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Intended for architects and senior developers.
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Startup Software Architecture - You Never Really Throw it Away: a Conversation with David Gudeman
In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with David Gudeman about software architecture for startups. The discussion starts by illuminating how to make decisions with imperfect information, and how uncertainty and ambiguity flow through all aspects of developing the architecture. This leads to analyzing how the architect must focus on both product strategy and technical decisions.
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Somtochi Onyekwere on Distributed Data Systems, Eventual Consistency and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
In this podcast, InfoQ spoke with Somtochi Onyekwere on recent developments in distributed data systems, how to achieve fast, eventually consistent replication across distributed nodes, and how Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDTs) can help with conflict resolution when managing data.
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2025 Key Trends: AI Workflows, Architectural Complexity, Sociotechnical Systems & Platform Products
In this end-of-year panel, the InfoQ podcast hosts reflect on AI’s impact on software delivery, the growing importance of sociotechnical systems, evolving cloud realities, and what 2026 may bring.
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Platform Engineering for AI: Scaling Agents and MCP at LinkedIn
QCon AI New York Chair Wes Reisz talks with LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal and Prince Valluri about enabling AI agents at enterprise scale. They discuss how platform teams orchestrate secure, multi-agentic systems, the role of MCP, the use of foreground and background agents, improving developer experience, and reducing toil.
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Effective Error Handling: a Uniform Strategy for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
Jenish Shah, a back-end engineer focused on distributed systems at Netflix, provides more insights into how to handle failures in a distributed systems setup. He shares details on how he built a library that handles exceptions uniformly, regardless of the underlying communication protocol.
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About this Podcast
Discussions on intentional corporate culture and software management approaches.
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The Technical Founder's Path: Code, Leadership, and Balance
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Trisha Ballakur about transitioning from coder to startup CEO, balancing technical leadership with business development, and avoiding burnout on the journey.
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Culture Through Tension: Leading Interdisciplinary Teams with Nick Gillian
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nick Gillian about building cross-functional teams for physical AI innovation, growing engineering culture through positive tensions, and navigating the journey from technical execution to organizational influence.
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Why Engineering Culture Is Everything: Building Teams That Actually Work
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Gonzalo (Glo) Maldonado about the central role of engineering culture, measuring team health through qualitative metrics, and learning from other engineering disciplines.
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Effective Mentorship and Remote Team Culture with Gilad Shoham
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Gilad Shoham about building effective mentorship relationships, leading fully distributed teams and the evolving role of developers in an AI-augmented future.
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Leading from Any Position: Richard Bown on Humane Engineering Organizations
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Richard Bown about transitioning from management back to individual contributor roles, leading from any position, and creating humane engineering organizations.
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