An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the AI, ML, and Data Engineering topic evolving in 2021. Topics discussed are deep learning, edge deployment of machine learning algorithms, commercial robot platforms, GPU and CUDA programming, natural language processing and GPT-3, MLOps, and AutoML. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3xF0MGJ Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.i...
Aug 09, 2021•59 min
This episode is a panel discussion from the microservices track QCon Plus, held in May 2021. Track host Nicki Watt asks "What have we learned over the last decade of microservices." The panelists included Chris Richardson, James Lewis, and Katie Gamanji. The discussion started with looking at how the meaning of "microservices architecture" has evolved over the past ten years. There were some great insights about how successfully developing, deploying, and maintaining software depends as much or ...
Aug 04, 2021•32 min
In this episode of the InfoQ podcast Charles Humble talks to Michael Perry about his book “The Art of Immutable Architecture”. They discuss topics including the eight fallacies of distributed computing: a set of assertions made by L Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems describing false assumptions that programmers new to distributed applications invariably make. Other topics include Pat Helland’s paper “Immutability Changes Everything”, Eric Brewer's CAP Theorem, eventual consistency, lo...
Jul 26, 2021•30 min
On this episode of the podcast, Fran Mendez, founder of the AsyncAPI Initiative spoke with co-host Thomas Betts. AsyncAPI is a specification and growing set of tools to help developers define asynchronous APIs, and build and maintain event-driven architectures. AsyncAPI hopes to provide features and benefits to those of OpenAPI (fka Swagger) for RESTful APIs. The specification and all tooling are community-driven and fully open source. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/36ALVSg ...
Jul 19, 2021•29 min
Observability is a crucial aspect of operating Microservices at scale today. Today on the InfoQ podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Chronosphere’s CEO Martin Mao about how he thinks about observability. Specifically, the two discuss Chronosphere’s strategy for implementing a successful observability program. Starting with alerting, Martin discusses how metrics (usually things like RED metrics or Google’s Four Golden Signals) are tools to aggregate counts and let operators know when things are moving ...
Jul 13, 2021•26 min
In this episode of the InfoQ Podcast, Thomas Betts speaks with Chris Richardson about minimizing design-time coupling in a microservice architecture. Chris begins by defining design-time coupling, and contrasts it with runtime coupling. We then discuss some of the problems that arise from design-time coupling, anti-patterns and symptoms that are warning signs of high coupling, and the trade-offs that architects need to consider in their designs. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.l...
Jun 21, 2021•31 min
In this podcast, John DesJardin, Chief Technology Officer at Hazelcast, met with InfoQ podcast co-host Thomas Betts to discuss the idea of continuous intelligence. This is a paradigm shift from traditional business intelligence, and relies on a corresponding move from batch-based ETL and reporting to continuous processing of streaming data. Although the languages being used, such as Python and SQL, will be familiar, developers must pay special attention to the characteristics of time-series data...
Jun 14, 2021•27 min
In this podcast Ron Pressler, technical lead for Project Loom at Oracle, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble to discuss the project and its forerunner Quasar. Topics include the differences between concurrency and parallelism; what virtual threads are; current issues with JVM concurrency; the Loom developer experience; pluggable schedulers; structured concurrency; and more. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/34duS7G Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly...
May 27, 2021•34 min
The container runtime is software that executes containers and manages container images. Today, when many people think about a container runtime, they're likely thinking of Docker. However, Docker is more a set of tools for building, packaging, sharing, and running a container via Docker Daemon that then makes syscalls to another tool like containerd. Containerd, in turn, makes calls to an implementation like runc that lays down the file system for the container and is the executor for the proce...
May 12, 2021•31 min
The Open Policy Agent is used for policy decision-making across the stack. In the case of Kubernetes, it is often used as an admission controller to protect the API Server with dynamic rules that don’t require recompilation to introduce. Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Tim Hinrichs and Torin Sandall (two of the Open Policy Agent Project creators). The three talk about the project, including things like architecture, origin, community, the policy language (Rego), and, of course,...
Apr 26, 2021•33 min
An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2021, with a focus on what architects are designing for today. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3uQX9fD Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - https://events.infoq.com/ InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - June 22, 202...
Apr 19, 2021•56 min
In this podcast Anurag Gupta, founder and CEO of Shoreline.io, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed: the role of DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE), day 2 operations, and the importance of building observability into applications and platforms. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3mdMSHa Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-n...
Apr 05, 2021•31 min
In this podcast Matthew Clark, Head Of Architecture for the BBC's Digital Products, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble and discussed: the new architecture for the BBC’s online services; the challenges of using Lambda functions including cold start-up, function chaining, debugging and setting the memory profile; the role of DevOps and CI/CD; and the nature of a cloud transformation. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3u2I8H5 Subscribe to our newsletters: - The Inf...
Mar 29, 2021•30 min
In this podcast Ted Young, director of developer education at Lightstep, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed: observability (and the three pillars), the OpenTelemetry CNCF sandbox project and the 1.0 release, and how to build an effective telemetry collection platform. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3eWqJvF Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/softwa...
Mar 22, 2021•33 min
Several years ago, today's guest Michael Feathers published a book called Working Effectively with Legacy Code. This book introduced ways of wrangling large codebases. In the book, Feather's discussed leveraging unit tests to introduce--not only a validation of correctness but also-- documentation on a system's operation, ways to decouple/modularize monolithic code, and 24 different techniques to introduce change safely. Today on the podcast, Wes Reisz and Michael Feathers go back and review the...
Mar 15, 2021•30 min
In this episode of the InfoQ podcast Dr Phil Winder, CEO of Winder Research, sits down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. They discuss: the history of Reinforcement Learning (RL); the application of RL in fields such as robotics and content discovery; scaling RL models and running them in production; and ethical considerations for RL. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3uylAPz Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Arch...
Mar 01, 2021•33 min
In this podcast Clare Liguori, Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed: the implementation of continuous delivery at AWS, the use of automation and deploying to multiple test environments, and the benefits of canary releasing. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3qwCCLy Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/s...
Feb 22, 2021•34 min
In this podcast, Carin Meier of Reify Health sits down with Wesley Reisz and discusses how machine learning is being used to combat major illnesses (such as the coronavirus). After a short discussion on some of the work being done today, the two shift into a discussion on the challenges of working with healthcare data and machine learning. Topics around safety, ethics, and explainability are discussed. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3b6q1IB Subscribe to our newsletters: - Th...
Feb 16, 2021•28 min
In this podcast, Anubhav Mishra and Nic Jackson from HashiCorp sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the benefits and challenges of creating application platforms in the cloud, the need for effective developer workflows, and the role of the new HashiCorp Waypoint tool and service meshes within workflows. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/36T3xcT Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Archit...
Feb 08, 2021•32 min
Today on the podcast, we talk about LinkerD and the larger Service Mesh space with William Morgan (CEO of Buoyant). We cover William’s thoughts around important concerns such as latency and cost (both in your cloud bill and in real human costs) of operating services, we talk a bit about the birth and evolution of LinkerD (including some of the design decisions such as Rust in the data plane and Go in the control plane building Linkerd), and, finally, we’ll talk about the importance of security w...
Feb 01, 2021•32 min
In this podcast, Melissa Benua, Director of Engineering at mParticle, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed: the importance of the roles of testing and security within DevOps; the benefits and challenges of building systems with teams of generalists; and how to “bake in” observability of systems from day zero. More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2LUBBho You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hotte...
Jan 25, 2021•21 min
For this podcast, Ann Lewis, CTO at MoveOn, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. Topics discussed included: the political tech landscape; MoveOn’s architecture and scaling challenges; MoveOn’s open-source text banking platform Spoke; and advice when stepping into a CTO role. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/35tBGiI Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informe...
Jan 11, 2021•34 min
In this podcast, Kavitha Srinivasan, a senior software engineer at Netflix, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. Topics discussed included: how the two main Netflix business units are migrating to GraphQL; how the schema is managed; performance considerations when working with GraphQL; the role of DevEx in a large migration. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/3pv1oef Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @Info...
Jan 04, 2021•30 min
In this podcast, Mario Platt, VP Head of Information Security at CloudMargin, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the differences and similarities between DevSecOp and DevOps; the role of a platform in relation to system security; and the value of threat modelling. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/34F4ep1 Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdo...
Dec 30, 2020•26 min
In this podcast, InfoQ podcast hosts, Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Charles Humble and Daniel Bryant, sit down for the 2020 year in review edition of the podcast. Topics discussed included: the technology industry’s response to the change in working habits; the rise of online events; the future of cloud platforms; remote working and leadership; and the need to be kind to yourself and others. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/3h9sbtm Follow u...
Dec 21, 2020•29 min
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. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/33fXiha Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @infoqdotcom Stay informed on e...
Nov 30, 2020•27 min
Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist, theoretical physicist, and businessman. He is also known for his work in mathematics. In 2012, he was named an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In this episode of the InfoQ podcast Charles Humble talks to him 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...
Nov 16, 2020•51 min
Today on the InfoQ Podcast, 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. In 2009, he was one of the people who first helped to shape what we know today as DevOps. On the podcast Shafer talks about the Three Economies, Wall of Confusion, and a bit about those first mentions of DevO...
Nov 03, 2020•33 min
In this podcast, Alois Reitbauer, VP, Chief Technical Strategist and Head of Innovation Lab, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: microservices vs functions; the go-micro and micro frameworks; and the evolution of PaaS and how the new M3O platform fits into the landscape. Listen to the podcast for more. Curated transcript and more information on the https://bit.ly/31Ju5e4 Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube: @InfoQ Follow us on Instagram: @i...
Oct 28, 2020•32 min
Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz talks with two of the engineers currently working on removing the dependency of ZooKeeper in Kafka. ZooKeeper is used to maintain the metadata store required to operate Kafka. While ZooKeepers removal from Kafka will simplify the operational complexity and improve some of the scalability aspects of the platform, it is a huge undertaking that represents major changes to the overall architecture. Justin Gustafson and Colin McCabe are two engineers working on c...
Oct 19, 2020•32 min
