Podcasts

Matthew Clark on the BBC’s Migration from LAMP to the Cloud with AWS Lambda, React and CI/CD

In this podcast Matthew Clark, head of architecture for the BBC's Digital Products, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble and discussed: the new architecture for the BBC’s online services; the challenges of using Lambda functions including cold start-up, function chaining, debugging and setting the memory profile; the role of DevOps and CI/CD; and the nature of a cloud transformation.

Stefan Prodan on Flux, Flagger, and the Operator Pattern Applied to Non-Clustered Resources

In this podcast, Wesley Reisz talks to Stefan Prodan about Flux and Flagger–two tools built on top of Flux CD’s GitOps Toolkit. After discussing some of the architectural differences between Flux v1 and v2 and discussing some of the GitOps toolkit use cases, the two discuss the operator pattern on Kubernetes.

Jessica Kerr on Observability and Honeycomb's Use of AWS Lambda for Retriever

Charles Humble talks to Jessica Kerr about Honeycomb's architecture and use of Serverless, specifically AWS Lambda, as part of their custom column database system called Retriever. They also explore key differences between Retriever and Facebook’s Scuba, and how Honeycomb differs from traditional APM tools.

Clare Liguori on Automating Safe and “Hands-Off” Deployments at AWS

In this podcast we discuss the implementation of continuous delivery at AWS, the use of automation and deploying to multiple test environments, and the benefits of canary releasing.

The Architecture Advice Process with Andrew Harmel-Law

To best support continuously-delivering, autonomous teams, a software architect has to avoid being a blocker by trying to make all architectural decisions. In this episode of the podcast, Thomas Betts talks to Andrew Harmel-Law about how an advice process allows anyone to make an architectural decision, once they’ve had necessary conversations and properly documented their decision.