Software Engineering Daily

Software Engineering Daily has been publishing interviews with working engineers roughly every weekday since 2015, which adds up to a back catalog of more than two thousand episodes covering nearly every stack, framework, and infrastructure fad of the last decade. Founded by Jeff Meyerson and carried on by a rotating group of hosts after his death in 2022, the show's format is straightforward: one guest, one topic, about an hour, usually with a founder or principal engineer from a company building something specific. Recent episodes have covered vector databases, Rust in the Linux kernel, WASM at the edge, Postgres internals, and the practical economics of running large model inference. The interviews are competent rather than flashy. Hosts come prepared, let guests explain, and resist the urge to turn every conversation into a hot take. That restraint is actually the point. If you want to understand what a particular tool does and why a real team chose it over the obvious alternatives, the archive is a treasure. Production quality varies a bit episode to episode given the volume, and the show's scope sometimes wanders into adjacent business territory, but the core remains a reliable way to hear engineers talk shop without marketing polish getting in the way.