Recent Episodes
Episode 410: Sara Leen on Localizing and Porting Japanese Games
Sara Leen of XSEED Games discusses localizing, porting, and modernizing Japanese games with Jeremy Jung. They discuss what makes games different, learning a codebase, extracting/replacing text, text encoding, replacing art assets, rewriting games, and reverse engineering them. Related Links Personal Website Corpse Party PC Programming Trails in the Sky Programming Trails in the Sky Second […]
Episode 409: Joe Kutner on the Twelve-Factor App
Joe Kutner, Software Architect for Heroku at Salesforce.com, discusses the twelve-factor app. The twelve-factor app is a methodology that aids development of modern apps that are portable, scalable, and maintainable. Host Kanchan Shringi spoke with Kutner about the origin of these principles; their continued and growing importance with advances in microservices, DevOps, and containerization; and […]
Episode 408: Mike McCourt on Voice and Speech Analysis
Mike McCourt of Invoca discusses how to automatically process and analysis voice data to classify it using machine learning. Felienne spoke with McCourt about the difficulties in processing audio of different qualities, in different languages and the applicability of different types of machine learning to voice data. Related Links Kaldi Mozilla DeepSpeech Invoca engineering blog […]
Episode 407: Juval Löwy on Righting Software
Juval Löwy, Software Legend and Founder of IDesign discusses his recently published book, Righting Software, with host Jeff Doolittle. This episode focuses on Löwy’s belief that the software industry is in a deep crisis, evident from the numerous projects that fail to deliver on time, on budget and on quality. He discusses his belief that […]
Episode 406: Torin Sandall on Distributed Policy Enforcement
Torin Sandall of Styra and Open Policy Agent discussed OPA and policy engines and how they can benefit software projects security and compliance. Host Justin Beyer spoke with Sandall about the benefits of removing authorization logic from your applications. Specifically, how OPA can create a single view of all policies across your software stack for […]
