Podcasts

Educating an Architect: A Conversation with Luca Mezzalira

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Luca Mezzalira about software architecture as a socio-technical discipline that balances technological design with an organization's social and managerial context. They explored how architectural choices must be adapted to a company's unique culture and team structure rather than relying blindly on universal best practices.

The AI Revolution Fails without Psychological Safety for Developers: a Conversation with Erin Doyle

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Erin Doyle about how artificial intelligence tools are transforming the software development process, and how they are affecting software engineers. Architecture skills are now critical because engineers need to understand how to build systems and handle the constraints and associated ambiguity in the requirements.

Technology Radar and the Reality of AI in Software Development

Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Rachel Laycock, Global CTO of Thoughtworks, about how the company's Technology Radar process captures technology trends around the globe. She is sceptical of the current AI efficiency hype, emphasizing that real value of generative AI tools lies in solving complex problems like legacy code comprehension rather than just writing code faster.

Developer Satisfaction Is Key to Engineering Success

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Lilac Mohr of Pluralsight about engineering success, developer satisfaction, creating an environment of trust and growing new leaders.

Antoine Patton on Learning to Code While in Prison and Sharing That Knowledge

In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2019, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Antoine Patton on Holistic Ed-tech and Diversity, learning to code while in prison and founding a non-profit to teach people of color how to code.

Tim Falls on Developer Relations, Open Source, Free Education and Ethics

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Tim Falls of Digital Ocean about developer relations, the importance of embracing and providing open-source software, the need to offer free education in software development and the importance of ethics in education.