Recent Episodes
SE-Radio Episode 358: Probabilistic Data Structure for Big Data Problems
Andrii Gakhov, author of the book Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Data Applications talks about probabilistic data structures and their application to the big data domain. Host Robert Blumen spoke with Dr. Gakhov about how probabilistic data structures differ from their exact counterparts; hash functions – cryptographic and non-cryptographic; space versus accuracy tradeoffs; […]
SE-Radio Episode 357: Adam Barr on Code Quality
Adam Barr, author of Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code talks about code quality. Felienne spoke with Barr about how developers learn to program on their own while they are in high-school; how that influences their thinking about code quality; what code quality is, how is can (or cannot) be measured and whether some programming […]
SE-Radio Episode 356: Tim Coulter on Smart Contracts
Tim Coulter, the founder of Truffle (Ethereum DApp development framework) discusses the Truffle framework for Ethereum SmartContracts and Decentralized App development. Kishore Bhatia spoke with Tim Coulter about Ethereum Decentralized Apps (DApps) and Truffle as a DApp development, deployment and testing framework. The interview also covers Tim’s journey creating the Truffle framework with a deep-dive […]
SE-Radio Episode 355: Randy Shoup Scaling Technology and Organization
WeWork’s VPE, Randy Shoup, discusses how to scale technology and organization together. Host Travis Kimmel spoke with Randy (formerly VPE at Stitch Fix and CTO at KIXEYE) about the culture, process, and technology changes necessary to scale an organization without experiencing attrition. They discuss how rapidly growing companies can leverage best practices from DevOps, how […]
SE-Radio Episode 354: Avi Kivity on ScyllaDB
Avi Kivity of Scylladb deep dives into the internals of Scylladb and what makes it a high performant version of Cassandra, a distributed key-value datastore. Host Nishant Suneja spoke with Avi about how Scylla’s shared nothing architecture helps it in “scaling up” on every single node in the cluster. The discussion further goes into Scylla’s […]
