Podcast Archives - Software Engineering Daily
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Software Engineering Daily turns developer tooling into concrete discussions of architecture, security, reproducibility, testing, and the management of coding agents.
"Podcast Archives - Software Engineering Daily" treats software tools as systems to be examined, not products to be admired. Its interviewers ask how agentic coding changes orchestration and evaluation, how reproducible environments support secure delivery, and how eBPF alters…
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A grounded look at configuration agents, quiet degradation, and the human judgment behind autonomous operations.
Agentic operations gets a useful production-minded test in Sean Falconer's conversation with Christian Nassai, SolarWinds' Chief Technology Officer.
A practical look at how managed retrieval simplifies usable search while trading away some system control.
RAG is at its sharpest here when retrieval moves from concept to production use. Animesh Chatterjee and Ivan Solovyev discuss FileSearch, Google DeepMind's fully managed RAG system in the Gemini API, as a way for developers to upload documents, code, and other text data,…
A grounded look at why AI coding agents need organizational context before they can meet production standards.
AI coding agents are pushing the hardest parts of software work toward context, and this episode tracks that change through the organizational record surrounding a codebase.
Aviation's digital systems make cyber disruption a transportation problem, not just a cockpit concern.
Aviation cybersecurity feels concrete in this episode because it starts with the aircraft itself as a digital attack surface. Systems for navigation, communication, and engine performance are no longer treated as neatly isolated pieces of machinery; they sit inside a broader…
A grounded review of how Node.js balances speed, security, stability, and the cost of changing legacy infrastructure.
Node.js sits under a vast amount of backend work, so even modest changes carry real weight. Rafael Gonzaga, a principal open source engineer at NodeSource and a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, brings a production-minded view to the conversation, walking…
A grounded look at why agent behavior needs more than instinct.
The episode works because it keeps agent systems tied to production reality. Gideon Mendels and Kevin Ball treat non deterministic behavior as a design problem, not a buzzword problem, and that makes the conversation sharper.
A practical look at how trusted dependencies become a supply chain risk.
Open source dependency chains take center stage here, showing how convenience in modern software can become a security liability when attackers compromise popular libraries and pass the damage downstream.
A practical look at the data-layer pressure behind production AI systems.
Production AI is framed as an engineering problem, not a slogan. Fred Roma and Kevin Ball stay on the practical questions: how keyword search and vector search can complement each other, why re-ranking matters, and why co-locating search with the database can reduce friction.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Stack Overflow's Ryan Donovan interviews founders and engineers on AI agents, protocols, and dev tools.
Michael Kennedy interviews Python maintainers on packaging, security, web tools, and AI.
Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken run down the week's Python tooling, typing, and packaging news.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
Ranges have not been codified in the semver spec, just so everybody knows.
Dan Fornes explains how Rivals of Aether and Rivals of Aether 2 grew from a GameMaker project into an Unreal Engine 5 fighting game built around Melee-style depth.
Gregor Vand opens the episode around why cloud-native networking gets so tricky under older Linux assumptions.
Christian Nassai, CTO at SolarWinds, says the company now spans observability, incident response, and service management across network, infrastructure, applications, databases, containers, and ML workloads.
SED News opens with the hosts catching up on recent news and then settles into its familiar headline-plus-deep-dive rhythm.
Michael Seufer, an attorney at the Institute for Justice, discusses a Norfolk, Virginia lawsuit over 172 Flock automatic license plate readers and the broader growth of police surveillance.
Gregor Vand and Sean Faulconer return to SED News after an eight-week break and cover Starlink Wi-Fi on Qatar Airways, United's free Starlink flight message, and a Confluent acquisition by IBM.
Serge Christians, a former pilot and cybersecurity expert, discusses the urgent risks in aviation cybersecurity, including aircraft as digital attack surfaces, hybrid warfare threats, and the lack of pilot training.
Rafael Gonzaga says Node.js performance is heavily shaped by V8, C++ migrations, and benchmark design, not just by faster code.
Interview with GuardSquare CPO about mobile app security, reverse engineering, and runtime protection.
An interview discussing the Model Context Protocol and FastMCP framework for building AI agent tools.
Hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Faulconer discuss big tech headlines, dive into a deeper topic, and highlight favorite projects from Hacker News.
Sean Falconer speaks with Łukasz Langa, the CPython developer in residence at the Python Software Foundation, about Python 3.14 and the path from Python 3.13's experimental no-GIL mode to the supported free-threaded 3.14T build.
Dennis Pilarinos says Unblocked is built around one problem: software teams have code in one place, Slack in another, Jira somewhere else, and the context needed to make decisions is scattered across all of them.
Joe Nash talks with Zach Barth about the work behind Zachtronics and Coincidence Games.
Blender Studio used Dog Walk to test a full open-source game pipeline with Blender, Godot, Krita, Kitsu, and Linux, and Simon Thommes says the studio stays on Blender’s latest main branch instead of waiting for releases.
Kevin Ball talks with David Janacek about Kiro and the case for spec-driven development.
Akshay Agrawal says Marimo is a next-generation Python notebook built after his 2022 Stanford PhD and experience at Google Brain and the TensorFlow team from 2017 to 2018.
Catherine McGarvey, SVP of Developer Experience at Capital One, says the goal is not just faster coding but giving 14,000 technologists the tools and information to build the right thing.
Adam and Gregor spend the conversation on Viaduct, Airbnb's open-source data graph and GraphQL platform.
Fred Roma joins Kevin Ball to talk about what it takes to build AI applications that actually hold up in production.
Steve Yegge, software engineer and longtime practitioner, joins the show to look at what agentic development actually feels like when you're building at the frontier.
The conversation focuses on Nix and reproducible software systems.
Sam Eng sits down with Joe Nash to talk about SkateStory.
Jackson Sipp joins Gregor Vann to unpack China’s Great Firewall at the level of detection rules and network behavior.
Kai Metzl joins Kevin Ball to talk about VS Code's origins.
Gideon Mendels joins Kevin Ball to talk about what it takes to run agent systems in production.
Andreas Rosberg walks through how WebAssembly grew from a low-level compilation target into something closer to a broader execution platform.
Kevin Ball talks with Thibaut Sotio and Ed Bayes about Codex and the shift toward agentic coding.
Feross Aboukhadijeh, founder of Socket, discusses his journey from building viral projects like YouTube Instant to tackling open source supply chain attacks.
An interview with Eric Broda about the architectural challenges and principles of deploying multi-agent AI systems in enterprises.
Interview with New Relic's CTO on the evolution of observability from dashboards to AI-driven intelligence.