ESLint is a static code analysis tool for identifying and fixing problems in JavaScript code. It helps developers maintain code quality and consistency by enforcing coding standards and detecting issues such as syntax errors, stylistic problems, and bugs. Nicholas Zakas is the creator of ESLint. He joins the show to talk about working at Yahoo

The Humane pin is a multi-modal wearable device designed by Humane Inc., a startup co-founded by former Apple employees Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno. This wearable is part of a broader vision to create more seamless and integrated interactions between humans and technology, moving away from traditional screens. George Kedenburg III is a Software Designer

Online transaction processing, or OLTP, is designed for managing high volumes of short, fast, and concurrent transactions, such as data entry and retrieval operations. OLTP systems solve the problem of efficiently handling numerous simultaneous transactions, making them essential for sectors like banking and retail. Joran Greef is the Founder and CEO of TigerBeetle, which is

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Since its first major release in 2004, it has stood out on the browser landscape for its emphasis on privacy, security, and customization. Brian Grinstead is a Senior Principal Engineer at Mozilla. He joins the podcast with Kevin Ball to talk about the

Google needs no introduction, and is renowned for its data and analytics capabilities. 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

DevOps is a powerful model for managing the building and operational aspects of modern applications. Most developers are now familiar with DevOps, and the adoption of DevOps practices is widespread and growing. Adam Jacob was the original author of Chef, a popular early DevOps tool. He’s now the CEO of System Initiative, which develops an

React is an open-source front-end JavaScript library maintained by Meta. It was first released in 2013 and is now the most popular web framework. 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

Feature flagging tools have grown in popularity as a way to decouple releases and deployment, but they can introduce their own long-term problems and tech debt. 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

Harold Halibut is a 2024 narrative adventure video game developed by German developer Slow Bros. 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

Stack Overflow is a legendary question-and-answer site for programmers, and is likely well known to most SEDaily listeners. 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

The Google Sheets calculation engine was originally written in Java and launched in 2006. In the early days of the product, all calculation happened on the server. However, starting in 2013 the engine has run in the browser using JavaScript. Google Sheets is now one of the first products at Google to use WebAssembly Garbage

Large datasets require large computational resources to process that data. More frequently, where you process that data geographically can be just as important as how you process it. 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

Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer who is involved in the development of the JavaScript language. He specified the JSON data format, and has developed various JavaScript related tools such as the static code analyzer JSLint. Crockford is also a game developer and worked at Atari. Douglas joins the podcast to talk about his

Damien Filiatrault is the founder and CEO of Scalable Path, a software staffing agency that matches companies and startups with vetted, remote software developers. The company was founded in 2010, and since then has worked on hundreds of client projects and has built a freelance network with 35,000 remote developers in 177 countries. Damien joins

Tanzu GemFire is a distributed, in-memory, key-value store that performs read and write operations at fast speeds. It offers highly available parallel message queues, continuous availability, and a scalable event-driven architecture. It was developed to have sub-millisecond response times and accordingly found early application in automated trading environments on Wall Street. Ivan Novick is the

In 2022, Stefan Li and Stew Fortier envisioned a document editor with language model features built in. They founded Type.ai, received backing from Y Combinator, and have since been at the frontier of building a next-generation document editor. However, to ensure a robust and performant frontend, Type.ai needed to take advantage of many modern browser

A major challenge in applied AI is out-of-distribution detection, or OOD, which is the task of detecting instances that do not belong to the distribution the classifier has been trained on. OOD data is often referred to as “unseen” data, as the model has not encountered it during training. Bayan Bruss is the VP of

DuckDB is an open-source column-oriented relational database that was first released in 2019. It’s designed to provide high performance on complex queries against large databases, and focuses on online analytical processing workloads. 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

Rerun is an open source SDK and viewer for visualizing and interacting with multimodal data streams. The SDK lets you send data from anywhere, and the viewer collects the data and aligns it so the user can scroll back and forth in time to interpret it. The tools have been applied in spatial computing, augmented

Chroma is an open-source AI application database. 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.

In 79 AD, in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, twenty meters of hot mud and ash buried an enormous villa once owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. Inside, there was a vast library of papyrus scrolls. The scrolls were carbonized by the heat of the volcanic debris, but they were trapped underground where

Traditionally, security checks and testing are performed towards the end of the software development lifecycle. However, discovering vulnerabilities at that stage can be costly and time-consuming. 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

Uber handles billions of trips and deliveries, and tens of billions of financial transactions across drivers, couriers, users, and merchants every quarter. 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.

One of the fastest areas of growth in observability is frontend observability, or real user monitoring. This is the practice of monitoring and analyzing the performance, behavior, and user experience of web applications from the user’s perspective. Purvi Kanal is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb. She joins the podcast to talk about the evolution

Inworld is a company that provides tools for game studios to add AI-driven gameplay. They are at the leading edge of using generative AI in game development, and have worked with companies such as Xbox, Ubisoft, and NVIDIA. Igor Poletaev is the VP of AI and Nathan Yu is the Director of Product and GM