Podcasts

Michelle Krejci on Moving to Microservices: Visualising Technical Debt, Kubernetes, and GraphQL

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant spoke to Michelle Krejci, service engineer lead at Pantheon, about the Drupal and Wordpress webops-based company’s move to a microservices architecture.

Ryan Kitchens on Learning from Incidents at Netflix, the Role of SRE, and Sociotechnical Systems

In today’s podcast, we sit down with Ryan Kitchens, a senior site reliability engineer and member of the CORE team at Netflix. This team is responsible for the entire lifecycle of incident management at Netflix, from incident response to memorialising an issue.

Oliver Gould on the Three Pillars of Service Mesh, SMI, and Making Technology Bets

In this podcast, we summarise the evolution of the service mesh concept, with a focus on the three pillars: visibility, security, and reliability. We explore the new traffic “tap” feature within Linkerd that allows near real-time in-situ querying of metrics and discuss how to implement network security by leveraging the primitives like Service Account provided by Kubernetes.

Event Sourcing: Bernd Rücker on Architecting for Scale

Bernd Rücker talks to Wesley Reisz about Microservice Orchestration, CQRS and Event Sourcing

Pat Kua on Technical Leadership, Cultivating Culture, and Career Growth

In this podcast, we discuss a holistic approach to technical leadership, and Kua provides guidance on everything from defining target operating models, cultivating culture, and supporting people in developing the career they would like. There are a bunch of great stories, several book recommendations, and additional resources to follow up on.