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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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Pony Language Designer Sylvan Clebsch on Pony’s Design, Garbage Collection, and Formal Verification
In this podcast Charles Humble talks to Sylvan Clebsch, who is the designer of the actor-model language Pony programming and now works at Microsoft Research in Cambridge in the Programming Language Principles group. They talk about the inspirations behind Pony, how the garbage collector avoids stop-the-world pauses, the queuing systems, work scheduler, and formal verification.
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Sid Anand on Building Agari’s Cloud-Native Data Pipelines with AWS Kinesis and Serverless
Wesley Reisz talks to Sid Anand, a data architect at cybersecurity company Agari, about building cloud-native data pipelines. The focus of their discussion is around a solution Agari uses that is built from Amazon Kinesis Streams, serverless functions, and auto scaling groups.
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Sachin Kulkarni Describes the Architecture behind Facebook Live
Wesley Reisz talks to Sachin Kulkarni, director of engineering at Facebook, about the engineering challenges for Facebook live, and how it compares to the video upload platform at Facebook.
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Alex Qin on Leveraging Technology to Create Positive Social Change
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Alex Qin following on from her QCon London talk “Shaving My Head Made Me A Better Programmer”.
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Colin Breck from Tesla on Quality Views to Expose Technical Debt
In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ’s Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Colin Breck, an Engineer from Tesla, about using quality views to expose and prioritize technical debt.
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John Willis on DevOps Evolution, Leadership and Burnout
Manuel Pais, InfoQ Lead Editor for DevOps, talks to John Willis, Director of Ecosystem Development for Docker and co-author of the "DevOps Handbook", on DevOps evolution, leadership and burnout.
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Adam Tornhill on Good Engineering Culture, Technical Debt and Ways to Reduce Inter-Team Conflict
In this podcast Shane Hastie, InfoQ Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Tornhill of Empear on combining psychology and software engineering, and technical debt.
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Portia Tung on the Critical Importance of Play in the Workplace
In this podcast, Shane Hastie speaks to Portia Tung, founder of the School of Play, author and executive coach, about the critical importance of play in the workplace.