An education and informative podcast about software development for professional software developers.


Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers
Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. Every ten days, a new episode is published that 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 conferences or talks given in other venues. Each episode comprises two speakers to ensure a lively listening experience. SE Radio is an independent and non-commercial organization. All content is licensed under the Creative Commons 2.5 license.

Episode 165: NoSQL and MongoDB with Dwight Merriman
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
16 Jul 2010 at 1:54pm
Dwight Merriman talks with Robert about the emerging NoSQL movement, the three types of non-relational data stores, Brewer's CAP theorem, the weaker consistency guarantees that can be made in a distributed database, document-oriented data stores, the data storage needs of modern web applications, and the open source MongoDB.
Episode 164: Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
16 Jun 2010 at 12:53pm
This episode covers the topic of agile testing. Michael interviews Lisa Crispin as an practionier and book author on agile testing. We cover several topics ranging from the role of the tester in agile teams, over test automation strategy and regression testing, to continuous integration.
Episode 163: State of the Union
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
3 Jun 2010 at 2:37pm
Announcement regarding the release cycle.
Episode 162: Project Voldemort with Jay Kreps
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
16 May 2010 at 4:29pm
Jay Kreps talks about the open source data store Project Voldemort. Voldemort is a distributed key-value store used by LinkedIn and other high-traffic web sites to overcome the inherent scalability limitations of a relational database. The conversation delves into the workings of a Voldemort cluster, the type of consistency guarantees that can be made in a distributed database, and the tradeoff between client and the server.
Episode 161: Agile Product Management with Roman Pichler
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
3 May 2010 at 4:47am
In this episode, we discuss with Roman Pichler how Scrum impacts product management and how agile product management differs from traditional approaches. The topics covered include product owners on large projects and product owner teams, facilitating customer feedback through early and frequent releases, envisioning the product, and creating products with the minimum functionality. Enjoy!
Episode 160: AspectJ and Spring AOP with Ramnivas Laddad
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
19 Apr 2010 at 3:06am
This episode is a conversation with Ramnivas Laddad about aspect-oriented programming (AOP), Aspect J, and Spring AOP. We review the fundamental concepts of AOP, discuss AspectJ (an open source compiler that extends java with support for AOP), and cover the Spring Framework's proxy-based AOP system. Laddad also gives his thoughts on the use cases for AOP and where we are in the technology adoption curve, and updates on the state of the AspectJ project itself.
Episode 159: C++0X with Scott Meyers
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
5 Apr 2010 at 4:20pm
This episode is a conversation with Scott Meyers about the upcoming C++0x standard. We talk a bit about the reasons for creating this new standard and then cover the most important new features, including upport for concurrency, implicitly-typed variables, move semantics, variadic templates, lambda functions, and uniform initialization syntax. We also looked at some new features in the standard library.
Episode 158: Rich Hickey on Clojure
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
22 Mar 2010 at 4:56pm
This episode is a coversation with Rich Hickey about his programming language Clojure. Clojure is a Lisp dialect that runs on top of the JVM that comes with - among other things - persistent data structures and transactional memory, both very useful for writing concurrent applications.
Episode 157: Hadoop with Philip Zeyliger
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
8 Mar 2010 at 2:51pm
Philip Zeyliger of Cloudera discusses the Hadoop project with Robert Blumen. The conversation covers the emergence of large data problems, the Hadoop file system, map-reduce, and a look under the hood at how it all works. The listener will also learn where and how Hadoop is being used to process large data sets.
Episode 156: Kanban with David Anderson
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
22 Feb 2010 at 1:33am
This episode is part of our series on agile software development. We talk with David Anderson about Kanban, an agile software development method that is quite different from most of the other agile methods out there. We discuss the basic ideas behind Kanban, the differences between Kanban and Scrum and when and why projects can benefit from using Kanban. This episode is done in cooperation with the German magazine ObjektSpektrum (thanks for sharing this interview with us).
Episode 155: Johannes Link & Lasse Koskela on TDD
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
8 Feb 2010 at 3:37pm
In this episode Johannes Link interviews Lasse Koskela - the author of "Test-Driven" - about test-driven development (TDD). We cover the basics, the rationale behind it and the challenges you face when doing it in more difficult environments.
Episode 154: Ola Bini on Ioke
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
25 Jan 2010 at 2:16am
This is a conversation with Ola Bini on his experimental language Ioke. We cover the idea behind the Ioke experiment as well as important language concepts and the thinking behind them.
Episode 153: Jan Bosch on Product Lines and Software Ecosystems
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
11 Jan 2010 at 2:31am
This episode is a conversation with Jan Bosch about product line engineering (PLE). Jan has worked in various roles and industries and academia in the context of product lines. In this episode we look at Jan's view of what is next for product lines: software ecosystems. What is their relationship to PLE and how should PLE change to remain relevant?
Episode 152: MISRA with Johan Bezem
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
28 Dec 2009 at 3:39am
Our guest Johan Bezem explains the idea behind and the benefits of MISRA. MISRA defines guidelines for C and C++ programming in order to ensure quality. While it got started for embedded automotive development, it is more generally applicable.
Episode 151: Intentional Software with Shane Clifford
by team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)
14 Dec 2009 at 1:02pm
This episode is a discussion with Shane Clifford, who is a development manager at Intentional Software. We discuss the idea behind intentional programming, key concepts of the technology as well as example uses and a little bit of history.