Podcasts

Architecture & Design

27:06

Michelle Noorali on the Service Mesh Interface Spec and Open Service Mesh Project

In this podcast, Michelle Noorali, senior software engineer at Microsoft, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the service mesh interface (SMI) spec, the open service mesh (OSM) project, and the future of application development on Kubernetes.

Architecture & Design

50:54

Stephen Wolfram on Computer Language Design, SMP, Mathematica, and Wolfram Language

In this episode of the InfoQ podcast, Charles Humble talks to Stephen Wolfram about Wolfram Language, its origins and the influences on its creation. In a wide-ranging discussion they also cover the ergonomics of programming languages; Wolfram|Alpha’s integration with Siri, Alexa, and the upcoming integration with Microsoft Excel; and live streaming language design discussions via Twitch.

Architecting Reactive Systems: Insights on Modern Approaches with Tyler Jewell

Tyler Jewell, CEO of Lightbend, explores the evolution of responsive, distributed applications and the challenges in achieving elasticity, resilience, and scalability.

Architecture & Design

32:43

Andrew Clay Shafer on Three Economies, the Wall of Confusion, and the Origin of DevOps

Wes Reisz speaks with one of the people at the center of the creation of the idea of DevOps. Andrew Clay Shafer is the VP of transformation at Red Hat where his role is about helping companies change their relationship with software in the cloud native ecosystem. On the podcast Shafer talks about the Three Economies, Wall of Confusion, and a bit about those first mentions of DevOps.

Architecture & Design

31:18

Alois Reitbauer on Cloud Native Application Delivery, Keptn, and Observability

In this podcast, Alois Reitbauer sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the goals of the CNCF app delivery SIG; how cloud native continuous delivery tooling like Keptn can help engineers scale development and release processes; and the role of culture change, tooling, and adopting open standards, such as OpenTelemetry, within observability.

Architecture & Design

31:39

Removing the Dependency of Zookeeper on Kafka

Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Justin Gustafson and Colin McCabe, two of the engineers currently working on removing the dependency of ZooKeeper in Kafka. The three discuss why the team made this decision, what the ramifications are, and explore what both the near and future state will be with upgrading and operating Kafka.

Culture & Methods

22:08

Ravi Lachhman on the State of Developer Happiness, Engineer Burden and Avoiding Burnout

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Ravi Lachhman about the state of developer happiness through the COVID-19 pandemic, engineer burden and avoiding burnout.

Culture & Methods

20:22

Aino Corry on Retrospective Antipatterns

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Aino Corry about common retrospective antipatterns and how to overcome them.

Reimagining the concept of responsive apps

Responsiveness is much more than a front-end web app issue. Tyler Jewell will challenge you to think differently about how to achieve elasticity, agility, and resilience.

Culture & Methods

28:26

Victor Nuṅez on Systemic Team Coaching to Enable Team Effectiveness

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Victor Nuṅez about how systemic team coaching helps teams perform more effectively and the importance of trusting teams as generative, creative and intelligent systems.

Culture & Methods

30:44

Nishant Bhajaria on Privacy by Design

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nishant Bhajaria, Head of Privacy Architecture and Strategy at Uber about the need for privacy by design, the hard decisions that need to be made about privacy and the factors which need to be considered when making trade-offs.

Culture & Methods

27:16

Ken Charman on Fixing Pay Equity, Collaborative Cultures, and Disrupting Software Purchasing

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Ken Charman of uFlexReward on fixing pay equity, collaborative cultures, devolving decision authority to those closest to the work, and disrupting the enterprise software purchasing process.