Podcasts

Rob Skillington on Metrics Collection, Uber’s M3, and OpenMetrics

In this podcast, Rob Skillington, co-founder and CTO at Chronosphere, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: metrics collection at scale, multi-dimensional metrics and high-cardinality, developer experience with platform tooling, and open standards related to observability.

Johnny Boursiquot on Serverless Go and Site Reliability Engineering at Heroku

In this podcast, Johnny Boursiquot, Site Reliability Engineer at Heroku, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed topics that included: why Go is a useful language for building Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) style applications; how Heroku implements the role of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE); and why the ability to teach is such a valuable skill.

Matt Debergalis on GraphQL and Data Modelling in the Enterprise

In this podcast, Matt Debergalis, founder and CTO at Apollo, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the motivations for GraphQL, the Apollo Data Graph platform, data modelling in an enterprise context, and how incrementally adopting GraphQL can help with decoupling the evolution of frontend and backend systems.

Lin Sun and Neeraj Poddar on Istio, Wasm, and the Future of Service Mesh

In this podcast, Lin Sun, senior technical staff member and master inventor at IBM, and Neeraj Poddar, engineering lead and architect at Aspen Mesh, sat down with InfoQ co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the evolution of service mesh data planes and control planes, the new Istio 1.5 architectures, Istio WebAssembly extension support, and the future of service mesh technology.

Sam Newman: Monolith to Microservices

Wes Reisz talks with Sam Newman about techniques and patterns that Sam writes about in his latest book. Topics covered in the podcast include understanding the problem you’re trying to solve, organizational/people changes when it comes to microservice architectures, database strategies for decomposing monolithic datastores, and why we’re seeing projects reverting from microservices to monoliths.