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The Software Engineering Podcast with Fexingo: Code, Architecture, and Engineering Best Practices

The Software Engineering Podcast with Fexingo: Code, Architecture, and Engineering Best Practices

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Lucas and Luna sit down at side-by-side laptops to talk about the craft of building software. Each episode picks a single engineering challenge — optimizing a database query for latency, designing a fault-tolerant microservice boundary, refactoring a legacy monolith without breaking production — and walks through the trade-offs with real code examples and benchmark numbers. They debate testing strategies (integration vs. end-to-end, when to mock), revisit classic papers on distributed systems and data structures, and trace how architectural decisions cascade into operational costs. The show serves senior developers, staff engineers, and technical leads who want to hear reasoned, specific conversations about trade-offs and rigor — not hype about the latest framework. Lucas brings the journalist's habit of asking why a team chose one pattern over another; Luna pushes back with real-world failure stories from her own career. Together, they treat software engineering as a discipline of explicit decisions and measurable outcomes. No hot takes, no 'best practices' without context. Just two engineers thinking out loud about how to build systems that last. What does it actually cost to ship a feature with 99.99% uptime — and when is that the wrong target? #SoftwareEngineering #SystemArchitecture #CodeQuality #DistributedSystems #DatabaseOptimization #Refactoring #TestingStrategy #Microservices #Monolith #PerformanceEngineering #CleanCode #TechDebt #EngineeringCulture #PairProgramming #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Technology #EngineeringBestPractices Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo© 2026 Fexingo. All rights reserved. Economics
Episodes
  • How One Engineer Cut Logging Costs 90 Percent Without Losing Observability

    How One Engineer Cut Logging Costs 90 Percent Without Losing Observability
    Jun 29 2026
    Episode 80 of The Software Engineering Podcast dives into a specific cost-optimization story: how a senior engineer at a mid-size fintech company reduced their cloud logging bill by 90 percent — from $80,000 per month to under $8,000 — without sacrificing the signal their on-call team relied on. Lucas and Luna walk through the technical decisions: switching from structured JSON logging to a custom binary format with protobuf, implementing a two-tier retention policy that kept high-cardinality metrics hot for only 24 hours, and writing a smart sampling layer that preserved 100 percent of error traces while dropping 95 percent of repetitive success logs. They discuss the trade-offs — longer query times on cold storage, the learning curve for the team, and the initial pushback from developers used to grep-friendly logs. The episode ends with a practical framework any team can adapt: measure your log volume per service, identify the noisiest sources, and ask whether every field in every log line earns its storage cost. #SoftwareEngineering #CloudCosts #Observability #Logging #Fintech #Protobuf #BinaryFormat #Sampling #RetentionPolicy #CostOptimization #EngineeringPodcast #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Technology #LogManagement #Scalability #DevOps #SiteReliability Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    9 mins
  • How One Engineer Repaired a Corrupt Git Repository Without Losing History

    How One Engineer Repaired a Corrupt Git Repository Without Losing History
    Jun 28 2026
    When a junior developer force-pushed over a shared branch and corrupted the entire git history, most teams would panic. In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down how one engineer rescued a 14-month-old codebase using git reflog, filter-repo, and careful cherry-picking. They walk through the specific commands, the decision tree for when to rewrite history versus when to accept it, and the single backup practice that saved the team from losing 900 commits. If you've ever wondered what to do when git itself seems broken, this is the episode for you. #Git #VersionControl #GitReflog #GitFilterRepo #CodeRecovery #EngineeringBestPractices #DevOps #SourceControl #SoftwareEngineering #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #CodeRescue #HistoryRewrite #CherryPick #ForcePush #Debugging #DeveloperTools Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    8 mins
  • How One Engineer Debugged a Kubernetes Pod Eviction That Wiped 5000 Jobs

    How One Engineer Debugged a Kubernetes Pod Eviction That Wiped 5000 Jobs
    Jun 28 2026
    In this episode of The Software Engineering Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a production nightmare: a Kubernetes cluster that silently evicted over 5000 batch jobs over three weekends. They walk through how one engineer at a data processing startup traced the root cause to a subtle interaction between kubelet resource reservation defaults and a misconfigured eviction threshold. Learn how she used Prometheus metrics, a custom admission webhook, and a prioritization framework to prevent it from happening again. A masterclass in debugging distributed systems under pressure. #Kubernetes #PodEviction #DevOps #SiteReliabilityEngineering #DistributedSystems #BatchProcessing #Prometheus #AdmissionWebhook #DataProcessing #ProductionDebugging #CloudNative #SRE #EngineeringResilience #IncidentResponse #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Technology #SoftwareEngineering Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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    8 mins
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