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Presenters Nick Coult Robbie Kohler David Anderson Janak Agarwal Akshatha Laxmi Jeevan Dongre Source GOTO podcast 🚀 Beyond the Hype: How AI Agents and Serverless are Redefining Software Engineering In a recent unscripted panel at the GoTo Conference, some of the brightest minds in tech gathered to pull back the curtain on how Generative AI (GenAI) and Serverless architecture are actually being used on the front lines. Moderated by Jeevan Dongre, the panel featured Nick Coult (Director at AWS), Robbie Kohler (VP at Yum!), David Anderson (Author and Architect at GP), Janak Agarwal (Product Manager at AWS), and Akshatha Laxmi (Software Engineer). ...

Presenters Thomas Betts Muzeeb Mohammad Source InfoQ podcast Navigating Tomorrow’s Tech: Unlocking Speed, Security, and AI in Financial Services 🚀 If you’re 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. ...

Presenters Sam Keen Max Kirchoff Source GOTO podcast Welcome to the GoTo Podcast Book Club! 🚀 Today, we’re diving deep into the world of Clean Architecture in Python with none other than its brilliant author, Sam Keen, in a captivating chat with GoTo’s Max Kirchoff. Get ready to transform your approach to Python development! Sam’s Journey to Clean Architecture 💡 Sam Keen is a seasoned software developer with nearly 30 years of experience, spanning the entire web era. He started his career in Java, then explored PHP, rode the Ruby on Rails train, and for the last 8 to 10 years, Python has been his daily go-to for backend web development. Sam has worked across a diverse range of companies, from small startups to giants like Nike, Lululemon, and AWS (where he spent six and a half years). ...

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. ...