Engineers Onstage

Have you ever wondered what it's like to work at Facebook, Apple, Google, or Microsoft? Maybe you work in a creative field, but wonder how software gets made? Every two weeks, Ravi and David interview a world-class expert on their work and their passions. In the past, we've discussed the difficulty of synchronizing clocks in train stations, strategies for squeezing every drop of power from a mobile handset's battery, and a four-year rags-to-riches journey spanning two failed startups and a move across the country.

Kelm on computer architecture, global engineering management at Intel

"The other aspect of it is, even with a cache-coherent system, you can have different interleavings of memory as viewed by third parties." John Kelm on computer architecture, global engineering management

06-17
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Reuben Smith on RIM, building web communities, engineering education in Canada

“All the content...is licensed under Creative Commons. So you don't necessarily feel like you're giving something to some behemoth corporation...The company exists kind of for the community". Reuben Smith on RIM, building web communities, engineering education in Canada

06-14
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Muriello on security, culture at facebook

"One type of attack that doesn't fall into either of those is something we call 'likejacking', or 'clickjacking' where you're sent to some random site, sexybartenders.com or something like that." Dan Muriello on security, culture, and technology at facebook

05-31
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Indranil Gupta on distributed systems

"I do not believe in doing theory where we actually don't build the system. Nor do I believe in building a system that is hacky and that doesn't solve a fundamental scientific problem". Professor Indranil Gupta on distributed systems

03-29
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Gabe Levy on the early days of the web

"It was called FreeMerchant. The idea was, as many things were on the web then, it was going to be free. We built it and launched it in 1998." Gabe Levy on the dotcom bubble, voice over IP, and network protocol optimization at Riverbed

03-19
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Andrew Lee on Firebase

"'Oh Great! You have the SWOT analysis, and you have Five Forces and all these things,' which are probably great for some types of businesses. But for what we were doing...they just told us, 'You're crazy. Stop this.'" Andrew Lee on entrepreneurship

03-16
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Ryoo on Semiconductors

"You can't make a physical layer thinner than one atom." Shane Ryoo on graduate education, semiconductors, and electronic design automation

03-08
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