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InfoQ's podcasts are interviews with the software architects, senior engineers, and team leaders who build and operate production systems. Episodes work through the tradeoffs behind real decisions in software architecture, AI and ML engineering, and engineering culture. Guests are practitioners and QCon speakers describing what worked and what broke in systems they built.


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Interviews with the software architects and senior engineers who build and run production systems. Each episode works through the tradeoffs behind a real decision in architecture, AI engineering, and development.

Architecture & Design

43:30
Cover image for Sam Newman: Monolith to Microservices

Sam Newman: Monolith to Microservices

Wes Reisz talks with Sam Newman about techniques and patterns that Sam writes about in his latest book. Topics covered in the podcast include understanding the problem you’re trying to solve, organizational/people changes when it comes to microservice architectures, database strategies for decomposing monolithic datastores, and why we’re seeing projects reverting from microservices to monoliths.

Featuring: Sam Newman Published: ON May 25, 2020

Architecture & Design

24:04
Cover image for Tracy Miranda on the Continuous Delivery Foundation, Interoperability, and Open Standards

Tracy Miranda on the Continuous Delivery Foundation, Interoperability, and Open Standards

In this podcast, Tracy Miranda sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant. Miranda, director of Open Source Community at CloudBees, and discussed topics that included: the aims of the CDF and an outline of the current hosted projects, the need for open standards and interoperability in the CD space, and the benefits offered by progressive delivery and software supply chain management.

Featuring: Tracy Miranda Published: ON May 15, 2020

Architecture & Design

36:31
Cover image for Marty Abbott and Tanya Cordrey on Microservices, Availability, and Managing Risk

Marty Abbott and Tanya Cordrey on Microservices, Availability, and Managing Risk

In this podcast, Marty Abbott and Tanya Cordrey sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed topics that included: their learning from working together in the early days of eBay, why and how to avoid creating software systems that are composed of deep call chains of microservices, and how to build effective product teams.

Featuring: Marty Abbott, Tanya Cordrey Published: ON May 8, 2020

Architecture & Design

30:00
Cover image for Dave Sudia on Migrating From a PaaS to a Kubernetes-Based Platform

Dave Sudia on Migrating From a PaaS to a Kubernetes-Based Platform

Daniel Bryant sat down with Dave Sudia, senior DevOps engineer at GoSpotCheck, to discuss the benefits of PaaS; building a platform with Kubernetes as the foundation; selecting open source components and open standards in order to facilitate the evolution of a platform; and why care should be taken to prioritize the developer experience and create self-service operation of the platform.

Featuring: Dave Sudia Published: ON Apr 17, 2020

Architecture & Design

37:01
Cover image for Peter Bourgon on CRDTs and State at the Edge

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.

Featuring: Peter Bourgon Published: ON Apr 3, 2020

Engineering Culture Podcast

About this Podcast

Conversations on building intentional engineering culture: team dynamics, leadership, and software management. For engineering leaders, managers, and the developers they support.

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