Podcasts

From MCP and Vibe Coding to Harness Engineering: How AI Native Engineering Evolved in One Year

Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks, returns to discuss the rapid evolution of AI in software delivery. She touches on the evolution from vibe coding, the changing tools landscape and the more autonomous agents that, besides higher velocity, introduce higher risk.

Requirements Analysis for Architects: a Conversation with Sonya Natanzon

Michael Stiefel spoke to Sonya Natanzon, about the intersection of technical and social aspects of software architecture. Understanding the business and how a company operates is more important than the specific technologies used. Effective requirements analysis requires focusing on problems to be solved that describe good and bad outcomes, rather than statements of need or solution statements.

Context is the Key to the Agentic Architecture Revolution: a Conversation with Baruch Sadogursky

Michael Stiefel spoke to Baruch Sadogursky about software architecture in the age of agentic AI. LLM can function, albeit stochastically, as reasoning machines capable of interpreting human ambiguity. With the appropriate rigorous context artifacts to control the LLM’s reasoning, software specifications can become the source of truth, while the code becomes a disposable intermediate language.

A Java Performance Quest: Taming Unsafe Code, Embracing Idiomatic Style & Debugging the Linux Kernel

In this podcast, Jaromir Hamala, a seasoned Java engineer specialising in high-throughput data systems, shares his thoughts on how developers can tackle high-performance software development. He touches on the benefits of modern Java that allow writing idiomatic Java code while remaining "mechanically sympathetic", and also on his experience debugging a Linux kernel bug.

Engineering Stable, Secure and Scalable Platforms: a Conversation with Matthew Liste

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Matthew Liste about building and managing software platforms. Platform services act as the basis for application development, and must always be stable, secure, and scalable. Scaling these systems is particularly difficult because unknown resource contention often causes them to break.

Work-life Integration and the Modern Workplace

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke Peter Miscovich co-author of the book The Workplace You Need Now: Shaping Spaces for the Future of Work about creating human-centric working environments where work-life integration of mental wellbeing, social wellbeing, and physical wellbeing matter.

Becoming Better Communicators To Enable Team Performance

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Arpit Mohan about the importance and value of interpersonal skills in teamwork

Making the DevOps Pipeline Transparent and Governable

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to David Williams of Quali about DevOps culture, visibility into the pipeline and effective governance.

Leading Beyond Change – Leadership for New Ways of Working

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Audree and Michael Sahota about leading beyond change in the 21st century.

Improving Software Engineering Practices using Essence with Ian Spence

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ian Spence about improving software engineering practices using Essence as a pattern language.