Podcasts

Preslav Le on How Dropbox Moved off AWS and What They Have Been Able to Do Since

In March 2016 Dropbox announced that they had migrated away from Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this week's podcast Robert Bluman talks to Preslav Le about what they have been able to do since.

Randy Shoup on Stitch Fix's Technology Stack, Data Science and Microservices

In this week's podcast Wes Reisz talks to Randy Shoup. Shoup is the vice president of engineering at Stitch Fix. Prior to Stitch Fix, he worked for Google as the director of engineering and cloud computing, CTO and co-founder of Shopilly, and chief engineer at Ebay.

Tal Weiss on Observability, Instrumentation and Bytecode Manipulation on the JVM

OverOps CEO Tal Weiss describes how the OverOps product works, explores the difference between instrumentation and observability, discusses byte-code manipulation and common Java application errors.

Cathy O'Neil on Pernicious Machine Learning Algorithms and How to Audit Them

In this week's podcast InfoQ’s editor-in-chief Charles Humble talks to Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil.  Topics discussed include her book “Weapons of Math Destruction,” predictive policing models, the teacher value added model, approaches to auditing algorithms and whether government regulation of the field is needed.

John Langford on Vowpal Wabbit, Used by MSN, and Machine Learning in Industry

Machine learning research scientist John Langford talks to QCon chair Wesley Reisz about his ML system Vowpal Wabbit used for news personalisation on MSN. They also discuss how to get started in the field and its shift from academic research to industry use.