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 stronger, what can we do to stay safe?

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 device combinations? What about users who use accessibility settings such 2x font? Tris expertly...

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 based observability platform that gives you a lens into what is happening across all of your...

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, discussing their respective efficiencies in cloud computing. A key focus is the security aspect of...

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 architecture as simple as possible has lead them to their design.

Cyryl is Rustacean and Head of Engineering at Form3. They join us to discuss some of the fundamental language concepts of Rust by relating them to their Go counterparts. They cover OOP, garbage collection, tooling and shares what their opinion on the future of the Rust community is.

Patrycja, Artur and Marcin are engineers at Form3 and some of our most accomplished speakers. They join us to discuss their motivations for taking up the challenge of becoming conference speakers, tell us how to find events to speak at and share their best advice for preparing engaging talks. They offer advice for new and experienced speakers alike.

Byron is the Director of Developer Relations at Synadia. He explains what event-driven architectures are and how they can help build more resilient systems. Then, he covers the fundamentals of NATS and gives us a peek into upcoming features, which include the new Synadia Control Plane project.

Michael Kerrisk is a Linux expert and trainer. He joins us to explain what containers are and deep dive into the four core components of containers: namespaces, capabilities, cgroups and seccomp. He also draws parallels on how they are used by Docker to power container systems as we know them today.

Moritz Johner and Lucas Severo Alves are maintainers for the popular External Secrets Operator open-source project. They join us to share their open-source journeys and teach us how to get secrets management right. They also give us an overview of how their project can make your life as a developer easier.

Kaspar Von Grünberg is a the CEO and founder of Humanitec. He joins us to discuss what an Internal Developer Platform is and what to focus on when you're building your own. Finally, he provides an overview of Humanitec's platform, which provides open-source tools you can use when you're building your own IDP.

Alexandra Forsberg is a Talent Acquisition Lead at Form3. She joins us to share tips for landing your next remote job. Alexandra covers all aspects of the interviewing process including where to find remote opportunities, how to stand out to hiring managers and how to prepare for a remote interview. Finally, she shares Form3's approach to the interview process

Dragan Stepanović is a Senior Principal Engineer at Talabat. He joins Renato Rodrigues de Araujo, Senior Software Engineer at Form3, to discuss asynchronous pull request based code reviews. Dragan shares a study he conducted on the topic and discusses the advantages of synchronous team collaboration.

Kevin Holditch is Head of Platform Engineering at Form3. He joins us to share the interesting problems the Platform Engineering team work on and how the Form3 payments platform was built. Then, he explains why the team decided to build a multi-cloud platform across three clouds and presents an overview of how the technologies behind this exciting project are configured.

Jordan Van Dyk is Form3's first Canada based engineer. He joins us to share why he chose to work at Form3, what his interview experience was and what a typical day looks like for him on the Tooling team. Then, he shares how his team works and makes recommendations for how highly distributed teams can successfully work together.

Natan Yellin joins us to his insights on the challenges of running software at scale, which now involves maintaining more complex system architecture than ever. Then, he walks us through the open-source tool Robusta Dev and how it can make running systems on Kubernetes easier!

Evelina Vrabie joins us to share her insights into measuring the success of engineering teams. She tells us about the role of an engineering manager as well as the four types of success. Then, she walks us through how to measure productivity and high performance through research-based frameworks.

Leah Cohen from School of SOS joins us to share her insights into how tech leaders can support diversity in tech. She tells us about what diversity in tech is and why we should care about it. Then, she explains two key solutions to improving diversity: target the next generation and support transitioning into careers in tech.

Arnaud Lauret aka. "The API handyman" is an OpenAPI Lead at Postman. He joins us to share his expertise on API design and maintenance, including tips for evolving APIs and how the OpenAPI specification can make the lives of API designers easier.

Sally Goble, Engineering Manager at accuRx, joins us to tell us all about growing engineering teams, how to support engineering career progression, as well as the importance of salary transparency.

Sam Owens joins us to tell us all about our approach to testing at Form3. He gives us an overview of our testing strategy, the different types of tests we run and explains how to use Pact for testing your services. Finally, he tells us why he prefers BDD style tests.

Liam and Owen from Aqua Security join us to share their work on the open source static analysis tool, tfsec. They give us an introduction to infrastructure as code with terraform, then explain what are the common problems they are trying to solve with tfsec. Finally, they tell us all about getting started with tfsec and getting involved with the project.

Everyone is frustrated of traditional IT processes of using a ticketing system such as Jira to request access to systems. They are cumbersome and it's hard to verify that the person made the change exactly as requested in the ticket. Travis talks us through how at Teleport they have solved this problem by leveraging infrastructure as code to manage access to all internal systems. He talks us through how you can go about migrating to infrastructure as code and what are some of the gotchas you...