Podcasts

Charity Majors on Honeycomb.io, the Social Side of Debugging and Testing in Production

In this podcast, recorded live at Strange Loop 2017, Wesley Reisz talks to Charity Majors, cofounder and CEO of honeycomb.io. They discuss the social side of debugging and her Strangeloop talk “Observability for Emerging Infra: What Got You Here Won't Get You There”. Other topics include advice for testing in production, shadowing and splitting traffic, and sampling and aggregation.

Shubha Nabar Discusses Einstein, the Machine Learning System in Salesforce

Shubha Nabar is a senior director of data science for Salesforce Einstein. In the podcast she discusses Salesforce Einstein and the problem space that they are trying to solve, explores the differences between enterprise and consumer for machine learning, and then talks about the Optimus Prime Scala library that they use in Salesforce.

Simon Brown on the Role of the Software Architect in a Continuous Delivery Environment

This week's podcast features Simon Brown, well known for his work training software architects. Topics include the differences between a tech lead and an architect, how much documentation is enough, and what that looks like in a continuous delivery environment.

Twitter's Yao Yue on Latency, Performance Monitoring, & Caching at Scale

Yao Yue spent the majority of her career working on caching systems at Twitter. She created a performance team that deals with edge performance outliers often exposed by the enormous scale of Twitter. In this podcast, she discusses standing up the performance team, thoughts on instrumenting applications, and interesting performance issues (and strategies for solving them) they’ve seen at Twitter.

Linda Rising on the Importance of Patterns, Her Journey & Patterns for Driving Change/Innovation

On the InfoQ Podcast this week, Wes Reisz talks with the Queen of Patterns, Linda Rising. Linda discusses her thoughts on the importance of patterns, she answers questions about what really is a pattern, and how she became involved in working with them. She discusses a variety of organizational and personal patterns and finally wraps with patterns to apply when driving change and innovation.

Bernie Maloney on Servant Leadership and Bringing out Human Potential

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Bernie Maloney of Persistent Systems about servant leadership and bringing out human potential.

Dave West on the State of Scrum and the Latest Scrum Guide

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave West, Chief Product Owner of Scrum.org, about the state of Scrum, the latest revision to the Scrum Guide, the rise of Digital and the way Scrum.org maintains its courseware.

John Le Drew on Solving Technical Problems by Addressing Human Issues

In this podcast recorded at the Agile India conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to John Le Drew about solving technical problems by addressing the people issues.

Aurynn Shaw on Enabling a Sustainable DevOps Culture

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Aurynn Shaw about how DevOps, Microservices and other “technical” approaches are in fact cultural constraints on technical ideas and what’s needed to make the culture sustainable.

Sanjeev Sharma of IBM on What a DevOps Culture Really Means

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Sanjeev Sharma, a distinguished engineer at IBM, on the challenges for large enterprises adopting DevOps at scale and what it really means to have a DevOps culture.