The Infoq Podcast

Each year, InfoQ editors discuss what we’ve been observing across the entire software development landscape, and create several trends reports, each with its own graph of the adoption curve. This helps the editorial team focus its reporting on innovative technologies and ideas, and also provides our readers with a high-level overview of topics to keep an eye on. You can read the transcript here: https://bit.ly/3uHJf16 Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Events: QCon Plus online: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 - Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022 QCon San Francisco: https://qconsf.com/ - Oct 24-28, 2022 - Oct 2-6, 2023 InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: https:// www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: https://bit.ly/2jmlyG8 -

In the podcast, I spoke with Jaxon Repp, Head of Product at HarperDB, on their NoSQL database platform, edge persistence, and custom functions. Jaxon has 25 years of experience architecting, designing, and developing enterprise software. He is the founder of three technology startups and has consulted with multiple Fortune 500 companies on IoT and Digital Transformation initiatives. A partially-reformed developer, he understands what it’s like to wrestle with technology instead of benefiting from it, and believes passionately that if the Jetsons never had an episode where a config file error brought down the food-o-matic, it surely should not be a problem now. You can read the transcript here: https://bit.ly/3L9P8e3 Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Events: QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 - March 26-31, 2023 QCon Plus onl

This is a re-post from March 2021. In this podcast Matthew Clark, Head Of Architecture for the BBC's Digital Products, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Charles Humble and discussed: the new architecture for the BBC’s online services; the challenges of using Lambda functions including cold start-up, function chaining, debugging and setting the memory profile; the role of DevOps and CI/CD; and the nature of a cloud transformation. You can read the transcript here: https://bit.ly/3tfmySn Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Events: QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 - March 26-31, 2023 QCon Plus online: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 - Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022 QCon San Francisco: https://qconsf.com/ - Oct 24-28, 2022 - Oct 2-6, 2023 InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23

In this podcast, Wesley Reisz talks to Stefan Prodan about Flux and Flagger–two tools built on top of Flux CD’s GitOps Toolkit. After discussing some of the architectural differences between Flux v1 and v2 and discussing some of the GitOps toolkit use cases, the two discuss the operator pattern on Kubernetes. They specifically spend time talking about the operator pattern, why developers may opt to build API’s on top of Kubernetes, and how the pattern can be used on non-clusters resources. The podcast wraps with a discussion on the work being down towards Flux v2’s push to GA. You can read the transcript here: https://bit.ly/3tzQWpj Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Events: QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 - March 26-31, 2023 QCon Plus online: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 - Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022 QCon Sa

In this podcast Charles Humble talks to Jessica Kerr about Honeycomb's architecture and use of Serverless, specifically AWS Lambda, as part of their custom column database system called Retriever. They also explore key differences between Retriever and Facebook’s Scuba, and how Honeycomb differs from traditional APM tools. You can read the transcript here: https://bit.ly/3hAcaOc Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Events: QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 - March 26-31, 2023 QCon Plus online: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 - Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022 QCon San Francisco: https://qconsf.com/ - Oct 24-28, 2022 - Oct 2-6, 2023 InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: https:// www.linkedin.com/company/infoq -

This is a re-post from February 2021. In this podcast, we discuss the implementation of continuous delivery at AWS, the use of automation and deploying to multiple test environments, and the benefits of canary releasing Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Haqwz6 Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 - Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022 QCon San Francisco qconsf.com/ - Oct 24-28, 2022 InfoQ Live: live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/infoq - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

To best support continuously-delivering, autonomous teams, a software architect has to avoid being a blocker by trying to make all architectural decisions. In this episode of the podcast, Thomas Betts talks to Andrew Harmel-Law about how an advice process allows anyone to make an architectural decision, once they’ve had necessary conversations and properly documented their decision. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3gNlfmo Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 - Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022 QCon San Francisco qconsf.com/ - Oct 24-28, 2022 InfoQ Live: live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/infoq - LinkedIn:

Charles Humble and Liz Rice discuss eBPF, a way of making the Linux kernel programmable. They talk about why it exists, how it works under the hood, and what you can and can’t do with it. They also talk about Cilium, an open source library for observing network connectivity between container workloads, and the new Cilium-based service mesh currently in beta. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3rTPKwi Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 - Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022 QCon San Francisco https://qconsf.com/ - Oct 24-28, 2022 InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/infoq - Lin

On this episode of the InfoQ Podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard about cybersecurity. Understanding security is very similar to understanding software architecture, with general concepts applicable to everyone, and specific needs that depend on your situation. The discussion covers roles and responsibilities, DevSecOps, and the current and future state of cloud-native security. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3qXEDTy Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 - Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022 QCon San Francisco https://qconsf.com/ - Oct 24-28, 2022 InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow

This episode of the InfoQ podcast is the API Showdown, recorded during QCon Plus in November 2021. What is the single best API technology you should always use? Thomas Betts moderated the discussion, with the goal to understand some of the high-level features and capabilities of three popular technologies for implementing APIs. The discussion covers some of the pros and cons of GraphQL and gRPC, and why you might use them instead of a RESTful API. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/327JNmD Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 - Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022 QCon San Francisco https://qconsf.com/ - Oct 24-28, 2022 InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 2

Charles Humble discusses Moldable Development with its creator Tudor Gîrba. They discuss Gîrba’s key insight—that developers spend more than half their time reading systems rather than writing them—and how this lead to the creation of a novel development approach, Moldable Development, and a corresponding IDE, Glamorous Toolkit, which has the potential to change both how we reason and make decisions about software systems. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Gc2Fjd Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 InfoQ Live: live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/infoq - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/

This is a re-post from August 2021. Each year, the InfoQ editors discuss the current state of AI, ML and data engineering to identify the key trends that you as a software engineer, architect, or data scientist should watch. We curate our discussions into a technology adoption curve with supporting commentary to help you understand how things are evolving. We also explore what we believe you should be considering as part of your roadmap and skills development. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3FOrVvu Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 InfoQ Live: live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/infoq - Lin

This is an overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2021, with a focus on what architects are designing for today. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3HfpzWN Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 InfoQ Live: live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/infoq - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

In this special year-end wrap-up podcast Thomas Betts, Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Charles Humble, Srini Penchikala, and Daniel Bryant discuss what they have seen in 2021 and speculate a little on what they hope to see in 2022. Topics explored included: hybrid working, the importance of ethics and sustainability within technology, and multi-cloud architectures. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/32lVYfm Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 InfoQ Live: live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/infoq - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdotco

On this episode of the podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Kin Lane about managing your API lifecycle using standards and specifications, including OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema. These specifications and the tooling based on them can help reduce communication problems, by creating documentation, generating code, and automating testing. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3s6uTYo Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/infoq - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdo

The Technical University of Munich has won the Indy Autonomous Challenge. A competition for self-racing vehicles. In this podcast Roland Meertens discussies the the event itself, what makes it challenging, and the approach the TU Munich took with Joe Speed, Florian Sauerbeck, and Sebastian Huch. We discuss the importance of simulation, the limits of hardware, and how Docker helps crossing this gap. We end the podcast by discussing the role of open source software when taking on such a challenge. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3GlzbPw Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - Augus

Charles Humble discusses the design of the Ballerina programming language with its lead designer James Clark. They discuss how the goals of the language inform a number of design choices including: the type system, error handling, the concurrency model, and the language’s built in support for visualization of program flows. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3xBZTQP Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/infoq - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtub

In the podcast, I spoke with Meenakshi Kaushik and Neelima Mukiri from Cisco team on responsible AI and machine learning bias and how to address the biases when using ML in our applications. Meenakshi Kaushik currently works in the product management team at Cisco. She leads Kubernetes and AI/ML product offerings in the organization. Meenakshi has interest in AI/ML space and is excited about how the technology can enhance human wellbeing and productivity. Neelima Mukiri is a principal engineer at Cisco. She is currently working in Cisco's on-premise and software service container platforms. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/2ZiRswO Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20

Wes Reisz, Matthew Clark, Gwen Shapira, and Ian Thomas discuss the evolution of event-driven architectures over the decades, the advantages that EDA offers, and thoughts for the future. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/2Z3b1t5 Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20. 2022 InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/infoq - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

Producing television shows and movies at Netflix-scale (i.e. one new movie per week instead of one or two per year) means having a way to efficiently work with many artists and content creators. Netflix Workstations were created as a cloud-based solution to provide artists with secure access to the applications and content they need to complete their work. On this episode of the podcast Thomas Betts talks with Michelle Brenner about the benefits and trade-offs of the solution that enables artists to create from anywhere. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3waeORz Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: www.infoq.com/news/InfoQ-Newsletter/ - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - events.infoq.com/ QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 / London, UK QCon Plus: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 9-20. 2022 InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - Feb 22, 2022 - June 21, 2022