Podcasts

Architecture & Design

33:04

Phil Winder on the History, Practical Application, and Ethics of Reinforcement Learning

In this podcast Dr Phil Winder, CEO of Winder Research, sits down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble. They discuss: the history of Reinforcement Learning (RL); the application of RL in fields such as robotics and content discovery; scaling RL models and running them in production; and ethical considerations for RL.

Architecture & Design

34:20

Clare Liguori on Automating Safe and “Hands-Off” Deployments at AWS

In this podcast Clare Liguori, principal software engineer at Amazon Web Services, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed the implementation of continuous delivery at AWS, the use of automation and deploying to multiple test environments, and the benefits of canary releasing.

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

28:29

Carin Meier Using Machine Learning to Combat Major Illnesses, Such as the Coronavirus

Carin Meier of Reify Health sits down with Wesley Reisz and discusses how machine learning is being used to combat major illnesses (such as the coronavirus). After a short discussion on some of the work being done today, the two shift into a discussion on the challenges of working with healthcare data and machine learning. Topics around safety, ethics, and explainability are discussed.

Architecture & Design

31:44

Anubhav Mishra and Nic Jackson on Platforms, Developer Workflows, and HashiCorp Waypoint

In this podcast, Anubhav Mishra and Nic Jackson from HashiCorp sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the benefits and challenges of creating application platforms in the cloud, the need for effective developer workflows, and the role of the new HashiCorp Waypoint tool and service meshes within workflows

Architecture & Design

31:50

Service Meshes and Linkerd with William Morgan

Today on the podcast, we talk about Linkerd and the larger Service Mesh space with William Morgan (CEO of Buoyant).

Culture & Methods

20:12

Thoughtworks’ Tim Cochran on Developer Effectiveness

In this podcast Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, spoke to Tim Cochran, technical director at ThoughtWorks, about developer effectiveness.

Culture & Methods

43:54

Cliff Berg and Raj Nagappan on Agile 2: the Next Iteration of Agile

In this podcast. Shane Hastie spoke to Cliff Berg and Raj Nagappan about Agile 2, the next iteration of agile and how it is an evolution of the ideas from the original agile manifesto based on what has changed over the last 20 years.

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

38:08

Building a Great Engineering Culture and Being a Genuinely Purpose-Driven Organisation

In this double-episode podcast, Shane Hastie, lead editor for culture & methods, first spoke to Mark Rees, CTO of Xero about creating a great engineering culture in a fast growing Unicorn company. He then spoke to Heather DeSantis of Publicity for Good about what it takes to be a truly purpose-driven organisation.

Culture & Methods

30:02

Johanna Rothman on Modern Management Made Easy

In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Johanna Rothman about her seven principles of modern management, reward and incentive systems, multiple career ladders and ways to experiment with decisions for rapid feedback.

Culture & Methods

19:07

Jason Thane on Building a Values Based Culture

In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Jason Thane of GenUI about building a company on a values-based culture, how software development is fundamentally about communication and collaboration and advice on interviewing for values fit.