Presenters Shweta Vohra Grady Booch Source InfoQ podcast Navigating the AI Revolution: The Evolving Craft of Software Architecture 🚀 The world of software development is in constant flux, and the advent of AI tools has amplified this change dramatically. As architects and technical leaders, staying ahead of the curve is not just a goal, it’s a necessity. This is precisely why conferences like QCON London are invaluable, offering practical insights from seasoned practitioners to help us make smarter decisions in this rapidly evolving tech landscape. ...

Presenters Gerry McGovern Gaël Duez Source Green IO podcast 🌍 The 99th Day: Why Tech is a Growth Death Cult and How to Find a Way Out You might not think so, but there is a world of wisdom that technologists can learn from indigenous philosophy. In a provocative and deeply moving episode of Green IO, host Gaël Duez sits down with Gerry McGovern, the author of the eye-opening book World Wide Waste. ...

Presenters Thomas Betts Madelyn Olson Source InfoQ podcast From Redis to Valkey: Engineering the Future of In-Memory Data 🚀 In the fast-moving world of software architecture, few events trigger as much immediate action as a major licensing shift. When Redis moved away from its open-source roots in March 2024, the community didn’t just complain—they built. Thomas Betts recently sat down with Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and Principal Engineer at AWS, to discuss how a dedicated group of engineers birthed a new industry standard in just eight days. Beyond the drama of the fork lies a story of deep technical refinement, where modernizing a 2009-era hashmap design led to staggering memory savings and performance gains. ...

Presenters Aparna Prabhu Saubhik Singh Source grpConf India 2025 From Vanilla gRPC to DRPC: Scaling Microservices at DigitalOcean 🚀 Ever wondered how cloud giants handle the immense complexity of running thousands of services, all while keeping things lightning-fast and reliable? Today, we’re diving deep into the world of gRPC and how DigitalOcean has not only adopted it but evolved it into their own robust solution, DRPC. Get ready for a journey from the basics of remote procedure calls to the nitty-gritty of their custom platform! ...

Presenters Sreenithi Sridharan Source grpConf India 2025 Demystifying gRPC: Your High-Speed Highway for Distributed Applications 🚀 Welcome to a fascinating journey into the heart of gRPC, the powerful framework that’s redefining how our applications communicate! If you’re building modern, distributed systems, you’ve likely heard the buzz around gRPC. Today, we’re cutting through the complexity to give you a clear, exciting look at its core, its lifecycle, and the advanced features that make it an industry favorite. ...