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.

Java’s Project Loom, Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency with Ron Pressler

In this podcast Ron Pressler, technical lead for Project Loom at Oracle, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble to discuss the project and its forerunner Quasar. Topics include the differences between concurrency and parallelism; what virtual threads are; current issues with JVM concurrency; the Loom developer experience; pluggable schedulers; structured concurrency; and more.

The InfoQ Podcast: Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2021

An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2021, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.

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.

Michael Feathers: Looking Back at Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Wes Reisz and Michael Feathers go back and review the book. The two spend some time reviewing key concepts from the book and then discuss how the techniques can be applied today. The two wrap up with a discussion on what might change in a new version of the book.