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SE Radio 565: Luca Galante on Platform Engineering

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SE Radio 565: Luca Galante on Platform Engineering

Luca Galante, head of product at Humanitec, joins host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about platform engineering. They begin by defining platform engineering and its relationship to, and distinction from, DevOps. Tracing platform engineering’s history, Luca describes how internal developer platforms are fundamental, and then explores the goals of addressing complexity and reducing the cognitive […]

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SE Radio 564: Paul Hammant on Trunk-Based Development

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SE Radio 564: Paul Hammant on Trunk-Based Development

Paul Hammant, independent consultant, joins host Giovanni Asproni to speak about trunk-based development—a version control management practice in which developers merge small, frequent updates to a core “trunk” or main branch. The episode explores the technique in some detail, including its pros and cons and some examples from real projects, and offers suggestions on how […]

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SE Radio 557: Timothy Beamish on React and Next.js

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SE Radio 557: Timothy Beamish on React and Next.js

Timothy Beamish of BenchSci discusses React and Next.js, two of today’s most popular front-end frameworks. Host Philip Winston speaks with Beamish about components, routing, JSX, client-side and server-side rendering, single-page applications, automatic code-splitting, image optimization, and more. Beamish also details his experience moving a real-world application to Next.js. Related links SE Radio 382: Michael Chan […]

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SE Radio 556: Alex Boten on Open Telemetry

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SE Radio 556: Alex Boten on Open Telemetry

Software engineer Alex Boten, author of Cloud Native Observability with Open Telemetry, joins host Robert Blumen for a conversation about software telemetry and the OpenTelemetry project. After a brief review of the topic and the OpenTelemetry project’s origins rooted in the need for interoperability between telemetry sources and back ends, they discuss the OpenTelemetry server […]

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SE Radio 555: On Freund on Upskilling

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SE Radio 555: On Freund on Upskilling

On Freund, founder of Wilco and former VP of Engineering at WeWork, speaks with SE Radio’s Brijesh Ammanath about “upskilling” – going deeper or increasing the breadth of your skills. On has years of experience in helping developers master the skills needed to advance in their careers. This episode explores the importance of upskilling in […]

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