Podcasts

Open Policy Agent (OPA) with the Project’s Co-Creators

Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz speaks with Tim Hinrichs and Torin Sandall (two of the Open Policy Agent Project creators). The three talk about the project, including things like architecture, origin, community, the policy language (Rego), and, of course, performance. The podcast is an introduction to how OPA can is used across the stack for policy decisioning.

Matthew Clark on the BBC’s Migration from LAMP to the Cloud with AWS Lambda, React and CI/CD

Matthew Clark and Charles Humble discuss BBC Digital’s migration from a classic LAMP stack to AWS Lambda and React. They talk about: the new architecture for the BBC’s online services; the challenges of using Lambda functions including cold start-up, function chaining, debugging and setting the memory profile; the role of DevOps and CI/CD; and the nature of a cloud transformation.

Clare Liguori on Automating Safe and “Hands-Off” Deployments at AWS

In this podcast Clare Liguori, principal software engineer at Amazon Web Services, sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant and discussed the implementation of continuous delivery at AWS, the use of automation and deploying to multiple test environments, and the benefits of canary releasing.

Anubhav Mishra and Nic Jackson on Platforms, Developer Workflows, and HashiCorp Waypoint

In this podcast, Anubhav Mishra and Nic Jackson from HashiCorp sat down with InfoQ podcast host Daniel Bryant. Topics discussed included: the benefits and challenges of creating application platforms in the cloud, the need for effective developer workflows, and the role of the new HashiCorp Waypoint tool and service meshes within workflows