logo
episode-header-image
Sep 2025
55m 18s

SurrealDB 3.0 and Building Event-Driven ...

Software Engineering Daily
About this episode
Modern application development often involves juggling multiple types of databases to handle diverse data models. The lack of unification can lead to complex architectures with attendant security concerns and fragmented development workflows. SurrealDB is an open-source, multi-model database developed in Rust and integrates functionalities of many databases ... Show More
Up next
Mar 12
DeepMind’s RAG System with Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev
Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, has become a foundational approach to building production AI systems. However, deploying RAG in practice can be complex and costly. Developers typically have to manage vector databases, chunking strategies, embedding models, and indexing in ... Show More
37m 57s
Mar 10
Reinventing the Python Notebook with Akshay Agrawal
Interactive notebooks were popularized by the Jupyter project and have since become a core tool for data science, research, and data exploration. However, traditional, imperative notebooks often break down as projects grow more complex. Hidden state, non-reproducible execution, p ... Show More
46m 4s
Mar 5
Organizational Context for AI Coding Agents with Dennis Pilarinos
AI agents have taken on a growing share of software development work, so much so that the hardest problems are shifting away from code generation towards something new, context. The challenge is now contextualizing why systems work the way they do, how architectural decisions wer ... Show More
49m 21s
Recommended Episodes
Aug 2024
803: The SQLite Takeover with Turso’s Glauber Costa
Scott and Wes chat with Glauber Costa from Turso about the evolution of databases and the fascinating technology behind Turso. They dive into topics like the benefits of massive multi-tenancy, vector search, and why Glauber made the switch from NoSQL to relational databases. Sho ... Show More
1 h
Sep 2025
From RAG to Relational: How Agentic Patterns Are Reshaping Data Architecture
SummaryIn this episode of the AI Engineering Podcast Mark Brooker, VP and Distinguished Engineer at AWS, talks about how agentic workflows are transforming database usage and infrastructure design. He discusses the evolving role of data in AI systems, from traditional models to m ... Show More
52m 58s
Mar 2024
Open sourcing AI app development with Harrison Chase from LangChain
Companies are employing AI agents and co-pilots to help their teams increase efficiency and accuracy, but developing apps that are trained properly can require a skill set many enterprise teams don’t have. This week on No Priors, Sarah and Elad are joined by Harrison Chase, the C ... Show More
27m 32s
Dec 2024
The Art of Database Selection and Evolution
Summary In this episode of the Data Engineering Podcast Sam Kleinman talks about the pivotal role of databases in software engineering. Sam shares his journey into the world of data and discusses the complexities of database selection, highlighting the trade-offs between differen ... Show More
59m 56s
Nov 2024
Exploring Selective Service-Oriented Architecture (SSOA) and Selective Frontend Architecture (SFA)
Episode Summary:In this insightful episode, we dive into the innovative concepts of Selective Service-Oriented Architecture (SSOA) and Selective Frontend Architecture (SFA). Discover how these tailored approaches to software and frontend architecture are reshaping the way modern ... Show More
23m 11s
Aug 2025
High Performance And Low Overhead Graphs With KuzuDB
SummaryIn this episode of the Data Engineering Podcast Prashanth Rao, an AI engineer at KuzuDB, talks about their embeddable graph database. Prashanth explains how KuzuDB addresses performance shortcomings in existing solutions through columnar storage and novel join algorithms. ... Show More
1h 1m
Jul 2025
Best IDEs and AI Coding Assistants in 2025: Complete Guide to VSCode, Cursor, GitHub Copilot & More
Are you ready for the future of software development? The world of IDEs and AI coding assistants is changing daily, and staying ahead means understanding the tools that are reshaping how we code. In this comprehensive 2025 guide, we dive deep into the most influential development ... Show More
9m 50s
Nov 2024
Build An App with a Backend Using Ai in 20 min (Cursor Ai, Replit, Firebase, Wispr Flow)
Episode 32: How can you build an app with a backend using AI in just 20 minutes? Matt Wolfe (https://x.com/mreflow) and Nathan Lands (https://x.com/NathanLands) sit down with AI enthusiast Riley Brown (https://x.com/rileybrown_ai) to explore this exciting and challenging process. ... Show More
38m 34s
Dec 2024
Software architecture with Grady Booch
Brought to you by:• WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS.• Sevalla — Deploy anything from preview environments to Docker images.• Chronosphere — The observability platform built for control.—Welcome to The Pragmatic Engineer! Today, I’m thrilled to be joined by Grad ... Show More
1h 30m
Sep 2025
Code Complete with Steve McConnell
Brought to You By:•⁠ Statsig ⁠ — ⁠ The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more. Statsig built a complete set of data tools that allow engineering teams to measure the impact of their work. This toolkit is SO valuable to so many teams, that OpenAI - who was a ... Show More
1h 30m