Podcasts

Domain Storytelling with Stefan Hofer and Henning Schwentner

Domain storytelling is a technique for understanding a business domain by relying on people’s natural ability to learn a new language by listening to other people speaking that language. In this podcast, Stefan Hofer and Henning Schwentner cover when to use domain storytelling, what is involved in the pictographic language, and how to have productive storytelling sessions.

Lin Clark on the WebAssembly Component Model

Using the metaphor of lego blocks, Lin Clark (a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Fastly) discusses WebAssembly Component model with Wes Reisz, including the background, roadmap, and design goals. Today on the podcast, Lin and Wes talk web assembly and the work happening around developing the component model.

Sam Newman on Information Hiding, Ubiquitous Language, UI Decomposition and Building Microservices

Charles Humble talks to Sam Newman about the 2nd edition of Newman’s book Building Microservices. They discuss information hiding; ideas from Domain Driven Design including aggregates, bounded contexts and ubiquitous language; UI decomposition; and team structure.

Neal Ford and Mark Richards - Software Architecture: the Hard Parts

In this episode of the InfoQ Podcast, co-host Thomas Betts spoke with Neal and Mark about the role of a software architect and the skills necessary to be successful. One of the hardest parts is recognizing that there are no right or wrong answers, or easy decisions, and this can be especially challenging for those who come from a programming background.

Lucas Cavalcanti on Using Clojure, Microservices, Hexagonal Architecture and Public Cloud at Nubank

In this episode of the InfoQ podcast, Charles Humble talks to Lucas Cavalcanti about Nubank’s early architectural choices, including starting with Clojure and microservices. They discuss the challenges of using public cloud for financial services in Brazil, Nubank’s use of Alistair Cockburn's Hexagonal Architecture and immutable architecture, and lessons learnt as the startup scaled.