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Matthew Clark on the BBC’s Migration from LAMP to the Cloud with AWS Lambda, React and CI/CD
In this podcast Matthew Clark, head of architecture for the BBC's Digital Products, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble and discussed: 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.
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Stefan Prodan on Flux, Flagger, and the Operator Pattern Applied to Non-Clustered Resources
In this podcast, Wesley Reisz talks to Stefan Prodan about Flux and Flagger–two tools built on top of Flux CD’s GitOps Toolkit. After discussing some of the architectural differences between Flux v1 and v2 and discussing some of the GitOps toolkit use cases, the two discuss the operator pattern on Kubernetes.
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Clare Liguori on Automating Safe and “Hands-Off” Deployments at AWS
In this podcast we discuss the implementation of continuous delivery at AWS, the use of automation and deploying to multiple test environments, and the benefits of canary releasing.
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Tudor Gîrba on How Moldable Development Offers a Novel Way to Reason about Systems
Charles Humble discusses Moldable Development with its creator Tudor Gîrba, a way of programming where you construct custom tools for every development problem.
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Tammy Bryant Butow on SRE Apprentices
In this episode, Thomas Betts speaks with Tammy Bryant Butow, principal SRE at Gremlin, about training new site reliability engineers. The discussion covers a formal SRE Apprenticeship program Butow led at DropBox, and gets into ideas about the best way to teach people new technical skills.
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Resilience, Observability and Unintended Consequences of Automation
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, the Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Courtney Nash about her research on the unintended consequences of automation in software systems, the importance of learning from incidents, and maintaining human expertise in complex systems.
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Engineering Excellence as a Journey: Platform Engineering, Culture, and Technical Leadership
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Ganesh Datta about building excellent engineering organizations and treating platform engineering as a product.
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Building Responsible AI Culture: Governance, Diversity, and the Future of Development
Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Inna Tokarev Sela, CEO of illumex, about implementing generative AI in development teams, emphasizing the critical need for robust governance across data, policy enforcement, and explainability layers. She also discusses how intentional workplace policies and female-oriented mentorship programs have helped achieve gender balance in tech.
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The Human Factor in UX and Data-Driven Decisions
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to John Heintz about the gap between technical expertise and user experience, highlighting the importance of understanding human psychology in data-driven decision-making.
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Cultivating Healthy Engineering Cultures: Insights from Sophie Weston
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sophie Weston, Principal Engineer at ClearBank, about her career in tech, the importance of good team practices, the evolution of DevOps, and the need for a supportive engineering culture.