Podcasts

Ben Sigelman, Co-Creator of Dapper & OpenTracing API, on Observability

Ben Sigelman is the CEO of Lightstep and the author of the Dapper paper that spawned distributed tracing discussions in the software industry. Sigelman discusses with Wes Reisz observability, and his thoughts on logging, metrics, and tracing. The two discuss detection and refinement as the real problem when it comes to diagnosing and troubleshooting incidents with data.

Ashley Williams on Web Assembly, Wasi, & the Application Edge

Today, on The InfoQ Podcast Wes Reisz talks with Cloudflare’s Ashley Williams. Williams is a core team member of Rust and Rust Web Assembly teams. The two talk about Web Assembly and what it’s being used for today: application edge, Wasi, Cloudflare Workers, and where she sees wasm/wasi going in relationship to the edge.

Bryan Cantrill on Rust and Why He Feels It’s The Biggest Change in Systems Development in His Career

Today on the podcast, Bryan Cantrill discusses with Wes Reisz a bit about the origins of DTrace and then spends the rest of the time discussing why he feels Rust is the “biggest development in systems development in his career.”

Oracle Labs’ Duncan MacGregor on Graal, TruffleRuby, & Project Loom

Duncan MacGregor speaks with Wes Reisz about the work being done on the experimental Graal Compiler. He talks about the use cases and where the new JIT compiler excels really well (compared to C2). In addition, MacGregor talks about the relationship of Graal to Truffle. The two then discuss a language MacGregor works on at OracleLabs (TruffleRuby) that is being implemented on the stack.

Rod Johnson Chats about the Spring Framework Early Days, Languages Post-Java, & Rethinking CI/CD

Today on The InfoQ Podcast, Wes talks with Rod Johnson. Johnson is famously responsible for the creation of the Spring Framework. The two talk about the early years of the framework and provide some of the history of its creation. After discussing Spring, they discuss languages Johnson’s been involved with since Java (these include Scala and TypeScript).