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Ben Sigelman, Co-Creator of Dapper & OpenTracing API, on Observability
Ben Sigelman is the CEO of Lightstep and the author of the Dapper paper that spawned distributed tracing discussions in the software industry. Sigelman discusses with Wes Reisz observability, and his thoughts on logging, metrics, and tracing. The two discuss detection and refinement as the real problem when it comes to diagnosing and troubleshooting incidents with data.
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Oracle Labs’ Duncan MacGregor on Graal, TruffleRuby, & Project Loom
Duncan MacGregor speaks with Wes Reisz about the work being done on the experimental Graal Compiler. He talks about the use cases and where the new JIT compiler excels really well (compared to C2). In addition, MacGregor talks about the relationship of Graal to Truffle. The two then discuss a language MacGregor works on at OracleLabs (TruffleRuby) that is being implemented on the stack.
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Rod Johnson Chats about the Spring Framework Early Days, Languages Post-Java, & Rethinking CI/CD
Today on The InfoQ Podcast, Wes talks with Rod Johnson. Johnson is famously responsible for the creation of the Spring Framework. The two talk about the early years of the framework and provide some of the history of its creation. After discussing Spring, they discuss languages Johnson’s been involved with since Java (these include Scala and TypeScript).
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Java Language Architect Brian Goetz on Java and the JDK
On this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Brian Goetz. The two start with a discussion on what the six-month cadence has meant to the teams developing Java. Then move to a review of the features in Java 9 through 12. Finally, the two discuss the longer-term side projects (such as Amber, Loom, and Valhalla) and their role in the larger release process for the JDK.
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Ben Kehoe, Cloud Robotics Research Scientist, Discusses Serverless @iRobot
On this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Ben Kehoe of iRobot. Ben is a Cloud Robotics Research Scientist where he works on using the Internet to allow robots to do more and better things. AWS and, in particular, Lambda is a core part of cloud enabled robots.
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Dave Farley on Taking Back Software Engineering
In this podcast, recorded at the Agile India 2019 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave Farley about what it means to build a real profession of software engineering.
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Travis Kimmel on What Makes a Good Engineering Manager
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Travis Kimmel of Gitprime about the challenges of being an engineering manager, the value of metrics and how to use them wisely.
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Lynne Cazaly on Embracing “ish” and the Dangers of Perfectionism
In this podcast, recorded at the Agile on the Beach New Zealand conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Lynne Cazaly about the dangers of perfectionism and using visual tools to make sense of information and ideas.
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Jeff DeLuca on FDD and Transforming Large Organisations to Product Thinking
In this podcast Shane Hastie, spoke to Jeff DeLuca, founder of Feature Driven Development and an early agile development pioneer, on the background to FDD, Java modelling with colour and transforming large organisations to product thinking.
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Jeremy Kriegel on Design Innovation and Doc Norton on Tuckman was Wrong
In this podcast, recorded at the Agile India 2019 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Jeremy Kriegel about design innovation and then with Doc Norton about why Tuckman was wrong and how dynamic reteaming makes organisations more resilient.