Recent Episodes
Episode 513: Gil Hoffer on Applying DevOps Practices to Managing Business Applications

Gill Hoffer, co-founder and CTO at Salto, talks with SE Radio host Kanchan Shringi about a new persona — the Business Engineer — created by the rise of SaaS and adoption of best-of-breed business applications for back office systems. They examine the evolution of tooling for developers and IT and the parallels with tooling needed […]
Episode 512: Tim Post on Rubber Duck Debugging

Tim Post of echoreply.io discusses rubber duck debugging, a way to wrap your head around problems and solutions. SE Radio host Felienne spoke with Post about rubber duck debugging, and how it can help you find answers to complex problems. The show also explores the role of documentation in problem solving and how techniques from […]
Episode 511: Ant Wilson on Supabase (Postgres as a Service)

Ant Wilson of Supabase discusses building an open source alternative to Firebase with PostgreSQL. SE Radio host Jeremy Jung spoke with Wilson about how Supabase compares to Firebase, building an API layer with postgREST, authentication using GoTrue, row-level security, forking open source projects, using the write ahead log to implement real time updates, provisioning and […]
Episode 510: Deepthi Sigireddi on How Vitess Scales MySQL

In this episode, Deepthi Sigireddi of PlanetScale spoke with SE Radio host Nikhil Krishna about how Vitess scales MySQL. They discussed the design and architecture of Vitess; how Vitess impacts modern data problems; sharding and scale out; connection pooling; components of the Vitess system; configuration; and running Vitess on Kubernetes. Related Links Vitess Vitess on […]
Episode 509: Matt Butcher and Matt Farina on Helm Charts

Matt Butcher and Matt Farina, authors of the book Learning Helm, join SE Radio host Robert Blumen to discuss Helm, the package manager for kubernetes. Beginning with a review of kubernetes and Helm, this episode explores the history of helm; the need for a package manager on kubernetes; helm terminology; how helm handles package dependencies; […]