Tag: SE-Radio
Episode 503: Diarmuid McDonnell on Web Scraping
Diarmuid McDonnell, a Lecturer in Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland talks about the increasing use of computational approaches for data collection and data analysis in social sciences research. Host Kanchan Shringi speaks with McDonell about webscraping, a key computational tool for data collection. Diarmuid talks about what a social scientist or data […]
Episode 502: Omer Katz on Distributed Task Queues Using Celery
Omer Katz, a software consultant and core contributor to the Celery discusses the Celery task processing framework with host Nikhil Krishna. Discussion covers in depth: the Celery task processing framework, it’s architecture and the underlying messaging protocol libraries on which it it is built; how to setup Celery for your project, and examine the various […]
Episode 501: Bob Ducharme on Creating Technical Documentation for Software Projects
Bob DuCharme, an experienced technical writer and author talks about writing documentation for software products. In this episode we discuss the various types of documentation that one creates for software products. Host Nikhil Krishna spoke with Bob in depth about the difference between these types of documentation and the audiences they target; importance of using […]
Episode 500: Sergey Gorbunov on Blockchain Interoperability
Sergey Gorbunov of Axelar discusses blockchain interoperability, a technology that enables decentralized applications to work across multiple blockchain ecosystems. Host Philip Winston spoke with Gorbunov about programmable blockchains, distributed vs. centralized changes, the Ethereum virtual machine, Axelar’s Cross-Chain Gateway Protocol and Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol, security issues, delegated proof of stake, and other implementation details. This […]
Episode 499: Uma Chingunde on Building a PaaS
Uma Chingunde of Render compares building a PaaS with her previous experience running the Stripe Compute team. Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Chingunde about the role of a PaaS, building on public cloud providers, build vs buy, choosing features, user experience, managing databases, Series A vs later stage startups, and why internal infrastructure teams should […]
