Best Benjamin Patterson Podcasts (2025)

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SE Radio 700: Mojtaba Sarooghi on Waiting Rooms for High-Traffic Events 1:07:46

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Mojtaba Sarooghi, a Distinguished Product Architect at Queue-it, speaks with host Jeremy Jung about virtual waiting rooms for high-traffic events such as concerts and limited-quantity product releases. They explore using a virtual queue to prevent overloading systems, how most traffic is from bots, using edge workers to reduce requests to the custo…

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EPISODE 168: MATT GREEN 53:34

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In this episode, I talk to the wonderful comedian, MATT GREEN Green is an actor, writer and comedian and boasts a wealth of experience in comedy, having launched his career in 2003 and performed for more than twenty years. He has graced a range of venues and festivals nationwide, notably making appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe. Renowned for his …

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SE Radio 699: Benjamin Brial on Internal Dev Platforms 55:17

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In this episode, Benjamin Brial, CEO and co-founder of Cycloid, speaks with host Sriram Panyam about internal developer platforms (IDPs) and internal developer portals. The conversation explores how these platforms address the growing challenges of DevOps scalability, multi-cloud complexity, and cloud waste, all of which organizations face as they …

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EPISODE 167: DON BISWAS 53:28

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In this episode, I talk to the great comedian, DON BISWAS. Biswas has become a familiar presence at comedy venues up and down the country, performing regularly at clubs across the UK. His material covers an array of topics, drawing on his experiences growing up in an Asian household, as well as his personal journey with neurodiversity, including dy…

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SE Radio 698: Srujana Merugu on How to build an LLM App 1:18:30

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In this episode of Software Engineering Radio, Srujana Merugu, an AI researcher with decades of experience, speaks with host Priyanka Raghavan about building LLM-based applications. The discussion begins by clarifying essential concepts like generative vs. predictive AI, pre-training vs. fine-tuning, and the transformer architecture that powers mod…

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86: Steve Scott, Jet Circus, Seth Davey, LOVKN 16:55

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Tis the season for gifts of generosity, and this month's challenge is to consider giving the gift of music... plus Garret keeps you up to date on all the latest crowdfunding campaigns in Christian music. --- SPOTLIGHT CAMPAIGN --- * Steve Scott - Moving Pictures and Closeups * https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/charles-norman/double-album-by-stev…

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SE Radio 697: Philip Kiely on Multi-Model AI 56:33

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Philip Kiely, software developer relations lead at Baseten, speaks with host Jeff Doolittle about multi-agent AI, emphasizing how to build AI-native software beyond simple ChatGPT wrappers. Kiely advocates for composing multiple models and agents that take action to achieve complex user goals, rather than just producing information. He explains the…

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EPISODE 166: JOZ NORRIS 51:47

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In this episode, I talk to the wonderful comedian, JOZ NORRIS. Surreal British comedian, screenwriter and comic actor Norris is a regular for at the cult comedy night The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society in London and has appeared at various comedy festivals including Leicester and since 2012, Edinburgh. His 2025 solo show You Wait, Time Passes …

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SE Radio 696: Flavia Saldanha on Data Engineering for AI 1:14:25

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Flavia Saldanha, a consulting data engineer, joins host Kanchan Shringi to discuss the evolution of data engineering from ETL (extract, transform, load) and data lakes to modern lakehouse architectures enriched with vector databases and embeddings. Flavia explains the industry's shift from treating data as a service to treating it as a product, emp…

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SE Radio 695: Dave Thomas on Building eBooks Infrastructure 1:02:49

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Dave Thomas, author of The Pragmatic Programmer, The Manifesto for Agile Software Development, Programming Ruby, Agile Web Development with Rails, Programming Elixir, Simplicity, and co-founder of the Pragmatic Bookshelf, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about building infrastructure for eBooks. They discuss what an eBook is, the various forma…

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SE Radio 694: Jennings Anderson and Amy Rose on Overture Maps 1:03:45

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Jennings Anderson, a Software Engineer with Meta Platforms, and Amy Rose, the Chief Technology Officer at Overture Maps Foundation, speak with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the Overture Maps project, which creates reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data. After exploring the foundations of geospatial information systems, Gregory an…

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SE Radio 693: Mark Williamson on AI-Assisted Debugging 54:12

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Mark Williamson, CTO of Undo, joins host Priyanka Raghavan to discuss AI-assisted debugging. The conversation is structured around three main objectives: understanding how AI can serve as a debugging assistant; examining AI-powered debugging tools; exploring whether AI debuggers can independently find and fix bugs. Mark highlights how AI can suppor…

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85: Barry & Michelle Patterson, David Benjamin Blower, Poor Bishop Hooper 28:41

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Good music doesn't just happen. Get involved with a new listener challenge... plus Garret keeps you up to date on all the latest crowdfunding campaigns in Christian music. --- SPOTLIGHT CAMPAIGN --- * Barry & Michelle Patterson - Flower that Blooms in the Night * https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/barryandmichelle/flower-that-blooms-in-the-night-…

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SE Radio 692: Sourabh Satish on Prompt Injection 1:04:36

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Sourabh Satish, CTO and co-founder of Pangea, speaks with SE Radio's Brijesh Ammanath about prompt injection. Sourabh begins with the basic concepts underlying prompt injection and the key risks it introduces. From there, they take a deep dive into the OWASP Top 10 security concerns for LLMs, and Sourabh explains why prompt injection is the top ris…

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SE Radio 691: Kacper Łukawski on Qdrant Vector Database 59:51

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Kacper Łukawski, a Senior Developer Advocate at Qdrant, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the Qdrant vector database and similarity search engine. After introducing vector databases and the foundational concepts undergirding similarity search, they dive deep into the Rust-based implementation of Qdrant. Along with comparing and contrasti…

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SE Radio 690: Florian Gilcher on Rust for Safety-Critical Systems 1:03:44

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Florian Gilcher, co-founder of Ferrous Systems and the Rust Foundation, speaks with host Giovanni Asproni about the application of Rust in mission- and safety-critical systems. The discussion starts with a brief overview of such systems, and an introduction to Rust, emphasizing aspects that make it well-suited for critical environments. Florian and…

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SE Radio 689: Amey Desai on the Model Context Protocol 58:36

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Amey Desai, the Chief Technology Officer at Nexla, speaks with host Sriram Panyam about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its role in enabling agentic AI systems. The conversation begins with the fundamental challenge that led to MCP's creation: the proliferation of "spaghetti code" and custom integrations as developers tried to connect LLMs to …

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84: Back to Bellsburg, Stryper, The Choir 42:02

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SE Radio 688: Daniel Stenberg on Removing Rust from Curl 57:14

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Daniel Stenberg, Swedish Internet protocol expert and founder and lead developer of the Curl project, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about removing Rust from Curl. They discuss why Hyper was removed from curl, why the last five percent of making it a success was difficult, what the project gained from the 5-year attempt to tackle bringing Ru…

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EPISODE 165: BENJAMIN PATTERSON 58:14

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In this episode, I talk to the great comedian, BENJAMIN PATTERSON. Patterson has been performing his frequently silly and surreal jokes, routines and songs, and making audiences laugh for many years. I have seen Patterson compere two shows for Always Be Comedy in London in 2023 and perform at Outside The Box Comedy Club in Kingston in 2024 and 2025…

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SE Radio 687: Elizabeth Figura on Proton and Wine 52:17

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Elizabeth Figura, a Wine Developer at CodeWeavers, speaks with SE Radio host Jeremy Jung about the Wine compatibility layer and the Proton distribution. They discuss a wide range of details including system calls, what people run with Wine, how games are built differently, conformance and regression testing, native performance, emulating a CPU vs e…

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SE Radio 686: François Daoust on W3C 1:02:36

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François Daoust, W3C staff member and co-chair of the Web Developer Experience Community Group, discusses the origins of the W3C, the browser standardization process, and how it relates to other organizations like TC39, WHATWG, and IETF. This episode covers a lot of ground, including funding through memberships, royalty-free patent access for imple…

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EPISODE 164: BOB BOYTON 53:52

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In this episode, I talk to the legendary comedian, BOB BOYTON. Boyton was popular for his political viewpoint as a stand -up comedian in the 1980's. He was one of the founding members of The Cutting Edge, a satirical comedy team that still plays at The Comedy Store in London every Tuesday to this day. He left comedy in the 1990s to become an author…

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SE Radio 685: Will Wilson on Deterministic Simulation Testing 1:01:14

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In this episode, Will Wilson, CEO and co-founder of Antithesis, explores Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) with host Sriram Panyam. Wilson was part of the pioneering team at FoundationDB that developed this revolutionary testing approach, which was later acquired by Apple in 2015. After seeing that even sophisticated organizations lacked robus…

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83: Rachel Wilhelm, Jan Krist, Katy Martin 1:23:55

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This month, Garret brings you the latest crowdfunding campaigns, a listener challenge, and an exclusive interview with the artist behind the spotlight campaign: Rachel Wilhelm. --- SPOTLIGHT CAMPAIGN --- * Rachel Wilhelm - Hosea * https://www.unitedadoration.com/project/hosea/ --- OTHER CAMPAIGNS --- *Jan Krist - Since You Asked Me& - https://www.i…

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SE Radio 684: Dan Bergh Johnsson and Daniel Deogun on Secure By Design 56:43

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Daniel Deogun and Dan Bergh Johnsson -- two of the co-authors of the book, Secure by Design -- discuss the intersection of good software design and security with host Sam Taggart. They describe how following certain software design principles can help developers create secure software without needing to become security experts. They talked about ho…

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SE Radio 683: Artie Shevchenko on Programmers as Code Health Guardians 53:30

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Artie Shevchenko, author of Code Health Guardian, speaks with host Jeff Doolittle about the crucial role of human programmers in the AI era, emphasizing that humans must excel at managing code complexity. Shevchenko discusses these concepts and key takeaways from his book, including the three problems caused by complexity: change amplification, cog…

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EPISODE 163: PAULINE EYRE 58:36

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In this episode, I talk to the wonderful comedian, PAULINE EYRE. Eyre is confident and very funny on stage, regularly making audiences laugh on the comedy circuit. She has a very engaging presence and is extremely relatable. She has performed two solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe: Body in 2024 and Anyone for Tennis in 2025. I have seen Eyre perfor…

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SE Radio 682: Duncan McGregor and Nat Pryce on Refactoring from Java to Kotlin 57:23

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Duncan McGregor and Nat Pryce, co-authors of Java to Kotlin: Refactoring Guidebook, speak with host Giovanni Asproni about their hands-on experiences migrating Java codebases. The episode starts by highlighting Kotlin's seamless interoperability with Java, allowing teams to incrementally adopt Kotlin without disrupting existing Java code. Duncan an…

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EPISODE 162: ROSS SMITH 1:04:33

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In this episode, I talk to the great comedian, ROSS SMITH. Smith is a very funny regular on the comedy circuit and has a very amiable and comfortable style on stage. He has self-depreciative humour mixed with ingenious banter and is an excellent compere with a very easy-going style. His debut Edinburgh show, I Am Ross Smith! Won acclaimed in 2018. …

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SE Radio 681: Qian Li on DBOS Durable Execution/Serverless Computing Platform 52:17

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Qian Li of DBOS, a durable execution platform born from research by the creators of Postgres and Spark, speaks with host Kanchan Shringi about building durable, observable, and scalable software systems, and why that matters for modern applications. They discuss database-backed program state, workflow orchestration, real-world AI use cases, and com…

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EPISODE 161: RHYS JAMES 1:11:51

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In this episode, I talk to the fantastic comedian, RHYS JAMES. James is a popular stand-up comedian who is a regular on the British comedy scene and was a regular guest on BBC TV’s Mock The Week, as well as Live At The Apollo. He has also performed as part of the Pleasance Comedy Reserve at the Edinburgh Fringe, was a finalist in the Laughing Boy N…

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SE Radio 680: Luke Hinds on Privacy and Security of AI Coding Assistants 45:37

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Luke Hinds, CTO of Stacklok and creator of Sigstore, speaks with SE Radio's Brijesh Ammanath about the privacy and security concerns of using AI coding agents. They discuss how the increased use of AI coding assistants has improved programmer productivity but has also introduced certain key risks. In the area of secrets management, for example, the…

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82: Sara Groves, Jonathan Ogden, Bruce Brown 22:23

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Garret brings you some of the latest crowdfunding campaigns & pre-orders so that you can support the making of the music. This month's Good Patron Challenge is to TELL the artists what their music means to you & be specific! --- SPOTLIGHT CAMPAIGN --- * Sara Groves - Conversations 25 Year Anniversary Edition * https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/g…

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SE Radio 679: Wesley Beary on API Design 47:51

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Wesley Beary of Anchor speaks with host Sam Taggart about designing APIs with a particular emphasis on user experience. Wesley discusses what it means to be an "API connoisseur"— paying attention to what makes the APIs we consume enjoyable or frustrating and then taking those lessons and using them when we design our own APIs. Wesley and Sam also e…

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EPISODE 160: DAN ANTOPOLSKI 48:03

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In this episode, I talk to the great comedian, DAN ANTOPOLSKI Actor, writer and British comedian, Antopolski won the BBC New Comedy Award in 1998, and won the Dave Best Joke of the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival in 2009. He is a regular on the UK comedy circuit, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and has also appeared at international comedy f…

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SE Radio 678: Chris Love on Kubernetes Security 54:36

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Chris Love, co-author of the book Core Kubernetes, joins host Robert Blumen for a conversation about kubernetes security. Chris identifies the node layer, secrets management, the network layer, contains, and pods as the most critical areas to be addressed. The conversation explores a range of topics, including when to accept defaults and when to ov…

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SE Radio 677: Jacob Visovatti and Conner Goodrum on Testing ML Models for Enterprise Products 1:00:54

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Jacob Visovatti and Conner Goodrum of Deepgram speak with host Kanchan Shringi about testing ML models for enterprise use and why it's critical for product reliability and quality. They discuss the challenges of testing machine learning models in enterprise environments, especially in foundational AI contexts. The conversation particularly highligh…

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81: Phil Keaggy, Josiah Queen, LOVKN 54:32

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It's the heart of summer, but there are some important crowdfunding campaigns happening now - and Garret gives you the rundown. This month's Good Patron Challenge is to deep dive on an album and host a music club get-together. --- SPOTLIGHT CAMPAIGN --- * Phil Keaggy - Love Broke Thru deluxe reissue * https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lbt2025/ph…

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EPISODE 159: DANIEL HARDING 1:02:22

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In this episode, I talk to the great comedian, DANIEL HARDING. Winner of the Newcomer of the Year award at the Hastings Comedy Festival in 2023, and then creating his first solo show in 2024, which he took around festivals and fringe’s, Harding is a naturally funny comedy and highly recommended. I have seen Harding perform and win the Noman New Com…

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SE Radio 676: Samuel Colvin on the Pydantic Ecosystem 1:02:06

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Samuel Colvin, the CEO and founder of Pydantic, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the ecosystem of Pydantic's Python frameworks, including Pydantic, Pydantic AI, and Pydantic Logfire. Along with discussing the design, implementation, and use of these frameworks, they dive into the refactoring of Pydantic and the follow-on performance imp…

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EPISODE 158: SAMANTHA DAY 1:07:05

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In this episode, I talk to the wonderful comedian, SAMANTHA DAY. Day is a comedian who transitioned from a career in accountancy to stand-up comedy. Her comedy career began six years ago, and she has quickly made a name for herself on the comedy circuit, winning numerous awards, including most recently the Leicester Comedy Festival Silver Stand Up …

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SE Radio 675: Brian Demers on Observability into the Toolchain 47:41

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Brian Demers, Developer Advocate at Gradle, speaks with host Giovanni Asproni about the importance of having observability in the toolchain. Such information about build times, compiler warnings, test executions, and any other system used to build the production code can help to reduce defects, increase productivity, and improve the developer exper…

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SE Radio 674: Vilhelm von Ehrenheim on Autonomous Testing 49:49

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Vilhelm von Ehrenheim, co-founder and chief AI officer of QA.tech, speaks with SE Radio's Brijesh Ammanath about autonomous testing. The discussion starts by covering the fundamentals, and how testing has evolved from manual to automated to now autonomous. Vilhelm then deep dives into the details of autonomous testing and the role of agents in auto…

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EPISODE 157: JACK HESTER 55:47

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In this episode, I talk to the great comedian, JACK HESTER. Hester is a very energetic Irish comedian who is a regular on the UK comedy circuit. In 2023, he was a British Comedian of the Year finalist. I have seen Hester live at Monkey Business Comedy Club in London and his solo show, I am Napoleon at the Hastings Comedy Festival both in 2022, and …

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SE Radio 673: Abhinav Kimothi on Retrieval-Augmented Generation 55:55

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In this episode of Software Engineering Radio, Abhinav Kimothi sits down with host Priyanka Raghavan to explore retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), drawing insights from Abhinav's book, A Simple Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation. The conversation begins with an introduction to key concepts, including large language models (LLMs), context wi…

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SE Radio 672: Luca Palmieri on Rust In Production 57:46

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Luca Palmieri, author of Zero to Production in Rust and Principal Engineering Consultant at MainMatter, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about Rust in production. They discuss what production Rust means, how to get Rust code into production, specific Rust issues to think about when getting an application into production, what Rust profiles are…

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80: Anna Palfreeman, Gileah Taylor, PFR 27:09

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If music doesn't grow on trees, how can I get involved to support the music I love? Garret Godfrey brings you several active crowdfunding campaigns to consider and a monthly Good Patron challenge. --- SPOTLIGHT CAMPAIGN --- * Anna Palfreeman - Frontline * https://annapalfreeman.bandcamp.com/album/frontline *About the project https://www.annapalfree…

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SE Radio 671: Carson Gross on HTMX 1:15:39

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In this episode, SE Radio host Sriram Panyam explores HTMX with its creator, Carson Gross, who is also creator of Hyperscript, the mind behind the Grug Brained Developer, a professor of software engineering at Montana State University, and co-author of Hypermedia Systems. HTMX is a modern JavaScript library that allows developers to access AJAX, We…

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EPISODE 156: FRIZ FRIZZLE 57:01

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In this episode, I talk to the wonderful musical comedian, FRIZ FRIZZLE. A master at crafting parody songs, Frizzle takes well-loved turns and messes around with them to the point of hysterical laughter. An ingenious idea from the nominee for the WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards 2017 and 2018, and winner of the TenFootCity Comedian of The Year 20…