Business And Philosophy

Featured Image Photo Credits Originally posted on July 11, 2016. Negotiation is an important skill for software engineers. The salary you negotiate at the beginning of your job could be a difference of tens of thousands of dollars over the course of an engineer’s career, but intimidating recruiters and exploding offers scare many engineers from The post Salary Negotiation with Haseeb Qureshi Holiday Repeat appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Policies define which users and applications can access and modify resources in a computer system. In a file system, a user might have permission to read or write to a file. In a cloud infrastructure deployment, a user might have the rights to deploy a new server. One microservice may or may not have the The post Open Policy Agent with Torin Sandall appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

TLA+ is a formal specification language. TLA+ is used to design, model, and verify concurrent systems. TLA+ allows a user to describe a system formally with simple, precise mathematics. TLA+ was designed by Leslie Lamport, a computer scientist and Turing Award winner. Leslie joins the show to talk about the purpose of TLA+. Since its The post TLA+ with Leslie Lamport appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Online labor marketplaces are widely used for one-to-one transactions. On Uber, a rider hires a driver for transportation. On TaskRabbit, a homeowner hires a cleaner to come clean their kitchen. These types of marketplaces are not as widely used for one-to-many transactions, but they can be just as useful. A warehouse owner would want to The post Wonolo: Staffing Marketplace with Jeremy Burton appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Engineers who start companies often find themselves building something they have no experience with: a hiring process. Hiring engineers today is not as systematic as building software. We don’t have lots of data that tells us what makes for an effective programming interview question. The smartest tech companies in the world are still making hiring The post Building a Hiring Process with Ammon Bartram appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Background checks are a routine part of the hiring process. After a potential employee has made it through job interviews, a background check is administered to look through the applicant’s work history, criminal record, and other available data. Conducting a conventional background check can require manual work–including phone calls for reference checks and going to The post Checkr: Background Check Platform with Tomas Barreto appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Engineers need to have an awareness of the business model that allows their company to succeed. When a software company is going to market, the engineers need to work closely with the sales and marketing team to formulate a strategy for building and selling that product. This is especially true in highly technical products, such The post Go To Market with Mitch Ferguson appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

For most of history, a typical musician would learn to play one specific instrument. As synthesizers became available to the public, it became commonplace for a musician to create their own instruments using hardware and software. By the early 2000s, digital audio workstation software allowed a musician with a laptop to have access to the The post Music Engineering with Dom Kane appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Chad Fowler was the CTO of Wunderlist prior to its acquisition by Microsoft. Since the acquisition, Chad has become the general manager of developer advocacy at Microsoft. He also works as a venture capitalist at BlueYard Capital, an early stage investment firm. I’ve had a lot of fun talking to Chad, because he can move The post Future Architecture with Chad Fowler appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Music collaboration has historically been accomplished by musicians gathering in bands. A band is usually an in-person, physical manifestation: a drummer, a guitarist, a piano player. Or, on a large scale, a symphony of classical instruments led by a conductor. Today, the most flexible instrument that anyone can play is arguably the computer, because a The post Splice: Music Collaboration with Matt Aimonetti appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Howard Marks ran two video game companies in the 90’s: Activision and Acclaim. While running these companies, he developed a love for entrepreneurship that he maintains today. Howard is the CEO of StartEngine, a company that functions as an accelerator, a crowdfunding platform, and ICO launcher. Howard joins the show to talk about his background The post Video Games and Funding Techniques with Howard Marks appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Banking has been a part of the economy for 600 years. Banking has always been evolving. The most recent evolution: the financial industry has been going digital. Newer “fintech” companies have created innovative ways of doing everything related to money–from friendly payments to budgeting; from business transactions to insurance. However, the traditional banks themselves have The post Build a Bank: N26 with Pat Kua appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Nubank was started in 2013 with a credit card that was controlled through a mobile app. At the time, it was the first service in Brazil that allowed customers to do banking without going to a physical bank branch. Since then, Nubank has expanded into additional financial services and currently has 850 employees working in The post Build a Bank: Nubank with Edward Wible appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Tim O’Reilly’s book What’s the Future? is an overview of business, technology, and society. As the founder of O’Reilly Media, Tim has been steeped in technology trends for the last 40 years. From his vantage point running conferences and publishing technical content, Tim has been able to make informed predictions about what is coming next. The post Future Projection with Tim O’Reilly appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Computer systems consume memory, CPU, battery, data, and network bandwidth as inputs. These systems provide value for the end user by delivering information, virtual objects, and physical products as outputs. Another fundamental resource that is becoming easier to consume as input is money. There are also new outputs–financial constructs that are made possible by cloud The post Fintech Environment with Michael Walsh appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Investing is an infinite game. In a game, a player can formulate a strategy based on the available resources, the apparent variance of the environment, and the metagame of the other actors involved. For an investor, the game board includes companies, currencies, and people. A successful game player can model their actions mathematically. They can The post Investment Games with Brian Singerman appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Self-driving, electric cars will someday outnumber traditional automobiles on the road. As transportation becomes autonomous, it is hard to imagine an industry that will not be affected by the downstream effects of this change. These cars will likely be managed by fleet operators like Lyft and Uber. We will need fewer cars, and the amount The post Autonomy with Frank Chen appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

The world of software moves faster than the laws that regulate it. When software companies do get regulated, that regulation is often enforced unevenly among different companies. Software continually presents the legal system with new requirements. Consumer data privacy needs to be enforced on a granular level. Software developers need a system of protecting their The post Software Law: GDPR, Patents, and Antitrust with Micah Kesselman appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

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 source projects in the Kubernetes The post Cloud Native Computing Foundation with Chris Aniszczyk and Dan Kohn appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Starting an Internet business is harder than it should be. You need to incorporate, create an operating agreement, set up a system to accept payments, and many other straightforward tasks. In the 1990s, this was how it felt to set up anything on the Internet. You always had to stand up a web server on The post Stripe Atlas with Patrick McKenzie appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.