Podcasts

Linda Rising on the Importance of Patterns, Her Journey & Patterns for Driving Change/Innovation

On the InfoQ Podcast this week, Wes Reisz talks with the Queen of Patterns, Linda Rising. Linda discusses her thoughts on the importance of patterns, she answers questions about what really is a pattern, and how she became involved in working with them. She discusses a variety of organizational and personal patterns and finally wraps with patterns to apply when driving change and innovation.

Nora Jones on Establishing, Growing, and Maturing a Chaos Engineering Practice

Nora Jones, a senior software engineer on Netflix’ Chaos Team, talks with Wesley Reisz about what Chaos Engineering means today. She covers what it takes to build a practice, how to establish a strategy, defines cost of impact, and covers key technical considerations when leveraging chaos engineering.

Security Considerations and the State of Microservices with Sam Newman

Wesley Reisz talks with Sam Newman about microservices. They explore the current state of the art with regards to the architectural style and corresponding tooling and deployment platforms. They then discuss how microservices increase the surface area of where sensitive information can be read or manipulated, but also have the potential to create systems that are more secure.

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.

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.