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GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech

The GOTO podcast seeks out the brightest and boldest ideas from language creators and the world's leading experts in software development in the form of interviews and conference talks. Tune in to get the inspiration you need to bring in new technologies or gain extra evidence to support your software development plan.

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Episodes

Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA • Trisha Gee & Helen Scott

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here Trisha Gee - Lead Developer Evangelist at Gradle, Java Champion & Co-Author of "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA" Helen Scott - Developer Advocate at JetBrains & Co-Author of "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA" BLOG POSTS helenjoscott.com trishagee.com DESCRIPTION We’re frequently taught to use a text editor when we’re learning to write code so that we understand the funda...

Mar 24, 202344 minSeason 3Ep. 12

The Path to Becoming a Senior Engineering Manager • Denise Yu & Jiaqi Liu

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Jiaqi Liu - Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub Denise Yu - Senior Software Engineer at GitHub DESCRIPTION In this Unscripted episode, Jiaqi Liu and Denise Yu give you insight into their path to becoming senior engineering managers at Github while covering what the position is like. You’ll learn about "glue work" and how speaking at conferences can influence your career. RECOMMENDED ...

Mar 17, 202333 minSeason 3Ep. 11

Software Architecture: The Hard Parts • Neal Ford & Mark Richards

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here Neal Ford - Software Consultant at Thoughtworks & Co-Author of " Software Architecture: The Hard Parts " Mark Richards - Hands-On Software Architect, Independent Consultant & Co-Author of " Software Architecture: The Hard Parts " DESCRIPTION There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no...

Mar 10, 202343 minSeason 3Ep. 10

Agile is Dead – Long Live DevOps? • Lars Kruse, Malte Foegen & Klaus Bucka-Lassen

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Aarhus. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Lars Kruse - Technology Counselor & Rainmaker at Inc Inc Malte Foegen - COO at wibas Klaus Bucka-Lassen - Free Radical at Netcetera & Agile Coach, Trainer & Keynote Speaker DESCRIPTION Agile, Lean, and DevOps are more than buzzwords even though they have taken over the world at different times. The processes and technologies they employed have helped improve...

Mar 03, 202336 minSeason 3Ep. 9

Release It! • Michael Nygard & Trisha Gee

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here Michael Nygard - Innovative technology leader & Author of " Release It! " Trisha Gee - Java Champion & Co-Editor of "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know" DESCRIPTION Despite the widespread adoption of DevOps and CICD, some companies still rely on manual deployments in 2023. Michael Nygard, author of "Release It!" examines new patterns and anti-patterns that ...

Feb 24, 202337 minSeason 3Ep. 8

Better Tests at GitHub & Commodore 64 Music • Ole Friis Østergaard & Hannes Lowette

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Aarhus. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Ole Friis Østergaard - Senior Software Engineer at GitHub Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes , Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover RESOURCES hanselminutes.com hvsc.c64.org DESCRIPTION The engineering culture, core functionalities and it’s monolithic architecture are just some of the factors behind GitHub’s success. Ole Friis Østergaa...

Feb 17, 202329 minSeason 3Ep. 7

Simplicity & Complexity: The Beauty & the Beast? • Sander Hoogendoorn & Kevlin Henney

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2022 for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Sander Hoogendoorn - CTO at iBood.com Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer DESCRIPTION In most cases, there is more than one way to solve a problem. Based on our evolution, however, we are tempted to solve problems by adding features, code, and complexity. There is an alternative to that, though. Kevlin Henn...

Feb 10, 202344 minSeason 3Ep. 6

Beyond the Code: Deploying Empathy • Michele Hansen & Hannes Lowette

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Aarhus. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Michele Hansen - Author or "Deploy Empathy" and Co-Founder of Geocodio Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover RESOURCES deployempathy.com brenebrown.com DESCRIPTION Code is always a means to an end rather than the end product itself. It’s extremely important to understand the broader picture and see w...

Feb 03, 202330 minSeason 3Ep. 5

Domain Storytelling • Stefan Hofer, Henning Schwentner & Avraham Poupko

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here Stefan Hofer - Co-Author of " Domain Storytelling " & Requirements & DDD Expert at WPS Henning Schwentner - Co-Author of " Domain Storytelling " & Coder, Coach, Consultant at WPS Avraham Poupko - Head of Product Security and Compliance at Forescout Technologies DESCRIPTION "Some things must be told that cannot be written, so that storytelling is deeply, deeply h...

Jan 27, 202344 minSeason 3Ep. 4

Is Machine Learning a Black Box? • Dean Wampler & Preben Thorø

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted 2021. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Dean Wampler - Principal Software Engineer at Domino Data Lab Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland DESCRIPTION Data science has become a bigger part of software engineering. Where does the path lead? What have the changes been over the last couple of years and where are we heading? In this unscripted episode, Dean Wampler takes you on a journey through data science. RECOMMEN...

Jan 20, 202316 minSeason 3Ep. 3

97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know • Emily Freeman, Nathen Harvey & Chris Williams

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club . gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here Emily Freeman - Head of DevOps Product Marketing, Head of Community Engagement at AWS & Co-Editor of " 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know " Nathen Harvey - Developer Advocate at Google Cloud and Co-Editor of " 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know " Chris Williams - Cloud Therapist at World Wide Technology DESCRIPTION Migrating to the cloud has become a "s...

Jan 13, 202344 minSeason 3Ep. 2

Expert Talk: What is Agile Sabotage? • Fred George & Kevlin Henney

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2022 for GOTO Unscripted . gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Fred George - Early Adopter of OO & Agile, Advocating Microservices & Programmer Anarchy Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer DESCRIPTION Kevlin Henney , an independent consultant, and Fred George , an early adopter of OO & agile development, are exploring the ins and outs of agile transformatio...

Jan 06, 202336 minSeason 3Ep. 1

Expert talk: Cloud Native & Serverless • Matt Turner & Eric Johnson

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2022 for GOTO Unscripted . gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Matt Turner - DevOps Leader & Software Engineer at Tetrate Eric Johnson - Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless at AWS DESCRIPTION Should everyone move to the cloud? Are all event-driven architectures serverless or is it rather the other way around? Join the two experts, Matt Turner , software engineer at Tetrate , and Eric Johnson , principal develop...

Dec 30, 202237 minSeason 2Ep. 51

Can Top-Down Agile Work? • Luxshan Ratnaravi, Mikkel Noe-Nygaard & Malte Foegen

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Aarhus . gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Luxshan Ratnaravi - Co-Author of Comic Agilé and Agile Coach at Bankdata Mikkel Noe-Nygaard - Co-Author of Comic Agilé and UX Design Specialist at Vestas Malte Foegen - Chief Operating Officer at wibas DESCRIPTION In many cases, agile practices have been introduced in organizations starting bottom-up. There is, however, a new trend where management is trying to be the ...

Dec 23, 202226 minSeason 2Ep. 50

Software Engineering at Google • Titus Winters & Matt Kulukundis

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here Titus Winters - Principal Software Engineer at Google and Co-Curator of " Software Engineering at Google " Matt Kulukundis - Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google DESCRIPTION What’s the difference between programming and software engineering? Join Titus Winters, co-curator of “ Software Engineering at Google ”, and Matt Kulukundis while they approach the lessons learned ...

Dec 16, 202253 minSeason 2Ep. 49

Legacy Systems & Digital Transformations • Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn & Hannes Lowette

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Aarhus. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here RESOURCES martinfowler.com thoughtworks.com/podcasts/technology-podcasts Ian Cartwright - Technical Director at Thoughtworks Rob Horn - Technical Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover DESCRIPTION Legacy systems as well as legacy software have a significant impact ...

Dec 09, 202235 minSeason 2Ep. 48

Kafka in Action • Viktor Gamov & Tim Berglund

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here Viktor Gamov - Principal Developer Advocate at Kong & Co-Autor of " Kafka in Action " Tim Berglund - VP DevRel at StarTree & Author of " Gradle Beyond the Basics " DESCRIPTION Kafka has been on developers’ radars for quite a while now. Viktor Gamov’s co-authored book “Kafka in Action” ensures that you have a list of recipes to dive into. Joined by Tim Berglund, VP D...

Dec 02, 202233 minSeason 2Ep. 47

Expert Talk: Cloud Chaos & How Contract Tests Can Help • Holly Cummins & Kevlin Henney

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2022 for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Holly Cummins - Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus Team Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer DESCRIPTION Today cloud native and cloud transformation are more than buzzwords. However, most companies and development teams have not yet surpassed all the hurdles that come with moving to th...

Nov 25, 202237 minSeason 2Ep. 46

Spring Boot: Up & Running • Mark Heckler & Thomas Vitale

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here Mark Heckler - Principal Cloud Advocate, Java/JVM Languages at Microsoft & Author of " Spring Boot: Up and Running " Thomas Vitale - Senior Software Engineer at Systematic & Author of " Cloud Native Spring in Action " DESCRIPTION Spring Boot is a versatile and supportive environment for developers. Mark Heckler, the author of Spring Boot: Up and Running and Thomas V...

Nov 18, 202256 minSeason 2Ep. 45

Machine Learning for Autonomous Vehicles • Oscar Beijbom & Prayson Daniel

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Oscar Beijbom - Co-Founder at Nyckel Prayson Daniel - Principal Data Scientist at NTT DATA DESCRIPTION Self-driving vehicles have been a hot topic for a while now and everyone is waiting for the next breakthrough. Prayson Daniel , principal data scientist at NTT DATA, and Oscar Beijbom , co-founder at Nyckel, stuck their heads together to review what type of machine learning data is n...

Nov 11, 202243 minSeason 2Ep. 44

Expert Talk: Code Refactoring • Adam Tornhill & Christian Clausen

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Aarhus. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Adam Tornhill - Author of "Software Design X-Rays" and Founder & CTO at CodeScene Christian Clausen - Author of "Five Lines of Code" DESCRIPTION When do you refactoring your code? Learn from Christian Clausen , author of " Five Lines of Code " and Adam Tornhill , author of " Your Code As A Crime Scene " and " Software Design X-Rays ” how to analyze your code to unde...

Nov 04, 202216 minSeason 2Ep. 43

Expert Talk: Scaling Down Complexity in Software • James Lewis & Kevlin Henney

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2022 for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here James Lewis - Principal Consultant & Technical Director at Thoughtworks Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer DESCRIPTION Software shares multiple similarities with living creatures. Embark on a journey with Kevlin Henney , an independent consultant & speaker, and James Lewis , consultant at Thoughtwo...

Oct 28, 202251 minSeason 2Ep. 42

AWS Cookbook: Recipes for Success on AWS • John Culkin, Mike Zazon & Kesha Williams

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here Kesha Williams - Cloud Leadership at Slalom, Speaker & AWS Machine Learning Hero Mike Zazon - Senior Cloud Architect at AWS and Co-Author of " AWS Cookbook: Recipes for Success on AWS " John Culkin - Senior Solutions Architect AWS and Co-Author of " AWS Cookbook: Recipes for Success on AWS " DESCRIPTION If you are working with AWS on a daily basis or are looking into ap...

Oct 21, 202246 minSeason 2Ep. 41

Craftsmanship: Code, Guitars & Tech • Dylan Beattie, Hannes Lowette & Kevlin Henney

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at CodeNode in London. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Dylan Beattie - Creator of Rockstar Language, Microsoft MVP, Keynote Speaker & Guitarist Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer DESCRIPTION Writing music, building guitars and writing software share ...

Oct 14, 202257 minSeason 2Ep. 40

Driving Innovation with Kubernetes & Java • Ana-Maria Mihalceanu & Eric Johnson

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2022 for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Ana-Maria Mihalceanu - Developer Advocate at Red Hat & Java Champion Eric Johnson - Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless at AWS DESCRIPTION Technology can advance faster if we share our knowledge. That’s the mission of a developer advocate. Ana-Maria Mihalceanu, developer advocate at Red Hat, talked to Eric Johnson, principal developer advocate at AWS...

Oct 07, 202232 minSeason 2Ep. 39

Expert Talk: How to Deal with Hypergrowth • Lena Reinhard & Blake Walters

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Lena Reinhard - Leadership Coach & Consultant Blake Walters - Senior Director of Engineering at CircleCI DESCRIPTION While hypergrowth means that a company is on the right track, this phase comes with challenges at all levels of the organization. Lena Reinhard, leadership coach & consultant, and Blake Walters, senior director of engineering at CircleCI, share best practices ba...

Sep 30, 202254 minSeason 2Ep. 38

Restful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook • Mike Amundsen & Alianna Inzana

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. gotopia.tech/bookclub Read the full transcription of the interview here Mike Amundsen - Author of "Restful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook" and (Co-)Author of Many More Books Alianna Inzana - Vice President of Product at WeTransfer DESCRIPTION The API ecosystem is evolving and the focus is changing from “how to design them” to “how to implement them”. Mike Amundsen, author of " Restful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook ", and ...

Sep 23, 202248 minSeason 2Ep. 37

How to Help Your Boss Help You • Ken Kousen & Trisha Gee

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. gotopia.tech/bookclub Ken Kousen - Author of "Help Your Boss Help You" & President at Kousen IT Trisha Gee - Co-Editor of "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know" & Java Advocacy Lead at JetBrains DESCRIPTION There are tons of books about how to become a manager and how to improve as a manager, but in this Book Club episode, Trisha Gee talks to Ken Kousen about how you can manage your own manager. They explore his book " Help Your ...

Sep 16, 202251 minSeason 2Ep. 36

Humankind: A Hopeful History • Rutger Bregman & Preben Thorø

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. http://gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Rutger Bregman - Historian and Author of "Humankind: A Hopeful History" Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland DESCRIPTION If you look at recent developments in human history, the world may seem like a grim place, in which humanity is setting itself for destruction. However, if you consider the research made in various disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, sociology...

Sep 09, 202221 minSeason 2Ep. 35

Expert Talk: What’s Next For .NET? • Hannes Lowette & Martin Thwaites

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at CodeNode in London. gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes Martin Thwaites - Developer Advocate at Honeycomb DESCRIPTION .NET has been undergoing a massive development since its very beginning. Martin Thwaites, developer advocate for Honeycomb, and Hannes Lowette, head of learning and development at Axxes, enjoyed every step of its path. Join them as they revea...

Sep 02, 202242 minSeason 2Ep. 34
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