The InfoQ Podcast

00:52:08

Context is the Key to the Agentic Architecture...

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2026/05/18

In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Baruch Sadogursky about software architecture in the age of agentic AI. Large Language Models can function, albeit stochastically, as reasoning machines capable of interpreting human ambiguity. With the appropriate rigorous context artifacts to control the LLM’s reasoning, software specifications can become the source of truth, while the code becomes a disposable intermediate language. These context artifacts are managed through an engineering discipline,

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00:36:44

From Java EE to Quarkus and LLMs: Adam Bien’s...

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2026/05/11

Adam Bien, an independent consultant and pioneer of zero dependencies in the enterprise world of Java, highlights the benefits of consistently using standards, regardless of whether they involve Java or existing patterns. He argues that by doing so, he managed to future-proof the systems he built, preparing them for the cloud era and even for the AI-Native era.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4cFAn3g Newsletter: Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly

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00:21:23

Roq: Leveraging Quarkus to Build Static Sites at the...

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2026/05/04

Andy Damevin, a developer who worked on Quarkus for almost a decade, talks about Roq. A project that started as an experiment to try to see if it’s possible to build a static web site generator on top of quarkus. He touches on the rationale for choosing Java and Quarkus, how to migrate to Roq, and the platform's future.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/48Q5SoJ Newsletter: Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience

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00:40:47

A Java Performance Quest: Taming Unsafe Code,...

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2026/04/27

In this podcast, Jaromir Hamala, a seasoned Java engineer specialising in high-throughput data systems, shares his thoughts on how developers can tackle high-performance software development. He touches on the benefits of modern Java that allow writing idiomatic Java code while remaining "mechanically sympathetic", and also on his experience debugging a Linux kernel bug.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4mIDdrA Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly

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00:56:37

Engineering Stable, Secure and Scalable Platforms: A...

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2026/04/20

In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Matthew Liste about building and managing software platforms. Platform services act as the basis for application development, and must always be stable, secure, and scalable. Scaling these systems is particularly difficult because unknown resource contention often causes them to break. Using customer journeys, one can pinpoint the places where the system is particularly at risk. Platform engineering also requires managing limited resources, and making

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00:37:43

How SBOMs and Engineering Discipline Can Help You...

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2026/04/13

Viktor Peterson, part of the CISA task force working on SBOM blueprints and co-founder of sbomify, explores the shifting landscape of software supply chain security as the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) comes into force, a "GDPR moment" for the industry. Beyond mere compliance, Peterson argues that SBOMs provide significant operational value as tools for automated security audits and license management, provided they are generated using ecosystem-specific tools rather than generic scanners. He also

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00:31:01

Context Engineering with Adi Polak

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2026/04/06

In this episode, Thomas Betts and Adi Polak talk about the need for context engineering when interacting with LLMs and designing agentic systems. Prompt engineering techniques work with a stateless approach, while context engineering allows AI systems to be stateful.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4168Wcj Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and

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00:51:41

Failure As a Means to Build Resilient Software...

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2026/03/31

In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Lorin Hochstein about how real-world failures provide insight into how software systems actually work. Our first topic was understanding that while automated fault injection tools can introduce basic robustness into a system, they cannot replicate the understanding that comes from mitigating complicated software failures in the real world. We then pondered how do we get this information to software architects so that they can learn from failure. Ironically,

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00:54:31

Agentic Systems Without Chaos: Early Operating Models...

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2026/03/25

Are you ready for your new non-deterministic co-workers?Autonomous agents promise to help build, operate, and run software systems, but they can also be unpredictable, chaotic, and difficult to control without the right operating model. In this episode of Next Generation Architecture Playbook, Shweta Vohra and Joseph Stein explore what changes when software systems start planning, acting, and making decisions on their own. The conversation distinguishes truly agentic use cases from traditional

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00:31:33

Andres Almiray on How to Release Any Software to Any...

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2026/03/16

Andres Almiray, a serial open-source contributor and the creator of JReleaser, discusses the project's state, noting that the tool is usable across any ecosystem, not just Java. He also touches on the Common House Foundation's mission.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4sGNOFg Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and

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00:38:25

Mindful Leadership in the Age of AI

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2026/03/09

In this episode, Thomas Betts and Sam McAfee discuss how AI hype is reshaping organizational behavior, why many companies struggle with experimentation, and how unclear decision structures create friction. They explore psychological safety and mindful leadership as essential foundations for healthier, more effective engineering cultures. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4l6G7FN Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and

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00:52:05

AI Autonomy Is Redefining Architecture: Boundaries...

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2026/03/04

This conversation explores why generative AI is not just another automation layer but a shift into autonomy. The key idea is that we cannot retrofit AI into old procedural workflows and expect it to behave. Once autonomy is introduced, systems will drift, show emergent behaviour, and act in ways we did not explicitly script. The real architectural shift is not about controlling every step, but about defining clear boundaries. Instead of telling AI exactly how to do the work, we must define what it

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00:40:27

Frictionless DevEx with Nicole Forsgren

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2026/03/02

In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Dr. Nicole Forsgren, the author of Accelerate and one of the most prominent and important minds in DevOps and developer productivity. The conversation is about identifying and removing developer friction, the subject of her new book, Frictionless. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/40vbpMN Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns

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00:54:33

Software Evolution with Microservices and LLMs: A...

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2026/02/23

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with Chris Richardson about using microservices to modernize software applications and the use of artificial intelligence in software architecture. We first discussed the problems of monolithic enterprise software and how to use microservices to evolve them to enable fast flow - the ability to achieve rapid software delivery. The discussion also focused on some of the key problems in accomplishing this. We also discussed how greenfield development fails because

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00:35:19

Building Resilient Event-Driven Microservices in...

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2026/02/16

In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Muzeeb Mohammad about building event-driven microservices for financial systems. The discussion covers some of the core principles and patterns for event-driven architectures, reasons for using these patterns, and some of the challenges related to finance and other highly-regulated industries.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3LZAgoI Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and

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00:51:13

The Craft of Software Architecture in the Age of AI...

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2026/02/11

AI coding assistants promise speed, but what do they mean for quality, trust, and the architect’s craft? In this inaugural episode of Next Gen Architecture Playbook, Shweta Vohra and Grady Booch explore a principled view of how architecture must evolve when machines begin writing code alongside humans. They unpack the third golden age of software engineering, where productivity gains are real, where the risks lie, and how architects can design review gates and practices that preserve long term

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00:38:11

Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson

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2026/02/09

In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and a Principal Software Development Engineer at Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB. The conversation covers how Valkey started as an open source fork of Redis and how the maintainers optimized the memory usage and improved throughput.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4qhsIM6 Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience

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00:30:59

Developers Can Improve the ESG Aspects of Software By...

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2026/02/02

Erica Pisani, host of the performance and sustainability track at QCon London 2025, retrospects on the lessons learned from assembling the track and the lessons learned from attending the talks. She touches on the importance of the environmental-social aspects of software and hints on how developers can improve these aspects with small steps in the architecture and practices of building software. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Zquqjj Subscribe to the Software Architects’

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00:57:59

Startup Software Architecture - You Never Really...

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2026/01/26

In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke with David Gudeman about software architecture for startups. The discussion starts by illuminating how to make decisions with imperfect information, and how uncertainty and ambiguity flow through all aspects of developing the architecture. This leads to analyzing how the architect must focus on both product strategy and technical decisions, and how there must be a collaborative effort between the product and technical teams.David Gudeman then talks about how

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00:39:22

AI-Driven Development with Olivia McVicker

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2026/01/19

In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Olivia McVicker, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft about AI-driven software development. The conversation covers the current, mainstream AI coding assistants and gets into where those tools are quickly heading. They then look to the future of how the entire software development lifecycle will see the benefits of AI in the next few years.Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4qIJT9F Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your

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