Mojo and Building a CUDA Replacement with Chris Lattner

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Mojo is a new programming language designed to combine the simplicity of Python with the performance of C and the safety of Rust. It also aims to provide a vendor-independent approach to GPU programming. Mojo is being developed by Chris Lattner, a renowned systems engineer known for his seminal contributions to computer science, including LLVM, the Clang compiler, and the Swift programming language.

Chris is the CEO and Co-Founder of Modular AI, the company behind Mojo. In this episode, he joins the show to discuss his engineering journey and his current work on AI infrastructure and the Mojo language.

Kevin Ball or KBall, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and engineering leaders. He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San Diego JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through Latent Space.

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The Google Sheets calculation engine was originally written in Java and launched in 2006. In the early days of the product, all calculation happened on the server. However, starting in 2013 the engine has run in the browser using JavaScript. Google Sheets is now one of the first products at Google to use WebAssembly Garbage Collection, or WasmGC, on Chrome. Michael Thomas is the Multiplatform Lead for Google Workspace and Thomas Steiner is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google . They join the podcast to tell the story of why and how Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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Containers at the Edge with David Aronchick 40:55

41 weeks ago40:55

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Large datasets require large computational resources to process that data. More frequently, where you process that data geographically can be just as important as how you process it. Expanso provides job execution infrastructure that runs jobs where data resides, to help reduce latency and improve security and data governance. David Aronchick is the CEO of Expanso . He previously worked at Google on the Kubernetes team, which influenced his decision to start Expanso. David joins the show to talk about his company. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business , an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm . Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com , and see all his content at leeatchison.com . Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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Evolving JavaScript with Douglas Crockford 54:32

41 weeks ago54:32

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Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer who is involved in the development of the JavaScript language. He specified the JSON data format, and has developed various JavaScript related tools such as the static code analyzer JSLint. Crockford is also a game developer and worked at Atari. Douglas joins the podcast to talk about his career and work in computer science. Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript. Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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Developer Productivity with Damien Filiatrault 41:00

41 weeks ago41:00

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Damien Filiatrault is the founder and CEO of Scalable Path , a software staffing agency that matches companies and startups with vetted, remote software developers. The company was founded in 2010, and since then has worked on hundreds of client projects and has built a freelance network with 35,000 remote developers in 177 countries. Damien joins the podcast to talk about software engineering management, the state of the software engineering job market, the challenge of hiring engineers, measuring productivity, and more. Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Scalable Path Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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GemFire with Ivan Novick 34:12

42 weeks ago34:12

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Tanzu GemFire is a distributed, in-memory, key-value store that performs read and write operations at fast speeds. It offers highly available parallel message queues, continuous availability, and a scalable event-driven architecture. It was developed to have sub-millisecond response times and accordingly found early application in automated trading environments on Wall Street. Ivan Novick is the Product Manager for GemFire at the Tanzu Division of Broadcom. He joins the show to talk about Tanzu GemFire and its applications. Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by VMware This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business , an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm . Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com , and see all his content at leeatchison.com . Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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Modern Frontend Engineering with Stefan Li 42:32

42 weeks ago42:32

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In 2022, Stefan Li and Stew Fortier envisioned a document editor with language model features built in. They founded Type.ai, received backing from Y Combinator, and have since been at the frontier of building a next-generation document editor. However, to ensure a robust and performant frontend, Type.ai needed to take advantage of many modern browser features. Stefan Li is the CTO of Type.ai , and he joins the show to talk about the state of frontend dev, the service worker API, IndexedDB, the SharedWorker interface, Web Locks, and more. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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AI Research at Capital One with Bayan Bruss 44:08

42 weeks ago44:08

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A major challenge in applied AI is out-of-distribution detection, or OOD, which is the task of detecting instances that do not belong to the distribution the classifier has been trained on. OOD data is often referred to as "unseen" data, as the model has not encountered it during training. Bayan Bruss is the VP of AI Foundations at Capital One and in this role he works with academic researchers to translate the latest research to address fundamental problems in financial services. Bayan joins the show with Sean Falconer to talk about OOD, the importance of bringing AI research to real world applications, and more.…

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DuckDB with Hannes Mühleisen 47:33

43 weeks ago47:33

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DuckDB is an open-source column-oriented relational database that was first released in 2019. It's designed to provide high performance on complex queries against large databases, and focuses on online analytical processing workloads. Hannes Mühleisen is the Co-Creator of DuckBD , and is the CEO and Co-Founder of DuckDB Labs . He joins the show to talk about drawing inspiration from SQLite, why DuckDB was written in C++, the novel data processing scenarios it enables, and more. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business , an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm . Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com , and see all his content at leeatchison.com . Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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Creating GUIs in Rust with Emil Ernerfeldt 45:42

43 weeks ago45:42

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Rerun is an open source SDK and viewer for visualizing and interacting with multimodal data streams. The SDK lets you send data from anywhere, and the viewer collects the data and aligns it so the user can scroll back and forth in time to interpret it. The tools have been applied in spatial computing, augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality. Emil Ernerfeldt is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rerun . Emil is also the creator of egui which is a popular GUI library written in Rust. He joins the podcast to talk about his history in game development, building super fast tools, and developing Rerun. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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Chroma’s Vector Database with Anton Troynikov 50:58

43 weeks ago50:58

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Chroma is an open-source AI application database. Anton Troynikov is a Founder at Chroma . He has a background in computer vision and previously worked at Meta. In this episode Anton speaks with Sean Falconer about Chroma, and the goal of building the memory and storage subsystem for the new computing primitive that AI models represent. Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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The Vesuvius Challenge with Juli Schilliger and Youssef Nader 44:12

44 weeks ago44:12

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In 79 AD, in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, twenty meters of hot mud and ash buried an enormous villa once owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. Inside, there was a vast library of papyrus scrolls. The scrolls were carbonized by the heat of the volcanic debris, but they were trapped underground where they remained preserved. It wasn't until the 1750s that the scrolls were discovered, but they were fragile and resistant to being opened and read. Then, in 2015, researchers used X-ray tomography and computer vision to virtually unwrap the scrolls. Last year, the Vesuvius Challenge was launched by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Brent Seales to crowdsource the process of reconstructing the text from the scrolls. Juli Schilliger and Youssef Nader are two members from the winning team. They join the show to talk about the computational approaches they used to reconstruct the scroll text. For interested listeners, the 2024 Vesuvius Challenge is now live, with new challenges and prizes. Check out ScrollPrize.org to learn more. Jordi Mon Companys is a product manager and marketer that specializes in software delivery, developer experience, cloud native and open source. He has developed his career at companies like GitLab, Weaveworks, Harness and other platform and devtool providers. His interests range from software supply chain security to open source innovation. You can reach out to him on Twitter at @jordimonpmm Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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Shift-Left Security and Code Scanning with Amjad Afanah and Sudipta Mukherjee 53:34

44 weeks ago53:34

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Traditionally, security checks and testing are performed towards the end of the software development lifecycle. However, discovering vulnerabilities at that stage can be costly and time-consuming. This observation has led to the shift-left movement, which advocates for implementing security testing earlier in the software development process. HoundDog AI is a startup focused on software to enable shift-left security practices. Amjad Afanah and Sudipta Mukherjee are Co-Founders of HoundDog, and they join the show to talk about their company. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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Uber’s LedgerStore and its Trillions of Indexes with Kaushik Devarajaiah 34:45

44 weeks ago34:45

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Uber handles billions of trips and deliveries, and tens of billions of financial transactions across earners, spenders, and merchants every quarter. LedgerStore is an immutable storage solution at Uber that provides verifiable data completeness and correctness guarantees to ensure data integrity for its transactions. Kaushik Devarajaiah is the Tech Lead for LedgerStore at Uber . He joins the show to talk about scaling Uber's data infrastructure. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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Frontend Observability with Purvi Kanal 49:48

45 weeks ago49:48

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One of the fastest areas of growth in observability is frontend observability, or real user monitoring. This is the practice of monitoring and analyzing the performance, behavior, and user experience of web applications from the user's perspective. Purvi Kanal is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb . She joins the podcast to talk about the evolution and status of real user monitoring. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business , an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm . Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com , and see all his content at leeatchison.com . Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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AI Tools for Game Development with Igor Poletaev and Nathan Yu 1:05:35

45 weeks ago1:05:35

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Inworld is a company that provides tools for game studios to add AI-driven gameplay. They are at the leading edge of using generative AI in game development, and have worked with companies such as Xbox, Ubisoft, and NVIDIA. Igor Poletaev is the VP of AI and Nathan Yu is the Director of Product and GM of Labs at Inward . They join the show to talk about using AI in game development. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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C++ Static Analysis with Abbas Sabra 47:52

45 weeks ago47:52

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Static analysis is the examination of code without executing the program. It's used to identify potential errors, code quality issues, security vulnerabilities, and adherence to coding best practices. Abbas Sabra is a Principal Engineer at Sonar , which creates tools to help developers produce clean code. Abbas specializes in C++ static analysis, and began his career in the financial industry, where he identified inefficiencies within the C++ tooling ecosystem. He joins the show to talk about static analysis and static analysis tool development. Sean's been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer. Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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Climate Tech Investing with Tom Biegala 49:14

46 weeks ago49:14

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Bison Ventures invests in frontier technology companies that use innovative science and deep technology. A key pillar of their investment portfolio is climate technology. Tom Biegala is a co-founder of Bison Ventures . Prior to starting Bison Ventures, Tom worked at Cascade Asset Management Company, the investment office that manages the assets of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and Gates family. He joins the show to talk about why he started Bison, the climate tech startup landscape, and much more. This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments. Lee is the host of his podcast, Modern Digital Business , an engaging and informative podcast produced for people looking to build and grow their digital business with the help of modern applications and processes developed for today’s fast-moving business environment. Listen at mdb.fm . Follow Lee at softwarearchitectureinsights.com , and see all his content at leeatchison.com . Please click here to see the transcript of this episode. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com…

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Luma AI with Barkley Dai and Karan Ganesan 42:04

46 weeks ago42:04