InfoQ Homepage Podcasts
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Twitter's Yao Yue on Latency, Performance Monitoring, & Caching at Scale
Yao Yue spent the majority of her career working on caching systems at Twitter. She created a performance team that deals with edge performance outliers often exposed by the enormous scale of Twitter. In this podcast, she discusses standing up the performance team, thoughts on instrumenting applications, and interesting performance issues (and strategies for solving them) they’ve seen at Twitter.
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Linda Rising on the Importance of Patterns, Her Journey & Patterns for Driving Change/Innovation
On the InfoQ Podcast this week, Wes Reisz talks with the Queen of Patterns, Linda Rising. Linda discusses her thoughts on the importance of patterns, she answers questions about what really is a pattern, and how she became involved in working with them. She discusses a variety of organizational and personal patterns and finally wraps with patterns to apply when driving change and innovation.
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Nora Jones on Establishing, Growing, and Maturing a Chaos Engineering Practice
Nora Jones, a senior software engineer on Netflix’ Chaos Team, talks with Wesley Reisz about what Chaos Engineering means today. She covers what it takes to build a practice, how to establish a strategy, defines cost of impact, and covers key technical considerations when leveraging chaos engineering.
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Security Considerations and the State of Microservices with Sam Newman
Wesley Reisz talks with Sam Newman about microservices. They explore the current state of the art with regards to the architectural style and corresponding tooling and deployment platforms. They then discuss how microservices increase the surface area of where sensitive information can be read or manipulated, but also have the potential to create systems that are more secure.
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Jessica Kerr on Productivity, Slack Chatbots, Yak Shaving, & Why Diversity Matters for Innovation
Wesley Reisz talks with Jessica Kerr about her focus on developer productivity. Topics include her work at Atomist building Slack Chatbots, an approach to categorizing Yak Shaving (in an effort to prioritize and automate development dependencies), how an innovation culture drives diversity, and, finally, the role of 10x developers in the lifecycle of a company or product.
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Andrew King of Ocado Technology on Great Hiring Practices and Designing Culture
In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Andrew King, Organisational Scientist at Ocado Technology about the hiring practices they use and how to design the culture you want.
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Jason Box and Paul Johnston on What Technologists can do about Climate Change
In this podcast recorded at QCon London 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jason Box and Paul Johnston about the impact climate change is having, how information technology contributes to greenhouse gasses and what technologists can do to help combat it.
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Kim Scott on Radical Candor
In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kim Scott, author of the book Radical Candor, about what radical candor is and how it can be applied in teams and relationships.
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Anna Obukhova on The Biology of Leadership and Working with Tired Teams
In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference, Shane Hastie spoke to Anna Obukhova about the neuroscience and biology of leadership and what it takes to coach and work with tired teams.
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Ash Coleman on Testing, Ethics, Diversity and What it Means to Be an Ally
In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ash Coleman about testing, ethics, diversity and what it means to be an ally.