Podcasts

Peter Bourgon on CRDTs and State at the Edge

Wes Reisz talks with Peter Bourgon, a distributed system engineer working on Fastly. The two engineers talk about the space of Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) specifically in the context of edge compute. Topics covered on the podcast include Edge compute, CRDTs, CAP Theorem, and challenges around a building distributed system.

Gareth Rushgrove on Kubernetes as a Platform, Applications, and Security

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Gareth Rushgrove, director of product management at Snyk. Topics covered included Kubernetes as a platform, application abstractions, continuous delivery, and implementing good security practices in the cloud native space.

Kelsey Hightower on Extending Kubernetes, Event-Driven Architecture, and Learning

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Kelsey Hightower, staff developer advocate at Google. Topics covered included: the extensibility of Kubernetes, and why it has become the platform that other platforms are being built on top of; creating event-driven architectures and deploying these onto Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms like the Kubernetes-based Knative and Google Cloud Run.

Katharine Jarmul and Ethical Machine Learning

Today on The InfoQ Podcast, Wes talks with Katharine Jarmul about privacy and fairness in machine learning algorithms. Jarmul discusses what’s meant by Ethical Machine Learning and some things to consider when working towards achieving fairness. Jarmul is the co-founder at KIProtect, a machine learning security and privacy firm based in Germany, and is one of the three keynote speakers at QCon.ai.

Grady Booch on Today’s Artificial Intelligence Reality and What it Means for Developers

On the podcast today, Wes Reisz and Grady Booch discuss what today’s reality is for AI. Booch answers questions like what does an AI mean to the practice of writing software, and how it seems to impact delivering software. In addition, Booch talks about AI surges (and winters) over the years, the importance of ethics in software, and host of other related questions.

Miki Szikszai and Sandy Mamoli on Adopting Holacracy at Snapper

In this podcast recorded after the JAFAC 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke Miki Szikszai and Sandy Mamoli about Snapper’s adoption of holacracy.

John Le Drew on Solving Technical Problems by Addressing Human Issues

In this podcast recorded at the Agile India conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to John Le Drew about solving technical problems by addressing the people issues.

Jeff Dalton on Teaching Leaders How to Teach

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jeff Dalton about the challenges of agile adoption in large organisations and the need to teach agile leaders how to teach so they can lead the cultural shift that is needed.

Edith Harbaugh of Launch Darkly on Engineering a Good Engineering Culture

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Edith Harbaugh of Launch Darkly on the way she and her cofounder have deliberately engineered their organisation’s culture

Susan McIntosh on Diversity in Tech

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Susan McIntosh, an InfoQ editor, agile practitioner and scrum master who works in the area of cultural change about the impacts that the lack of diversity in tech has and some ways to address the inherent imbalances in the system.