Software Engineering Radio

There's a recent software engineering radio podcast on technical debt.

@drhodes +2 more

SE Radio 224: Sven Johann and Eberhard Wolff on Technical Debt

Mar 31, 2015 · 56m

with Sven Johann and Eberhard Wolff

If you're curious about Felienne's content, this interview covers a teaser of it.

@agbell +1 more

SE Radio 462: Felienne on the Programmers Brain

Jun 2, 2021 · 1h 10m

with Felienne

I have found this podcast is excellent for getting an overview of subjects like this.

@drice +1 more

SE Radio 447: Michael Perry on Immutable Architecture

Feb 18, 2021 · 58m

with Michael Perry

The latest Software Engineering Radio has an excellent discussion of large-scale IT failure, aka black swans.

@coleca +1 more

SE Radio 250: Jürgen Laartz and Alexander Budzier on Why Large IT Projects Fail

Feb 22, 2016 · 43m

with Jurgen Laartz and Alexander Budzier

Stonebraker's SE Radio interview is opinionated, excellent, and should answer why to use VoltDB.

@ruraljuror +1 more

SE Radio 199: Michael Stonebraker on Current Developments in Databases

Dec 5, 2013 · 1h 07m

with Michael Stonebraker

Episode 148 of Software Engineering Radio may be helpful, on making sense of large existing codebases.

@limmeau +1 more

Episode 148: Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas

Nov 2, 2009 · 58m

with Dave Thomas

The SE radio podcast has an episode with them and I enjoyed it, FYI.

@flakiness

SE Radio 511: Ant Wilson on Supabase (Postgres as a Service)

May 10, 2022 · 54m

with Ant Wilson

Interview where Deutsch retells the history of the fallacies of distributed computing and corrects common misattributions about their origin.

@jeffdoolittle

SE Radio 470: L. Peter Deutsch on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing

Jul 27, 2021 · 1h 04m

with L. Peter Deutsch

Ryan Singer's Software Engineering Radio interview condenses Shape Up's high-level concepts; the commenter particularly likes it.

@code_biologist

Episode 389: Ryan Singer on Basecamp's Software Development Process

Nov 18, 2019 · 1h 08m

with Ryan Singer

Really enjoyed the OAuth2 episode on API security with Justin Richer.

@superdeeda

Episode 376: Justin Richer On API Security with OAuth 2

Aug 13, 2019 · 1h 13m

with Justin Richer

An entertaining SE Radio episode with Thorsten Ball on compilers vs. interpreters and his book.

@jotaen

365: Thorsten Ball on Building an Interpreter

May 7, 2019 · 1h 04m

with Thorsten Ball

Software Engineering Radio released an hour-long interview with Stephan Ewen, CTO of data Artisans, on streaming architecture.

@knbknb

SE Radio 346: Stephan Ewen on Streaming Architecture

Nov 14, 2018 · 1h 02m

with Stephan Ewen

Also of interest perhaps is a podcast episode from Software Engineering Radio with Bruce Momjian on the Postgres query planner.

@timClicks

SE Radio 328: Bruce Momjian on the Postgres Query Planner

Jun 19, 2018 · 1h 03m

with Bruce Momjian

Michael Feathers, author of the recommended book, was on SE Radio's episode about legacy code.

@malingo

SE Radio 295: Michael Feathers on Legacy Code

Jun 27, 2017 · 58m

with Michael Feathers

There's an episode of software engineering radio that has a lot of details from the horse's mouth.

@candiodari

SE Radio 285: James Cowling on Dropbox's Distributed Storage System

Mar 14, 2017 · 45m

with James Cowling

IEEE Software Engineering Radio did a good episode on Site Reliability Engineering.

@NickNameNick

SE Radio 276: Björn Rabenstein on Site Reliability Engineering

Dec 6, 2016 · 57m

with Björn Rabenstein

There was an interesting interview with him earlier in the year on Software Engineering Radio where he talked about his book

@klshxsh

SE Radio 225: Brendan Gregg on Systems Performance

Apr 14, 2015 · 1h 00m

with Brendan Gregg

If you're not familiar with Kafka there is a very good interview with Jun Rao on SE Radio.

@hartror

SE Radio 219: Apache Kafka with Jun Rao

Feb 9, 2015 · 1h 03m

with Jun Rao

Cockcroft's 2014 Software Engineering Radio interview explains Netflix's motivation for moving to the cloud.

@scarface74

SE Radio 216: Adrian Cockcroft on the Modern Cloud-based Platform

Dec 9, 2014 · 1h 09m

with Adrian Cockcroft

Nice episode about working with and extracting knowledge from larger bodies of text.

@bkin

SE Radio 214: Grant Ingersoll on his book, Taming Text

Nov 11, 2014 · 1h 04m

with Grant Ingersoll

Anil's SE Radio interview on Mirage and OCaml is fantastic, around an hour, extremely informative and technical. Highly recommended.

@krat0sprakhar

SE Radio 204: Anil Madhavapeddy on the Mirage Cloud Operating System and the OCaml Language

May 30, 2014 · 1h 05m

with Anil Madhavapeddy

Software Engineering Radio is relatively technical and informative, with interesting archive episodes like the one with Martin Thompson.

@kristjansson

SE Radio 201: Martin Thompson on Mechanical Sympathy

Feb 19, 2014 · 53m

with Martin Thompson

Listen to the SE Radio episode on database evolution, which covers schema change practices directly relevant to this question.

@pramodliv1

SE Radio 186: Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage on Agile Database Development

Jun 1, 2012 · 48m

with Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage

A plug for Software Engineering Radio's Second Life and Mono episode with Jim Purbrick.

@nick-dap

Episode 141: Second Life and Mono with Jim Purbrick

Jul 27, 2009 · 42m

with Jim Purbrick

Gave an excellent interview on Software Engineering Radio; episode 140 on Newspeak and pluggable types.

@shawnjgoff

SE Radio 140: Newspeak and Pluggable Types with Gilad Bracha

Jul 13, 2009 · 43m

with Gilad Bracha

An excellent, substantial interview on changing culture; Linda Rising approaches it pragmatically.

@angdis

Episode 139: Fearless Change with Linda Rising

Jun 29, 2009 · 1h 08m

with Linda Rising

Some absolutely awesome episodes on Software Engineering Radio; the good ones more than make up for the awful ones. Episode 109 with Randy Shoup is an awesome example.

@zmmmmm

Episode 109: eBay's Architecture Principles with Randy Shoup

Sep 8, 2008 · 1h 00m

with Randy Shoup

Episode 100 has an extensive interview with a DLR guy on freedom to fail, extensive re-use, and productivity metrics.

@henning

Episode 100: Software in Space

Jun 10, 2008 · 36m

with A guest from DLR, the German aerospace center

Episode on REST and HTTP with Stefan Tilkov, from 2008 but probably still evergreen.

@brudgers

Episode 98: Stefan Tilkov on REST

May 23, 2008 · 55m

with Stefan Tilkov

If you look SE Radio on iTunes or their website, there's an episode where they interview the Guardian website developers.

@Tycho

Episode 95: The New Guardian.co.uk website with Matt Wall and Erik DoernenBurg

May 1, 2008 · 44m

Software Engineering Radio episode 89 is a great listen for anyone interested in Erlang.

@aaronblohowiak

Episode 89: Joe Armstrong on Erlang

Mar 12, 2008 · 53m

I recommend both: Guy Steele mentions APL was one of the first programming languages he learned, in Coders at Work or Software Engineering Radio episode 36.

@silentbicycle

Episode 36: Interview Guy Steele

Nov 10, 2006 · 28m

with Guy Steele