Podcasts

Rob Skillington on Metrics Collection, Uber’s M3, and OpenMetrics

In this podcast, Rob Skillington, co-founder and CTO at Chronosphere, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: metrics collection at scale, multi-dimensional metrics and high-cardinality, developer experience with platform tooling, and open standards related to observability.

Johnny Boursiquot on Serverless Go and Site Reliability Engineering at Heroku

In this podcast, Johnny Boursiquot, Site Reliability Engineer at Heroku, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed topics that included: why Go is a useful language for building Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) style applications; how Heroku implements the role of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE); and why the ability to teach is such a valuable skill.

Matt Debergalis on GraphQL and Data Modelling in the Enterprise

In this podcast, Matt Debergalis, founder and CTO at Apollo, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the motivations for GraphQL, the Apollo Data Graph platform, data modelling in an enterprise context, and how incrementally adopting GraphQL can help with decoupling the evolution of frontend and backend systems.

Lin Sun and Neeraj Poddar on Istio, Wasm, and the Future of Service Mesh

In this podcast, Lin Sun, senior technical staff member and master inventor at IBM, and Neeraj Poddar, engineering lead and architect at Aspen Mesh, sat down with InfoQ co-host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the evolution of service mesh data planes and control planes, the new Istio 1.5 architectures, Istio WebAssembly extension support, and the future of service mesh technology.

Sam Newman: Monolith to Microservices

Wes Reisz talks with Sam Newman about techniques and patterns that Sam writes about in his latest book. Topics covered in the podcast include understanding the problem you’re trying to solve, organizational/people changes when it comes to microservice architectures, database strategies for decomposing monolithic datastores, and why we’re seeing projects reverting from microservices to monoliths.

Hoang Bao on Ethics, Privacy and Regulation in Software Engineering

In this podcast recorded at QCon San Francisco 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Hoang Bao who was the track chair for the Ethics, Regulation, Risk, and Compliance track.

Guillermo De Anda on Shifting Organisational Culture One Small Step at a Time

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Guillermo De Anda of ProKarma about digital transformations, shifting organisational culture one small step at a time and the importance of managers having a coaching mindset.

Nishant Bhajaria on Security, Privacy and Ethics

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Nishant Bhajaria about security, data privacy, ethics and privacy by design .

Jeff Jacobson on the Coaching Profession and Leadership

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Jeff Jacobson about why professional coaching adds value, how leaders can take a coaching stance and the benefits teams and individuals can get from engaging with a coach.

Daniel Mezick & Mark Sheffield on Open Space Using Zoom

In this episode, Shane Hastie spoke to Daniel Mezick & Mark Sheffield about using Zoom for Open Space events. They have released a set of guidelines and a checklist for online Open Space events under a Creative Commons license.