Podcasts

Java’s Project Loom, Virtual Threads and Structured Concurrency with Ron Pressler

In this podcast Ron Pressler, technical lead for Project Loom at Oracle, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble to discuss the project and its forerunner Quasar. Topics include the differences between concurrency and parallelism; what virtual threads are; current issues with JVM concurrency; the Loom developer experience; pluggable schedulers; structured concurrency; and more.

Phil Estes on Containerd, Including K8s Deprecation of Dockershim, Container Runtime Architecture

Today, on The InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz talks with Phil Estes, one of the containerd maintainers, about container runtimes. The two discuss the significance (in detail) of the announcement that dockerhsim will soon be deprecated in Kubernetes, the complete container runtime stack, work the Open Container Initiative (OCI) is doing today on a third container spec around registries, and more.

Open Policy Agent (OPA) with the Project’s Co-Creators

Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Tim Hinrichs and Torin Sandall (two of the Open Policy Agent Project creators). The three talk about the project, including things like architecture, origin, community, the policy language (Rego), and, of course, performance. The podcast is an introduction to how OPA can is used across the stack for policy decisioning.

The InfoQ Podcast: Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2021

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.

Anurag Gupta on Day 2 Operations, DevOps, and Automated Remediation

In this podcast Anurag Gupta, founder and CEO of Shoreline.io, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed: the role of DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE), day 2 operations, and the importance of building observability into applications and platforms.

Thoughtworks’ Tim Cochran on Developer Effectiveness

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Tim Cochran, technical director at ThoughtWorks, about developer effectiveness.

Cliff Berg and Raj Nagappan on Agile 2: the Next Iteration of Agile

In this podcast. Shane Hastie spoke to Cliff Berg and Raj Nagappan about Agile 2, the next iteration of agile and how it is an evolution of the ideas from the original agile manifesto based on what has changed over the last 20 years.

Building a Great Engineering Culture and Being a Genuinely Purpose-Driven Organisation

In this double-episode podcast, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, first spoke to Mark Rees, CTO of Xero about creating a great engineering culture in a fast growing Unicorn company. He then spoke to Heather DeSantis of Publicity for Good about what it takes to be a truly purpose-driven organisation.

Johanna Rothman on Modern Management Made Easy

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Johanna Rothman about her seven principles of modern management, reward and incentive systems, multiple career ladders and ways to experiment with decisions for rapid feedback.

Jason Thane on Building a Values Based Culture

In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Jason Thane of GenUI about building a company on a values-based culture, how software development is fundamentally about communication and collaboration and advice on interviewing for values fit.