The InfoQ Podcast

Feb 16 2025 308 ep. 33 mins 11.4k
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Software engineers, architects and team leads have found inspiration to drive change and innovation in their team by listening to the weekly InfoQ Podcast. They have received essential information that helped them validate their software development map. We have achieved that by interviewing some of the top CTOs, engineers and technology directors from companies like Uber, Netflix and more. Over 1,200,000 downloads in the last 3 years.

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Facilitating Software Architecture with Andrew Harmel-Law

Feb 16 2025 37 mins  
In this episode, Thomas Betts speaks with Andrew Harmel-Law about his new book, Facilitating Software Architecture: Empowering Teams to Make Architectural Decisions. The conversation includes a discussion of what constitutes an architecturally significant decision, how the practice of architecture is evolving, and how architects have a role to facilitate software architecture, rath

Your Software Will Fail, It is How You Recover That Matters: A Conversation with Randy Shoup

Feb 13 2025 60 mins  
In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke with Randy Shoup about how to build resilient systems. We discuss why it is a serious mistake to fail to acknowledge that software’s interaction with itself and the real world produces fragility. Therefore, software systems must be built to be resilient to that fragility. We also discuss where to use workflows, orchestration or choreography,

Dissecting the Intelligence of AI with Avraham Poupko

Feb 10 2025 34 mins  
In this episode, Thomas Betts speaks with Avraham Poupko. Avraham believes software architects will not be replaced by Generative AI or LLMs. They will be replaced by software architects that know how to leverage Generative AI and LLMs. Their discussion compares LLM training with how humans learn, leading to better understanding of how architects can use GenAI effectively. Read a

Apoorva Joshi on LLM Application Evaluation and Performance Improvements

Jan 29 2025 30 mins  
In this podcast, Apoorva Joshi, Senior AI Developer Advocate at MongoDB, discusses how to evaluate software applications that use the Large Language Models or LLMs and how to improve the performance of LLM based applications. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3WEppT6 Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news

Building Green Software with Anne Currie and Sara Bergman

Jan 13 2025 44 mins  
What Does It Mean to Be Green in IT? That's the question that begins chapter one in Building Green Software. In this episode, Thomas Betts is joined by two of the book's authors, Anne Currie and Sara Bergman. The discussion covers general themes and digs into some practical advice for all software practitioners. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4abd12h Subscrib

Susan Shu Chang on Bridging Foundational Machine Learning and Generative AI

Jan 06 2025 30 mins  
Live from the QCon San Francisco Conference, we are talking with Susan Shu Chang, Principal Data Scientist at Elastic. Chang shares insights on bridging foundational machine learning with generative AI, emphasizing the importance of deploying ML models effectively, leveraging collaborative tools for prototyping, and aligning team roles with the ML life cycle to create scalable AI s

Key Trends from 2024: Cell-based Architecture, DORA & SPACE, LLM & SLM, Cloud Databases and Portals

Dec 30 2024 51 mins  
In this year-in-review episode, Daniel Bryant, along with InfoQ podcast hosts Thomas Betts, Shane Hastie, Srini Penchikala, and Renato Losio, reflect on the trends and developments of 2024 across key domains: architecture, culture and methods, AI and data engineering, and cloud and DevOps. The conversation covers the rise of AI as a ubiquitous enabler, the growing focus on green so

Generally AI: Time to Travel

Dec 23 2024 30 mins  
In this special episode, Roland and Anthony meet at QCon San Francisco to discuss Time and Travel. Roland presents three case studies where temporal misunderstandings in data science led to poor predictive performance. Anthony tells the story of how the first Transcontinental Railroad shortened travel times between the East and West Coasts of the United States, and how some practic

InfoQ Java Trends Report 2024 - Discussing Insights with Ixchel Ruiz and Gunnar Morling

Dec 18 2024 52 mins  
In this episode, Ixchel Ruiz, Senior Software Developer at Karakun, and Gunnar Morling, Software Engineer at Decodable, sat down with podcast host Michael Redlich, Lead Editor of the Java topic at InfoQ, and discussed the recent publication of the InfoQ Java Trends Report. Topics covered included: the advantages of the Java six-month release cadence; Project Lilliput and compact ob

Denys Linkov on Micro Metrics for LLM System Evaluation

Dec 16 2024 24 mins  
Live from the QCon San Francisco Conference, we are talking with Denys Linkov, Head of Machine Learning at Voiceflow. Linkov shares insights on using micro metrics to refine large language models (LLMs), highlighting the importance of granular evaluation, continuous iteration, and rigorous prompt engineering to create reliable and user-focused AI systems. Read a transcript of this