Podcasts

Guy Podjarny on OSS Security, Serverless, and the Equifax Hack

In this podcast Wes talks to Guy Podjarny. They discuss the Equifax hack and the things we can learn from it, some of the security problems in serverless architectures, the kind of things attackers look for in serverless platforms, and wrap up with security hygiene best practices that developers should follow.

Julien Viet on Reactive Programming with Eclipse Vert.x, Including 3.5.0, History, and Future Plans

Today’s podcast is with Julien Viet, the project lead of Vert.x and a principal engineer at RedHat. He took over as project lead for Vert.x from Tim Fox in January 2016, and in this podcast we discuss the newly released Vert.x 3.5.0, and the plans for Vert.x 4.0.

Incident Response across Non-Software Industries with Emil Stolarsky

This week’s podcast is with Emil Stolarsky and was recorded live after his talk on the subject at Strangeloop 2017. Interesting points from the podcast include several stories from Emil’s research, including the origin of the checklist, how Walmart pushed decision making down to the store level in a national disaster, and where the formalized conversation structure onboard aircraft originated.

Charity Majors on Honeycomb.io, the Social Side of Debugging and Testing in Production

In this podcast, recorded live at Strange Loop 2017, Wesley Reisz talks to Charity Majors, cofounder and CEO of honeycomb.io. They discuss the social side of debugging and her Strangeloop talk “Observability for Emerging Infra: What Got You Here Won't Get You There”. Other topics include advice for testing in production, shadowing and splitting traffic, and sampling and aggregation.

Shubha Nabar Discusses Einstein, the Machine Learning System in Salesforce

Shubha Nabar is a senior director of data science for Salesforce Einstein. In the podcast she discusses Salesforce Einstein and the problem space that they are trying to solve, explores the differences between enterprise and consumer for machine learning, and then talks about the Optimus Prime Scala library that they use in Salesforce.