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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 and 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.
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Event Sourcing: Bernd Rücker on Architecting for Scale
Bernd Rücker talks to Wesley Reisz about Microservice Orchestration, CQRS and Event Sourcing
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Pat Kua on Technical Leadership, Cultivating Culture, and Career Growth
In this podcast, we discuss a holistic approach to technical leadership, and Kua provides guidance on everything from defining target operating models, cultivating culture, and supporting people in developing the career they would like. There are a bunch of great stories, several book recommendations, and additional resources to follow up on.
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Louise Poubel on the Robot Operating System
Louise Poubel is an engineer working with Open Robotics. Today on the podcast, she talks about what it takes to develop software that moves in physical space, including the Sense, Think, Act Cycle, the developer experience, and architecture of ROS.
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Mike Lee Williams on Probabilistic Programming, Bayesian Inference, and Languages Like PyMC3
Reisz talks with Mike Lee Williams of Cloudera’s Fast Forward Labs about Probabilistic Programming. The two discuss 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.
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Building Composable Teams: Moving Beyond Rigid Organizational Structures
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Luv Kapur about building composable team structures, creating trust through transparency and clarity, and enabling fluid organizational design through API-first team principles.
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Using Brain Science to Communicate and Lead Technical Teams Effectively
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg about how understanding brain science and emotional intelligence can help engineers and technical leaders improve communication, manage conflict, and build stronger teams.
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Building Engineering Culture Through Autonomy and Ownership
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Marcos Arribas about building and scaling engineering culture as an organisation grows, emphasizing autonomous teams, ownership mentality, progressive feature rollouts with flags, small pull requests, strategic AI adoption, and the importance of hiring junior engineers for long-term organizational growth.
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How Blameless Culture Transforms Engineering Teams
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Tameem Hourani about building a blameless engineering culture through radical transparency, focusing on system resilience over individual blame, and creating high-performing teams that can embrace change and learn from failures.
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The Myth of 100% Utilization: The Neuroscience of Productive Teams
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Shannon Mason about optimizing team productivity by understanding the neuroscience behind cognitive load, distinguishing between beneficial "slack time" and detrimental "idle time", and how the pursuit of maximum utilization that leads to burnout and poor decision-making.