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“Its not just that we didn’t have git, we didn’t have Subversion, and before that we didn’t have CVS. Basically all that we had was RCS.” Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox–it’s easy to forget that these modern browsers descended from the war between Microsoft and Netscape. Today, we hear from a software engineer who was The post Browser Wars with Eric Sink appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Following the successful experiment of History of Hadoop, we are doing another Saturday experiment: an editorial podcast. Let us know your thoughts via Slack, Twitter, or email! Our podcast errs on the side of technical rigor. Whether the topic is distributed databases, microservices, Soylent, Uber, or Dwarf Fortress, we try to separate hype from substance, deferring the The post 10 Philosophies for Engineers appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

This episode is different from the traditional interview format of Software Engineering Daily, and focuses on the history of Hadoop. Thanks to Marco Bonaci for allowing us to republish this in audio format. You can find the original post here: History of Hadoop If you like this podcast, check out Marko’s book Spark in Action (affiliate The post The History of Hadoop appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“Actually it’s more work to turn a table into a chair, than it is to just make a damn chair.” Continue reading… The post The Evolution of Rails with David Heinemeier Hansson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“The best computer science is the kind where the theory is inspired by some practical problem, you develop a better theoretical understanding of what you want to do, and that feeds back into better practice.” Continue reading… The post Language Design with Brian Kernighan appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Vint Cerf is Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. He contributes to global policy development and continued spread of the Internet. This episode is republished from The Quoracast. Questions: What will the world look like in 5 years? What are the biggest problems associated with rapid spread and development of the Internet? Does blockchain technology present The post Internet Future with Vint Cerf appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“It’s a classic case where you have to be contrarian. It seems like the worst idea in the world to start a cloud hosting business. We didn’t know any better.” Moisey Uretsky is the cofounder of Digital Ocean, a leading cloud hosting provider based in New York. “It’s the usual immigrant story. My parents moved The post Founding Digital Ocean with Moisey Uretsky appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“Humans are the most complicated thing out there – judging human skill is extremely hard, there’s all kinds of ways that people can be good.” Triplebyte is a technical hiring platform that vets engineers using a comprehensive evaluation platform and connects them to companies that are interesting in hiring them. Triplebyte was part of the The post Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“Systems are giving up correctness for latency, and I’m arguing that stream processing systems have to be designed to allow the user to pick the tradeoffs that the application needs." Continue reading… The post Demystifying Stream Processing with Neha Narkhede appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“You’ve listened to podcasts where you gotta fast forward 8-9 minutes in before the actual meat happens.” Continue reading… The post Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“If you can make a system that can survive this random failure testing, then you will more or likely survive whatever other chaotic conditions exist.” Continue reading… The post Scaling Uber with Matt Ranney appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

"Software is this really unique field that is growing so rapidly that people are almost forced to specialize into one subdomain – and that kind of stratification is good for your job and for your employers, but it's not necessarily good for you as an individual trying to grow in the field of software.” Continue reading… The post Episode 100 with Pranay Mohan appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“Changing anything changes everything.” Technical debt, referring to the compounding cost of changes to software architecture, can be especially challenging in machine learning systems. Continue reading… The post Machine Learning and Technical Debt with D. Sculley appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“The cloud as an environment – I had thought it was a purely utilitarian kind of thing. What I realized is that it’s a fascinating centralized repository of computation.” Wolfram Research makes computing software powered by the Wolfram language, a knowledge-based programming language that draws from symbolic and functional programming paradigms. Continue reading… The post Knowledge-Based Programming with Stephen Wolfram appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“Mutable state is the root of all evil.” Erlang is a functional, concurrent programming language that was originally designed within Ericsson in the 1980's. It was built to support distributed, fault-tolerant, non-stop applications suitable for telecommunications infrastructure. Continue reading… The post Erlang with Joe Armstrong appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“Free Code Camp is my effort to correct the extremely inefficient and circuitous way I learned to code. I’m committing my career and the rest of my life towards making this process as efficient and painless as possible.” Continue reading… The post Free Code Camp with Quincy Larson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“If I was trying to learn coding on my own, to the level that App Academy was able to teach me, it definitely would have taken me significantly longer.” Continue reading… The post Poker to Programming with Haseeb Qureshi appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“The official motto that we have in our help manual is ‘Losing is fun!’ ” Dwarf Fortress is a construction and management simulation computer game set in a procedurally generated fantasy world in which the player indirectly controls a group of dwarves, and attempts to construct a successful underground fortress. Continue reading… The post Dwarf Fortress with Tarn Adams appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“Creativity never comes to you – she will only meet you halfway.” Derek Sivers is a programmer, musician, and writer. He has created several companies and products, including CD Baby, which became the largest seller of independent music online. Continue reading… The post Creativity and Engineering with Derek Sivers appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

“There are a lot more people who have the problem that Hadoop solves than there are people using Hadoop.” Pachyderm is a containerized data analytics platform that seeks to replace Hadoop. Continue reading… The post Replacing Hadoop with Joe Doliner appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

"If you focus on improving the developer experience, it will naturally translate into good documentation." ReadMe is simplifying the process of writing documentation. The platform provides a readymade developer hub with the ability to integrate API endpoints into documentation. Continue reading… The post Rethinking Documentation with Greg Koberger appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

What is it like to be a young software engineer in Nigeria? Osine and Anesi Ikhianosime have a deep understanding of the startup tactics that have led to so many successful companies in the Web 2.0 boom. Their favorite podcast is a16z. Their role models include Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates. They recently worked on a machine learning compression project, inspired by the show Silicon Valley. Continue reading… The post Crocodile Browser with Anesi and Osine Ikhianosime appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Functional languages encourage practices and patterns that can simplify concurrent programming. Scala, Clojure, and Akka are functional tools built on the Java Virtual Machine. Jessica Kerr is a functional developer on the JVM. She currently works at Monsanto. At QCon San Francisco, she will be giving a talk called Contracts in Clojure: Settling Types vs. Tests. Continue reading… The post Functional Programming with Jessica Kerr appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

"What we learn again and again is that security is less about what you think of, and more about what you didn't think of." Bruce Schneier is a security researcher and author of Data and Goliath. Continue reading… The post Security and Privacy with Bruce Schneier appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Container infrastructure has benefits of security, scalability and efficiency. Containers are a central component of the DevOps movement. Joyent provides simple, secure deployment of containers with bare metal speed on container-native infrastructure Bryan Cantrill is the CTO of Joyent, the father of DTrace and an OS kernel developer for 20 years. Questions: Why are containers The post Containers with Bryan Cantrill from Joyent appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Bitcoin’s cultural implications inform the engineering opportunities and constraints. Andreas Antonopoulos is a bitcoin researcher, journalist, and evangelist. Questions What are the taboo topics within the bitcoin community? What do you think of when people say “we know bitcoin is the first real cryptocurrency, but the big question is whether it will be the last”? The post Bitcoin with Andreas Antonopoulos appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.