Product Engineering

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 Olaf Molenveld Julian Wood Source GOTO podcast 🚀 The Last Mile: Why Your CI/CD Pipeline is the Real Product In the world of software development, writing code has never been easier. With AI assistants and vibe coding becoming the norm, developers can spin up scripts in minutes. But as Julian Wood and Olaf Molenveld (Technology Advisor at CircleCI) discussed in a recent episode of GoTo Unscripted, writing code is only half the battle. If you can’t get that software in front of a customer safely and securely, it’s effectively useless. ...

Presenters Goutam Verma Expedia Source grpConf India 2025 Unleash Your gRPC Services: Securely & Confidently on Kubernetes with APK! 🚀 gRPC services are powerful, fast, and production-ready. They’ve revolutionized how microservices communicate with their efficiency and performance. But let’s be honest, deploying and exposing these high-performance services to the outside world – external users, partners, or even other internal teams – often feels like navigating a minefield. How do you maintain control, security, and scalability without burdening your backend teams? ...

Presenters Abhishek Agrawal Madhav Bissa Source grpConf India 2025 Unlocking gRPC’s Secrets: Your Ultimate Guide to Observability! 🚀 Ever felt like you’re flying blind when your gRPC applications hit a snag? You’re not alone! Understanding the inner workings of distributed systems, especially those powered by gRPC, can feel like trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded. But what if you could have X-ray vision into every request, every connection, and every potential bottleneck? ...

Presenters Sailesh Singh Prashubha Pathak Source grpConf India 2025 🚀 Scaling gRPC: Battle-Tested Lessons from the Production Frontlines Moving a system from a local development environment to a high-scale production ecosystem changes everything. While running gRPC locally feels like a breeze, operating at scale means managing high throughput, low latency, and high availability across multi-region deployments. In this post, we synthesize real-world insights from experts who have spent 5+ years navigating the trenches of system administration and microservices architecture. We will explore what actually breaks when the traffic hits and how to build resilient systems that stay upright under pressure. 🦾 ...