Podcasts

Liz Rice on Programming the Linux Kernel with eBPF, Cilium and Service Meshes

Charles Humble and Liz Rice discuss eBPF, a way of making the Linux kernel programmable. They talk about why it exists, how it works under the hood, and what you can and can’t do with it. They also talk about Cilium, an open source library for observing network connectivity between container workloads, and the new Cilium-based service mesh currently in beta.

API Showdown: REST vs. GraphQL vs. gRPC – Which Should You Use?

What is the single best API technology you should always use? Thomas Betts moderated the discussion, with the goal to understand some of the high-level features and capabilities of three popular technologies for implementing APIs. The discussion covers some of the pros and cons of GraphQL and gRPC, and why you might use them instead of a RESTful API.

Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report 2021

Here is an overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2021, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.

API Lifecycles, Specifications, and Standards with Kin Lane

On this episode of the podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Kin Lane about managing your API lifecycle using standards and specifications, including OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema. These specifications and the tooling based on them can help reduce communication problems, by creating documentation, generating code, and automating testing.

James Clark on How Ballerina Handles Network Interaction, Data, and Concurrency

Charles Humble discusses the design of the Ballerina programming language with its lead designer James Clark. They discuss how the goals of the language inform a number of design choices including: the type system, error handling, the concurrency model, and the language’s built in support for visualization of program flows.