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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 1st, 2026

Kubernetes World: Finding Your Path in the Cloud Native Ecosystem

Hosted by Julián Duque, Yadin Porter de León, Bart Farrell
Bart Farrell from KubeFM and LearnKube joins Julian and Yadin to discuss Kubernetes World: Finding Your Path in the Cloud Native Ecosystem, a new free ebook and career guide that helps new community members navigate the complex Kubernetes landscape. From the importance of a welcoming community to a behind-the-scenes look at how the ebook was created, this episode will interest all cloud-native professionals.
Hosted By:
Julián Duque
Julián Duque
Principal Developer Advocate, Heroku
@julian_duque
Yadin Porter de León
Yadin Porter de León
Director, Product Marketing, Heroku
with Guest:
Bart Farrell
Bart Farrell

Transcript Available

  • DevLife
  • cloud native
  • Kubernetes

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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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