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The InfoQ Podcast

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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.

Episodes

John DesJardins on In-Memory Data Grids, Stream Processing, and App Modernization

In this podcast, John DesJardins, field CTO and VP solution architecture at Hazelcast, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: how in-memory data grids have evolved, use cases at the edge (IoT, ML inference), integration of stream processing APIs and techniques, and how data grids can be used within application modernization. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/2FtBIgp Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, ...

Sep 14, 202033 min

Akhilesh Gupta on the Architecture of LinkedIn’s Real-time Messaging Platform

Charles Humble talks to Akhilesh Gupta, the technical lead for LinkedIn's real-time delivery infrastructure, and also LinkedIn messaging. They discuss the architecture behind LinkedIn’s real-time platform, its building blocks, the frameworks used and other technical details. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/2DujU3U Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on emerging t...

Sep 07, 202023 min

Yan Cui on Serverless Orchestration & Choreography, Distributed Tracking, Cold Starts, and more

Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Yan Cui (a long time AWS Lambda user and consultant) and Wes Reisz discuss serverless architectures. The conversation starts by focusing on architectural patterns around choreography and orchestration. From there, the two move into updates on the current state of serverless cold start times, distributed tracing, and state. Today’s podcast, while not specific to AWS, does lean heavily on Yan’s expertise with AWS and AWS Lambda. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated t...

Aug 31, 202024 min

Liran Haimovitch on Understandability, Complexity, and Live Debugging

In this podcast, Liran Haimovitch, CTO at Rookout, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the concept of “understandability” and how this relates to building modern software systems, how complexity impacts a system’s understandability, and the benefits of live debugging tooling. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the podcast: https://bit.ly/3ggFE0r Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on...

Aug 21, 202023 min

Ana Medina on Chaos Engineering, Game Days, and Learning

In this podcast, Ana Medina, senior chaos engineer at Gremlin, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: how enterprise organisations are adopting chaos engineering with the requirements for guardrails and the need for “status checks” to ensure pre-experiment system health; how to run game days or IT fire drills when everyone is working remotely; and why teams should continually invest in learning from past incidents and preparing for inevitable failures withi...

Aug 10, 202030 min

Stefan Prodan on Progressive Delivery, Flagger, and GitOps

In this podcast, Stefan Prodan, developer experience engineer at Weaveworks and creator of the Flagger project, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: how progressive delivery extends the core ideas of continuous delivery; how the open source Flagger Kubernetes operator can be used to implement a progressive delivery strategy via canary releasing with an API gateway or service mesh; and the new “GitOps toolkit” that has evolved from the Flux continuous deli...

Jul 28, 202038 min

Rancher on Hybrid Cloud, Kubernetes at the Edge, and Open Standards

In this podcast, Shannon Williams, co-founder and president at Rancher Labs and Darren Shepherd, co-founder and CTO at Rancher Labs sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the adoption of hybrid cloud across organisations, the evolution of Kubernetes as a key abstraction for portability and cross-cloud security, running thousands of Kubernetes clusters at the edge, and the value of open standards. Why listen to this podcast - Organisations are adopting hybri...

Jul 10, 202032 min

Nora Jones on Resilience Engineering, Mental Models, and Learning from Incidents

In this podcast, Nora Jones, Co-Founder and CEO at Jeli and co-author of O’Reilly’s “Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice”, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: chaos engineering and resilience engineering, planning and running effective chaos experiments, and learning from incidents. Why listen to this podcast: - The chaos engineering and resilience engineering fields, although inextricably linked, are often incorrectly conflated. Resilience ...

Jul 03, 202036 min

Rob Skillington on Metrics Collection, Uber’s M3, and OpenMetrics

In this podcast, Rob Skillington, co-founder and CTO at Chronosphere, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: metrics collection at scale, multi-dimensional metrics and high-cardinality, developer experience with platform tooling, and open standards related to observability. Why listen to this podcast: - Over the past ten years the requirements related to monitoring and alerting, and the approach taken to implement this, has changed considerably. Compute is ...

Jun 26, 202033 min

Johnny Boursiquot on Serverless Go and Site Reliability Engineering at Heroku

In this podcast, Johnny Boursiquot, Site Reliability Engineer at Heroku, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed topics that included: why Go is a useful language for building Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) style applications; how Heroku implement the role of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE); and why the ability to teach is such a valuable skill. Why listen to this podcast: - Go is a useful language for building Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) style applications. The ability to...

Jun 19, 202041 min

Matt Debergalis on GraphQL and Data Modelling in the Enterprise

In this podcast, Matt Debergalis, Founder and CTO at Apollo, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the motivations for GraphQL, the Apollo Data Graph platform, data modelling in an enterprise context, and how incrementally adopting GraphQL can help with decoupling the evolution of frontend and backend systems. Why listen to this podcast: - The challenges of defining client-side-friendly data models, building maintainable and composable backend APIs, and mo...

Jun 13, 202034 min

Lin Sun and Neeraj Poddar on Istio, Wasm, and the Future of Service Mesh

In this podcast, Lin Sun, senior technical staff member and master inventor at IBM, and Neeraj Poddar, engineering lead and architect at Aspen Mesh, sat down with InfoQ co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the evolution of service mesh data planes and control planes, the new Istio 1.5 architectures, Istio WebAssembly extension support, and the future of service mesh technology. Why listen to this podcast: - A service mesh in one implementation approach to provide service discovery, ...

May 31, 202037 min

Sam Newman: Monolith to Microservices

Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz talks with one of the thought leaders in Microservices, CI/CD, and Cloud -- Sam Newman. The podcast covers many of the topics, techniques, and patterns that Sam writes about in his latest book, Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith. Topics covered in the podcast include understanding the problem you’re trying to solve, organizational/people changes when it comes to microservice architectures, database strategies for deco...

May 25, 202044 min

Tracy Miranda on the Continuous Delivery Foundation, Interoperability, and Open Standards

In this podcast, Tracy Miranda sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Miranda, Director of Open Source Community at CloudBees, and board chair at the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), discussed topics that included: the aims of the CDF and an outline of the current hosted projects, the need for open standards and interoperability in the CD space, and the benefits offered by progressive delivery and software supply chain management. Why listen to this podcast: - The Continuous Del...

May 15, 202024 min

Marty Abbott and Tanya Cordrey on Microservices, Availability, and Managing Risk

In this podcast, Marty Abbott and Tanya Cordrey sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Abbott, CEO and co-founder of AKF Partners, and Cordrey, partner at AKF Partners, discussed topics that included: their learning from working together in the early days of eBay, why and how to avoid creating software systems that are composed of deep call chains of microservices, and how to build effective product teams. Why listen to this podcast: - First introduced in the book “The Art of Scalabi...

May 08, 202037 min

Dave Sudia on Migrating From a PaaS to a Kubernetes-Based Platform

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Dave Sudia, senior DevOps engineer at GoSpotCheck. Topics discussed included: the benefits of PaaS; building a platform with Kubernetes as the foundation; selecting open source components and open standards in order to facilitate the evolution of a platform; and why care should be taken to prioritize the developer experience and create self-service operation of the platform. Why listen to this podcast: - When starting a business and searching for prod...

Apr 17, 202031 min

Peter Bourgon on CRDTs and State at the Edge

Today on The InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Peter Bourgon. Peter is a distributed system engineer working on Fastly. His area of interest is around coordination free replicated systems. The two engineers talk about the space of Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) specifically in the context of edge compute. Topics covered on the podcast include Edge compute, CRDTs, CAP Theorem, and challenges around building distributed systems. Why listen to this podcast: - CRDTs (conflict-free rep...

Apr 03, 202037 min

Joe Duffy on Infrastructure as Code, Pulumi, and Multi-Cloud

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Joe Duffy, founder and CEO at Pulumi, and discussed several infrastructure-themed topics: the evolution of infrastructure as code (IaC), the way in which the open source Pulumi framework allows engineers to write IaC using general purpose programming languages such as JavaScript and Go, and the future of multi-cloud environments. Why listen to this podcast: ● Infrastructure as Code (IaC) enables engineers to programmatically define the configuration a...

Mar 27, 202028 min

Dylan Schiemann on the Evolution of Dojo, Web Components and Trends in the Web Development Landscape

In this podcast Charles Humble spoke to Dylan Schiemann, co-creator of Dojo and InfoQ’s JavaScript and Web Development lead editor, about the history and current state of Dojo, and key emerging trends in the JavaScript landscape today. Key topics include Dojo’s adoption of Typescript, web components, and client-side libraries such as Svelte and Stencil. Why listen to this podcast: - Modern Dojo (2.0 and upwards) is focussed on being a very small, opinionated reactive framework, but with a lot of...

Mar 20, 202033 min

Gareth Rushgrove on Kubernetes as a Platform, Applications, and Security

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Gareth Rushgrove, Director of Product Management at Snyk. Topics covered included Kubernetes as a platform, application abstractions, continuous delivery, and implementing good security practices in the cloud native space. Why listen to this podcast: - The value provided by Kubernetes depends on an organisation’s context. Kubernetes acts as both a series of lower-level building blocks for a platform, and also as a very powerful API for deploying and o...

Mar 13, 202031 min

Luca Mezzalira on Micro Frontends at DAZN

- A Micro frontends is an approach to developing frontends that attempts to take some of the same benefits from Microservices and apply them to frontend development. - Microfront ends can be developed with different technologies and ownership of components on a single view. However, DAZN took a vertical approach to build them. Each Micro frontend is loaded into an app shell that offers an API for crosscutting concerns. Only one Micro frontend is loaded at a time into the app shell. - The ‘Invers...

Mar 09, 202035 min

Zhamak Dehghani on Data Mesh, Domain-Oriented Data, and Building Data Platforms

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Zhamak Dehghani, principal consultant, member of technical advisory board, and portfolio director at ThoughtWorks. Topics discussed included: the motivations for becoming a data-driven organization; the challenges of adapting legacy data platforms and ETL jobs; and how to design and build the next generation of data platforms using ideas from domain-driven design and product thinking, and modern platform principles such as self-service workflows. Why ...

Mar 02, 202034 min

Brittany Postnikoff on Security, Privacy, and Social Engineering with Robots

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Brittany Postnikoff, a computer systems analyst specialising on the topics of robotics, embedded systems, and human-robot interaction. Topics discussed included: the rise of robotics and human-robot interaction within modern life, the security and privacy risks of robots used within this context, and the potential for robots to be used to socially engineer people. Why listen to this podcast: - Physical robots are becoming increasingly common in everyd...

Feb 21, 202023 min

Anurag Goel on Cloud Native Platforms, Developer Experience, and Scaling Kubernetes

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Anurag Goel, Founder and CEO of Render. Topics covered included: the evolution of cloud platforms; simplifying developer experience; running large-scale workloads on Kubernetes; and the future of tooling and platforms within the cloud native computing space. Why listen to this podcast: - Render is aiming to be the next generation of cloud provider. Developers deploy and manage applications via a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) -like experience using cust...

Feb 07, 202027 min

Greg Law on Debugging, Record & Replay of Data, and Hyper-Observability

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Greg Law, CTO at Undo. Topics discussed included: the challenges with debugging modern software systems, the need for “hyper-observability” and the benefit of being able to record and replay exact application execution; and the challenges with implementing the capture of nondeterministic system data in Undo’s LiveRecorder product for JVM-based languages that are Just-In-Time (JIT) compiled. Why listen to this podcast: - Understanding modern software s...

Jan 31, 202031 min

Idit Levine Discussing Gloo, Service Mesh Interface, and Web Assembly Hub

Today on The InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with CEO and founder of Solo Idit Levine. The two discuss the Three Pillars of Solo around Gloo, their API gateway, interoperability of service meshes (including the work on Service Mesh Interface), and on extending Envoy with Web Assembly (and the recently announced Web Assembly Hub). Why listen to this podcast: - Gloo is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller and API gateway. It’s built on top of Envoy and at its core is open source. - The Service M...

Jan 24, 202039 min

Gunnar Morling on Change Data Capture and Debezium

Today, on The InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Gunnar Morling. Gunnar is a software engineer at RedHat and leads the Debezium project. Debezium is an open-source distributed platform for change data capture (CDC). On the show, the two discuss the project and many of its use cases. Additionally, topics covered on the podcast include bootstrapping, configuration, challenges, debugging, and operational modes. The show wraps with long term strategic goals for the project. Why listen to this podca...

Jan 17, 202029 min

Kelsey Hightower on Extending Kubernetes, Event-Driven Architecture, and Learning

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate at Google. Topics covered included: the extensibility of Kubernetes, and why it has become the platform that other platforms are being built on top of; creating event-driven architectures and deploying these onto Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms like the Kubernetes-based Knative and Google Cloud Run; and the benefits of learning, sharing knowledge, and building communities. Why listen to this podcast: -...

Jan 10, 202026 min

Katie Gamanji on Condé Nast’s Kubernetes Platform, Self-Service, and the Federation and Cluster APIs

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Katie Gamanji, Cloud Platform Engineer at Condé Nast International. Topics covered included: exploring the architecture of the Condé Nast Kubernetes-based platform; the importance of enabling self-service deployment for developers; and how the Kubernetes’ Federation API and Cluster API may enable more opportunities for platform automation. - Founded in the early 1900s, Condé Nast is a global media company that has recently migrated their application d...

Jan 03, 202031 min

Joseph Jacks on Commercial Open Source Software, RISC-V, and Disrupting the Application Layer

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant spoke to Joseph Jacks, Founder of OSS Capital and the Open Core Summit, and discussed topics including the open source and open core models, innovations within open source hardware and the RISC-V instruction set architecture, and current opportunities for disruption using commercial open source software. Why listen to this podcast: - Recently, open source software and the open core business model have driven a lot of innovation and created a lot of value, particula...

Dec 27, 201926 min
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