Podcasts

Simon Brown on the Role of the Software Architect in a Continuous Delivery Environment

This week's podcast features Simon Brown, well known for his work training software architects. Topics include the differences between a tech lead and an architect, how much documentation is enough, and what that looks like in a continuous delivery environment.

Twitter's Yao Yue on Latency, Performance Monitoring, & Caching at Scale

Yao Yue spent the majority of her career working on caching systems at Twitter. She created a performance team that deals with edge performance outliers often exposed by the enormous scale of Twitter. In this podcast, she discusses standing up the performance team, thoughts on instrumenting applications, and interesting performance issues (and strategies for solving them) they’ve seen at Twitter.

Linda Rising on the Importance of Patterns, Her Journey & Patterns for Driving Change/Innovation

On the InfoQ Podcast this week, Wes Reisz talks with the Queen of Patterns, Linda Rising. Linda discusses her thoughts on the importance of patterns, she answers questions about what really is a pattern, and how she became involved in working with them. She discusses a variety of organizational and personal patterns and finally wraps with patterns to apply when driving change and innovation.

Nora Jones on Establishing, Growing, and Maturing a Chaos Engineering Practice

Nora Jones, a senior software engineer on Netflix’ Chaos Team, talks with Wesley Reisz about what Chaos Engineering means today. She covers what it takes to build a practice, how to establish a strategy, defines cost of impact, and covers key technical considerations when leveraging chaos engineering.

Security Considerations and the State of Microservices with Sam Newman

Wesley Reisz talks with Sam Newman about microservices. They explore the current state of the art with regards to the architectural style and corresponding tooling and deployment platforms. They then discuss how microservices increase the surface area of where sensitive information can be read or manipulated, but also have the potential to create systems that are more secure.