Podcasts

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.

Tracy Miranda on the Continuous Delivery Foundation, Interoperability, and Open Standards

In this podcast, Tracy Miranda sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Miranda, director of Open Source Community at CloudBees, and discussed topics that included: the aims of the CDF and an outline of the current hosted projects, the need for open standards and interoperability in the CD space, and the benefits offered by progressive delivery and software supply chain management.

Marty Abbott and Tanya Cordrey on Microservices, Availability, and Managing Risk

In this podcast, Marty Abbott and Tanya Cordrey sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed topics that included: their learning from working together in the early days of eBay, why and how to avoid creating software systems that are composed of deep call chains of microservices, and how to build effective product teams.

Dave Sudia on Migrating From a PaaS to a Kubernetes-Based Platform

Daniel Bryant sat down with Dave Sudia, senior DevOps engineer at GoSpotCheck, to discuss the benefits of PaaS; building a platform with Kubernetes as the foundation; selecting open source components and open standards in order to facilitate the evolution of a platform; and why care should be taken to prioritize the developer experience and create self-service operation of the platform.