In this episode, Adam Jacob, CEO and co-founder at System Initiative, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed the evolution and potential future directions of DevOps and managing infrastructure. Topics covered included the challenges remaining within the DevOps movement, how to model and manage infrastructure, and how to increase collaboration between developers and operators. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3ZzWCiM Subscribe to the Software Architects...
Oct 02, 2023•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Tracy Miranda, a leader in the secure software supply chain domain, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed the current state of the industry. Topics covered included the benefits of SBOMs and SLSA, getting started with generating SBOMs, and how developers should work with leadership when evaluating their organization’s security posture. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3EFWiFr Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]:...
Sep 18, 2023•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast In today's episode Thomas Betts talks to Mark Fussell and Yaron Schneider about the Distributed Applications Runtime, Dapr. In the latest InfoQ Architecture and Design Trends Report, Dapr is part of the early adopter ideas of design for portability and cloud-bound applications. Dapr provides APIs that abstract away the infrastructure details for modern applications, providing secure, best practice implementations that work across any cloud, framework, and language. Read a transcript of this inte...
Sep 11, 2023•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the podcast will be discussing the current trends in the domain of AI, ML and Data Engineering as part of the process of creating our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of the topics to pay attention to and also help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/47YpXqY Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architect…mpaign=a...
Sep 06, 2023•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Roi Ravhon, co-founder and CEO of Finout, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed the emergence and industry adoption of FinOps. The conversation covers topics such as the benefits of adopting FinOps, the typical journey of an organization interested in learning more about cloud costs, and a range of cultural and tooling required for a successful implementation. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3sBkZ3i Subscribe to the Software Architec...
Sep 01, 2023•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast In today's episode Thomas Betts talks to Lily Mara, Engineering Manager at OneSignal in San Mateo, California. She manages the infrastructure services team, which is responsible for in-house services used by other OneSignal engineering teams. They will discuss how to build a reliable Kafka data processing pipeline. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3ONTM63 Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architect…mpaign=architectnl Upcoming Ev...
Aug 14, 2023•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ will be discussing the current trends in the domain of cloud and DevOps as part of the process of creating our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of the topics to pay attention to and also help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies. In addition to the report and the trends graph available on InfoQ.com, this podcast is a chance to hear our raw c...
Jul 17, 2023•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Live from the venue of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), we are talking with Ben Dart about the trends in robotics. In this podcast, Ben and Roland discuss the latest robotics technology as showcased at ICRA, and discuss where this technology is on the hype cycle. They also discuss how to get started with robotics yourself. Read a transcript of this interview: bit.ly/3XGQAMh Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architect...
Jul 10, 2023•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast In Evolutionary Architectures, the book she co-authored, Dr. Rebecca Parsons described the principles and practices that allow architecture to evolve. In this episode of the podcast, we talk about those principles, how they’ve changed between the first and second editions of the book, and what changes we might see in the next few years. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3IUg5U6 Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architect…mpaign=a...
Jun 05, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Live from the venue of the QCon London Conference, we are talking with Mehrnoosh Sameki. In this podcast, Mehrnoosh discusses the importance of responsible AI, the principles behind it, and the challenges in ensuring fairness and transparency in AI systems. She also highlights various open-source tools and approaches for developers to incorporate responsible AI practices into their machine learning models and ensure better decision-making and ethical outcomes. Read a transcript of this interview...
May 23, 2023•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Commiting to the journey of running in the cloud is quite as simple as moving your code or writing a new application on a cloud offering. Between a diverse service catalog, greater developer autonomy, rapid provisioning, surprise billing, and changing security requirements, you might find that hosting applications on the cloud does not make the most of the cloud. In this episode of the podcast, Rosemary Wang talks about the patterns and practices that help you move from cloud-hosted to cloud-nat...
May 15, 2023•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Live from the venue of the QCon London Conference, we are talking with Hien Luu, head of ML Platform at DoorDash. In this podcast, Hien discusses the main principles and strategies that DoorDash uses to scale and evolve MLOps, as well as some tips for those who want to get started with MLOps. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3pkOiFL Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium...
May 08, 2023•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Live from the venue of the QCon London Conference, we are talking with Leslie Miley, a technical advisor to the CTO at Microsoft. In this podcast, Leslie shares his insights on AI bias, sustainability, and the potential impact of AI on society. He emphasizes the importance of understanding and mitigating the harm these technologies can cause, while also discussing the responsibilities of developers, tech companies, and individuals in ensuring a more responsible and ethical approach to AI develop...
May 02, 2023•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Live from the venue of the QCon London Conference we are talking with Tomáš Neubauer. He will talk about Quix Streams, an open-source Python library that simplifies real-time machine learning pipelines. In his presentation, Tomáš will discuss various architecture designs, their pros and cons, and demonstrate a real use case of detecting a cyclist crash using Quix Streams and a TensorFlow model. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3L87Bck Subscribe to the Software Architects’ News...
Apr 25, 2023•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff will be discussing the current trends in software architecture and design, as part of the process to create our annual trends report. These reports provide the InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of the topics to pay attention to, and also help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies. In addition to the report and the trends graph available on InfoQ.com, this podcast is a chance to hear our conversation and som...
Mar 27, 2023•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast What makes QCon software conferences stand out from other events? The top reason has to be the content, which focuses on innovator and early adopter trends, and presenters who are expert practitioners, sharing their real-world stories. Deciding what topics to include in the conference starts with the QCon programming committee. In this episode, we're going backstage to get an understanding of how QCon London came together, and why the trends being featured are important. Read a transcript of thi...
Mar 13, 2023•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, Srini Penchikala spoke with Dan Benjamin, the CEO of Dig Security on three main topics: Cloud Data Security, Data Security Posture Management, Data Detection and Response (DDR). Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3KKXKe3 Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=architectnl Upcoming Events: QCon London https://qconlondon.com/?utm_source=s...
Feb 28, 2023•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Colin McCabe about Apache Kafka’s KRaft mode. Colin is a principal engineer with Confluent working on the scalability and performance of Apache Kafka. KRaft mode is the new operating mode of Apache Kafka released with 3.3.1 and is the new target architecture for Kafka metadata (the current roadmap will completely deprecate Zookeeper in Kafka in the 4.0 release). On the podcast, Wes and Colin discuss KRaft mode and what it means for the Kafka ecos...
Feb 20, 2023•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast GraphQL can be a great choice for client to server communication, but it requires investment to maximize its potential. Netflix operates a very large, Federated GraphQL platform. Like any distributed system, this has some benefits, but also creates additional challenges. In this episode, Tejas Shikhare, explains the pros and cons of scaling GraphQL adoption. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3ZxrTm6 Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/24x...
Jan 16, 2023•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Everyone likes the idea of building something new. So much freedom. But what about making changes after you have users? In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Brandon Byars about how you can evolve your API without versioning, a topic he spoke about at QCon San Francisco. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3jONh63 Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-a...
Jan 02, 2023•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this special year-end wrap-up podcast Thomas Betts, Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Srini Penchikala, and Daniel Bryant discuss what they have seen in 2022 and muse on what they hope to see in 2023. Topics explored included: the benefits of architecture decision records (ADRs), the role of Staff Plus engineers, treating platforms as a product, the importance of sustainability and green IT, and the need to be deliberate with culture design. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3VkSYp8 ...
Dec 23, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a re-post from April 2022. Each year, InfoQ editors discuss what we’ve been observing across the entire software development landscape, and create several trends reports, each with its own graph of the adoption curve. This helps the editorial team focus its reporting on innovative technologies and ideas, and also provides our readers with a high-level overview of topics to keep an eye on. There are two major components of these reports. The written report is published on InfoQ.com, and i...
Dec 12, 2022•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a re-post from September 2022. In this episode of The InfoQ Podcast, we will discuss some of the .NET Trends for 2022. Today we will focus on the latest .NET developments related to User Interface and Communication. Our panelist guests for this discussion are Irina Scurtu, Microsoft MVP and International Speaker, and François Tanguay, CEO at Uno Platform. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Wdatsx Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.l...
Dec 11, 2022•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Not long ago, only programmers cared about APIs. Those days are behind us, and now companies need to manage their APIs as they would any other software they provide to customers. In this episode, Deepa Goyal discusses how to manage an API as a product, and how that impacts all members of the two development teams that interact with an API. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3GP1h9j Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software...
Nov 28, 2022•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast When building a distributed system, we have to consider many aspects of the network. This has led to many tools to help software developers improve performance, optimize requests, or increase observability. Service meshes, sidecars, eBPF, layer three, layer four, layer seven, it can all be a bit overwhelming. In this podcast, Jim Barton explains some of the fundamentals of modern service meshes, and provides an overview of Istio Ambient Mesh and the benefits it will provide in the future. Read a...
Nov 14, 2022•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Susanne Kaiser is a software consultant working with teams on microservice adoption. Recently, she’s brought together Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping, and Team Topologies into a conversation about helping teams adopt a fast flow of change. Today on the podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Susanne about why she feels these three approaches to dealing with software complexity are so complementary. The two then work through some of the patterns she’s seen in her consulting work and discuss how to g...
Oct 31, 2022•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Marco Valtas, technical lead for cleantech and sustainability at ThoughtWorks North America, discusses the Principles of Green Software Engineering. The principles help guide software decisions by considering the environmental impact. The principles are intended for everyone involved in software, and emphasize that sustainability, on its own, is a reason to justify the work. Read a transcript of this interview: Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/...
Oct 24, 2022•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with long-time open-source contributor and startup founder Matt Butcher. Matt is the CEO of Fermyon Technologies and is at the forefront of the Web Assembly (Wasm) work being done in the cloud. The two discuss Matt’s belief we’re at the start of a 3rd wave of cloud computing, the state of the Wasm ecosystem, and what Fermyon’s doing in the space. The conversation includes Spin (Fermyon’s inner loop Wasm development tooling), wasm performance/compile t...
Oct 10, 2022•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Continuous profiling is collecting profiling data (think things like memory and CPU) all the time/throughout time in your production environment. Today on the podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Frederic Branczyk, CEO of PolarSignals, a startup formed to enable continuous profiling leveraging eBPF. Wes and Frederic discuss the origin story of Polar Signals, eBPF (the enabling technology used by Polar Signals), Parca (the open-source system they built to collect continuous profiling data), and more, i...
Oct 03, 2022•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of The InfoQ Podcast, we will discuss some of the .NET Trends for 2022. Today we will focus on the latest .NET developments related to User Interface and Communication. Our panelist guests for this discussion are Irina Scurtu, Microsoft MVP and International Speaker, and François Tanguay, CEO at Uno Platform. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3BWHZvM Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Ne...
Sep 26, 2022•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast