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Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. SE Radio covers all topics software engineering. Episodes are either tutorials on a specific topic, or an interview with a well-known character from the software engineering world. All SE Radio episodes are original content — we do not record co... more

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In this episode, Rob Moffat, author of Risk-First Software Development and chief technical architect at the FinTech Open Source Software Foundation (FINOS), speaks with host Brijesh Ammanath about how all of software development is actually risk mana... more

Martin Dilger, founder and CEO of Nebuilt GmbH, speaks with host Giovanni Asproni about event sourcing -- a software architecture pattern in which, rather than storing just the current state of your data, you store a sequence of events that represent... more

Birol Yildiz, CEO and co-founder of iLert, joins host Kanchan Shringi to explore how iLert built an AI SRE — an autonomous agent for handling production incidents — and what the experience revealed about building AI agents in the real world. Birol ex... more

Will Sentance, educator and co-founder of Codesmith, joins SE Radio's Adi Narayan to discuss the evolution of JavaScript and modern best practices. They begin with JavaScript's origins as a simple scripting language and its growth into the backbone o... more

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Recent Guests

Martin Dilger
Founder and CEO of Nebuilt GmbH; author of Understanding Event Sourcing; co-host of Event Modeling and Event Sourcing Podcast
Nebuilt GmbH
Episode: SE Radio 720: Martin Dilger on Understanding Eventsourcing
Birol Yildiz
CEO and co-founder of iLit, Cologne-based SaaS incident response company
iLit
Episode: SE Radio 719: Birol Yildiz on Building an Agentic AI SRE
Will Sentance
Seasoned educator and founder of Codesmith
Codesmith
Episode: SE Radio 718: Will Sentance on JS Modernization
Eric Tschetter
Chief Architect at Impli; original author of Apache Druid
Impli
Episode: SE Radio 717: Eric Tschetter on Decoupling Observability
Martin Kleppmann
Associate Professor at University of Cambridge, author and founder of Automerge
University of Cambridge; Automerge
Episode: SE Radio 716: Martin Kleppmann Local-First Software
Costa Alexoglou
Software engineer at Grafana Labs and co-founder of Hopp
Grafana Labs; Hopp
Episode: SE Radio 714: Costa Alexoglou on Remote Pair Programming
Héctor Ramón Jiménez
Creator of the Elm-inspired cross-platform GUI toolkit for Rust (ISE/Iced)
IEEE / Iced Community
Episode: SE Radio 713: Héctor Ramón Jiménez on Building a GUI library in Rust
Dan Lorenc
Co-founder and CEO of Chainguard, a software supply chain security company
Chainguard
Episode: SE Radio 712: Dan Lorenc on Sigstore
Scott Hanselman
Vice President of Developer Community at Microsoft
Microsoft
Episode: SE Radio 711: Scott Hanselman on AI-Assisted Development Tools

Hosts

Jeremy Jung
Host of Software Engineering Radio
Robert Blumen
Host of Software Engineering Radio

Reviews

4.6 out of 5 stars from 891 ratings
  • Like the format and topics

    This podcast has the things I want in a pod:

    1) Interesting and varied topics with knowledgeable guests.

    2) Hosts who are clearly knowledgeable, interested, and prepared for the interview.

    3) Interviews are not rushed to fit an artificial schedule. I hate it when things are not given the time they deserve because they hit the 40 minute (or whatever) mark and it gets cut off.

    4) It also remains chill. Everyone is interested in the discussion but not acting like they’ve had 10 cups of coffee or in... more

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Goodluck duck
    United States2 years ago
  • Great pocast for Software Engeneers!

    Podcast Addict
    5
    DmitryMoiseenko
    3 years ago
  • Host is lagging behind.

    Podcast host asking questions that are not follows conversation line. It seems to me that questions prepared before the dialog and in spite of conversation questions asked most of the time have no relation to the conversation flow.

    Apple Podcasts
    2
    ivan.kuchin
    United States4 years ago
  • Good Podcast for devs with a variety of topics

    I really enjoy the podcast especially the variety of topics discussed. What I would really love to see in the future is improved audio quality since some episodes are really terrible to listen to so that at least I can’t understand the discussion in a good way.

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    k3v1n0x90
    Germany4 years ago
  • Upgrade your mind.

    Podcast Addict
    5
    Basically3306
    4 years ago

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Clear, knowledgeable hosts with well-prepared questions and depth.
Some episodes suffer from audio quality and pacing; guests often compensate with expertise.
Listeners praise breadth of topics and practical takeaways for software engineers.

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Recent interactions between the hosts and their guests.

SE Radio 719: Birol Yildiz on Building an Agentic AI SRE
Q: How did you evolve toward agentic capabilities, and what was the turning point with reasoning models and MCP?
The project started with prescriptive prompts and runbooks, but once reasoning models and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) emerged, the team began designing agents that could access external systems and reason across data in a more autonomous way.
SE Radio 719: Birol Yildiz on Building an Agentic AI SRE
Q: When somebody says an AI agent, what does that actually mean to you?
An AI agent is a large language model-based software that uses tools to make decisions and can operate with its own trajectory, unlike simple workflows that perform predefined steps.
SE Radio 718: Will Sentance on JS Modernization
Q: The AI-era question: can code-generating LLMs accelerate the transition in JavaScript, or do they reinforce legacy patterns?
LLMs can accelerate learning and provide rapid scaffolding, but real progress depends on developers understanding runtime and system-level details. For greenfield projects, LLMs can help explore native patterns and reduce boilerplate, while for legacy code, a strong under-the-hood understanding is still essential to avoid perpetuating suboptimal designs.
SE Radio 718: Will Sentance on JS Modernization
Q: What does syntactic sugar mean in the context of JavaScript, and how does it influence everyday coding?
Syntactic sugar, like class and new keywords, can make JavaScript look and feel like traditional OOP, but under the hood it's still prototype-based and can mislead developers about how objects are constructed and managed. Understanding the actual inner workings—such as the behavior of constructors, new, and prototype chains—helps avoid common mistakes and unlocks the full potential of the language.
SE Radio 718: Will Sentance on JS Modernization
Q: As a host, there's often a tension between sticking with familiar libraries and adopting newer native features for performance and maintainability. How do you see developers balancing that trade-off?
Developers tend to opt for native features when they offer meaningful performance or maintenance advantages, such as Structured Clone or Temporal, especially for library authors who want to avoid breaking changes. However, many teams will still rely on familiar libraries like Lodash or Moment until native replacements prove their reliability and broader ecosystem support. The emphasis is on maintenance wins (removing heavy dependencies) before chasing marginal performance gains in isolated cases.

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What is Software Engineering Radio about and what kind of topics does it cover?

The show consistently features deep dives with senior software engineers and technology leaders, focusing on practical engineering practices, system design, AI-assisted development, and infrastructure. Episodes often pair technical rigor with real-world anecdotes, exploring topics from AI-driven software tooling and spec-first development to data center operations and modern CLIs. A standout pattern is thoughtful, experience-backed discussion that emphasizes testing, context management, and the interplay between craft and automation. The format tends to attract engineers who value depth, clear explanations, and actionable patterns, while occasional guests bring domain-specific expertise in AI, data engineering, and cloud infrastructure.

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1. Martin Dilger
2. Birol Yildiz
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4. Eric Tschetter
5. Martin Kleppmann
6. Costa Alexoglou
7. Héctor Ramón Jiménez
8. Dan Lorenc

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