Podcasts

Matthew Clark on the BBC’s Migration from LAMP to the Cloud with AWS Lambda, React and CI/CD

Matthew Clark and Charles Humble discuss BBC Digital’s migration from a classic LAMP stack to AWS Lambda and React. They talk about: the new architecture for the BBC’s online services; the challenges of using Lambda functions including cold start-up, function chaining, debugging and setting the memory profile; the role of DevOps and CI/CD; and the nature of a cloud transformation.

Ted Young on Observability and the Release of OpenTelemetry 1.0

In this podcast Ted Young, director of developer education at Lightstep, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed: observability (and the three pillars), the OpenTelemetry CNCF sandbox project and the 1.0 release, and how to build an effective telemetry collection platform.

Michael Feathers: Looking Back at Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Wes Reisz and Michael Feathers go back and review the book. The two spend some time reviewing key concepts from the book and then discuss how the techniques can be applied today. The two wrap up with a discussion on what might change in a new version of the book.

Phil Winder on the History, Practical Application, and Ethics of Reinforcement Learning

In this podcast Dr Phil Winder, CEO of Winder Research, sits down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. They discuss: the history of Reinforcement Learning (RL); the application of RL in fields such as robotics and content discovery; scaling RL models and running them in production; and ethical considerations for RL.

Clare Liguori on Automating Safe and “Hands-Off” Deployments at AWS

In this podcast Clare Liguori, principal software engineer at Amazon Web Services, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed the implementation of continuous delivery at AWS, the use of automation and deploying to multiple test environments, and the benefits of canary releasing.

Pato Jutard of Mural on Maintaining a Collaborative Culture through Exponential Growth

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Pato Jutard, CTO of Mural, about the challenges of maintaining a collaborative culture as they have grown from under 100 people to over 450 through the pandemic.

Robin Hills on Emotional Intelligence and Building on Your Strengths

Shane Hastie spoke to Robin Hills about the importance of emotional intelligence in life and at work, building on your strengths rather than focusing on weaknesses, and the value of purpose to enable resilience.

Anders Wallgren of Cloudbees on the Human Side of Software Delivery Management

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Anders Wallgren of CloudBees about the human side of software development, ways to improve collaboration and why the future is in features.

Frank Trainer on SOLID architecture, Technical Excellence and Development as a Team Sport

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Frank Trainer of Saggezza about technical excellence, writing code for your teammates and not yourself, and the importance of SOLID architecture principles.

Tim Olshansky on Career Paths for Technologists Who Don’t Want to Manage People

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Tim Olshansky of Zenput about cross functional teams, OKRs, career paths for technologists, and making tradeoffs between technical and customer needs.