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Felienne talks with Moshe Vardi about P versus NP. Why is this problem so central to computer science? Are we close to solving it? Is it necessary to solve it? Progress toward computing hard problems efficiently with SAT solvers. How SAT solvers work,; applications of SAT like formal verification. Related Links TU Eindhoven P […]
SE-Radio Episode 297: Kieren James-Lubin on Blockchain
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SE-Radio Episode 296: Type Driven Development with Edwin Brady
Edwin Brady speaks to Matthew Farwell about Type Driven Development and the Idris Programming language. The show covers: what a type is; static vs dynamic types in programming languages; dependent types; the Idris programming language; why Idris was created. Type safe printf modelling state in Idris modelling protocols in Idris modelling concurrency in Idris type driven development and how it changes the development process. Related […]
SE-Radio Episode 295: Michael Feathers on Legacy Code
Felienne talks with Michael Feathers about Legacy Code. When is something legacy? Is working on legacy different from working on greenfield code? Do developers need different skills and techniques? Testing legacy code. How to test a legacy system? When do we have enough tests to feel safe to start coding? Techniques to make legacy systems […]
SE-Radio Episode 294: Asaf Yigal on Machine Learning in Log Analysis
Asaf Yigal talks with SE Radio’s Edaena Salinas about machine learning in log analysis. The discussion starts with an overview of the structure of logs and what information they can contain. Asaf discusses what the log analysis process looks like without machine learning — and the role of humans in this – before moving on […]
SE-Radio Episode 293: Yakov Fain on Angular
Yakov Fain talks with SE Radio’s Matthew Farwell about the Angular web development framework. The show covers the philosophy behind Angular; who would want to use the platform; how an Angular application is composed, including how to handle form submission and validation; why Typescript was chosen for Angular; how Angular uses reactive programming (RxJS, in […]
SE-Radio Episode 292: Philipp Krenn on Elasticsearch
Phillipp Krenn talks with SE Radio’s Jeff Meyerson about Elasticsearch, a scalable search index. The conversation begins with a discussion of search, how it compares to database queries, and what an inverted index is. Phillipp introduces Wikipedia as an example that runs throughout the episode because Wikipedia uses Elasticsearch to power its full-text search. A […]
SE-Radio Episode 291: Morgan Wilde on LLVM
Morgan Wilde talks with SE Radio’s Jeff Meyerson about the LLVM compiler toolchain. They begin with a discussion of how a compiler works and how compiled code executes against different processor architectures. Using the JVM as a model for interoperability, they move on to how LLVM is a system that optimizes an intermediate representation (IR), […]
SE-Radio Episode 290: Diogo Mónica on Docker Security
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SE-Radio Episode 289: James Turnbull on Declarative Programming with Terraform
James Turnbull rejoins the show with Robert Blumen for a conversation mostly about Terraform, as well as a bit about Puppet. Terraform is a declarative programming tool for automating infrastructure resource creation; it targets resource providers, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, and other cloud and SAAS back ends. The discussion explores the […]
SE-Radio Episode 288: Francois Raynaud on DevSecOps
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SE-Radio Episode 286: Katie Malone Intro to Machine Learning
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SE-Radio Episode 284: John Allspaw on System Failures: Preventing, Responding, and Learning From
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