Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. SE Radio covers all topics software engineering. Episodes are either tutorials on a specific topic, or an interview with a well-known character from the software engineering world. All SE Radio episodes are original content — we do not record conferences or talks given in other venues. Each episode comprises two speakers to ensure a lively listening experience. SE Radio is brought to you by the IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software magazine.

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Episode 529: Jeff Perry on Career Management for Software Engineers

September 14, 2022 01:03:07 91.11 MB Downloads: 0

Jeff Perry, career coach with experience in multiple engineering and technology fields discusses how software engineers can be intentional and proactive in evaluating and pursuing career options, with host Kanchan Shringi.

Episode 528: Jonathan Shariat on Designing to Avoid Worst Case Outcomes

September 07, 2022 56:20 81.34 MB Downloads: 0

Jonathan Shariat, coauthor of the book Tragic Design, discusses harmful software design. SE Radio host Jeremy Jung speaks with Shariat about how poor design can kill in the medical industry, accidentally causing harm with features meant to bring joy...

Episode 527: Adrian Kennard and Kevin Hones on Writing a Network OS from Scratch

August 30, 2022 01:03:01 90.95 MB Downloads: 0

Adrian Kennard and Kevin Hones, Founders of FireBrick routers and firewalls, discuss how to design, build, test and support a hardware router and network operating system from scratch, while sharing the lessons learned. You'll also learn that in certain..

Episode 526: Brian Campbell on Proof of Possession Defenses

August 24, 2022 53:45 77.63 MB Downloads: 0

Brian Campbell, Distinguished Engineer at Ping Identity discusses cryptographic defences against stolen tokens for the OAUTH2 protocol with host Priyanka Raghavan. The discussion explores various subtopics such as the history of Proof of possession...

Episode 525: Randy Shoup on Evolving Architecture and Organization at eBay

August 17, 2022 58:54 85.03 MB Downloads: 0

Randy Shoup of eBay discusses the evolution of eBay's tech stack. SE Radio host Jeremy Jung speaks with Shoup about eBay's origins as a single C++ class with an Oracle database, a five-year migration to multiple Java services, sharing a database...

Episode 524: Abi Noda on Developer Experience

August 11, 2022 57:40 83.1 MB Downloads: 0

In this episode, Abi Noda, founder of Pull Panda and DX, discusses developer experience with SE Radio host Brijesh Ammanath. They examine the basic concept of DX and its importance before diving into a wide variety of issues, including methodologies...

Episode 523: Jessi Ashdown and Uri Gilad on Data Governance

August 03, 2022 01:04:14 92.72 MB Downloads: 0

Jessi Ashdown and Uri Gilad, authors of the book "Data Governance: The Definitive Guide," discuss what data governance entails, why it's important, and how it can be implemented. Host Akshay Manchale speaks with them about why data governance...

Episode 522: Noah Gift on MLOps

July 27, 2022 52:01 75.18 MB Downloads: 0

Noah Gift, author of "Practical MLOps", discusses MLOps, which are tools are techniques used to operationalize machine learning applications. Host Akshay Manchale spoke to Noah about the foundational aspects such as basic automation through DevOps, data...

Episode 521: Phillip Mayhew on Test Automation in Gaming

July 21, 2022 59:52 86.44 MB Downloads: 0

Phillip Mayhew of GameDriver discusses test automation for games and game-like applications. Host Philip Winston spoke with Mayhew about the increasing role of test automation in modern game development, the impact on the QA role, how to run tests...

Episode 520: John Ousterhout on A Philosophy of Software Design

July 12, 2022 01:04:39 93.37 MB Downloads: 0

John Ousterhout, professor of computer science at Stanford University, joined SE Radio host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about his book, A Philosophy of Software Design. They discussed the history and ongoing challenges of software system design, especially the nature of complexity and the difficulties handling it. The conversation also explored various design concepts from the book, such as modularity, layering, abstraction, information hiding, maintainability, and readability.

Episode 519: Kumar Ramaiyer on Building a SaaS

July 06, 2022 55:54 80.71 MB Downloads: 0

Kumar Ramaiyer, CTO, Planning Business Unit at Workday, discusses the Infrastructure services needed for and the design of Building and lifecycle of supporting a SaaS application.

Episode 518: Karl Wiegers on Software Engineering Lessons

June 28, 2022 01:05:05 93.77 MB Downloads: 0

Karl Wiegers, Principal Consultant with Process Impact and author of 13 books, discusses specific software development practices that can help you make sure that you don't repeat the same problems he sees time and time again with every customer...

Episode 517: Jordan Adler on Code Generators

June 21, 2022 52:24 75.51 MB Downloads: 0

In this episode, SE Radio host Felienne speaks with Jordan Adler of OneSignal about code generation, a technique to generate code from specifications like UML or from other programming languages such as Typescript. They also discuss code transformation, which can be us

Episode 516: Brian Okken on Testing in Python with pytest

June 16, 2022 50:39 73.16 MB Downloads: 0

In this episode, we explore the popular pytest python testing tool with author Brian Okken, author of Python Testing with pytest. We start by discussing why pytest is so popular in the Python community: its focus on simplicity, readability, and developer ease-of-use; what makes pytest unique; the setup and teardown of tests using fixtures, parameterization, and the plugin ecosystem; mocking; why we should design for testing, and how to reduce the need for mocking; how to set up a project for testability; test-driven development, and designing your tests so that they support refactoring. Finally, we consider some complementary tools that can improve the python testing experience.

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