SE Radio 720: Martin Dilger on Understanding Eventsourcing
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers
Release Date: 05/13/2026
SE Radio 732: Jason Gorman on The Effective Use of AI For Software Development
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers
Jason Gorman, a software development expert and founder of Codemanship, joins host Giovanni Asproni to explore how best to use AI in software development. They start by considering how established technical practices — test-driven development, modularization, continuous integration, and continuous reviews — become more important, not less, when working with AI assistance. These practices help address several key limitations of LLMs, including keeping context windows as small as possible. Looking at AI's impact on team productivity, Jason offers some practical advice for teams to introduce...
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SE Radio 731: Sonali Varde on AI and the Engineering Manager Role
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Sonali Varde, Senior Software Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, joins host Kanchan Shringi to discuss how AI is changing the role of the engineering manager. They explore how AI is showing up in day-to-day management work, including operational reviews, planning, communication, workflow automation, and preparation for leadership discussions. The conversation looks at how engineering teams are adopting AI tools and agents, what kinds of skills and practices are becoming more important, and how managers can think about context, review, testing, and operational rigor as AI-assisted development...
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SE Radio 730: Birgitta Boeckeler on Harness Engineering for AI Agents
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Birgitta Boeckeler, a Distinguished Engineer and consultant focused on AI-assisted software delivery at , joins host Priyanka Raghavan for a deep dive into harnesses for AI agents. The episode begins by unpacking the concept of harnesses and harness engineering before exploring the core building blocks — guides and sensors — that help AI agents operate more reliably in engineering environments. Priyanka and Birgitta discuss practical implementations of harnesses in real-world workflows, including the use of guides with .MD files and sensors with tools such as SonarQube and Semgrep, which...
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SE Radio 729: Garth Mollett on AI Supply Chain Security
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Garth Mollet, Senior Principal Product Security Engineer and Technical Advisor for Product Security at Red Hat, joins host Robert Blumen for a discussion of AI supply chain security. They start with the basics of supply chain security, including the key components of the AI supply chain, and how it differs from the conventional software supply chain. Garth discusses whether the attacks target model weights or inference, and describes the most common attacks and what’s in it for the attacker, whether exfiltration, credentials, sabotage, or resources. The episode also considers SPIFFE, SPIRE,...
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SE Radio 728: Clare Liguori on AWS Strands SDK for AI Agents
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Clare Liguori, a Senior Principal Engineer who works on developer tooling and agentic AI at Amazon Web Services, speaks with host Sri Panyam about the Amazon Strands Agents SDK. This episode explores the philosophy, design decisions, and emerging patterns behind building production-grade AI agents. Clare frames any agent as three core components: a model, a set of tools, and a prompt. During this interview, she describes the origin story of Strands, the model-driven approach vs. workflows and custom orchestration, steering hooks, tools and MCP, sub-agents and multi-agents, memory layers,...
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SE Radio 727: Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdorp on Using Polars
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Jeroen Janssens, Head of Developer Relations at Posit, and Thijs Nieuwdorp, a developer relations engineer at Polars, speak with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about Polars, a Python package for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data. After discussing the key features, they explore the implementation and use of the expressions data type provided by Polars. Along with comparing Polars to other data-manipulation packages like Pandas, they also share best practices for performing data analysis in Python with Polars. Jeroen, Thijs, and Gregory also discuss topics such as how to interface Polars...
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SE Radio 726: Scott Kingsley on the Swagger Ecosystem
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Scott Kingsley, a VP of Engineering at SmartBear, speaks with host Gregory Kapfhammer about the Swagger ecosystem. They discuss the user interface, editor, and Swagger CodeGen and how these tools support the creation and documentation of OpenAPI-compatible APIs. Scott describes how Swagger fits into frameworks like FastAPI, as well as how Swagger APIs can be exposed through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The discussion closes with best practices for designing and testing APIs and the role that APIs play in a landscape in which AI agents are building and interacting with APIs.
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SE Radio 725: Danny Yang and Sam Goldman on the Pyrefly Type Checker
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Danny Yang and Sam Goldman, both Software Engineers at Meta, speak with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the Rust-based Pyrefly type checker for Python. After a look at the foundational concepts for annotating and checking types for Python programs, Danny and Sam present a deep dive of the implementation of Pyrefly. While comparing and contrasting against various type checkers, they also describe how Pyrefly implements the language server protocol (LSP) for Python. The episode explores a range of other topics, including how to balance the features, performance, and language integrations of a...
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SE Radio 724: Jure Leskovec on Relational Graph and Foundational Models
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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 modeling. Jure begins by establishing the critical importance of predictive modeling across industries - from fraud detection in financial institutions to customer churn prediction, lifetime value estimation, product recommendations, and healthcare risk assessment. He notes that while AI has made remarkable advances in natural language...
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SE Radio 723: Dave Airlie on Linux Kernel Maintenance
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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, drawing on examples from the GPU subsystem. After discussing the features and benefits of the Linux kernel’s maintenance model, they also explore kernel maintenance best practices and the supporting tools for these practices. Dave and Gregory also discuss topics such as the integration of Rust code in the Linux kernel and the ways in which...
info_outlineMartin 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 represents every change that has ever happened in the system. This episode starts by introducing the vocabulary around event sourcing, highlighting its relationship with event modeling, event streaming, and event storming. Martin describes some of the pros and cons of the approach, including which systems it is most suitable for. The conversation ends with guidance how to get started with event sourcing, for both greenfield and legacy systems.