Podcasts

Justin Cormack on Decomposing the Modern Operating System

Justin Cormack discusses how the modern operating system is being decomposed with toolkits and libraries such as LinuxKit, eBPF, XDP, and what the kernel space service mesh Cilium is doing. Wes Reisz and Justin Cormack also discuss how Cilium differs from service meshes like an Istio, Linkerd2 (previously Conduit), or Envoy.

Mike Lee Williams on Probabilistic Programming, Bayesian Inference, and Languages Like PyMC3

Reisz talks with Mike Lee Williams of Cloudera’s Fast Forward Labs about Probabilistic Programming. The two discuss how Bayesian Inference works, how it’s used in Probabilistic Programming, production-level languages in the space, and some of the implementations/libraries that we’re seeing.

Uncle Bob Martin on Clean Software, Craftsperson, Origins of SOLID, DDD, & Software Ethics

Wes Reisz sits down and chats with Uncle Bob about The Clean Architecture, the origins of the Software Craftsperson Movement, Livable Code, and even ethics in software. Uncle Bob discusses his thoughts on how The Clean Architecture is affected by things like functional programming, services meshes, and microservices.

Arun Gupta on Managed Container Control Planes on AWS

Arun Gupta discusses with Wes Reisz some of the container-focused services that AWS offers, including differentiating ECS and EKS. Gupta goes into some detail t the role that Amazon Fargate plays and goals behinds EKS. Gupta wraps ups discussing some of the open source work that AWS has recently been doing in the container space.

Anastasiia Voitova on Cryptography and the Design of Cryptographic Libraries

In this podcast Wes Reisz talks to Anastasiia Voitova about cryptography, how to design libraries to be usable by developers, and designing cryptographic libraries. We’ll also discuss her talk from the recent QCon New York, , called “Making Security Usable”.