Podcasts

Rethinking Data: Moving from the Traditional Three-Tier Web Stack to Client-Side Event Sourcing

Johannes Schickling explores how he moved beyond the traditional three-tier web stack to a local-first approach. He shares his experience transitioning from Prisma to developing Overtone—a music curation app leveraging client-side event sourcing and SQLite. The discussion highlights the trade-offs between event sourcing and CRDTs.

Strands Agents with Clare Liguori

Thomas Betts talks with Clare Liguori, the technical lead on the open source Strands Agents SDK. The conversation covers how Strands Agents has grown from a Python SDK to a full agent harness running in production. Liguori shares some lessons learned from building agents at scale, shifting to a model-driven architecture, and what comes next as the LLMs that underpin agents continue to improve.

Governance in the Age of AI: a Conversation with Sarah Wells

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Sarah Wells about the relationship of governance to software architecture. Governance enables teams to work effectively by establishing procedures that minimize system complexity, improve security, and reduce repetitive tasks. Targeted checklists help engineers by reducing the stress over these procedures.

Architectural Patterns: Moving Beyond Cloud-Native to Local-First - Insights from Adam Wiggins

In this episode, Heroku co-founder and Ink & Switch founder Adam Wiggins argues for a 'local-first' architecture that reconciles cloud-based collaboration with the performance and data ownership of local software. He explores the role of CRDTs and version control primitives in non-code domains, and examines how a hybrid AI future might leverage local models for core productivity tasks.

Increasing Users' Data Agency: from BlueSky's AT Protocol to the Local-First Software Movement

Martin Kleppmann, an associate professor at Cambridge and author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, discusses the evolution of data systems over the last decade, mainly the shift from monolithic databases to modular building blocks. Kleppmann underlines the importance of moving from cloud-centric data storage systems to decentralised data storage similar to Bluesky’s AT protocol.

Using Behaviour Stories to Manage Cultural Debt

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Ahmad Fahmy about using behaviour stories to promote culture change in fractured organisations.

Resilience and Incident Management with Vanessa Huerta Granda

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Vanessa Huerta Granda Manager of Resiliency Engineering at Enova about resilience and incident management.

Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on Software Engineering and Career Paths

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Alex Cruikshank, the Director of Software Engineering at West Monroe.

Building Organizational Resilience through Documentation and InnerSource Practices

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to David Grizzanti, a principal engineer at the New York Times, about the importance of documentation for organizational resilience, the concept of InnerSource, the parallels between engineering and art, and the challenges and advice for engineering leaders

Crisis Management, Black Swans and Resilience

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sharon Robson about crisis management and business resilience, particularly in the context of technology and software supply chains.