Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

SE Radio 724: Jure Leskovec on Relational Graph and Foundational Models

SE Radio 723: Dave Airlie on Linux Kernel Maintenance

SE Radio 722: Dwayne McDaniel on the Engineering Challenges of Secrets Management

SE Radio 721: Rob Moffat on Risk-First Software Development

SE Radio 720: Martin Dilger on Understanding Eventsourcing

SE Radio 719: Birol Yildiz on Building an Agentic AI SRE

Building agentic AI for site reliability engineering requires moving beyond static workflows toward reasoning loops that dynamically select tools to solve production incidents. Effective AI SRE systems prioritize "agentic search"—leveraging standard terminal commands like grep and jq—over heavy, high-maintenance vector...

SE Radio 718: Will Sentance on JS Modernization

SE Radio 717: Eric Tschetter on Decoupling Observability

Observability technology is transitioning from monolithic, vendor-locked stacks toward a decoupled three-layer architecture consisting of data ingestion, storage, and query-visualization layers. This evolution mirrors the historical development of business intelligence, where separating the data platform from the inter...

SE Radio 716: Martin Kleppmann Local-First Software

SE Radio 715: Sahaj Garg on Designing for Ambiguity in Human Input

SE Radio 714: Costa Alexoglou on Remote Pair Programming

SE Radio 713: Héctor Ramón Jiménez on Building a GUI library in Rust

SE Radio 712: Dan Lorenc on Sigstore

SE Radio 711: Scott Hanselman on AI-Assisted Development Tools

AI-assisted development tools and their impact on software engineering are explored, with Scott Hanselman, Vice President of Developer Community at Microsoft, providing historical context and practical advice. The conversation tackles the ambiguity introduced by AI in coding, contrasting it with the specificity of trad...

SE Radio 710: Marc Brooker on Spec-Driven AI Dev

Spec-driven development in the age of AI is explored with Marc Brooker, VP and Distinguished Engineer at AWS. Brooker emphasizes that AI's rapid code generation necessitates faster, lighter development processes and robust testing infrastructure. "Vibe coding" feels productive initially but lacks long-term sustainabili...

SE Radio 709: Bryan Cantrill on the Data Center Control Plane

SE Radio 708: Jens Gustedt on C in 2026

SE Radio 707: Subhajit Paul on ERP Automation and AI

SE Radio 706: Yechezkel "Chez" Rabinovich on Observability Tool Migration Techniques

SE Radio 705: Murat Erder and Eoin Woods on Continuous Architecture