.tech podcast by Form3

Jan 23 2025 57 ep. 32 mins 41

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Our new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing developing trends in the development community and shedding light on Form3's own engineering practices.

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EP 57 .tech - Running containers on GCP

Jan 23 2025 24 mins

There are three main options available to run containers on GCP: cloud functions, cloud run and GKE (Kubernetes). Which is the right fit for your workload and what factors should you consider upon making the decision? JB Jean-Baptiste Leroy a customer engineer from GCP and expert on running containers on GCP takes us through the container landscape on GCP. JB informs us on how powe

EP 56 .tech - Pact contract testing

Dec 18 2024 32 mins

Micro service architectures are exploding in popularity, but a tough problem that is often overlooked is to ensure all of the services that depend on each other still work together after a change is made. One solution is to deploy them all to a test environment and run end to end tests which results in very slow feedback cycle and keeps the testing far away from the engineer. Ente

EP55 .tech - Automated Cloud Failure Testing at Form3

Nov 13 2024 27 mins

A common requirement for a modern technology company is to have a DR strategy and to prove that their DR strategy works. Often this is executed using a manual set of tests run annually. This approach has many pitfalls, the biggest of which being that your tests become out of date the minute a change is made to the system. In this episode our host Kevin Holditch interviewed Viktor

EP 54 .tech - Learn to be a tech leader

Jul 18 2024 29 mins

Tech leadership is often something that people find themselves in because they have excelled as an individual contributor, when people first make the leap it is often very hard for them to adjust to the different work patterns and how to manage a team. Sean Hawkridge from Makers, runs leadership programs that teach people how to be great tech leaders. In this episode Sean takes me

EP 53 .tech - Spacelift

Jun 12 2024 27 mins

Spacelift is a platform that adds workflows on top of infrastructure as code tooling. One of its USPs is that it is agnostic to the underlying infrastructure as code tool, so it can be used with Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulomi, to name but a few. This concept becomes super powerful in that you can combine stacks written for different infrastructure as code tools into dependency w

EP 52 .tech - The landscape of hacking

Apr 17 2024 24 mins

Bert Sinnema, expert in defensive security engineering leads us through the hacking landscape today. He answers why hacking groups are starting to target smaller companies and tells us what smaller companies can do to fight back. Bert takes us behind the curtain, in the arms race between the two sides of the hacking war. In a world where the weapons used by both sides are constant

Ep 51 .tech - World of mobile development

Mar 28 2024 32 mins

Head of mobile from NewDay, Tris Bates, joined Kevin Holditch to give us the grand tour of the world of mobile development, there is a lot more to think about than initially meets the eye. What is the best way to develop an application for both iOS and Android? Can you use a single code base or is the only option to rewrite the whole application for both platforms? How do you test

Ep 50 .tech - Reducing friction with terramate

Feb 15 2024 28 mins

When using infrastructure as code tools such as terraform engineers typically run into issues such as execution times, difficulty managing environment promotion and detecting drift when their code base reaches a certain size. Terramate is a tool that is designed to work with your infrastructure as code tool such as Terraform, to work with you and solve those problems. It also come

Ep 49 .tech - SRE Engineering at Form3

Jan 17 2024 30 mins

Lead platform SRE, Viktor Peacock takes us through what is SRE Engineering and why is it important to have an SRE function? Viktor then goes on to explain how you can use SLOs and error budgets to build your alerts and decide what a team should work on.

Ep 48 .tech - Serverless patterns and pitfalls

Nov 29 2023 32 mins

In this engaging episode of the Form3.tech Engineering Podcast, we explore the essentials of serverless computing with AWS Serverless Ambassador Bojan Zivic. Our guest sheds light on the types of workloads best suited for serverless environments and dispels common myths, especially concerning long-running tasks. The conversation also dives into the comparison between serverless and