Podcasts

Ana Medina on Chaos Engineering, Game Days, and Learning

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 within systems.

InfoQ Software Architecture & Design Trends 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.

Jaxon Repp on HarperDB Distributed Database Platform

In this podcast, Srini Penchikala spoke with Jaxon Repp, head of product at HarperDB, about their distributed database platform, edge persistence, and custom functions.

Matthew Clark on the BBC’s Migration from LAMP to the Cloud with AWS Lambda, React and CI/CD

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.

Stefan Prodan on Flux, Flagger, and the Operator Pattern Applied to Non-Clustered Resources

In this podcast, Wesley Reisz talks to Stefan Prodan about Flux and Flagger–two tools built on top of Flux CD’s GitOps Toolkit. After discussing some of the architectural differences between Flux v1 and v2 and discussing some of the GitOps toolkit use cases, the two discuss the operator pattern on Kubernetes.

Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Software Supply Chain

Shane Hastie spoke to Brian Fox of Sonatype about vulnerabilities and risks inherent in the modern software supply chain and how to overcome them. 

Culture & Methods Trends Report 2022 Part 2

This is the second part of the Culture & Methods trend report for 2022 where Shane Hastie spoke to Shaaron Alvares who was not able to join us for the first recording to explore what she has seen over the last year and the trends she sees going forward.

Randy Shoup on Creating High-Performance Cultures

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Randy Shoup, VP of Engineering at WeWork, about what is needed to create a high-performance culture.

InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report March 2022

In this podcast the InfoQ Culture & Methods editors, along with special guest Sandy Mamoli, discuss what they have seen over the last year and the trends they see going forward

Creating Culture that Doesn’t Suck – Good Comes First

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt about how leaders need to focus on creating a purposeful, positive, and productive work environment for their employees, customers, and stakeholders.