gupta from Symba.io appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

With a few impressive exceptions, software is rarely written by one person.  It takes a team and as that team outgrows a single shared office, coordination and communication become emergent problems.  There are lots of lessons to be learned from companies that have already found approaches that scale. In this episode, I interview Tramale Turner, The post Building Engineering Teams with Tramale Turner appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

To many people's surprise tech sales is not much of an art. It's actually a regimented science where reps have clear step-by-step processes to bring in new business. Each stage takes the customer closer to the end of the deal and consists of learning more about the customer's needs.  A CRM is a database reps The post AI in Sales with Ohad Parush appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The banking industry uses technology that some modern software engineers may regard as out of date or old-fashioned.  Entrepreneurs wanting to create products in the banking space historically faced a steep curve to build software that could integrate with established banking systems. Christopher Dean seeks to change that.  He founded Treasury Prime, a company that The post Treasury Prime with Christopher Dean appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

It wasn't that long ago that companies scheduled downtime in order to release an updated version of the software running their website.  That's rare today.  Most developers want continuous testing, integration, and deployment.  While that comes with many benefits, it also places greater demands on quality engineers who can no longer gate all updates into The post The Future of Quality Engineering with Liliya Frye appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Welcome to Software Engineering Daily; I'm your guest host, Joey Baruch. I'm the CTO at Alvarez and Marsal Data Intelligence Gateway (A&M DIG), prior to which I co-founded and was CTO of HuMoov, a vertical SaaS. I've been a software engineer at PayPal, IBM Research Labs, and Qualcomm via the acquisition of Wilocity.  Joining me The post Building Startups Around Deep Tech Innovations with Fernando Gómez-Baquero appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Virtual meetings were growing in popularity before the need accelerated as a result of the pandemic. Gather is a place where you can create a space for your community today. Users who join find themselves in a shared virtual space that offers the ability to interact with other users as well as interact with the The post Online Communities on Gather with Phillip Wang appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The gig economy involves independent contractors engaging in flexible jobs. Today gig workers often get work from centralized platforms that facilitate the process of connecting workers with employers in exchange for a fee.  Some workers find the relationship between worker and platform to be adversarial in nature since the platform can establish and enforce rules The post The Future of Gig Work on with Adam Jackson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Venture capital investment has continued to flow into technology startups.  No one builds technology from scratch.  There are cloud services, software libraries, 3rd party services, and software platforms that modern entrepreneurs must adopt to build their products efficiently and quickly.  These layers of infrastructure are a key area for many investors. In this episode, I The post Investing in Infrastructure and Dev Tools with Timothy Chen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The expression firing on all cylinders dates back to the early 1900s and refers to a function of the internal combustion engine.  This expression poetically applies to successful businesses as well.  Each department must operate at peak performance and the couplings between departments need optimization as well. In this episode, I interview business coach Jon The post Getting Businesses Unstuck with Jon Dwoskin appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

By most accounts, demand for software engineers exceeds supply.  Not just anyone can develop this skill set to the level required to deliver enterprise-grade production code.  For those that can, companies are incentivized to take extra measures to ensure software engineers are as productive as possible.  The pace of business is often throttled by the The post Developer Productivity with Utsav Shah appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Abstract Software Daily is a place to create software. Introduction SoftwareDaily.com is a social network that allows people from all over the world to come together and create software. Inspiration from Amazon Working at Amazon taught me that we can build anything. Inspiration from Facebook Writing “Move Fast” taught me that social networking will allow us to expand our The post Software Daily Prospectus appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Financial technology or fintech has always been a hot topic.  This is increasingly true in recent years as disruptive companies enter the market to give better alternatives and solutions to consumers. Current is focused on creating better financial outcomes.  In addition to providing banking services, their app has many tools and reminders to help users The post Reimagining Banking at Current with Trevor Marshall appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

A software engineer will make many mistakes on their career journey.  In time, engineers learn to make smaller mistakes, recognize them faster, and build with appropriate guardrails.  The demands of delivering software in a timely and efficient fashion often demands developers carefully optimize tradeoffs to deliver solutions to the problems at hand. Software Mistakes and The post Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs with Tomasz Lelek appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The Israeli Tech Radar is an opinionated map of the latest technologies and trends in the Israeli tech industry. Now in its fifth edition, the Tech Radar was built in collaboration with Monday, Wix, Riskified, Netapp, Tabula, and other tech companies. Lior Kanfi is the CEO of Tikal. In this episode, we interview Lior about The post The Tech Radar with Lior Kanfi appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

This episode is hosted by Kyle Polich of the Data Skeptic podcast. We’re glad to welcome Kyle to the Software Daily team. Becoming a contributor to an existing software project can be a daunting task for an engineer. A common convention is to add a README file to your repository to serve as a trailhead The post The Missing Readme with Chris Riccomini and Dmitriy Ryaboy appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

This episode was published on the GeekWire podcast. Subscribe to GeekWire for more great content. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees recently that the company's long-term goal is to “bring the metaverse to life” — helping to create an interconnected world of physical, virtual and augmented reality spaces that will reshape the way we work, interact with The post How Facebook Works: Comparing its Engineering Process to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Direct-to-Consumer companies sell their products without going through a traditional middleman like an outlet store or wholesaler. By posting content on platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube, companies can reach millions of users.TikTok, for example, has an estimated 1 billion monthly active users (wallaroomedia). The company Kindred Studios helps direct-to-consumer companies create consistent, beautiful content The post DTC: Content Creation with Daniel Snow appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

In this episode we discuss venture capital and more with Preface Ventures Founder and General Partner Farooq Abbasi. This interview was also recorded as a video podcast. Check out the video on the Software Daily YouTube channel. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Preface with Farooq Abbasi appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

We've been running Software Daily for 6 years.  When we started it back in 2015, the goal was to create a software engineering podcast that was 60% as good as Software Engineering Radio, but aired with 5x the frequency.  5 shows per week, 50 weeks per year, 5 ads per show, means 1,250 advertising spots. The post Our Current Strategy appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

If you've ever googled a CS or programming question, you likely found an answer (or many) on Stack Overflow. Founded in 2008 and named after a common computing error, Stack Overflow empowers the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. More than 100 million people visit Stack Overflow every month making it one of the The post Stack Overflow for Teams: A Centralized Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Platform with Tom Limoncelli appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Ashmeet Sidana is the founder of Engineering Capital. The post How to Convince Ashmeet Sidana to Invest in Your Business appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

In this episode we discuss the new Move Fast book, as well as many aspects of the current state of software engineering. Daliana Liu interviews Jeff Meyerson, host of Software Daily and author of Move Fast. This interview was also recorded as a video podcast. Check out the video on the Software Daily YouTube channel. The post Move Fast with Jeff Meyerson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

We talk to a lot of exciting startups from all over the world about their tech products. Recently we've heard from people innovating in the blockchain space, cloud infrastructure, databases, and automation tools. However, in today's episode, we're going to talk about how these tech startups get investments to build their great products in the The post Investment Strategy: Defining New Markets with Sarah Guo appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

In this episode we discuss coding bootcamps, fear, fitness, and more with Ruben Harris, CEO of Career Karma. This interview was also recorded as a video podcast. Check out the video on the Software Daily YouTube channel. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Career Karma with Ruben Harris appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

When I worked as an engineer at Amazon, I would arrive at the office every day before 6:30am. Amazon's enormous campus is in downtown Seattle. The company expands across the city like a massive, growing organism composed of towering buildings and ecospheres. The constant wet mist of Seattle always seems lighter within Amazon campus, perhaps The post Build Your Own Amazon appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The cloud has delivered amazing benefits like on-demand infrastructure that's easy to use, pay-as-you-go subscription plans, and effortless scaling of applications. This flexibility minimizes the growing pains for businesses and explains why today's startups and established companies are both building apps on the cloud.  However, the costs of using the cloud stack up once companies The post Cloud Cost with Martin Casado appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

In this episode we discuss software investing, business, and the future with David Rosenthal, co-host of the Acquired podcast. This interview was also recorded as our very first video podcast. Check out the video on the Software Daily YouTube channel. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Software Investing with David Rosenthal appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Yelp.com is a crowdsourced review platform focused on restaurants and local businesses. Originally created as an email-based recommendation service, Yelp re-launched in its modern form in 2005. At the time, its focus on user-created reviews and social interactions was fairly novel, and made it stand out from competitors such as Angie’s List and CitySearch. Since The post Yelp Early Days with Michael Stoppelman appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

For startups that are still seeking product/market fit, pre-seed investments are critical to funding initial investments in the product and in the infrastructure needed to scale. Afore Capital is a pre-seed fund that invests in innovative companies across a wide variety of verticals. Afore focuses on startups with unique product insights and novel distribution approaches. The post Pre Seed Investing with Gaurav Jain appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Large technology companies are a new type of industry. Their power and reach is resistant to a comparison of previous generations, such as big oil. Alex Kantrowitz is a journalist who has covered big technology for much of his career, and he currently runs Big Technology, a newsletter and podcast about the biggest technology companies The post Big Tech with Alex Kantrowitz appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Happy holidays. I want to thank everyone who continues to support the show through your listenership. Since we are on holiday from regularly scheduled content, I am taking this opportunity to share with you something I have been working on personally for the last two years: a musical album. Some of you don’t know I The post Simulation (Album) appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Originally published April 7, 2017 Engineers in Silicon Valley see a world of constant progress. Our work is creative and intellectually challenging. We are building the future and getting compensated quite well for it. But what if we are actually achieving far less than what is possible? What if, after so many years of high The post Complacency with Tyler Cowen (Repeat) appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Originally published August 28, 2019 Kent Beck is a legendary figure in the world of software engineering.  Kent was an early advocate of Test-Driven Development (TDD), and popularized the idea of writing unit tests before writing code that would satisfy those unit tests. A unit test isolates and tests a small piece of functionality within The post Facebook Engineering Process with Kent Beck (Repeat) appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Originally published May 14, 2018 The Kubernetes ecosystem consists of enterprises, vendors, open source projects, and individual engineers. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation was created to balance the interests of all the different groups within the cloud native community. CNCF has similarities to the Linux Foundation and the Apache Foundation. CNCF helps to guide open The post Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Chris Aniszczyk and Dan Kohn Holiday Repeat appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

DevOps practices are shared via community, and community manifests at conferences. Unfortunately, conferences are not possible right now due to COVID-19. The world has turned to virtual conferences. All Day DevOps is a 24 hour conference sharing learnings and software strategies around DevOps, starting November 12th. Derek Weeks and Mark Miller are organizers of the The post DevOps Community with Derek Weeks and Mark Miller appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Staff engineer is a job title that suggests the engineer has deep expertise, and considerable experience. More and more companies are adopting a “staff engineer track” where an engineer can work to become a staff engineer. What is the role of staff engineer? Is it a management role or an individual contributor? What are the The post Staff Engineering with Will Larson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Developer tooling and infrastructure is a fruitful area for investing. A wide variety of technologies can have large investment outcomes based on the fact that there are lots of engineers and businesses are willing to pay for products that give those engineers a higher degree of leverage. Lee Edwards is a partner with Root Ventures. The post Developer Investing with Lee Edwards appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Investing in enterprise software has become a competitive business. Lots of venture capital firms compete for the good deals at every stage. This level of competition has driven more capital into the early stages.  Ed Sim is a partner with Boldstart, an early stage enterprise investment firm. He joins the show to talk about modern The post Enterprise Investing with Ed Sim appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

After working at VMware for 10 years, Jerry Chen developed an expertise in technology companies. Today, he works at Greylock, where he looks at deals in the infrastructure and developer tooling space. Jerry is an expert in go-to-market strategy and makes investments in technologies that have a good chance at becoming large and profitable businesses. The post Modern Venture with Jerry Chen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.