In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Pamela Fox, a cloud advocate in Python at Microsoft. They discuss several ChatGPT sample apps that Pamela helps maintain. These include a very popular integration of ChatGPT with Azure OpenAI and Cognitive Search for querying enterprise data with a chat interface. Pamela also covers some best practices for getting started with ChatGPT apps. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/47wmE9r Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter...

In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Micha “Mies” Hernandez van Leuffen about observability and incidents, and the roles of developers, SREs and other team members. One challenge is knowing what metrics to track in the first place. A developer-first approach to observability means focusing on metrics that are specific to your application. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/48RJNEO Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]:...

In this episode, Adam Jacob, CEO and co-founder at System Initiative, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed the evolution and potential future directions of DevOps and managing infrastructure. Topics covered included the challenges remaining within the DevOps movement, how to model and manage infrastructure, and how to increase collaboration between developers and operators. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3ZzWCiM Subscribe to the Software...

In this episode, Tracy Miranda, a leader in the secure software supply chain domain, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed the current state of the industry. Topics covered included the benefits of SBOMs and SLSA, getting started with generating SBOMs, and how developers should work with leadership when evaluating their organization’s security posture. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3EFWiFr Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter...

In today's episode Thomas Betts talks to Mark Fussell and Yaron Schneider about the Distributed Applications Runtime, Dapr. In the latest InfoQ Architecture and Design Trends Report, Dapr is part of the early adopter ideas of design for portability and cloud-bound applications. Dapr provides APIs that abstract away the infrastructure details for modern applications, providing secure, best practice implementations that work across any cloud, framework, and language. Read a transcript of this...

In this episode of the podcast will be discussing the current trends in the domain of AI, ML and Data Engineering as part of the process of creating our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of the topics to pay attention to and also help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/47YpXqY Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]:...

In this episode, Roi Ravhon, co-founder and CEO of Finout, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed the emergence and industry adoption of FinOps. The conversation covers topics such as the benefits of adopting FinOps, the typical journey of an organization interested in learning more about cloud costs, and a range of cultural and tooling required for a successful implementation. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3sBkZ3i Subscribe to the Software...

In today's episode Thomas Betts talks to Lily Mara, Engineering Manager at OneSignal in San Mateo, California. She manages the infrastructure services team, which is responsible for in-house services used by other OneSignal engineering teams. They will discuss how to build a reliable Kafka data processing pipeline. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3ONTM63 Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]:...

In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ will be discussing the current trends in the domain of cloud and DevOps as part of the process of creating our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of the topics to pay attention to and also help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies. In addition to the report and the trends graph available on InfoQ.com, this podcast is a chance to hear our...

Live from the venue of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), we are talking with Ben Dart about the trends in robotics. In this podcast, Ben and Roland discuss the latest robotics technology as showcased at ICRA, and discuss where this technology is on the hype cycle. They also discuss how to get started with robotics yourself. Read a transcript of this interview: bit.ly/3XGQAMh Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]:...

In Evolutionary Architectures, the book she co-authored, Dr. Rebecca Parsons described the principles and practices that allow architecture to evolve. In this episode of the podcast, we talk about those principles, how they’ve changed between the first and second editions of the book, and what changes we might see in the next few years. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3IUg5U6 Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]:...

Live from the venue of the QCon London Conference, we are talking with Mehrnoosh Sameki. In this podcast, Mehrnoosh discusses the importance of responsible AI, the principles behind it, and the challenges in ensuring fairness and transparency in AI systems. She also highlights various open-source tools and approaches for developers to incorporate responsible AI practices into their machine learning models and ensure better decision-making and ethical outcomes. Read a transcript of this...

Commiting to the journey of running in the cloud is quite as simple as moving your code or writing a new application on a cloud offering. Between a diverse service catalog, greater developer autonomy, rapid provisioning, surprise billing, and changing security requirements, you might find that hosting applications on the cloud does not make the most of the cloud. In this episode of the podcast, Rosemary Wang talks about the patterns and practices that help you move from cloud-hosted to...

Live from the venue of the QCon London Conference, we are talking with Hien Luu, head of ML Platform at DoorDash. In this podcast, Hien discusses the main principles and strategies that DoorDash uses to scale and evolve MLOps, as well as some tips for those who want to get started with MLOps. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3pkOiFL Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]:...

Live from the venue of the QCon London Conference, we are talking with Leslie Miley, a technical advisor to the CTO at Microsoft. In this podcast, Leslie shares his insights on AI bias, sustainability, and the potential impact of AI on society. He emphasizes the importance of understanding and mitigating the harm these technologies can cause, while also discussing the responsibilities of developers, tech companies, and individuals in ensuring a more responsible and ethical approach to AI...

Live from the venue of the QCon London Conference we are talking with Tomáš Neubauer. He will talk about Quix Streams, an open-source Python library that simplifies real-time machine learning pipelines. In his presentation, Tomáš will discuss various architecture designs, their pros and cons, and demonstrate a real use case of detecting a cyclist crash using Quix Streams and a TensorFlow model. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3L87Bck Subscribe to the Software Architects’...

In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff will be discussing the current trends in software architecture and design, as part of the process to create our annual trends report. These reports provide the InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of the topics to pay attention to, and also help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies. In addition to the report and the trends graph available on InfoQ.com, this podcast is a chance to hear our conversation and...

What makes QCon software conferences stand out from other events? The top reason has to be the content, which focuses on innovator and early adopter trends, and presenters who are expert practitioners, sharing their real-world stories. Deciding what topics to include in the conference starts with the QCon programming committee. In this episode, we're going backstage to get an understanding of how QCon London came together, and why the trends being featured are important. Read a transcript...

In this podcast, Srini Penchikala spoke with Dan Benjamin, the CEO of Dig Security on three main topics: Cloud Data Security, Data Security Posture Management, Data Detection and Response (DDR). Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3KKXKe3 Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=architectnl Upcoming Events: QCon London...

Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Colin McCabe about Apache Kafka’s KRaft mode. Colin is a principal engineer with Confluent working on the scalability and performance of Apache Kafka. KRaft mode is the new operating mode of Apache Kafka released with 3.3.1 and is the new target architecture for Kafka metadata (the current roadmap will completely deprecate Zookeeper in Kafka in the 4.0 release). On the podcast, Wes and Colin discuss KRaft mode and what it means for the Kafka...

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: https://bit.ly/3ZxrTm6 Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter:...

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: https://bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]:...

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 need to be deliberate with culture design. Read a transcript of this interview:...

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. There are two major components of these reports. The written report is published on InfoQ.com,...

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 interview: https://bit.ly/3Wdatsx Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter:...