Over the past several months the Software Engineering Daily podcast has entered my regular listening list. I can’t remember where I discovered it, but I was amazed at the frequency at which new episodes were released and the breadth of topics. Since episodes come out every weekday there’s always more than enough content to listen to. I’ve updated My Top Tech, Software and Comedy Podcast List to include Software Engineering Daily. Here are a few episodes that have stood out:

Scheduling with Adrian Cockroft was quite timely as part of my final paper for my undergraduate degree focused on the breadth of topics in scheduling. Adrian discussed many of the principles of scheduling and related them to how they were applied at Netflix and earlier companies. Scheduling is really a necessity for software developers to know as scheduling occurs in all layers of the software and hardware stack.

Developer Roles with Dave Curry and Fred George was very entertaining and informative as it presented the idea of “Developer Anarchy”, a different structure to running, (or not running), development teams. Instead of hiring Project Managers, Quality Assurance, or DBAs to fill a specific niche of a development team, you mainly hire programmers and leave them to perform all of those tasks according to what they deem is necessary.

Infrastructure with Datanauts’ Chris Wahl and Ethan Banks entertained as much as it informed. This episode had a more casual setting as the hosts told stories and brought years of experience to the current and future direction of infrastructure in all layers of the stack. Comparing the current success of Kubernetes to the not-so-promising OpenStack was quite informative as it showed that multiple supporting organizations drove the OpenStack project to have different priorities and visions, whereas Google, being the single organization to drive Kubernetes, is shown to have one single, unified vision.

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EDIT 2017-02-26 – Add Datanauts episode