The InfoQ Podcast

GraphQL can be a great choice for client to server communication, but it requires investment to maximize its potential. Netflix operates a very large, Federated GraphQL platform. Like any distributed system, this has some benefits, but also creates additional challenges. In this episode, Tejas Shikhare, explains the pros and cons of scaling GraphQL adoption. Read a transcript of this interview: ht...

Everyone likes the idea of building something new. So much freedom. But what about making changes after you have users? In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Brandon Byars about how you can evolve your API without versioning, a topic he spoke about at QCon San Francisco. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3jONh63 Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: http...

In this special year-end wrap-up podcast Thomas Betts, Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Srini Penchikala, and Daniel Bryant discuss what they have seen in 2022 and muse on what they hope to see in 2023. Topics explored included: the benefits of architecture decision records (ADRs), the role of Staff Plus engineers, treating platforms as a product, the importance of sustainability and green IT, and the nee...

This is a re-post from April 2022. 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....

This is a re-post from September 2022. In this episode of The InfoQ Podcast, we will discuss some of the .NET Trends for 2022. Today we will focus on the latest .NET developments related to User Interface and Communication. Our panelist guests for this discussion are Irina Scurtu, Microsoft MVP and International Speaker, and François Tanguay, CEO at Uno Platform. Read a transcript of this intervie...

Not long ago, only programmers cared about APIs. Those days are behind us, and now companies need to manage their APIs as they would any other software they provide to customers. In this episode, Deepa Goyal discusses how to manage an API as a product, and how that impacts all members of the two development teams that interact with an API. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3GP1h9...

When building a distributed system, we have to consider many aspects of the network. This has led to many tools to help software developers improve performance, optimize requests, or increase observability. Service meshes, sidecars, eBPF, layer three, layer four, layer seven, it can all be a bit overwhelming. In this podcast, Jim Barton explains some of the fundamentals of modern service meshes, a...

Susanne Kaiser is a software consultant working with teams on microservice adoption. Recently, she’s brought together Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping, and Team Topologies into a conversation about helping teams adopt a fast flow of change. Today on the podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Susanne about why she feels these three approaches to dealing with software complexity are so complementary. T...

In this episode, Marco Valtas, technical lead for cleantech and sustainability at ThoughtWorks North America, discusses the Principles of Green Software Engineering. The principles help guide software decisions by considering the environmental impact. The principles are intended for everyone involved in software, and emphasize that sustainability, on its own, is a reason to justify the work. Read...

Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with long-time open-source contributor and startup founder Matt Butcher. Matt is the CEO of Fermyon Technologies and is at the forefront of the Web Assembly (Wasm) work being done in the cloud. The two discuss Matt’s belief we’re at the start of a 3rd wave of cloud computing, the state of the Wasm ecosystem, and what Fermyon’s doing in the space. The co...

Continuous profiling is collecting profiling data (think things like memory and CPU) all the time/throughout time in your production environment. Today on the podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Frederic Branczyk, CEO of PolarSignals, a startup formed to enable continuous profiling leveraging eBPF. Wes and Frederic discuss the origin story of Polar Signals, eBPF (the enabling technology used by Polar S...

In this episode of The InfoQ Podcast, we will discuss some of the .NET Trends for 2022. Today we will focus on the latest .NET developments related to User Interface and Communication. Our panelist guests for this discussion are Irina Scurtu, Microsoft MVP and International Speaker, and François Tanguay, CEO at Uno Platform. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3BWHZvM Subscribe to...

We are talking with Philip Howes about how to get value from your ML model as fast as possible. We will also talk about how to improve your deployed model, and what tools you can use when setting up ML projects. We conclude by discussing how stake holders should be involved, and what makes up a complete ML team. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Bwgqcv Subscribe to our newslette...

In this episode, Shawn Wang (swyx), head of developer experience at Airbyte, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed the rise of remote development environments. Topics covered included, whether remote development experiences are good enough to see the death of local(host) development, what a wishlist might look like for the ultimate developer experience, and how cloud nati...

There have been a lot of innovations and developments in AI and ML space since last year. In this podcast, InfoQ’s AI, ML and Data Engineering editorial team discuss the latest trends that our readers should find interesting to learn and apply in their own organizations when these trends become mainstream technologies. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3QxoZJ1 Subscribe to our ne...

In this episode, Marco Valtas, technical lead for cleantech and sustainability at ThoughtWorks North America, discusses the Principles of Green Software Engineering. The principles help guide software decisions by considering the environmental impact. The principles are intended for everyone involved in software, and emphasize that sustainability, on its own, is a reason to justify the work. Read...

Live from the venue of the QCon London Conference we are talking with Omar Sanseviero about Hugging Face, the limitations and biases of machine learning models, the carbon emitted when training large scale machine learning models, and democratizing good ML practices. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3yTMFjc Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit...

Susanne Kaiser is a software consultant working with teams on microservice adoption. Recently, she’s brought together Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping, and Team Topologies into a conversation about helping teams adopt a fast flow of change. Today on the podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Susanne about why she feels these three approaches to dealing with software complexity are so complementary. T...

When talking about edge proxy use cases, North-South is a term that is often used to talk about traffic entering a network perimeter. Envoy proxy is often used directly or as part of many other solutions when implementing these use cases. Today on the podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Matt Klein about a recent announcement that Envoy Proxy will partner with many well-known companies in the space, inc...

In this episode, Glenn Engstrand discusses a structured approach to managing tech debt in a microservices architecture. By taking a proactive, long-term approach, all stakeholders are able to talk about, plan for, and safely reduce technical debt. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3NS0ZiG Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/24x3IVq - The So...

Charles Humble talks to Kim Lewandowski and Michael Lieberman about the SLSA framework. They discuss why the software supply chain is under growing attack, and explore the key ideas in SLSA. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/396COOm Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: www.infoq.com/software-a...

Live from the venue of the QCon London Conference we are talking with Vitor Pellegrino and Anderson Parra. They will talk about how SeatGeek is handing ticket on-sales where a large amount of users use their service in a short time, and which engineering challenges this brings. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3MSIB8y Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter:...

Wesley Reisz talks to Oren Eini about the history of RavenDB. RavenDB is a fully transactional NoSQL Document database that implements both CP and AP guarantees at different times. During the conversation, the two discuss those CP/AP distributed systems challenges, the choice of implementation language (C#), and the current plans for RavenDB 6.0, which includes a server-side sharding implementatio...

Live from the venue of the QCon London Conference we are talking with Casie Breviu. She will talk about how she got started with AI, and what machine learning tools can accelerate your work when deploying models on a wide range of devices. We will also talk about GitHub Copilot and how AI can help you be a better programmer. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3wB5mHc Subscribe to...

Implementing microservices is really challenging, and there are many ways to fail. Holly Cummins has identified seven ways to fail at microservices, and on this episode of the podcast Thomas Betts asks her to describe them, and how they can be avoided. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3KX9B5k Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/24x3IVq - T...