Solid.js is a popular JavaScript framework known for its reactive and efficient rendering system. Instead of using a Virtual DOM, it compiles its templates to real DOM nodes and updates them with fine-grained reactions. Ryan Carniato is the creator of SolidJS, and he joins the show to talk about the framework. Taylor Nodell is a software engineer specializing in front end web technologies. He’s particularly passionate about accessibility and how the internet is changing our relationships to each other. He spends his weekends hiking in the Australian wilderness and making heavy metal. Pleas ..read more

Sammy Steele is a Senior Staff Engineer at Figma, and the tech lead for their databases team. She previously worked at Dropbox, where she built out their petabyte-scale metadata storage and search systems. Sammy recently published a blog called “How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale”. The blog went viral and made it to the top of Hacker News. We invited Sammy on the podcast to learn more, and she is our guest today. Check out Figma Config at https://config.figma.com/. Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics ..read more

Software development has historically been a time-intensive and often tedious process that requires tooling and configuration. Generative AI is changing that process, and offers software engineers the ability to dramatically streamline the application development process, improve code quality, and deliver more functionality. To reap such benefits, they need to put the right guardrails in place.  According to the 2023 State of AI in Software Development report, code creation accounts for only 25% of a developer’s time. The rest is spent with prep work like setting up a development environm ..read more

Software development has historically been a time-intensive and often tedious process that requires tooling and configuration. Generative AI is changing that process, and offers software engineers the ability to dramatically streamline the application development process, improve code quality, and deliver more functionality. To reap such benefits, they need to put the right guardrails in place.  According to the 2023 State of AI in Software Development report, code creation accounts for only 25% of a developer’s time. The rest is spent with prep work like setting up a development environm ..read more

Ben Huber is a security engineer who has worked at companies including Crypto.com and Blackpanda. He joins the podcast to talk about his career, penetration or “pen” testing, attack vectors, security tools, and much more. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.   Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship ..read more

George Mathew is a Managing Director at Insight Partners where he invested in Weights & Biases, Jasper, and others. He has over 20 years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being CEO of Kespry. George joins the podcast to talk about his path to becoming an investor, his data-first thesis about investment, the AI business landscape, his book recommendations, and more. Starting her career as a software developer, Jocelyn Houle is now a Senior Director of Product Management at Securiti.ai, a unified data protection and governance platform. Bef ..read more

Event-driven architecture is a software design pattern where system components communicate through events that are generated by producers, and pushed to consumers. This design is often contrasted with a request-driven architecture, where components communicate with each other by sending requests and receiving responses. Hookdeck is an event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages. It centralizes and streamlines communication between services, like a 3rd party API such as Shopify or Stripe, and internal endpoints or other APIs. Alex Bouchard is the Co-founde ..read more

OAuth is an open standard for access delegation. It lets users grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites, but without giving away passwords. OpenID Connect is an identity layer on top of OAuth. Even if you haven’t programmed using OAuth and OpenID Connect, you’ve certainly used them for authentication on Google, Facebook, Spotify, and countless other services. Authlete is a service that provides a set of APIs to implement OAuth authorization servers, and OpenID Connect identity providers. Justin Richer is the Principal Architect at Authlete and is part ..read more

Today, you can access Netflix on virtually any device. For a Netflix user, this seamless experience can be easy to take for granted, but it requires an enormous engineering effort. Jay Phelps is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix where he works on Shared Client Foundations. He joins the show to talk about the start of his career, his work at Netflix, and much more. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that ..read more

Developing a modern video game can be a big technical and creative challenge. Game development involves bringing together skills in software engineering, game design, art and sound. Frequently, this is done in a collaborative setting which requires strong teamwork. Software Engineering Daily has been expanding our coverage of game development to better understand how games are made. Joe Nash recently sat down with developers from Mintrocket, the team that developed the highly successful Dave the Diver in 2023. Jaeho Hwang is the Game Director, and Minsuk Cha is the System Programmer, for Dave ..read more