Tag: logging
Episode 486: Bob Nystrom on Dart
Bob Nystrom, author of Crafting Interpreters and a software engineer at Google working on the Dart programming language, discusses the key features of Dart that make it an excellent choice for fast apps on any platform. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Nystrom about Dart’s history, hardware out of your control, async-await, concurrency, mobile platforms, threads, […]
Episode 455: Jamie Riedesel on Software Telemetry
Jamie Riedesel, author of Software Telemetry Book, discusses software telemetry, why telemetry data is so important, and the discipline of tracing, logging, and monitoring infrastructure. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Riedesel about what telemetry is, the different ways to scale it, the tools involved, security and privacy considerations, centralized logging, types of metrics, observability, distributed […]
Episode 383: Neil Madden On Securing Your API
Neil Madden, author of the API Security in Action book and Security Director of ForgeRock, discusses the key technical features of securing an API. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Madden about API versus Web App security, choice of authentication tokens, the various security models you can follow, NIST-800-92, ISO27001, STRIDE, CIA Triad, audit log best […]
SE-Radio Episode 337: Ben Sigelman on Distributed Tracing
Ben Sigelman CEO of LightStep and co-author of the OpenTracing standard discusses distributed tracing, a form of event-driven observability useful in debugging distributed systems, understanding latency outlyers, and delivering “white box” analytics. Host Robert Blumen spoke with Sigelman about the basics of tracing, why it is harder in a distributed system, the concept of tracing […]
SE-Radio Episode 292: Philipp Krenn on Elasticsearch
Phillipp Krenn talks with SE Radio’s Jeff Meyerson about Elasticsearch, a scalable search index. The conversation begins with a discussion of search, how it compares to database queries, and what an inverted index is. Phillipp introduces Wikipedia as an example that runs throughout the episode because Wikipedia uses Elasticsearch to power its full-text search. A […]
