Podcasts

Andrea Magnorsky on Paradigm Shifts and the Adoption of Programming Languages

In this podcast we talk about paradigm shifts and the adoption of programming languages with Andrea Magnorsky, tech lead at Goodlord on their engineering squads; she has a background in Scala, C#, and organised conferences.

Anne Currie on Organizational Tech Ethics, Including Scale, GDPR, Algorithmic Transparency

Wes Reisz and Anne discuss issues such as the implications (and responsibilities) of the massive amount of scale we have at our fingertips today, potential effects of GDPR (EU privacy legislation), how accessibility is a an example of how we could approach tech ethics in software, and much more.

Oliver Gould on Service Mesh for Microservices, LinkerD, and the Recently Released Conduit

Wes Reisz talks with the CTO of Bouyant Oliver Gould. Bouyant is the maker the LinkerD Service Mesh and the recently released Conduit. Gould defines a service mesh, clarifies the meaning of the data and control plane, discusses what a Service Mesh can offer a Microservice application owners, and, finally, discusses some of the considerations they took into account developing Conduit.

Theo Schlossnagle on Software Ethics and the Presence of Doing Good

In this podcast, Theo and Wes Reisz chat about the need for ethical software, and how we as technical leaders should be reasoning about the software we create. With the incredible implications of machine learning and AI in our future, this week's podcast touches on topics we should all consider in the systems we create.

Chris Swan on DevOps and NoOps, Plus Operations and Code Validation in a Serverless Environment

In this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Chris Swan about DevOps and NoOps, and what Swan calls LessOps, what Operations means in a world of Serverless, and where he sees Configuration Management, Provisioning, Monitoring and Logging heading. The podcast then wraps up talking about where he sees validating code in a serverless deployment, such as canaries and blue-green deployments.