Podcasts

Pat Helland on Software Architecture and Urban Planning

Wes Reisz talks to Pat Helland about the relationship between software architecture and urban planning. Helland explores planning for future growth, regulations/standards, and communication practices that cities--and software architecture--had to evolve to use. He uses these comparisons to distil lessons that architects can use in building distributed systems.

John DesJardins on In-Memory Data Grids, Stream Processing, and App Modernization

In this podcast, John DesJardins, field CTO and VP solution architecture at Hazelcast, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: how in-memory data grids have evolved, use cases at the edge (IoT, ML inference), integration of stream processing APIs and techniques, and how data grids can be used within application modernization.

Akhilesh Gupta on the Architecture of LinkedIn’s Real-Time Messaging Platform

Charles Humble talks to Akhilesh Gupta, the technical lead for LinkedIn's real-time delivery infrastructure, and also LinkedIn messaging. They discuss the architecture behind LinkedIn’s real-time platform, its building blocks, the frameworks used and other technical details.

Liran Haimovitch on Understandability, Complexity, and Live Debugging

In this podcast, Liran Haimovitch, CTO at Rookout, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the concept of “understandability” and how this relates to building modern software systems, how complexity impacts a system’s understandability, and the benefits of live debugging tooling.

Ana Medina on Chaos Engineering, Game Days, and Learning

In this podcast, Ana Medina discussed with Daniel Bryant about how enterprise organisations are adopting chaos engineering with the requirements for guardrails and the need for “status checks” to ensure pre-experiment system health; how to run game days or IT fire drills when everyone is working remotely; and why teams should continually invest in learning from past incidents.

Sandra Davey on Purposeful Aligned Governance and Product Management

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Sandra Davey, chair of Choice Australia and founder of The Product Space, about governance with clear objectives and the current state of product management.

Rashina Hoda on Pandemic Programming and Agile Nations

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Dr Rashina Hoda of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, about the Pandemic Programming study, the importance of research into human factors in software development focusing on the programmer experience, how biases impact software design and what it means to be an agile nation.

Justin Dauer on Creative Culture

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Justin Dauer about his new book Creative Culture – Human centred interaction, design and inspiration.

Bas Vodde on LeSS, LeSS Huge and Descaling for Agility

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Bas Vodde, one of the formulators of Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) about how LeSS is designed to descale an organisation rather than scaling up to cope with complexity.

Quinn Slack of Sourcegraph on Moving to Fully Remote and Zoomcations

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph, about becoming a fully remote company, ways to improve communication and collaboration and the value of Zoomcations