Podcasts

Peter Bourgon on Gossip, Paxos, Microservices in Go, and CRDTs at SoundCloud

QCon chair Wesley Reisz talks to Weaveworks' Engineer, Peter Bourgon. Bourgon discusses his work at Weaveworks, discovering and imlemeting CRDTs for time-stamped events at Soundcloud, building Microservices in Go with Go Kit and the state of package management in Go.

Neha Batra - Pivotal Labs Pair Programming

In this week’s podcast Neha Batra has taken time to discuss about pair programming and techniques to get started with the practice as well as tips for implementing it on your team. Neha also touches on vulnerability based trust and how it can help effectively build a trusting team environment.

Oliver Gould Discusses Architecting to Avoid and Recover from Failure

Robert Blumen talks to Oliver Gould, CTO of Buoyant, where he leads open source development efforts, about architecting to avoid and recover from failure.

Chris Richardson on Domain-Driven Microservices Design

In this week’s podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Chris Richardson, a developer, architect, Java Champion and author of POJOs in Action. Before his workshop on Microservices w/ Spring Boot and Docker at QCon San Francisco 2016, Richardson took time to discuss his ideas on how to use DDD and CQRS concepts as a guide for implementing a robust microservices architecture.

Keith Adams on the Architecture of Slack, Using MySql, Edge Caching, & the Backend Messaging Server

In this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks to Keith Adams, chief architect at Slack. Prior he was an engineer at Facebook where he worked on the search type live backend, and is well-known for the HipHop VM. Adams presented How Slack Works at QCon SanFrancisco 2016.

Mike Bryzek of Flow.io on Testing in Production

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mike Bryzek – CTO and founder of Flow.io about his background in philanthropy, his current role at Flow.io and how they have empowered developers and adopted testing in production in order to raise the quality of their software.

Harsh Sinha on Building Culture at TransferWise

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Harsh Sinha, CTO of TransferWise, about deliberately designing organisational culture.

Rich Mironov on Product Development Trends

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Rich Mironov about the current trends in product development

Cahlan Sharp on Teaching Development Skills

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Cahlan Sharp about the DevMountain schools that teach software development skills in intensive “bootcamp” programs

Linda Rising on Values, Morality and the Impact of Politics

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Linda Rising about her talk at Agile 2017 in which she explores her own reaction to the politics in the USA and how it triggered her to research morality and values.