Podcasts

Greg Law on Debugging, Record & Replay of Data, and Hyper-Observability

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant discussed with Greg Law, CTO at Undo, the challenges with debugging modern software systems, the need for “hyper-observability” and the benefit of being able to record and replay exact application execution.

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.

Charity Majors on Honeycomb.io, the Social Side of Debugging and Testing in Production

In this podcast, recorded live at Strange Loop 2017, Wesley Reisz talks to Charity Majors, cofounder and CEO of honeycomb.io. They discuss the social side of debugging and her Strangeloop talk “Observability for Emerging Infra: What Got You Here Won't Get You There”. Other topics include advice for testing in production, shadowing and splitting traffic, and sampling and aggregation.

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.

Adam Sandman on Generative AI and the Future of Software Testing

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Sandman about how generative AI is transforming software development and testing by automating mundane tasks, enabling faster prototyping, and collapsing traditional roles into broader generalist positions, while also highlighting challenges like increased defects and ethical concerns.

Building Safe and Usable Medical Device Software: A Conversation with Neeraj Mainkar

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Neeraj Mainkar about the challenges of developing safe and usable medical device software in areas where software bugs can have life-and-death consequences, and how to approach these challenges through rigorous processes, user-centered design, and leveraging emerging technologies.

Mastering Observability: Unlocking Customer Insights with Gojko Adzic

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Gojko Adzic about his work in software development, product management, and value creation. Gojko discusses his experiences in building and improving products, the importance of measuring user behavior changes, and the concept of "lizard optimization" - improving products by addressing unexpected user behaviors.

The State of Software Engineering from an Academic Perspective

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Martin Kropp and Craig Anslow about the current state of software engineering from an academic perspective.

Technical Excellence from the Ground Up

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Tim Ottinger from Industrial Logic about ensemble programming, technical excellence and the future of programming.