No Fluff Just Stuff

This week we look at the big shift happening in Big Data as it moves to the cloud. Dave Hendrickson shares his experience at Thomson Reuters moving to the cloud, how to evaluate cloud vendors, and what to watch out for. Don't miss this week's episode. Check out Dave's books on skills for architects here and catch all the great content for 2019 on the No Fluff Just Stuff Tour.    

This week I'm joined by Alexander Von Zietzewitz from Hello2Morrow whose stated mission is to empower software craftsmanship. We talk about how to measure code quality, and more importantly, how SonarGraph can quantify code maintainability.  Alexander brings decades of experience and wisdom and his insights can benefit any software engineer focused on building better software. 

The way we write software, our tools, and technologies have remained largely unchanged. This Week Tudor Girba demonstrates an entirely new set of tools that, in my opinion, will fundimentially change the way we read, write, and document our code. Don't miss this one!  

This week I'm joined once again by Steve Pousty (@theSteve0) and we're talking about the convergence of Big Data and Web architecture, how we're entering the golden age of distributed computing and why everyone should learn a little bit about data and analytics.  

This week we celebrate the holidays and roll into 2019 with the legendary Venkat Subramanium (@Venkat_S). In this episode Venkat shares his philosophy towards work and his approach to lifelong learning. There is no more inspiring way to ring in the new year than to spend 30 minutes with Venkat absorbing a few pearls of wisdom. Enjoy! Special thanks to hooksounds.com and Rodrigo Vicente for the special holiday music!

With the conclusion of ArchConf 2018 we've wrapped the 2018 tour. This week I sit with Neal Ford of ThoughtWorks. We talk about the trade-offs of software architecture, how to identify those, and the 19th edition of the ThoughtWorks Tech Radar. Neal co-authored "Building Evolutionary Architectures" along with Rebecca Parsons and Patrick Kua. You can learn more about some of the ideas in the book at evolutionaryarchitecture.com.

"Software Architecture is the stuff you can't google." There's no one answer.  In this episode, I interview hands-on architect, speaker and trainer,  Mark Richards. He shares some perspective on analyzing software architectures, and what it takes to continuously review and iterate on existing architectures. 

With the Thanksgiving holiday fast approaching in the United States, we've decided to change gears on the NFJS podcast, pulling back the curtain on what it's like to be a traveling speaker. In this episode, I sit with Steve Pousty, who shares his experience as a Developer Advocate. This episode is packed with advice for anyone who has ever considered speaking. Listen to the end for a special giveaway and, of course, reach out if you're interested in taking the next step and giving some tech talks yourself! Enjoy and happy holidays!

This week I get to sit with Jessica Kerr (aka jessitron) to discuss a topic developers love to hate – yak shaving. Jessica takes a different approach to Yak Shaving and sees it not as an inconvenience, but as an opportunity. Listen to learn more!   

This week I'm joined by Steve Pousty, author of Getting Started in OpenShift. In this episode he gives me some insight into what kubernetes is, why everyone is talking about it, and why we should give it a look even if we're outside of the traditional devops space.