Podcasts

Lessons Learned from the CrowdStrike Incident: InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2024 Preview

In this podcast episode, speakers from the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2024 discuss the recent CrowdStrike incident, which triggered widespread outages and highlighted vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure. The panel shares personal experiences and emphasizes the implications of cloud dependency, and the lessons learned about risk management and automation in organizations.

Communication Patterns for Architects and Engineers with Jacqui Read

In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Jacqui Read about communication patterns. Similar to software and architecture patterns, these provide guidance for how to improve communication by knowing your audience and what you need to explain to them.

Decentralizing Decision-Making with Shawna Martell & Dan Fike

In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Shawna Martell and Dan Fike about the Navigators program at Carta and how they are finding ways to decentralize decisions and empower individual contributors. The quality of technical decisions is improved, and decisions are reached more quickly because the people involved are close to the relevant context.

Architecture Modernization with Nick Tune

In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Nick Tune, co-author of the book Architecture Modernization - Socio-Technical Alignment of Software, Strategy, and Structure. The discussion includes how to know if it makes sense to invest in an architecture modernization journey, how to get started, what benefits you can expect to achieve, and how to measure the improvements.