Business And Philosophy

If you’ve ever googled a CS or programming question, you likely found an answer (or many) on Stack Overflow. Founded in 2008 and named after a common computing error, Stack Overflow empowers the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. More than 100 million people visit Stack Overflow every month making it one of the The post Stack Overflow for Teams: A Centralized Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Platform with Tom Limoncelli appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Ashmeet Sidana is the founder of Engineering Capital. The post How to Convince Ashmeet Sidana to Invest in Your Business appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

In this episode we discuss the new Move Fast book, as well as many aspects of the current state of software engineering. Daliana Liu interviews Jeff Meyerson, host of Software Daily and author of Move Fast. This interview was also recorded as a video podcast. Check out the video on the Software Daily YouTube channel. The post Move Fast with Jeff Meyerson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

We talk to a lot of exciting startups from all over the world about their tech products. Recently we’ve heard from people innovating in the blockchain space, cloud infrastructure, databases, and automation tools. However, in today’s episode, we’re going to talk about how these tech startups get investments to build their great products in the The post Investment Strategy: Defining New Markets with Sarah Guo appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

In this episode we discuss coding bootcamps, fear, fitness, and more with Ruben Harris, CEO of Career Karma. This interview was also recorded as a video podcast. Check out the video on the Software Daily YouTube channel. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Career Karma with Ruben Harris appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

When I worked as an engineer at Amazon, I would arrive at the office every day before 6:30am. Amazon’s enormous campus is in downtown Seattle. The company expands across the city like a massive, growing organism composed of towering buildings and ecospheres. The constant wet mist of Seattle always seems lighter within Amazon campus, perhaps The post Build Your Own Amazon appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The cloud has delivered amazing benefits like on-demand infrastructure that’s easy to use, pay-as-you-go subscription plans, and effortless scaling of applications. This flexibility minimizes the growing pains for businesses and explains why today’s startups and established companies are both building apps on the cloud.  However, the costs of using the cloud stack up once companies The post Cloud Cost with Martin Casado appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

In this episode we discuss software investing, business, and the future with David Rosenthal, co-host of the Acquired podcast. This interview was also recorded as our very first video podcast. Check out the video on the Software Daily YouTube channel. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com The post Software Investing with David Rosenthal appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Yelp.com is a crowdsourced review platform focused on restaurants and local businesses. Originally created as an email-based recommendation service, Yelp re-launched in its modern form in 2005. At the time, its focus on user-created reviews and social interactions was fairly novel, and made it stand out from competitors such as Angie’s List and CitySearch. Since The post Yelp Early Days with Michael Stoppelman appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

For startups that are still seeking product/market fit, pre-seed investments are critical to funding initial investments in the product and in the infrastructure needed to scale. Afore Capital is a pre-seed fund that invests in innovative companies across a wide variety of verticals. Afore focuses on startups with unique product insights and novel distribution approaches. The post Pre Seed Investing with Gaurav Jain appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Large technology companies are a new type of industry. Their power and reach is resistant to a comparison of previous generations, such as big oil. Alex Kantrowitz is a journalist who has covered big technology for much of his career, and he currently runs Big Technology, a newsletter and podcast about the biggest technology companies The post Big Tech with Alex Kantrowitz appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Originally published April 7, 2017 Engineers in Silicon Valley see a world of constant progress. Our work is creative and intellectually challenging. We are building the future and getting compensated quite well for it. But what if we are actually achieving far less than what is possible? What if, after so many years of high The post Complacency with Tyler Cowen (Repeat) appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Originally published August 28, 2019 Kent Beck is a legendary figure in the world of software engineering.  Kent was an early advocate of Test-Driven Development (TDD), and popularized the idea of writing unit tests before writing code that would satisfy those unit tests. A unit test isolates and tests a small piece of functionality within The post Facebook Engineering Process with Kent Beck (Repeat) appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Originally published May 14, 2018 The Kubernetes ecosystem consists of enterprises, vendors, open source projects, and individual engineers. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation was created to balance the interests of all the different groups within the cloud native community. CNCF has similarities to the Linux Foundation and the Apache Foundation. CNCF helps to guide open The post Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Chris Aniszczyk and Dan Kohn Holiday Repeat appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

DevOps practices are shared via community, and community manifests at conferences. Unfortunately, conferences are not possible right now due to COVID-19. The world has turned to virtual conferences. All Day DevOps is a 24 hour conference sharing learnings and software strategies around DevOps, starting November 12th. Derek Weeks and Mark Miller are organizers of the The post DevOps Community with Derek Weeks and Mark Miller appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Staff engineer is a job title that suggests the engineer has deep expertise, and considerable experience. More and more companies are adopting a “staff engineer track” where an engineer can work to become a staff engineer. What is the role of staff engineer? Is it a management role or an individual contributor? What are the The post Staff Engineering with Will Larson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Developer tooling and infrastructure is a fruitful area for investing. A wide variety of technologies can have large investment outcomes based on the fact that there are lots of engineers and businesses are willing to pay for products that give those engineers a higher degree of leverage. Lee Edwards is a partner with Root Ventures. The post Developer Investing with Lee Edwards appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Investing in enterprise software has become a competitive business. Lots of venture capital firms compete for the good deals at every stage. This level of competition has driven more capital into the early stages.  Ed Sim is a partner with Boldstart, an early stage enterprise investment firm. He joins the show to talk about modern The post Enterprise Investing with Ed Sim appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

After working at VMware for 10 years, Jerry Chen developed an expertise in technology companies. Today, he works at Greylock, where he looks at deals in the infrastructure and developer tooling space. Jerry is an expert in go-to-market strategy and makes investments in technologies that have a good chance at becoming large and profitable businesses. The post Modern Venture with Jerry Chen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

As software permeates our lives, there are an increased number of situations where the legal system must be designed to account for that software. Whether the issues are open source licensing, cryptocurrencies, or worker classifications, software overlaps heavily with the law. Just as software is crafted by engineers, the legal structure around software is crafted The post Software and the Law with Mark Radcliffe appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.