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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

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Looking for Root Causes is a False Path: A Conversation with David Blank-Edelman

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with David Blank-Edelman about the relationship between software architecture and site reliability engineering. Site reliability engineering can give architecture vital feedback about how the system actually behaves in production. Architects and designers can then learn from their failures to improve their ability to build systems that can evolve.

Featuring: David Blank-Edelman Published: ON Dec 1, 2025

Cloud

31:57
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Cloud Security Challenges in the AI Era - How Running Containers and Inference Weaken Your System

Marina Moore, a security researcher and the co-chair of the security and compliance TAG of CNCF, shares her concerns about the security vulnerabilities of containers. She explains where the issues originate, providing solutions and discussing alternative routes to using micro-VMs rather than containers. Additionally, she highlights the risks associated with AI inference.

Featuring: Marina Moore Published: ON Nov 17, 2025

Architecture & Design

51:15
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Architecture Should Model the World as it Really is: a Conversation with Randy Shoup

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with Randy Shoup about how to evolve your software after a software failure, and how to improve the resilience of your software by modeling transient states using events and workflows. Software failure is inevitable, but learning from failure, including making the necessary changes to organizational culture, can make your software more resilient.

Featuring: Randy Shoup Published: ON Nov 10, 2025

AI, ML & Data Engineering

22:50
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If You Can’t Test It, Don’t Deploy It: The New Rule of AI Development?

Magdalena Picariello reframes how we think about AI, moving the conversation from algorithms and metrics to business impact and outcomes. She champions evaluation systems that don't just measure accuracy but also demonstrate real-world business value, and advocates for iterative development with continuous feedback to build optimal applications.

Featuring: Magdalena Picariello Published: ON Nov 3, 2025

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.

Culture & Methods

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Emerson Murphy-Hill on Engineering Productivity, Team Dynamics and Equity

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Emerson Murphy-Hill about how measuring developer productivity is tricky, why team dynamics and psychological safety matter more than things like meeting load, the impact of systemic bias and how new AI tools are shaping equity in engineering - sometimes helping, but sometimes risking new kinds of unfairness.

Featuring: Emerson Murphy-Hill Published: ON May 30, 2025

Culture & Methods

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InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends in 2025

This is the InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report for 2025. Featuring the InfoQ editorial team and special guest Charity Majors, they discuss how AI is transforming software development with dramatic productivity gains alongside quality concerns, emphasize the continued importance of team collaboration, observability, engineering metrics, and creating high-performing software teams.

Featuring: Charity Majors, Ben Linders, Rafiq Gemmail, Craig Smith, Shane Hastie Published: ON May 9, 2025

Culture & Methods

27:37
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Achieving Sustainable Mental Peace in Software Engineering with Help from Generative AI

Shane Hastie spoke to John Gesimondo about how to leverage generative AI tools to support sustainable mental peace and productivity in the complex, interruption-prone world of software engineering by developing a practical framework that addresses emotional recovery, overcoming being stuck, structured planning and communication, maximizing flow, and fostering divergent thinking.

Featuring: John Gesimondo Published: ON May 2, 2025

Culture & Methods

30:43
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Building Empathy and Accessibility: Fostering Better Engineering Cultures and Developer Experiences

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Erin Doyle about her journey as a generalist engineer, her passion for web accessibility, the importance of empathy and psychological safety in engineering teams, and her commitment to building better developer experiences by fostering collaboration, continuous learning, and vulnerability among technical professionals.

Featuring: Erin Doyle Published: ON Apr 25, 2025

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