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Tim Varelmann, founder of Bluebird Optimization, on mathematical optimization -- not making something faster or 'better' but finding the provably best solution after which no further improvement is possible without changing the parameters. @ieeesoftware se-radio.net/2026/10/se-radi…
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Sahil Walia, a senior technical architect at Snowflake, on the challenges and failure modes of schema migration, including challenges at scale, migrating without downtime, & the concept of “safety” in data migrations. @ieeesoftware se-radio.net/2026/10/se-radi…
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Raju Dandigam of Navan recommends treating an agent as a software subsystem rather than a standalone model call. The right architecture is usually the simplest one that meets the product need while preserving reliability and control. se-radio.net/2026/09/se-radi… @ieeesoftware
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Veteran video game developer Erin Catto (Tomb Raider series, Diablo III, Overwatch, and more) discusses his popular Box2D physics engine (used in Angry Birds, Noita, etc), and the Box3D library he released this year. se-radio.net/2026/09/se-radi… @ieeesoftware @ComputerSociety
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Milan Milanovic, Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, discusses the 'laws of software engineering' and how to apply them, especially for teams using AI in their day-to-day work. @ieeesoftware @ComputerSociety se-radio.net/2026/09/se-radi…
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Owen McGirr, creator of SayIt!, Switchify, and an entrepreneur who builds inclusive technology discusses how developers can improve software accessibility from the start rather than tacking it on as an afterthought. se-radio.net/2026/09/se-radi… @ieeesoftware @ComputerSociety
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Sahil Walia, Senior Technical Architect at Snowflake, takes us for a deep dive into Apache Iceberg, including use cases, OLAP, data formats, data lakes and lake houses, indexing, query planning, and performance issues. se-radio.net/2026/09/se-radi… @ieeesoftware @ComputerSociety
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Vivek Yadav, engineering manager at Stripe, explains why unit and integration tests fall short for microservices and notes that the same pattern applies wherever AI-driven code changes need fast, reliable evals. se-radio.net/2026/08/se-radi… @ieeesoftware @ComputerSociety
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Sathiesh Veera, a GenAI Solutions Architect at At&T, recommends data-protection guardrails, data filtering, and security measures to protect data when using LLMs. se-radio.net/2026/08/se-radi… @ieeesoftware @ComputerSociety
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Max Corbridge, ethical hacker and red teamer and cofounder / CEO of Secure Agentics, discusses how AI agents get attacked and what engineers can actually do to defend them. se-radio.net/2026/08/se-radi… @ieeesoftware @ComputerSociety
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Jason Gorman, software development expert and founder of Codemanship, discusses how established practices are even more important when working with AI assistance and offers practical advice for teams to add AI tools to their workflows. se-radio.net/2026/08/se-radi… @ieeesoftware
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Sonali Varde, Senior Software Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, descibes what skills are gaining importance for engineering managers with the rise of AI, including how to think about context, reviews, testing, and operational rigor. se-radio.net/2026/07/se-radi… @ieeesoftware
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Birgitta Boeckeler, a Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks, explains how harnesses can help AI agents operate more reliably and improve trust in AI-generated code. @ieeesoftware @ComputerSociety se-radio.net/2026/07/se-radi…
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Garth Mollet, Senior Principal Product Security Engineer at Red Hat, joins us to discuss AI supply chain security and how it differs from the conventional software supply chain. @ieeesoftware @ComputerSociety se-radio.net/2026/07/se-radi…
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Clare Liguori, Senior Principal Engineer working on developer tooling and agentic AI at AWS, discusses the Amazon Strands Agents SDK, including philosophy, design decisions, and emerging patterns behind building production-grade AI agents. se-radio.net/2026/07/se-radi… @ieeesoftware
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Jeroen Janssens, a senior developer relations engineer at Posit, and Thijs Nieuwdorp, a developer relations engineer at Polars, discuss the Polars Python package for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data. se-radio.net/2026/07/se-radi… @ComputerSociety @ieeesoftware
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Scott Kingsley of SmartBear discusses using the Swagger ecosystem -- the UI, editor, and CodeGen -- to create OpenAPI-compatible APIs in a landscape where AI agents are also building and interacting with APIs. se-radio.net/2026/06/se-radi… @ComputerSociety @ieeesoftware
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Danny Yang & Sam Goldman, software engineers at Meta, examine the Rust-based Pyrefly type checker for Python, and discuss how to balance features, performance, and language integrations when choosing among type checkers. se-radio.net/2026/06/se-radi… @ieeesoftware
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Jure Leskovec, Stanford professor and Chief Scientist at Kumo.ai, talks about the transformative impact of relational and graph language models on enterprise decision-making and predictive modeling. se-radio.net/2026/06/se-radi… @ieeesoftware @ComputerSociety
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Dave Arlie shares insights and stories, including best practices and supporting tools, based on his 20 years working on the Linux graphics stack, co-maintaining the Linux Kernel GPU subsystem known as drm. @ComputerSociety @ieeesoftware se-radio.net/2026/06/se-radi…
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