Podcasts

Haley Tucker on Responding to Failures in Playback Features at Netflix

In this week’s podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Haley Tucker, a Senior Software Engineer on the Playback Features team at Netflix. While at QCon San Francisco 2016, Tucker told some production war stories about trying to deliver content to 65 million members.

Kolton Andrus on Lessons Learnt from Failure Testing at Amazon and Netflix and New Venture Gremlin

Wesley Reisz talks to Kolton Andrus. Andrus is the founder of Gremlin Inc. He was a Chaos Engineer at Netflix, focused on the resilience of the Edge services. He designed and built FIT, Netflix’s failure injection service. Prior, he improved the performance and reliability of the Amazon Retail website.

Preslav Le on How Dropbox Moved off AWS and What They Have Been Able to Do Since

In March 2016 Dropbox announced that they had migrated away from Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this week's podcast Robert Bluman talks to Preslav Le about what they have been able to do since.

Randy Shoup on Stitch Fix's Technology Stack, Data Science and Microservices

In this week's podcast Wes Reisz talks to Randy Shoup. Shoup is the vice president of engineering at Stitch Fix. Prior to Stitch Fix, he worked for Google as the director of engineering and cloud computing, CTO and co-founder of Shopilly, and chief engineer at Ebay.

Tal Weiss on Observability, Instrumentation and Bytecode Manipulation on the JVM

OverOps CEO Tal Weiss describes how the OverOps product works, explores the difference between instrumentation and observability, discusses byte-code manipulation and common Java application errors.

Harsh Sinha on Building Culture at TransferWise

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Harsh Sinha, CTO of TransferWise, about deliberately designing organisational culture.

Rich Mironov on Product Development Trends

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Rich Mironov about the current trends in product development

Cahlan Sharp on Teaching Development Skills

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Cahlan Sharp about the DevMountain schools that teach software development skills in intensive “bootcamp” programs

Linda Rising on Values, Morality and the Impact of Politics

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Linda Rising about her talk at Agile 2017 in which she explores her own reaction to the politics in the USA and how it triggered her to research morality and values.

Wendy Closson on Mindfulness and Effective Communication

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Wendy Closson about her journey of recovery from contracting a rare, deadly form of cancer to leading to the Optimize You track at QCon New York