Podcasts

Handling High Demand Ticket On-Sales with Anderson Parra and Vitor Pellegrino

Live from the venue of the QCon London Conference we are talking with Vitor Pellegrino and Anderson Parra. They will talk about how SeatGeek is handing ticket on-sales where a large amount of users use their service in a short time, and which engineering challenges this brings.

Oren Eini on RavenDB, Including Consistency Guarantees and C# as the Implementation Language

Wesley Reisz talks to Oren Eini about the history of RavenDB. RavenDB is a fully transactional NoSQL Document database that implements both CP and AP guarantees at different times. The two discuss those CP/AP distributed systems challenges, the choice of implementation language (C#), and the current plans for RavenDB 6.0, which includes a server-side sharding implementation.

ML Tools to Accelerate Your Work with Cassie Breviu

Live from the venue of the QCon London Conference, we are talking with Cassie Breviu. She will talk about how she got started with AI, and what machine learning tools can accelerate your work when deploying models on a wide range of devices. We will also talk about GitHub Copilot and how AI can help you be a better programmer.

Seven Ways to Fail at Microservices with Holly Cummins

Implementing microservices is really challenging, and there are many ways to fail. Holly Cummins has identified seven ways to fail at microservices, and on this episode of the podcast Thomas Betts asks her to describe them, and how they can be avoided.

Ana Medina on Chaos Engineering, Game Days, and Learning

Topics discussed included: how enterprise organisations are adopting chaos engineering with the requirements for guardrails and the need for “status checks” to ensure pre-experiment system health; how to run game days or IT fire drills when everyone is working remotely; and why teams should continually invest in learning from past incidents and preparing for inevitable failures within systems.