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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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Latest Episodes

Jure Leskovec, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and Chief Scientist at Kumo.ai, speaks with host Sriram Panyam about relational and graph language models and their transformative impact on enterprise decision-making and predictive... more

Dave Airlie, a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about Linux kernel maintenance. After over-viewing the scale and structure of the Linux kernel, they dive deep into the review and validation of kernel patches, ... more

Dwayne McDaniel, developer advocate at GitGuardian.com, joins host Priyanka Raghavan to talk about the engineering challenges of secrets management. They explore what "secrets" really are in modern systems—far beyond passwords—including API keys, tok... more

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

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Recent Guests

Dwayne McDaniel
Developer advocate, hands-on practitioner, and host of the Security repo podcast
GitGuardian
Episode: SE Radio 722: Dwayne McDaniel on the Engineering Challenges of Secrets Management
Rob Moffat
Author of Risk-First Software Development and Finos contributor
Risk-First Software Development; Finos
Episode: SE Radio 721: Rob Moffat on Risk-First Software Development
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
Sahaj Garg
Co-founder and CTO of Wispr
Wispr
Episode: SE Radio 715: Sahaj Garg on Designing for Ambiguity in Human Input
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

Reviews

4.6 out of 5 stars from 893 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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Audience notes strong practical takeaways and broad topic coverage.
Some critique audio quality, but content is consistently valuable for engineers.
Listeners praise depth, preparation, and insightful guests.

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Recent interactions between the hosts and their guests.

SE Radio 722: Dwayne McDaniel on the Engineering Challenges of Secrets Management
Q: What are the most actionable steps a team can take to reduce secrets leakage today?
Adopt just-in-time access and workload identity, implement vaulting with short-lived credentials, inventory all secrets across systems, and build governance plans that prioritize assets by risk. Also, shift culture toward verifying identity rather than relying on static keys, and start using open-source tools to detect and rotate secrets.
SE Radio 722: Dwayne McDaniel on the Engineering Challenges of Secrets Management
Q: Can you define secrets and secret sprawl in practical terms for listeners new to this topic?
Secrets are any data that can grant access—like credentials and tokens—in many forms, and secret sprawl is when those secrets end up in places like public repos, in memory, or logs, making them easy to leak. The key is to understand all the places secrets can reside and the risk they pose.
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.

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The show focuses on practical software engineering topics, featuring deep-dive conversations with practitioners and industry experts. Episodes often explore architectural patterns, reliability, security, AI-assisted development, and modern tooling, with an emphasis on actionable takeaways, real-world case studies, and guidance for teams building and maintaining complex systems. A standout trait is the mix of highly technical content delivered through thoughtful questioning, balanced with strong host preparation and guest expertise. The format tends toward deep dives rather than quick takes, making it valuable for engineers who want to expand their toolkit and stay current on trending topics in the field.

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1. Dwayne McDaniel
2. Rob Moffat
3. Martin Dilger
4. Birol Yildiz
5. Will Sentance
6. Eric Tschetter
7. Martin Kleppmann
8. Sahaj Garg

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