Podcasts

Architecture & Design

31:38

The Future of Service Mesh with Jim Barton

In this podcast, Jim Barton explains some of the fundamentals of modern service meshes, and provides an overview of Istio Ambient Mesh and the benefits it will provide in the future.

Architecture & Design

33:06

Susanne Kaiser on DDD, Wardley Mapping, & Team Topologies

Susanne Kaiser is a software consultant working with teams on microservice adoption. Recently, she’s brought together Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping, and Team Topologies into a conversation about helping teams adopt a fast flow of change. Today on the podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Kaiser about why she feels these three approaches to dealing with software complexity are so complementary.

Architecting Reactive Systems: Insights on Modern Approaches with Tyler Jewell

Tyler Jewell, CEO of Lightbend, explores the evolution of responsive, distributed applications and the challenges in achieving elasticity, resilience, and scalability.

Architecture & Design

25:54

Principles of Green Software Engineering with Marco Valtas

In this episode, Marco Valtas, technical lead for cleantech and sustainability at ThoughtWorks North America, discusses the Principles of Green Software Engineering. The principles help guide software decisions by considering the environmental impact. The principles are intended for everyone involved in software, and emphasize that sustainability, on its own, is a reason to justify the work.

Architecture & Design

34:18

Matt Butcher on Web Assembly as the Next Wave of Cloud Computing

Wes Reisz speaks with long-time open-source contributor and startup founder Matt Butcher who is the CEO of Fermyon Technologies and is at the forefront of the Web Assembly (Wasm) work being done in the cloud. The two discuss Butcher’s belief we’re at the start of a 3rd wave of cloud computing, the state of the Wasm ecosystem, and what Fermyon’s doing in the space.

Architecture & Design

30:52

Frederic Branczyk on Continuous Profiling Leveraging eBPF

Wes Reisz and Frederic Branczyk discuss the origin story of Polar Signals, eBPF (the enabling technology used by Polar Signals), Parca (the open-source system they built to collect continuous profiling data), and more, including things like FrostDB and why profiling data complements what we already have with our current observability stacks.

Culture & Methods

24:05

Kanplexity as an Approach to Tackle Complex Problems

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to John Coleman about using Kanplexity when the problems you face are complex and evolving and other frameworks don’t fit.

Culture & Methods

18:13

Stop Having Meetings that Suck - Patricia Kong on Why Facilitation Should be a Core Competency

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Patricia Kong of Scrum.org about the importance and value of facilitation skills for collaborative teams.

Reimagining the concept of responsive apps

Responsiveness is much more than a front-end web app issue. Tyler Jewell will challenge you to think differently about how to achieve elasticity, agility, and resilience.

Culture & Methods

22:50

Developer Experience is a Critical Issue for Organisations Today

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Abi Noda about the costs of poor developer experience, why it is a crucial issue for organisations to address, a framework for assessing developer experience and ways it can be improved.

Culture & Methods

30:32

Time to Awesome as a Measure of Positive Developer Experiences

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Rick Spencer of InfluxDB about building developer tools, removing friction and improving mean time to awesomeness, the need for online social intelligence and ways to avoid burnout.

Culture & Methods

28:53

Great Management is a Skillset with Huge Impact on Team and Organisation Performance

Shane Hastie spoke to Stefanie Tignor, lead data scientist at Humu about what it take to be a great manager, and the powerful difference managers make in the organisation.