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Intended for architects and senior developers.
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[Video Podcast] Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson
In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and a Principal Software Development Engineer at Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB. The conversation covers how Valkey started as an open source fork of Redis and how the maintainers optimized the memory usage and improved throughput.
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Developers Can Improve the ESG Aspects of Software by Tackling Early Ethical Debt
Erica Pisani, host of the Performance and Sustainability track at QCon London 2025, reflects on lessons from assembling the track and from attending the talks. She touches on the importance of the environmental and social aspects of software and hints at how developers can improve them through small steps in the architecture and practices of software development.
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Startup Software Architecture - You Never Really Throw it Away: a Conversation with David Gudeman
In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with David Gudeman about software architecture for startups. The discussion starts by illuminating how to make decisions with imperfect information, and how uncertainty and ambiguity flow through all aspects of developing the architecture. This leads to analyzing how the architect must focus on both product strategy and technical decisions.
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[Video Podcast] AI-Driven Development with Olivia McVicker
In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Olivia McVicker, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft about AI-driven software development. The conversation covers the current, mainstream AI coding assistants and gets into where those tools are quickly heading. They then look to the future of how the entire software development lifecycle will see the benefits of AI in the next few years.
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Somtochi Onyekwere on Distributed Data Systems, Eventual Consistency and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
In this podcast, InfoQ spoke with Somtochi Onyekwere on recent developments in distributed data systems, how to achieve fast, eventually consistent replication across distributed nodes, and how Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDTs) can help with conflict resolution when managing data.
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About this Podcast
Discussions on intentional corporate culture and software management approaches.
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Elisabeth Hendrickson on Systems Thinking for Quality Engineering
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Elisabeth Hendrickson about using systems thinking to understanding relationships between problem elements rather than focusing on individual parts, and how quality engineering practices become even more critical in the age of AI where tools can accelerate code production but humans need to remain in charge of verification.
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Team Building in the Brave New World: Transforming Software Engineering Culture and Leadership
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, spoke to Duncan Grazier about transforming software engineering teams into polymorphic cultures where humans work alongside AI agents, requiring leaders to rethink career paths, focus more on communication and coaching skills, and navigate the implications of how the gap between junior and senior engineers rapidly closes due to AI augmentation.
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Building Human-Centered Engineering Cultures with Leadership, Diversity, and Trust
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Tara Hernandez about the importance of building generative cultures with strong leadership development, psychological safety, diversity, and transparency over simply chasing new technologies. Technology should be a means to solve meaningful human problems rather than an end in itself.
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Building a Product-First Engineering Culture in the Age of AI
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Zach Lloyd about building a product-first engineering culture, and the critical importance of developers learning to effectively use AI tools while maintaining responsibility for code quality and understanding fundamental programming principles.
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GitHub Next: how their research and prototyping team operates
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Idan Gazit and Eddie Aftandilian from GitHub Next how their research and prototyping team operates as a "department of fool around and find out", exploring AI-powered developer tools through rapid experimentation and user feedback.
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