The InfoQ Podcast

Software engineers, architects and team leads have found inspiration to drive change and innovation in their team by listening to the weekly InfoQ Podcast. They have received essential information that helped them validate their software development map. We have achieved that by interviewing some of the top CTOs, engineers and technology directors from companies like Uber, Netflix and more. Over 1,200,000 downloads in the last 3 years.

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Episodes

Shuman Ghosemajumder on Security and Cyber-Crime

In this week's podcast, professor Barry Burd talks to Shuman Ghosemajumder. Ghosemajumder is VP of product management at Shape Security and former click fraud czar for Google. Ghosemajumder is also the co-author of the book CGI Programming Unleashed, and was a keynote speaker at QCon New York 2016 presenting Security War Stories. Why listen to this podcast: With more of our lives conducted online through technology and information retrieval systems, the use of advanced technology gives criminals...

Aug 01, 2016•43 min

Caitie McCaffrey on Engineering Effectiveness, Diversity, & Verification of Distributed Systems

In this week's podcast, QCon chair Wes Reisz and Werner Schuster talk to Caitie McCaffrey. McCaffrey works on distributed systems with the engineering effectiveness team at Twitter, and has experience building the large scale services and systems that power the entertainment industry at 343 Industries, Microsoft Game Studios, and HBO. McCaffrey's presentation at QCon New York was called The Verification of a Distributed System. Why listen to this podcast: - Twitter's engineering effectiveness te...

Jul 22, 2016•33 min

Wendy Closson on Mindfulness and Algorithmic Approaches to Communicating

In this week's podcast, Barry Burd talks with Wendy Closson. With over a decade of experience immersed in development and championing agile practices, Closson coaches technology leaders to manage effectively, respond reasonably, and navigate the choppy waters of business. Closson's presentation at QCon New York was entitled Syntactic Sugar for English: Pragmatic Eloquence. Why listen to this podcast: - Software is a very abstract experience, so it can be difficult to communicate ideas about soft...

Jul 12, 2016•36 min

Courtney Hemphill on VR, Augmented Reality, and the Importance of Animation in UX

In this week's podcast, Barry Bird talks to Courtney Hemphill, a partner and tech lead at Carbon Five. With over ten years of experience in software development, Hemphill has done full stack development for both startup and enterprise companies. Hemphill's presentation at QCon New York was entitled Algorithms for Animation. Why listen to this podcast: - Why developers in startups or enterprise firms should care about creating animations - The interfaces we interact with in software are becoming ...

Jul 01, 2016•39 min

James Shore, Llewellyn Falco, and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock on TDD and Architecture

In this week's podcast Richard Seroter talks to James Shore, author of The Art of Agile Development and one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto. Also on the podcast are Llewellyn Falco, creator of the open source testing tool ApprovalTests and co-founder of Teaching Kids Programming, and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design, as well as the author of books including Designing Object: Oriented Software and Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities and Collabora...

Jun 03, 2016•30 min

Lisa Crispin and Justin Searls on Testing and Innovation in Front End Technology

In this week's podcast Richard Seroter talks to Lisa Crispin who works on the tracker team at Pivotal Labs, and is an organiser of the Agile Alliance Technical Conference. Lisa is the co-author of several books on Agile Testing, and is also the 2012 recipient of the Agile Testing Days award for Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person. Richard also talks to Justin Searls, software craftsman, presenter of "How to Stop Hating Your Tests" and co-founder of Test Double, a company whose goa...

May 27, 2016•29 min

GILT VP Heather Fleming on Unlocking the "Secret Sauce" of Great Teams

In this week's podcast QCon chair Wesley Reisz talks to Heather Fleming, who is the VP of product and program management at GILT, where she is responsible for not only the customer-facing website, but also back office things from distribution to order processing. Why listen to this podcast: - GILT treats every person as an individual, with a skillset that is outside their responsibilities. - You should be able to be your authentic self wherever you are. - Google found creating a psychologically ...

May 20, 2016•16 min

Uber's Chief Systems Architect on their Architecture and Rapid Growth

In this week's podcast QCon chair Wesley Reisz talks to Matt Ranney who is the Chief Systems Architect at Uber, where he's helping build and scale everything he can. Why listen to this podcast: - Expanding a company and team at this rate is genuinely hard. Lots of mistakes have been made along the way. - Microservices allow companies to grow rapidly but have a cost in terms of aggregate velocity. - Uber is gradually moving its marketplace development from Node.js to Go and Java. Java is used for...

May 13, 2016•31 min

Mads Torgersen on C# 7 and Beyond

Summary: In this week's podcast QCon chair Wesley Reisz talks to Mads Torgersen who leads the C# language design process at Microsoft, where he has been involved in five versions of C#, and also contributed to TypeScript, Visual Basic, Roslyn and LINQ. Before he joined Microsoft a decade ago, he worked as a university professor in Aarhus, Denmark, doing research into programming language design and contributing to Java generics. Why listen to this podcast • The overall theme for C# 7 will be fea...

Apr 27, 2016•20 min

Adrian Cockcroft on Microservices, Terraservices and Serverless Computing

Summary: For our inaugural podcast QCon chair Wesley Reisz talks to Adrian Cockcroft, who works for Battery Ventures where he advises the firm and its portfolio companies about technology issues and also assists with deal sourcing and due diligence. Why listen to this podcast • Over the last year a large number of frameworks and libraries for building microservices have emerged and we're seeing a lot of rapid change. • The stack you choose will often be based on the main language you use, so for...

Apr 18, 2016•30 min

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