Render: High Level Cloud with Anurag Goel

Render: High Level Cloud with Anurag Goel

Author: Greatest Hits Archives - Software Engineering Daily June 17, 2019 Duration: 1:13:29
Cloud computing was popularized in 2006 with the launch of Amazon Web Services. AWS allowed developers to use remote server infrastructure with a simple set of APIs. But even with AWS, it was still not simple to deploy and manage a web application. In 2007, Heroku launched a platform built on top of AWS. Heroku

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

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Knowledge-Based Programming with Stephen Wolfram Holiday Repeat [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:19:01
Originally published November 10, 2015 “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 Re…
Machine Learning and Technical Debt with D. Sculley Holiday Repeat [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:55
Originally published November 17, 2015 “Changing anything changes everything.” Technical debt, referring to the compounding cost of changes to software architecture, can be especially challenging in machine learning syst…
Run Less Software with Rich Archbold [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:04
There is a quote from Jeff Bezos: “70% of the work of building a business today is undifferentiated heavy lifting. Only 30% is creative work. Things will be more exciting when those numbers are inverted.” That quote is f…
Training the Machines with Russell Smith [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:18
Automation is changing the labor market. To automate a task, someone needs to put in the work to describe the task correctly to a computer. For some tasks, the reward for automating a task is tremendous–for example, putt…
High Volume Event Processing with John-Daniel Trask [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:28
A popular software application serves billions of user requests. These requests could be for many different things. These requests need to be routed to the correct destination, load balanced across different instances of…
Fiverr Engineering with Gil Sheinfeld [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:34
As the gig economy grows, that growth necessitates innovations in the online infrastructure powering these new labor markets. In our previous episodes about Uber, we explored the systems that balance server load and gath…
Legal Technology with Justin Kan [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:18
Imagine that you are a lawyer. Your work involves managing files with dense, technical text. Your co-workers collaborate with you to accomplish a complex goal that can be broken down into smaller pieces. Your work has fo…
Early Investments with Semil Shah [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:27
An engineer who wants to start a business using investment capital needs to understand the expectations of investors. The market for the business needs to be huge. The team needs to have a differentiated understanding of…
Netflix Serverless-like Platform with Vasanth Asokan [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:47
The Netflix API is accessed by developers who build for over 1000 device types: TVs, smartphontes, VR headsets, laptops. If it has a screen, it can probably run Netflix. On each of these different devices, the Netflix ex…
Parlaying Failure to Fortune with Paul Martino [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:20
In 2003, Paul Martino co-founded Tribe.net, one of the earliest social networking sites. Tribe had significant traction, with hundreds of thousands of users. In the early 2000s, hundreds of thousands of users was enough…