Podcasts

Yuri Shkuro on Tracing Distributed Systems Using Jaeger

On this podcast, we talk with Yuri Shkuro, the creator of Jaeger, author of the book Mastering Distributed Tracing, and a software engineer at Uber, about how the Jaeger tracing backend implements the OpenTracing API to handle distributed tracing.

Louise Poubel on the Robot Operating System

Louise Poubel is an engineer working with Open Robotics. Today on the podcast, she talks about what it takes to develop software that moves in physical space, including the Sense, Think, Act Cycle, the developer experience, and architecture of ROS.

Matt Klein on Envoy Mobile, Platform Complexity, and a Universal Data Plane API for Proxies

In this podcast we sit down with Matt Klein, software plumber at Lyft and creator of Envoy, and discuss topics including the continued evolution of the popular proxy, the strength of the open source Envoy community, and the value of creating and implementing standards throughout the technology stack.

Armon Dadgar on HashiCorp Research, the Evolution of Infrastructure Tooling, and Standardisation

On this podcast, we’re talking to Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp. We discuss the formation of the HashiCorp research division and explore some of the computer science research underpinning Consul and Nomad. We also cover the challenges of supporting teams when they are looking to embrace new modes of working with dynamic infrastructure.

Thomas Wuerthinger on GraalVM and Optimizing Java with Ahead-of-Time Compilation

On this podcast, we're talking to Thomas Wuerthinger, a senior research director at Oracle Labs, leading programming language implementation teams for Java, JavaScript, Ruby, and R. He is the architect of the Graal compiler and the Truffle self-optimizing runtime.

Maartje & Fennande of Happy Office on Creating a Culture of Happiness at Work

In this podcast, recorded at the Agile India 2019 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Maartje Wolff and Fennande van der Meulen about happiness being crucial in organizations.

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.

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.

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.

Ivar Jacobson on the Essence of Software

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ivar Jacobson about his work defining the essence of software engineering.