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Software Engineering Daily

A daily podcast hosted by Jeff Meyerson that covers everything related to software engineering, from machine learning to bitcoin, bootcamps to hackathons, data science to databases, and more. The show hosts a wide variety of technical interviews about software topics.

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Code[ish] • April 29th, 2026

OTel in the Age of AI

Hosted by Juliá Duque, Austin Parker
Austin Parker, Director of Open Source at Honeycomb and main contributor for the OpenTelemetry project, joins Julián Duque to discuss how observability is evolving in the age of generative AI. From OTel's origins to the development of new semantic conventions for LLMs, Austin explores how standardized telemetry provides the visibility needed to keep complex, AI-powered applications running smoothly.
Hosted By:
Julián Duque
Julián Duque
Principal Developer Advocate, Heroku
@julian_duque
with Guest:
Austin Parker
Austin Parker
Director of Open Source, Honeycomb

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  • Tools and Tips
  • AI
  • OpenTelemetry

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Software Engineering Daily • December 4th, 2019

Heroku Infrastructure with Mark Turner

Mark Turner, an engineer at Heroku, joins the Software Engineering Daily show to discuss the architecture and engineering of a Layer 2 cloud provider, of which they were the first. Heroku is built on top of Amazon Web Services, and the core compute infrastructure is built on top of a pool of EC2 virtual machines that are continually scheduled with applications that users create on Heroku.

  • infrastructure
  • cloud
  • PaaS

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Software Engineering Daily • May 6th, 2019

Cloud Database Workloads with Jon Daniel

Relational databases such as Postgres are often used for critical workloads, such as user account data. To run a relational database service in the cloud requires a cloud provider to set up a highly durable, highly available system.

Jon Daniel is an infrastructure engineer at Heroku. Jon joins Software Engineering Daily to describe the engineering and operations required to build a managed relational database service.

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  • postgres

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Software Engineering Daily • August 2nd, 2017

Platform Continuous Delivery

Continuous delivery is a model for deploying small, frequent changes to an application. In a continuous delivery workflow, code changes that are pushed to a repository set off a build process that spins up a new version of the application.
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Heroku Flow

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Software Engineering Daily • February 28th, 2017

Autoscaling

Andrew Gwozdziewycz is an operational experience engineer with Heroku. He talks about how Heroku build Autoscaling in this episode, and how Heroku’s metrics pipeline - using Kafka and Cassandra - supports the high volume of health check data.
  • Autoscaling
  • Data health check

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Software Engineering Daily • October 25th, 2016

Kafka

Tom Crayford is an engineer at Heroku, where he helped engineer the recent Heroku Kafka product, which is a managed version of Apache Kafka. He talks about the use cases of Kafka and how to build Kafka as a cloud service at scale in this podcast.
  • Apache Kafka
  • distributed systems
  • Kafka on Heroku

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