Podcasts

Fran Méndez on AsyncAPI

AsyncAPI is a specification and growing set of tools to help developers define asynchronous APIs, and build and maintain event-driven architectures. AsyncAPI hopes to provide features and benefits to those of OpenAPI (fka Swagger) for RESTful APIs. The specification and all tooling are community-driven and fully open source.

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.

Yan Cui on Serverless, Including Orchestration/Choreography, Distributed Tracing, & More

Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Yan Cui (a long time AWS Lambda user and consultant) and Wes Reisz discuss serverless architectures. The conversation starts by focusing on architectural patterns around choreography and orchestration. From there, the two move into updates on the current state of serverless cold start times, distributed tracing, and state.

Katie Gamanji on Condé Nast’s Kubernetes Platform, Self-Service, and the Federation and Cluster APIs

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Katie Gamanji, Cloud Platform Engineer at Condé Nast International. Topics covered included: exploring the architecture of the Condé Nast Kubernetes-based platform; the importance of enabling self-service deployment for developers; and how the Kubernetes’ Federation API and Cluster API may enable more opportunities for platform automation.

Josh Wills on Building Resilient Data Engineering and Machine Learning Products at Slack

Josh Wills, a software engineer working on data engineering problems at Slack, discusses the Slack data architecture and how they build and observe their pipelines.