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Oct 28, 2020 · 50 min
Salesforce Developers with Chuck Liddell
The Salesforce Ecosystem has thousands of developers, designers, product people, and entrepreneurs engaging with each other. Salesforce exposes APIs and SDKs that allow people to build infrastructure on top of the Salesforce platform. In a previous episode, we explored how the ecosystem works as a whole. In today’s show, Chuck Liddell joins the show to talk about how developers themselves engage with Salesforce. Chuck is CEO of Valence, a Salesforce AppExchange ISV that adds native integration middleware to Salesforce. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 27, 2020 · 43 min
GitDuck: Pair Programming Tool with Dragos Fotescu and Thiago Monteiro
Pair programming allows developers to partner on solving problems and learn from each other more effectively. Pair programming has become harder to do as remote work has become more prevalent. GitDuck is a tool to enable more effective pair programming. Dragos Fotescu and Thiago Monteiro are the founders of GitDuck, and they join the show to explain what they have built and their motivation behind it. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 26, 2020 · 44 min
Datafold: Data Quality Tooling with Gleb Mezhanskiy
Effective data science requires clean data. As data moves through the data pipeline, there may be errors introduced. Errors can also arise from code changes, database migrations, and other forms of data movement. How can you ensure data quality within a fast moving, dynamic data system? Datafold is a company built around data quality management. It allows users to compare tables and databases, as well as automate data QA. Gleb Mezhanskiy is a founder of Datafold and joins the show to talk about the data quality space and what he is building with Datafold. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 23, 2020 · 51 min
Federated Learning with Mike Lee Williams
Federated learning is machine learning without a centralized data source. Federated Learning enables mobile phones or edge servers to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping all the training data on device. Mike Lee Williams is an expert in federated learning, and he joins the show to give an overview of the subject and share his thoughts on its applications. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 22, 2020 · 43 min
Fig: Visual Terminal Assistant with Brendan Falk and Matt Schrage
For all the advances in software development over the years, one area that has seen minimal improvement is the terminal. Typing commands into a black text interface seems antiquated compared to the dynamic, flashy interfaces available in web browsers and modern desktop applications. Fig is a visual terminal assistant with the goal of changing that. Fig sits next to the developer’s normal terminal and enhances the terminal experience. The founders of Fig, Brendan Falk and Matt Schrage, join the show today to discuss how Fig works and why it is useful to have an enhanced terminal. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 21, 2020 · 40 min
Cloud Custodian with Kapil Thangavelu
Cloud resources can get out of control if proper management constraints are not put in place. Cloud Custodian enables users to be well managed in the cloud. It is a YAML DSL that allows you to easily define rules to enable a well-managed cloud infrastructure giving security and cost optimization. Kapil Thangavelu works on Cloud Custodian and he joins the show to talk about modern cloud management and what he is building with Cloud Custodian. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 20, 2020 · 49 min
COVID Modeling with Josh Wills and Sam Shah
Predicting the spread of COVID-19 is not easy. The best methods we have available require us to extrapolate trends from a large volume of data, and this requires the construction of large-scale models. Because of the expertise needed for developing these models, Silicon Valley engineers were brought in to help develop a maintainable model. Two of these engineers are Josh Wills and Sam Shah, and they join the show to talk about the engineering behind the COVID model, and their work to build it. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 19, 2020 · 46 min
Labelbox: Data Labeling Platform
Machine learning models require training data, and training data needs to be labeled. Raw images and text can be labeled using a training data platform like Labelbox. Labelbox is a system of labeling tools that enables a human workforce to create data that is ready to be consumed by machine learning training algorithms. The Labelbox team joins the show today to discuss training data and how to label it. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 16, 2020 · 47 min
Sysbox: Containerization Runtime with Cesar Talledo
Containers and virtual machines are two ways of running virtualized infrastructure. Containers use less resources than VMs, and typically use the runc open source container runtime. Sysbox is a containerization runtime that offers an alternative to runc, and allows for the deployment of Docker or Kubernetes within a container. Cesar Talledo is the founder of Nestybox, a company built around the Sysbox runtime. He joins the show to talk about container runtimes and his new company. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 15, 2020 · 42 min
Supabase: Open Source Firebase with Paul Copplestone
Firebase is well-known as a platform that makes it easy to build real-time applications quickly and easily. Firebase was acquired by Google, and has been turned into a large platform that runs on top of Google Cloud. Firebase is closed-source, which leads to a different ecosystem than open source platforms. Supabase is a new open source alternative to Firebase, built on Postgres and Elixir. Paul Copplestone is the founder of Supabase and he joins the show to talk through what he is building. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 14, 2020 · 36 min
Gitpod: Cloud Development Environments with Johannes Landgraf and Sven Efftinge
Development environments are brittle and hard to manage. They lack the kind of fungibility afforded by infrastructure-as-code. Gitpod is a company that allows developers to describe development environments as code to make them easier to work with, and enabling a more streamlined GitOps workflow. Johannes Landgraf and Sven Efftinge are creators of Gitpod and they join the show to discuss the product and the motivation for building it. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 13, 2020 · 45 min
Roboflow: Computer Vision Models with Brad Dwyer
Training a computer vision model is not easy. Bottlenecks in the development process make it even harder. Ad hoc code, inconsistent data sets, and other workflow issues hamper the ability to streamline models. Roboflow is a company built to simplify and streamline these model training workflows. Brad Dwyer is a founder of Roboflow and joins the show to talk about model development and his company. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 12, 2020 · 32 min
Basedash: Low Code Database Editor with Max Musing
Databases are the source of truth for every company. Editing the data in the database normally requires writing a query in SQL or a domain specific querying language–languages that are only accessible to engineers and highly technical people. BaseDash is a tool for interfacing with a database without requiring the usage of a query language. It allows the user to interface with the database as easily as a spreadsheet. Max Musing is a founder of BaseDash, and he joins the show to talk about how it works and why he built it. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 2, 2020 · 54 min
Aquarium: Dataset Quality Improvement with Peter Gao
Machine learning models are only as good as the datasets they’re trained on. Aquarium is a system that helps machine learning teams make better models by improving their dataset quality. Model improvement is often made by curating high quality datasets, and Aquarium helps make that a reality. Peter Gao works on Aquarium, and he joins the show to talk through modern machine learning and the role of Aquarium. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Oct 1, 2020 · 47 min
Ray Ecosystem with Ion Stoica
Ray is a general purpose distributed computing framework. Ray is used for reinforcement learning and other compute intensive tasks. It was developed at the Berkeley RISELab, a research and development lab with an emphasis on practical applications. Ion Stoica is a professor at Berkeley, and he joins the show to talk about the present and future of the Ray framework. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Sep 30, 2020 · 35 min
Tailscale: Private Networks with David Crawshaw
A private network connects servers, computers, and cloud instances. These networked objects are often separated by firewalls and subnets that create latency and complication. David Crawshaw is the CTO of Tailscale, a company that works to make private networks easier to build and simpler to configure and maintain. David joins the show to talk about private networks and the implementation of Tailscale. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Sep 29, 2020 · 49 min
Pachyderm Engineering with Joe Doliner
Pachyderm is a system for data version control. Code has been version controlled for many years, but not data. In previous episodes with Joe Doliner, we explored the evolution of Pachyderm. In today’s show, we talk about the state of the company in 2020, as well as Pachyderm Hub, and end-to-end machine learning and data lineage product. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Sep 28, 2020 · 29 min
Deno and TypeScript with Elio Rivero
Deno is a runtime for JavaScript applications. Deno is written in Rust, which changes the security properties of it. Parts of Deno are also written in TypeScript, which are causing problems in the compilation and organization of Deno. Elio Rivero is an engineer who has studied Deno and TypeScript, and he joins the show to talk about the newer JavaScript runtime and the issues caused by TypeScript. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Sep 25, 2020 · 39 min
Developer Investing with Lee Edwards
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. His focus is on hard problems within software, and he joins the show to talk about the thesis of his firm, as well as his personal beliefs on what makes a good investment. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Sep 24, 2020 · 50 min
Salesforce Ecosystem with Kevin Poorman
Salesforce is a platform with a large number of developers, ISVs, and companies built on top of it. There is a thriving ecosystem of applications built and managed around Salesforce, leading to an important set of relationships and integration points between Salesforce and the other entities involved with the company. Kevin Poorman works at Salesforce as a developer evangelist, helping to strengthen the relationships in the Salesforce ecosystem. Kevin joins the show to talk about Salesforce and the applications that connect to it. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

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