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The InfoQ Podcast

Software engineers, architects and team leads have found inspiration to drive change and innovation in their team by listening to the weekly InfoQ Podcast. They have received essential information that helped them validate their software development map. We have achieved that by interviewing some of the top CTOs, engineers and technology directors from companies like Uber, Netflix and more. Over 1,200,000 downloads in the last 3 years.

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00:42:56

Nora Jones on Establishing, Growing, and Maturing a...

The InfoQ Podcast ·

2017/10/01

Nora Jones, a senior software engineer on Netflix’ Chaos Team, talks with Wesley Reisz about what Chaos Engineering means today. She covers what it takes to build a practice, how to establish a strategy, defines cost of impact, and covers key technical considerations when leveraging chaos engineering. Why listen to this podcast: - Chaos engineering is a discipline where you formulate hypotheses, perform experiments, and evaluate the results afterwards. - Injecting a bit of failure over time is

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00:29:02

Simon Brown on the Role of the Software Architect in...

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2017/09/23

This week's podcast features Simon Brown well known for his work training software architects. Topics include the differences between a tech lead and an architect, how much documentation is enough and what that looks like in a continuous delivery environment. What you'll learn on this podcast: • As an industry we seem to have lost our knowledge of how to do architecture well in the context of modern agile software teams. • Architecture is about the expensive decisions; things that are costly to

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00:30:18

Twitter's Yao Yue on Latency, Performance Monitoring,...

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2017/09/18

This week's podcasts features Yao Yue of Twitter. Yao spent the majority of her career working on caching systems at Twitter. She has since created a performance team that deals with edge performance outliers often exposed by the enormous scale of Twitter. In this podcast, she discusses standing up the performance team, thoughts on instrumenting applications, and interesting performance issues (and strategies for solving them) they’ve seen at Twitter. Why listen to this podcast: * Performance

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00:35:14

Linda Rising on the Importance of Patterns, Her...

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2017/09/08

On the InfoQ Podcast this week, Wes Reisz talks with the Queen of Patterns, Linda Rising. Linda discusses her thoughts on the importance of patterns, she answers questions about what really is a pattern, and how she became involved in working with them. Throughout the podcast she discusses a variety of organizational and personal patterns and finally wraps with patterns to apply when driving change and innovation. Why listen to this podcast: - You have to realise that there’s nothing you can do

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00:35:56

Security Considerations and the State of...

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2017/08/18

Wesley Reisz talks with Sam Newman about microservices. They explore the current state of the art with regards the architectural style and corresponding tooling and deployment platforms. They then discuss how microservices increase the surface area of where sensitive information can be read or manipulated, but also have the potential to create systems that are more secure. Why listen to this podcast: - Different organisations have different risk appetites for new technology, so what may be

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00:33:26

Jessica Kerr on Productivity, Slack Chatbots, Yak...

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2017/08/11

Wesley Reisz talks with Jessica Kerr about her focus on developer productivity. Topics include her work at Atomist building Slack Chatbots, an approach to categorizing Yak Shaving (in an effort to prioritize and automate development dependencies), how an innovation culture drives diversity, and, finally, the role of 10x developers in the lifecycle of a company or product. Why listen to this podcast: - There are five kinds of Yak to shave - Atomist uses a Slack chatbot to automate and track

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00:26:49

Martin Hadley on R and the modern R ecosystem

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2017/07/21

Werner Schuster talks to Martin Hadley, data scientist at University of Oxford. They discuss the state of the R language, the rich R ecosystem that covers development (RStudio), notebooks for publication (R Notebooks, RPubs), writing web apps (Shiny), and the pros/cons of the different data frames implementations. Why listen to this podcast: - R is the tool for working with rectangular data - Modern data frame implementations are Tibble and data.table (for large amounts of data) - RMarkdown and

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00:34:07

Pony Language Designer Sylvan Clebsch on Pony’s...

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2017/07/07

In this podcast Charles Humble talks to Sylvan Clebsch, who is the designer of the actor-model language Pony programming and now works at Microsoft Research in Cambridge in the Programming Language Principles group. They talk about the inspirations behind Pony, how the garbage collector avoids stop-the-world pauses, the queuing systems, work scheduler, and formal verification. Why listen to this podcast: * Pony scales from a Raspberry Pi through a 64 core half terabyte machine to a 4096 core SGI

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00:29:04

Kotlin Lead Language Designer Andrey Breslav on...

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2017/06/22

Why listen to this podcast: - Kotlin is an officially supported language on Google Android platforms - Kotlin Native and Kotlin JS will allow code reuse between server, client and mobile devices - Type safety means that references can be checked for nullability Great tooling is a driver in what kind of language features are (and aren’t) adopted - Coroutines provide a way of creating maintainable asynchronous systems More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ

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00:25:38

Sid Anand on Building Agari’s Cloud-native Data...

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2017/06/09

Wesley Reisz talks to Sid Anand, a data architect at cybersecurity company Agari, about building cloud-native data pipelines. The focus of their discussion is around a solution Agari uses that is built from Amazon Kinesis Streams, serverless functions, and auto scaling groups. Sid Anand is an architect at Agari, and a former technical architect at eBay, Netflix, and LinkedIn. He has 15 years of data infrastructure experience at scale, is a PMC for Apache Airflow, and is also a program committee

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00:31:38

Sachin Kulkarni Describes the Architecture Behind...

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2017/05/26

Wesley Reisz talks to Sachin Kulkarni, Director of Engineering at Facebook, about the engineering challenges for Facebook live, and how it compares to the video upload platform at Facebook. Why listen to this podcast: - Facebook Infrastructure powers the board family of apps including the Facebook app, Messenger and Instagram. It is largely a C++ shop. There is some Java and Python, and the business logic is all done in PHP. The iOS apps are written in Objective C and the Android apps are in

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00:22:35

Martijn Verburg on the JCP EC “No” Vote for the Java...

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2017/05/19

Wesley Reisz talks to Martijn Verburg, co-founder of the London Java Community and CEO of jClarity, about the JCP EC “no” vote on the Java Platform Module System (JPMS), which is due to be shipped as part of Java 9. The talk about what JPMS offers, how it works, what the no vote means and what happens next. Why listen to this podcast: - Jigsaw isn’t dead - The “no” vote was based on the submission being a bit early, and without expert group consensus that it should be submitted - Since the vote

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00:36:35

Daniel Bryant on Microservices and Domain Driven Design

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2017/05/12

Wesley Reisz talks to Daniel Bryant on moving from monoliths to micro-services, covering bounded contexts, when to break up micro-services, event storming, practices like observability and tracing, and more. Why listen to this podcast: - Migrating a monolith to micro-services is best done by breaking off a valuable but not critical part first. - Designing a greenfield application as micro-services requires a strong understanding of the domain. - When a request enters the system, it needs to be

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00:34:18

Rossen Stoyanchev on Reactive Programming with Spring...

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2017/05/05

Rossen Stoyanchev talks to Wesley Reisz about blocking and non-blocking architectures, upcoming changes in Spring including Spring WebFlux, the reactive web stack in Spring framework 5, due this summer. He also discusses the differences between rxJava and Reactor. Why listen to this podcast: - Spring Framework 5 is due to be released June 25 2017 - Spring Web Flux provides a web programming model designed for asynchronous APIs - Back-pressure is important in a server environment; less so

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00:39:59

Richard Feldman Discusses Elm and How It Compares to...

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2017/04/28

Why listen to this podcast: - Using a compiler to catch errors at compile time instead of at runtime means much easier refactoring of code. - Incrementally replacing small parts of an existing JavaScript application with Elm is a safer strategy than trying to write an entirely new application in Elm - Elm packages are semantically versioned and gated by the publishing process, so minor versions cannot remove functionality without bumping the major version. - The UI in an Elm application results

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00:32:10

Jean Barmash on Inter-Service RPC with gRPC/Thrift,...

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2017/04/14

Jean Barmash is Director of Engineering at Compass, Founder & Co-Organizer, NYC CTO School Meetup. Live in New York City. He has over 15 years of experience in software industry, and has been part of 4 startups over the last seven years, 3 as CTO / VPE and one of which he co-founded. Prior to his entrepreneurial adventures, Jean held a variety of progressively senior roles in development, integration consulting, training, and team leadership. He worked for such companies as Trilogy, Symantec,

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00:30:29

Greg Murphy on Gamesparks, Game Tuning and...

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2017/03/10

Greg Murphy is the COO of Gamesparks, a cloud-based platform providing and a rich mobile back-end service for game developers to engage with their users. Greg takes us inside Gamesparks discussing the architecture, machine learning and what it’s like to launch in the China market. Why listen to this podcast: Gamesparks Engagement Engine Tuning the Gaming Experience The Architecture SDK’s and Real-time Data Transfers Server-side Scripts Managing Noisy neighbours and Security The Developer

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00:30:17

Architecting SQL Server on Linux: Slava Oks on...

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2017/02/24

Wesley Reisz talks to Slava Oks, who has worked at Microsoft for over 20 years on flagship products, including SQL Server. He also led the kernel team who worked on the Midori operating system. More recently, he has worked on bringing SQL Server to Linux. Why listen to this podcast: - Microsoft SQL Server runs on Linux through a containerised approach called Drawbridge - Drawbridge implements a Linux loader and a minimal set of ABI calls to allow an in-process NT user mode kernel to run - SQL

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00:38:43

Jonas Bonér on the Actor Model, Akka, Reactive...

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2017/02/16

Jonas Bonér, CTO of LightBend and creator Akka, discusses using Akka when developing distributed systems. He talks about the Actor Model, and how every Microservice needs to be viewed as a system to be successful. Why listen to this podcast: - Akka is JVM-based framework design for developing distributed systems leveraging the Actor Model - an approach for writing concurrent systems that treat actors as universal primitives and the most successful model with abstraction has been streaming -

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00:40:14

Peter Bourgon on Gossip, Paxos, Microservices in Go,...

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2017/01/27

Peter Bourgon discusses his work at Weaveworks, discovering and imlemeting CRDTs for time-stamped events at Soundcloud, Microservices in Go with Go Kit and the state of package management in Go. Why listen to this podcast: - We’ve hit the limits of Moore’s law so when we want to scale we have to think about how we do communication across unreliable links between unreliable machines. - In an AP algorithm like Gossip you still make forward progress in case of a failure. In Paxos you stop and

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