Tag: SE-Radio
Episode 466: Casey Aylward on Venture Capital for Software Investing
Casey Aylward, Principal at Costanoa Ventures, discusses venture capital for software investing with a focus on early stage. Host Kanchan Shringi spoke with Casey on the key questions an entrepreneur may have when starting to think about obtaining VC funding and what the VC firms look for. They also talk about what it is like […]
Episode 465: Kevlin Henney and Trisha Gee on 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Trisha Gee and Kevlin Henney of 97 Things Every Java Developer Should Know discuss their book, which is a collection of essays by different developers. Host Felienne spoke with Gee and Henney about Java, including how to use immutability in Java, the value of type inference, and how to use your IDE most effectively when […]
Episode 464: Rowland Savage on Getting Acquired
Rowland Savage, author of How to Stick the Landing: The M&A Handbook for Startups, discusses mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and why it’s so important for software engineering startups to know the details. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Savage about why a startup should always be thinking about being acquired, the ways to ensure that it […]
Episode 463: Yaniv Tal on Web 3.0 and the Graph
Yaniv Tal, co-founder of the Graph and project lead at Edge and Node, discusses the Graph, an indexer for blockchain infrastructure such as Ethereum and IPFS. Yaniv and host Priyanka Raghavan discuss the need for blockchain infrastructure, decentralized applications, systems of trust and different modes of payment. They compare and contrast “web 2” versus “web […]
Episode 461: Michael Ashburne and Maxwell Huffman on Quality Assurance
Michael Ashburne and Maxwell Huffman of Aspiritech discuss Quality Assurance with host Jeremy Jung. This episode examines the value of exploratory testing; finding repeatable test cases; introducing QA to a new product; when to drop old tests; improving usability and documentation; the complexity of bluetooth; benefits of testing outside a development team; accessibility; small vs […]
