Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

About Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. SE Radio covers all topics software engineering. Episodes are either tutorials on a specific topic, or an interview with a well-known character from the software engineering world. All SE Radio episodes are original content — we do not record conferences or talks given in other venues. SE Radio is brought to you by the IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software magazine.

Publisher

team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team)

Category

education · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Jan 2006

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 744 episodes have a transcript.

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   21 Oct 2026

   SE Radio 743: Sowjanya Pandruju on Managing Agent State

   Sowjanya Pandruju, Cloud Application Architect with Amazon Web Services, Vice Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Madison Section, and Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Madison Section (Region 4), speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about managing agent state. Sowjanya discusses what agents are and are not, what agent state is, the role an LLM actually plays, why agents need state, the different types of state, where to store agent state, how multi-agents change things, and the solutions to the various challenges created by managing agent state. Brought to you by IEEE Computer Society (https://www.computer.org/) and IEEE Software magazine.

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   14 Oct 2026

   SE Radio 742: Tim Varelmann on Mathematical Optimization for Software Engineers

   Tim Varelmann, the founder of Bluebird Optimization, which helps companies automate complex decision-making, speaks with host Sriram Panyam about mathematical optimization. The episode begins by differentiating optimization from what software engineers usually mean by the word. Making something faster or smaller is improvement, whereas optimization means finding the provably best solution after which no further improvement is possible unless the problem's parameters change. The conversation examines the difference between simulation and optimization, where optimization is already running, optimization and AI, key software engineering principles, and how you can get started with mathematical optimization.

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   7 Oct 2026

   SE Radio 741: Sahil Walia on Schema Changes and Data Migrations

   Shail Walia, a senior technical architect at Snowflake, joins host Robert Blumen for a conversation about schema migration and data migration. Together, they discuss the basics of schema: do all data sets have schema?; what drives schema change?; are data migration and schema migration the same thing? Must they happen at the same time? They then talk about the challenges and failure modes of schema migration, including challenges at scale, migrating without downtime, the concept of "safety" in data migrations, and safety patterns for data migration - double writes, read repair, replication, ending on the Apache Iceberg case study.

Inside a recent episode

SE-Radio Episode 300: Jonathan Stark on Mobile App Development

Published 15 Aug 2017 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Another thing could be building progressive web apps for, you know, a businesses web experience that needs to be for some reason needs to be sort of higher fidelity than what you would consider a normal static website or a normal database driven website like a WordPress site or something. There are other aspects of the operating system that your app can reach into. So mobile development also includes things like widgets in the today drawer on iOS or home screen widgets on Android, which is a different kind of runtime, a different kind of development paradigm, different kind of interaction with the user. […]

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