Podcasts

Open Policy Agent (OPA) with the Project’s Co-Creators

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, performance. The podcast is an introduction to how OPA can is used across the stack for policy decisioning.

The InfoQ Podcast: Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2021

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.

Anurag Gupta on Day 2 Operations, DevOps, and Automated Remediation

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.

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

Matthew Clark and Charles Humble discuss BBC Digital’s migration from a classic LAMP stack to AWS Lambda and React. They talk about: 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.

Ted Young on Observability and the Release of OpenTelemetry 1.0

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.

Jason Thane on Building a Values Based Culture

In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Jason Thane of GenUI about building a company on a values-based culture, how software development is fundamentally about communication and collaboration and advice on interviewing for values fit.

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.

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.

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.

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.