Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers
Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. SE Radio covers all topics software engineering. Episodes are either tutorials on a specific topic, or an interview with a well-known character from the software engineering world. All SE Radio episodes are original content — we do not record conferences or talks given in other venues. Each episode comprises two speakers to ensure a lively listening experience. SE Radio is brought to you by the IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software magazine.
SE Radio 708: Jens Gustedt on C in 2026
19 Feb 2026
Jens Gustedt, author of Modern C, senior scientist at the French National Institute for Computer Science and Control (INRIA), deputy director of the ICube lab, and former co-editor of the ISO C
SE Radio 707: Subhajit Paul on ERP Automation and AI
12 Feb 2026
In this episode, Subhajit Paul joins SE Radio host Kanchan Shringi to discuss how enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems work in practice and where machine learning and generative AI are
SE Radio 706: Yechezkel "Chez" Rabinovich on Observability Tool Migration Techniques
4 Feb 2026
Yechezkel "Chez" Rabinovich, CTO and co-founder at Groundcover, joins SE Radio host Brijesh Ammanath to discuss the key challenges in migrating observability toolsets. The episode starts with a look
SE Radio 705: Murat Erder and Eoin Woods on Continuous Architecture
27 Jan 2026
Murat Erder, CTO for Financial Services at Valtech in Europe, and Eoin Woods, independent consultant in the field of software architecture, join host Giovanni Asproni to talk about Continuous
SE Radio 704: Sriram Panyam on System Design Interviews
21 Jan 2026
Sriram Panyam returns to the show to discuss the system design interview (SDI) with host Robert Blumen. This challenging part of the hiring process is included in the interview loop for many jobs
SE Radio 703: Sahaj Garg on Low Latency AI
14 Jan 2026
In this episode, Sahaj Garg, CTO of wispr.ai, joins SE Radio host Robert Blumen to talk about the challenges of building low-latency AI applications. They discuss latency's effect on consumer
SE Radio 702: Derick Schaefer on Modern CLIs
7 Jan 2026
Derick Schaefer, author of CLI: A Practical Guide to Creating Modern Command-Line Interfaces, talks with host Robert Blumen about command-line interfaces old and new. Starting with a short review of
SE Radio 701: Max Guernsey, III and Luniel de Beer on Readiness in Software Engineering
30 Dec 2025
Max Geurnsey III and Luniel de Beer, co-authors of the book Ready: Why Most Software Projects Fail and How to Fix It, discuss the concept of readiness in software engineering with host Brijesh
SE Radio 700: Mojtaba Sarooghi on Waiting Rooms for High-Traffic Events
23 Dec 2025
Mojtaba Sarooghi, a Distinguished Product Architect at Queue-it, speaks with host Jeremy Jung about virtual waiting rooms for high-traffic events such as concerts and limited-quantity product
SE Radio 699: Benjamin Brial on Internal Dev Platforms
17 Dec 2025
In this episode, Benjamin Brial, CEO and co-founder of Cycloid, speaks with host Sriram Panyam about internal developer platforms (IDPs) and internal developer portals. The conversation explores how
SE Radio 698: Srujana Merugu on How to build an LLM App
9 Dec 2025
In this episode of Software Engineering Radio, Srujana Merugu, an AI researcher with decades of experience, speaks with host Priyanka Raghavan about building LLM-based applications. The discussion
SE Radio 697: Philip Kiely on Multi-Model AI
3 Dec 2025
Philip Kiely, software developer relations lead at Baseten, speaks with host Jeff Doolittle about multi-agent AI, emphasizing how to build AI-native software beyond simple ChatGPT wrappers. Kiely
SE Radio 696: Flavia Saldanha on Data Engineering for AI
25 Nov 2025
Flavia Saldanha, a consulting data engineer, joins host Kanchan Shringi to discuss the evolution of data engineering from ETL (extract, transform, load) and data lakes to modern lakehouse
SE Radio 695: Dave Thomas on Building eBooks Infrastructure
19 Nov 2025
Dave Thomas, author of The Pragmatic Programmer, The Manifesto for Agile Software Development, Programming Ruby, Agile Web Development with Rails, Programming Elixir, Simplicity, and co-founder of
SE Radio 694: Jennings Anderson and Amy Rose on Overture Maps
12 Nov 2025
Jennings Anderson, a Software Engineer with Meta Platforms, and Amy Rose, the Chief Technology Officer at Overture Maps Foundation, speak with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the Overture Maps
SE Radio 693: Mark Williamson on AI-Assisted Debugging
6 Nov 2025
Mark Williamson, CTO of Undo, joins host Priyanka Raghavan to discuss AI-assisted debugging. The conversation is structured around three main objectives: • understanding how AI can serve as a
SE Radio 692: Sourabh Satish on Prompt Injection
28 Oct 2025
Sourabh Satish, CTO and co-founder of Pangea, speaks with SE Radio's Brijesh Ammanath about prompt injection. Sourabh begins with the basic concepts underlying prompt injection and the key risks it
SE Radio 691: Kacper Łukawski on Qdrant Vector Database
22 Oct 2025
Kacper Łukawski, a Senior Developer Advocate at Qdrant, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the Qdrant vector database and similarity search engine. After introducing vector databases and
SE Radio 690: Florian Gilcher on Rust for Safety-Critical Systems
14 Oct 2025
Florian Gilcher, co-founder of Ferrous Systems and the Rust Foundation, speaks with host Giovanni Asproni about the application of Rust in mission- and safety-critical systems. The discussion starts
SE Radio 689: Amey Desai on the Model Context Protocol
8 Oct 2025
Amey Desai, the Chief Technology Officer at Nexla, speaks with host Sriram Panyam about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its role in enabling agentic AI systems. The conversation begins with the
Episode 521: Phillip Mayhew on Test Automation in Gaming
21 Jul 2022
Phillip Mayhew of GameDriver discusses test automation for games and game-like applications. Host Philip Winston spoke with Mayhew about the increasing role of test automation in modern game
Episode 520: John Ousterhout on A Philosophy of Software Design
12 Jul 2022
John Ousterhout, professor of computer science at Stanford University, joined SE Radio host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about his book, A Philosophy of Software Design. They discussed the
Episode 519: Kumar Ramaiyer on Building a SaaS
6 Jul 2022
Kumar Ramaiyer, CTO, Planning Business Unit at Workday, discusses the Infrastructure services needed for and the design of Building and lifecycle of supporting a SaaS application.
Episode 518: Karl Wiegers on Software Engineering Lessons
29 Jun 2022
Karl Wiegers, Principal Consultant with Process Impact and author of 13 books, discusses specific software development practices that can help you make sure that you don't repeat the same problems he
Episode 517: Jordan Adler on Code Generators
21 Jun 2022
In this episode, SE Radio host Felienne speaks with Jordan Adler of OneSignal about code generation, a technique to generate code from specifications like UML or from other programming languages such
Episode 516: Brian Okken on Testing in Python with pytest
16 Jun 2022
In this episode, we explore the popular pytest python testing tool with author Brian Okken, author of Python Testing with pytest. We start by discussing why pytest is so popular in the Python
Edpisode 515: Swizec Teller on Becoming a Senior Engineer
8 Jun 2022
This week, senior software engineer, instructor, and blogger Swizec Teller spoke with SE Radio's Brijesh Ammanath about the "senior mindset." Becoming a senior engineer is about more than just years
Episode 514: Vandana Verma on the Owasp Top 10
31 May 2022
Vandana Verma, Security Leader at Snyk and vice-chairperson of the OWASP Global Board of directors, discusses the "OWASP top 10" with host Priyanka Raghavan. The discussion explores various subtopics
Episode 513: Gil Hoffer on Applying DevOps Practices to Managing Business Applications
25 May 2022
Gill Hoffer, co-founder and CTO at Salto, talks with SE Radio host Kanchan Shringi about a new persona -- the Business Engineer -- created by the rise of SaaS and adoption of best-of-breed business
Episode 512: Tim Post on Rubber Duck Debugging
17 May 2022
Tim Post of echoreply.io discusses Rubber Duck Debugging, a way to wrap your head about problems and solutions. Host Felienne spoke with Post about Rubber Duck debugging, and how it can help you to
Episode 511: Ant Wilson on Supabase (Postgres as a Service)
10 May 2022
Ant Wilson of Supabase discusses building an open source alternative to Firebase with PostgreSQL. SE Radio host Jeremy Jung spoke with Wilson about how Supabase compares to Firebase, building an API
Episode 510: Deepthi Sigireddi on How Vitess Scales MySQL
4 May 2022
In this episode, Deepthi Sigireddi of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) spoke with SE Radio host Nikhil Krishna about how Vitess scales MySQL. They discuss the design and architecture of
Episode 509: Matt Butcher and Matt Farina on Helm Charts
26 Apr 2022
Matt Butcher and Matt Farina, authors of the book Learning Helm join SE Radio host Robert Blumen to discuss Helm, the package manager for kubernetes. Beginning with a review of kubernetes and Helm,
Episode 508: Jérôme Laban on Cross Platform UI
19 Apr 2022
Jérôme Laban, CTO of Uno Platform, joined host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about Cross-platform User Interfaces. The conversation addressed the unique challenges and possibilities related to
Episode 507: Kevin Hu on Data Observability
13 Apr 2022
Kevin Hu, co-founder and CEO at Metaplane discusses "Data Observability" with host Priyanka Raghavan. The discussion touches upon Data observability roots, components, differences with software
Episode 506: Rob Hirschfeld on Bare Metal Infrastructure
6 Apr 2022
Rob Hirschfeld CEO of RackN discusses Bare Metal as a Service. Host Brijesh Ammanath spoke with Hirschfeld about all things bare metal. Hirschfeld starts with the basics before doing a deep dive into
Episode 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL
29 Mar 2022
Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of cURL and libcurl, and winner of the Polhem Prize, discusses the history of the project, key events in the project timeline, war stories, favorite
Episode 504: Frank McSherry on Materialize
22 Mar 2022
Frank McSherry, Chief Scientist at Materialize talks to Host Akshay Manchale about Materialize which is a SQL database that maintains incremental views over streaming data. Frank talks about how
Episode 503: Diarmuid McDonnell on Web Scraping
16 Mar 2022
Diarmuid McDonnell , a Lecturer in Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland talks with host Kanchan Shringi about his experience as a social scientist on the need for computational
Episode 502: Omer Katz on Distributed Task Queues Using Celery
11 Mar 2022
Omer Katz, a software consultant and core contributor to the Celery discusses the Celery task processing framework with host Nikhil Krishna. We discuss in depth, the Celery task processing framework,
Episode 501: Bob Ducharme on Creating Technical Documentation for Software Projects
1 Mar 2022
Nikhil Krishna speaks to Bob DuCharme an experienced technical writer and author about how to write and maintain technical documentation for software products. In the episode different mediums to
Episode 500: Sergey Gorbunov on Blockchain Interoperability
23 Feb 2022
Sergey Gorbunov of Axelar discusses blockchain interoperability, a technology that enables decentralized applications to work across multiple blockchain ecosystems. Host Philip Winston spoke with
Episode 499: Uma Chingunde on Building a PaaS
15 Feb 2022
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
Episode 498: James Socol on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD)
9 Feb 2022
James Socol of Policygenius discusses continuous integration and continuous delivery, ways to test and deploy software quickly and easily. SE Radio host Felienne spoke with Socol about why CI and CD
Episode 497: Richard L. Sites on Understanding Software Dynamics
1 Feb 2022
Richard L. Sites discusses his new book Understanding Software Dynamics, which offers expert methods and advanced tools for understanding complex, time-constrained software dynamics in order to
Episode 496: Bruce Momjian on Multi-Version Concurrency Control in Postgres (MVCC)
25 Jan 2022
This week, Postgres server developer Bruce Momjian joins host Robert Blumen for a discussion of multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) in the Postgres database. They begin with a discussion of the
Episode 495: Vaughn Vernon on Strategic Monoliths and Microservices
19 Jan 2022
Vaughn Vernon, author of the book “Strategic Monoliths and Microservices” discusses his book with host Akshay Manchale about strategies for purposeful architecture from the perspective of both
Episode 494: Robert Seacord on Avoiding Defects in C Programming
12 Jan 2022
Robert Seacord, author of Effective C, The CERT C Coding Standard and Secure Coding in C and C++, discusses why the C programming language can be insecure, the top 5 security issues and the tools and
Episode 493: Ram Sriharsha on Vectors in Machine Learning
4 Jan 2022
Ram Sriharsha of Pinecone discusses the role of vectors in machine learning, a technique that lies at the heart of many of the machine learning applications we use every day. Host Philip Winston
Episode 492: Sam Scott on Building a Consistent and Global Authorization Service
28 Dec 2021
Sam Scott, CTO of Oso discusses how to build a global authorization service and challenges with host Priyanka.
