The InfoQ Podcast

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 - Facebook: https://bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom/ - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/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: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

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 - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

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 InfoQ: - Twitter: twitter.com/infoq - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

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 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

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: 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 - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/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 - LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq

This is a re-post from April 2021. 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: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: www.youtube.com/infoq