Podcast: Software Engineering Radio

Episode 185: Dwight Merriman on Replication

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:42:28 +0200

Recording Venue: MongoSF, San Francisco Guest: Dwight Merriman As application data size and throughput have outgrown the processing and storage needs of commodity servers, replication has become an increasingly important strategy. In this episode, Robert talks with Dwight Merriman about database replication. Topics covered include replication basics, master-slave versus master-master, failure and recovery, replication versus [...]

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Episode 184: The Mainframe with Jeff Frey

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:07:45 +0100

Recording Venue: Phone Guest: Jeff Frey System z, or the Mainframe, holds most of us in awe — the ultimate computing platform, referenced in Hollywood as well as by those who thought they were dealing with “legacy” systems — but what does Mainframe really mean? What does its stack look like? This leading virtualized infrastructure [...]

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SE Radio becomes part of IEEE Software

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:38:49 +0100

SE Radio will continue producing podcasts under the wings of IEEE Software, a respected magazine published by the IEEE Computer Society.

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Episode 182: Domain-Specific Languages with Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:43:44 +0100

In this episode, Markus talk with Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons about domain-specific languages.

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Episode 181: Distributed Scrum with Rini van Solingen

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:59:45 +0100

In this episode we talk with Rini van Solingen about scrum and agile software development in distributed settings.

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Episode 180: Leading Agile Developers with Jurgen Appelo

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:12:16 +0200

In this episode Michael interviews Jurgen Appelo on the topic of leading agile developers.

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Episode 179: Cassandra with Jonathan Ellis

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:54:33 +0200

Cassandra is a distributed, scalable non-relational data store influenced by the Google BigTable project and many of the distributed systems techniques pioneered by the Amazon Dynamo paper.

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Episode 178: Akka With Jonas Boner

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:25:26 +0200

This episode is a conversation with Jonas Boner about Akka.

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Episode 177: IBM i (OS-400) Operating System with Steve Will

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:02:03 +0200

Recording Venue: Phone Guest: Steve Will IBM i (formerly known as OS/400) is an advanced object-based operating system by IBM that runs thousands of businesses around the world. Steve Will, the Chief Architect of IBM i speaks with us about the history, technical features, and underlying architecture discussing the concepts of Single Level Store, integrated databases, ...

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Episode 176: Quantum Computing with Martin Laforest

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:43:42 +0200

We talk with Martin Laforest about topics ranging from how quantum computing works, which different models of quantum computing are explored, current and future uses of the approach as well as the current state of the art.

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Episode 175: Game Development with Andrew Brownsword

Fri, 06 May 2011 06:23:33 +0200

We discuss characteristics and performance properties of modern games and outline the challenges for software development.

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Episode 174: Chip Manufacturing and Waferscanners

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:30:21 +0200

Guest: Wilbert Albers Host: Markus In this episode we take a look at microchip production, with a special focus on waferscanners. To do this, we talked with Wilbert Albers of ASML, the leading waferscanner manufacturer in the world. In the episode, we talk about the overall chip production process (from silicon sand over wafer cutting to ...

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Episode 173: Feature-Oriented Software Development with Sven Apel – Pt 2

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:17:48 +0100

Recording Venue: University of Passau Guest: Sven Apel Host: Stefan In this second episode on Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD), Sven Apel gives us an overview of programming language and tool support for FOSD. He introduces the Eclipse-based FeatureIDE which covers important phases of the FOSD process, namely domain implementation as well as configuration and generation. The Eclipse plugin ...

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Episode 172: Feature-Oriented Software Development with Sven Apel – Pt 1

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:43:56 +0100

Sven Apel explains why developing software in a feature-oriented manner is so vital for us as software engineers and why objects are simply not enough.

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Episode 171: Scala Update with Martin Odersky

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:48:22 +0100

This episode is an update on the developments around the Scala language.

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Episode 170: Large Agile Software Development with Bas Vodde

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:58:06 +0100

In this episode Michael talks with Bas Vodde about how to apply agile principles to large and distributed development organizations.

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Episode 169: Memory Grid Architecture with Nati Shalom

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:00:21 +0100

In this episode, Robert talks with Nati Shalom about the emergence of large-system architectures consisting of a grid of high-memory nodes.

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Episode 168: Being a Consultant

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:37:49 +0200

This episode is about being a consultant in the software business.

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Episode 167: The History of JUnit and the Future of Testing with Kent Beck

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:41:04 +0200

In this episode we talk with Kent Beck about automated unit testing and JUnit.

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Episode 166: Living Architectures with John Wiegand

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:37:29 +0200

This time we have John Wiegand on the mic for an episode on architectures and agile software development. We talk about the role of architectures in an agile world and why architectures change and need to change over time. We discuss the characteristics of those living architectures, using the Eclipse and the Jazz projects ...

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Episode 165: NoSQL and MongoDB with Dwight Merriman

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:54:35 +0200

Dwight Merriman talks with Robert about the emerging NoSQL movement, the three types of non-relational data stores, Brewer's CAP theorem, the weaker consistency guarantees that can be made in a distributed database, document-oriented data stores, the data storage needs of modern web applications, and the open source MongoDB.

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Episode 164: Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:53:06 +0200

This episode covers the topic of agile testing. Michael interviews Lisa Crispin as an practionier and book author on agile testing. We cover several topics ranging from the role of the tester in agile teams, over test automation strategy and regression testing, to continuous integration.

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Episode 163: State of the Union

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:37:17 +0200

Announcement regarding the release cycle.

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Episode 162: Project Voldemort with Jay Kreps

Sun, 16 May 2010 20:29:42 +0200

Jay Kreps talks about the open source data store Project Voldemort. Voldemort is a distributed key-value store used by LinkedIn and other high-traffic web sites to overcome the inherent scalability limitations of a relational database. The conversation delves into the workings of a Voldemort cluster, the type of consistency guarantees that can be made ...

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Episode 161: Agile Product Management with Roman Pichler

Mon, 03 May 2010 08:47:33 +0200

In this episode, we discuss with Roman Pichler how Scrum impacts product management and how agile product management differs from traditional approaches. The topics covered include product owners on large projects and product owner teams, facilitating customer feedback through early and frequent releases, envisioning the product, and creating products with the minimum functionality. Enjoy!

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Episode 160: AspectJ and Spring AOP with Ramnivas Laddad

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:06:55 +0200

This episode is a conversation with Ramnivas Laddad about aspect-oriented programming (AOP), Aspect J, and Spring AOP. We review the fundamental concepts of AOP, discuss AspectJ (an open source compiler that extends java with support for AOP), and cover the Spring Framework's proxy-based AOP system. Laddad also gives his thoughts on the ...

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Episode 159: C++0X with Scott Meyers

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:20:03 +0200

This episode is a conversation with Scott Meyers about the upcoming C++0x standard. We talk a bit about the reasons for creating this new standard and then cover the most important new features, including upport for concurrency, implicitly-typed variables, move semantics, variadic templates, lambda functions, and uniform initialization syntax. We also looked at some ...

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Episode 158: Rich Hickey on Clojure

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:56:03 +0100

This episode is a coversation with Rich Hickey about his programming language Clojure. Clojure is a Lisp dialect that runs on top of the JVM that comes with - among other things - persistent data structures and transactional memory, both very useful for writing concurrent applications.

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Episode 157: Hadoop with Philip Zeyliger

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:51:19 +0100

Philip Zeyliger of Cloudera discusses the Hadoop project with Robert Blumen. The conversation covers the emergence of large data problems, the Hadoop file system, map-reduce, and a look under the hood at how it all works. The listener will also learn where and how Hadoop is being used to process large data ...

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Episode 156: Kanban with David Anderson

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:33:50 +0100

This episode is part of our series on agile software development. We talk with David Anderson about Kanban, an agile software development method that is quite different from most of the other agile methods out there. We discuss the basic ideas behind Kanban, the differences between Kanban and Scrum and when and why projects ...

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Episode 155: Johannes Link & Lasse Koskela on TDD

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:37:48 +0100

In this episode Johannes Link interviews Lasse Koskela - the author of "Test-Driven" - about test-driven development (TDD). We cover the basics, the rationale behind it and the challenges you face when doing it in more difficult environments.

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Episode 154: Ola Bini on Ioke

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:16:20 +0100

This is a conversation with Ola Bini on his experimental language Ioke. We cover the idea behind the Ioke experiment as well as important language concepts and the thinking behind them.

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Episode 153: Jan Bosch on Product Lines and Software Ecosystems

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:31:23 +0100

This episode is a conversation with Jan Bosch about product line engineering (PLE). Jan has worked in various roles and industries and academia in the context of product lines. In this episode we look at Jan's view of what is next for product lines: software ecosystems. What is their relationship to PLE and how ...

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Episode 152: MISRA with Johan Bezem

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:39:42 +0100

Our guest Johan Bezem explains the idea behind and the benefits of MISRA. MISRA defines guidelines for C and C++ programming in order to ensure quality. While it got started for embedded automotive development, it is more generally applicable.

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Episode 151: Intentional Software with Shane Clifford

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:02:23 +0100

This episode is a discussion with Shane Clifford, who is a development manager at Intentional Software. We discuss the idea behind intentional programming, key concepts of the technology as well as example uses and a little bit of history.

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Episode 150: Software Craftsmanship with Bob Martin

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:52:58 +0100

This episode is a conversation with "Uncle Bob" Bob Martin about agile software development and software craftsmanship specifically. We talk about the history of the term, the reasons for coming up with it some of the practices and the relationship to other agile approaches. We conclude our discussion with an outlook on some of ...

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Episode 149: Difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science with Chuck Connell

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:36:46 +0100

Michael discusses with his guest Chuck Connell the differences between software engineering and computer science. What makes software engineering so unpredictable, with so few formal results? And how can we advance the field of software engineering without these results?

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Episode 148: Software Archaeology with Dave Thomas

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:33:57 +0100

Dave explains why reading source code is at least as important a skill as writing source code. He shares approaches for how to get to grips with unknown and undocumented source code even if it is non-trivial in size. He finishes with advice for how to get started reading code.

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Episode 147: Software Development Manager

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:48:26 +0200

Michael and Markus discuss what makes a good R&D manager and how to potentially become an R&D manager. You will learn what some of the essential skills are, what the challenges are, and what the 'mission/vision/strategy thing' is actually good for.

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Episode 146: Interesting Patterns at EuroPLoP 2009

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:51:15 +0200

This episode is a discussion with various authors of patterns reviewed at EuroPLoP 2009. Topics include Product Line Engineering, Distributed Development, Open Source and Embedded Systems

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Episode 145: Spring in 2009 with Eberhard Wolff

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:26:14 +0200

In this episode we discuss the current state of the spring framework. We talk about core features (dependency injection, AOP) but also about the spring universe, i.e. some of the more specific frameworks such as Spring Batch.

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Episode 144: The Maxine Research Virtual Machine with Doug Simon

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:49:33 +0200

In this episode we talk with Doug Simon from Sun Microsystems Laboratories about the Maxine Research VM, a so-called meta-circular virtual machine. Maxine is a JVM that is written itself in Java, but aims at taking JVM development to the next level while using highly integrated Java IDEs as development environments and running and ...

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Episode 143: API Design with Jim des Rivieres

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:43:21 +0200

This episode is a discussion with Jim Des Rivieres about APIs: How to design good APIs, the role of the documentation/specification in APIs, API evolution and other relevant topics.

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Episode 142: Sustainable Architecture with Kevlin Henney and Klaus Marquardt

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:39:57 +0200

This is another episode recorded at OOP 2009, thanks to SIGS Datacom and programme chair Frances Paulisch for making this possible. Here is the abstract from the conference program: Many software systems have fragile architectures that are based on brittle assumptions or rigid architectures that reduce options and make change difficult. On the one ...

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Episode 141: Second Life and Mono with Jim Purbrick

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:14:41 +0200

In the first part of this episode we discuss a couple of basics about SecondLife (scaling, partitioning, etc). The second part specifically looks at how the dev team tackled a number of interesting problems in the context of executing their own LSL scripting language on top of Mono.

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Episode 140: Newspeak and Pluggable Types with Gilad Bracha

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:03:15 +0200

This episode is a conversation with Gilad Bracha about Newspeak, type systems in general and optional/pluggable types in particular. It was recorded during DSL Devcon in the gardens of the Microsoft campus, and thanks to Gilad's "speaking like a book" way of talking it is published completely unedited :-)

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Episode 139: Fearless Change with Linda Rising

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:04:19 +0200

This episode is once again with Linda Rising, this time on the book she coauthored with Mary Lynn Manns on introducing ideas into organizations. The talk is another one of the SE Radio Live sessions recorded at OOP 2009 - thanks to SIGS Datacom and programme chair Frances Paulisch for making this possible.

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Episode 138: Learning as a Part of Development with Allan Kelly

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:06:02 +0200

In this episode, Allan shares his insights about how learning is a necessary part of software development. He covers the personal as well as the team and the organizational level and offers practical advice.

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Episode 137: SQL with Jim Melton

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:55:09 +0200

In this episode, Arno talks to Jim Melton about the SQL programming language. In addition to covering the concepts and ideas behind SQL, Jim shares stories and insights based on his many years' experience as SQL specification lead.

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Episode 136: Past Present and Future of MDA with David Frankel

Tue, 26 May 2009 23:23:25 +0200

In this episode, Dirk talks with David Frankel, resident Metamodeller and MDA expert at SAP Labs LLC, SAP's subsidiary in the Silicon Valley. Dave's extensive experience provides a big picture, from the early days of CORBA all the way to current issues that are bugging most enterprise architects' work with MDA.

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