Podcasts

Chris Swan on DevOps and NoOps, Plus Operations and Code Validation in a Serverless Environment

In this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Chris Swan about DevOps and NoOps, and what Swan calls LessOps, what Operations means in a world of Serverless, and where he sees Configuration Management, Provisioning, Monitoring and Logging heading. The podcast then wraps up talking about where he sees validating code in a serverless deployment, such as canaries and blue-green deployments.

Charles Humble and Wes Reisz Take a Look Back at 2017 and Speculate on What 2018 Might Have in Store

In this podcast Charles Humble and Wes Reisz talk about Java 9 and beyond, Kotlin, .NET Core 2, the surge in interest in organisational culture, quantum computing, and more.

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.

Eric Horesnyi on High Frequency Trading and How Hedge Funds are Applying Deep Learning to Markets

Eric Horesnyi, CEO @streamdata.io, talks to Charles Humble about how hedge funds are applying deep learning as an alternative to the raw speed favoured by High Frequency Trading to try and curve the market.

John Langford on Vowpal Wabbit, Used by MSN, and Machine Learning in Industry

Machine learning research scientist John Langford talks to QCon chair Wesley Reisz about his ML system Vowpal Wabbit used for news personalisation on MSN. They also discuss how to get started in the field and its shift from academic research to industry use.