Podcasts

Tanya Reilly on Site Reliability Engineering and the Evolution of the New York City Fire Code

Tanya Reilly discusses her research into how the fire code evolved in New York and draws on some of the parallels she sees in software. Along the way, she discusses what it means to be an SRE, what effective aspects of the role might look like, and her opinions on what we as an industry should be doing to prevent disasters.

Jason Maude on Building a Modern Cloud-Based Banking Startup in Java

Wes Reisz talks with Jason Maude of Starling Bank. Starling Bank is a relatively new startup in the United Kingdom working in the banking sector. They discuss the architecture, technology choices, and design processes used at Starling. In addition, Maude goes into some of the realities of building in the cloud, working with regulators, and proven robustness with practices like chaos testing.

Martin Fowler Discusses New Edition of Refactoring, along with Thoughts on Evolutionary Architecture

Martin Fowler chats about the work he’s done over the last couple of years on the rewrite of the original Refactorings book. He discusses how this thought process has changed and how that’s affected the new edition of the book.

Mitchell Hashimoto on Consul since 1.2 and its Role as a Modern Service Mesh

In June of this year, Consul 1.2 was released. The release expanded Consul’s capability around service segmentation (controlling who and how services connect East and West). On this week’s podcast, Reisz and Hashimoto discuss Consul in detail.

Camille Fournier on Platform Engineering, Engineering Ladders, and Her Book “The Managers Path”

On the podcast this week, Charles Humble talks to Camille Fournier about running a platform team, how her current role differs from the CTO role she had at Rent the Runway, the skills developers need to acquire as they move from engineering to management positions, trends like Holacracy, and her book "The Manager's Path".