Greatest Hits – Software Engineering Daily Podcast
1) Bot Memorial with Eugenia Kuyda
When a human passes away, we create a tombstone as a memorial. Friends and family visit a grave to remember the times they had with that person while they were still alive. Memorial bots are another w...Show More
2) Algorithms to Live By with Brian Christian
When you are deciding who to marry, you are using an algorithm. The same is true when you are looking for a parking space, playing a game of poker, or deciding whether or not to organize your closet. ...Show More
3) Robot Lawyer with Joshua Browder
You have probably received a parking ticket that you felt was unfair, but instead of fighting it, you paid the expensive price to get rid of it quickly. Fighting a parking ticket sounds like it woul...Show More
4) Debugging Stories with Haseeb Qureshi
Everyone has debugging stories. We have all had the experience of wrestling with a seemingly impossible bug for days until we finally come to a solution. In today’s episode, Haseeb Qureshi retells som...Show More
5) Winning With Data with Tomasz Tunguz
Large technology companies have no shortage of data. But raw data itself does not provide a competitive advantage. Many companies are bottlenecked by a shortage of data scientists who can query that d...Show More
6) AWS Open Guide with Joshua Levy
Amazon Web Services changed the economics of building an internet application. Instead of having to invest tens of thousands of dollars up front for hardware, developers can pay for services over time...Show More
7) Reflections of an Old Programmer with Ben Northrop
Ben Northrop was sitting at a tech conference, listening to a presentation about a new piece of technology, when he was struck by the sense that history was repeating itself. For the twenty years that...Show More
8) Legacy Code with Andrea Goulet
Legacy code is code without automated tests. Most companies have lots of legacy code, and most developers don’t like working on legacy code. Why is that? What is it that makes legacy code so difficult...Show More
9) Indie Hackers with Courtland Allen
Indie Hackers is a website that profiles independent developers who have made profitable software projects, usually without raising any money. These projects make anywhere from a few hundred dollars a...Show More
10) Database Choices and Uber with Markus Winand
When Uber’s engineering team published a blog post about moving to MySQL from Postgres, Markus Winand started receiving lots of email. Markus writes about databases on his blog “Use The Index, Luke,” ...Show More