.tech podcast by Form3

There are three main options available to run containers on GCP: cloud functions, cloud run and GKE (Kubernetes). Which is the right fit for your workload and what factors should you consider upon making the decision? JB Jean-Baptiste Leroy a customer engineer from GCP and expert on running containers on GCP takes us through the container landscape on GCP. JB informs us on how powerful the three t...

Micro service architectures are exploding in popularity, but a tough problem that is often overlooked is to ensure all of the services that depend on each other still work together after a change is made. One solution is to deploy them all to a test environment and run end to end tests which results in very slow feedback cycle and keeps the testing far away from the engineer. Enter Pact, which sol...

A common requirement for a modern technology company is to have a DR strategy and to prove that their DR strategy works. Often this is executed using a manual set of tests run annually. This approach has many pitfalls, the biggest of which being that your tests become out of date the minute a change is made to the system. In this episode our host Kevin Holditch interviewed Viktor Peacock Head: SRE...

Tech leadership is often something that people find themselves in because they have excelled as an individual contributor, when people first make the leap it is often very hard for them to adjust to the different work patterns and how to manage a team. Sean Hawkridge from Makers, runs leadership programs that teach people how to be great tech leaders. In this episode Sean takes me through the comm...

Spacelift is a platform that adds workflows on top of infrastructure as code tooling. One of its USPs is that it is agnostic to the underlying infrastructure as code tool, so it can be used with Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulomi, to name but a few. This concept becomes super powerful in that you can combine stacks written for different infrastructure as code tools into dependency workflows, for ex...

Bert Sinnema, expert in defensive security engineering leads us through the hacking landscape today. He answers why hacking groups are starting to target smaller companies and tells us what smaller companies can do to fight back. Bert takes us behind the curtain, in the arms race between the two sides of the hacking war. In a world where the weapons used by both sides are constantly getting strong...

Head of mobile from NewDay, Tris Bates, joined Kevin Holditch to give us the grand tour of the world of mobile development, there is a lot more to think about than initially meets the eye. What is the best way to develop an application for both iOS and Android? Can you use a single code base or is the only option to rewrite the whole application for both platforms? How do you test for all of the d...

When using infrastructure as code tools such as terraform engineers typically run into issues such as execution times, difficulty managing environment promotion and detecting drift when their code base reaches a certain size. Terramate is a tool that is designed to work with your infrastructure as code tool such as Terraform, to work with you and solve those problems. It also comes with a cloud ba...

Lead platform SRE, Viktor Peacock takes us through what is SRE Engineering and why is it important to have an SRE function? Viktor then goes on to explain how you can use SLOs and error budgets to build your alerts and decide what a team should work on.

In this engaging episode of the Form3.tech Engineering Podcast, we explore the essentials of serverless computing with AWS Serverless Ambassador Bojan Zivic. Our guest sheds light on the types of workloads best suited for serverless environments and dispels common myths, especially concerning long-running tasks. The conversation also dives into the comparison between serverless and Kubernetes, dis...

Screenloop have built a set of products that leverage modern AI to give an indepth analysis of interviews. In this episode we dive under the covers into what advances in AI have made this possible and what technology Screenloop use out of the box vs what they chose to build themselves. The team at Screenloop go through the architecture of their platform and how the principle of keeping the archite...

Our  .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.  Get in touch with us via this short form if you'd like to be  a podcast guest. 

Patrycja Wegrzynowicz  is Lead SRE Engineer at  Form3 . She works on reliability and performance of UK payments. She has a wealth of experience, having been a professional software engineer for over 20 years. Her main area of expertise lies in Java, C++, security and performance tuning. Patrycja will be speaking about securing Kubernetes at  Code Europe ,  European Women in Tech ,  KCD Munich ,  G...

Byron Ruth is Director of Developer Relations at Synadia , who are the maintainers of NATS.io . Byron is a long time NATS user and has a background in health tech. He has extensive experience developing data pipelines, integrating data, ETL and building applications. As he got more and more involved with the NATS community, the opportunity to join the team and advocate for the technology he really...

Michael Kerrisk is a Linux expert and runs a Linux System Programming course , which is a very popular course for Form3 engineers. He started working with UNIX, the predecessor of Linux, and has used this knowledge in his Linux courses. Linux was roughly a re-implementation of the UNIX kernel that had been writted more than 20 years before at Bell Laboratories. His primary area of focus is not the...

Moritz Johner is a Senior Software Engineer at Form3 . He has roughly 10 years experience in the tech industry. He comes from a non-conventional background, having studied Media Technology in University. He has worked in a variety of industries, including web agencies, startups and consulting. He is also a Linux Foundation trainer for Kubernetes . He joined Form3 a year ago and works on providing...

Kaspar Von Grünberg is the CEO and founder of Humanitec . Kaspar is passionate for platform engineering and been building platforms at multiple companies. In 2019, he started building the commercial and open-source products for Internal Developer Platforms, including growing communities at platformengineering.org and PlatformCon . His mission is to consolidate tooling and education for modern inte...

Alexandra Forsberg is a Talent Acquisition Lead at Form3 . Alexandra co-leads Form3's Engineering hiring across the UK, Europe, Argentina and Canada. She is currently leading a team of experienced Talent partners. Alexandra joined the business in 2018 and has had the privilege of growing Form3's Product, Engineering and Security departments. She has a background in agency recruitment, but is passi...

Dragan Stepanović is a Senior Principal Engineer at Talabat . Dragan has experience working at different sizes of companies, from small to large corporates. He became interested in Extreme Programming (XP) early on in his career. Then, he started diving into architecture, Domain Driven Design (DDD) and LEAN as tools to enable engineers to maximise their throughput for their stakeholders. Renato Ro...

Kevin Holditch is Head of Platform Engineering at Form3 . Kevin leads and looks after the Platform Engineering teams, who have been working on the Form3 multi-cloud platform. Our  .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.  Get in touch with us via this sh...

Jordan Van Dyk is a Senior Software Developer on the Tooling Team at Form3 . Two of the major projects he's working on are k8s-promoter and a variety of GitHub actions tooling. Based in Canada, Jordan has been at Form3 since November 2021. Our  .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engin...

Natan Yellin is the CEO of Robusta Dev . He has a background as an engineer and has been tackling the challenges of the business world in his role as CEO. Make sure explore these excellent resources to learn more from Natan: Common Kubernetes Mistakes - CPU and Memory Requests The Robusta YouTube channel Stop using CPU limits on Kubernetes Kubernetes is the POSIX of the cloud Our  .tech series inv...

Evelina Vrabie is an Engineering Manager at Hopin . She is an engineering leader with over 15 years of experience, with a strong entrepreneurial, management and technical background. In her, Master's degree she explored the use of artificial intelligence in work therapy for high performance environments. Her work culminated in co-founding Touco Labs , a FinTech with the purpose of helping personal...

Leah Cohen is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at School of SOS . She has a background as an entrepreneur, developer and is now in charge of building the platform and leading the technical team at School of SOS. Our  .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3...

Arnaud Lauret is currently working on the Postman Open Technology team. The team educates engineers and organisations to take advantage of APIs. Arnaud shares his knowledge on his blog apihandyman.io and has also written the book "The Design of Web APIs" . Our  .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into...