On the podcast this week Charles Humble talks to Camille Fournier about running a platform team, how her current role differs from the CTO role she had a Rent the Runway, the skills developers need to acquire as they move from engineering to management positions, tends like Holacracy, and her book "The Manager's Path" Why listen to this podcast: - When looking for platform engineers Camille looks for people who understand what it takes to build and run distributed systems - network, availability...
Oct 12, 2018•33 min
On this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks to Emmanuel Ameisen, head of AI for Insight Data Science, about building a semantic search system for images using convolution neural networks and word embeddings, how you can build on the work done by companies like Google, and then explores where the gaps are and where you need to train your own models. The podcast wraps up with a discussion around how you get something like this into production. Why listen to this podcast: - A common use case is the abi...
Oct 08, 2018•35 min
On this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Ben Kehoe of iRobot. Ben is a Cloud Robotics Research Scientist where he works on using the Internet to allow robots to do more and better things. AWS and, in particular, Lambda is a core part of cloud enabled robots. The two discuss iRobot’s cloud architecture. Some of the key lessons on the podcast include: thoughts on logging, deploying, unit/integration testing, service discovery, minimizing costs of service to service calls, and Conway’s Law. Why...
Sep 21, 2018•39 min
Vaughn Vernon is thought-leader in the space of reactive software and Domain Driven Design (DDD). Vaughn has recently released a new open source project called vlingo. The platform is designed to support DDD at the framework and toolkit level. On today’s podcast, Vaughn discusses what the framework is all about, why he felt it was needed, and some of the design decisions made in developing the platform, including things like the architecture, actor model decisions, clustering algorithm, and how ...
Sep 14, 2018•34 min
On today’s podcast, Justin Cormack discusses how the modern operating system is being decomposed with toolkits and libraries such as LinuxKit, eBPF, XDP, and what the kernel space service mesh Cilium is doing. Wes Reisz and Justin Cormack also discuss how Cilium differs from service meshes like an Istio, Linkerd2 (previously Conduit), or Envoy. Justin is a systems engineer at Docker. He previously was working with unikernels at Unikernel Systems in Cambridge before being acquired by Docker. (edi...
Sep 07, 2018•32 min
Probabilistic Programming has been discussed as a programming paradigm that uses statistical approaches to dealing with uncertainty in data as a first class construct. On today’s podcast, Wes talks with Mike Lee Williams of Cloudera’s Fast Forward Labs about Probabilistic Programming. The two discusses how Bayesian Inference works, how it’s used in Probabilistic Programming, production-level languages in the space, and some of the implementations/libraries that we’re seeing. Key Takeaways * Fede...
Aug 31, 2018•33 min
Wes Reisz sits down and chats with Uncle Bob about The Clean Architecture, the origins of the Software Craftsperson Movement, Livable Code, and even ethics in software. Uncle Bob discusses his thoughts on how The Clean Architecture is affected by things like functional programming, services meshes, and microservices. Why listen to this podcast: * Michael Feathers wrote to Bob and said if you rearrange the order of the design principles, it spells SOLID. * Software Craftsperson should be used whe...
Aug 24, 2018•30 min
Arun Gupta discusses with Wes Reisz some of the container-focused services that AWS offers, including differentiating ECS and EKS. Arun goes into some detail the role that Amazon Fargate plays and goals behinds EKS. Arun wraps ups discussing some of the open source work that AWS has recently been doing in the container space. Why liste to this podcast: - ECS & EKS are both managed control planes; Amazon Fargate is a technology used to provision clusters. - ECR is the Amazon Container registry (s...
Jul 06, 2018•25 min
In this podcast Wes Reisz is talking to Anastasiia Voitova, known as @vixentael in the security communities. She started her career as a mobile application developer, and in recent years has moved to focus mainly on designing and developing graphics software. We’re going to talk about cryptography, how to design libraries to be usable by developers, and designing cryptographic libraries. We’ll also discuss about her talk from the recent QCon New York , called “Making Security Usable”. Why listen...
Jun 29, 2018•27 min
On today’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks to Matt Klein about Envoy. Envoy is a modern, high performance, small footprint edge and service proxy. While it was originally developed at Lyft (and still drives much of their architecture), it is a fully open source driven project. Matt addresses on this podcast what he sees as the major design goals of Envoy, answers questions about a sidecar performance impact, discusses observability, and thinks out loud on the future of Envoy. Why listen to this podcast...
Jun 22, 2018•35 min
On this podcast, Pam Selle (an engineer for IOPipe who builds tooling for serverless observability) talks about the case for serverless and the challenges for developing observability solutions. Some of the things discussed on the podcast include tips for creating boundaries between serverless and non-serverless resources and how to think of distributed tracing in serverless environments. Why listen to this podcast: - Coca Cola was able to see a productivity gain of 29% by adopting serverless (a...
Jun 04, 2018•29 min
The Serverless Framework is quickly becoming one of the more popular frameworks used in managing serverless deployments. David Wells, an engineer working on the framework, talks with Wes Reisz about serverless adoption and the use of the open source Serverless Framework. On this week’s podcast, the two dive into what it looks like to use the tool, the development experience, why a developer might want to consider a tool like the serverless framework, and finally wraps up with what the tool offer...
May 27, 2018•32 min
In this podcast Wes Reisz talks to Colin Eberhardt, the Technology Director at Scott Logic, talks about what WebAssembly (WASM) is, a bit of the history of JavaScript, information about WebAssembly, and plans for WebAssembly 2.0 including the threading model and GC. Why listen to this podcast: - WebAssembly brings another kind of virtual machine to the browser that is a much more low-level language. - One of the goals of WebAssembly is to make a new assembly language that is a compilation target...
May 11, 2018•32 min
Martin Thompson discusses consensus in distributed systems, and how Aeron uses Raft for clustering in the upcoming release. Martin is a Java Champion with over 2 decades of experience building complex and high-performance computing systems. He is most recently known for his work on Aeron and Simple Binary Encoding (SBE). Previously at LMAX he was the co-founder and CTO when he created the Disruptor. * Aeron is a messaging system designed for modern multi-core hardware. It is highly performant wi...
May 07, 2018•34 min
In this podcast, recorded live at QCon.ai, Principal Technical Advisor & QCon Chair Wes Reisz and InfoQ Editor-in-chief Charles Humble chair a panel discussion with Stephanie Yee, data scientist at StitchFix, Matei Zaharia, professor of computer science at Stanford and chief scientist at Data Bricks, Sid Anand, chief data engineer at PayPal, and Soups Ranjan, director of data science at CoinBase. Why listen to this podcast: - Before you start putting a data science team together make sure you ha...
Apr 27, 2018•43 min
On this week’s podcast, Danny Yuan, Uber’s Real-time Streaming/Forecasting Lead, lays out a thorough recipe book for building a real-time streaming platform with a major focus on forecasting. In this podcast, Danny discusses everything from the scale Uber operates at to what the major steps for training/deploy models in an iterative (almost Darwinistic) fashion and wraps with his advice for software engineers who want to begin applying machine learning into their day-to-day job. Why listen to th...
Mar 31, 2018•27 min
Sander Mak and Wes Reisz discuss the Java module system and how adoption is going. Topics discussed on this podcast include Java modularity steps / migrations, green field projects, some of the concerns that caused the EC to initially vote no on Java 9, and a new tool for building custom JREs called JLink. Additionally, as Java 10 was recently released a short bit at the end was added to discuss some of the latest news with Java. Why listen to this podcast: • People quickly moved to Java 8 becau...
Mar 23, 2018•36 min
Jendrik Joerdening and Anthony Navarro describe how a team of 18 Udacity students entered a self-racing car event They had very limited experience of building autonomous control systems for vehicles and had just 6 weeks to do it with only 2 days with the physical car. They describe the architecture, how they co-ordinated a very diverse team, and how they trained the models. Why listen to this podcast: - Last year a team of 18 Udacity Self-Driving Cars students competed at the 2017 Self Racing Ca...
Mar 16, 2018•38 min
On this podcast, we talk with Andrea Magnorsky, who is a tech lead at Goodlord on their engineering squads; she has a background in Scala, C#, and organised conferences. Today we’ll be talking about paradigm shifts. Why listen to this podcast: * A programming paradigm has a loose definition. It’s just about finding a way of doing things. * There are a number of different ways to think about problems - and different paradigms do this in different ways. * To shift paradigms, you have to un-learn s...
Mar 03, 2018•32 min
On this podcast, Anne Currie joins the tech ethics discussion started on the Theo Schlossnagle podcast from a few weeks ago. Wes Reisz and Anne discuss issues such as the implications (and responsibilities) of the massive amount of scale we have at our fingertips today, potential effects of GDPR (EU privacy legislation), how accessibility is a an example of how we could approach tech ethics in software, and much more. Why listen to this podcast: - Ethics in software today is particularly importa...
Feb 23, 2018•32 min
This week on The InfoQ Podcast Wes Reisz talks with the CTO of Bouyant Oliver Gould. Bouyant is the maker the LinkerD Service Mesh and the recently released Conduit. In the podcast, Oliver defines a service mesh, clarifies the meaning of the data and control plane, discusses what a Service Mesh can offer a Microservice application owners, and, finally, discusses some of the considerations they took into account developing Conduit. Why listen to this podcast: - Service mesh is dedicated infrastru...
Feb 09, 2018•33 min
This week's podcast features a chat with Theo Scholossnagle. Theo is the CEO of Circonus and co-chairs the ACM Queue. In this podcast, Theo and Wes Reisz chat about the need for ethical software, and how we as technical leaders should be reasoning about the software we create. Theo says, "it's not about the absence of evil, it's about the presence of good." He challenges us to develop rigor around ethical decisions we make in software just as we do for areas like security. With the incredible im...
Feb 02, 2018•25 min
On this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Chris Swan. Chris is the CTO for the global delivery organisation at DXC Technology. Chris is well versed in DevOps, Infrastructure, Culture, and what it means to put all these together. Today’s topics include both DevOps and NoOps, and what Chris calls LessOps, what Operations means in a world of Serverless, where he sees Configuration Management, Provisioning, Monitoring and Logging heading. The podcast then wraps talking about where he sees validat...
Jan 19, 2018•35 min
This week’s podcast features a chat with Vitor Olivier. Vitor is a partner at NuBank (a technology-centric bank in Brazil). This podcast hits on topics from several of Nubank’s recent QCon talks and includes things like: Nubank’s stack, functional programming, event sourcing, defining service boundaries, recommendations on reasoning about services, tips (or tweaks) on the second iteration of their initial architecture and more. Why listen to this podcast: - Property-based testing and Schemas (or...
Jan 12, 2018•38 min
In this podcast Charles Humble and Wes Reisz talk about Java 9 and beyond, Kotlin, .NET Core 2, the surge in interest in organisational culture, quantum computing and more. Why listen to this podcast: - Java had a big year with Java 9 shipping, Java EE going open-source and moving to Eclipse as EE4J, and IBM open-sprucing J9. From next year the platform will also be on a bi-annual release cycle with the next two versions (expected to be Java 10 and 11) both shipping during 2018. - Kotlin joined ...
Dec 29, 2017•29 min
Gremlin is a Software as a Service that lets you plan, control and undo Chaos engineering experiments built by engineers with experience from Netflix, AWS, Dropbox and others. In this podcast Wes talks to Kolton Andrus about the Gremlin product and architecture and related topics such as running Game Days. You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like Info...
Dec 22, 2017•34 min
In this podcast, Deam Wampler discusses fast data, streaming, microservices, and the paradox of choice when it comes to the options available today building data pipelines. Why listen to this podcast: * Apache Beam is fast becoming the de-facto standard API for stream processing * Spark is great for batch processing, but Flink is tackling the low-latency streaming processing market * Avoid running blocking REST calls from within a stream processing system - have them asynchronously launched and ...
Dec 08, 2017•30 min
In this podcast, Werner Schuster talks to Changhoon Kim, who is a Director of System Architecture at Barefoot Networks, and is actively working for the P4 language consortium. They talk about the new PISA (protocol independence switch architecture) which promises multi-terabit switching, and P4, a domain-specific programming language designed for networking. You can subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24...
Nov 27, 2017•30 min
In this podcast, we are talking to Tyler Akidau, a senior engineer at Google, who leads the technical infrastructure and data processing teams in Seattle, and a founding member of the Apache Beam PMC and a passionate voice in the streaming space. This podcast will cover data streaming and the 2015 DataFlow Model streaming paper [http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1792-Akidau.pdf] and much of the concepts covered, such as why dealing with out-of-order data is important, event time versus processing ...
Nov 09, 2017•45 min
In this podcast, Wes talks to Guy Podjarny (Founder/CEO Synk). The two discuss the space between open source software and third-party dependencies, including a discussion of the Equifax hack (and what we can learn from it), the role of serverless architectures today (and what it means to application surface area), and then finally they wrap with security hygiene best practices with OSS and serverless. Why listen to this podcast: - The majority of security vulnerabilities that exist in applicatio...
Oct 30, 2017•46 min
