Software Engineering Radio

Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. Three to four times per month, they publish a new episode talking to experts from the software engineering world about the full range of topics that matter to professional developers.

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Talking Traces and OpenTelemetry

Hosted by Jon Dodson, Alex Arnell

Jon Dodson has an 11-year Heroku veteran with him on the podcast this week, Principal Member of Technical Staff Alex Arnell. Together they talk through the native integration of OpenTelemetry in Heroku Fir, the benefits of traces over traditional logs, how they assist debugging, and what’s next for observability in modern development.

Hosted By:

Jon Dodson

Software Engineering LMTS, Heroku

with Guest:

Alex Arnell

Software Engineering PMTS, Heroku

Software Engineering Radio • May 14th, 2020

Joe Kutner on the Twelve-Factor App

Joe Kutner, Software Architect for Heroku at Salesforce.com, discusses the twelve-factor app. The twelve-factor app is a methodology that aids development of modern apps that are portable, scalable, and maintainable. Host Kanchan Shringi spoke with Kutner about the origin of these principles; their continued and growing importance with advances in microservices, DevOps, and containerization; and why developers should adopt the principles to build modern apps.