Podcasts

Oliver Gould Discusses Architecting to Avoid and Recover from Failure

Robert Blumen talks to Oliver Gould, CTO of Buoyant, where he leads open source development efforts, about architecting to avoid and recover from failure.

Chris Richardson on Domain-Driven Microservices Design

In this week’s podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Chris Richardson, a developer, architect, Java Champion and author of POJOs in Action. Before his workshop on Microservices w/ Spring Boot and Docker at QCon San Francisco 2016, Richardson took time to discuss his ideas on how to use DDD and CQRS concepts as a guide for implementing a robust microservices architecture.

Keith Adams on the Architecture of Slack, Using MySql, Edge Caching, & the Backend Messaging Server

In this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks to Keith Adams, chief architect at Slack. Prior he was an engineer at Facebook where he worked on the search type live backend, and is well-known for the HipHop VM. Adams presented How Slack Works at QCon SanFrancisco 2016.

Haley Tucker on Responding to Failures in Playback Features at Netflix

In this week’s podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Haley Tucker, a Senior Software Engineer on the Playback Features team at Netflix. While at QCon San Francisco 2016, Tucker told some production war stories about trying to deliver content to 65 million members.

Kolton Andrus on Lessons Learnt from Failure Testing at Amazon and Netflix and New Venture Gremlin

Wesley Reisz talks to Kolton Andrus. Andrus is the founder of Gremlin Inc. He was a Chaos Engineer at Netflix, focused on the resilience of the Edge services. He designed and built FIT, Netflix’s failure injection service. Prior, he improved the performance and reliability of the Amazon Retail website.