Building Resilient Event-Driven Microservices in Financial Systems with Muzeeb Mohammad

Presenters Thomas Betts Muzeeb Mohammad Source InfoQ podcast Navigating Tomorrow鈥檚 Tech: Unlocking Speed, Security, and AI in Financial Services 馃殌 If you鈥檙e a senior engineer, architect, or technical leader constantly scanning the horizon for the next big thing, you know the tech landscape is a whirlwind. QCON London, a conference focused on deep practical insights from senior practitioners, is where many look to stay ahead. Recently, on the InfoQ podcast, host Thomas Betts sat down with Muzeeb Mohammad, a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at JP Morgan Chase, to dive into the fascinating world of designing secure, resilient, and high-performance distributed microservices for large-scale financial platforms. Their conversation illuminates how financial giants embrace cutting-edge architectures and AI, proving that even the most established industries are ready for radical transformation. ...

February 16, 2026 路 6 min

The Craft of Software Architecture in the Age of AI Tools

Presenters Shweta Vohra Grady Booch Source InfoQ podcast Navigating the AI Revolution: The Evolving Craft of Software Architecture 馃殌 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鈥檚 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. ...

February 11, 2026 路 6 min

Technology, Societal Collapse, and the Growth Death Cult | Gerry McGovern

Presenters Gerry McGovern Ga毛l Duez Source Green IO podcast 馃實 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 Ga毛l Duez sits down with Gerry McGovern, the author of the eye-opening book World Wide Waste. ...

February 10, 2026 路 6 min

Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson

Presenters Thomas Betts Madelyn Olson Source InfoQ podcast From Redis to Valkey: Engineering the Future of In-Memory Data 馃殌 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鈥檛 just complain鈥攖hey 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. ...

February 9, 2026 路 5 min

Dial Once, Scale Infinitely: Production-Ready gRPC Without the Mess - Aparna Prabhu & Saubhik Singh

Presenters Aparna Prabhu Saubhik Singh Source grpConf India 2025 From Vanilla gRPC to DRPC: Scaling Microservices at DigitalOcean 馃殌 Ever wondered how cloud giants handle the immense complexity of running thousands of services, all while keeping things lightning-fast and reliable? Today, we鈥檙e 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! ...

February 4, 2026 路 5 min