Podcasts

InfoQ Software Architecture & Design Trends 2022

Each year, InfoQ editors discuss what we’ve been observing across the entire software development landscape, and create several trends reports, each with its own graph of the adoption curve. This helps the editorial team focus its reporting on innovative technologies and ideas, and also provides our readers with a high-level overview of topics to keep an eye on.

Jaxon Repp on HarperDB Distributed Database Platform

In this podcast, Srini Penchikala spoke with Jaxon Repp, head of product at HarperDB, about their distributed database platform, edge persistence, and custom functions.

Matthew Clark on the BBC’s Migration from LAMP to the Cloud with AWS Lambda, React and CI/CD

In this podcast Matthew Clark, head of architecture for the BBC's Digital Products, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble and discussed: the new architecture for the BBC’s online services; the challenges of using Lambda functions including cold start-up, function chaining, debugging and setting the memory profile; the role of DevOps and CI/CD; and the nature of a cloud transformation.

Stefan Prodan on Flux, Flagger, and the Operator Pattern Applied to Non-Clustered Resources

In this podcast, Wesley Reisz talks to Stefan Prodan about Flux and Flagger–two tools built on top of Flux CD’s GitOps Toolkit. After discussing some of the architectural differences between Flux v1 and v2 and discussing some of the GitOps toolkit use cases, the two discuss the operator pattern on Kubernetes.

Jessica Kerr on Observability and Honeycomb's Use of AWS Lambda for Retriever

Charles Humble talks to Jessica Kerr about Honeycomb's architecture and use of Serverless, specifically AWS Lambda, as part of their custom column database system called Retriever. They also explore key differences between Retriever and Facebook’s Scuba, and how Honeycomb differs from traditional APM tools.