Podcasts

Architecture & Design

20:56

Melissa Benua on Continuous Delivery, Quality, and DevTestSecOps

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.

Architecture & Design

34:08

Ann Lewis Discusses the Political Tech Landscape, MoveOn’s Architecture, and Scaling Challenges

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.

Architecting Reactive Systems: Insights on Modern Approaches with Tyler Jewell

Tyler Jewell, CEO of Lightbend, explores the evolution of responsive, distributed applications and the challenges in achieving elasticity, resilience, and scalability.

Architecture & Design

30:05

Kavitha Srinivasan on Federated GraphQL Adoption, Performance Considerations, and DevEx at Netflix

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.

Architecture & Design

25:48

Mario Platt on DevSecOps, Platforms, and Threat Modelling

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.

Architecture & Design

28:51

InfoQ Podcaster 2020 Year in Review: Challenges, Distributed Working & Looking to the Future

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.

Culture & Methods

23:47

Pato Jutard of Mural on Maintaining a Collaborative Culture through Exponential Growth

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Pato Jutard, CTO of Mural, about the challenges of maintaining a collaborative culture as they have grown from under 100 people to over 450 through the pandemic.

Culture & Methods

25:44

Robin Hills on Emotional Intelligence and Building on Your Strengths

Shane Hastie spoke to Robin Hills about the importance of emotional intelligence in life and at work, building on your strengths rather than focusing on weaknesses, and the value of purpose to enable resilience.

Reimagining the concept of responsive apps

Responsiveness is much more than a front-end web app issue. Tyler Jewell will challenge you to think differently about how to achieve elasticity, agility, and resilience.

Culture & Methods

31:28

Anders Wallgren of Cloudbees on the Human Side of Software Delivery Management

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Anders Wallgren of CloudBees about the human side of software development, ways to improve collaboration and why the future is in features.

Culture & Methods

20:38

Frank Trainer on SOLID architecture, Technical Excellence and Development as a Team Sport

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Frank Trainer of Saggezza about technical excellence, writing code for your teammates and not yourself, and the importance of SOLID architecture principles.

Culture & Methods

33:20

Tim Olshansky on Career Paths for Technologists Who Don’t Want to Manage People

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Tim Olshansky of Zenput about cross functional teams, OKRs, career paths for technologists, and making tradeoffs between technical and customer needs.