Podcasts

Sachin Kulkarni Describes the Architecture behind Facebook Live

Wesley Reisz talks to Sachin Kulkarni, director of engineering at Facebook, about the engineering challenges for Facebook live, and how it compares to the video upload platform at Facebook.

Martijn Verburg on the JCP EC “No” Vote for the Java Platform Module System

Wesley Reisz talks to Martijn Verburg, co-founder of the London Java Community and CEO of jClarity, about the JCP EC “no” vote on the Java Platform Module System (JPMS), which is due to be shipped as part of Java 9. They talk about what JPMS offers, how it works, what the "no" vote means, and what happens next.

Daniel Bryant on Microservices and Domain Driven Design

Wesley Reisz talks to Daniel Bryant on moving from monoliths to micro-services, covering bounded contexts, when to break up micro-services, event storming, practices like observability and tracing, and more.

Rossen Stoyanchev on Reactive Programming with Spring 5 and Spring WebFlux

Rossen Stoyanchev talks to Wesley Reisz about blocking and non-blocking architectures, upcoming changes in Spring including Spring WebFlux, the reactive web stack in Spring framework 5, due this summer. He also discusses the differences between rxJava and Reactor.

Jean Barmash on Binary RPC with gRPC and Thrift, and Constraint Theory in Product Design

Jean Barmash is the director of engineering for Compass. He talks to Wesley Reisz about binary communication protocols like Apache Thrift and Google’s gRPC, as well as code generation and API design.