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.

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.

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.

Caitie McCaffrey on Engineering Effectiveness and Verifying Distributed Systems

Caitie McCaffrey talks about engineering effectiveness, approaching diversity, and verification of distributed systems at QCon New York 2016.