Jonathan Ellis is the Co-founder of DataStax. He maintains a technical role at the company and has recently worked on developing their vector search product. Jonathan joins the show to talk about his passion for being in a technical role, where AI fits into the DataStax platform, developing vector search, and he also reflects on his gradual adoption of AI into his workflows, and where he thinks AI development is headed in the coming years.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Datastax.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

Authlete is a service that provides a set of APIs to implement OAuth Authorization Servers and OpenID Connect identity providers, allowing either to be easily made FAPI-compliant.

Joseph Heenan is the CTO at Authlete, and he also leads the certification program at the OpenID foundation. He joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to talk about the origins of FAPI, the motivations for its creation, the status of FAPI development, and more.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Authlete.

Software Engineering Daily listeners can get a free 90 day trial of Authlete at https://authlete.com/sed

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

The emulator just hit a major milestone with the release of PCSX2 version 2.0. The release brings many changes including a Qt-based interface, big picture mode, auto-selection of graphics APIs, and native support for MacOS.

TellowKrinkle is a developer for PCSX2 who ported the emulator to MacOS, among other contributions. In addition to his work on PS2 emulation he has also worked on Dolphin, which emulates the Nintendo GameCube and Wii. Tellow joins the podcast with Joe Nash to talk about how he got started in emulation, the PS2 architecture, the challenges of rendering PS2 games on modern GPUs, and more.

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TSMC’s dominance in chip production has made Taiwan a critical player in the global tech supply chain, drawing attention from major economies like the U.S. and China. This has escalated geopolitical tensions, with concerns over the stability of Taiwan and the potential risks to global tech industries if chip production were disrupted due to regional conflicts.

Tim Culpan is an independent technology journalist and author of the forthcoming book “The World’s Smallest Superpower — inside the rise of TSMC, Foxconn and a nation of Taiwan technology titans.”

He’s based in Taipei and has been covering the semiconductor and electronics hardware industry for 25 years, including 18 years as a journalist and Columnist at Bloomberg. Most recently his work can be found at timculpan.substack.com.

Tim has written extensively about TSMC, and recently broke news on the developments at TSMC’s Arizona factory. He joins us today to discuss what’s happening at TSMC and what that means for the US, Taiwan and China’s chip industries.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

The game was released in 2020 and has been hailed as a manufacturing masterpiece. Factorio’s Space Age expansion just released so we took the opportunity to speak with Michal Kovařík, also known as kovarex, who is the Founder and Director of Wube Software which developed Factorio. Michal joins the show with Joe Nash to talk about the origins of the game, the new expansion, and everything in between.

Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

Shruti Kapoor is a Lead Member of the Technical Staff at Slack. She’s worked on features including Huddles, the recent redesign of Slack, and currently works on accessibility. She joins the podcast to talk about her path into frontend engineering, the frontend tech stack at Slack, the developer tooling, how Slack evaluates new technologies, and more.

Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript. Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development.

 

Matthew Malchano is Boston Dynamics‘ Vice President of Software. For more than 20 years, Matt has been a technical contributor and leader on robotics projects such as Spot, BigDog, LS3, and SandFlea. He has led efforts in areas including software, product, and robotics autonomy, perception, and control. Matt joins the podcast with Sean Falconer to talk about his wide-ranging work at Boston Dynamics.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

TypeScript ESLint enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code.

Josh Goldberg is a host for Software Engineering Daily, the author of Learning TypeScript by O’Reilly, and a Microsoft MVP. He’s also a maintainer of TypeScript ESLint. In this episode, Josh speaks with Paweł Borkowski about the history of TypeScript, why it was created, some of its current limitations, the TypeScript ESLint project, and more.

Please click here to see the transcript of this episode.

Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

Sleuth is designed to be an operating system for engineering, and help teams achieve more predictable delivery and align with business needs.

Dylan Etkin is the Founder and CEO of Sleuth. Dylan is an Atlassian alum who has spent the last 15 years building dev tools with Jira, Bitbucket, and Statuspage. He joins the podcast to talk about the challenges faced by modern engineering teams and innovative strategies to overcome them.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Sleuth.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

 

Łukasz Langa is the CPython Developer in Residence at the Python Software Foundation. He joins the show with Sean Falconer to talk about maintaining Python, the evolution of the language, Python optimization, the most impactful changes in Python 3.13, and more.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

Please click here to see the transcript of this episode.

 

Michael Crenshaw and Zach Aller are both lead maintainers for Argo. They join the show with Lee Atchison to talk about the origins of the project, what problems Argo solves, the four core tools in Argo, and more.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

We wanted to explore these two languages side-by-side, so we invited Herb Sutter and Steve Klabnik to join host Kevin Ball on the show. Herb works at Microsoft and chairs the ISO C++ standards committee. Steve works at Oxide Computer Company, is an alumnus of the Rust Core Team, and is the primary author of The Rust Programming Language book.

We hope you enjoy this deep dive into Rust and C++ on Software Engineering Daily.

Kevin Ball or KBall, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and engineering leaders. He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San Diego JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through Latent Space.

Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

Profluent Bio is an AI-first protein design company that recently developed OpenCRISPR-1, which is an AI-generated, CRISPR-like protein that does not occur in nature. Importantly, the company also released the protein and nucleic acid sequences for OpenCRISPR-1.

Aadyot Bhatnagar is an ML Scientist at Profluent Bio and previously worked at Salesforce. He joins the podcast with Sean Falconer to talk about OpenCRISPR-1 and how it was made.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

Matthew Drooker is the Chief Technology Officer at SoundCloud. He previously worked at Turner and has deep experience as a technologist and leader in the media industry. Matthew joins the show with Jordi Mon Companys to talk about his background, the evolution of the SoundCloud platform, its current tech stack, and much more.

Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

Matt Bessey is a Principal Engineer and Software Architect. Earlier this year Matt wrote a blog post titled “Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL”. The post put words to many users’ frustrations with the technology, and it went viral on Hacker News.

Matt joins the show today to talk about GraphQL, the problems it solves, its security vulnerabilities, and why it might not be a good fit for backend engineering today.

You can find a link to Matt’s blog posts here.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

The project is fundamentally important given the popularity of Apple Silicon Macs, and it’s also a heroic effort because Apple Silicon is an entirely undocumented platform.

Alyssa Rosenzweig is a well-known computer scientist who describes herself as a graphics developer passionate about software freedom. She is currently a contractor at Valve where she develops open source software to improve Linux gaming. Alyssa is also a contributor to Asahi Linux and works on reverse-engineering the Apple M1 GPU, among other contributions to the project. Alyssa joins the podcast to talk about reverse engineering hardware, Asahi Linux, new advances in gaming on Asahi, and more.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

Julianna Lamb is the Co-Founder and CTO of Stytch which is building an all-in-one platform for identity and access management. She joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to talk about the platform.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

Jack Gibson is a Managing Director and Head of Payments Engineering, Architecture and APIs at J. P. Morgan Payments. He joins the podcast with Sean Falconer to explore the design and engineering behind the company’s payments API offering.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

Ben Flast is the Director of Product Management at MongoDB. He joins the show to talk about the company’s developments with vector search.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

This year, they released N64: Recompiled, which is a tool to statically recompile N64 binaries into C code that can be compiled for any platform. The advance promises to usher in a revolution in N64 native ports for PC. To demonstrate the tool’s capability, it was used to produce a working copy of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask on PC.

Darío and Wiseguy join the podcast to talk about their journeys into the N64 hacking scene, the N64: Recompiled project, obscure N64 game bugs, and more.

Please click here to see the transcript of this episode.

Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

Erin Yepis is a Senior Analyst and Ryan Polk is the Chief Product Officer at Stack Overflow. They join the show with Sean Falconer to talk about the results of the 2024 Developer Survey, which just released this summer.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

Chainguard was founded in 2021 and offers tools and secure container images to improve the security of the software supply chain.

Matt Moore is the Founder and CTO of Chainguard. He started his career in compiler optimization at Microsoft and worked at Google before starting Chainguard. He joins the show with Gregor Vand to talk about container security.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

Matt Toon is a Solutions Engineering Manager for the Google Maps Platform. He joins the podcast with Josh Goldberg to talk about his background working with geospatial data, the development of Google Maps Platform, bringing 3D Maps to the JavaScript API, and much more.

Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript. Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development.

Maxime Armstrong and Yuhan Luo are Software Engineers at Dagster, which is an open source platform for orchestrating data and AI pipelines. They join the show with Sean Falconer to talk about running cost-effective AI pipelines.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

 

Jim Lebonitte is a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Capital One leading technical architecture and strategy for enterprise data platforms. He has over 15 years of experience building platforms focused on data and software delivery experiences. Jim joins the podcast to talk about how to empower data users at scale while keeping data well-governed, building data pipelines and applications, and much more.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Capital One.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

Nicholas Zakas is the creator of ESLint. He joins the show to talk about working at Yahoo in the early days of the web, learning from JSLint, creating ESLint, separation of parsing and rules, and more.

Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript. Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development.

 

George Kedenburg III is a Software Designer at Humane, and Josh Dickens is a Software and Product Designer at Humane. They join the podcast with Sean Falconer to talk about Humane and the technology the company is developing.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

 

Joran Greef is the Founder and CEO of TigerBeetle, which is developing an open-source financial transactions database focused on mission critical safety and performance. He joins the podcast to talk about the TigerBeetle’s technology and problems it solves.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

 

 

 

Brian Grinstead is a Senior Principal Engineer at Mozilla. He joins the podcast with Kevin Ball to talk about the Firefox architecture, the recent UI refactor, web performance, the role of Rust in the browser, and more.

 

Gerrit Kazmaier is the VP and GM for Database, Data Analytics and Looker at Google. He has a long history in the space, and in this episode he speaks with Sean Falconer about data and analytics in the AI era.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

Adam Jacob was the original author of Chef, a popular early DevOps tool. He’s now the CEO of System Initiative, which develops an open-source collaborative tool designed to remove the many pain points from DevOps work.

Adam joins the show to talk about the history of DevOps, current strategies in DevOps, System Initiative’s collaborative platform, and more.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

Ilya Gurevich is a Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times. Last winter, his team set out to implement React 18 for The Times’ flagship core news site. Ilya recently wrote a viral blog post about this decision, and how the team tackled some of the engineering challenges along the way.

Today he joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to talk about adopting React 18 to enhance the performance of the The New York Times website.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

Lekko is a startup democratizing the practice of dynamic configuration. Their motivating idea is to empower engineers to focus on software releases, and business teams and other stakeholders to shape deployment.

Konrad Niemiec is the Founder and CEO at Lekko. He previously worked at Uber where an internal tool called Flipr enabled dynamic configuration management, and which today serves as a key design inspiration for Lekko. Konrad joins the show with Sean Falconer to talk about his company and the technology they’re developing.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by 10K Media.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

The game has a distinct look owing to its use of stop motion animation with 3D scans of physical sets and puppets.

Onat Hekimoglu worked on Harold Halibut as the Director, Game Designer, Composer, and Person of Many Hats. He joins the podcast with Joe Nash to share the story and technical details of how he and his team developed their unique game.

Please click here to see the transcript of this episode.

Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

Svelte is an open-source front-end framework that was released in 2016 and continues to grow rapidly in popularity.

Giamir Buoncristiani is a Staff Software Engineer at Stack Overflow. He is also the tech lead for the Stacks design system. Giamir joins the podcast to talk about modernizing Stack Overflow’s front-end user interface and why the team has embraced Svelte.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

 

Google Sheets is now one of the first products at Google to use WebAssembly Garbage Collection, or WasmGC, on Chrome.

Michael Thomas is the Multiplatform Lead for Google Workspace and Thomas Steiner is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google. They join the podcast to tell the story of why and how Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

Expanso provides job execution infrastructure that runs jobs where data resides, to help reduce latency and improve security and data governance.

David Aronchick is the CEO of Expanso. He previously worked at Google on the Kubernetes team, which influenced his decision to start Expanso. David joins the show to talk about his company.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

Douglas joins the podcast to talk about his career and work in computer science.

Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript. Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

Ivan Novick is the Product Manager for GemFire at the Tanzu Division of Broadcom. He joins the show to talk about Tanzu GemFire and its applications.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by VMware.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

Stefan Li is the CTO of Type.ai, and he joins the show to talk about the state of frontend dev, the service worker API, IndexedDB, the SharedWorker interface, Web Locks, and more.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

Bayan Bruss is the VP of AI Foundations at Capital One and in this role he works with academic researchers to translate the latest research to address fundamental problems in financial services. Bayan joins the show with Sean Falconer to talk about OOD, the importance of bringing AI research to real world applications, and more.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Capital One

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

Hannes Mühleisen is the Co-Creator of DuckBD, and is the CEO and Co-Founder of DuckDB Labs. He joins the show to talk about drawing inspiration from SQLite, why DuckDB was written in C++, the novel data processing scenarios it enables, and more.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

Emil Ernerfeldt is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rerun. Emil is also the creator of egui which is a popular GUI library written in Rust. He joins the podcast to talk about his history in game development, building super fast tools, and developing Rerun.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

Anton Troynikov is a Founder at Chroma. He has a background in computer vision and previously worked at Meta. In this episode Anton speaks with Sean Falconer about Chroma, and the goal of building the memory and storage subsystem for the new computing primitive that AI models represent.

The scrolls were carbonized by the heat of the volcanic debris, but they were trapped underground where they remained preserved.

It wasn’t until the 1750s that the scrolls were discovered, but they were fragile and resistant to being opened and read.

Then, in 2015, researchers used X-ray tomography and computer vision to virtually unwrap the scrolls.

Last year, the Vesuvius Challenge was launched by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Brent Seales to crowdsource the process of reconstructing the text from the scrolls.

Juli Schilliger and Youssef Nader are two members from the winning team. They join the show to talk about the computational approaches they used to reconstruct the scroll text.

For interested listeners, the 2024 Vesuvius Challenge is now live, with new challenges and prizes. Check out ScrollPrize.org to learn more.

Please click here to see the transcript of this episode.

Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

This observation has led to the shift-left movement, which advocates for implementing security testing earlier in the software development process.

HoundDog AI is a startup focused on software to enable shift-left security practices. Amjad Afanah and Sudipta Mukherjee are Co-Founders of HoundDog, and they join the show to talk about their company.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

LedgerStore is an immutable storage solution at Uber that provides verifiable data completeness and correctness guarantees to ensure data integrity for its transactions.

Kaushik Devarajaiah is the Tech Lead for LedgerStore at Uber. He joins the show to talk about scaling Uber’s data and storage infrastructure.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

Purvi Kanal is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb. She joins the podcast to talk about the evolution and status of real user monitoring.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

Igor Poletaev is the VP of AI and Nathan Yu is the Director of Product and GM of Labs at Inward. They join the show to talk about using AI in game development.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

Abbas Sabra is a Principal Engineer at Sonar, which creates tools to help developers produce clean code. Abbas specializes in C++ static analysis, and began his career in the financial industry, where he identified inefficiencies within the C++ tooling ecosystem. He joins the show to talk about static analysis and static analysis tool development.

Tom Biegala is a co-founder of Bison Ventures. Prior to starting Bison Ventures, Tom worked at Cascade Asset Management Company, the investment office that manages the assets of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and Gates family. He joins the show to talk about why he started Bison, the climate tech startup landscape, and much more.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

Karan Ganesan is a Software Engineer and Barkley Dai is the Product and Growth Lead at Luma AI. They join the show to talk about the origin of the company and the technologies it uses.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

 

Brian Sam-Bodden is a Senior Applied AI Engineer at Redis. He joins the show to talk about his work and AI at the company.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

David joins the podcast to talk about his work, how to capture an appealing retro game feel, why he makes short games, developing in Unity, looking beyond Unity, and more.

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Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com

Christian Hubicki is a renowned robotics research scientist and an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Florida State University. In 2023, he was a guest on Software Engineering Daily, where he discussed ChatGPT and its implications with Sean Falconer. Christian now joins Sean again to check in about the state of AI and its future directions.

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Sam Lambert is the CEO of PlanetScale and he joins the show to talk about why he started the platform, scaling databases, using Vitess for SQL shard orchestration, and more.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

GV, or Google Ventures, is an independent venture capital firm backed by Alphabet.

Erik Nordlander is a General Partner at GV and invests across enterprise software and frontier technology, focusing on developer tools, cloud infrastructure and machine learning. He has backed companies like Cockroach, Warp and Neo4j. Prior to joining GV in 2010 and opening up the firm’s New York City office, Erik was at Google and led development of the company’s next-gen display and serving system, and built statistical and machine learning models for Google’s ad businesses.

Erik joins the podcast to talk about his work.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

Lauren Long is a co-founder at Ampersand which is a developer platform for SaaS integrations. She joins the show to talk about smoothing out API connectivity to make SaaS interoperable.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer.

 

 

Hydrogen is Shopify’s open-source headless framework for building custom storefronts. It’s React-based and is focused on performance and flexible UI components.

Ben Sehl is a Senior Product Lead at Shopify where he works on Hydrogen and the storefront developer experience. He joins the show to talk about his engineering background, the motivation for creating Hydrogen, Hydrogen versus the Liquid templating language, and much more.

Be sure to check out the 2024 Shopify Editions Dev Newsroom and Brochure.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Shopify

Noel Berry is a programmer at Extremely OK Games and he joins the show to talk about developing Celeste and Earthblade, gameplay engineering, the state of C# versus C++ for game development, and more.

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Ed Anuff is the Chief Product Officer at DataStax. He joins the show to talk about making Apache Cassandra accessible, adding vector support at DataStax, envisioning the future application stack for AI, and more.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by DataStax

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .

 

Marco Palladino is the CTO of Kong, and he joins the podcast to talk about the platform and APIs as the building blocks of the digital world.

Matt Bishop is the Principal Architect at Bitwarden. He joins the show to talk about the platform and his work there.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

Zoe Bachman is the Senior Curriculum Director at Codecademy and designs courses for the platform. She joins the podcast to talk about her work there.

Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript. Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development.

Greg Osuri is the CEO for OverClock Labs which created Akash Network. He joins the show to talk about Akash.

Charlie joins the podcast to talk about open source development, Ruff, the UV package installer, and much more.

Gabriel joins the show to talk about his history with game development, client-server game architecture, rubber-banding, raytracing, rasterizers, and much more.

Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal. Joe got his start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Garry’s Mod, and game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts.

The report cites this class of vulnerability as a common theme in the some of the most infamous cyber events, such as the Morris worm of 1988, the Heartbleed vulnerability in 2014, and the Blastpass exploit of 2023.

Herb Sutter works at Microsoft and chairs the ISO C++ standards committee. He joins the show to talk about C++ safety.

Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that specializes in software delivery, developer experience, cloud native and open source. He has developed his career at companies like GitLab, Weaveworks, Harness and other platform and devtool providers. His interests range from software supply chain security to open source innovation. You can reach out to him on Twitter at @jordimonpmm.

Abhi Mathur is the VP of Platform Engineering at Figma. He joins the show today to talk about his path to Figma, architecture, scaling, team organization, and more.

Unstructured is focused on extracting and transforming complex data to prepare it for vector databases and LLM frameworks.

Crag Wolfe is Head of Engineering and Matt Robinson is Head of Product at Unstructured. They join the podcast to talk about data cleaning in the LLM age.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .

 

In response, CIQ, Oracle and SUSE formed the Open Enterprise Linux Association, or OpenELA, which aims to provide a consistent and secure upstream location for Enterprise Linux distribution sources.

Wim Coekaerts is Executive Vice President of Software Development at Oracle, and he joins the podcast to explain the recent changes in the Linux enterprise space, and discuss the  OpenELA and its importance to the Linux ecosystem.

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Ryan Ofman is a Lead Engineer and Head of Science Communication at DeepMedia, which is a platform for AI-powered deepfake detection. He joins the show to talk about the state of deepfakes, their origin, and how to detect them.

Ethan Roseman and Mark Street are both software engineers with experience in the decompilation scene. In addition to their work on specific games, they’re active in creating open-source tooling for the decompilation community, including Splat which is a binary splitting tool, and Decomp.me which is a collaborative decompilation and reverse engineering site.

Ethan and Mark join the podcast to talk about N64 game decompilation, surprising discoveries in the game code, tool development, and much more. Be sure to check out the Decomp.me Discord to learn more.

Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal. Joe got his start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Garry’s Mod, and game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts.

 

Rachel Andrew is a Staff Technical Writer on the Google Chrome Team. Before that she worked for Mozilla and was also the Editor in Chief at Smashing Magazine. She is a member of the CSS Working Group, the Web Standards Project, and Open Web Docs. Rachel is our guest today.

Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript. Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development.

Maxime Lamothe-Brassard is a Co-Founder of LimaCharlie which is a cloud SecOps platform. He has a background in security and has previously worked at the Canadian Intelligence service, Crowdstrike, Google, and Google X. He joins the podcast to talk about modern security operations.

Justin Harris is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft and has an extensive background in classical machine learning and neural networks, including large language models. He joins the show to talk about Microsoft Copilot, natural language processing, ML team organization, and more.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .

 

Matt Ober is the Co-Founder & CTO of Pinata. He joins the show to talk about IPFS and Pinata.

Billy joins the show to talk about creating Animal Well’s engine from scratch, how the game handles animation, fine-tuning character movement, and more.

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Sarah Nagy is the Co-founder and CEO at Seek which is using natural language processing to change how teams work with data. She joins the podcast to talk about the platform and providing a natural language interface to databases.

Footprint is a developer platform that was co-founded by Alex Grinman for handling identity, security, fraud, and authentication.

Alex joins the show to talk about identity verification, security, compliance, Footprint’s frontend and backend design, and much more.

Anthony Fu is a Framework Developer on the Nuxt team. He joins the show to talk about Vue, Nuxt, open source development, and more.

Argmax is a startup focused on developing methods to run large models on commodity hardware. A key observation behind their strategy is that the largest models are getting larger, but the smallest models that are commercially relevant are getting smaller. The company was started in 2023 and has raised money from General Catalyst and other industry leaders.

Atila Orhon is the founder of Argmax and he previously worked at Apple and NVIDIA. He joins the show to talk about working in computer vision, building ML tooling at Apple, optimizing ML models, and more.

Rob Futrick is the CTO at Anaconda, and he joins the show to talk about the platform, the concept of an OS for AI, and more.

This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.

Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business, an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm. Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com, and see all his content at leeatchison.com.

James Moore is a DevOps Engineer and Dave Hayden is an Engineer at Panic. They join the show to talk about developing the Playdate handheld.

Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal. Joe got his start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Garry’s Mod, and game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts.

Nihit Desai is the Co-founder and CTO at Refuel.ai. The company is using LLMs for tasks such as data labeling, cleaning, and enrichment. He joins the show to talk about the platform, and how to manage data in the current AI era.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .

 

 

Avi Freedman is the CEO of Kentik and he joins the podcast to talk about the platform, his observability philosophy, the role of AI in observability, and much more.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by 10K Media (Kentik).

Ryan Carniato is the creator of SolidJS, and he joins the show to talk about the framework.

Taylor Nodell is a software engineer specializing in front end web technologies. He’s particularly passionate about accessibility and how the internet is changing our relationships to each other. He spends his weekends hiking in the Australian wilderness and making heavy metal.

Sammy recently published a blog called “How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale”. The blog went viral and made it to the top of Hacker News. We invited Sammy on the podcast to learn more, and she is our guest today.

Ian Williams is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Cruise, and before that worked at Google, Lyft, and eBay. He joins the show to talk about the diverse engineering challenges and strategies associated with building self-driving cars.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

He has over 20 years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being CEO of Kespry.

George joins the podcast to talk about his path to becoming an investor, his data-first thesis about investment, the AI business landscape, his book recommendations, and more.

Starting her career as a software developer, Jocelyn Houle is now a Senior Director of Product Management at Securiti.ai, a unified data protection and governance platform. Before that, she was an Operating Partner at Capital One Ventures investing in data and AI startups. Jocelyn has been a founder of two startups and a full life cycle, technical product manager at large companies like Fannie Mae, Microsoft and Capital One. Follow Jocelyn on LinkedIn or Twitter @jocelynbyrne.

Hookdeck is an event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages. It centralizes and streamlines communication between services, like a 3rd party API such as Shopify or Stripe, and internal endpoints or other APIs.

Alex Bouchard is the Co-founder of Hookdeck. He joins the podcast to talk about event-driven architecture, building event bridges, expanding Hookdeck beyond webhooks, and much more.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Hookdeck.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .

 

OpenID Connect is an identity layer on top of OAuth. Even if you haven’t programmed using OAuth and OpenID Connect, you’ve certainly used them for authentication on Google, Facebook, Spotify, and countless other services.

Authlete is a service that provides a set of APIs to implement OAuth authorization servers, and OpenID Connect identity providers.

Justin Richer is the Principal Architect at Authlete and is part of the working group that developed OAuth 2.0. He joins the podcast to talk about the history of OAuth, OAuth as a delegation protocol, the Authlete API, and much more.

Check out https://events.authlete.com/sed to try out Authlete for an extended 90-day free trial.

Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Authlete.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.

 

 

Jay Phelps is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix where he works on Shared Client Foundations. He joins the show to talk about the start of his career, his work at Netflix, and much more.

Dan Myers works in Developer Relations at Snowflake and he joins the show to talk about the future of application development, and building native data apps on the platform.

Kaze joins the show to talk about his interest in Super Mario 64, ROM hacking, the N64 architecture, coding in assembly, and more. Be sure to check out Kaze’s YouTube channel to see his work, including breakdowns of how he accomplished his optimizations.

Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal. Joe got his start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Garry’s Mod, and game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts.

One approach to solving this problem is to build a layer on top of the heterogenous data sources. This layer can serve as an interface for the data and provide governance and access control.

Cube is a semantic layer between the data source and data applications. Artyom Keydunov is the founder of Cube and he joins the show to talk about the approach Cube is taking.