CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering

CaSE has been quietly producing thoughtful software engineering content since 2017, with 61 episodes that prioritize depth over frequency. The show is run by a small team of experienced practitioners — including Heinrich Hartmann, Sven Johann, and Alexander Heusingfeld — who alternate between discussing recent industry developments among themselves and interviewing external guests from the software engineering world. The topics lean toward software architecture, reliability engineering, data engineering, and the organizational practices that make engineering teams effective. Recent episodes have covered architecture governance approaches (golden paths and architecture advice processes), observability costs, cloud-native testing strategies, AI-assisted development workflows, and team topology. The conversations are grounded in real experience — these are working engineers talking about problems they have actually solved, not consultants promoting frameworks. Episodes release roughly monthly or bimonthly, which gives each one a considered, unhurried quality. The production is clean, the discussion is substantive, and the perspectives are distinctly European, which provides a welcome counterpoint to the Silicon Valley-centric view that dominates most tech podcasts. CaSE holds a perfect 5.0 star rating on Apple Podcasts, and while the review count is small, the listeners who find it tend to become devoted fans. This is a podcast for engineers who value architectural thinking and want to hear from peers who take their craft seriously.