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Technical interviews about software topics. Every weekday, a new episode about a different topic in software engineering.

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SED News: OpenCode, AI Code vs. Shipped Code, and the LiteLLM Breach

<p>SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech …

Apr 02, 2026 · 56m
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FreeBSD with John Baldwin

<p>FreeBSD is one of the longest-running and most influential open-source operating systems in the world. It was born from the Berkeley Software Distribution in the early 1990s, it has powered …

Mar 31, 2026 · 1h 3m
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Cilium, eBPF, and Modern Kubernetes Networking with Bill Mulligan

<p>Modern cloud-native systems are built on highly dynamic, distributed infrastructure where containers spin up and down constantly, services communicate across clusters, and traditional networking assumptions break down. Linux networking was …

Mar 26, 2026 · 57m
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Games That Push Back with Bennett Foddy

<p>Bennett Foddy is a legendary game designer known for creating wholly distinctive games such as QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and the recently released Baby Steps. He’s also …

Mar 24, 2026 · 1h 6m
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Prettier and Opinionated Code Formatting with James Long

<p>Developer tooling shapes how software gets written day to day, but the best tools often disappear into the background once they succeed. Formatting, linting, and build systems can either create …

Mar 19, 2026 · 50m
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Skate Story with Sam Eng

<p>Skateboarding games have long balanced technical precision with a sense of flow and expression, but Skate Story takes the genre in a radically different direction. It has a distinct vaporwave …

Mar 17, 2026 · 57m
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DeepMind’s RAG System with Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev

<p>Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, has become a foundational approach to building production AI systems. However, deploying RAG in practice can be complex and costly. Developers typically have to manage vector …

Mar 12, 2026 · 37m
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Reinventing the Python Notebook with Akshay Agrawal

<p>Interactive notebooks were popularized by the Jupyter project and have since become a core tool for data science, research, and data exploration. However, traditional, imperative notebooks often break down as …

Mar 10, 2026 · 46m
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Organizational Context for AI Coding Agents with Dennis Pilarinos

<p>AI agents have taken on a growing share of software development work, so much so that the hardest problems are shifting away from code generation towards something new, context. The …

Mar 05, 2026 · 49m
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SED News: OpenClaw Goes Viral, Mistral’s Compute Play, and the Agent Arms Race

<p>SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech …

Mar 03, 2026 · 57m
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Amazon’s IDE for Spec-Driven Development with David Yanacek

<p>AI-assisted coding tools have made it easier than ever to spin up prototypes, but turning those prototypes into reliable, production-grade systems remains a major challenge. Large language models are non-deterministic, …

Feb 26, 2026 · 57m
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Engineering AI Systems for Autonomy and Resilience with Krishna Sai

<p>Enterprise IT systems have grown into sprawling, highly distributed environments spanning cloud infrastructure, applications, data platforms, and increasingly AI-driven workloads. Observability tools have made it easier to collect metrics, logs, …

Feb 24, 2026 · 53m
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Inside China’s Great Firewall with Jackson Sippe

<p>China’s Great Firewall is often spoken about but is rarely understood. It is one of the most sophisticated and opaque censorship systems on the planet, and it shapes how over …

Feb 19, 2026 · 58m
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Optimizing Agent Behavior in Production with Gideon Mendels

<p>LLM -powered systems continue to move steadily into production, but this process is presenting teams with challenges that traditional software practices don’t commonly encounter. Models and agents are non-deterministic systems, …

Feb 17, 2026 · 52m
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Gas Town, Beads, and the Rise of Agentic Development with Steve Yegge

<p>AI-assisted programming has moved far beyond autocomplete. Large language models are now capable of editing entire codebases, coordinating long-running tasks, and collaborating across multiple systems. As these capabilities mature, the …

Feb 12, 2026 · 1h 9m
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Python 3.14 with Łukasz Langa

<p>Python 3.14 is here and continues Python’s evolution toward greater performance, scalability, and usability. The new release formally supports free-threaded, no-GIL mode, introduces template string literals, and implements deferred evaluation …

Feb 10, 2026 · 47m
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Airbnb’s Open-Source GraphQL Framework with Adam Miskiewicz

<p>Engineering teams often build microservices as their systems grow, but over time this can lead to a fragmented ecosystem with scattered data access patterns, duplicated business logic, and an uneven …

Feb 05, 2026 · 55m
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SED News: Apple Bets on Gemini, Google’s AI Advantage, and the Talent Arms Race

<p>SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech …

Feb 03, 2026 · 51m
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OpenAI and Codex with Thibault Sottiaux and Ed Bayes

<p>AI coding agents are rapidly reshaping how software is built, reviewed, and maintained. As large language model capabilities continue to increase, the bottleneck in software development is shifting away from …

Jan 29, 2026 · 50m
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Production-Grade AI Systems with Fred Roma

<p>Engineering teams around the world are building AI-focused applications or integrating AI features into existing products. The AI development ecosystem is maturing, which is accelerating how quickly these applications can …

Jan 27, 2026 · 51m
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Next-Gen JavaScript Package Management with Ruy Adorno and Darcy Clarke

<p>Package management sits at the foundation of modern software development, quietly powering nearly every software project in the world. Tools like npm and Yarn have long been the core of …

Jan 22, 2026 · 57m
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WebAssembly 3.0 with Andreas Rossberg

<p>WebAssembly, or WASM, has grown from a low-level compilation target for C and C++ into one of the most influential technologies in modern computing. It now powers browser applications, edge …

Jan 20, 2026 · 1h 1m
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