Open Source Sustainability

Open Source Sustainability

Author: Podcast Archives - Software Engineering Daily May 14, 2026 Duration: 58:43
Open source software underpins nearly every modern application, including frameworks powering the most popular websites, to the libraries securing financial backend systems. However, while open source drives collaboration and innovation at a global scale, it also faces deep challenges in sustainability, community health, and long-term maintenance. Many of the world’s most critical dependencies are still

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

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FastMCP with Adam Azzam and Jeremiah Lowin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:06
The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, gives developers a common way to expose tools, data, and capabilities to large language models, and it has quickly become an important standard in agentic AI. FastMCP is an open source…
SED News: OpenCode, AI Code vs. Shipped Code, and the LiteLLM Breach [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:42
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this epis…
FreeBSD with John Baldwin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:31
FreeBSD is one of the longest-running and most influential open-source operating systems in the world. It was born from the Berkeley Software Distribution in the early 1990s, it has powered everything from high-performan…
Cilium, eBPF, and Modern Kubernetes Networking with Bill Mulligan [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:30
Modern cloud-native systems are built on highly dynamic, distributed infrastructure where containers spin up and down constantly, services communicate across clusters, and traditional networking assumptions break down. L…
Games That Push Back with Bennett Foddy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:33
Bennett Foddy is a legendary game designer known for creating wholly distinctive games such as QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and the recently released Baby Steps. He’s also a former professor at the NYU Game…
Prettier and Opinionated Code Formatting with James Long [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:35
Developer tooling shapes how software gets written day to day, but the best tools often disappear into the background once they succeed. Formatting, linting, and build systems can either create friction and endless debat…
Skate Story with Sam Eng [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:48
Skateboarding games have long balanced technical precision with a sense of flow and expression, but Skate Story takes the genre in a radically different direction. It has a distinct vaporwave vibe and blends fluid skate…
DeepMind’s RAG System with Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:57
Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, has become a foundational approach to building production AI systems. However, deploying RAG in practice can be complex and costly. Developers typically have to manage vector datab…
Reinventing the Python Notebook with Akshay Agrawal [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:04
Interactive notebooks were popularized by the Jupyter project and have since become a core tool for data science, research, and data exploration. However, traditional, imperative notebooks often break down as projects gr…
Organizational Context for AI Coding Agents with Dennis Pilarinos [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:21
AI agents have taken on a growing share of software development work, so much so that the hardest problems are shifting away from code generation towards something new, context. The challenge is now contextualizing why s…