Podcasts

Bryan Cantrill on Rust and Why He Feels It’s The Biggest Change in Systems Development in His Career

Today on the podcast, Bryan Cantrill discusses with Wes Reisz a bit about the origins of DTrace and then spends the rest of the time discussing why he feels Rust is the “biggest development in systems development in his career.”

Oracle Labs’ Duncan MacGregor on Graal, TruffleRuby, & Project Loom

Duncan MacGregor speaks with Wes Reisz about the work being done on the experimental Graal Compiler. He talks about the use cases and where the new JIT compiler excels really well (compared to C2). In addition, MacGregor talks about the relationship of Graal to Truffle. The two then discuss a language MacGregor works on at OracleLabs (TruffleRuby) that is being implemented on the stack.

Rod Johnson Chats about the Spring Framework Early Days, Languages Post-Java, & Rethinking CI/CD

Today on The InfoQ Podcast, Wes talks with Rod Johnson. Johnson is famously responsible for the creation of the Spring Framework. The two talk about the early years of the framework and provide some of the history of its creation. After discussing Spring, they discuss languages Johnson’s been involved with since Java (these include Scala and TypeScript).

Katharine Jarmul and Ethical Machine Learning

Today on The InfoQ Podcast, Wes talks with Katharine Jarmul about privacy and fairness in machine learning algorithms. Jarmul discusses what’s meant by Ethical Machine Learning and some things to consider when working towards achieving fairness. Jarmul is the co-founder at KIProtect, a machine learning security and privacy firm based in Germany, and is one of the three keynote speakers at QCon.ai.

Grady Booch on Today’s Artificial Intelligence Reality and What it Means for Developers

On the podcast today, Wes Reisz and Grady Booch discuss what today’s reality is for AI. Booch answers questions like what does an AI mean to the practice of writing software, and how it seems to impact delivering software. In addition, Booch talks about AI surges (and winters) over the years, the importance of ethics in software, and host of other related questions.

Jeremy Kriegel on Design Innovation and Doc Norton on Tuckman was Wrong

In this podcast, recorded at the Agile India 2019 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Jeremy Kriegel about design innovation and then with Doc Norton about why Tuckman was wrong and how dynamic reteaming makes organisations more resilient.

Judy Rees on Effective Remote Meetings

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Judy Rees about making remote meetings effective, clean language, the series of articles she is curating for InfoQ and the upcoming remote meeting that our listeners/readers are invited to participate in.

Deborah Hartmann Preuss on Creating Joyful Workplaces

In this podcast, recorded at the Agile India 2019 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Deb Preuss about life coaching, creating joyful workplaces, diversity and inclusion.

Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt on the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David Thomas and Andrew Hunt about the 20th Anniversary edition of The Pragmatic Programmer.

Portia Tung on Coaching, Playful Leadership and the Importance of Play at Work

In this podcast recorded at QCon London 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Portia Tung from the School of Play about agile coaching, helping individuals and organisations adopt a playful leadership style and the importance of play in the workplace.