What is Podcast?

A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing. Streaming applications and podcasting services provide a convenient and integrated way to manage a personal consumption queue across many podcast sources and playback devices. There also exist podcast search engines, which help users find and share podcast episodes.

A podcast series usually features one or more recurring hosts engaged in a discussion about a particular topic or current event. Discussion and content within a podcast can range from carefully scripted to completely improvised. Podcasts combine elaborate and artistic sound production with thematic concerns ranging from scientific research to slice-of-life journalism. Many podcast series provides an associated website with links and show notes, guest biographies, transcripts, additional resources, commentary, and even a community forum dedicated to discussing the show's content.

There’s certainly no shortage of podcasts aimed at developers, but which are worth your time?

Finding a great developer podcast isn’t as easy as it used to be. There are hundreds these days, with new shows starting every week and old ones giving their final farewell.

So if you’re on the hunt for a new podcast, where do you even start? After failing to decode Google Podcasts’ terrible search function and reading all the “Ultimate Developer Podcasts” lists you can find, you might be as clueless as before.

Google Podcasts and other lists give you too many options, most of which are mediocre and/or outdated. That’s why we curated this list.

1. Software Engineering Daily

This Podcast is a Daily podcast about software engineering hosted by Jeff. Data from two years at Software Engineering Radio indicates that technical software podcast listeners are an under-served market. If you are a software engineer who doesn't listen to many podcasts about software, this should be self-evident.

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2. Cloudcast

Cloudcast started 6 years ago when Brian Gracely and Aaron Delp wanted to learn more about cloud technologies, they didn’t have access to in their day jobs. “We’d call smart people and promise to put them on the internet,” said Gracely.

310 episodes later, Cloudcast features some of the smartest people in the cloud ecosystem, including CEOs, developers, venture capitalists, and start-up founders. According to Gracely, 30 companies previously featured on Cloudcast have been acquired.

Anyone who is curious about cloud computing technology and how it’s going to reshape their job, the IT industry, and most business industries around them.

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3. The Real Python Podcast

A weekly Python podcast hosted by Christopher Bailey with interviews, coding tips, and conversations with guests from the Python community. The show covers a wide range of topics including Python programming best practices, career tips, and related software development topics. Join us every Friday morning to hear what's new in the world of Python programming and become a more effective Pythonista.

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4. Talk Python To Me Podcast

Talk Python to Me is a weekly podcast hosted by developer and entrepreneur Michael Kennedy. They dive deep into the popular packages and software developers, data scientists, and incredible hobbyists doing amazing things with Python. If you're new to Python, you'll quickly learn the ins and outs of the community by hearing from the leaders. And if you've been Pythoning for years, you'll learn about your favorite packages and the hot new ones coming out of open source.

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5. Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

Hanselminutes is Fresh Air for Developers. A weekly commute-time podcast that promotes fresh technology and fresh voices. Talk and Tech for Developers, Life-long Learners, and Technologists.

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6. Software Engineering Radio

Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at professional software developers. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. Three to four times per month, this podcast publishes a new episode talking to experts from the software engineering world about the full range of topics that matter to professional developers.

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7. Soft Skills Engineering

It takes more than great code to be a great engineer. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software developers about the non-technical stuff that goes into being a great software developer.

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8. Coder Radio

A weekly talk show taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development and related technologies. To know more on this, subscribe to us.

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9. Coding Blocks

Coding Blocks is the podcast and website for learning how to become a better software developer. We cover a wide variety of topics that range from good programming practices which are language agnostic to specifics for particular languages.

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10. CodeNewbie

The CodeNewbie podcast was born from CodeNewbie, an organization that fosters a supportive, international community of people learning to code. Each season, host Saron Yitbarek delivers stories and interviews from people of diverse backgrounds and expertise about their coding journeys, as well as beginner-friendly discussions about the tech you should know about.

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Did we miss any that you feel deserve a mention? If so, share them with us in the comment section below! Also, tell us which programming podcasts you like the best.