Podcasts

Jonas Bonér on the Actor Model, Akka, Reactive Programming, Microservices and Distributed Systems

Jonas Boner, CTO of LightBend and creator Akka, discusses using Akka when developing distributed systems. He talks about the Actor Model, and how every Microservice needs to be viewed as a system to be successful.

Neha Batra - Pivotal Labs Pair Programming

In this week’s podcast Neha Batra has taken time to discuss about pair programming and techniques to get started with the practice as well as tips for implementing it on your team. Neha also touches on vulnerability based trust and how it can help effectively build a trusting team environment.

Chris Richardson on Domain-Driven Microservices Design

In this week’s podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Chris Richardson, a developer, architect, Java Champion and author of POJOs in Action. Before his workshop on Microservices w/ Spring Boot and Docker at QCon San Francisco 2016, Richardson took time to discuss his ideas on how to use DDD and CQRS concepts as a guide for implementing a robust microservices architecture.

Keith Adams on the Architecture of Slack, Using MySql, Edge Caching, & the Backend Messaging Server

In this week’s podcast, Wes Reisz talks to Keith Adams, chief architect at Slack. Prior he was an engineer at Facebook where he worked on the search type live backend, and is well-known for the HipHop VM. Adams presented How Slack Works at QCon SanFrancisco 2016.

Haley Tucker on Responding to Failures in Playback Features at Netflix

In this week’s podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Haley Tucker, a Senior Software Engineer on the Playback Features team at Netflix. While at QCon San Francisco 2016, Tucker told some production war stories about trying to deliver content to 65 million members.