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The Forest & The Desert Are Parallel Universes • Kent Beck

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotocph.com

Kent Beck - Software Engineer & Creator of Extreme Programming

RESOURCES
https://bsky.app/profile/kentbeck.bsky.social
https://www.kentbeck.com
https://github.com/KentBeck
https://twitter.com/KentBeck
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentbeck
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/about

ABSTRACT
So close and yet so far. We see similar behaviors in The Forest & The Desert, but with opposite meanings. Similar words but opposite meanings. Superficially similar goals but working out at completely different scales.

What is The Forest? What is The Desert? Why are they so different, despite the similarities? And how can we get from crumbs to cake and stay there? [...]

Download slides and read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3659

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kent Beck • Tidy First? • https://amzn.to/4gscjjK
Kent Beck & Cynthia Andres • Extreme Programming Explained • https://amzn.to/3sBASDG
Kent Beck • Test Driven Development • https://amzn.to/3U4AXLs
Kent Beck, Fowler, John, William, Don & Gamma • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3SFBYbN
Kent Beck • Implementation Patterns • https://amzn.to/3sBlCGL

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AI, Corporate Responsibility & Democratic Legitimacy: Extended Q&A • Joanna Bryson

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This Q&A session was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotocph.com

Joanna Bryson - Professor of Ethics and Technology, Responsible Data Science for Human Development

RESOURCES
https://bsky.app/profile/j2bryson.bsky.social
https://mastodon.social/@j2bryson
https://twitter.com/j2bryson
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryson
https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com

Links
https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en

DESCRIPTION
Joanna Bryson challenges many popular assumptions about AI and AGI. She argues that current generative AI systems are not autonomous intelligences but powerful tools that compress and reproduce human cultural knowledge at scale. While these systems can appear intelligent, they remain dependent on human-created data, corporate incentives, and carefully engineered guardrails. Bryson cautions against anthropomorphizing AI and emphasizes that many concerns about AI stem from misunderstandings about how these systems actually work.

The discussion ultimately centers on responsibility and governance. Bryson argues that transparency, accountability, and democratic oversight matter far more than debates about machine consciousness. Whether discussing AI companions, recommendation algorithms, open-source models, regulation, or AI-assisted software development, her conclusion remains consistent: technology is not destiny. Engineers, companies, policymakers, and citizens all have agency in shaping how AI is deployed, regulated, and integrated into society. [...]

Read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3783

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Chris Miller • Chip War • https://amzn.to/4aBCUKT
Henry Farrell & Abraham Newman • Underground Empire • https://amzn.to/3YdXdGX
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ
Alex Castrounis • AI for People and Business • https://amzn.to/3NYKKTo

The Platform Engineer’s Handbook • Ajay Chankramath & Kaspar von Grünberg

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/451

Ajay Chankramath - Founder & CEO at Platformetrics & Co-Author of "The Platform Engineer’s Handbook"
Kaspar von Grünberg - Founder & CEO at Stealth & Author of "Thinking in Platforms"

RESOURCES
Ajay
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chankramath
https://github.com/achankra
https://x.com/ajchantw
https://chankramath.com
https://platformetrics.com

Kaspar
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kvgruenberg
https://github.com/Kasparvongruenberg
https://kasparvongruenberg.com

Links
https://peh-packt.platformetrics.com

DESCRIPTION
Ajay Chankramath — author of The Platform Engineer’s Handbook — joins Kaspar von Grünberg to unpack why he wrote a 14-chapter, code-first practitioner's guide instead of another theory-heavy platform book. The conversation's core thesis: the reason developers don't adopt platforms isn't a technology gap, it's a product discipline gap — a failure to treat developer experience as a first-class outcome with a real feedback loop. Ajay walks through the book's arc, from Kubernetes and service-mesh foundations through self-service portals to enterprise-grade concerns like policy-as-code and FinOps, and makes a pointed case for building on 100% open-source, vendor-agnostic tooling as a hedge against geopolitical and licensing whiplash.

The most relevant thread for engineers building with AI today: citing a McKinsey finding that only 6% of AI initiatives show real productivity gains, Ajay argues that agentic AI doesn't reduce the need for platform engineering — it raises the stakes. As coding agents become genuine actors in the SDLC rather than tools, IDPs need a new layer for agent context, memory, tool registries, and guardrails, and that layer "must be built, owned, and operated by you," not bought off the shelf.
His conclusion: the differentiator in the AI era isn't which frontier model you use — it's whether your platform foundations are solid enough to make agents safe and productive at all.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ajay Chankramath • The Platform Engineer's Handbook • https://amzn.to/4eCSibM
Ajay Chankramath & Eamonn Ryan • Domain-Driven Platform Engineering • https://amzn.to/3TdiC3J
Chankramath, Cheneweth, Oliver & Alvarez • Effective Platform Engineering • https://amzn.to/3OnxN8i
Kaspar von Grünberg & Luca Galante • Thinking in Platforms • https://weaveintelligence.io/thinking-in-platforms-book
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdb

State of the Art of Platform Engineering • Abby Bangser & Charles Humble

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO State of the Art in April 2026.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/450

Abby Bangser - Principal Engineer at Syntasso & Team Topologies Advocate
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Abby
https://bsky.app/profile/abangser.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/a_bangser
https://github.com/abangser
https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser
https://www.syntasso.io/members-area/abby/profile

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://blog.container-solutions.com/paula-kennedy-on-platform-team-responsibilities-patterns-and-anti-patterns
http://sites.libsyn.com/406853/syntasso-coo-paula-kennedy-on-platform-team-responsibilities-patterns-and-anti-patterns
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/platform-as-a/0642572243777
https://github.com/Cloud-Native-Platform-Engineering/cnpe-community/issues/79
https://www.kratix.io
https://leaddev.com/ai/nobody-knows-what-programming-will-look-like-in-two-years
https://leaddev.com/ai/shipping-faster-thinking-less-the-ai-code-verification-trap
https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/11/20/announcing-the-platform-engineering-maturity-model
https://platformengineering.com/features/portals-and-pipelines-arent-enough-avoiding-the-platform-facade

DESCRIPTION
Abby Bangser opens with a clear-eyed status report on platform engineering: the concept of centralizing shared capabilities with self-service delivery is well understood, but the execution keeps going wrong in the same way. Organizations move from DevOps to platform engineering, but their platform teams end up becoming the new bottleneck — a centralized group drowning under the weight of the entire organization's requests, which is exactly what DevOps was supposed to fix. Abby traces this to an architectural problem: too many platforms are still built as centralized Terraform machines rather than as a marketplace of composable offerings. Her "platform as a product" test is blunt and useful: has the team ever said "no" to a feature request, or deprecated something?
If not, they don't have a product — they have a request queue.

The AI dimension is where the conversation gets most urgent. Abby's position is direct: AI agents are the new forcing function for platform maturity. The biggest misconception she wants to dismantle is the persistent equation of platform engineering with infrastructure-as-code: renaming your Terraform team doesn't count. Platform engineering is about building an experience — for human developers and increasingly for AI agents — that is self-service, compliant, and coherent at organizational scale. The Team Topologies model of interaction modes (from high-collaboration to fully automated on-demand APIs) gives a useful health check for where a platform actually sits on that maturity curve.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Chankramath, Cheneweth, Oliver & Alvarez • Effective Platform Engineering • https://amzn.to/3OnxN8i
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdb

The C4 Model: Visualizing Software Architecture • Simon Brown & Susanne Kaiser

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/449

Simon Brown - Author & Creator of "The C4 Model"
Susanne Kaiser - Independent Tech Consultant & Author of "Architecture for Flow"

RESOURCES
Simon
https://simonbrown.je
https://bsky.app/profile/simonbrown.je
https://twitter.com/simonbrown
https://linkedin.com/in/simonbrownjersey
https://c4model.com

Susanne
https://bsky.app/profile/suksr.bsky.social
https://mastodon.social/@suksr
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannekaiser1
https://susannekaiser.net

Links
https://structurizr.com

DESCRIPTION
Simon Brown explains that the C4 Model started not as a grand design theory, but as a practical answer to an embarrassing problem: running a workshop on architecture diagramming, he realized he couldn't understand any of the diagrams being produced. The model formalized his own consulting practice of hierarchical handover documentation — context diagram at the top, containers below, components and code at the bottom — giving it a name and making it teachable. His core advice is to start with just the top two levels: context and container diagrams. These change infrequently, are quick to draw, and deliver immediate value. Levels three and four — components and code — are included for completeness but age rapidly with every commit, and in most cases aren't worth the maintenance overhead.

Two especially practical insights emerge from the conversation. First, how to handle microservices: if your team owns all the services inside a system boundary, each service is a collection of C4 containers; if you depend on another team's service that you can't see inside, model it as an opaque software system. This maps naturally to how domain boundaries and team ownership actually work in practice. Second, the surprisingly important distinction between modeling and diagramming: C4's real value is the shared vocabulary — systems, containers, components, code — not the visual notation itself. Teams using entirely different tooling can communicate clearly because they've agreed on what the words mean. Simon is firm that there will be no C4 v2; the model is intentionally lightweight, and adding more would risk turning it into the next UML — comprehensive, heavy, and largely abandoned.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Simon Brown • The C4 Model • https://amzn.to/4xB9V33
Susanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/3XTmNCc
Nick Rozanski &, Eóin Woods • Software Systems Architecture • https://amzn.to/4cOLtTv
van Kelle, Verschatse &Baas-Schwegler • Collaborative Software Design • https://amzn.to/4iv0N8I

Cloud, Containers, Security & AI - What’s Now, What’s Next? • Adrian Mouat, Kief Morris & Sam Newman

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotocph.com

Adrian Mouat - Developer Relations at Chainguard & Author of "Using Docker"
Kief Morris - Author of "Infrastructure as Code" & Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks
Sam Newman - Author of "Building Microservices" & "Monolith to Microservices"

RESOURCES
Adrian
https://bsky.app/profile/adrianmouat.com
https://twitter.com/adrianmouat
https://github.com/amouat
https://linkedin.com/in/adrianmouat
http://www.adrianmouat.com

Kief
https://bsky.app/profile/kief.com
https://twitter.com/kief
https://github.com/kief
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiefmorris
https://infrastructure-as-code.com
https://kief.com

Sam
https://twitter.com/samnewman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samnewman
http://samnewman.io
http://samnewman.io/blog
https://github.com/snewman

ABSTRACT
In this session, Sam Newman will interview Kief Morris and Adrian Mouat, both experts in their field. We will explore the current reality of security in the container world, how infrastructure automation is impacted by AI, and whether platform teams are actually working. We’ll also be taking lots of questions from the audience! [...]

Read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3938

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adrian Mouat • Using Docker • https://amzn.to/3PEYIJL
Liz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJe
Kief Morris • Infrastructure as Code • https://amzn.to/4e6EBQc
Sam Newman • Building Resilient Distributed Systems • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-resilient-distributed/9781098163532
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E

Signals & Levers • Elisabeth Hendrickson, Joel Tosi & Charles Humble

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Elisabeth Hendrickson - Advisor, Coach, Speaker & Co-Author of "Signals & Levers"
Joel Tosi - Co-Founder & CTO at Dojo & Co & Co-Author of "Signals & Levers"
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/448

RESOURCES
Elisabeth
https://ruby.social/@testobsessed
https://github.com/testobsessed
https://www.linkedin.com/in/testobsessed
https://curiousduck.io

Joel
https://mastodon.social/@joeltosi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-tosi-531a3b

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://ruthmalan.com
http://www.ask-force.org/web/Discourse/Rittel-Dilemmas-General-Theory-Planning-1973.pdf

DESCRIPTION
Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi open by explaining why systems thinking is having a moment right now: organizations that went all-in on Agile and DevOps are finding those returns plateauing, and the rise of AI is forcing engineering teams to reexamine where their real bottlenecks are. The book, Signals & Levers, gives software engineers a practical vocabulary and toolkit for that examination. A core insight is that most organizational dysfunction isn't caused by bad people or bad intentions, but by systems that produce bad outcomes predictably and structurally. The named archetypes in the book — over 20 of them, covering patterns like escalating technical debt, the "fixes that fail" loop, and the boiling frog — give teams a shared language to recognize and reason about those patterns without having to discover them from scratch.

The most practically actionable section of the conversation covers signals versus levers: understanding the difference between information (a signal) and an intervention point (a lever) is the foundation for making changes that actually work rather than changes that feel productive and achieve nothing. On AI, both authors are cautious in the right ways: Elisabeth uses it daily as a thinking partner but keeps herself firmly at the steering wheel. Joel's warning is starker — AI amplifies whatever is already true about your organization, including dysfunction, and if it lets you ship faster than you can learn, the consequences may be severe. The book closes with an exercise for the reader: if AI doubles your delivery speed, what happens when you can ship faster than you can adapt?

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Elisabeth Hendrickson & Joel Tosi • Signals & Levers • https://amzn.to/4g6Fb3C
Diana Montalion • Learning Systems Thinking • https://amzn.to/3ZpycdJ
Don Norman • The Design of Everyday Things • https://amzn.to/4fV6QVl
Gene Kim • The Unicorn Project • https://amzn.to/3woXQDz
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford • The Phoenix Project • https://amzn.to/3X9cYxa
Peter Degrace & Leslie Hulet Stahl • Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions • https://amzn.to/3ScP0D9
Frederick Brooks Jr. • The Mythical Man-Month • https://amzn.to/4gd10OV
Gerald Weinberg • An Introduction to General Systems Thinking • https://amzn.to/4dZCsaO
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems • https://amzn.to/3XtqYCV

The Architect's Guide to the AI Era • Luca Mezzalira & Teena Idnani

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Luca Mezzalira - Solutions Architect, Consultant, International Speaker & Author of "Building Micro-Frontends"
Teena Idnani - Senior Solutions Architect at Microsoft & Woman in Tech Leader

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/447

RESOURCES
Luca
https://www.buildingmicrofrontends.com
https://twitter.com/lucamezzalira
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucamezzalira
https://linktr.ee/lucamezzalira
https://lucamezzalira.com

Teena
https://www.linkedin.com/in/teenaidnani

DESCRIPTION
Luca Mezzalira and Teena Idnani open with a clear framing: AI is accelerating certain tasks architects do, but the fundamentals — understanding context, connecting technical decisions to business capability, designing for evolutionary systems — are unchanged and arguably more important than ever. Luca identifies what he calls the shift from a T-shaped to an "M-shaped" architect: broader and deeper simultaneously, using AI as a research accelerator that collapses days of trade-off analysis into hours. Both agree that the biggest current risk isn't that AI will replace architects, but that AI-generated code can look convincingly correct and pass initial testing while concealing edge-case failures that only surface under load, regulatory audit, or upstream change — particularly dangerous in regulated industries like finance.

The conversation sharpens around what architects must double down on to stay relevant. Luca advocates for merging deterministic and probabilistic systems through harness engineering — combining linters, static analysis, and deterministic guardrails with AI code assistants to produce more predictable outcomes. More broadly, both conclude that empathy is now a core technical skill: the architect's real job is riding the "elevator" between the engine room and the C-suite, translating freely in both directions. Luca's rule of thumb has shifted from 70% people and context, 30% technical — to nearly 90/10 in the AI era. The competitive edge for architects, they agree, is not in generating code, but in knowing which problems are worth solving and why.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Luca Mezzalira • Building Micro-Frontends • https://amzn.to/4ekqV5Y
Luca Mezzalira • Front-End Reactive Architectures • https://amzn.to/43a8VVJ
Gregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator • https://amzn.to/3F6d2ax
Gregor Hohpe • Enterprise Integration Patterns, Vol 2 • https://amzn.to/3TNedQ3

Model-Based Systems Eng. & Requirements Definition • Dennis Hansen & Jorge Orellana

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Dennis Hansen - Air Force Veteran, Chief Systems Engineer & Author of "Model-Based Systems Engineering and Requirements Definition"
Jorge Orellana - Model Based Systems Engineer at IERUS Technologies & CEO & Founder at SCATTERBRAINS

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/445

RESOURCES
Jorge
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorge-orellana-0b729129

DESCRIPTION
Dennis Hansen brings over six decades of systems engineering experience to this GOTO Book Club conversation — from Air Force airborne navigation technician to Chief Systems Engineer at L3Harris on programs including the complete rebuild of the GOES-R ground system for NOAA and NASA. His book argues that the fundamental failure mode in complex system development is the same every time: requirements are defined too loosely, too late, or across multiple model layers simultaneously. He structures the approach using an onion model — a layering framework he was taught by a Motorola engineer in 1961 — where each layer (mission, capabilities, activities, technical requirements, specifications) must be completed before the next is begun. Skipping layers or trying to do two at once invariably produces excess or faulty requirements that surface as expensive failures during system testing, or worse, after deployment.

The second half of the conversation focuses on why modeling tools are databases, not drawing programs — a distinction Dennis considers critical. Every element in the model carries its associated requirements and the reasoning behind design decisions, which means that when you return to work after a weekend, you don't lose hours reconstructing your thinking. More importantly, when change requests arrive — and they always do — a maintained model lets you trace the impact backwards through the system and understand exactly what has to be modified, rather than slapping on a fix that creates five new problems. Dennis's closing advice is the thread that runs through the entire book: collaborate at every stage, every discipline working together rather than in silos, and define things properly upfront. Everything else follows from that.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Dennis Hansen • Model-Based Systems Engineering and Requirements Definition • https://amzn.to/4e6IiqJ
Kossiakoff, Seymour, Flanigan & Biemer • Systems Engineering Principles and Practice • https://amzn.to/4a7Elj9
Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass • Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook • https://amzn.to/4wYnj12

Sovereign Cloud: Who Really Owns Your Infrastructure? • Jake Warner & Charles Humble

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted in May 2026.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/445

Jake Warner - Co-Founder & CEO at Cycle @JakeWarner
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Jake
https://bsky.app/profile/jakewarner.com
https://x.com/jakewarner
https://github.com/JakeWarner
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakewarner
https://jakewarner.com

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

DESCRIPTION
Jake Warner, co-founder and CEO of Cycle.io, traces a pattern he's watched repeat itself since his OpenStack days: a new orchestration technology arrives, developers adopt it enthusiastically, it grows in complexity, and organizations eventually ask whether managing it is really a core competency. He made a decade-long bet that Kubernetes would follow the same arc — and built Cycle as the answer: a distributed control plane that lets companies own their own infrastructure and compute while still getting a clean, platform-like experience on top of it. The key design principle is a high ceiling without sacrificing simplicity — companies shouldn't have to re-platform every time they grow, and they shouldn't have to give up infrastructure ownership to get ease of use.

The conversation then pivots to Sovereign Cloud, which Jake frames not as a niche regulatory concern but as a fundamental trust and ownership question. He draws attention to a risk many organizations underestimate: the control plane itself. Unlike many platforms where the control plane is a single point of failure and a blackbox, Cycle's architecture ensures that even if the control plane goes down, customer infrastructure keeps running — servers maintain their own manifests and restart containers independently. Looking ahead, Jake expects more regions and countries to build their own cloud equivalents, driven by privacy concerns, data residency laws, and geopolitical pressures that are accelerating faster than the technology is.

His conclusion: the organizations that handed AWS all the keys are beginning to realize the cost — and the industry is correcting.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Alan Hamilton • Sovereign Cloud Operations • https://amzn.to/4dqYAe4
Leonard J. Horta • The Cloud Exit Strategy • https://amzn.to/4dXqeiN
Charles Curry & Tanessa Curry • Cooling the Cloud • https://amzn.to/4a0d4iA
Liz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJe
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-security/9781492039075

Dungeons, Dragons & Developers • Matt Brunt

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2025.
https://yowcon.com

Matt Brunt - Dungeon Master & Team Tinkerer

RESOURCES
https://bsky.app/profile/brunty.me
https://mastodon.social/@brunty
https://github.com/Brunty
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbrunt
https://brunty.me

ABSTRACT
You enter the dungeon, as the echoes of your footsteps sound around you, something catches your eye - is that… oh, oh no.

You grab your trusty sword and with your fellow adventurers, you seek to overcome the mighty challenge that lays ahead of you: building software.

This talk is a look at some of the parallels between Dungeons and Dragons, and software development.

We’ll see how lessons learned through delving into dungeons and fighting monsters with a party of adventurers can help teams of developers when building software in the real world.

Are you ready to join me in a mighty quest for better software? [...]

Download slides and read the full abstract here:
https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3641

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Heidi Helfand • Dynamic Reteaming • https://amzn.to/3Fvu5BA
Heidi Helfand • How to Change Your Teams • https://leanpub.com/DRTGuide
Carl Larson & Frank M J LaFasto • Teamwork • https://amzn.to/4cFWseQ
Gene Kim & Steve Spear • Wiring the Winning Organization • https://amzn.to/3QJcfBp

Continuous Delivery in a World of Constant Change • Abby Bangser & Dave Farley

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotocph.com

Abby Bangser - Principal Engineer at Syntasso & Team Topologies Advocate
Dave Farley - Bestselling Author, Founder & Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.

RESOURCES
Abby
https://bsky.app/profile/abangser.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/a_bangser
https://github.com/abangser
https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser
https://www.syntasso.io/members-area/abby/profile

Dave
https://bsky.app/profile/davefarley77.bsky.social
https://www.continuous-delivery.co.uk
https://linkedin.com/in/dave-farley-a67927
https://twitter.com/davefarley77
http://www.davefarley.net

DESCRIPTION
Dave Farley and Abby Bangser open with a clear statement: Continuous Delivery isn't a relic of the pre-AI era — it's the foundation that makes the AI era survivable. Dave's definition is simple but consequential: software should always be in a releasable state, verified after every small change. That's not just a workflow preference; it's the same incremental, hypothesis-driven approach that underpins science and engineering. In an AI-assisted world where code can be generated far faster than humans can reason about it, the discipline of small, safe, verifiable steps becomes more critical, not less. The danger isn't AI writing bad code — it's AI writing a lot of code very fast that nobody is properly checking.

The conversation turns to a genuinely alarming DORA report statistic: 70% of developers using AI tools don't distrust the output. Abby draws a parallel to the long-running debate over whether developers can be trusted to test their own code — they usually can't, without a deliberate change in perspective. The same challenge applies to AI-generated code: you need to consciously shift from "prompter" mode to "verifier" mode, and most developers aren't making that switch. Dave closes with a surprising note of optimism: AI may be the industry's best-ever opportunity to finally get XP practices — small increments, automated tests, continuous feedback — embedded into how teams actually work. Not because anyone chose to adopt them ideologically, but because working without them while using AI is visibly, measurably risky.

Read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3779

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kief Morris • Infrastructure as Code • https://amzn.to/4e6EBQc
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
Dave Thomas • simplicity • https://amzn.to/43FghBJ
Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/3ocIHwd
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M
Dave Farley • Continuous Delivery Pipelines • https://amzn.to/3rjetdi

Go for Java Programmers • Barry Feigenbaum & Shon Saliga

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Barry Feigenbaum - Retired Sr. Principal Software Engineer & Author of "Go for Java Programmers"
Shon Saliga - IBM Storage Evangelist

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/444

RESOURCES
Barry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barryfeigenbaum

Shon
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shon-saliga-32336b2

DESCRIPTION
Dr. Barry Feigenbaum — an IBM, Amazon and Dell veteran with a PhD in Computer Engineering and decades of Java experience — spent time working with Go on microservices and liked it enough to write the book he wished had existed when he made the switch. In this GOTO Book Club episode with longtime colleague Shon Saliga, he walks through the core contrasts: Go is a compiled language that targets a narrower domain than Java — primarily command-line tools and web servers — but excels there with smaller binaries, faster startup, and dramatically lower container overhead. Concurrency is the headline difference: Go's goroutines are far lighter than Java threads, and its channel-based communication model sidesteps many of the problems that make concurrent Java code hard to reason about.

The error handling conversation is particularly illuminating. Java's exception mechanism, while powerful, encourages developers to overuse it for ordinary error reporting — Go simply doesn't allow that by design. Errors in Go are return values, not throws; panics are reserved for truly catastrophic situations. Similarly, Go's implicit interfaces (if you implement the methods, you implement the interface — no declaration required) give the language a flexibility that feels alien to Java developers at first but becomes a strength quickly. Barry's conclusion is clear: for greenfield servers and containerized microservices, Go is worth serious consideration — and for Java developers willing to reset a few mental models, the transition is more tractable than it looks.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Barry Feigenbaum • Go for Java Programmers • https://amzn.to/4uRL3li
Ken Christopher, Barry Feigenbaum, Shon Salig • DOS 5: The Basic • https://amzn.to/4tKDVGs
A N M Bazlur Rahman • Modern Concurrency in Java • https://amzn.to/42w8cOk
Ben Evans & Jim Gough • Optimizing Cloud Native Java • https://amzn.to/41nivD9
Ian F. Darwin • Java Cookbook 5th ed. • https://amzn.to/3QH0NZy
Victor Grazi & Jeanne Boyarsky • Real-World Java • https://amzn.to/4oCEeBR

Engineering Leadership in Turbulent Times • Sarah Wells, Pat Kua & Daniel Terhorst-North

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotocph.com

Sarah Wells - Independent Consultant & Author of "Enabling Microservice Success"
Patrick Kua - Founder of the Tech Lead Academy
Daniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates

RESOURCES
Sarah
https://bsky.app/profile/sarahjwells.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/sarahjwells1
https://www.sarahwells.dev

Patrick
https://hachyderm.io/@patkua
https://twitter.com/patkua
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patkua
https://github.com/thekua
https://patkua.com

Daniel
https://bsky.app/profile/tastapod.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tastapod
https://github.com/tastapod
https://mastodon.social/@tastapod
http://dannorth.net/blog

DESCRIPTION
Engineering leadership becomes significantly more complex in times of uncertainty. This conversation highlights how leaders must shift from rigid plans to adaptable thinking—balancing delivery, team well-being, and long-term direction while navigating constant change.

A key takeaway is that great leadership isn’t about having all the answers, but about creating clarity, trust, and resilience within teams. The speakers emphasize communication, context-awareness, and empowering engineers as the foundation for thriving—even when everything feels unstable.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success • https://amzn.to/4aa8xrv
Patrick Kua • Talking with Tech Leads • https://amzn.to/3ECO3xB
Patrick Kua • The Retrospective Handbook • https://amzn.to/4jpxxQN
Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons & Patrick Kua • Building Evolutionary Architectures • https://amzn.to/42qXJV2
Mary Lynn Manns & Linda Rising • Fearless Change • https://amzn.to/49uuune
Mary Lynn Manns & Linda Rising • More Fearless Change • https://amzn.to/4tX6GAR

Modern Concurrency in Java • Bazlur Rahman & Michael Redlich

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

A N M Bazlur Rahman - Java Champion & Author of "Modern Concurrency in Java"
Michael Redlich - Java Champion & Lead Java Queue News Editor at InfoQ

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/443

RESOURCES
Bazlur
https://bsky.app/profile/bazlur.ca
https://x.com/bazlur_rahman
https://github.com/rokon12
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bazlur
https://bio.site/bazlur
https://bazlur.ca

Michael
https://twitter.com/mpredli
https://github.com/mpredli01
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-redlich-13a966
https://about.me/mpredli

DESCRIPTION
In this GOTO Book Club episode, Java Champion A N M Bazlur Rahman joins host and fellow Java Champion Michael Redlich to discuss Modern Concurrency in Java — the first comprehensive update to Java concurrency literature in 20 years. Bazlur traces his motivation to the arrival of virtual threads in JDK 21, which he describes as a fundamental shift in Java's concurrency cost model: platform threads were expensive and scarce, demanding careful pooling; virtual threads are cheap, plentiful, and behave like ordinary threads from the developer's perspective, without requiring a new programming model. The book covers this evolution end-to-end, from the history of threads through to structured concurrency, scope values, and the modern frameworks that have already adopted virtual threads — most with a single config change.

The conversation also takes a nuanced look at reactive programming's future. Bazlur's conclusion is that reactive remains compelling in specific contexts — event-driven streaming systems, architectures needing end-to-end back-pressure — but it's no longer the default answer to scalability. For most microservices doing blocking I/O, virtual threads are now the stronger default, and reactive becomes a deliberate architectural choice rather than an automatic one. The book's goal is to give developers both the conceptual grounding and the practical guidance to make that choice confidently — understanding the tool one level deep, so they can design better systems, not just configure their way through a framework.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
A N M Bazlur Rahman • Modern Concurrency in Java • https://amzn.to/42w8cOk
Ben Evans & Jim Gough • Optimizing Cloud Native Java • https://amzn.to/41nivD9
Ben Evans, Jason Clark & David Flanagan • Java in a Nutshell • https://amzn.to/43FDoMA
Ian F. Darwin • Java Cookbook 5th ed. • https://amzn.to/3QH0NZy
Victor Grazi & Jeanne Boyarsky • Real-World Java • https://amzn.to/4oCEeBR

Roc & Zig: A Compiler Rewrite Story • Anjana Vakil & Richard Feldman

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Richard Feldman - Software Engineer at Zed Industries & Author of "Elm in Action"
Anjana Vakil - Freelance Software Engineer & Developer Educator

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/442

RESOURCES
Richard
https://bsky.app/profile/rtfeldman.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/rtfeldman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rtfeldman
https://github.com/rtfeldman

Anjana
https://bsky.app/profile/anjana.dev
https://github.com/vakila
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anjanavakil
https://anjana.dev

Links
https://zed.dev
https://adventofcode.com
https://www.roc-lang.org

DESCRIPTION
Richard Feldman and Anjana Vakil trace the Roc programming language's ambitious ground-up compiler rewrite — from Rust to Zig — which happened to coincide almost exactly with the year AI coding assistants went from useful to transformative. Richard describes how AI's role shifted over just 12 months: from mechanical test-porting grunt work, where it was reliable but limited, to genuine architectural collaboration on harder problems. The key insight is that guardrails don't live in prompts ("never do this" gets ignored constantly), they live in the code itself — invariants and automated feedback loops that catch the AI when it strays, rather than instructions it will cheerfully disregard.

The conversation widens into what the AI era means for software quality and trust. Both are wary of the coming wave of AI-generated "slop" — buggy, mediocre software produced at scale — but Richard makes the counterintuitive case that competitive pressure might actually force quality up: if everything is slop, the products that aren't will stand out hard. Anjana draws a parallel to consumer electronics brand trust: just like we pay a premium for the USB-C cable we know won't cause a fire, developers and users will increasingly gravitate toward names and communities they can vouch for. The open source contribution model, they agree, needs new systems to navigate this — and Roc v1, due before the end of 2026, will be a test case.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Richard Feldman • Elm in Action • https://amzn.to/387kujI
Dean Bocker • Don't Panic! I'm A Professional Zig Programmer • https://amzn.to/3ljKT8d
Tim McNamara • Rust in Action • https://amzn.to/3ux2R9u
David Drysdal • Effective Rust • https://amzn.to/4dAjbdX
Eric Normand • Grokking Simplicity • https://amzn.to/3gz7o3C

Tech Truth: Agile Evolution & the Future of SW Engineering • Martin Fowler & Kent Beck

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotocph.com

Martin Fowler - Pioneer of Various Topics around Object-Oriented Technology & Agile Methods
Kent Beck - Software Engineer & Creator of Extreme Programming

RESOURCES
Martin
https://x.com/martinfowler
https://www.martinfowler.com
https://toot.thoughtworks.com/@mfowler
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-fowler-com

Kent
https://bsky.app/profile/kentbeck.bsky.social
https://www.kentbeck.com
https://github.com/KentBeck
https://twitter.com/KentBeck
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentbeck
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/about

DESCRIPTION
Martin Fowler and Kent Beck — two of the authors of the Agile Manifesto and perhaps the most influential duo in software engineering history — reunite for an unscripted conversation spanning thirty years of friendship, craft, and the relentless pace of change. They discuss how AI ("the Genie") has become a genuine part of both their workflows: Kent uses it as an endlessly patient tutor for exploration between features, while Martin distinguishes between AI as a tool for talking to computers versus the irreplaceable human skill of talking to the people who need software built. Both are optimistic about the future, though Kent's optimism takes characteristically sharp form: he expects the industry to keep making the same mistakes, which means he'll still be employed teaching the same lessons 20 years from now.

The conversation also revisits the Agile Manifesto at nearly 25 years old, with both reflecting on what Extreme Programming got right — feedback loops, testability, evolutionary design — and what the broader adoption missed or diluted. Martin is candid that progress in software has been slower than he'd like, though he points to a "forest" of practitioners who have genuinely advanced the craft. On the question of a Manifesto reunion, both gently redirect: it belongs to the next generation now. Their closing advice to a junior developer in the audience is perhaps the most memorable exchange in the whole session — use the gaps between features to learn, and never forget that understanding the domain and the people in it is ultimately what separates good programmers from great ones.

Read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3780

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Martin Fowler • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3EVcHXQ
Martin Fowler & Pramod Sadalage • NoSQL Distilled • https://amzn.to/3ChIpu7
Martin Fowler • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture • https://amzn.to/3lp4sIq
Martin Fowler • Domain-Specific Languages • https://amzn.to/3nzOIFk
Martin Fowler • UML Distilled • https://amzn.to/3kahjyA
Kent Beck • Tidy First? • https://amzn.to/4gscjjK
Kent Beck & Cynthia Andres • Extreme Programming Explained • https://amzn.to/3sBASDG
Kent Beck • Test Driven Development • https://amzn.to/3U4AXLs
Kent Beck, Fowler, John, William, Don & Gamma • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3SFBYbN
Kent Beck • Implementation Patterns • https://amzn.to/3sBlCGL

Spec-Driven Dev Is Back. But Not How You Think • Daniel Terhorst-North & Gojko Adzic

Fri, 29 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Daniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates
Gojko Adzic - Software Delivery Consultant & Author of "Lizard Optimization" and many more Books

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/441

RESOURCES
Daniel
https://bsky.app/profile/tastapod.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tastapod
https://github.com/tastapod
https://mastodon.social/@tastapod
http://dannorth.net/blog

Gojko
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gojko
https://github.com/gojko
https://twitter.com/gojkoadzic
https://gojko.net

DESCRIPTION
Gojko Adzic and Daniel Terhorst-North tackle the question every software team is wrestling with right now: does AI-assisted development actually work, and if so, how?
Their verdict is nuanced. One-shot "spec-to-product" approaches are doomed — both compare them to CASE tools and model-driven architecture of past decades, great for selling to enterprise buyers, disappointing in practice. What does work is tight, iterative feedback loops where AI handles the more deterministic, structural parts of the job while humans retain ownership of domain knowledge, semantic correctness, and architectural judgment.

The most practically useful thread of the conversation is Gojko's insight on guardrails: instead of relying on markdown files and hoping your AI agent stays in line, encode your rules as real, automated linting checks — ones that run in CI, apply to humans and bots alike, and include actionable error messages.
Daniel adds a complementary observation: AI shines brightest not on core domain code, but on the "quality of life" tasks that never quite make it to the backlog. Their shared conclusion is that the teams winning with AI right now are the ones treating published frameworks as starting templates to rapidly adapt — not gospel to follow blindly.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Gojko Adzic • Lizard Optimization • https://leanpub.com/lizardoptimization
Gojko Adzic • Impact Mapping • https://amzn.to/3dQFCOq
Adzic, Evans & Roden • Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Tests • https://amzn.to/3yuDaoL
Adzic, Evans & Korac • Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories • https://amzn.to/3jQ4QjP
Adzic & Korac • Humans vs Computers • https://amzn.to/2Utz55A
Gojko Adzic • Specification by Example • https://amzn.to/3hHrEjb
Eliyahu M. Goldratt • Beyond the Goal • https://amzn.to/3wDbAL1
Kent Beck, Fowler, John, William, Don & Gamma • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3SFBYbN

Connection is Everything: Extended Q&A • Ken Hughes

Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This Q&A session was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotocph.com

Ken Hughes - The King of Customer Experience

Keynote available here: https://youtu.be/tHf-BFM2CNM

RESOURCES
https://twitter.com/KenHughesIE
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenhughesie
https://www.kenhughes.info

DESCRIPTION
In this extended Q&A following his GOTO Copenhagen 2025 keynote, Ken Hughes — "The King of Customer Experience" — tackles the questions every business avoids asking honestly. He argues that employee experience always comes first: you cannot ask people to deliver extraordinary customer moments unless they themselves feel seen, empowered, and purposeful at work. On ROI, he challenges the entire premise, proposing a shift from "Return on Investment" to "Desire to Invest" — because measuring caring with a ledger is the behavior of, as he puts it, a toxic psychopath. The real unlock, he insists, is placing the user genuinely at the centre — not as a metric, but as a human being who deserves to feel like the only person in the room.

The conversation turns to AI's role in making this scalable, and here Hughes lands his most forward-looking point: the era of having to choose between serving the masses and making an individual feel special is ending. AI will enable what he calls "scaled personalization" — the ability to make every customer their own blue dot simultaneously, the way a personalized Minecraft lesson teaches area and perimeter to an 8-year-old who wasn't getting it in a classroom. The session closes with a striking reminder: the brands people remember aren't the ones with the slickest products — they're the ones that made them feel genuinely seen. A nurse. A fishing magazine. Five dollars. That's the bar.

Read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3778

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ken Hughes • Taylormaking • https://amzn.to/3WOEgd9
Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz • The Good Life • https://amzn.to/4orelUS

State of the Art of Java in 2026 • Ben Evans

Fri, 22 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO State of the Art in March 2026.
https://gotopia.tech

Ben Evans - Senior Principal SW Engineer at Red Hat & Co-Author of "Optimizing Cloud Native Java" & many more Books

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/439

RESOURCES
Ben
https://mastodon.social/@kittylyst
https://bsky.app/profile/ogkittylyst.bsky.social
https://github.com/kittylyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kittylyst
https://www.kittylyst.com

Links
https://newrelic.com/resources/report/2024-state-of-the-java-ecosystem
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/06/18/language-rankings-1-25
https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/hackerbot-claw-github-actions-exploitation
https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-coding-agents
https://openjdk.org/jeps/8305968
https://openjdk.org/jeps/353
https://openjdk.org/jeps/416
https://developer.ibm.com/articles/j-ffm
https://openjdk.org/jeps/8350458
https://openjdk.org/jeps/8303099

DESCRIPTION
In this GOTO State of the Art, Java Champion & Red Hat Senior Principal SW Engineer Ben Evans delivers a sweeping, data-driven audit of Java's health in 2026 — and the picture is far healthier than the tech press would have you believe. Server-side Java workloads have roughly doubled in the last 7 years, developer wages are stable (unlike JavaScript, which is heading south), Java has been in the top 4 programming languages for 12 consecutive years, and the entire cloud-native infrastructure stack — Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, OpenTelemetry, Keycloak — runs on it. The real insight is mathematical: explosive growth of a small language base is still dwarfed by modest growth of Java's enormous installed base. Java isn't dying; it's just not shiny enough to get clicks.

The meat of the talk is a masterclass in Java's architecture and roadmap. Ben unpacks the fundamental tension between dynamism (the JVM's Lisp-and-Smalltalk-heritage runtime) and integrity (modern security demands that restrict unchecked internal API access), before walking through the near and far future: Project Valhalla's value types (the most fundamental change to Java ever — bigger than generics or lambdas), the Vector API waiting on Valhalla to land, nullability markers, ahead-of-time compilation, and beyond that, type classes and Project Babylon.

His honest take on AI tooling is sharp: great for greenfield, genuinely poor at architectural reasoning and version-specific code, and only a real productivity multiplier for teams who already have solid engineering practices. Oh, and it's a wolf in sheep's clothing — the JVM's dynamism makes it way closer to Lisp than to C++, and Java's philosophy of "boring done right" turns out to be an excellent foundation for AI-era enterprise software.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ben Evans & Jim Gough • Optimizing Cloud Native Java • https://amzn.to/41nivD9
Ben Evans, Jason Clark & David Flanagan • Java in a Nutshell • https://amzn.to/43FDoMA

Kafka for Architects • Ekaterina Gorshkova & Viktor Gamov

Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Ekaterina Gorshkova - Apache Kafka Engineer at SOFTEC & Author of "Kafka for Architects"
Viktor Gamov - Principal Developer Advocate at Confluent & Co-Author of "Kafka in Action"

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/440

RESOURCES
Ekaterina
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekaterina-gorshkova-978bb6
https://medium.com/@katyagorshkova

Viktor
https://bsky.app/profile/gamussa.dev
https://x.com/gAmUssA
https://github.com/gamussa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikgamov
https://gamov.io

Links
45% off discount code (expires on 25 May 2026): GOTOKGKafka
Affiliate link: https://hubs.la/Q044HgTv
https://current.confluent.io/london

DESCRIPTION
Apache Kafka has evolved far beyond a simple message broker — it has become a foundational layer for modern enterprise software. In this GOTO Book Club episode, Ekaterina Gorshkova, author of "Kafka for Architects", shares how her decade-long journey with Kafka — starting in a Czech bank's integration team in 2015 — shaped her understanding of what it really takes to design Kafka-based systems at scale. The conversation covers core architectural decisions, real-world patterns for enterprise integration, the role of Kafka Streams, and how to avoid the classic pitfalls of building systems that "only three engineers understand".

The episode also looks forward: Ekaterina and host Viktor Gamov explore how Kafka is increasingly becoming the connective tissue for AI-driven systems, acting as an orchestration layer between intelligent agents, real-time data, and business workflows. Her book's central argument is that while AI and tooling change fast, the fundamental knowledge of how to design robust, event-driven systems is durable and career-proof. Kafka for Architects is framed not just as a technical manual, but as a roadmap for architects who want to get Kafka right from day one — requirements, design, testing, and all.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ekaterina Gorshkova • Kafka for Architects • https://amzn.to/42mDarU
Dylan Scott, Viktor Gamov & Dave Klein • Kafka in Action • https://amzn.to/4vJ3Kcj
Viktor Gamov, Tartakovsky, Rasputnis & Fain • Enterprise Web Development • https://amzn.to/3CezL0R
Shapira, Palino, Sivaram & Petty • Kafka: The Definitive Guide • https://amzn.to/3RPtdLP
Bill Bejeck • Kafka Streams in Action • https://amzn.to/3CGJiiM

Tech Truth: Teaching Kids to Code with Sonic Pi • Sam Aaron & James Lewis

Fri, 15 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotocph.com

Sam Aaron - Live Coding Musician & Creator of Sonic Pi
James Lewis - Principal Consultant & Technical Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Sam
https://www.patreon.com/samaaron
https://bsky.app/profile/samaaron.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/samaaron
https://github.com/samaaron
https://linkedin.com/in/samaaron

James
https://bsky.app/profile/boicy.bovon.org
https://twitter.com/boicy
https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices

Links
https://sonic-pi.net
https://twitter.com/sonic_pi
https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi
https://www.ableton.com/en/link
https://hydra.ojack.xyz

DESCRIPTION
Programming isn't just lines of code, it's a gateway to creating music & art. Legends such as Ada Lovelace are proof of that. With the aim to reshape the perception of coding which has traditionally been complex and intimidating, Sam Aaron created Sonic Pi, an open-source, free-to-use platform that empowers users to create music through code.

What began as a humble endeavor has grown exponentially with more than millions of downloads globally and a large number of schools integrating the tool as part of their computing curriculum to teach children how to program.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sam Aaron & Russell Barnes • Code Music with Sonic Pi • https://amzn.to/4hBRYtC
Hans Gruendel • Making Music with Sonic Pi • https://amzn.to/3oVxGV7
Hans Gruendel • Learn to Program with Sonic PI • https://amzn.to/3qCrLEO
Simon Monk • Raspberry Pi Cookbook • https://amzn.to/43AGPRX
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • https://amzn.to/3tCz1xO

Toad: Your AI Coding Agent Deserves a Better User Interface • Will McGugan & Olimpiu Pop

Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Will McGugan - Creator of Toad & the Python Packages, Rich, Textual & PyFilesystem
Olimpiu Pop - Technologist & Tech Journalist

ORIGINAL TALK TITLE
The Python Dev Who Built Rich, Textual & now Toad Just Redesigned How You Talk to AI

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/437

RESOURCES
Will
https://mastodon.social/@willmcgugan
https://x.com/willmcgugan
https://bsky.app/profile/willmcgugan.bsky.social
https://github.com/willmcgugan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/willmcgugan
https://willmcgugan.github.io

Olimpiu
https://x.com/olimpiupop
https://github.com/zroll
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olimpiupop

Links
https://www.textualize.io
https://www.batrachian.ai
https://github.com/textualize/rich
https://github.com/Textualize/textual
https://zed.dev
https://willmcgugan.github.io/toad-released
https://willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toad

DESCRIPTION
In this GOTO Unscripted episode, Olimpiu Pop sits down with Will McGugan — Python PSF Fellow and creator of Rich (4+ billion downloads) and Textual — to demo his sabbatical project: Toad, a slick terminal-based universal frontend for AI coding agents.
Will's frustration was simple and justified: every major AI coding tool (Claude Code, Gemini, Codex) was built on top-tier models but wrapped in a UI that looked like it was designed in 2004. Toad fixes that by using the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) as a standardized plug-in layer, giving users elegant prompt editing, proper streaming markdown rendering, beautiful tables, syntax highlighting, and a hybrid shell-plus-AI interface — all in the terminal, where developers already live.

The conversation gets sharply honest when the topic turns to AI and developer craft. Will — a 30-year coding veteran who admits it's not instinctive for him to reach for AI — shares a clear-eyed view of its strengths and limits: AI is extraordinarily fast at anything well-defined and unambiguous, but still struggles with genuinely novel problems.

His conclusion?
Most of what software developers do day-to-day isn't actually novel — it's pattern assembly — and that's precisely where AI shines. The future of coding isn't replacement; it's liberation from the mechanical grind. Oh, and the podcast host literally reading out "music intro here" because stage directions ended up in the transcript? That one's a cautionary tale for the ages.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Will McGugan • Beginning Python Games Development 2nd ed. • https://amzn.to/4ebBfxu
Will McGugan • Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame • https://amzn.to/4cyVdB3
Sam Keen • Clean Architecture with Python • https://amzn.to/4pBT5g0
Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design • https://amzn.to/3tnGhwm
Naomi Ceder • The Quick Python Book • https://amzn.to/3zwdDOa

Java Cookbook • Ian Darwin & Jeanne Boyarsky

Fri, 08 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Ian F. Darwin - Java, Android & Unix Developer, Trainer, Mentor & Author of "Java Cookbook"
Jeanne Boyarsky - Oracle Java Champion, Co-Author of "Real-World Java" & "OCP 21 Java Cert Book"

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/438

RESOURCES
Ian
https://fosstodon.org/@IanDarwin
https://x.com/Ian_Darwin
https://github.com/IanDarwin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/idarwin
https://www.darwinsys.com

Jeanne
https://bsky.app/profile/jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social
https://mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarsky
https://x.com/jeanneboyarsky
https://github.com/boyarsky
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-boyarsky
https://sites.google.com/view/jeanneboyarsky
https://www.selikoff.net

Links
https://javacookbook.org
https://dev.java/community/jcs

DESCRIPTION
In this GOTO Book Club, Java Champion Jeanne Boyarsky interviews Ian F. Darwin — author of one of Java's most enduring reference books, Java Cookbook, now in its fifth edition covering up to Java 25. The conversation traces Ian's extraordinary journey: from writing Java's first commercial training course outside of Sun Microsystems, to meeting Tim O'Reilly at a Unix conference and handing him a chapter on lint, to delivering a class in Houston where the entire room had just been laid off and were using the course as their golden handshake into a new career. Ian talks about the philosophy behind the book — culling a peak 900-page beast down to a tight 600 pages, anchoring tool choices on proven, battle-tested picks like JUnit, Mockito, and logging — and shares his three favourite chapters: Regular Expressions, Object-Oriented Techniques, and Reflection.

The conversation gets sharply honest about AI and the future of the industry. Ian — who uses Claude as his coding assistant and does vibe code — warns that his greatest fear isn't AI taking over the world, but something subtler and more dangerous: companies stopping junior hires because AI can do the work, leaving no one to grow into the deep expertise that retires with the current generation. The parallel risk for books is equally candid: AI was trained on older editions, so the fifth edition is genuinely new and un-scraped territory.

His advice for anyone who has learned the basics of Java?
Don't ask an AI — buy the cookbook, save yourself years of trial and error, and for goodness' sake, read the code before you deploy it. "It's like building an airplane and putting passengers on it without flight testing."

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ian F. Darwin • Java Cookbook 5th ed. • https://amzn.to/3QH0NZy
Ian F. Darwin • Java Cookbook 1st ed. • https://amzn.to/4sUpPlL
Ian F. Darwin • Checking C Programs with Lint • https://amzn.to/3Q2C69Y
Victor Grazi & Jeanne Boyarsky • Real-World Java • https://amzn.to/4oCEeBR
Jeanne Boyarsky & Scott Selikoff • OCP 21 Java Cert Book • https://amzn.to/4lF8OIC

The Typo That Broke Production — And Accidentally Created Spring Cloud Contract • Marcin Grzejszczak & Jakub Pilimon

Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Marcin Grzejszczak - Software Engineer at HeroDevs & Java Champion
Jakub Pilimon - Software Architect at jPilo & Software Consultant at Bottega IT Minds

ORIGINAL TALK TITLE
The Typo That Broke Production — And Accidentally Created Spring Cloud Contract

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/435

RESOURCES
Marcin
https://bsky.app/profile/toomuchcoding.com
https://mastodon.social/@toomuchcoding@fosstodon.org
https://twitter.com/MGrzejszczak
https://github.com/marcingrzejszczak
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcin-grzejszczak-15565119
https://toomuchcoding.com

Jakub
https://twitter.com/JakubPilimon
https://github.com/pilloPl
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakub-pilimon-449b7984
http://pillopl.github.io

Links
https://toomuchcoding.com/post
https://martinfowler.com/articles/consumerDrivenContracts.html
https://www.tomakehurst.com

DESCRIPTION
In this GOTO Unscripted episode, Jakub Pilimon sits down with Marcin Grzejszczak — Java Champion, Spring Cloud Contract contributor, author, mentor, and founder of a rural housewives' circle (yes, really) — to trace a 15+ year career that went from C++ on the Côte d'Azur to becoming one of the key architects of Spring Cloud Contract and the Micrometer Observation API. Marcin shares how real production pain — a junior dev fixing a typo in an API that silently broke every client — gave birth to what would become Spring Cloud Contract, and how he's never shy about calling out his own embarrassing code (complete with a Javadoc that opens with "I'm sorry").

The conversation pivots sharply into 2025 territory, with Marcin sketching out an AI-powered future for contract testing: instead of manually writing contracts (which developers routinely abandon), capture live production traffic, let AI generate the contracts, and let humans do what they're actually good at — reviewing and approving. Wrapping up with observability, Marcin argues the most underrated pillar isn't logs, metrics, or traces — it's context. Without knowing why something happened (a deployment, a business event), raw telemetry data is just noise. Practical, honest, and occasionally self-deprecating: a thoroughly human conversation in the age of AI.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Marcin Grzejszczak • Mockito Cookbook • https://amzn.to/4rXOrtf
Marcin Grzejszczak • Instant Mockito • https://amzn.to/4lV2ePQ
Sam Newman • Building Microservices • https://amzn.to/3dMPbOs
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E
Roy Osherove • The Art of Unit Testing • https://bit.ly/3obiKNB
Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda • Observability Engineering • https://amzn.to/38scbma

Learning API Styles • Lukasz Dynowski & Sam Newman

Fri, 01 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Lukasz Dynowski - Independent Consultant & Co-Author of "Learning API Styles"
Sam Newman - Author of "Building Microservices" & "Monolith to Microservices"

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/436

RESOURCES
Lukasz
https://github.com/ludyn-leo
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ldynia
https://learningapistyles.com

Sam
https://twitter.com/samnewman
https://github.com/snewman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samnewman
http://samnewman.io
http://samnewman.io/blog

Links
https://www.youtube.com/@ldynia1
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRkB-vSK4koOHYIhpKXuXpipVpByEKuPu
https://learningapistyles.com
https://github.com/ldynia/learning-api-styles
https://nordicapis.com/the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifesto-for-externalization
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1176617.1176622

DESCRIPTION
In this GOTO Book Club episode, Sam Newman — author of "Building Microservices" — sits down with Lukasz Dynowski, co-author of "Learning API Styles", for a refreshingly low-level deep dive into a subject most developers think they already understand. The book deliberately starts from the network layer up — transmission modes, TCP, protocol stacks — rather than jumping straight to REST and GraphQL, because, as Lukasz explains, most API problems only become visible when you understand the substrate beneath them. The conversation covers the full spectrum: public vs internal APIs, the Bezos API Mandate moment, why treating your API as a product is non-negotiable, and why the choice between binary and textual protocols is never as obvious as performance benchmarks suggest.

The real gold comes in two moments. First, Lukasz lays out a crisp checklist for what makes a good API — audience-awareness, maintainability, efficiency, intuitiveness, resilience, security, testability, and documentation that actually matches behavior. Second, Sam shares a war story about a credit derivative system where the only way to figure out who was accessing the database was to turn off the credentials and wait for angry phone calls.
The lesson: context shapes every trade-off, there's no universal right answer between REST, gRPC, WebSockets, or messaging, and the best API decision is the one that fits your situation — not the one that fits the conference talk.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Lukasz Dynowski • Learning API Styles • https://amzn.to/3PFembK
Sam Newman • Building Resilient Distributed Systems • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-resilient-distributed/9781098163532
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E
Sam Newman • Building Microservices • https://amzn.to/3dMPbOs
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running• https://amzn.to/3c4HmmL

A Common-Sense Guide to AI Engineering • Jay Wengrow & Kris Jenkins

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Jay Wengrow - Author of “A Common-Sense Guide to AI Engineering” & CEO of Actualize
Kris Jenkins - Lifelong Computer Geek and Podcast Host

RESOURCES
Jay
https://x.com/jaywengrow
https://github.com/jaywengrow
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaywengrow
https://www.commonsensedev.com

Kris
https://bsky.app/profile/krisajenkins.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/krisajenkins
https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkins
https://github.com/krisajenkins
http://blog.jenkster.com

DESCRIPTION
In this GOTO Book Club episode, host Kris Jenkins sits down with Jay Wengrow — founder of coding bootcamp Actualize and author of the bestselling Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms — to dig into his latest book, A Common-Sense Guide to AI Engineering. Jay demystifies how AI agents actually work: at heart, they're a clever hack where your code intercepts an LLM's text output, watches for special notation, and triggers real functions when it spots them. From there, the conversation expands into guardrails (regex, judge LLMs, and specialist ML models), multi-agent architectures for complex tasks, and a hands-on example of a 150-line podcast-generating app built entirely from scratch — no framework required.

The real throughline is a pragmatic, sceptical take on the current AI tooling landscape. Jay argues that frameworks can lock you into patterns that haven't been proven yet, and that the field is too new to know which abstractions are genuinely worth having. His rule of thumb: reach for a framework only when it will do something meaningfully better than you can — not just faster. The book was deliberately written around fundamentals rather than specific tools, so it ages well even as the ecosystem moves at breakneck speed. The conclusion is refreshingly grounded: understand the LLM's inherent limitations, build the middle layer thoughtfully, and don't outsource your system prompts to anyone — or anything.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Jay Wengrow • A Common-Sense Guide to AI Engineering • https://pragprog.com/titles/jwpaieng
Jay Wengrow • A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms • https://amzn.to/4bPiTjd
Jay Wengrow • A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures & Algorithms in Python • https://amzn.to/3PpwtlT
Jay Wengrow • A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript • https://amzn.to/4dDSZBl

Beyond the Hype: What AI Actually Can (and Can't) Do • Jodie Burchell & Michelle Frost

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Jodie Burchell - Senior Data Science Developer Advocate at JetBrains
Michelle Frost - AI Advocate at JetBrains

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/431

RESOURCES
Jodie
https://bsky.app/profile/t-redactyl.bsky.social
https://fosstodon.org/@t_redactyl
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodieburchell
https://github.com/t-redactyl
https://t-redactyl.io

Michelle
https://bsky.app/profile/aiwithmichelle.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-frost-dev
https://aiwithmichelle.com

Links
https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
https://softwareengineeringproductivity.stanford.edu

DESCRIPTION
Michelle Frost and Jodie Burchell - both developer advocates at JetBrains — sit down for a candid, wide-ranging conversation about the state of AI. Drawing on Jodie's unusual path from clinical psychology to biostatistics to NLP, and Michelle's background in machine learning fairness and AI ethics consulting, the two offer a measured, research-grounded perspective on generative AI's real capabilities and limitations. They trace historical parallels between today's AI boom and earlier 'AI summers,' unpack the contested definitions of AI and AGI, make the case for why foundational machine learning knowledge still matters, and examine what the evidence actually says about AI's impact on developer productivity.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Mark Coeckelbergh • AI Ethics • https://amzn.to/3SuXUbY
Debbie Sue Jancis • AI Ethics • https://amzn.to/44yuEbR
Alex Castrounis • AI for People and Business • https://amzn.to/3NYKKTo
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ

Kubernetes at the Edge • Charles Humble & Hannah Foxwell

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/432

Hannah Foxwell - Independent Consultant & Founder of "AI for the rest of us"
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Hannah
https://bsky.app/profile/hannahfoxwell.net
https://medium.com/@hannahfoxwell
https://x.com/HannahFoxwell
https://github.com/hannahfoxwell
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-foxwell

Links
https://conissaunce.com/services.html
https://www.aifortherestofus.co/newsletter
https://conissaunce.com/music.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0ynenr1eno

DESCRIPTION
Hannah Foxwell sits down with Charles Humble - speaker, advisor, podcast host, and author - to explore his e-book "Kubernetes at the Edge". They cover what "edge computing" actually means, why it matters across industries from precision agriculture to healthcare and retail, how to approach vendor selection and day-two operations, and why sustainability must be central to how we build and deploy technology. The conversation closes with a frank and thoughtful discussion about the responsibilities of the tech industry in the age of generative AI.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Charles Humble • Kubernetes at the Edge • https://www.conissaunce.com/kubernetes-edge-ebook
Charles Humble • Professional Skills for Software Engineers • https://conissaunce.com/professional-skills-shortcut
Charles Humble • The Developer's Guide to Cloud Infrastructure, Efficiency & Sustainability • https://conissaunce.com/sustainability-ebook

Every Software Org is Dysfunctional • R. Parsons, G. Hohpe, B. O'Reilly & A. Harmel-Law

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotocph.com

Rebecca Parsons - CTO Emerita at Thoughtworks
Gregor Hohpe - Author of "Platform Strategy", "The Software Architect Elevator", et al.
Barry O'Reilly - Founder at Black Tulip Tech and Author of "Residues" & "The Architect's Paradox"
Andrew Harmel-Law - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks & Author of "Facilitating Software Architecture"

RESOURCES
Rebecca
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-parsons-871491
https://twitter.com/rebeccaparsons

Gregor
https://twitter.com/ghohpe
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghohpe
http://eaipatterns.com
https://architectelevator.com

Barry
https://bsky.app/profile/technologytulip.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-o-reilly-b924657
https://www.blacktulip.se

Andrew
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewhl.bsky.social
https://twit.social/@ahl
https://x.com/al94781
https://github.com/andrewharmellaw
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewharmellaw
https://andrewharmellaw.github.io

ABSTRACT
Speakers interview each other on topics that matter to them. [...]

Read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3782

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ford, Parsons, Kua & Sadalage • Building Evolutionary Architectures 2nd Edition • https://amzn.to/3lqr5Q8
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdb
Gregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator • https://amzn.to/3F6d2ax
Barry O'Reilly • Residues • https://leanpub.com/residuality
Barry O'Reilly • The Architect's Paradox • https://leanpub.com/architectsparadox
Andrew Harmel-Law • Facilitating Software Architecture • https://amzn.eu/d/5kZKVfU

Software Security for Developers • Laur Spilca & Thomas Vitale

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/428

Laurenţiu Spilcă - Java Champion, Java Community Lead at Endava & Author of "Software Security for Developers" & more books
Thomas Vitale - Senior Software Architect at Systematic & Author of "Cloud Native Spring in Action"

RESOURCES
Laur
https://bsky.app/profile/laurspilca.bsky.social
https://x.com/laurspilca
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenţiu-spilcă-01a931107
https://laurspilca.com

Thomas
https://bsky.app/profile/thomasvitale.com
https://mastodon.online/@thomasvitale
https://twitter.com/vitalethomas
https://linkedin.com/in/vitalethomas
https://github.com/ThomasVitale
https://www.thomasvitale.com

Links
https://www.manning.com/books/software-security-for-developers
https://adibsaikali.wordpress.com

DESCRIPTION
Thomas Vitale sits down with Java Champion and author Laurentiu Spilca to discuss his co-authored book "Software Security for Developers". The conversation explores why security is so often avoided by developers, the widespread confusion between foundational concepts like encoding, hashing, and encryption, the dangers of reinventing established security standards, the growing risks of AI-generated code written without security awareness, and why understanding topics like PKI and certificates is more important than ever in modern software development.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adib Saikali & Laurentiu Spilca • Software Security for Developers • https://amzn.to/4aPhqu0
Laurentiu Spilca • Spring, Start Here • https://amzn.to/3L6Sv6c
Laurentiu Spilca • Spring Security in Action • https://amzn.to/3LqEkZW
Laurentiu Spilca • Troubleshooting Java • https://amzn.to/4u5vkj0
Thomas Vitale • Cloud Native Spring in Action • https://amzn.to/3kLu1ns

Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches • Elton Stoneman & Bret Fisher

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/428

Elton Stoneman - Freelance Consultant, Trainer & Author of "Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches"
Bret Fisher - Docker Captain, Cloud Native Ambassador, Course Creator, YouTuber & Podcaster

RESOURCES
Elton
https://bsky.app/profile/eltonstoneman.bsky.social
https://x.com/EltonStoneman
https://github.com/sixeyed
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eltonstoneman
https://blog.sixeyed.com

Bret
https://bsky.app/profile/bretfisher.com
https://x.com/BretFisher
https://github.com/BretFisher
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretefisher
https://www.bretfisher.com/start
https://www.bretfisher.com

Links
Get 45% discount on Manning products with code: GOTOstoneman3
https://www.manning.com
https://blog.sixeyed.com/why-would-you-write-a-book-about-docker-in-2025
https://12factor.net

DESCRIPTION
In this conversation, Docker educator Brett Fisher sits down with Elton Stoneman - freelance consultant, former Docker employee, and author of "Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches" — to discuss the newly released second edition of his book. They cover what has changed in the container ecosystem over the last five years, why Docker fundamentals still matter even as Kubernetes dominates production environments, and what separates a Docker beginner from a true expert.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Elton Stoneman • Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches • https://amzn.to/4kJVSSD
Elton Stoneman • Learn Kubernetes in a Month of Lunches • https://amzn.to/4qKjate
Elton Stoneman • Docker on Windows • https://amzn.to/4cD6kJD
Burns, Beda & Hightower • Kubernetes: Up & Running • https://amzn.to/3sueuuI
Liz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJe
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-security/9781492039075

One Size Fits None: How Platform Engineering Must Evolve • William Rizzo & Colin Griffin

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

William Rizzo - Global Field CTO at Mirantis & CNCF Ambassador
Colin Griffin - CEO at Krumware & Co-Chair of CNCF Platform Engineering Working Group

RESOURCES
William
https://bsky.app/profile/williamrizzo.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-rizzo
https://github.com/wrkode

Colin
https://bsky.app/profile/devnetes.bsky.social
https://github.com/krumware
https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-e-griffin

Links
https://www.cncf.io/reports/cloud-native-artificial-intelligence-whitepaper
https://cloudnativeplatforms.com/whitepapers/platform-eng-maturity-model

DESCRIPTION
Colin Griffin and William Rizzo explore the evolving state of platform engineering in 2026. They discuss how the discipline plays out very differently across verticals such as fintech, telco, and automotive, and why generic frameworks must be tailored to the unique regulatory, cultural, and technical realities of each industry.

The conversation moves through the growing pressure to align platform investments with measurable business outcomes, the distinct compliance challenges facing European organizations under tightening AI regulation, and the infrastructure reckoning triggered by large-scale GPU investment. Both speakers converge on a shared wish: that the CNCF Platform Engineering White Paper and Maturity Model be updated to reflect vertical-specific guidance, informed directly by end-user organizations.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdb
Gregor Hohpe • Cloud Strategy • https://amzn.to/3TOS3Nv
Zhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh • https://amzn.to/3tTCwAC
Sandeep Uttamchandani • The Self-Service Data Roadmap • https://amzn.to/3wAw5W2

How To Build a GenAI-Augmented Software Organization • Marko Klemetti & Kris Jenkins

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0200

This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotopia.tech

Marko Klemetti - CTO of Eficode
Kris Jenkins - Lifelong Computer Geek and Podcast Host

ORIGINAL TALK TITLE
Rewriting the SDLC Playbook with GenAI: How To Build a GenAI-Augmented Software Organization?

RESOURCES
Marko
https://bsky.app/profile/mrako.com
https://twitter.com/mrako
https://github.com/mrako
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrako
https://mrako.com

Kris
https://bsky.app/profile/krisajenkins.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/krisajenkins
https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkins
https://github.com/krisajenkins
http://blog.jenkster.com

ABSTRACT
Speakers interview each other on topics that matter to them.
Expect the unexpected. [...]

Read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3931

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • https://amzn.to/3tCz1xO
John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3hKZvI5
Wynne, Hellesoy & Tooke • The Cucumber Book • https://amzn.to/3tEUINJ
Sol Rashidi • Your AI Survival Guide • https://amzn.to/3UFYnKC
David Foster • Generative Deep Learning • https://amzn.to/48ZgP4x
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ

Platform Engineering • Ajay Chankramath & Nic Cheneweth

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/429

Ajay Chankramath - Founder & CEO at Platformetrics & Co-Author of "Effective Platform Engineering"
Nic Cheneweth - Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks & Co-Author of "Effective Platform Engineering"

RESOURCES
Ajay
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chankramath
https://github.com/achankra
https://x.com/ajchantw
https://chankramath.com
https://platformetrics.com

Nic
https://www.linkedin.com/in/niccheneweth
https://github.com/ncheneweth
https://x.com/NicCheneweth
https://ncheneweth.com

Links
https://effectiveplatformengineering.com
https://epetech.io
https://dora.dev
https://dora.dev/research/2025/dora-report

DESCRIPTION
Ajay Chankramath (founder and CEO of Platformetrics) and Nic Cheneweth Cheneweth (Principal Technologist at ThoughtWorks) explore the evolving world of platform engineering. They discuss why a product mindset is critical for internal platforms, how control planes and API-first design create scalable foundations, the real challenges organizations face when implementing Backstage, and where AI and agents are beginning to change the platform landscape. Throughout, both speakers emphasize that cutting corners on architectural foundations ultimately compounds problems at scale.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Chankramath, Cheneweth, Oliver & Alvarez • Effective Platform Engineering • https://amzn.to/3OnxN8i
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdb

State of the Art of Container Security • Adrian Mouat & Charles Humble

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO State of the Art in November 2025.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/425

Adrian Mouat - Developer Relations at Chainguard & Author of 'Using Docker'
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Adrian
https://bsky.app/profile/adrianmouat.com
https://twitter.com/adrianmouat
https://github.com/amouat
https://linkedin.com/in/adrianmouat
http://www.adrianmouat.com

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://images.chainguard.dev
https://www.cisa.gov/sbom
https://www.chainguard.dev/supply-chain-security-101/the-npm-registry-cant-protect-you-the-new-javascript-supply-chain-attacks
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/discovering-the-xz-backdoor-with-andres-freund
https://edu.chainguard.dev

DESCRIPTION
In this State of the Art episode, Charles Humble speaks with Adrian Mouat, Developer Relations at Chainguard and author of "Using Docker", about the evolution of container security and the persistent challenge of outdated packages.

Adrian explains how traditional Linux distributions weren't designed for the immutable, frequently-replaced nature of containers, leading to security vulnerabilities that scanners detect but teams struggle to address. He discusses how Chainguard tackles this problem by building everything from source using Wolfi, creating minimal "distroless" images with near-zero CVEs, and how concepts like SBOMs, attestations, and defense in depth are reshaping security practices.

The conversation also covers major security incidents including the XZ Utils backdoor and Shai-hulud attacks, emphasizing the importance of building from source, using short-lived credentials, and replacing rather than updating containers – practices pioneered by companies like Google that are gradually spreading across the industry.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adrian Mouat • Using Docker • https://amzn.to/3PEYIJL
Liz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJe
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-security/9781492039075

The Rush to Adopt AI: How to Get it Right & Business Risks • Nick Selby & Sarah Wells

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/427

Nick Selby - Managing Partner at EPSD
Sarah Wells - Independent Consultant & Author of "Enabling Microservice Success"

RESOURCES
Nick
https://infosec.exchange/@fuzztech
https://bsky.app/profile/nickselby.com
https://github.com/nickselby
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickselby
https://nickselby.com

Sarah
https://bsky.app/profile/sarahjwells.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/sarahjwells1
https://www.sarahwells.dev

Links
https://ainowinstitute.org/contributor/heidy
https://www.heidyk.com

DESCRIPTION
In this conversation, Sarah Wells and Nick Selby explore why the current rush to adopt AI tools introduces significant business risks. They discuss how AI vendors deliberately blur security terminology to confuse buyers, how AI tools' insatiable appetite for data creates enormous blast radii when breaches occur, and what organizations can do to adopt AI responsibly - from threat modeling and cross-disciplinary governance to minimum-permission principles and incident readiness.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success • https://amzn.to/4aa8xrv
Katharine Jarmul • Practical Data Privacy • https://amzn.to/3OafC3m
Katharine Jarmul & Jacqueline Kazil • Data Wrangling with Python • https://amzn.to/3Ue5BV5

Learn C++ by Example • Frances Buontempo & Matt Godbolt

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/426

Frances Buontempo - Consultant, Developer & Author of "Learn C++ by Example"
Matt Godbolt - Low-level Latency Geek & Creator of Compiler Explorer

RESOURCES
Frances
https://bsky.app/profile/fbuontempo.bsky.social
https://mastodon.social/@fbuontempo
https://x.com/fbuontempo
https://github.com/doctorlove
https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesbuontempo
https://about.me/frances_buontempo
https://buontempoconsulting.blogspot.com

Matt
https://bsky.app/profile/matt.godbolt.org
https://xania.org
https://github.com/mattgodbolt
https://www.linkedin.com/in/godbolt
https://twitter.com/mattgodbolt
https://godbolt.org

Links
https://cppinsights.io

DESCRIPTION
Matt Godbolt interviews Frances Buontempo about her book "Learn C++ by Example", a practical guide aimed at helping programmers relearn modern C++ features introduced since C++11. Frances shares her unique teaching philosophy, which emphasizes self-contained, playable examples like simple games that make complex concepts accessible and memorable.

Drawing on her background in mathematics and her father's work in teacher education, she explains how her approach—exemplified by her famous "X Out of a Y Paper Bag" series of talks—uses humor and practical scenarios to help learners understand challenging topics like coroutines, the spaceship operator, and the "almost always auto" style. The discussion touches on the evolution of C++, the upcoming reflection features in C++26, and Fran's current project: writing an introductory C++ book for complete beginners, despite finding concepts like "constant variable" challenging to explain even as an experienced author.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Frances Buontempo • Learn C++ by Example • https://amzn.to/4rgxSZX
Frances Buontempo • Introducing C++ • https://amzn.to/40aHQQC
Frances Buontempo • Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning for Programmers • https://amzn.to/3OLjXMV
Daniel Kusswurm • Modern Parallel Programming with C++ and Assembly Language • https://amzn.to/4o5J3SF

State of the Art of Biological Computing • Ewelina Kurtys & Charles Humble

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO State of the Art in January 2026.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/423

Dr. Ewelina Kurtys - Strategic Advisor on Frontier Technologies at FinalSpark
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Ewelina
https://x.com/ewelina_kurtys
https://github.com/ewelinaewela
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewelinakurtys
https://www.ewelinakurtys.com

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://finalspark.com
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/biologically-inspired-computing-dr-ewelina-kurtys-udnhe
https://finalspark.com/finalspark-6-month-research-technology-update
https://finalspark.com/first-publication-from-a-neuroplatform-user

DESCRIPTION
Dr. Ewelina Kurtys, Strategy Advisor at FinalSpark, discusses the revolutionary potential of biological computing with host Charles Humble.

The conversation explores FinalSpark's ambitious goal to build computers using living neurons that are 1 million times more energy efficient than current digital systems. Ewelina explains the technical challenges of working with brain organoids, the ethical considerations of using human stem cells, and why biological neurons could dramatically reduce AI costs while offering unique advantages for complex tasks like generative AI.
The interview covers everything from neural encoding and plasticity to consciousness and the deterministic nature of the brain.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Robert M. Sapolsk • Determined • https://amzn.to/4akv2gi
Jin Xu • Biological Computing • https://amzn.to/4a4Wwp9

Architecture for Flow • Susanne Kaiser & James Lewis

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/424

Susanne Kaiser - Independent Tech Consultant & Author of "Architecture for Flow"
James Lewis - Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Susanne
https://bsky.app/profile/suksr.bsky.social
https://mastodon.social/@suksr
https://twitter.com/suksr
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannekaiser1
https://susannekaiser.net

James
https://bsky.app/profile/boicy.bovon.org
https://twitter.com/boicy
https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices
https://github.com/boicy
https://www.bovon.org

Links
https://susannekaiser.net/the-architecture-for-flow-canvas
https://susannekaiser.net/articles
https://www.christenseninstitute.org/theory/jobs-to-be-done

DESCRIPTION
James Lewis interviews Susanne Kaiser about her comprehensive new book "Architecture for Flow: Adaptive Systems with Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping and Team Topologies".

Susanne shares how she brought together 3 powerful frameworks over several years of her consulting work, creating a holistic approach to designing socio-technical systems. The discussion covers her journey from startup CTO to independent consultant, the evolution of her thinking around value streams and team organization, and her practical "Architecture for Flow Canvas" that teams can use to assess their current state and envision their future.

With 126 hand-drawn illustrations and 599 sticky notes in the book, Kaiser emphasizes the importance of visual communication and starting with the problem space before jumping to solutions.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Susanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/3XTmNCc
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/4a2gh0i
Woods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice • https://amzn.to/2QWAmkl
Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis • Flow Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GY3u44
Stefan Hofer & Henning Schwentner • Domain Storytelling • https://amzn.to/3EroBH7

Security & Developer Experience: Can We Have Both? • Abby Bangser, Adrian Mouat & Holly Cummins

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotocph.com

Abby Bangser - Platform Engineering Insights from Syntasso delivering Kratix
Adrian Mouat - Developer Relations at Chainguard & Author of 'Using Docker'
Holly Cummins - JavaOne Rock Star. Building Quarkus to Make the Cloud Cloudier

RESOURCES
Abby
https://bsky.app/profile/abangser.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/a_bangser
https://github.com/abangser
https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser
https://www.syntasso.io/members-area/abby/profile

Adrian
https://bsky.app/profile/adrianmouat.com
https://twitter.com/adrianmouat
https://github.com/amouat
https://linkedin.com/in/adrianmouat
http://www.adrianmouat.com

Holly
https://hollycummins.com
https://hollycummins.com/type/blog
https://bsky.app/profile/hollycummins.com
https://hachyderm.io/@holly_cummins
https://twitter.com/holly_cummins
https://github.com/holly-cummins
https://linkedin.com/in/holly-k-cummins

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adrian Mouat • Using Docker • https://amzn.to/3PEYIJL
Liz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJe
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-security/9781492039075
Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, & Sara Bergman • Building Green Software • https://amzn.to/3UjSClv
Kief Morris • Infrastructure as Code • https://amzn.to/4e6EBQc

The Lean Tech Manifesto • Fabrice Bernhard & Steve Pereira

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/422

Fabrice Bernhard - Co-Author of “The Lean Tech Manifesto” & Co-Founder & CTO at Theodo
Steve Pereira - C o-Author of “Flow Engineering” & Principal Consultant at Visible Flow Consulting

RESOURCES
Fabrice
https://bsky.app/profile/fab-ber.bsky.social
https://x.com/fabriceb
https://github.com/fabriceb
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabricebernhard

Steve
https://x.com/steveelsewhere
https://github.com/stevepereira
https://www.linkedin.com/in/devopsto
https://stevepereira.ca

Links
https://hbr.org/1986/01/the-new-new-product-development-game

DESCRIPTION
Fabrice Bernhard, co-founder of Theodo and co-author of "The Lean Tech Manifesto", shares his journey from agile practitioner to lean thinking advocate. The discussion explores how lean principles can scale agile practices beyond small teams, the misconceptions around both methodologies, and the emergence of tech-enabled networks of teams as a new organizational model.

Fabrice emphasizes that both lean and agile are fundamentally about people, not processes, and shares practical lessons from scaling his consultancy to 700 people while maintaining agility through lean principles.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Fabrice Bernhard & Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle • The Lean Tech Manifesto • https://amzn.to/3Z4EbU6
Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis • Flow Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GY3u44
General Stanley McChrystal, Collins, Silverman & Fussell • Team of Teams • https://amzn.to/4bUzhQY
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/4a2gh0i
Bill Frasure, Bruce Eckel, James Ward • Effect Oriented Programming • https://amzn.to/4sO6wLV
Susanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/3XTmNCc

Building Planetary-Scale Data Systems with Venice • Felix GV & Olimpiu Pop

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/421

Félix GV - Current Interests: Multi-Planetary Databases, Data Sovereignty & Lifelogging
Olimpiu Pop - Technologist & Tech Journalist

RESOURCES
Félix
https://bsky.app/profile/felixgv.ninja
https://github.com/FelixGV
https://www.linkedin.com/in/felixgv

Olimpiu
https://x.com/olimpiupop
https://github.com/zroll
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olimpiupop

Links
https://venicedb.org
https://github.com/linkedin/venice
https://rocksdb.org
https://duckdb.org

DESCRIPTION
Félix GV, a former engineer at LinkedIn and architect of the Venice database system, discusses the complexity of building planetary-scale data systems. He explains Venice's unbundled architecture where each component—from Kafka-based pub/sub to RocksDB-powered servers—operates as an independent distributed system. Félix details their rigorous chaos engineering practices, including regular load tests that push data centers beyond normal capacity to ensure reliability.

The discussion covers fundamental distributed systems concepts like the CAP theorem and the trade-offs between consistency and availability in multi-region deployments. He also explains why Venice, as a derived data system, deliberately sacrifices strong consistency for high throughput and availability, and concludes by discussing their experimental integration of DuckDB for SQL-based analytics and data exploration capabilities.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kasun Indrasiri & Danesh Kuruppu • gRPC: Up and Running • https://amzn.to/3sBGBJJ
Tomer Shiran, Jason Hughes & Alex Merced • Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide • https://amzn.to/488Z30k
William Smith • Arrow Flight Protocols and Practices • https://amzn.to/4o2Q2fd
Adi Polak • Scaling Machine Learning with Spark • https://amzn.to/3N9vx1H
Mark Needham, Michael Hunger & Michael Simons • DuckDB in Action • https://amzn.to/45QwSli
Simon Aubury & Ned Letcher • Getting Started with DuckDB • https://amzn.to/3VPk4q

SW Design, Architecture & Clarity at Scale • Sam Newman, Jacqui Read & Simon Rohrer

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotocph.com

Sam Newman - Author of Building Microservices & Monolith to Microservices
Jacqui Read - Author of Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects
Simon Rohrer - Global Head of Enterprise Tech Architecture and Ways of Thinking

ORIGINAL TALK TITLE
Software Design, Architecture & Giving Clarity at Scale

RESOURCES
Sam
https://twitter.com/samnewman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samnewman
http://samnewman.io
http://samnewman.io/blog
https://github.com/snewman

Jacqui
https://bsky.app/profile/tekiegirl.bsky.social
https://jacquiread.com
https://fosstodon.org/@tekiegirl
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelineread
https://github.com/tekiegirl

Simon
https://bsky.app/profile/simon.bvssh.com
https://mastodon.social/@simonr
https://x.com/sirohrer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonrohrer
https://github.com/sirohrer
https://www.soonersaferhappier.com

Links
https://acedmodel.com

ABSTRACT
In this session, we will explore the nature of software design - what is it, and where is the intersection with architecture? We’ll also look at the importance of communicating context, design, and architecture across an organization.

If you’d like to do some advanced reading, head over to acedmodel.com for more.

Both Jacqui and Simon will be sharing their expertise and experiences, but this session is also all about your questions. Come along, and get involved! [...]

Read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3932

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Jacqui Read • Communication Patterns • https://amzn.to/3E37lvv
Sam Newman • Building Resilient Distributed Systems • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-resilient-distributed/9781098163532
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E
Sam Newman • Building Microservices • https://amzn.to/3dMPbOs
Jonathan Smart, Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie & Simon Rohrer • Sooner Safer Happier • https://amzn.to/3Emm9p2

Effect Oriented Programming • Bill Frasure, Bruce Eckel, James Ward & Andrew Harmel-Law

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/420

Bill Frasure - Co-Author of "Effect Oriented Programming"
Bruce Eckel - Author of many books such as "Thinking in Java", "Thinking in C++" & Atomic Kotlin & Co-Author of "Effect Oriented Programming"
James Ward - Principal Developer Advocate at AWS & Co-Author of "Effect Oriented Programming"
Andrew Harmel-Law - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks & Author of "Facilitating Software Architecture"

RESOURCES
Bill
https://github.com/swoogles
https://x.com/bill_frasure

Bruce
https://bsky.app/profile/bruceeckel.bsky.social
https://x.com/BruceEckel
https://github.com/BruceEckel
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruceeckel

James
https://bsky.app/profile/jamesward.com
https://twitter.com/_JamesWard
https://github.com/jamesward
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesward

Andrew
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewhl.bsky.social
https://twit.social/@ahl
https://x.com/al94781
https://github.com/andrewharmellaw
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewharmellaw
https://andrewharmellaw.github.io

Links
https://effectorientedprogramming.com
https://happypathprogramming.com
https://zio.dev
https://www.unison-lang.org
https://www.roc-lang.org

DESCRIPTION
Andrew Harmel-Law explores the core concepts of effect oriented programming with authors Bill Frasure, Bruce Eckel, and James Ward. The discussion reveals that effects are composable operations that encapsulate side effects and defer execution, giving developers the right handles to manage unpredictability through compiler-checked types.
The authors explain how ZIO tracks three critical types: outputs, failures, and environmental requirements, enabling better testing with mock clocks and random number generators.

They share their intentional avoidance of intimidating functional programming terminology like "monads" proving you don't need mathematical foundations to understand effects. The conversation covers effect systems' expansion beyond Scala into TypeScript, Kotlin, and new languages like Unison and Roc, and how their collaborative writing process with strict constraints like 47-character line limits - created a coherent 100-page book readable in portrait mode on your phone.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Bill Frasure, Bruce Eckel, James Ward • Effect Oriented Programming • https://amzn.to/4sO6wLV
Bruce Eckel & Svetlana Isakova • Atomic Kotlin • https://amzn.to/4qT1gEQ
Bruce Eckel • Thinking in C++ • https://amzn.to/4qnrIGW
Andrew Harmel-Law • Facilitating Software Architecture • https://amzn.eu/d/5kZKVfU
Sam Keen • Clean Architecture with Python • https://amzn.to/4pBT5g0
Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design • https://amzn.to/3tnGhwm

Spring Then & Now: What’s Next? • Rod Johnson, Arjen Poutsma & Trisha Gee

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
https://gotocph.com

Rod Johnson - Building the future of agent frameworks at Embabel
Arjen Poutsma - Practical Insights from a Spring Framework Veteran
Trisha Gee - Award-winning Engineer, Author and PC Member

RESOURCES
Rod
https://twitter.com/springrod
https://github.com/johnsonr
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsonroda
https://the-composition.com/@springrod

Arjen
https://bsky.app/profile/poutsma.bsky.social
https://fosstodon.org/@poutsma
https://github.com/poutsma
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjen-poutsma-288ba6

Trisha
https://bsky.app/profile/trishagee.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/trisha_gee
https://github.com/trishagee
https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishagee
https://trishagee.com

ABSTRACT
Ask me anything.

Read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3927

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Rod Johnson • Expert One-On-One J2Ee Design and Development • https://amzn.to/48oCxAJ
Johnson, Höller, Arendsen, Risbert & Sampaleanu • Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework • https://amzn.to/44J4SRb
Trisha Gee & Helen Scott • Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA • https://amzn.to/3ZBgnGc
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ
Trisha Gee, Kathy Sierra & Bert Bates • Head First Java • https://amzn.to/3k59BJ6

Serverless Panel • N. Coult, R. Kohler, D. Anderson, J. Agarwal, A. Laxmi & J. Dongre

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Serverless 2025.
https://conferences.gotopia.tech/goto-serverless-bengaluru-2025

Nick Coult - Director of Product for Serverless at AWS
Robbie Kohler - VP of Software Engineering, Byte by Yum!
David Anderson - Software Architect at G-P/Globalization Partners & Author of "The Value Flywheel Effect"
Janak Agarwal - Senior Manager, Product Management, AWS Lambda
Akshatha Laxmi - Solution Architect at AntStack
Jeevan Dongre - CEO & Co-Founder at AntStack

RESOURCES
Nick
https://x.com/nickcoult
https://github.com/coultn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickcoult

Robbie
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rkohler
https://x.com/robbie_kohler

David
https://x.com/davidand393
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-anderson-belfast
https://theserverlessedge.com

Janak
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janakagarwal

Akshatha
https://github.com/AkshathaLaxmi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshatha-laxmi

Jeevan
https://x.com/jeevandongre
https://github.com/jeevandongre
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeevandongre

Read the full abstract here:
https://conferences.gotopia.tech/goto-serverless-bengaluru-2025/sessions/3856

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS • https://amzn.to/3hJzEUM
Michael Stack • Event-Driven Architecture in Golang • https://amzn.to/3G5e8ST
Ashley Peacock • Serverless Apps on Cloudflare • https://amzn.to/3EU7P85
Jeroen Mulder • Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects • https://amzn.to/3FdNDOA

Clean Architecture with Python • Sam Keen & Max Kirchoff

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/418

Sam Keen - Founder & Researcher at AlteredCraft & Author of "Clean Architecture with Python"
Max Kirchoff - CTO at Ginko & Multidisciplinary Technologist & Creative

RESOURCES
Sam
https://bsky.app/profile/samkeen.bsky.social
https://x.com/samkeen
https://github.com/samkeen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samkeen
https://samkeen.dev

Max
https://x.com/ProductNihilist
https://github.com/maxkirchoff
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxkirchoff
https://maxkirchoff.com

Links
https://www.heyginko.com
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.html

DESCRIPTION
Max Kirchoff interviews Sam Keen about his book "Clean Architecture with Python". Sam, a software developer with 30 years of experience spanning companies from startups to AWS, shares his approach to applying clean architecture principles with Python while maintaining the language's pragmatic nature.

The conversation explores the balance between architectural rigor and practical development, the critical relationship between architecture and testability, and how clean architecture principles can enhance AI-assisted coding workflows. Sam emphasizes that clean architecture isn't an all-or-nothing approach but a set of principles that developers can adapt to their context, with the core value lying in thoughtful dependency management and clear domain modeling.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sam Keen • Clean Architecture with Python • https://amzn.to/4pBT5g0
Fabrizio Romano & Heinrich Kruger • Learn Python Programming • https://amzn.to/4myLBIt
Uncle Bob • Clean Code • https://amzn.to/3soPO6k
Uncle Bob • Clean Architecture • https://amzn.to/3x0gjBQ
Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design • https://amzn.to/3tnGhwm
Naomi Ceder • The Quick Python Book • https://amzn.to/3zwdDOa
Luciano Ramalho • Fluent Python • https://amzn.to/3oSw2je
David Beazley • Python Distilled (Developer's Library) • https://amzn.to/3QjNBEv
Saleem Siddiqui • Learning Test-Driven Development • https://amzn.to/35OMb3n
Maciej «MJ» Jedrzejewski • Master Software Architecture • https://leanpub.com/master-software-architecture

Handling AI-Generated Code: Challenges & Best Practices • Roman Zhukov & Damian Brady

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/419

Roman Zhukov - Principal Architect - Security Communities Lead at Red Hat
Damian Brady - Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub

RESOURCES
Roman
https://github.com/rozhukov
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rozhukov

Damian
https://bsky.app/profile/damovisa.me
https://hachyderm.io/@damovisa
https://x.com/damovisa
https://github.com/Damovisa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/damianbrady
https://damianbrady.com.au

Links
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-assisted-development-and-open-source-navigating-legal-issues

DESCRIPTION
Roman Zhukov (Red Hat) and Damian Brady (GitHub) explore the evolving landscape of AI-assisted software development. They discuss how AI tools are transforming developer workflows, making developers about 20% faster on simple tasks while being 19% slower on complex ones.

The conversation covers critical topics including code quality and trust, security concerns with AI-generated code, the importance of education and best practices, and how developer roles are shifting from syntax experts to system architects. Both experts emphasize that AI tools serve as amplifiers rather than replacements, with humans remaining essential in the loop for quality, security, and licensing compliance.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ
Alex Castrounis • AI for People and Business • https://amzn.to/3NYKKTo
Holden Karau, Trevor Grant, Boris Lublinsky, Richard Liu & Ilan Filonenko • Kubeflow for Machine Learning • https://amzn.to/3JVngcx
Kelleher & Tierney • Data Science (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) • https://amzn.to/3AQmIRg
Lakshmanan, Robinson & Munn • Machine Learning Design Patterns • https://amzn.to/2ZD7t0x
Lakshmanan, Görner & Gillard • Practical Machine Learning for Computer Vision • https://amzn.to/3m9HNjP

CI/CD Evolution: From Pipelines to AI-Powered DevOps • Olaf Molenveld & Julian Wood

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/417

Olaf Molenveld - Technology Advisor at CircleCI
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
Olaf
https://x.com/olafmolenveld
https://medium.com/@olafmolenveld
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olafmolenveld

Julian
https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
https://github.com/julianwood
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

DESCRIPTION
CircleCI's Technology Advisor Olaf Molenveld discusses the evolution of CI/CD practices with AWS's Julian Wood. They explore how modern software delivery has transformed from simple monolithic deployments to complex microservices ecosystems, drawing parallels between managing production code and managing the "factory" that produces it.

The discussion covers optimization strategies, the balance between local and remote development, platform engineering trends, and how AI is reshaping DevOps practices. Olaf emphasizes that getting software into users' hands is as critical as writing it, and shares how teams can leverage observability, right-sizing, and intelligent automation to improve their delivery pipelines.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
David Farley • Continuous Delivery Pipelines • https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines
Jez Humble & Dave Farley • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/3ocIHwd
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim • Accelerate • https://amzn.to/442Rep0
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook • https://amzn.to/47oAf3l
Lauren Maffeo • Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up • https://amzn.to/3QhIlnV
Roy Osherove • The Art of Unit Testing • https://bit.ly/3obiKNB
Burns, Beda & Hightower • Kubernetes: Up & Running • https://amzn.to/3sueuuI
Gojko Adzic • Lizard Optimization • https://leanpub.com/lizardoptimization
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdb

Quarkus in Action • Martin Stefanko, Jan Martiska & Holly Cummins

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/416

Martin Štefanko - Quarkus Core Engineer at IBM & Co-Author of "Quarkus in Action"
Jan Martiška - Software Engineer Quarkus at IBM & Co-Author of "Quarkus in Action"
Holly Cummins - Senior Technical Staff Member, Quarkus at IBM

RESOURCES
Martin
https://bsky.app/profile/xstefank.bsky.social
https://mastodon.cloud/@xstefank
https://x.com/xstefank
https://github.com/xstefank
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-stefanko

Jan
https://bsky.app/profile/janmartiska.bsky.social
https://x.com/janmartiska
https://github.com/jmartisk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janmartiska

Holly
https://hollycummins.com
https://hollycummins.com/type/blog
https://bsky.app/profile/hollycummins.com
https://hachyderm.io/@holly_cummins
https://twitter.com/holly_cummins
https://github.com/holly-cummins
https://linkedin.com/in/holly-k-cummins

Links
https://code.quarkus.io
https://vaadin.com

DESCRIPTION
Holly Cummins sits down with Martin Stefanko and Jan Martiška, authors of "Quarkus in Action", to discuss their journey writing this comprehensive guide to the Java framework. The authors share insights about Quarkus's developer experience, from its blazing-fast dev mode to native compilation capabilities, while revealing what they learned writing about 29 different extensions across 12 chapters.

They discuss the book's structure - from getting started to deploying in the cloud- and offer practical advice on when to use JVM versus native compilation, making this essential reading for both Quarkus newcomers and experienced developers.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Martin Stefanko • Jan Martiska • Quarkus in Action • https://amzn.to/3K1En2z
Ben Evans & Jim Gough • Optimizing Cloud Native Java • https://amzn.to/41nivD9
Kief Morris • Infrastructure as Code • https://amzn.to/4e6EBQc
Alex Soto Bueno & Jason Porter • Quarkus Cookbook • https://amzn.to/4au3QfF

State of the Art of DORA Metrics & AI Integration • Nathen Harvey & Charles Humble

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO State of the Art in October 2025.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/415

Nathen Harvey - DORA Lead, Product Manager at Google Cloud & Author
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Nathen
https://bsky.app/profile/nathenharvey.bsky.social
https://x.com/nathenharvey
https://github.com/nathenharvey
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathen
https://linktr.ee/nathenharvey
http://nathenharvey.com

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://dora.dev
https://dora.dev/research/2025/dora-report
https://dora.dev/research/2024/dora-report
https://thenewstack.io/ebooks/kubernetes/kubernetes-at-the-edge-container-orchestration-at-scale

DESCRIPTION
Charles Humble speaks with Nathen Harvey, leader of Google's DORA research team, about the real impact of AI on software development.

Drawing from surveys of nearly 5,000 practitioners, Nathen reveals a surprising finding: increased AI adoption initially correlates with decreased stability and throughput - the very metrics teams have optimized for decades. The conversation explores why this happens, what capabilities organizations need before scaling AI adoption, and how AI acts as an amplifier of existing systems rather than a silver bullet.

Nathen introduces DORA's seven AI capabilities model and discusses critical issues around trust, documentation, skill devaluation, and the future of software delivery in an AI-native world.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Emily Freeman & Nathen Harvey • 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3UlWBLt
Charles Humble • Professional Skills for Software Engineers • https://www.conissaunce.com/professional-skills-shortcut
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim • Accelerate • https://amzn.to/442Rep0
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook • https://amzn.to/47oAf3l
Jez Humble & David Farley • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/452ZRky
Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky & Barry O'Reilly • Lean Enterprise • https://amzn.to/47pcOXD
Adrienne Braganza Tacke • "Looks Good to Me": Constructive Code Reviews • https://amzn.to/3E75XrD
Yevgeniy Brikman • Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery • https://amzn.to/3WMPMFU

Modern Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core • Alexandre Malavasi & Albert Tanure

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/413

Alexandre Malavasi - CTO at Marelo & Author of "Modern Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core"
Albert S. Tanure - Cross Solutions Architec at Microsoft & Author of "ASP.NET Core 9 Essentials"

RESOURCES
Alexandre
https://x.com/alemalavasi
https://github.com/alexandremalavasi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandremalavasi

Albert
https://x.com/alberttanure
https://github.com/tanure
https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-tanure
https://www.codefc.io/en

DESCRIPTION
Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect Albert Tanure interviews Microsoft MVP Alexandre Malavasi about his fourth book, "Modern Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core". The discussion explores the challenges of writing comprehensive technical books, the importance of foundational knowledge in full stack development, and how to integrate ASP.NET Core with modern JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue.js.

Alexandre emphasizes that successful architecture decisions depend primarily on team expertise and the ability to facilitate change, rather than following trends.
The conversation also highlights the critical importance of looking beyond just coding - encompassing project planning, DevOps practices, monitoring, and continuous optimization - to truly bring value to customers and become well-rounded software engineers.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Alexandre Malavasi • Modern Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core • https://amzn.to/4pvEXnY
Alexandre Malavasi • Implementing Design Patterns in C# 11 and .NET 7 • https://amzn.to/49Capwn
Alexandre Malavasi • Enterprise Applications with C# and .NET • https://amzn.to/4iiVidk
Alexandre Malavasi • Implementing Design Patterns in C# and .NET 5 • https://amzn.to/3JU5UD2
Albert Tanure • ASP.NET Core 9 Essentials • https://amzn.to/43bH73t

This AI Fights Health Insurance Denials • Holden Karau & Julian Wood

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/410

Holden Karau - Co-Founder at Fight Health Insurance
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
Holden
https://bsky.app/profile/holdenkarau.com
https://twitter.com/holdenkarau
https://github.com/holdenk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/holdenkarau
http://holdenkarau.com

Julian
https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
https://github.com/julianwood
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

Resource
https://fighthealthinsurance.com

DESCRIPTION
Apache Spark contributor Holden Karau discusses the evolution of distributed data processing, the challenges of integrating machine learning with big data tools, and the technical complexities of working with GPUs at scale.

The conversation takes a personal turn as Holden reveals her latest project: an open-source AI tool that helps people appeal health insurance claim denials. Drawing from personal experiences with denied claims, she has built a system that trains on independent medical review data to generate effective appeals, making it freely available at https://fighthealthinsurance.com while grappling with the classic open-source challenge of sustainable funding.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Holden Karau • Distributed Computing 4 Kids • https://www.distributedcomputing4kids.com
Holden Karau • Scaling Python with Dask • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/scaling-python-with/9781098119867
Holden Karau & Boris Lublinsky • Scaling Python with Ray • https://amzn.to/44GU6cC
Holden Karau & Rachel Warren • High Performance Spark • https://amzn.to/3v2eLbn
Holden Karau, Konwinski, Wendell & Zaharia • Learning Spark • https://amzn.to/397e2NE
Holden Karau & Krishna Sankar • Fast Data Processing with Spark 2nd Edition • https://amzn.to/3xKhXKu
Holden Karau • Fast Data Processing with Spark 1st Edition • https://amzn.to/3rHQgOu

Building Modern Databases with the FDAP Stack • Andrew Lamb & Olimpiu Pop

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/412

Andrew Lamb - Staff Engineer at InfluxData, ASF Member & PMC Apache DataFusion & Apache Arrow
Olimpiu Pop - Technologist & Tech Journalist

RESOURCES
Andrew
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewlamb1111.bsky.social
https://x.com/andrewlamb1111
https://github.com/alamb
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewalamb
https://andrew.nerdnetworks.org

Olimpiu
https://x.com/olimpiupop
https://github.com/zroll
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olimpiupop

Links
https://www.influxdata.com/blog/flight-datafusion-arrow-parquet-fdap-architecture-influxdb
https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2005/papers/P19.pdf

DESCRIPTION
Olimpiu Pop speaks with Andrew Lamb, staff engineer at InfluxData and PMC member of Apache DataFusion and Apache Arrow, about how modern data systems are built using standardized open source components rather than being developed from scratch.

Andrew discusses the FDAP Stack (Flight, DataFusion, Arrow & Parquet), the shift from row-based to columnar data storage, and how technologies like Apache Iceberg are enabling a new era of interoperability across data platforms. The discussion covers why this modular approach saves years of development time while providing better performance and compatibility.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kasun Indrasiri & Danesh Kuruppu • gRPC: Up and Running • https://amzn.to/3sBGBJJ
Tomer Shiran, Jason Hughes & Alex Merced • Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide • https://amzn.to/488Z30k
William Smith • Arrow Flight Protocols and Practices • https://amzn.to/4o2Q2fd
Matthew Topol • In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow • https://amzn.to/4oJQ6BM
Apache Parquet A Complete Guide • https://amzn.to/4i7HVN6

Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming • Daniel Kusswurm & Matt Godbolt

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/411

Daniel Kusswurm - SW Developer, Computer Scientist & Author of "Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming" & many more books
Matt Godbolt - Low-level Latency Geek & Creator of Compiler Explorer

RESOURCES
Matt
https://bsky.app/profile/matt.godbolt.org
https://xania.org
https://github.com/mattgodbolt
https://www.linkedin.com/in/godbolt
https://twitter.com/mattgodbolt
https://godbolt.org

Links
https://link.springer.com
https://youtu.be/L2Qu9rk05rE
https://youtu.be/-HNpim5x-IE
https://youtu.be/hgcNM-6wr34

DESCRIPTION
Matt Godbolt, creator of Compiler Explorer, interviews Daniel Kusswurm, author of "Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming", about the enduring relevance of assembly language in modern software development. They explore what SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) is and why it enables dramatic performance improvements for specific computational tasks, discuss when assembly language programming is justified versus using compiler intrinsics, and examine the challenges of writing vectorized algorithms. Dan shares insights from his career optimizing image analysis software and explains how understanding low-level architecture can improve code quality even when writing in higher-level languages.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Daniel Kusswurm • Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming v3 • https://amzn.to/44hIVZf
Daniel Kusswurm • Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming v2 • https://amzn.to/3LJlMIZ
Daniel Kusswurm • Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming v1 • https://amzn.to/43DPANj
Daniel Kusswurm • Modern Arm Assembly Language Programming • https://amzn.to/4rbyH6M
Daniel Kusswurm • Practical C++ STL Programming • https://amzn.to/4ickAdq
Daniel Kusswurm • Modern Parallel Programming with C++ and Assembly Language • https://amzn.to/4o5J3SF

The AI Engineer's Guide to Surviving the EU AI Act • Larysa Visengeriyeva & Barbara Lampl

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/409

Dr. Larysa Visengeriyeva - Author of "The AI Engineer’s Guide to Surviving the EU AI Act" & Independent Consultant for EU AI Act Engineering
Barbara Lampl - Behavioral Mathematician at empathic business by Barbara Lampl

RESOURCES
Larysa
https://x.com/visenger
https://bsky.app/profile/visenger.bsky.social
https://github.com/visenger
https://www.linkedin.com/in/larysavisenger

Barbara
https://x.com/BarbaraLampl
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaralampl
https://barbara-lampl.tumblr.com

Links
https://ml-ops.org
https://github.com/visenger/awesome-mlops
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj/eng
https://machinelearningcanvas.com
https://louisdorard.gumroad.com/l/mlcanvas
https://ml-ops.org/content/crisp-ml

DESCRIPTION
Barbara Lampl interviews Larysa Visengeriyeva, software engineer and "godmother of MLOps", about her new book on AI engineering and compliance. What starts as a discussion about the EU AI Act quickly reveals a deeper truth: the real challenge isn't regulatory compliance - it's fundamental engineering practices.

Larysa argues that quality AI systems require robust MLOps, comprehensive documentation, and proper data governance, whether regulation mandates it or not. Drawing from frameworks like CRISP-ML and the Machine Learning Canvas, the book provides practical checklists and methodologies for taking AI projects from prototype to production. Written partially in Ukraine during wartime, this "battle-tested" guide addresses the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders, offering a common language for building sustainable AI systems.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Larysa Visengeriyeva • The AI Engineer's Guide to Surviving the EU AI Act • https://amzn.to/42SKOuU
Lakshmanan, Robinson & Munn • Machine Learning Design Patterns • https://amzn.to/4ox4Eos
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ
Diana Montalion • Learning Systems Thinking • https://amzn.to/3ZpycdJ
Bernd Rücker • Practical Process Automation • https://amzn.to/3cs3BSH
Lauren Maffeo • Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up • https://amzn.to/3QhIlnV
Katharine Jarmul • Practical Data Privacy • https://amzn.to/46XPrns
Zhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh • https://amzn.to/3tTCwAC
Kate Stanley & Mickael Maison • Kafka Connect • https://amzn.to/40Jq5Jz

Java Generics and Collections • Maurice Naftalin & Stuart Marks

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/406

Maurice Naftalin - Architect, Trainer & Co-Author of "Java Generics & Collections"
Stuart Marks - Java & OpenJDK at Oracle & Technical Editor of "Java Generics & Collections"

RESOURCES
Maurice
https://bsky.app/profile/mauricenaftalin.bsky.social
https://x.com/mauricenaftalin
https://github.com/MauriceNaftalin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maurice-naftalin

Stuart
https://bsky.app/profile/smarks.bsky.social
https://mastodon.social/@stuartmarks
https://x.com/stuartmarks
https://github.com/stuart-marks
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-marks-17a71a2
https://stuartmarks.wordpress.com

DESCRIPTION
Maurice Naftalin and Stuart Marks discuss the second edition of "Java Generics and Collections", published 19 years after the original. The conversation explores how Java programming has evolved from Java 5 to Java 25, covering major shifts like the move toward immutability, the introduction of sequenced collections, streams, and unmodifiable collections.

They delve into critical design topics including encapsulation of collections, the anemic domain model anti-pattern, the controversial unsupported operation exception, and the challenges of null handling. The book includes new chapters on usage guidance and design retrospectives that reflect decades of accumulated wisdom about the Collections Framework.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Maurice Naftalin & Philip Wadler • Java Generics and Collections 2nd ed • https://amzn.to/47dOp9t
Maurice Naftalin & Philip Wadler • Java Generics and Collections 1st ed • https://amzn.to/42JI03i
Joshua Bloch • Effective Java • https://amzn.to/4oFbdoi
Victor Grazi & Jeanne Boyarsky • Real-World Java • https://amzn.to/4oCEeBR
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ
Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code • https://amzn.to/3s2zjyg
Nicolai Parlog • The Java Module System • https://amzn.to/3xFggR4

Building Better Software: Why Workflows Beat Code Every Time • Ben Smith & James Beswick

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/407

Ben Smith - Staff Developer Advocate at Stripe
James Beswick - Head of Developer Relations at Stripe

RESOURCES
Ben
https://twitter.com/benjamin_l_s
https://github.com/bls20AWS
https://linkedin.com/in/bensmithportfolio
http://developeradvocate.co.uk
https://thewebsmithsite.wordpress.com

James
https://bsky.app/profile/jbesw.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/jbesw
https://linkedin.com/in/jamesbeswick

Links
https://stripe.dev
https://serverlessland.com

DESCRIPTION
James Beswick and Ben Smith explore the evolution of modern software architecture. They discuss why workflow services are essential for managing distributed systems, the challenges of microservices versus monoliths, and the power of plugin architectures.

The conversation covers practical topics like idempotency, circuit breaker patterns, and the importance of observability, while also diving into what makes a great developer advocate and how to build demos that truly resonate with developers.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2 • https://leanpub.com/visualising-software-architecture
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook • https://amzn.to/47oAf3l
Simon Wardley • Wardley Maps • https://amzn.to/45U8Upr
Simon Wardley • Wardley Mapping, The Knowledge • https://amzn.to/3XQEeDu
David Anderson, Marck McCann & Michael O'Reilly • The Value Flywheel Effect • https://amzn.to/3VcHxC
Mike Amundsen • Restful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook • https://amzn.to/3C74fpH

Building Software That Survives • Michael Nygard & Charles Humble

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/408

Michael Nygard - Chief Architect at Nubank & Author of "Release It!"
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

FULL TALK TITLE
Building Software That Survives: Autonomy, Architecture & Alignment at Scale

RESOURCES
Michael
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtnygard
https://twitter.com/mtnygard
http://www.michaelnygard.com

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

DESCRIPTION
Michael Nygard, author of the influential "Release It!" and Chief Architect at Nuank, discusses his journey from programmer to technical leader.

In this conversation, he shares insights from major transformation projects at Sabre and Nubank, exploring the nuances of centralization versus autonomy, the often-misunderstood implications of Conway's Law, and how architectural boundaries can reduce the need for constant organizational alignment.

He emphasizes that effective technical leadership involves more than reorganizations - it requires understanding communication structures, celebrating the right behaviors, and creating systems that enable teams to operate independently within well-defined boundaries.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Michael Nygard • Release It! 2nd Edition • https://amzn.to/3WJeKV8
Michael Nygard • Release It! 1st Edition • https://amzn.to/3XCkiRf
Richard Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know • https://amzn.to/3JdRYU2
Charles Humble • Professional Skills for Software Engineers • https://www.conissaunce.com/professional-skills-shortcut
Patterson, Grenny, McMillan & Switzler • Crucial Conversations • https://amzn.to/3LhGHTa
Yevgeniy Brikman • Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery • https://amzn.to/3WMPMFU
Tod Golding • Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures • https://amzn.to/3YfM49o
Jacqui Read • Communication Patterns • https://amzn.to/3E37lvv
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
James Stanier • Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager • https://amzn.to/3vHrx1E

Fundamentals of DevOps & Software Delivery • Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman & Kief Morris

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/405

Yevgeniy "Jim" Brikman - Author of "Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery" & Co-Founder of Gruntwork
Kief Morris - Author of "Infrastructure as Code" & Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Yevgeniy (Jim)
https://bsky.app/profile/brikis98.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/brikis98
https://github.com/brikis98/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbrikman
https://www.ybrikman.com

Kief
https://bsky.app/profile/kief.com
https://twitter.com/kief
https://github.com/kief
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiefmorris
https://infrastructure-as-code.com
https://kief.com

Link
https://terragrunt.gruntwork.io

DESCRIPTION
Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, author of "Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery", discusses his journey from app developer to DevOps advocate, triggered by LinkedIn's deployment crisis that required freezing all product development for months. The discussion with Kief Morris explores the practical definition of DevOps as efficient software delivery methodology, the relationship between infrastructure as code and application orchestration tools, the necessity of frameworks over custom wrapper scripts, and emerging paradigms including infrastructure from code, infrastructure as graph models, and interactive runbooks.

Jim emphasizes that while new approaches are interesting, maturity and standardization in existing tools often provides more value than constantly chasing new technologies.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Yevgeniy Brikman • Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery • https://amzn.to/3WMPMFU
Yevgeniy Brikman • Terraform: Up and Running • https://amzn.to/4otpxQL
Yevgeniy Brikman • Hello, Startup • https://amzn.to/3JmV0VR
Kief Morris • Infrastructure as Code • https://amzn.to/4e6EBQc
Mauricio Salatino • Platform Engineering on Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3X14qZK
Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda • Observability Engineering • https://amzn.to/38scbma

Learning Python Programming • Fabrizio Romano & Naomi Ceder

Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/401

Fabrizio Romano - Development Manager at Sohonet & Co-Author of "Learning Python Programming"
Naomi Ceder - Python Instruction and Consulting & Author of "The Quick Python Book"

RESOURCES
Fabrizio
https://x.com/gianchub
https://github.com/gianchub
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gianchub

Naomi
https://bsky.app/profile/naomiceder.tech
https://github.com/nceder
https://www.linkedin.com/in/naomiceder
https://www.naomiceder.tech

Link
https://adventofcode.com

DESCRIPTION
Naomi Ceder interviews Fabrizio Romano, author of "Learning Python Programming" (now in its 4th edition). They discuss Fabrizio’s decade-long journey as a Python programmer and book author, exploring how his perspectives have evolved across multiple editions.

Key topics include the shift from GUI-focused content to command-line applications, the controversial introduction of typing in Python, the rise of AI in coding, and the importance of educating junior developers. Fabrizio emphasizes the balance between embracing new tools like AI while maintaining fundamental programming skills and the human element in software development.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Fabrizio Romano & Heinrich Kruger • Learning Python Programming • https://amzn.to/4myLBIt
Naomi Ceder • The Quick Python Book • https://amzn.to/3zwdDOa
Luciano Ramalho • Fluent Python • https://amzn.to/3oSw2je
David Beazley • Python Distilled (Developer's Library) • https://amzn.to/3QjNBEv
Anna Skoulikari • Learning Git • https://amzn.to/4cSl8lz
Sy Brand • Building a Debugger • https://amzn.to/4cWWr84

ASP.NET Core 9 Essentials • Albert Tanure & Rafael Herik de Carvalho

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/402

Albert S. Tanure - Cross Solutions Architec at Microsoft & Author of "ASP.NET Core 9 Essentials"
Rafael Herik de Carvalho - Platform & DevOps Engineering at Devoteam

RESOURCES
Albert
https://x.com/alberttanure
https://github.com/tanure
https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-tanure
https://www.codefc.io/en

Rafael
https://x.com/rafaelherik
https://github.com/rafaelherik
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafaelh-carvalho
https://dev.to/rafaelherik

DESCRIPTION
Microsoft Solutions Architect Albert Tanure explores his approach to writing "ASP.NET Core 9 Essentials", a guide designed to take developers from basic .NET concepts to advanced cloud-native application development. Albert emphasizes the intentional structure of starting with foundations before introducing best practices, covering the complete application lifecycle from UI development and APIs to deployment, monitoring, and cloud operations.

The conversation highlights how modern development requires understanding not just coding, but also DevOps practices, observability with tools like OpenTelemetry, dynamic configurations, containers, and cloud-native principles. The book serves both beginners seeking solid foundations and experienced developers looking to understand modern deployment strategies, with particular emphasis on chapters 9-11 that cover cloud native mindsets and operational considerations.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Albert Tanure • ASP.NET Core 9 Essentials • https://amzn.to/43bH73t
Mark J. Price • Real-World Web Development with .NET 9 • https://amzn.to/46ZKsnw
Mark J. Price • C# 13 and .NET 9 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals • https://amzn.to/4o5E5FZ
Fabrizio Romano & Heinrich Kruger • Learning Python Programming • https://amzn.to/4myLBIt

Why Software Architecture is Mostly Communication • David Whitney, Ian Cooper & Hannes Lowette

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/400

David Whitney - Director of Architecture at NewDay
Ian Cooper - A Polyglot Coding Architect at Just Eat
Hannes Lowette - Principal Consultant at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover

RESOURCES
David
https://bsky.app/profile/davidwhitney.co.uk
http://twitter.com/david_whitney
https://www.instagram.com/davidwhitneycouk
https://github.com/davidwhitney
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwhitney
https://davidwhitney.co.uk/blog

Ian
https://bsky.app/profile/icooper.bsky.social
https://hachyderm.io/@ICooper
https://twitter.com/ICooper
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-cooper-2b059b
https://github.com/iancooper
https://ian-cooper.writeas.com

DESCRIPTION
Three experienced software engineers - Ian Cooper, David Whitney, and Hannes Lowette - discuss the evolution of software architecture from traditional "ivory tower" approaches to modern, collaborative practices. The conversation explores the tension between emergent and designed architecture, the importance of sustainable versus "slash-and-burn" development approaches, and how architectural decisions scale with organizational growth.
Key themes include the critical role of communication and coaching in architecture, the dangers of pattern cargo-culting, and the fundamental reality that all architectural challenges are ultimately people problems requiring empathy, shared language, and cultural change.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Barry O'Reilly • Residues • https://leanpub.com/residuality
Barry O'Reilly • The Architect's Paradox • https://leanpub.com/architectsparadox
Diana Montalion • Learning Systems Thinking • https://amzn.to/3ZpycdJ
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running• https://amzn.to/3c4HmmL
Jacqui Read • Communication Patterns • https://amzn.to/3E37lvv
Vaughn Vernon & Tomasz Jaskula • Strategic Monoliths & Microservices • https://amzn.to/3AcUscj

Fundamentals of Data Engineering • Matt Housley & Joe Reis

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/399

Matt Housley - Co-Author of "Fundamentals of Data Engineering", Keynote Speaker & Podcaster
Joe Reis - Co-Author of "Fundamentals of Data Engineering", Keynote Speaker, Professor & Podcaster

RESOURCES
Matt
https://www.linkedin.com/in/housleymatthew

Joe
https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephreis
https://github.com/JoeReis
https://joereis.substack.com

Link
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114915604830689046

DESCRIPTION
Joe Reis and Matt Housley, co-authors of "Fundamentals of Data Engineering," discuss the evolution of their field three years after their book's publication. They explore how the rise of AI tools has transformed data engineering practices, the ongoing importance of foundational knowledge, and the challenges facing junior engineers in an AI-dominated landscape. The conversation covers the balance between leveraging AI assistance and maintaining core expertise, the resurgence of classical techniques, and why fundamental principles remain more relevant than ever.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Joe Reis & Matt Housley • Fundamentals of Data Engineering • https://amzn.to/4n85049
Karen Hao • Empire of AI • https://amzn.to/46qeL6B
Keach Hagey • The Optimist • https://amzn.to/4nlcS20
Parmy Olson • Supremacy • https://amzn.to/3IpHdgI
Peter Norvig & Stuart Russel • Artificial Intelligence • https://amzn.to/420ZgR8
David Foster • Generative Deep Learning • https://amzn.to/48ZgP4x
Sol Rashidi • Your AI Survival Guide • https://amzn.to/3UFYnKC

The Death of Classical Computer Science • Matt Welsh & Julian Wood

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Check out more here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/398

Matt Welsh - Head of Al Systems at Palantir
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
Matt
https://twitter.com/mdwelsh
https://www.mdw.la
https://github.com/mdwelsh
https://www.linkedin.com/in/welsh-matt
https://www.ultravox.ai

Julian
https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
https://github.com/julianwood
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

DESCRIPTION
Matt Welsh, former professor at Harvard University and AI researcher, argues to Julian Wood that we're witnessing the death of classical computer science as language models evolve into general-purpose computers capable of direct problem-solving without human-written code.

He envisions a future where AI eliminates programming barriers, democratizing computing power so anyone can instruct computers through natural language. While acknowledging concerns about job displacement and societal equity, Matt believes this transformation will unleash unprecedented human creativity by putting the full power of computing in everyone's hands, moving beyond the current "programming priesthood" to universal access to computational problem-solving.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Michael Feathers • AI Assisted Programming • https://leanpub.com/ai-assisted-programming
Matthias Kalle Dalheimer & Matt Welsh • Running Linux • https://amzn.to/3YSwAIv
Alex Castrounis • AI for People and Business • https://amzn.to/3NYKKTo
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ
Kelleher & Tierney • Data Science (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) • https://amzn.to/3AQmIRg

C++ Memory Management • Patrice Roy & Kevin Carpenter

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/397

Patrice Roy - Author of "C++ Memory Management"
Kevin Carpenter - Software Engineering Manager at EPX

RESOURCES
Patrice
https://bsky.app/profile/patriceroy1.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrice-roy-a050b02a4

Kevin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinbcarpenter
https://github.com/kevinbcarpenter

Link
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/c-memory-management-masterclass-tickets-1580340644409

DESCRIPTION
Kevin Carpenter talked to veteran C++ programmer Patrice Roy. The conversation explores the intricacies of memory management in modern C++. Patrice, who has been programming in C++ for over 30 years and serves on the C++ Standards Committee, shares wisdom from his new book "Memory Management in C++" while discussing everything from the pitfalls of over-allocation to the nuances of smart pointers.

The conversation reveals how proper memory management isn't just about performance—it's about writing safer, more maintainable code that leverages C++'s powerful abstractions while avoiding common traps that lead seasoned developers astray.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Patrice Roy • C++ Memory Management • https://amzn.to/3K4gnet
Sy Brand • Building a Debugger • https://amzn.to/4cWWr84
Andreas Zeller • The Debugging Book • https://www.debuggingbook.org
Bjarne Stroustrup • Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ • https://amzn.to/3I5Q335
Marius Bancila • Modern C++ Programming Cookbook • https://amzn.to/41ES4Kd

The End of Engineering's Blank Check: Accountability in Software Leadership • Laura Tacho & Charles Humble

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Laura Tacho - CTO at DX & Executive Coach at Laura Tacho Consulting
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Laura
https://x.com/rhein_wein
https://bsky.app/profile/lauratacho.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauratacho
https://lauratacho.com

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://getdx.com/research/measuring-ai-code-assistants-and-agents
https://www.conissaunce.com/professional-skills-shortcut.html
https://getdx.com/research/measuring-developer-productivity-with-the-dx-core-4
https://dora.dev
https://getdx.com/blog/understanding-dora-metrics
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3454124
https://getdx.com/blog/space-metrics
https://getdx.com/research/devex-what-actually-drives-productivity
https://getdx.com/news/introducing-genai-impact-report

DESCRIPTION
Laura Tacho, CTO at DX and executive coach, shares her take on the challenging transition from technical contributor to business leader. She discusses the most common leadership skill gaps she sees in CTOs, particularly around setting clear expectations without falling into the "micromanagement spiral of doom".

Laura explains the development of the DX Core 4 framework for measuring developer productivity through four balanced dimensions:
• Speed
• Effectiveness
• Quality
• Impact

She emphasizes the critical importance of connecting technical work to business outcomes, arguing that the era of engineering having a "blank check" is over and that today's leaders must think like business leaders who speak in terms of ROI and impact. The conversation with Charles Humble also covers emerging trends in AI-assisted development and unconventional approaches to performance management.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Will Larson • An Elegant Puzzle • https://amzn.to/4gb9VyC
Will Larson • The Engineering Executive's Primer • https://amzn.to/3UURQuT
Meri Williams • The Principles of Project Management • https://amzn.to/4lj5B1G
Daniel H. Pink • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us • https://amzn.to/3UHx535
Kathy Sierra • Badass • https://amzn.to/4b9fb2V
James Stanier • Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager • https://amzn.to/3vHrx1E

Reliability Engineering Mindset • Alex Ewerlöf & Charity Majors

Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Alex Ewerlöf - Senior Staff Engineer at Volvo Cars & Author of "Reliability Engineering Mindset"
Charity Majors - Co-Founder & CTO of honeycomb.io & Co-Author of "Observability Engineering"

RESOURCES
Alex
https://bsky.app/profile/alexewerlof.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexewerlof
https://www.alexewerlof.com

Charity
https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy
https://linkedin.com/in/charity-majors
https://charity.wtf
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/slos-are-the-api-for-your-engineering-team

DESCRIPTION
Alex Ewerlöf shares his journey from product engineering to reliability engineering and discusses the practical challenges of implementing Google's SRE practices in real-world companies.

He emphasizes the significant gap between Google's idealized SRE approach — which he links to "a fantastic chef's recipe for Michelin-starred restaurants" — and the reality most companies face with limited resources and infrastructure. The discussion covers key topics including the evolution from traditional operations to where engineers own their code in production, the critical importance of choosing SLIs that align with business impact, and how SLOs help set expectations and help the service consumers prepare non-functional requirements.

Alex coined the law of 10x per 9 highlighting that reliability isn't free and requires careful cost-benefit analysis.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Alex Ewerlöf • Reliability Engineering Mindset • https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/rem
C. Majors, L. Fong-Jones & G. Miranda • Observability Eng. • https://amzn.to/38scbma
C. Majors & L. Campbell • Database Reliability Eng. • https://amzn.to/3ujybdS
Alex Hidalgo • Implementing Service Level Objectives • https://amzn.to/4pbWJxw
Brian Klaas • Fluke • https://amzn.to/41V1Cko
Simler & Hanson • The Elephant in the Brain • https://amzn.to/4fYCG1i

How to Discover the Binary System as a Child • Simon Peyton Jones & Chelsea Troy

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Simon Peyton Jones - Key Contributor of Haskell & Engineering Fellow at Epic Games
Chelsea Troy - MLOps Tech Lead at Mozilla & Lecturer at University of Chicago

RESOURCES
Simon
https://simon.peytonjones.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jones
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonpj

Chelsea
https://chelseatroy.com
https://social.clawhammer.net/@HeyChelseaTroy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelseatroy

Links
https://www.barefootcomputing.org
https://www.computingatschool.org.uk/resources/2015/january
https://www.computingatschool.org.uk/forum-news-blogs/2023/november
https://chelseatroy.com/2025/05/14
https://computingeducation.org.uk
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog

DESCRIPTION
Simon discusses how a simple math problem led him to discover the binary system 55 years ago. He explores how to maintain the essence of computational thinking in an era where AI can instantly solve coding problems, emphasizing concrete, motivated contexts over abstract algorithms.

The discussion spans from elementary programming to his unique role as a computing fellow at Epic Games, where he works with CEO Tim Sweeney to design the Verse programming language, proving that even big companies can prioritize denotational semantics over quarterly profits.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Simon Peyton Jones • The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages • https://amzn.to/3HQE0Xn
Chelsea Troy • Remote Work Sucks • https://heychelseatroy.gumroad.com/l/remoteworksucks

Breaking the Architecture Bottleneck • Andrew Harmel-Law & Marit van Dijk

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Andrew Harmel-Law - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks & Author of "Facilitating Software Architecture"
Marit van Dijk - Developer Advocate at JetBrains, Java Champion & Open Source Contributor

RESOURCES
Andrew
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewhl.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewharmellaw
https://andrewharmellaw.github.io

Marit
https://bsky.app/profile/maritvandijk.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/maritvandijk
https://medium.com/@mlvandijk
https://maritvandijk.com

Links
https://facilitatingsoftwarearchitecture.com
https://ruthmalan.com
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse

DESCRIPTION
Andrew Harmel-Law discusses their book "Facilitating Software Architecture" and how traditional architecture approaches often become bottlenecks that slow down high-performing development teams.

Rather than architects making top-down decisions in isolation, they advocate for a facilitation approach centered on the "advice process".

This collaborative method shifts the architect's role from decision-maker to conversation facilitator. The approach has proven successful even in traditional corporate environments, ultimately creating more maintainable code bases where development teams actually enjoy working and can respond effectively to changing requirements.

RECOMMENDED BOOK
Andrew Harmel-Law • Facilitating Software Architecture • https://amzn.eu/d/5kZKVfU

How to Get People Excited about Functional Programming • Russ Olsen & James Lewis

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024.
https://gotocph.com

Russ Olsen - Author of "Getting Clojure" & "Eloquent Ruby"
James Lewis - Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Russ
https://bsky.app/profile/russolsen.bsky.social
https://hachyderm.io/@russolsen
https://github.com/russolsen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/russolsen
http://russolsen.com

James
https://bsky.app/profile/boicy.bovon.org
https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices
https://github.com/boicy
https://www.bovon.org

Read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2024/sessions/3522

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Russ Olsen • Getting Clojure • https://amzn.to/3J8zI8s
Russ Olsen • Eloquent Ruby • https://amzn.to/37gOhcG
Russ Olsen • Design Patterns in Ruby • https://amzn.to/3r2uBjW
Barry O'Reilly • Unlearn • https://amzn.to/3O3DQeI
Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky & Barry O'Reilly • Lean Enterprise • https://amzn.to/3Cpt6ET
Sarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success • https://amzn.to/4aa8xrv
Martin Fowler • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3EVcHXQ
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ

Beyond the Hype: Real Talk on AI-Assisted Development • Jessica Kerr & Diana Montalion

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Jessica Kerr - Engineering Manager of Developer Relation at Honeycomb.io & Symmathecist
Diana Montalion - Systems Architect, Mentrix Founder & Author of "Learning Systems Thinking"

RESOURCES
Jessica
https://bsky.app/profile/jessitron.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/jessicakerr
https://www.twitch.tv/jessitronica
https://jessitron.com

Diana
https://bsky.app/profile/dianamontalion.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianamontalion
https://montalion.com
https://learningsystemsthinking.com

DESCRIPTION
Systems architect Diana Montalion and engineering manager Jessica Kerr cut through the AI coding hype to explore what these tools actually do well - and where they have room for improvement. Moving beyond the "AI will replace developers" narrative, they reveal how AI assistants excel at the tedious work of typing, scaffolding, and error handling while remaining surprisingly bad at the nuanced thinking that experienced developers bring to complex systems.

Their discussion illuminates a more mature relationship with AI tools: one where developers maintain agency over design decisions while leveraging AI's strengths in automation, synthesis, and rapid prototyping. The result is a pragmatic roadmap for using AI to amplify human expertise rather than replace it.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Diana Montalion • Learning Systems Thinking • https://amzn.to/3ZpycdJ
Andrew Harmel-Law • Facilitating Software Architecture • https://amzn.eu/d/5kZKVfU
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems • https://amzn.to/3XtqYCV
Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification • https://amzn.to/45D8bHA

From Hardware Hacker to CTO: Building Teams That Scale • Meri Williams & Charles Humble

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/388

Meri Williams - CTO at Pleo & Advisor at Skiller Whale & Kindred Capital
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Meri
https://x.com/Geek_Manager
https://github.com/geekmanager
http://blog.geekmanager.co.uk

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://blog.container-solutions.com/managing-remote-teams-in-scaling-organisations

DESCRIPTION
Join us in a conversation with Meri Williams, an experienced CTO who has led technology teams from 30 to 300 people across organizations.
In this candid discussion, Meri shares their journey from reluctant manager to seasoned leader, revealing hard-won insights about scaling teams, avoiding the "Google trap" of copying big tech practices inappropriately, and why investing in onboarding can make or break your organization.
With refreshing honesty about management mistakes and the ongoing importance of diversity in building products that serve everyone, this conversation offers practical wisdom for anyone navigating the world of tech leadership.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Meri Williams • The Principles of Project Management • https://amzn.to/4lj5B1G
Tom DeMarco & Tim Lister • Peopleware • https://amzn.to/3KJmFOq
Marcus Buckingham & Gallup Organization • First, Break All the Rules • https://amzn.to/40xpppI
Daniel H. Pink • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us • https://amzn.to/3UHx535
Kathy Sierra • Badass • https://amzn.to/4b9fb2V
James Stanier • Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager • https://amzn.to/3vHrx1E

Real-World Java • Victor Grazi, Jeanne Boyarsky & Barry Burd

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/393

Victor Grazi - Oracle Java Champion & Co-Author of "Real-World Java"
Jeanne Boyarsky - Oracle Java Champion, Co-Author of "Real-World Java" & "OCP 21 Java Cert Book"
Barry Burd - Professor at Drew University, Owner at Burd Brain Consulting & Author of "Java for Dummies"

RESOURCES
Victor
https://x.com/vgrazi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorgrazi

Jeanne
https://bsky.app/profile/jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-boyarsky

Barry
https://x.com/allmycode
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-burd

Links
https://projectlombok.org
https://www.selikoff.net/2014/12/07/why-i-like-regular-expressions-who-says-they-arent-readable

DESCRIPTION
Barry interviews Victor and Jeanne about their book "Real-World Java: Helping You Navigate the Java Ecosystem".
Victor emphasizes that knowing how to use your development tools, particularly IDE refactoring features, is a better indicator of developer experience than algorithm tests.
Rather than just teaching "hello world" examples, the authors focus on the essential ecosystem components needed to succeed in enterprise Java environments, making it accessible for anyone who knows the Java language but needs to understand the broader technological landscape they'll encounter in professional development roles.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Victor Grazi & Jeanne Boyarsky • Real-World Java • https://amzn.to/4oCEeBR
Jeanne Boyarsky & Scott Selikoff • OCP 21 Java Cert Book • https://amzn.to/4lF8OIC
Barry Burd • Java For Dummies • https://amzn.to/4mrXC3e
Barry Burd • Quantum Computing Algorithms • https://amzn.to/3Josymi

The Debugging Book • Andreas Zeller & Clare Sudbery

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/387

Prof. Andreas Zeller - Faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security & Author of "The Debugging Book"
Clare Sudbery - Independent Technical Coach

RESOURCES
Andreas
https://bsky.app/profile/andreaszeller.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaszeller
https://andreas-zeller.info

Clare
https://bsky.app/profile/claresudbery.bsky.social
https://www.madetech.com/podcast
https://insimpleterms.blog

Links
https://www.debuggingbook.org
https://github.com/uds-se/debuggingbook
https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/dd

DESCRIPTION
Programming education has a critical blind spot: while we extensively teach code creation, we barely scratch the surface of testing and give almost no attention to debugging—despite debugging consuming half of all software development time.

In this conversation with Clare Sudbery, Prof. Andreas Zeller argues that systematic debugging skills and modern automated debugging tools are the "ugly stepchild" of programming that nobody wants to discuss, yet debugging represents the biggest business risk and time sink in software development.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Andreas Zeller • The Debugging Book • https://www.debuggingbook.org
Sy Brand • Building a Debugger • https://amzn.to/4cWWr84
Nora Sandler • Writing a C Compiler • https://amzn.to/3Z6SMhU

Domain-Driven Refactoring • Alessandro Colla, Alberto Acerbis & Xin Yao

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/389

Alessandro Colla - Partner & Head of Development at Evoluzione & Co-Author of "Domain-Driven Refactoring"
Alberto Acerbis - Software Architect at Intré & Co-Author of "Domain-Driven Refactoring"
Xin Yao - Independent Consultant Contextualizing DDD & Sociotechnical Architecture

RESOURCES
Alessandro
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandrocolla
https://www.alessandrocolla.com

Alberto
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aacerbis
https://albertoacerbis.com

Xin
https://bsky.app/profile/settling-mud.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/xinxin

Links
https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Domain-driven-Refactoring
https://github.com/BrewUp

DESCRIPTION
Legacy code isn't just old - it's a treasure chest of lost business knowledge waiting to be rediscovered. Alessandro Colla and Alberto Acerbis share their battle-tested approach to domain-driven refactoring, explaining why you should start with understanding the business problem before touching a single line of code. Like Michelangelo seeing the statue of David hidden in marble, they show how the right solution already exists within your legacy codebase—you just need the right tools and techniques to set it free.

From event storming workshops over beer to modular monoliths as stepping stones, these "double-A battery" developers prove that thoughtful, incremental refactoring beats flashy microservices migrations every time.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Colla & Acerbis • Domain-Driven Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3I3I7zf
Evans • Domain-Driven Design • https://amzn.to/3tnGhwm
Vernon • Implementing Domain-Driven Design • https://amzn.to/44r39PB
Nilsson • Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns • https://amzn.to/3GoxYwm

20+ Years in Tech: Things We Wish We Knew Sooner • Daniel Terhorst-North & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024.
https://gotocph.com

Daniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates
Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer

RESOURCES
Daniel
https://bsky.app/profile/tastapod.com
https://twitter.com/tastapod
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tastapod
https://github.com/tastapod
https://mastodon.social/@tastapod
http://dannorth.net/blog

Kevlin
https://bsky.app/profile/kevlin.bsky.social
https://about.me/kevlin
https://twitter.com/KevlinHenney
https://linkedin.com/in/kevlin
https://instagram.com/kevlin.henney
https://kevlinhenney.medium.com

Links
https://jaoo.dk/jaoo2004/index2.jsp
https://jaoo.dk/archives

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Jez Humble & David Farley • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/452ZRky
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim • Accelerate • https://amzn.to/442Rep0
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/2Yahf9U
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know • https://amzn.to/3pZuHsQ
Gojko Adzic • Specification by Example • https://amzn.to/44uqT6z

Building Support Structures • Flavia Circiumaru & Hannes Lowette

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/386

Flavia Circiumaru - Software Engineer at FundApps
Hannes Lowette - Principal Consultant at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover

RESOURCES
Flavia
https://x.com/FlavsFA
https://github.com/flaviacirciumaru
https://www.linkedin.com/in/flavia-circiumaru

Hannes
https://bsky.app/profile/hanneslowette.net
https://twitter.com/hannes_lowette
https://github.com/Belenar
https://linkedin.com/in/hanneslowette

DESCRIPTION
When FundApps exploded from 20 to 50+ engineers in just one year, their old "everyone does support" model crumbled spectacularly. Software engineer Flavia Circiumaru and host Hannes Lowette dive deep into how this London-based regulatory compliance company transformed from a support-free-for-all to a streamlined powerhouse.

Flavia Circiumaru reveals the behind-the-scenes story of building a three-desk support system that turned their support team into the ultimate connector, bridging customers, developers, and business teams like never before. From battling context-switching nightmares to creating communication magic, Flavia and Hannes explore actionable insights on scaling support without losing your sanity.

The twist? Their ultimate goal is to make support so seamless that dedicated teams won't even be needed. Talk about engineering your way out of a job!

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Jacqui Read • Communication Patterns • https://amzn.to/3E37lvv
Saleem Siddiqui • Learning Test-Driven Development • https://amzn.to/35OMb3n
Ben Goldacre • Bad Science • https://amzn.to/4lqNLKN
Ben Goldacre • Bad Pharma • https://amzn.to/3G15Mz7
Jeet Pattanaik • Ethics in AI • https://amzn.to/4jXyQXw

Elm & Open Source: What's Next? • Evan Czaplicki & Kris Jenkins

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024.
https://gotocph.com

Evan Czaplicki - Creator and developer of Elm
Kris Jenkins - Developer Advocate, Software Developer, Podcast Host, Conference Speaker & Geek

RESOURCES
Evan
https://twitter.com/evancz
https://github.com/evancz

Kris
https://twitter.com/krisajenkins
https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkins
https://github.com/krisajenkins
http://blog.jenkster.com

Read the full abstract here:
https://gotocph.com/2024/sessions/3528

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Richard Feldman • Elm in Action • https://amzn.to/387kujI
Jeremy Fairbank • Programming Elm • https://amzn.to/2WhZCE8
Wolfgang Loder • Web Applications with Elm • https://amzn.to/3jblQ3q
Cristian Salcescu • Functional Programming in JavaScript • https://amzn.to/3y75jBS

Platform Engineering: From Theory to Practice • Liz Fong-Jones & Lesley Cordero

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/384

Liz Fong-Jones - Field CTO at Honeycomb.io
Lesley Cordero - Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at The New York Times

RESOURCES
Liz
https://bsky.app/profile/lizthegrey.com
https://github.com/lizthegrey
https://linkedin.com/in/efong
https://www.lizthegrey.com

Lesley
https://www.lesleycordero.com
https://twitter.com/clesleycode
https://github.com/clesleycode
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleycordero

Videos
https://www.alex-hidalgo.com
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/most-important-developer-productivity-metric-build-times

DESCRIPTION
Liz and Lesley explore the evolution of platform engineering from its DevOps and SRE roots. They discuss the challenges of building effective developer platforms, the importance of psychological safety and evidence-based prioritization, the complexities of open source sustainability, and the delicate balance between centralized platform teams and developer autonomy.

The conversation covers practical insights on documentation automation, onboarding strategies, the manager-engineer career pendulum, and why treating platform work as a service rather than a mandate is crucial for organizational success.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adkins, Beyer, Blankinship, Lewandowski, Oprea & Stubblefield • Building Secure and Reliable Systems • https://amzn.to/4n0bjae
Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda • Observability Engineering • https://amzn.to/38scbma
Beyer, Murphy, Rensin, Kawahara & Thorne • The Site Reliability Workbook • https://amzn.to/3IwsiOl
Kelly Shortridge & Aaron Rinehart • Security Chaos Engineering • https://www.verica.io/sce-book
Nora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/3hUmuAH
Russ Miles • Learning Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/3hCiUe8

Infrastructure as Code • Kief Morris & Abby Bangser

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/385

Kief Morris - Author of "Infrastructure as Code" & Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks
Abby Bangser - Principal Engineer at Syntasso & Team Topologies Advocate

RESOURCES
Kief
https://bsky.app/profile/kief.com
https://twitter.com/kief
https://github.com/kief
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiefmorris
https://kief.com

Abby
https://bsky.app/profile/abangser.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/a_bangser
https://github.com/abangser
https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser
https://www.syntasso.io/members-area/abby/profile

Links
https://infrastructure-as-code.com

DESCRIPTION
Abby Bangser (Principal Engineer at Syntasso) speaks with Kief Morris (Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks consultant and Author of "Infrastructure as Code") about the evolution of infrastructure as code over the past decade. They discuss how the field has grown from simple server configuration management to complex cloud architectures, the challenges of current tooling, and emerging solutions like System Initiative.

The conversation explores the importance of abstraction layers, the application of software development principles to infrastructure, and how AI might transform the field. They emphasize that infrastructure decisions must align with business needs rather than being treated as generic plumbing, highlighting the ongoing need for platform engineering and developer experience considerations.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kief Morris • Infrastructure as Code • https://amzn.to/4e6EBQc
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
Dave Thomas • simplicity • https://amzn.to/43FghBJ
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer • https://amzn.to/43QuMBj

Tech Leadership Challenges: Communication & AI at Financial Times • Alice Bartlett & Charles Humble

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/382

Alice Bartlett - Tech Director for Customer Products at Financial Times
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Alice
https://x.com/alicebartlett
https://github.com/alicebartlett
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicebartlett
https://medium.com/@alice.bartlett
https://alicebartlett.co.uk

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://blog.container-solutions.com/wtf-happens-to-psychological-safety

DESCRIPTION
Alice Bartlett, Tech Director at the Financial Times, discusses her journey from principal engineer to leading a 70-person team responsible for https://www.ft.com and mobile apps. She shares insights on managing editorial stakeholders, balancing technical debt with business priorities, leading difficult conversations, and navigating the challenges of AI in software development.

The conversation with Charles Humble covers her approach to architectural challenges, communication strategies, and the evolving role of technology leadership in modern media organizations.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Simon Wardley • Wardley Maps • https://amzn.to/45U8Upr
Simon Wardley • Wardley Mapping, The Knowledge • https://amzn.to/3XQEeDu
Sun Tzu • The Art of War • https://amzn.to/2BqDeha
Mark Craddock • Wardley Mapping Doctrine • https://amzn.to/4b3jRYb
Susanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/3XTmNCc
David Anderson, Marck McCann & Michael O'Reilly • The Value Flywheel Effect • https://amzn.to/3VcHxC7
Erik Schön • The Art Of Strategy • https://amzn.to/2UPzXPa

Simplicity • Pragmatic Dave Thomas & Sarah Taraporewalla

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/383

Pragmatic Dave Thomas - Pragmatic Programmer Turned Publisher
Sarah Taraporewalla - CTO APAC at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Dave
https://pragdave.me
https://twitter.com/pragdave
https://github.com/pragdave
https://linkedin.com/in/dave-thomas-53aa1057

Sarah
https://sarahtaraporewalla.com
https://twitter.com/sarahtarap
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtaraporewalla
https://github.com/staraporf

Links
https://pragprog.com
https://agilemanifesto.org

DESCRIPTION
Sarah Taraporewalla (CTO APAC at Thoughtworks) sits down with programming legend Dave Thomas—co-founder of The Pragmatic Programmer and co-creator of principles like DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)—to discuss his latest book "Simplicity."

Dave reveals why he believes "Agile is Dead" and shares his disillusionment with how agile practices have become rigid, corporate processes rather than the flexible, value-driven approach originally envisioned in the Agile Manifesto he helped create. The conversation centers around his new Orient-Step-Learn framework, designed to help individual developers master true simplicity through deliberate practice and feedback loops, emphasizing that real simplicity requires mastery and cannot be achieved overnight.

Dave advocates for developers to take personal agency, reduce unnecessary dependencies, and focus on what they can control rather than waiting for organizational change, arguing that simplicity is ultimately about cutting away complexity to reveal elegant, minimal solutions.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Dave Thomas • simplicity • https://amzn.to/43FghBJ
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer • https://amzn.to/43QuMBj
Dave Snowden & Friends • Cynefin • https://amzn.to/3FSnF3p

Writing for Developers • Piotr Sarna & Glauber Costa

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Piotr Sarna - Co-Author of "Writing for Developers" & Founding Engineer at poolside
Glauber Costa - Founder & CEO at Turso

RESOURCES
Piotr
https://bsky.app/profile/sarna.dev
https://github.com/psarna
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarna-dev
https://bio.sarna.dev

Glauber
https://bsky.app/profile/glaubercosta.bsky.social
https://github.com/glommer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/glommer
https://glaubercosta-11125.medium.com

Links
Get 45% discount with code: *GOTOdunlop*: http://mng.bz/Y7oK
https://writethat.blog
https://writethat.blog/?year=2025&month=3
https://turso.tech/blog/zig-helped-us-move-data-to-the-edge-here-are-our-impressions-67d3a9c45af4
https://www.scylladb.com/2021/09/28/hunting-a-numa-performance-bug
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42378843

DESCRIPTION
Glauber Costa interviews engineer Piotr Sarna about his evolution from a reluctant writer to a successful technical book author. They discuss writing as an engineering discipline, common engineering blog post patterns, and why even introverted non-native English speakers should be blogging.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Piotr Sarna & Cynthia Dunlop • Writing for Developers • https://amzn.to/3Z3rzgf
Cardeneti Mendes, Sarna, Emelyanov & Dunlop • Database Performance at Scale • https://amzn.to/3ZNBqqJ
Nicole Foster • How To Write In Plain English • https://amzn.to/3XaTWHf

Incremental Design, DevOps, Microservices & CICD • Michael Nygard & Dave Farley

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024.
https://gotocph.com

Michael Nygard - General Manager of Data at Nubank
Dave Farley - Continuous Delivery & DevOps Pioneer, Award-winning Author, Founder & Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.

RESOURCES
Michael
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtnygard
https://twitter.com/mtnygard
http://www.michaelnygard.com

Dave
https://bsky.app/profile/davefarley77.bsky.social
https://www.continuous-delivery.co.uk
https://linkedin.com/in/dave-farley-a67927
https://twitter.com/davefarley77
http://www.davefarley.net

Read the full abstract here

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity
Michael Nygard • Release It! 2nd Edition
Michael Nygard • Release It! 1st Edition
Zhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh
Dave Farley • Modern Software Engineering
Dave Farley • Continuous Delivery Pipelines
Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery

The Blind Spots of Platform Engineering • Matt McLarty & Erik Wilde

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Matt McLarty - CTO at Boomi & Co-Author of "Unbundling the Enterprise"
Erik Wilde - Principal Consultant at INNOQ

RESOURCES
Matt
https://bsky.app/profile/mattmclartybc.bsky.social
https://x.com/MattMcLartyBC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattmclartybc

Erik
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikwilde
https://github.com/dret

Links
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6417
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/richard-seroter-on-shifting-down-vs-shifting-left
https://platformengineering.org/blog

DESCRIPTION
Matt McLarty and Erik Wilde explore the nuanced world of platform engineering, challenging conventional approaches and highlighting the critical importance of aligning technological capabilities with business outcomes. They discuss the evolution from DevOps, the role of APIs, and the need to create flexible, reusable technological building blocks that drive true organizational innovation.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Stephen Fishman & Matt McLarty • Unbundling the Enterprise
Carliss Y. Baldwin • Design Rules, Vol. 2
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford • The Phoenix Project

Early Days of Agile Development & Is Design Dead? • Martin Fowler & James Lewis

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024.
https://gotocph.com

Martin Fowler - Pioneer of Various Topics around Object-Oriented Technology & Agile Methods
James Lewis - Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks @thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Martin
https://x.com/martinfowler
https://www.martinfowler.com
https://toot.thoughtworks.com/@mfowler
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-fowler-com

James
https://bsky.app/profile/boicy.bovon.org
https://twitter.com/boicy
https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices
https://github.com/boicy
https://www.bovon.org

Links
https://agilemanifesto.org
https://martinfowler.com/articles/designDead.html
https://martinfowler.com/articles/on-pair-programming.html

Read the full abstract here

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Martin Fowler • Refactoring
Scott W. Ambler & Pramod Sadalage • Refactoring Databases
Martin Fowler & Pramod Sadalage • NoSQL Distilled
Martin Fowler • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Martin Fowler • Domain-Specific Languages
Martin Fowler • UML Distilled

Serverless Apps on Cloudflare • Ashley Peacock & Ricky Robinett

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Ashley Peacock - Staff Software Engineer at Simply Business & Author of "Serverless Apps on Cloudflare" & "Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques"
Ricky Robinett - VP Developer Relations & Community at Cloudflare

RESOURCES
Ashley
https://twitter.com/_ashleypeacock
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-peacock-133749120
https://medium.com/@ashley-peacock
https://github.com/apeacock1991

Ricky
https://twitter.com/rickyrobinett
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickyrobinett
https://about.me/rickyrobinett
https://github.com/rickyrobinett

Links
https://www.cursor.com

DESCRIPTION
Ricky Robinett interviews Ashley Peacock, author of "Serverless Apps on Cloudflare", about the developer platform side of Cloudflare. Ashley explains how Cloudflare has evolved from primarily a security company to a full-fledged developer platform with global deployment capabilities, databases, caching solutions, and AI tools.

They discuss the unique aspects of Cloudflare's architecture, including global deployment by default, bindings that simplify resource connections without requiring secrets management, and excellent local development experience.

Ashley highlights several Cloudflare products including Workers (serverless functions), D1 (SQLite database), KV (key-value store), R2 (object storage), Durable Objects, and AI offerings like Workers AI and AI Gateway. The conversation covers developer experience, using AI assistants for coding, and the benefits of Cloudflare's approach to simplifying cloud development.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ashley Peacock • Serverless Apps on Cloudflare
Ashley Peacock • Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques
Jeroen Mulder • Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects

Building a Debugger • Sy Brand & Tim Misiak

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Sy Brand - Author of "Building a Debugger" and C++ Developer Advocate at Microsoft
Tim Misiak - Systems Engineer at Datadog and Co-Founder of Augmend

RESOURCES
Sy
https://bsky.app/profile/tartanllama.xyz
https://x.com/tartanllama
https://github.com/TartanLLama
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sy-brand-36520857
https://sybrand.ink
https://blog.tartanllama.xyz

Tim
https://bsky.app/profile/timdbg.com
https://x.com/timmisiak
https://github.com/timmisiak
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-misiak
https://www.timdbg.com

Links
https://dwarfstd.org
https://lldb.llvm.org
https://rr-project.org
https://undo.io

DESCRIPTION
Tim Misiak interviews Sy Brand about their book "Building a Debugger". Sy, who has a background in GPU compilers and debuggers, discusses how implementing a debugger offers profound insights into computer systems.

The conversation explores the unexpected complexities of debugging fundamentals like stack unwinding and code stepping. They examine how debugging interfaces have evolved and the challenges posed by backward compatibility and language evolution.

Sy highlights areas for future advancement in debugging, particularly time travel debugging for non-deterministic issues and better tools for debugging optimized code. Throughout the interview, both experts share fascinating technical details that reveal why debugger implementation serves as an excellent path to deeper understanding of operating systems and hardware.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sy Brand • Building a Debugger
Cathy O'Neil • Weapons of Math Destruction

Flow Engineering • Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Steve Pereira - Co-Author of "Flow Engineering" & Principal Consultant at Visible Flow Consulting
Andrew Davis - Co-Author of "Flow Engineering" & Founder at Institute for Transformational Leadership

RESOURCES
Steve
https://x.com/steveelsewhere
https://github.com/stevepereira
https://www.linkedin.com/in/devopsto
https://stevepereira.ca

Andrew
https://x.com/andrewdavis_io
https://github.com/abd3
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdavis-io
https://www.andrewdavis.io

Links
https://flowcollective.org

DESCRIPTION
Flow Engineering co-authors Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis discuss their approach to improving workflow visibility in software development and knowledge work. They explore how value stream mapping can be adapted for modern digital work environments, where the work is largely invisible compared to manufacturing settings.

The authors explain their five-map framework designed to help teams establish clarity, improve collaboration, and enhance productivity despite busy schedules and constant firefighting. They emphasize the importance of visual collaboration to create shared mental models and the continuing relevance of these practices in an AI-driven future.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis • Flow Engineering
Andrew Davis • Mastering Salesforce DevOps
Susanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies
Charles Humble • Professional Skills for Software Engineers
Simon Wardley • Wardley Mapping, The Knowledge
Simon Wardley • Wardley Maps

Platform Engineering: A Deep Dive Conversation • Russ Miles & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024.
https://gotocph.com

Russ Miles - Author, Engineering Manager & Chaos Engineering Practitioner
Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer

RESOURCES
Russ
https://bsky.app/profile/russmiles.bsky.social
https://github.com/russmiles
https://www.linkedin.com/in/russmiles

Kevlin
https://bsky.app/profile/kevlin.bsky.social
https://about.me/kevlin
https://twitter.com/KevlinHenney
https://linkedin.com/in/kevlin
https://instagram.com/kevlin.henney
https://kevlinhenney.medium.com

Read the full abstract here

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Miles, Giguere & Smith • Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms
Mina, Warda, Marins & Miles • Digitalization of Financial Services in the Age of Cloud
Russ Miles • Learning Chaos Engineering
Chip Heath & Dan Heat • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Dan Pilone & Russ Miles • Head First Software Development
Chankramath, Cheneweth, Oliver & Alvarez • Effective Platform Engineering
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy
Martin Fowler • Refactoring
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies

Ethics in AI: Biases & Responsibilities • Michelle Frost & Hannes Lowette

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Michelle Frost - AI Advocate at JetBrains & Responsible AI Consultant
Hannes Lowette - Principal Consultant at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover

RESOURCES
Michelle
https://bsky.app/profile/aiwithmichelle.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-frost-dev

Hannes
https://bsky.app/profile/hanneslowette.net
https://twitter.com/hannes_lowette
https://github.com/Belenar
https://linkedin.com/in/hanneslowette

DESCRIPTION
AI advocate Michelle Frost and principal consultant Hannes Lowette discuss ethical challenges in AI development. They explore the balance between competing values like accuracy versus fairness, recent US regulatory rollbacks under the Trump administration, and market disruptions from innovations like Deep Seek.

While Michelle acknowledges concerns about bias in unregulated models, she remains optimistic about AI's potential to improve lives if developed responsibly. She emphasizes the importance of transparency, bias measurement, and focusing on beneficial applications while advocating for individual and corporate accountability in the absence of comprehensive regulation.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Mark Coeckelbergh • AI Ethics
Debbie Sue Jancis • AI Ethics
Mohammad Rubyet Islam • Generative AI, Cybersecurity, and Ethics
Jeet Pattanaik • Ethics in AI

Effective Code Reviews with Conventional Comments • Paul Slaughter & Adrienne Braganza

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Paul Slaughter - Staff Fullstack Engineer at GitLab & Creator of Conventional Comments
Adrienne Braganza Tacke - Senior Developer Advocate at Viam Robotics & Author of "Looks Good To Me: Constructive Code Reviews"

RESOURCES
Paul
https://x.com/souldzin
https://github.com/souldzin
https://gitlab.com/pslaughter
https://gitlab.com/souldzin
https://souldzin.com

Adrienne
https://bsky.app/profile/abt.bsky.social
https://x.com/AdrienneTacke
https://github.com/AdrienneTacke
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriennetacke
https://www.instagram.com/adriennetacke
https://www.adrienne.io
https://blog.adrienne.io

Links
https://conventionalcomments.org

DESCRIPTION
Can "Conventional Comments" transform code reviews from frustrating experiences into productive collaborations?

Paul Slaughter shares his experience developing and practicing "Conventional Comments", a structured approach to improving code review communications through labeled feedback. The conversation explores clear communication patterns with labels (e.g. 'suggestion:', 'issue:' or 'question:').

Paul and Adrienne discuss the importance of empathy in the review process, the balance between politeness and efficiency, and how GitLab's Code Review Weekly Workshops have helped normalize review experiences across their remote teams. The interview highlights that effective code reviews depend not just on technical evaluations but on thoughtful communication that acknowledges developers' emotional investment in their work while fostering a culture of collaborative ownership.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adrienne Braganza Tacke • "Looks Good to Me": Constructive Code Reviews
Adrienne Braganza Tacke • Coding for Kids
Grace Huang • Code Reviews in Tech
Martin Fowler • Refactoring
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer

Beyond the Cloud: The Local-First Software Revolution • Brooklyn Zelenka & Julian Wood

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Brooklyn Zelenka - Author of Numerous Libraries Including Witchcraft & Founded the Vancouver Functional Programming Meetup
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
Brooklyn
https://bsky.app/profile/expede.wtf
https://octodon.social/@expede@types.pl
https://github.com/expede
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooklynzelenka
https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com

Julian
https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

Links
https://automerge.org
https://discord.com/invite/zKGe4DCfgR
https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app
https://github.com/ipvm-wg
https://www.localfirst.fm
https://localfirstweb.dev

DESCRIPTION
Distributed systems researcher Brooklyn Zelenka unpacks the paradigm shift of local-first computing, where applications primarily run on users' devices and synchronize seamlessly without central servers.

In a conversation with Julian Wood, she explains how this approach reduces latency, enables offline functionality, improves privacy through encryption, and democratizes app development—all while using sophisticated data structures. Perfect for collaborative tools and "cozy web" applications serving smaller communities, local-first software represents a fundamental rethinking of how we've built software for the past 30 years.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ford, Parsons, Kua & Sadalage • Building Evolutionary Architectures 2nd Edition
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Mark Richards & Neal Ford • Fundamentals of Software Architecture
Ford, Parsons & Kua • Building Evolutionary Architectures
Neal Ford • Functional Thinking
Michael Feathers • Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Professional Skills for Software Engineers • Charles Humble & Trisha Gee

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant
Trisha Gee - Lead Developer Evangelist at Gradle, Java Champion & Co-Author of "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA"

RESOURCES
Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Trisha
https://bsky.app/profile/trishagee.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/trisha_gee
https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishagee
https://trishagee.com
https://github.com/trishagee

Links
https://www.conissaunce.com/professional-skills-shortcut.html
https://www.jeanettewinterson.com

DESCRIPTION
Trisha Gee interviews Charles Humble on his project "Professional Skills for Software Engineers", a collection of 14 articles organized into four categories:
• communication
• critical thinking
• documentation
• networking

Charles argues that career success in software engineering oftentimes depends more on non-programming skills than technical ability. Both Charles and Trisha emphasize that these skills are learnable and essential, despite being undervalued in the industry as mere "soft skills".

The conversation covers how intentional communication improves product development, the value of networking and public speaking for career advancement, and ways engineers can generate ideas for content creation while taking ownership of their career development. The interview makes a compelling case that developing these professional skills benefits both individual engineers and the industry as a whole.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Charles Humble • Professional Skills for Software Engineers
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu & Sara Bergman • Building Green Software
Cal Newport • Deep Work
Martin Fowler • UML Distilled
Cathy O'Neil • Weapons of Math Destruction

TypeScript Cookbook • Stefan Baumgartner & Peter Kröner

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Stefan Baumgartner - Author of "TypeScript Cookbook" & "TypeScript in 50 Lessons"
Peter Kröner - Host of "Working Draft" Podcast & Freelance Trainer for Frontend Web Tech

RESOURCES
Stefan
https://bsky.app/profile/deadparrot.dev
https://mastodon.social/@deadparrot
https://x.com/ddprrt
https://github.com/ddprrt
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-baumgartner-bb621564
https://oida.dev

Peter
https://bsky.app/profile/sirpepe.bsky.social
https://mastodon.social/@sir_pepe
https://github.com/SirPepe
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterkroener
https://www.peterkroener.de

Links
https://typescript-cookbook.com
https://typescript-book.com
https://workingdraft.de

DESCRIPTION
Peter Kröner and Stefan Baumgartner explore practical TypeScript implementation strategies in this discussion of Stefan's latest book, "TypeScript Cookbook", a sequel to his previous work "TypeScript in 50 Lessons". From minimal type annotations to knowing when to use advanced features, Stefan shares insights on efficient project setup, alternatives to enums, and the strategic use of classes.

The conversation examines the philosophy behind TypeScript's design while emphasizing a pragmatic approach that focuses on understanding what happens behind the scenes to make better coding decisions. Stefan consistently advocates for simplicity and intentionality when working with TypeScript's powerful but sometimes complex type system.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Stefan Baumgartner • TypeScript Cookbook
Stefan Baumgartner • TypeScript in 50 Lessons
Alexandre Portela dos Santos • Deno Web Development
Fernando Doglio • Introducing Deno
Dan Vanderkam • Effective TypeScript
Nathan Rozentals • Mastering TypeScript

"Residues" & "The Architect’s Paradox" • Barry O'Reilly & Jacqui Read

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Barry O'Reilly - Founder at Black Tulip Tech and Author of "Residues" & "The Architect's Paradox"
Jacqui Read - Software Architect, Speaker & Author of "Communication Patterns"

RESOURCES
Barry
https://bsky.app/profile/technologytulip.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-o-reilly-b924657
https://www.blacktulip.se

Jacqui
https://bsky.app/profile/tekiegirl.bsky.social
https://jacquiread.com
https://fosstodon.org/@tekiegirl
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelineread
https://github.com/tekiegirl

DESCRIPTION
In this GOTO Book Club interview, Jacqui Read discusses with Barry O'Reilly his books "Residues: Time, Uncertainty, and Change in Software Architecture" and "The Architect's Paradox". He explains how uncertainty defines the architect's role and introduces residuality—a method where architects deliberately stress their conceptual models until they collapse, then optimize the resulting "residues" or leftovers to create more resilient systems.

Unlike traditional software engineering approaches, that try to eliminate uncertainty through rigid requirements, residuality embraces random stressors (even far-fetched scenarios like giant lizards) to uncover architectural fault lines.

O'Reilly argues that this playful yet mathematically sound approach produces more robust architectures than conventional methods, and his second book explores how inherited philosophical thinking often undermines software architecture's effectiveness in complex business contexts.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Barry O'Reilly • Residues
Barry O'Reilly • The Architect's Paradox
Jacqui Read • Communication Patterns
Anne Currie & Jamie Dobson • The Cloud Native Attitude
Gregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator
Gregor Hohpe • Enterprise Integration Patterns, Vol 2

Building Bridges: From Developer to Developer Advocate • David Edoh-Bedi & James Beswick

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

David Edoh-Bedi - Developer Relations at Stripe
James Beswick - Head of Developer Relations at Stripe

RESOURCES
David
https://x.com/edohbedi_d
https://www.linkedin.com/in/edohbedi
https://edoh-bedi.com

James
https://bsky.app/profile/jbesw.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/jbesw
https://linkedin.com/in/jamesbeswick

Links
https://stripe.dev

DESCRIPTION
James Beswick (Head of Developer Relations at Stripe) talks with David Edoh-Bedi (Developer Advocate) about his professional journey from growing up in Togo to working at Microsoft and eventually Stripe.

The conversation explores David's transition from software engineering to developer advocacy, highlighting the importance of empathy, communication skills, and technical knowledge in the role.
They discuss the challenges of working with large legacy systems, the complexities of payment processing, and how the software development landscape has evolved from library-focused development to API-centric approaches.

The interview provides valuable insights for developers considering a career path in developer relations and those integrating complex systems like payment processing into their applications.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook
Simon Wardley • Wardley Maps
Simon Wardley • Wardley Mapping, The Knowledge
David Anderson, Marck McCann & Michael O'Reilly • The Value Flywheel Effect
Mike Amundsen • Restful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook

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Balancing Coupling in Software Design • Vlad Khononov & Sheen Brisals

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Sheen Brisals - AWS Serverless Hero, Engineering Leader & Co-Author of "Serverless Development on AWS"
Vlad Khononov - Author of "Balancing Coupling in Software Design" & "Learning Domain Driven Design" & Creator of the Balanced Coupling Model

RESOURCES
Vlad
https://bsky.app/profile/vladikk.bsky.social
https://vladikk.com
https://github.com/vladikk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladikk

Sheen
https://bsky.app/profile/sheenbrisals.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/sheenbrisals
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheen-brisals
https://sbrisals.medium.com

Links
https://www.informit.com
https://youtu.be/6hTZXR2brWE

DESCRIPTION
Sheen Brisals sits down with software engineer and author Vlad Khononov to explore his latest book, "Balancing Coupling in Software Design". Vlad shares his journey from a failed microservices project to his deep dive into the principles of coupling, drawing insights from a 1970s structured design book.

The duo discusses the timeless nature of coupling in software, how modern systems like microservices and cloud architectures still rely on age-old design principles, and the importance of understanding complexity for better problem decomposition and estimation. Vlad also reveals his unique approach to the book—integrating AI-generated poetry into each chapter to help readers grasp complex concepts. With a focus on modularity as the antidote to complexity, Vlad emphasizes that by managing coupling, engineers can create more maintainable, scalable systems.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Vlad Khononov • Balancing Coupling in Software Design
Vlad Khononov • Learning Domain-Driven Design
Sheen Brisals & Luke Hedger • Serverless Development on AWS
Glenford Myers • Composite/Structured Design
Vaughn Vernon • Implementing Domain-Driven Design
Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design
van Kelle, Verschatse & Baas-Schwegler • Collaborative Software Design
Nick Tune & Jean-Georges Perrin • Architecture Modernization

Reading Code Effectively: An Overlooked Developer Skill • Marit van Dijk & Hannes Lowette

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Marit van Dijk - Developer Advocate at JetBrains, Java Champion & Open Source Contributor
Hannes Lowette - Principal Consultant at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover

RESOURCES
Marit
https://bsky.app/profile/maritvandijk.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/maritvandijk
https://github.com/mlvandijk
https://medium.com/@mlvandijk
https://maritvandijk.com

Hannes
https://bsky.app/profile/hanneslowette.net
https://twitter.com/hannes_lowette
https://github.com/Belenar
https://linkedin.com/in/hanneslowette

Links
https://www.felienne.com
https://codereading.club
https://github.com/neontribe/code-reading-club

DESCRIPTION
Reading code is a critical yet often underappreciated skill in software development. Marit van Dijk & Hannes Lowette highlight that while developers are trained to write code, they spend most of their time understanding existing codebases—often with incomplete documentation and evolving complexity.

They discuss research-backed strategies, such as structured code reading exercises, participation in communities like the Code Reading Club, and leveraging modern IDE tools to navigate and comprehend unfamiliar code. The conversation underscores the importance of empathy in code reviews, writing clear commit messages, and using tests as documentation to improve collaboration and maintainability. By practicing code reading deliberately and utilizing available resources, developers can become more effective and adaptable in their work.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Felienne Hermans • The Programmer's Brain
Adrienne Braganza Tacke • "Looks Good to Me": Constructive Code Reviews
Duncan McGregor & Nat Pryce • Java to Kotlin
Saleem Siddiqui • Learning Test-Driven Development
Roy Osherove • The Art of Unit Testing
Trisha Gee & Helen Scott • Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA
Jacqui Read • Communication Patterns

Optimizing Cloud Native Java • Ben Evans & Holly Cummins

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Ben Evans - Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat & Co-Author of "Optimizing Cloud Native Java" and many more Books
Holly Cummins - Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus Team

RESOURCES
Ben
https://mastodon.social/@kittylyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kittylyst
https://www.kittylyst.com

Holly
https://hollycummins.com
https://bsky.app/profile/hollycummins.com
https://hachyderm.io/@holly_cummins
https://linkedin.com/in/holly-k-cummins

DESCRIPTION
Holly Cummins talks with Ben Evans about his latest book "Optimizing Cloud Native Java", which updates his previous work "Optimizing Java" to reflect the realities of cloud native environments.

Ben explains that performance engineering is not just technical but also psychological, emphasizing the importance of user expectations and defining clear performance goals. They discuss how modern Java performance must account for cloud native architectures, with applications running across distributed microservices and containerized, single-core environments.

The book focuses on the importance of measuring relevant data, warns against relying on misleading micro-benchmarks, and highlights how system-level benchmarks offer a clearer picture. Ben also delves into the JVM's hidden complexities, such as changes in Java 17 and the impact of virtual threads. Practical, real-world examples in the book, like the "fighting animals" microservices application, help developers learn how to optimize Java performance in real network environments.

Finally, Ben touches on the future of Java concurrency, with virtual threads and structured concurrency offering new ways to handle performance challenges in cloud native systems.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ben Evans & Jim Gough • Optimizing Cloud Native Java
Ben Evans, Jason Clark & David Flanagan • Java in a Nutshell
Ben Evans, Martijn Verburg & Jason Clark • The Well-Grounded Java Developer
Ben Evans, Jim Gough & Chris Newland • Optimizing Java
Ben Evans & Martijn Verburg • The Well-Grounded Java Developer

The Cloud Native Attitude • Anne Currie & Sarah Wells

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Anne Currie - Co-Author of "The Cloud Native Attitude" & "Building Green Software"
Sarah Wells - Independent Consultant & Author & Author of "Enabling Microservice Success"

RESOURCES
Anne
https://bsky.app/profile/annecurrie.bsky.social
https://www.strategically.green

Sarah
https://bsky.app/profile/sarahjwells.bsky.social
https://www.sarahwells.dev
https://linkedin.com/in/sarahjwells1

DESCRIPTION
Sarah Wells and Anne Currie dive into “The Cloud Native Attitude” and uncover why it’s more than just using cloud infrastructure. It’s about breaking bottlenecks, embracing rapid change, and aligning the entire organization.

Anne reflects on how Kubernetes has risen since the book’s first edition, but the core principles remain. They discuss why CI/CD is key, how cloud native supports sustainability, and why true transformation demands more than just a lift-and-shift. The conversation wraps up with practical advice on identifying real bottlenecks and securing buy-in for a successful cloud native journey.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Anne Currie & Jamie Dobson • The Cloud Native Attitude
Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, & Sara Bergman • Building Green Software
Sarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Liz Rice • Container Security
Burns, Beda & Hightower • Kubernetes: Up & Running
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies

Prompt Engineering for Generative AI • James Phoenix, Mike Taylor & Phil Winder

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

James Phoenix - Co-Author of "Prompt Engineering for Generative AI"
Mike Taylor - Co-Author of "Prompt Engineering for Generative AI"
Phil Winder - Author of "Reinforcement Learning" & CEO of Winder.AI

RESOURCES
James
https://x.com/jamesaphoenix12
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesphoenix
https://understandingdata.com

Mike
http://saxifrage.xyz
https://twitter.com/hammer_mt
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjt145

Phil
https://twitter.com/DrPhilWinder
https://linkedin.com/in/drphilwinder
https://winder.ai

Links
https://brightpool.dev
https://karpathy.ai
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6654000
https://gemini.google.com
https://dreambooth.github.io
https://github.com/microsoft/LoRA
https://claude.ai
https://www.langchain.com/langgraph

DESCRIPTION
Large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion have unprecedented potential. Because they have been trained on all the public text and images on the internet, they can make useful contributions to a wide variety of tasks. And with the barrier to entry greatly reduced today, practically any developer can harness LLMs and diffusion models to tackle problems previously unsuitable for automation.

With this book, you'll gain a solid foundation in generative AI, including how to apply these models in practice. When first integrating LLMs and diffusion models into their workflows, most developers struggle to coax reliable enough results from them to use in automated systems.

* Book description: © O'Reilly

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
James Phoenix & Mike Taylor • Prompt Engineering for Generative AI
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning

Privacy-First Research with OpenSAFELY • Eli Holderness & Hannes Lowette

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Eli Holderness - Research Software Advocate at Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, Speaker & Professional Nerd
Hannes Lowette - Principal Consultant at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover

RESOURCES
Eli
https://bsky.app/profile/eli.holderness.dev
https://twitter.com/eliholderness
https://hachyderm.io/@eli
https://linkedin.com/in/eli-holderness-4890b886
https://github.com/eli-miriam
https://eli.holderness.dev

Hannes
https://bsky.app/profile/hanneslowette.net
https://twitter.com/hannes_lowette
https://github.com/Belenar
https://linkedin.com/in/hanneslowette

Links
https://www.opensafely.org
https://docs.opensafely.org/ehrql
https://github.com/opensafely-core/ehrql

DESCRIPTION
OpenSAFELY represents a revolutionary approach to medical research that prioritizes patient privacy while enabling valuable insights from healthcare data. Rather than giving researchers direct access to sensitive GP records, it allows them to submit code that runs in a secure environment, with only privacy-checked aggregated results returned.

Hannes Lowette talks to Eli Holderness about how the system works, its benefits for ensuring reproducible science, the challenges of working with data not collected for research purposes, and its potential applications beyond healthcare. The approach balances the need for medical research with strict privacy protections, ensuring patients maintain trust in how their sensitive data is used.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ben Goldacre • Bad Science
Ben Goldacre • Bad Pharma
Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Simplified
Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Servers
Erdal Ozkaya • Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide
Saleem Siddiqui • Learning Test-Driven Development
Jacqui Read • Communication Patterns

Building Modern Software at Scale: Architectural Principles • Randy Shoup & Charles Humble

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Randy Shoup - SVP Engineering at Thrive Market
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Randy
https://bsky.app/profile/randyshoup.bsky.social
https://medium.com/@randyshoup
https://x.com/randyshoup
https://github.com/randyshoup-thrive
https://www.linkedin.com/in/randyshoup

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://se-radio.net/2008/09/episode-109-ebays-architecture-principles-with-randy-shoup

DESCRIPTION
Charles Humble sits down with veteran tech leader Randy Shoup, now SVP of Engineering at Thrive Market.
Randy discusses Thrive Market’s evolution from a 10-year-old monolith to a microservices architecture, emphasizing domain-driven design and agile scaling. Drawing on his experiences at eBay and other tech giants, he explains when to adopt microservices and the importance of continuous delivery and platform engineering for boosting productivity.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices
Sam Newman • Building Resilient Distributed Systems
Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Nicole Forsgren, Patrick Debois & John Willis • The DevOps Handbook
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy
Ford, Parsons, Kua & Sadalage • Building Evolutionary Architectures 2nd Edition
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2
Michael Feathers • Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Michael Nygard • Release It! 2nd Edition

Evolution in Software: What Has Changed Since GOOS? • Nat Pryce & Duncan McGregor

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Nat Pryce - Co-Author of "Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests" & "Java to Kotlin"
Duncan McGregor - Co-Author of "Java to Kotlin" & Independent Consultant

RESOURCES
Nat
https://mastodon.social/@natpryce
https://github.com/npryce
https://x.com/natpryce
https://www.linkedin.com/in/natpryce
http://www.natpryce.com

Duncan
https://twitter.com/duncanmcg
https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncan-mcgregor-a3038b6
https://github.com/dmcg
http://www.oneeyedmen.com
https://java-to-kotlin.dev

Links
https://www.meetup.com/extreme-tuesday-club-xtc
https://guava.dev/releases/21.0/api/docs/com/google/common/base/Function.html

DESCRIPTION
This conversation between Duncan McGregor and Nat Pryce explores the legacy of Nat's co-authored book "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests" (GOOS) and how software development practices have evolved in the past 15 years.

They discuss the origins of test-driven development (TDD) within London's Extreme Tuesday Club, the shift from object-oriented to functional programming paradigms, and how changing technology has influenced development approaches.

Key topics include outside-in vs bottom-up testing strategies, mock objects, the rise of microservices, and whether modern development practices have actually improved productivity.
The conversation provides valuable historical context for understanding current software development trends while questioning whether some modern practices represent true progress.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Duncan McGregor & Nat Pryce • Java to Kotlin
Steve Freeman & Nat Pryce • Growing Object-Oriented Software (GOOS)
Uberto Barbini • From Objects to Functions
Saleem Siddiqui • Learning Test-Driven Development
Roy Osherove • The Art of Unit Testing
Trisha Gee & Helen Scott • Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA
Vaughn Vernon & Tomasz Jaskula • Strategic Monoliths & Microservices

Small Pull Requests, Big Impact: The Art of Code Reviews • Adrienne Braganza Tacke & Sasa Juric

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Adrienne Braganza Tacke - Senior Developer Advocate at Viam Robotics & Author of "Looks Good To Me: Constructive Code Reviews"
Saša Jurić - Author of "Elixir in Action" & The Ultimate Beacon in the Elixir Space

RESOURCES
Adrienne
https://bsky.app/profile/abt.bsky.social
https://x.com/AdrienneTacke
https://github.com/AdrienneTacke
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriennetacke
https://www.instagram.com/adriennetacke
https://www.adrienne.io
https://blog.adrienne.io

Saša
https://bsky.app/profile/sasajuric.bsky.social
https://twitter.com/sasajuric
https://github.com/sasa1977
https://linkedin.com/in/sa%C5%A1a-juri%C4%87-21b23186
https://www.theerlangelist.com

DESCRIPTION
Adrienne Braganza, author of "Looks Good to Me: Constructive Code Reviews", and Saša Jurić, author of “Elixir in Action”, explore best practices for effective code reviews. They discuss how smaller, well-organized pull requests lead to better feedback, the importance of comment classification, and when to take discussions offline. Both emphasize that code reviews aren't just about catching bugs—they're crucial for knowledge transfer and creating cohesive codebases.

While AI tools can help with routine aspects, human judgment remains essential, especially as AI-generated code becomes more common. The speakers agree that when done well, code reviews become one of the most valuable practices in software development.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adrienne Braganza Tacke • "Looks Good to Me": Constructive Code Reviews
Adrienne Braganza Tacke • Coding for Kids
Saša Jurić • Elixir in Action
Grace Huang • Code Reviews in Tech
Martin Fowler • Refactoring

Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs) • Russ Miles & James Lewis

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Russ Miles - Engineering Manager, Chaos Engineering Practitioner & Co-Author of "Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms"
James Lewis - Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Russ
https://bsky.app/profile/russmiles.bsky.social
https://github.com/russmiles
https://www.linkedin.com/in/russmiles

James
https://bsky.app/profile/boicy.bovon.org
https://twitter.com/boicy
https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices
https://github.com/boicy
https://www.bovon.org

DESCRIPTION
In this episode of GOTO Book Club, James Lewis and Russ Miles discuss Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs), focusing on how they promote collaboration across security and development teams.

Russ shares insights from his book, emphasizing the importance of OODA loops, balancing innovation with safety in platform design, and the benefits of off-the-shelf versus custom CNAPP solutions. Looking ahead, he predicts platform engineering will evolve into a commercial strategy like AWS and that AI will augment human decision-making, enhancing creativity and collaboration in the engineering field.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Miles, Giguere & Smith • Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms
Mina, Warda, Marins & Miles • Digitalization of Financial Services in the Age of Cloud
Russ Miles • Learning Chaos Engineering
Dan Pilone & Russ Miles • Head First Software Development
Kathy Sierra • Badass

Beyond Storytelling: A Deep Dive into Wardley Mapping • Simon Wardley & Charles Humble

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Simon Wardley - Thought Lord, Mapper, Mostly Good
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Simon
https://bsky.app/profile/swardley.bsky.social
https://me.dm/@swardley
https://twitter.com/swardley
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonwardley
https://swardley.medium.com

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://www.wardleymaps.com
https://mapkeep.com
https://miro.com

DESCRIPTION
Simon Wardley and Charles Humble discuss the development of Wardley Mapping, a visual framework that helps organizations understand and navigate technological evolution. Moving beyond traditional business storytelling, the interview explores how mapping enables better strategic decision-making through understanding component evolution, inertia, and gameplay, while also addressing current technological shifts in AI and cyber-physical systems.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Simon Wardley • Wardley Maps
Simon Wardley • Wardley Mapping, The Knowledge
Sun Tzu • The Art of War
Jonathan Allen & Thomas Blood • Reaching Cloud Velocity
Mark Craddock • Wardley Mapping Doctrine
Susanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies
Erik Schön • The Art Of Strategy

Better Value Sooner Safer Happier • Simon Rohrer & Eduardo da Silva

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Simon Rohrer - Co-Author of "Better Value Sooner Safer Happier" & Senior Director at Saxo Bank
Eduardo da Sliva - Independent Consultant on Organization, Architecture, and Leadership Modernization

RESOURCES
Simon
https://bsky.app/profile/simon.bvssh.com
https://mastodon.social/@simonr
https://x.com/sirohrer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonrohrer
https://github.com/sirohrer
https://www.soonersaferhappier.com

Eduardo
https://bsky.app/profile/esilva.net
https://mastodon.social/@eduardodasilva
https://x.com/emgsilva
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emgsilva
https://github.com/emgsilva
https://esilva.net

DESCRIPTION
Eduardo da Silva and Simon Rohrer discuss the core ideas of "Better Value Sooner Safer Happier" diving into the principles of organizational transformation.

Simon shares insights on the shift from output-driven to outcome-focused thinking, emphasizing value over productivity, and the need for continuous improvement in delivery speed, stakeholder satisfaction, and safety.
The conversation explores key concepts like technical excellence, integrating safety into development, and balancing incremental changes with occasional larger steps.

Simon Rohrer discusses organizational patterns and the importance of decentralizing decision-making, recommending a flexible, context-driven approach to transformation. The session concludes with practical advice on how to start implementing these ideas, using the book’s map to guide organizations toward the right transformation strategy based on their specific goals.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Jonathan Smart, Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie & Simon Rohrer • Sooner Safer Happier
Stephen Fishman & Matt McLarty • Unbundling the Enterprise
Carliss Y. Baldwin • Design Rules, Vol. 2
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook

Tap Into Fast Flow with Team Topologies & Platform Engineering • Manuel Pais & Julian Wood

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Manuel Pais - Co-Author of the Book "Team Topologies"
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
Manuel
https://x.com/manupaisable
https://www.manuelpais.net
https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelpais
https://github.com/manupaisable

Julian
https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

Links
https://teamtopologies.com
https://academy.teamtopologies.com
https://www.teamperature.com
https://itrevolution.com
https://matthewskelton.com

DESCRIPTION
Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Topologies, shares his journey in shaping modern organizational design for fast-flow efficiency with Julian Wood. Reflecting on the widespread impact of the book, Manuel explores how its principles have enabled organizations to redefine team structures, streamline value delivery, and balance cognitive load.

The discussion covers communication challenges, the evolution of platform engineering, and strategies for iterative team reorganization. Manuel also addresses the growing influence of AI in software development, emphasizing the need for human oversight, strategic alignment with value streams, and enabling teams to harness AI effectively. With insights from real-world implementations and evolving trends, this episode provides a comprehensive guide to building adaptable, customer-focused, and innovative organizations.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Susanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies
Heidi Helfand • Dynamic Reteaming
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford • The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim, Nicole Forsgren & Jez Humble • Accelerate
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis & Nicole Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook
Jonathan Smart • Sooner Safer Happier

Kotlin for Developers • Marcin Moskala & Nicola Corti

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Marcin Moskala - Fullstack Kotlin Developer, Founder of Kt. Academy & Author of "Effective Kotlin", et al.
Nicola Corti - Staff Android Engineer at Meta, React Native Core Team Member & Open Source Lover

RESOURCES
Marcin
https://x.com/marcinmoskala
https://kt.academy
https://github.com//marcinmoskala
https://www.instagram.com/cortinico

Nicola
https://x.com/cortinico
https://ncorti.com
https://github.com/cortinico
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cortinico

Links
https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/compose/kotlin
https://detekt.dev
https://www.abreslav.com
https://kt.academy/article/ek-composition
https://kt.academy/article/books-kotlin-for-developers-ready

DESCRIPTION
In this episode of the "GOTO Book Club", Nicola Corti talks to Marcin Moskala, author of "Effective Kotlin", to unravel the inspiration, evolution, and community impact of his work.

Moskala reflects on his decade-long journey with Kotlin, revealing how his book bridges the gap between Java-centric practices and Kotlin’s idiomatic potential. The discussion spans essential topics like factory functions, composition over inheritance, and the iterative process behind curating best practices tailored to Kotlin’s strengths.

Marcin also highlights the "Kotlin for Developers" series and his Give IT Forward initiative, showcasing his commitment to empowering developers and fostering accessible programming education worldwide.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Marcin Moskala • Effective Kotlin
Marcin Moskala • Kotlin Essentials
Marcin Moskala • Functional Kotlin
Marcin Moskala • Kotlin Coroutines
Marcin Moskala • Advanced Kotlin
Marcin Moskala & Igor Wojda • Android Development with Kotlin
Venkat Subramaniam • Programming Kotlin

Design & Develop Distributed Software Better w/ Multiplayer • Tom Johnson & Julian Wood

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Thomas Johnson - Co-Founder & CTO at Multiplayer
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
Tom
https://x.com/tomjohnson3
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomjohnson3
https://github.com/tomjohnson3

Julian
https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

Links
https://www.multiplayer.app

DESCRIPTION
Julian Wood and Tom Johnson explore the complexities of modern software development, with Tom sharing his journey from machine learning and distributed systems to founding Multiplayer, a company focused on simplifying development by automating documentation, debugging, and system design.

They discuss the challenges of building and managing complex software architectures, especially with microservices and cloud platforms, and the need for better tooling to address these issues. Tom emphasizes the importance of simplicity, collaboration, and transparency in development, especially when it comes to API design and managing system dependencies. They also explore best practices for team communication, the evolving role of platform engineering, and the shift toward a future where infrastructure is abstracted away, allowing developers to focus on software creation.

Together, they envision a world where better tools and AI lower the barrier to entry for developers, driving innovation and enabling more people to bring their ideas to life.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook
Simon Wardley • Wardley Maps
Simon Wardley • Wardley Mapping, The Knowledge
David Anderson, Marck McCann & Michael O'Reilly • The Value Flywheel Effect
Mike Amundsen • Restful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook

Communication Patterns • Jacqui Read & Gregor Hohpe

Fri, 30 May 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Jacqui Read - Software Architect, Speaker & Author of "Communication Patterns"
Gregor Hohpe - Author of "Platform Strategy", "The Software Architect Elevator", et al.

RESOURCES
Jacqui
https://bsky.app/profile/tekiegirl.bsky.social
https://jacquiread.com
https://fosstodon.org/@tekiegirl
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelineread
https://github.com/tekiegirl

Gregor
https://twitter.com/ghohpe
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghohpe
https://architectelevator.com

Links
https://acedmodel.com

DESCRIPTION
Jacqui Read and Gregor Hohpe discuss her book "Communication Patterns", which aims to bridge the gap in effective communication for software professionals. Jacqui highlights the importance of core communication skills, covering topics like visuals, writing, knowledge management, and remote collaboration.

The book offers practical patterns for improving diagrams, addressing multimodal communication issues, and ensuring accessibility, particularly for neurodiverse individuals. Jacqui also introduces her upcoming ACED Model, a strategic framework to align software development with business needs while remaining adaptable.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Jacqui Read • Communication Patterns
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy
Gregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator
Gregor Hohpe • Cloud Strategy
Gregor Hohpe • Enterprise Integration Patterns, Vol 2
Gregor Hohpe & Bobby Woolf • Enterprise Integration Patterns
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides • Design Patterns
Neal Ford, Matthew McCullough & Nathaniel Schutta • Presentation Patterns
Martin Fowler • UML Distilled

From XP to TCR & Limbo • Kent Beck & Daniel Terhorst-North

Fri, 23 May 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Kent Beck - Software Engineer & Creator of Extreme Programming
Daniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates

RESOURCES
Kent
https://bsky.app/profile/kentbeck.bsky.social
https://www.kentbeck.com
https://github.com/KentBeck
https://twitter.com/KentBeck
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentbeck

Daniel
https://bsky.app/profile/tastapod.com
https://twitter.com/tastapod
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tastapod
https://github.com/tastapod
https://mastodon.social/@tastapod
http://dannorth.net/blog

DESCRIPTION
Kent Beck and Daniel Terhorst-North reflect on the evolution of Extreme Programming (XP) and its lasting impact on agile software development. They explore the importance of short feedback loops, iterative learning, and adaptability in different phases of product development, as outlined in Beck’s 3X model (Exploration, Expansion, Extraction).

Kent introduces radical techniques like Test && Commit || Revert (TCR) and Limbo, which challenge traditional coding and collaboration practices by emphasizing tiny, safe iterations. The conversation ties in psychological safety, a key factor in high-performing teams, as outlined by Amy C. Edmondson.

Kent envisions a future where software development scales in real-time, pushing teams to embrace faster experimentation, responsibility, and continuous learning in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kent Beck • Tidy First?
Kent Beck & Cynthia Andres • Extreme Programming Explained
Amy C. Edmondson • The Fearless Organization
Amy C. Edmondson • Right Kind of Wrong
Jez Humble & David Farley • Continuous Delivery

Unbundling the Enterprise • Stephen Fishman, Matt McLarty & Erik Wilde

Fri, 16 May 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Stephen Fishman - Field CTO at Boomi & Co-Author of "Unbundling the Enterprise"
Matt McLarty - CTO at Boomi & Co-Author of "Unbundling the Enterprise"
Erik Wilde - Principal Consultant at INNOQ

RESOURCES
Stephen
https://x.com/fistsOfReason
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenhfishman
https://github.com/StephenFishman

Matt
https://bsky.app/profile/mattmclartybc.bsky.social
https://x.com/MattMcLartyBC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattmclartybc

Erik
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikwilde
https://github.com/dret

Links
https://itrevolution.com/articles
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages

DESCRIPTION
How can businesses thrive by embracing optionality through digital transformation?
Authors Matt McLarty and Stephen Fishman talk about their book “Unbundling the Enterprise” with Erik Wilde. They highlight the power of APIs and flexible systems in enabling companies to capitalize on unforeseen opportunities, or "happy accidents," and how low-cost experimentation can drive long-term success.

The conversation emphasizes that optionality is crucial not only in tech but also in business strategy, urging organizations to view their digital capabilities as part of a broader platform that supports both developer empowerment and revenue growth. With insights on optimization, platform engineering, and the importance of aligning technology with business objectives, the authors offer a roadmap for companies to navigate the future with agility and resilience.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Stephen Fishman & Matt McLarty • Unbundling the Enterprise
Carliss Y. Baldwin • Design Rules, Vol. 2
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook
Mik Kersten • Project to Product
Andrew Harmel-Law • Facilitating Software Architecture

How To Lead Through Transformation in Tech • Hannah Foxwell & Charles Humble

Fri, 09 May 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Hannah Foxwell - Independent Consultant & Founder of "AI for the rest of us"
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Hannah
https://bsky.app/profile/hannahfoxwell.net
https://medium.com/@hannahfoxwell
https://x.com/HannahFoxwell
https://github.com/hannahfoxwell
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-foxwell

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

DESCRIPTION
Charles Humble and Hannah Foxwell explore the multifaceted challenges and opportunities presented by emerging technologies, modern work practices, and management dynamics.

They emphasize the importance of methodologies like pair programming, flexible work designs, and inclusive team environments, especially for accommodating neurodiverse and introverted individuals.
Foxwell introduces the “three-teams model” to guide new managers in aligning with direct reports, leadership peers, and cross-functional collaborators. She underscores the significance of equitable leadership through mentorship, coaching, and sponsorship, particularly for underrepresented groups.

Exploring AI’s potential, Foxwell highlights its transformative impact on software development and enterprise processes while cautioning against rushed adoption. She advocates for thoughtful experimentation and user-centric design, noting the need for cultural and structural shifts to fully realize AI’s benefits. Ultimately, the conversation centers on intentionality, empathy, and the need for organizations to balance innovation with human-centric practices. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook
Jez Humble & David Farley • Continuous Delivery
Barbara Oakley • A Mind For Numbers
Pooja K. Agarwal & Patrice M. Bain • Powerful Teaching
Barbara Oakley & Olav Schewe • Learn Like a Pro
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies

Facilitating Software Architecture • Andrew Harmel-Law & Sonya Natanzon

Fri, 02 May 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Andrew Harmel-Law - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks & Author of "Facilitating Software Architecture"
Sonya Natanzon - Senior Director of Software Engineering at Guardant Health

RESOURCES
Andrew
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewhl.bsky.social
https://twit.social/@ahl
https://github.com/andrewharmellaw
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewharmellaw

Sonya
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonya-natanzon

Links
https://facilitatingsoftwarearchitecture.com
https://martinfowler.com/articles
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques
https://www.cognitect.com/blog/2011/11/15
https://medium.com/@vanessamformicola

DESCRIPTION
Sonya Natanzon and Andrew Harmel-Law explore key concepts from Andrew’s book, fostering decentralized sociotechnical systems, emphasizing the importance of embracing imperfection in decision-making, and combating cognitive biases like the framing effect.

They highlight the shift to prioritizing learning, adaptability, and small, fast iterations in socio-technical systems. Andrew discusses psychological safety as vital for empowering teams to innovate while maintaining accountability, advocating for experimentation and collective ownership of evolving codebases. Together, they underline the importance of balancing creativity and structure to build resilient, adaptive systems that thrive in complexity.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Andrew Harmel-Law • Facilitating Software Architecture
Diana Montalion • Learning Systems Thinking
Donald G. Reinertsen • The Principles of Product Development Flow
Alexander, Ishikawa, Silverstein, Jacobson, Fiksdahl-King & Ange • A Pattern Language
Patty McCord • Powerful
Shoshana Zuboff • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies

Revolutionizing Software with Moldable Development • Tudor Girba & Julian Wood

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/347

Tudor Girba - Software Environmentalist and CEO of feenk
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
Tudor
https://bsky.app/profile/tudorgirba.com
https://github.com/girba
https://www.linkedin.com/in/girba
http://www.tudorgirba.com
https://medium.com/@girba

Julian
https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

DESCRIPTION
Get a sneak peak into the concept of moldable development as a transformative approach through a discussion between Tudor Girba and Julian Wood. By emphasizing the creation of tailored, flexible tools, Girba presents a way to reduce the friction of working with complex systems and legacy code. He explores how contextualized tools, such as those provided by the Glamorous Toolkit, allow developers to engage with software environments in a more intuitive and efficient manner.

The integration of generative AI is also examined, where Girba argues that AI's true potential lies not in providing definitive answers but in assisting developers by generating hypotheses and creating tools that support deeper engagement with code. Additionally, the concept of "habitability" is introduced, proposing that software systems, like physical spaces, should be navigable and comprehensible to developers, fostering a more productive and enjoyable experience.

This vision of a future where software systems are more accessible and adaptable reflects the growing need to rethink how we interact with code, empowering developers with the tools and perspectives necessary to navigate increasingly complex digital landscapes.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Richard P. Gabriel • Patterns of Software
Susanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping, and Team Topologies
Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Heidi Helfand • Dynamic Reteaming
Vlad Khononov • Learning Domain-Driven Design
Erik Schön • The Art of Strategy
Thomas M. Siebel • Digital Transformation

Collaborative Software Design • Evelyn van Kelle, Gien Verschatse, Kenny Baas-Schwegler & Xin Yao

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Evelyn van Kelle - Behavioral Change Consultant at Xebia
Gien Verschatse - Senior Consultant at Aardling
Kenny Baas-Schwegler - Collaborative Modeling Facilitator at Weave IT
Xin Yao - Independent Consultant Contextualizing DDD & Sociotechnical Architecture

RESOURCES
Evelyn
https://bsky.app/profile/evelynvankelle.bsky.social
https://evelynvankelle.com

Gien
https://bsky.app/profile/selketjah.bsky.social
https://www.gienverschatse.com

Kenny
https://bsky.app/profile/kenny.weave-it.org
https://weave-it.org

Xin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/xinxin
https://bsky.app/profile/settling-mud.bsky.social

Links
https://collaborative-software-design.com
https://bsky.app/profile/collaborative-software-design.com

DESCRIPTION
In a spirited discussion on collaborative modeling and decision-making, the the authors of “Collaborative Software Design: How to Facilitate Domain Modeling Decisions”—Evelyn vVan Kelle, Gien Verschatse, and Kenny Baas-Schwegler—explored the power of inclusive decision-making, shared understanding, and how to navigate social dynamics like bias, ranking and conflict in teams together with Xin Yao.

They highlighted the importance of facilitating not just through structured methods, but by empowering everyone in the team to contribute and lead decisions. Drawing from their experiences, they shared insights into the process of making better decisions through collaboration, the impact of "Deep Democracy", and the value of being able to step back and allow teams to thrive independently. Their conversation also touched on resources like Thinking, Fast and Slow, Jam Cultures, and Sitting in the Fire—tools to help teams make smarter decisions and grow together.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
van Kelle, Verschatse &Baas-Schwegler • Collaborative Software Design
Jitske Kramer • Jam Cultures
Danielle Braun & Jitske Kramer • The Corporate Tribe
Arnold Mindell • Sitting in the Fire
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Gerard Puccio • The Creative Thinker's Toolkit

How to Learn: Unlocking the Brain's Secrets • Barbara Oakley & Charles Humble

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Prof. Dr. Barbara Oakley - Professor of Engineering at Oakland University & Author of Numerous Books
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Barbara
https://barbaraoakley.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraoakley
https://twitter.com/Barbara97881398

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

DESCRIPTION
Barbara Oakley, renowned author and polymath joins Charles Humble for a deep dive into the brain's modes of operation, exploring the focused and diffuse modes of thinking, which together enhance learning by balancing task-oriented problem-solving with creativity.

They emphasize the importance of mental relaxation and the role of exercise, sleep, and a healthy diet in boosting cognitive function. Key concepts such as deliberate practice, retrieval practice, and the value of psychological safety in team dynamics are explored, offering insights into effective learning and collaboration. The relationship between working memory and long-term memory is examined, highlighting how techniques like the Pomodoro Technique and spaced repetition optimize retention. Additionally, the conversation underscores the potential of AI in education, encouraging its integration despite concerns among educators.

Lastly, the phenomenon of rustiness in skill retention is explained through the dynamics of neural connections, with a hopeful outlook on the future of neuroscience research in understanding conditions like autism and dyslexia.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Barbara Oakley • A Mind For Numbers
Pooja K. Agarwal & Patrice M. Bain • Powerful Teaching
Barbara Oakley & Olav Schewe • Learn Like a Pro
Barbara Oakley, Beth Rogowsky & Terrence J. Sejnowski • Uncommon Sense Teaching
Barbara Oakley & Terrence J. Sejnowski • Learning How to Learn
Barbara Oakley • Mindshift
Heidi Helfand • Dynamic Reteaming
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies

Software Architecture, Design Thinking & Knowledge Flow • Diana Montalion & Kris Jenkins

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024.
https://gotocph.com

Diana Montalion - Systems Architect, Mentrix Founder & Author of "Learning Systems Thinking"
Kris Jenkins - Developer Advocate, Software Developer, Podcast Host, Conference Speaker & Geek

RESOURCES
Diana
https://bsky.app/profile/mentrix.bsky.social
https://hachyderm.io/@diana
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianamontalion
https://x.com/dianamontalion
https://github.com/dianamontalion
https://blog.montalion.com
https://learningsystemsthinking.com

Kris
https://bsky.app/profile/krisajenkins.bsky.social
https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkins
https://github.com/krisajenkins
http://blog.jenkster.com

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Diana Montalion • Learning Systems Thinking
Andrew Harmel-Law • Facilitating Software Architecture
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows • Limits to Growth
Robert M. Pirsig • Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Balancing Tech & Human Creativity • Susanne Kaiser, Michaela Greiler, Adele Carpenter, Daniel Terhorst-North & Simon Wardley

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Susanne Kaiser - Independent Tech Consultant & Author of "Architecture for Flow"
Michaela Greiler - Code Reviews Expert, Trainer & Consultant
Adele Carpenter - Software Engineer at Trifork
Daniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates
Simon Wardley - Thought Lord, Mapper, Mostly Good

RESOURCES
Susanne
https://mastodon.social/@suksr
https://susannekaiser.net

Michaela
https://twitter.com/mgreiler
https://michaelagreiler.com

Adele
https://bsky.app/profile/97adele.bsky.social

Daniel
https://bsky.app/profile/suksr.bsky.social
http://dannorth.net/blog

Simon
https://bsky.app/profile/swardley.bsky.social
http://blog.gardeviance.org

DESCRIPTION
Explore the rich tapestry of what it truly means to support developers.

The conversation took a forward-looking turn as they examined the role of AI, not as a looming replacement, but as a powerful ally that enhances human creativity, much like past innovations that revolutionized workflows. They showcased how intuitive design—exemplified by tools like IntelliJ—can make a developer’s experience seamless and enjoyable.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Susanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies
Simon Wardley • Wardley Maps
Simon Wardley • Wardley Mapping, The Knowledge
Matthew Casperson • DevEx as a Service
Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code
David Anderson, Marck McCann & Michael O'Reilly • T

Effective Platform Engineering • Ajay Chankramath, Nic Cheneweth, Bryan Oliver, Sean Alvarez & Wesley Reisz

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Ajay Chankramath - CTO at Brillio & Co-Author of "Effective Platform Engineering"
Nic Cheneweth - Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks & Co-Author of "Effective Platform Engineering"
Bryan Oliver - Principal at Thoughtworks & Co-Author of "Effective Platform Engineering"
Sean Alvarez - CTO of Life Sciences Business at Brillio & Co-Author of "Effective Platform Engineering"
Wesley Reisz - Technical Principal at Equal Experts

RESOURCES
Ajay
https://chankramath.com

Nic
https://www.linkedin.com/in/niccheneweth

Bryan
https://olivercodes.com

Sean
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanpalvarez

Wes
https://bsky.app/profile/wesleyreisz.com

Links
https://www.gartner.com/en/experts/top-tech-trends-unpacked-series/platform-engineering-empowers-developers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design
https://www.openpolicyagent.org

DESCRIPTION
The authors of Effective Platform Engineering—Ajay Chankramath, Sean Alvarez, Nic Cheneweth & Bryan Oliver—discuss the transformative role of platform engineering in software delivery. They highlight how platform engineering streamlines operations, enhances developer experience, and drives innovation through self-service tools

Key topics include evolutionary architecture, treating platforms as lifecycle-managed products, and using generative AI to optimize infrastructure. They also cover practical strategies for launching platform initiatives, focusing on organizational self-awareness, API boundaries, and balancing compliance with productivity. The authors aim to provide actionable insights for building adaptable platforms that drive business agility and long-term value.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Chankramath, Cheneweth, Oliver & Alvarez • Effective Platform Engineering
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy
Kate Stanley & Mickael Maison • Kafka Connect
Adrienne Braganza Tacke • "Looks Good to Me": Constructive Code Reviews
Martin Fowler • Refactoring

Microservices, Where Did It All Go Wrong? • Ian Cooper, James Lewis & Kris Jenkins

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024.
https://gotocph.com

Ian Cooper - A Polyglot Coding Architect at Just Eat
James Lewis - Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks
Kris Jenkins - Developer Advocate, Software Developer, Podcast Host, Conference Speaker & Geek

RESOURCES
Ian
https://bsky.app/profile/icooper.bsky.social
https://hachyderm.io/@ICooper
https://twitter.com/ICooper
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-cooper-2b059b
https://github.com/iancooper
https://ian-cooper.writeas.com

James
https://bsky.app/profile/boicy.bovon.org
https://twitter.com/boicy
https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices
https://github.com/boicy
https://www.bovon.org

Kris
https://twitter.com/krisajenkins
https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkins
https://github.com/krisajenkins
http://blog.jenkster.com

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Barry O'Reilly • Unlearn
Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky & Barry O'Reilly • Lean Enterprise
Sarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices
Sam Newman • Building Microservices
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running

How to Deal with Software Complexity • Gail Murphy & Charles Humble

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Dr. Gail Murphy - Vice-President Research & Innovation & Professor of Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Gail
https://x.com/gail_murphy
https://social.sigsoft.org/@gail_murphy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gailcmurphy
https://blogs.ubc.ca/gailcmurphy

Charles
https://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.social
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

DESCRIPTION
Charles Humble interviews Dr. Gail Murphy about the challenges in software engineering today. They discuss how productivity isn’t just about lines of code but is more about focus and minimizing task-switching.

Gail also talks about the difficulty of managing the rapid evolution of system architectures, stressing the need for regular restructuring and refactoring to avoid issues like increased coupling and decreased performance. The conversation moves to open-source development, where Gail highlights how using open-source components can create complex, brittle dependencies, and the need for better communication within these ecosystems.

They wrap up by discussing the evolving role of technical leadership in navigating these challenges. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Heidi Helfand • Dynamic Reteaming
Heidi Helfand • How to Change Your Teams
Carl Larson & Frank M J LaFasto • Teamwork
Gene Kim & Steve Spear • Wiring the Winning Organization
Ichak Adizes • Managing Corporate Lifecycles
Henri Lipmanowicz & Keith McCandless • The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
William Bridges & Susan Bridges • Transitions

How to Deliver Quality Software Against All Odds • Daniel Terhorst-North & Julian Wood

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Daniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & Associates
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
Daniel
https://bsky.app/profile/tastapod.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tastapod
https://github.com/tastapod
https://mastodon.social/@tastapod
http://dannorth.net/blog

Julian
https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood
https://s12d.com/goto

DESCRIPTION
Daniel Terhorst-North and Julian Wood share decades of experience to offer a nuanced view of programming, governance, and product delivery. By framing programming as a socio-technical activity, they emphasize the critical role of collaboration, feedback, and sustainable practices.

The conversation challenges traditional governance models, advocating for hypothesis-driven product management and continuous feedback mechanisms. Through humorous anecdotes and hard-won wisdom, Terhorst-North inspires people to look beyond technical expertise to the broader ecosystem of teams, culture, and organizational alignment. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Jez Humble & David Farley • Continuous Delivery
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim • Accelerate
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook
Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky & Barry O'Reilly • Lean Enterprise
Heidi Helfand • Dynamic Reteaming
Heidi Helfand • How to Change Your Teams
Carl Larson & Frank M J LaFasto • Teamwork
Gene Kim & Steve Spear • Wiring the Winning Organization
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies

Kafka Connect: Build & Run Data Pipelines • Kate Stanley, Mickael Maison & Danica Fine

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Kate Stanley - Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat & Co-Author of "Kafka Connect"
Mickael Maison - Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat & Co-Author of "Kafka Connect"
Danica Fine - Lead Developer Advocate, Open Source at Snowflake

RESOURCES
Kate
https://fosstodon.org/@katheris
https://www.linkedin.com

Mickael
https://bsky.app/profile/mickaelmaison.bsky.social
https://mas.to/@MickaelMaison
https://www.linkedin.com
https://mickaelmaison.com

Danica
https://bsky.app/profile/thedanicafine.bsky.social
https://data-folks.masto.host/@thedanicafine
https://www.linkedin.com
https://linktr.ee/thedanicafine

Links
https://kafka.apache.org
https://flink.apache.org
https://debezium.io
https://strimzi.io

DESCRIPTION
Danica Fine together with the authors of “Kafka Connect” Kate Stanley and Mickael Maison, unpack Kafka Connect's game-changing power for building data pipelines—no tedious custom scripts needed! Kate and Mickael Maison discuss how they structured the book to help everyone, from data engineers to developers, tap into Kafka Connect’s strengths, including Change Data Capture (CDC), real-time data flow, and fail-safe reliability.

Learning Microsoft Azure • Jonah Andersson & Håkan Silfvernagel

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Jonah Andersson - Senior Azure Consultant at Solidify & Author of "Learning Microsoft Azure"
Håkan Silfvernagel - Senior AI Architect at Sopra Steria & Microsoft AI MVP

RESOURCES
Jonah
https://x.com/cjkodare
https://medium.com/@jonah.andersson
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonahandersson
https://github.com/jonahandersson
https://jonahandersson.tech

Håkan
https://x.com/agrevlis
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hakansilfvernagel
https://sessionize.com/hakan-silfvernagel

Links
https://www.meetup.com/azureusergroupsundsvallsverige
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/extendwomenintechpodcast

DESCRIPTION
Jonah Andersson, interviewed by Håkan Silfvernagel, shared her experiences writing "Learning Microsoft Azure". With a focus on making the content accessible for beginners, she carefully structured the book to cover essential Azure topics such as cloud computing fundamentals, security, and AI, while drawing on insights from experts in her network, including Microsoft Certified Trainers and MVPs.

Over nearly two years, Jonah Andersson navigated the challenges of a rapidly evolving tech landscape, incorporating emerging trends like generative AI. Passionate about fostering inclusivity in tech, she emphasized the importance of mentorship and community support for underrepresented groups, particularly women. Looking ahead, Jonah Andersson expressed a desire to write a biography that reflects her life lessons and professional journey in technology.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Jonah Andersson • Learning Microsoft Azure
Adrienne Braganza Tacke • "Looks Good to Me": Constructive Code Reviews
Adrienne Braganza Tacke • Coding for Kids
Martin Fowler • Refactoring
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies

Innovations in Serverless & Event-Driven Solutions • Ben Ellerby & Julian Wood

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Ben Ellerby - Founder of aleio & AWS Serverless Hero
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
Ben
https://twitter.com/EllerbyBen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminellerby
https://github.com/BenEllerby
https://medium.com/@bene_37069

Julian
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

DESCRIPTION
Julian Wood and Ben Ellerby explore the challenges and innovations in event-driven architectures, generative AI, and serverless technologies. They emphasize the importance of well-structured event schemas and the role of platform teams in reducing cognitive load for developers.

Ben Ellerby highlights the potential of generative AI in modernizing legacy codebases and discusses the resurgence of event-driven architectures, driven by improved tools and frameworks that promote decoupling and efficiency.

The conversation also touches on the future of serverless computing, edge computing, and the significance of data management in global applications, underscoring a transformative shift toward more scalable and flexible cloud solutions.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
David Anderson, Marck McCann & Michael O'Reilly • The Value Flywheel Effect
Adam Bellemare • Building Event-Driven Microservices
Lauren Maffeo • Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up
Vaughn Vernon & Tomasz Jaskula • Strategic Monoliths & Microservices
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS
Michael Stack • Event-Driven Architecture in Golang
James Urquhart • Flow Architectures

"Looks Good to Me" Constructive Code Reviews • Adrienne Braganza Tacke & Paul Slaughter

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Adrienne Braganza Tacke - Senior Developer Advocate at Cisco & Author of "Looks Good To Me: Constructive Code Reviews"
Paul Slaughter - Staff Fullstack Engineer at GitLab & Creator of Conventional Comments

RESOURCES
Adrienne
https://x.com/AdrienneTacke
https://github.com/AdrienneTacke
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriennetacke
https://www.instagram.com/adriennetacke
https://www.adrienne.io
https://blog.adrienne.io

Paul
https://x.com/souldzin
https://github.com/souldzin
https://gitlab.com/pslaughter
https://gitlab.com/souldzin
https://souldzin.com

DESCRIPTION
Paul Slaughter and Adrienne Braganza Tacke delve into the critical role of communication in code reviews, emphasizing how soft skills can significantly enhance the engineering process. Adrienne, drawing insights from her upcoming book, explores the expectations for software engineers in code reviews, offers practical tips for improving communication, and shares her unique perspective on the parallels between writing and reviewing code.

Their conversation highlights the importance of fostering a positive feedback culture and leading by example to create a collaborative environment within teams.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adrienne Braganza Tacke • "Looks Good to Me": Constructive Code Reviews
Adrienne Braganza Tacke • Coding for Kids
Grace Huang • Code Reviews in Tech
Martin Fowler • Refactoring
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer

Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures • Tod Golding & Bill Tarr

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Tod Golding - Global SaaS Tech Lead at AWS & Author of "Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures"
Bill Tarr - SaaS Evangelist & AWS Solutions Architect

RESOURCES
Tod
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tod-golding-0ba35b2
https://github.com/tod-golding

Bill
https://x.com/SaaSTarr
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-tarr-san-diego
https://github.com/billtarr-aws

DESCRIPTION
Tod Golding, author of "Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures", discusses the critical need for collaboration between business and technical roles in organizations adopting a SaaS model with Bill Tarr. He advocates for a top-down vision that encourages non-technical roles, such as finance and operations, to engage deeply with technical teams, fostering a service mindset rather than a sole focus on product features.

Tod highlights the importance of operational insights in multi-tenant environments, where effective monitoring of tenant behaviors is essential to prevent issues before they impact customers. He also discusses the evolving role of GenAI within SaaS, noting its potential to deliver tailored experiences while leveraging shared resources for economies of scale.

Looking ahead, Tod envisions a future where SaaS architectures become simpler, more efficient, and broadly applicable across various industries, with advancements in compliance, security, and tenant isolation facilitating wider adoption.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Tod Golding • Building Multi-Tenant SaaS Architectures
Adam Tornhill • Software Design X-Rays
Adam Tornhill • Your Code as a Crime Scene
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Monica Beckwith • JVM Performance Engineering
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer
Diana Montalion • Learning Systems Thinking

JVM Performance Engineering • Monica Beckwith & Kirk Pepperdine

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Monica Beckwith - Performance Engineer at Microsoft & Author of "JVM Performance Engineering"
Kirk Pepperdine - Principal Java Engineer at Microsoft

RESOURCES
Monica
https://x.com/mon_beck
https://github.com/mo-beck
https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicabeckwith
https://www.codekaram.com

Kirk
https://x.com/javaperftuning
https://github.com/kcpeppe
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirk-pepperdine
https://www.kodewerk.com

DESCRIPTION
Kirk Pepperdine and Monica Beckwith delve into the evolving world of performance engineering, focusing on Monica's book, JVM Performance Engineering.

They discuss key advancements in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) since JDK 8, including garbage collection and cloud-native applications. The conversation underscores the significance of experimental design and benchmarking, advocating for a collaborative approach that blends theoretical knowledge with practical application.

Monica emphasizes the future of performance engineering lies in automation, AI, and machine learning, urging engineers from various disciplines to work together to navigate the complexities of distributed systems effectively.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Monica Beckwith • JVM Performance Engineering • https://amzn.to/3BkRoiO
Venkat Subramaniam • Cruising Along with Java • https://amzn.to/4dFuBwU
Markus Eisele & Natale Vinto • Modernizing Enterprise Java • https://amzn.to/3EsEtZ3
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer • https://amzn.to/3azvUy3
Joshua Bloch • Effective Java • https://amzn.to/3ygmQJt
Diana Montalion • Learning Systems Thinking • https://amzn.to/3ZpycdJ

Software Architecture for Tomorrow: Expert Talk • Sam Newman & Julian Wood

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Sam Newman - Microservices Expert & Author of "Monolith to Microservices" & "Building Resilient Distributed Systems"
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
Sam
https://twitter.com/samnewman
https://hachyderm.io/@samnewman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samnewman
http://samnewman.io
http://samnewman.io/blog
https://github.com/snewman

Julian
https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

DESCRIPTION
Julian Wood and Sam Newman delve into the complexities of software architecture, focusing on critical concepts such as microservices, asynchronous communication, and the importance of architectural decision-making.
Sam emphasizes the need for clear definitions in computing, particularly around terms like asynchronicity, advocating for an understanding of communication styles—event-driven versus request-response—as pivotal for effective system design. They discuss the value of architectural decision records (ADRs) as tools for fostering collaboration and documenting trade-offs in decision-making.

Additionally, the conversation highlights the evolving role of AI in software development, stressing that while AI can assist in understanding and maintaining existing codebases, the human element of critical thinking remains essential in navigating the complexities of modern software systems.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sam Newman • Building Resilient Distributed Systems • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-resilient-distributed/9781098163532
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E
Sam Newman • Building Microservices • https://amzn.to/3dMPbOs
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running• https://amzn.to/3c4HmmL
Mitra, Nadareishvili, McLarty & Amundsen • Microservice Architecture • https://amzn.to/3fVNAb0

Navigating Complexity with Systems Thinking • Diana Montalion & Andrew Harmel-Law

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Diana Montalion - Systems Architect, Mentrix Founder & Author of "Learning Systems Thinking"
Andrew Harmel-Law - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks & Author of "Facilitating Software Architecture"

RESOURCES
Diana
https://hachyderm.io/@diana
https://bsky.app/profile/mentrix.bsky.social
https://x.com/dianamontalion
https://github.com/dianamontalion
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianamontalion
https://blog.montalion.com
https://learningsystemsthinking.com

Andrew
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewhl.bsky.social
https://twit.social/@ahl
https://x.com/al94781
https://github.com/andrewharmellaw
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewharmellaw
https://andrewharmellaw.github.io

Links
https://donellameadows.org

DESCRIPTION
Andrew Harmel-Law and Diana Montalion explore the critical importance of systems thinking in software development and organizational dynamics. Diana Montalion touches on her new book, "Learning Systems Thinking," highlighting how traditional linear approaches to problem-solving often fall short in today's complex environments. She emphasizes that effective systems leadership requires not only recognizing the interconnectedness of various components but also fostering collaborative thinking and decision-making among teams.

By engaging in practices that enhance understanding and adaptability, organizations can better navigate challenges and drive meaningful change, moving beyond simplistic solutions to embrace a more holistic view of their systems.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Diana Montalion • Learning Systems Thinking • https://amzn.to/3ZpycdJ
Andrew Harmel-Law • Facilitating Software Architecture • https://amzn.eu/d/5kZKVfU
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems • https://amzn.to/3XtqYCV
Donella H. Meadows • Limits to Growth • https://amzn.to/4d9sik4
Robert M. Pirsig • Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance • https://amzn.to/4ekfJU0

Harnessing AI to Clean up Beaches from Plastic Pellets • Signe Simonsen & Julian Wood

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Signe Simonsen - Founder of Race for Oceans
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
Signe
https://twitter.com/signe_simonsen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/signe-simonsen
https://www.instagram.com/signessimonsen

Julian
https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

Links
https://raceforoceans.org/en
https://raceforoceans.org/en/support-us
https://www.instagram.com/raceforoceans

DESCRIPTION
Julian Wood sits down with Signe Simonsen, the visionary behind “Race for Oceans”, to explore her inspiring journey from Danish army captain to environmental advocate.

Signe shares her mission to combat plastic pollution using innovative technology, including AI-driven drones and robots, to clean beaches and protect our oceans. With a blend of military precision and environmental passion, Signe Simonsen is pioneering a solution to a challenge that has persisted for decades, aiming to leave a lasting impact on the planet for future generations.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Victor Vasques Ribeiro • Plastic pellets on sandy beaches Volume I • https://amzn.to/4crhYEC
Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu • Microplastic Pollution • https://amzn.to/4cnijIt
Ioannis Kolaxis • 101 Green Software • https://www.kolaxis.dev/book-green-software
Lässig, Kersting & Morik • Computational Sustainability • https://amzn.to/3APBW8r
Carola Lilienthal • Sustainable Software Architecture • https://amzn.to/3yFXxoS

Navigating AI's Impact • Alistair Cockburn & Aino Vonge Corry

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Aarhus for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Alistair Cockburn - Co-Author of the "Manifesto for Agile Software Development"
Aino Vonge Corry - Retrospectives Facilitator, Teacher, Technical Conference Editor & Author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns"

RESOURCES
Alistair
https://twitter.com/TotherAlistair
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistaircockburn
https://github.com/totheralistair
http://alistair.cockburn.us

Aino
https://twitter.com/apaipi
http://metadeveloper.com
https://github.com/apaipi
https://linkedin.com/in/aino-vonge-corry-9a23801

DESCRIPTION
Alistair Cockburn shares his insights on the profound impact of AI on the Agile community and beyond. Together with Aino Vonge Corry they reflect on the history and evolution of Agile, contrasts AI's transformative power with past technologies, and expresses concerns about AI's potential to disrupt various professions.

He emphasizes his role as a "Bard" rather than a futurist, focusing on current trends and practices around the world. The conversation also touches on Denmark's resilience in the global recession, highlighting the unique societal perspectives that contribute to happiness in Scandinavian countries.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospective Antipatterns • https://amzn.to/3naFk84
Derby, Larsen & Schwaber • Agile Retrospectives • https://amzn.to/3hB4eNk
Stone, Chaparro, Keebler, Chaparro & McConnell • Introduction to Human Factors • https://amzn.to/3mfXqY2

Observability 2.0: Transforming Logging & Metrics • Charity Majors & James Lewis

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/336

Charity Majors - CTO at honeycomb.io & Co- Author of "Observability Engineering"
James Lewis - Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Charity
https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy
https://github.com/charity
https://linkedin.com/in/charity-majors
https://charity.wtf

James
https://twitter.com/boicy
https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices
https://github.com/boicy
https://www.bovon.org

DESCRIPTION
What’s next in the observability space? Join Charity Majors and James Lewis as they discuss canonical logs, Observability 2.0 and how to simplify complexity in software engineering!

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda • Observability Engineering • https://amzn.to/38scbma
Charity Majors & Laine Campbell • Database Reliability Engineering • https://amzn.to/3ujybdS
Kelly Shortridge & Aaron Rinehart • Security Chaos Engineering • https://www.verica.io/sce-book
Nora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/3hUmuAH
Russ Miles • Learning Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/3hCiUe8
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim • Accelerate • https://amzn.to/442Rep0

Enhancing Productivity with Tools, Aesthetics & AI • Cassidy Williams & Ben Hong

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/330

Cassidy Williams - Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub
Ben Hong - Staff Developer Experience Engineer at Pandan Studio

RESOURCES
Cassidy
https://twitter.com/cassidoo
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassidoo
https://github.com/cassidoo
https://cassidoo.co

Ben
https://x.com/bencodezen
https://m.webtoo.ls/@bencodezen
https://github.com/bencodezen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bencodezen
https://www.bencodezen.io

Links
https://obsidian.md
https://www.notion.so
https://bear.app
https://www.keyboardmaestro.com
https://github.com/features/copilot
https://claude.ai
https://www.cursor.com
https://www.tabnine.com

DESCRIPTION
Cassidy Williams and Ben Hong explore the intersection of aesthetics, functionality, and AI in the world of coding. They begin by examining how the design and feel of tools, from digital typewriters to customized keyboards, can significantly impact productivity and enjoyment. As they delve into AI's growing role, they assess various tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude.ai, and others, emphasizing how these technologies complement rather than replace human creativity.

Their conversation highlights the balance between leveraging AI for efficiency and maintaining personal touch and critical thinking in coding. They argue that while AI advances, the human element remains crucial in driving innovation and crafting meaningful work. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Taylor Royce • The 2024 Developer Productivity Guide • https://amzn.to/3XNAjqz
Unni Panicker • The Software Developer's Guide to ChatGP • https://amzn.to/3MSpoWw
Alex Castrounis • AI for People and Business • https://amzn.to/3NYKKTo
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ

Master Software Architecture • Maciej «MJ» Jedrzejewski & Artur Skowroński

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/331

Maciej «MJ» Jedrzejewski - Tech Agnostic Architect & Author of "Master Software Architecture"
Artur Skowroński - Head of Java & Kotlin Engineering at VirtusLab & Editor of "JVM Weekly"

RESOURCES
MJ
https://github.com/meaboutsoftware
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jedrzejewski-maciej
https://www.fractionalarchitect.io

Artur
https://x.com/ArturSkowronski
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arturskowronski
https://www.jvm-weekly.com

DESCRIPTION
This conversation explores the evolution and complexities of software architecture, from early programming experiences to advanced design principles.
It highlights practical gaps and the value of self-publishing, consulting, and addressing architectural pitfalls. Trends like microservices, serverless computing and AI are examined critically, emphasizing their limitations and supportive roles.

Recommendations for further reading include Gregor Hohpe's "Software Architect Elevator", Martin Kleppmann's "Designing Data-Intensive Applications", "Software Architecture: The Hard Parts" and Nick Tune's "Architecture Modernization," offering deep insights into effective software practices.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Maciej «MJ» Jedrzejewski • Master Software Architecture • https://leanpub.com/master-software-architecture
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdb
Gregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator • https://amzn.to/3F6d2ax
Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications • https://amzn.to/3mk2Roj
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts • https://amzn.to/3QeMgjR
Nick Tune & Jean-Georges Perrin • Architecture Modernization • https://amzn.to/4b5ASiN
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E
Vaughn Vernon & Tomasz Jaskula • Strategic Monoliths & Microservices • https://amzn.to/3AcUscj

Optimizing Organizational Flow with Wardley Mapping & DDD • Susanne Kaiser & James Lewis

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/326

Susanne Kaiser - Independent Tech Consultant & Author of "Architecture for Flow"
James Lewis - Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Susanne
https://mastodon.social/@suksr
https://twitter.com/suksr
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannekaiser1
https://susannekaiser.net

James
https://twitter.com/boicy
https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices
https://github.com/boicy
https://www.bovon.org

DESCRIPTION
Susanne Kaiser, an expert tech consultant, shares her secrets for integrating Wardley mapping, team topologies and domain-driven design to streamline value delivery and boost team effectiveness. The discussion with James Lewis highlights the power of hands-on collaboration, the value of understanding the purpose behind tools, and practical tips for breaking down silos and overcoming analysis paralysis. Tune in to discover how these cutting-edge techniques can transform your approach to organizational change and team dynamics.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Susanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/3XTmNCc
Simon Wardley • Wardley Mapping, The Knowledge • https://amzn.to/3XQEeDu
Simon Wardley • Wardley Maps • https://amzn.to/45U8Upr
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
Heidi Helfand • Dynamic Reteaming • https://amzn.to/3Fvu5BA
Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design • https://amzn.to/3tnGhwm
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdb

Serverless Development on AWS • Sheen Brisals, Luke Hedger & Khawaja Shams

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/327

Sheen Brisals - AWS Serverless Hero, Engineering Leader & Co-Author of "Serverless Development on AWS"
Luke Hedger - Software Engineer & Co-Author of "Serverless Development on AWS"
Khawaja Shams - Co-Founder & CEO at Momento

RESOURCES
Sheen
https://twitter.com/sheenbrisals
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheen-brisals
https://sbrisals.medium.com

Luke
https://twitter.com/level_out
https://github.com/lukehedger
https://level-out.com

Khawaja
https://twitter.com/ksshams
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kshams
https://www.gomomento.com

DESCRIPTION
Khawaja Shams interviews authors Sheen Brisals and Luke Hedger about their new book "Serverless Development on AWS". The book aims to provide a comprehensive guide to implementing serverless technologies, addressing both theoretical concepts and practical applications. Key challenges in adopting serverless include managing distributed system complexity and understanding cost implications. Benefits highlighted include improved scalability and flexibility. Practical advice includes starting with less critical applications and focusing on specialized monitoring tools. Looking ahead, both authors anticipate continued advancements and broader adoption in serverless technology.

Dive into the future of tech with Sheen Brisals and Luke Hedger's new book on serverless architecture! Learn how to master scalability and flexibility in your applications.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sheen Brisals & Luke Hedger • Serverless Development on AWS • https://amzn.to/3W3Sw2f
Gregor Hohpe & Bobby Woolf • Enterprise Integration Patterns • https://amzn.to/3Zj2mfB
Adam Bellemare • Building Event-Driven Microservices • https://amzn.to/3WfNKfM
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS • https://amzn.to/3hJzEUM

Intro to Product Thinking: Building Human-Centric Tools • Flavia Naezer & Julian Wood

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/329

Flavia Naezer - Product Thinker, Public Speaker, Artist
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
Flavia
https://github.com/flavianaezer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/flavia-naezer-449b285
https://x.com/flaviasomething

Julian
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

Links
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3595878
https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-resources/the-double-diamond

DESCRIPTION
Explore the evolving relationship between technology and product management with Julian Wood and Flavia Naezer. Discover how Flavia’s tech and product expertise highlights the need for user-centric design thinking and thorough research in developing internal tools and platforms.

Discover how Julian and Flavia explore the intersection of tech and product management, highlighting the importance of user-centric design and thorough research in developing internal tools and platforms.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Marty Cagan • Inspired • https://amzn.to/4e5l2r2
Anthony W. Ulwick • Jobs to Be Done • https://amzn.to/4elaVhu
Gregor Hohpe • Enterprise Integration Patterns, Vol 2 • https://amzn.to/3TNedQ3
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4fPLW7p
Stephanie Stimac • Design for Developers • https://amzn.to/3EhuN4T
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis & Nicole Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook • https://amzn.to/3WBjzCM
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
Gene Kim, Nicole Forsgren & Jez Humble • Accelerate • https://amzn.to/3WCG5uT
Marty Cagan • Empowered • https://amzn.to/42kuKAj

Learning Systems Thinking • Diana Montalion & Charles Humble

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/328

Diana Montalion - Systems Architect, Mentrix Founder & Author of "Learning Systems Thinking"
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Diana
https://hachyderm.io/@diana
https://bsky.app/profile/mentrix.bsky.social
https://x.com/dianamontalion
https://github.com/dianamontalion
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianamontalion
https://blog.montalion.com
https://learningsystemsthinking.com

Charles
https://twitter.com/charleshumble
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://xkcd.com/386

DESCRIPTION
Diana Montalion and Charles Humble explore the complexities of systems thinking particularly in tech environments resistant to change. Diana shares insights on the frustrations of introducing new ideas in hierarchical organizations, where power dynamics and skepticism often block innovation.

They discuss the importance of patience, community support, and accepting that recognition may not come when challenging ingrained structures. Diana also reflects on the personal growth she experienced while writing her book, including navigating her ADHD diagnosis and learning to embrace uncertainty. Together, they highlight the need for resilience and collaboration in driving meaningful, systemic change in tech.

Struggling to make systems thinking work in rigid, hierarchical environments? You're not alone. Dive into Diana Montalion and Charles Humble’s conversation on resilience, innovation, and driving real change in tech.

Discover Diana Montalion’s insights on systems thinking and overcoming hierarchical challenges in tech with Charles Humble. Essential read for anyone driving change in complex environments.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Diana Montalion • Learning Systems Thinking • https://amzn.to/3ZpycdJ
Robert M. Pirsig • Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance • https://amzn.to/4ekfJU0
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems • https://amzn.to/3XtqYCV
Donella H. Meadows • Limits to Growth • https://amzn.to/4d9sik4

Platform Strategy • Gregor Hohpe & James Lewis

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/323

Gregor Hohpe - Author of "Platform Strategy", "The Software Architect Elevator", et al.
James Lewis - Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Gregor
https://twitter.com/ghohpe
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghohpe
https://architectelevator.com

James
https://twitter.com/boicy
https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices
https://github.com/boicy
https://www.bovon.org

DESCRIPTION
James Lewis and Gregor Hohpe discuss the concept of dimensionality in decision-making, particularly in the context of innovation versus standardization. Hohpe emphasizes the importance of understanding and removing constraints to unlock new opportunities, citing historical shifts in technology and platform thinking as key examples.

They explore how traditional one-dimensional views often limit progress and the challenges of adapting to new paradigms, especially in organizations. The discussion also touches on the role of architects in facilitating these shifts and the strategic focus needed for internal platforms to thrive in the face of evolving technologies.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdb
Gregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator • https://amzn.to/3F6d2ax
Gregor Hohpe • Cloud Strategy • https://amzn.to/3TOS3Nv
Gregor Hohpe • Enterprise Integration Patterns, Vol 2 • https://amzn.to/3TNedQ3
Gregor Hohpe & Bobby Woolf • Enterprise Integration Patterns • https://amzn.to/3DqII9l
Gregor Hohpe • 37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation • https://amzn.to/3z8uhnw

Bootstrapping Microservices • Ashley Davis & Damian Maclennan

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/episodes/322

Ashley Davis - Author of "Bootstrapping Microservices" & Principal Software Engineer at Autodesk
Damian Maclennan - Technologist, Software Architect, Trainer, Developer & Consultant CTO at Stack Mechanics

RESOURCES
Ashley
https://x.com/codecapers
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleydavis75
https://www.codecapers.com.au

Damian
https://damianm.com
https://mastodon.social/@damianm
https://bsky.app/profile/damianm.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/damianmaclennan
https://instagram.com/damianmaclennan
https://twitter.com/DamianM

Links
https://bootstrapping-microservices.com
https://rapidfullstackdevelopment.com

DESCRIPTION
Damian Maclennan, a software architecture and trainer, engages with Ashley Davis, author of “Bootstrapping Microservices", discussing the evolution and practical applications of microservices.

With over 25 years of experience as a developer, Ashley shares insights into his career and what inspired him to write the book’s second edition, emphasizing the importance of context in choosing the right architecture—be it microservices or monolithic systems—through examples like AI model processing and data security.

They explore how industry trends, feedback, and advancements in tools have shaped the book, making complex concepts more accessible. Ashley and Damian highlight microservices' flexibility in system design, allowing for the gradual evolution and replacement of components, which helps manage technical debt and adapt to newer technologies.

They emphasize that microservices facilitate smaller, focused teams that can independently manage and scale components, enhancing overall agility. However, they also caution against potential pitfalls, such as unnecessary complexity and improper implementation, which can undermine the advantages of microservices.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ashley Davis • Bootstrapping Microservices • https://amzn.to/3X8ccTc
Sarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success • https://amzn.to/4aa8xrv
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E
Sam Newman • Building Microservices • https://amzn.to/3dMPbOs
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2 • https://leanpub.com/visualising-software-architecture

Dynamic Teams: Reteaming Patterns & Practices • Heidi Helfand & Charles Humble

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Heidi Helfand - Author of Dynamic Reteaming; Building High-Performing Teams that Change
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Heidi
https://twitter.com/heidihelfand
https://mastodon.social/@heidihelfand@mastodon.social
https://linkedin.com/in/heidihelfand
https://www.heidihelfand.com

Charles
https://twitter.com/charleshumble
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

DESCRIPTION
Explore the importance of embedding company values into daily operations and how Procore Technologies successfully integrates values like ownership, openness, and optimism. Heidi shares insights on recognizing when to split a team, especially when meetings become unmanageable, or decision-making slows down.

Charles Humble and Heidi Helfand discuss managing dependencies among specialist roles and the significance of fostering a shared team history through collaborative activities. Addressing toxic team members and utilizing effective management practices are emphasized as crucial for maintaining a healthy team dynamic. The discussion concludes with book recommendations for those navigating organizational changes. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Heidi Helfand • Dynamic Reteaming
Heidi Helfand • How to Change Your Teams
Carl Larson & Frank M J LaFasto • Teamwork
Gene Kim & Steve Spear • Wiring the Winning Organization
Ichak Adizes • Managing Corporate Lifecycles
Grenny, Patterson, McMillan, Switzler & Gregory • Crucial Conversations
Henri Lipmanowicz & Keith McCandless • The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures
Dr. Anne Rød & Marita Fridjhon • Creating Intelligent Teams
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
William Bridges & Susan Bridges • Transitions

Lizard Optimization • Gojko Adzic & Dave Farley

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Gojko Adzic - Software Delivery Consultant & Author of "Lizard Optimization" and many more Books
Dave Farley - Continuous Delivery & DevOps Pioneer, Award-winning Author, Founder & Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.

RESOURCES
Gojko
https://twitter.com/gojkoadzic
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gojko
https://github.com/gojko
https://gojko.net

Dave
https://twitter.com/davefarley77
https://linkedin.com/in/dave-farley-a67927
http://www.continuous-delivery.co.uk
http://www.davefarley.net

DESCRIPTION
Dave Farley and Gojko Adzic discuss Gojko’s latest book “Llizard Optimization”, which involves identifying and leveraging unconventional uses and misuses of products to improve them for all users. Gojko shares insights and examples from his experiences with Narakeet and MindMup, highlighting how addressing the needs of outlier users led to significant product enhancements and growth.

They also touch on broader themes of user retention, the joy of building and solving problems, and the balance between solo work and collaborative efforts in software development and writing.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Gojko Adzic • Lizard Optimization
Gojko Adzic • Impact Mapping
Adzic, Evans & Roden • Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Tests
Adzic, Evans & Korac • Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories
Adzic & Korac • Humans vs Computers
Gojko Adzic • Specification by Example
Adzic, Marcetic & Bisset • Bridging the Communication Gap
Adzic & Korac • Running Serverless
Kat Holmes • Mismatch
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering
Dave Farley • Continuous Delivery Pipelines
Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery

Enabling Microservice Success • Sarah Wells & Sam Newman

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Sarah Wells - Independent Consultant & Author & Author of "Enabling Microservice Success"
Sam Newman - Microservices Expert & Author of "Building Microservices" & "Monolith to Microservices"

RESOURCES
Sarah
https://www.sarahwells.dev
https://twitter.com/sarahjwells
https://linkedin.com/in/sarahjwells1

Sam
https://twitter.com/samnewman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samnewman
http://samnewman.io
http://samnewman.io/blog
https://github.com/snewman

DESCRIPTION
Sam Newman talks to Sarah Wells about her new book "Enabling Microservice Success." Sarah Wells, an independent consultant with extensive experience from working at the "Financial Times," shares insights on engineering leadership, culture, and the practicalities of implementing microservices.
They discuss challenges like out of hours support, the importance of organizational culture, and lessons learned from early microservice adoption.

Sarah and Sam highlight the necessity of a thoughtful approach to microservices, emphasizing team autonomy and resilience.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices
Sam Newman • Building Microservices
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running

Coding the Future: Inside GOTO Chicago 2024

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 23:00:00 +0200

GOTO Chicago, running from October 21st to 23rd at Convene Willis Tower, will host an exciting range of talks and workshops designed for developers, architects, and tech leaders. Highlights include Ryan Dahl on the future of JavaScript with Deno 2, Andy Greenberg exploring the dark side of cryptocurrency in "Tracers in the Dark," and Dave Taht sharing groundbreaking insights into reducing internet latency. The conference covers AI, cloud-native architectures, security, and much more, including lightning talks that provide quick, impactful insights across a variety of tech topics.

This podcast is AI-generated as part of an experimental format, offering a fresh, innovative way to explore conference content.

GOTO Chicago 2024:
https://gotochgo.com/2024

Speakers:
https://gotochgo.com/2024/speakers

Newsletter:
https://blog.gotocon.com/newsletter

Architecture Modernization • Nick Tune & Eduardo da Sliva

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Nick Tune - Author of "Architecture Modernization" & Staff Engineer at PayFit
Eduardo da Sliva - Independent Consultant on Socio-technical Systems, Architecture & Leadership Modernization

RESOURCES
Nick
https://hachyderm.io/@nick_tune
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-tune
https://nick-tune.me
https://medium.com/nick-tune-tech-strategy-blog

Eduardo
https://x.com/emgsilva
https://mastodon.social/@eduardodasilva
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emgsilva
https://github.com/emgsilva
https://esilva.net
https://esilva.net/amet

DESCRIPTION
Eduardo da Silva interviews Nick Tune about his book "Architecture Modernization." Nick Tune shares his motivations for writing the book, emphasizing the socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure. They discuss the importance of business objectives, the role of Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET), and practical steps to initiate and sustain modernization efforts. Nick Tune also highlights the continuous nature of modernization and the need for organizations to adapt and learn over time.

The conversation provides valuable tips for effectively approaching architecture modernization and ensuring long-term success.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Nick Tune & Jean-Georges Perrin • Architecture Modernization
Scott Millett & Nick Tune • Patterns, Principles, and Practices of DDD
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2
Woods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice

The Evolution of Infrastructure from Code • Adam Keller, Elad Ben-Israel & Eric Johnson

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Adam Keller - Senior Technologist at AWS
Elad Ben-Israel - Co-Founder & CEO at Wing & Creator of the AWS CDK
Eric Johnson - Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless at AWS

RESOURCES
Adam
https://x.com/realadamjkeller
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamkeller
https://github.com/adamjkeller
http://cdk.live

Elad
https://x.com/emeshbi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hackingonstuff
https://wing.cloud

Eric
https://twitter.com/edjgeek
https://linkedin.com/in/singledigit
https://serverlessland.com

DESCRIPTION
Eric Johnson and technologists Adam Keller and Elad Ben-Israel explore the evolution of cloud development, discussing the transition from traditional Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to more integrated approaches like Infrastructure Plus Code.

Elad, creator of the AWS CDK, and Adam Keller, senior technologist at AWS, look at how tools like the CDK and new languages like Wing are bridging the gap between infrastructure and application development. They emphasize the importance of opinionated frameworks that offer flexibility and customization, addressing challenges in cloud adoption and highlighting the need for clearer abstractions to empower developers and streamline operations. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adam Bellemare • Building Event-Driven Microservices
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS
Michael Stack • Event-Driven Architecture in Golang
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Gerardus Blokdyk • Event-Driven Architecture EDA
James Urquhart • Flow Architectures

The Value Flywheel Effect: A Modern Cloud Strategy • David Anderson & Charles Humble

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

David Anderson - Software Architect at G-P/Globalization Partners & Author of "The Value Flywheel Effect"
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
David
https://x.com/davidand393
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-anderson-belfast
https://theserverlessedge.com

Charles
https://twitter.com/charleshumble
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://blog.container-solutions.com/adrian-cockcroft-on-serverless-continuous-resilience
https://www.wardleymaps.com

DESCRIPTION
David Anderson, co-author of "The Value Flywheel Effect", shares his experiences and insights from his time at Liberty Mutual, where he drove significant technological transformation through a serverless first approach in a conversation with Charles Humble.

Anderson discusses the importance of aligning business and IT strategy, fostering an environment of psychological safety, and enabling teams with the right tools and frameworks to achieve rapid software development. He emphasizes the value of principles-driven development, collaborative processes, and the impact of using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to create reusable patterns. Anderson also highlights the continuous nature of software evolution and the importance of timing and momentum in driving successful change in large organizations. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
David Anderson, Marck McCann & Michael O'Reilly • The Value Flywheel Effect
Gregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator
Gene Kim, Nicole Forsgren & Jez Humble • Accelerate
Jim Collins • Turning the Flywheel
Gene Kim & Steve Spear • Wiring the Winning Organization
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis & Nicole Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook
Elisabeth Hendrickson • Explore It!
Gerald M. Weinberg • Becoming a Technical Leader

Cruising Along with Java • Venkat Subramaniam & Alina Yurenko

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Venkat Subramaniam - Author of "Cruising Along with Java" and Many More Books
Alina Yurenko - Developer Advocate for GraalVM at Oracle Labs

RESOURCES
Venkat
https://twitter.com/venkat_s
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vsubramaniam
https://github.com/venkats
http://www.agiledeveloper.com

Alina
https://twitter.com/alina_yurenko
https://github.com/alina-yur
https://linkedin.com/in/alinayurenko

DESCRIPTION
Java is on a fast-paced development schedule that brings with it improved design capabilities and enhancements for application security. Learn about the changes to Java, from version 9 to 19, and apply new features to build enterprise applications faster and with fewer errors. Get up to speed on how to make your code concise, expressive, and less error prone, and create better OO programs with the newest features. Modularize and create asynchronous applications with ease and proper error handling. This book contains twelve chapters that dive deep into the features, using plenty of examples for you to practice along with.

* Book description: © Pragmatic Programmers

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Venkat Subramaniam • Cruising Along with Java
Venkat Subramaniam • Programming Kotlin
Venkat Subramaniam • Functional Programming in Java
Venkat Subramaniam • Pragmatic Scala
Venkat Subramaniam • Test-Driving JavaScript Applications
Subramaniam & Hunt • Practices of an Agile Developer

An Insider's Guide to Cloud Computing • David Linthicum & Prasad Rao

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

David Linthicum - Al & Cloud Thought Leader & Author of "An Insider's Guide to Cloud Computing"
Prasad Rao - Principal Solutions Architect at AWS & Co-Author of "Cloud Career Journeys"

RESOURCES
David
https://x.com/DavidLinthicum
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlinthicum

Prasad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kprasadrao
https://cloudcareerjourneys.com

DESCRIPTION
Join Prasad Rao in a captivating conversation with David Linthicum, an esteemed authority in cloud computing, as they explore the future landscape of technology in an illuminating interview. Linthicum offers invaluable insights into the evolution of cloud computing, envisioning a future marked by ubiquitous and heterogeneous computing paradigms. With a keen eye on emerging trends and practical strategies, Linthicum sheds light on navigating the complexities of modern technology ecosystems.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
David Linthicum • An Insider's Guide to Cloud Computing
David Linthicum • Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise
David Linthicum • Enterprise Application Integration
Prasad Rao & Ashish Prajapati • Cloud Career Journeys
Venkat Subramaniam • Cruising Along with Java

Functions vs Containers: The Serverless Landscape • Marcia Villalba & Julian Wood

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS
Marcia Villalba - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
Marcia
https://twitter.com/mavi888uy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marciavillalba
https://marcia.dev
https://github.com/mavi888

Julian
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

Links
https://serverlessland.com
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/optimizing-lambda-functions-packaged-as-container-images
https://serverlessland.com/patterns/s3-lambda-container-sam
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/building-php-lambda-functions-with-docker-container-images
Julian & James: https://youtu.be/KDtsC7SjsdA
Marcia: https://youtu.be/bC51iRtXlRw
Liz: https://youtu.be/8fi7uSYlOdc
Julian: https://youtu.be/4YeZf3HupQA

DESCRIPTION
Explore the seamless integration of container images with AWS Lambda! Marcia Villalba and Julian Wood unravel the intricacies of development, deployment, and optimization. Discover how containers revolutionize serverless computing, offering speed, efficiency, and scalability in the cloud. From demystifying cold starts to harnessing caching technologies, this is your chance to learn from the experts. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adam Bellemare • Building Event-Driven Microservices
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS
Michael Stack • Event-Driven Architecture in Golang
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Gerardus Blokdyk • Event-Driven Architecture EDA
James Urquhart • Flow Architectures

Insights on Leadership & Innovation • Gene Kim & Charles Humble

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Gene Kim - Author, Researcher, DevOps Enthusiast & Founder of IT Revolution
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Gene
https://twitter.com/RealGeneKim
https://www.linkedin.com/in/realgenekim
http://www.realgenekim.me

Charles
https://twitter.com/charleshumble
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble
https://conissaunce.com

Links
https://youtu.be/vLHFuQjJR8Y
https://youtu.be/5_rrQND3lpQ
https://youtu.be/dMwGfRINpz0
https://youtu.be/KDHyxnLdOqc
https://youtu.be/AxqX9ovGViw
https://youtu.be/JAl3QFae_dE
https://youtu.be/l3XwpSKqNZw
https://youtu.be/wtmW89I941I
https://youtu.be/5OjqD-ow8GE
https://youtu.be/hIwVqt6qtc4

DESCRIPTION
Join Gene Kim and Charles Humble as they demystify the complexities of organizational dynamics, offering a comprehensive guide to navigating challenges and fostering success through his five ideals, backed by real-world stories and expert discussions.

Discover the keys to organizational success with Gene Kim and Charles Humble in an insightful conversation, backed by real-world stories and expert discussions. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Gene Kim & Steve Spear • Wiring the Winning Organization
Gene Kim • The Unicorn Project
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford • The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim, Nicole Forsgren & Jez Humble • Accelerate
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis & Nicole Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook
Gene Kim & John Willis • Beyond The Phoenix Project
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Elisabeth Hendrickson • Explore It!
Gerald M. Weinberg • Becoming a Technical Leader

Embrace Step Functions for Efficient Workflow Management • Ben Smith & Eric Johnson

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Ben Smith - Principal Developer Advocate for serverless at AWS
Eric Johnson - Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless at AWS

RESOURCES
Ben
https://twitter.com/benjamin_l_s
https://github.com/bls20AWS
https://linkedin.com/in/bensmithportfolio
http://developeradvocate.co.uk
https://thewebsmithsite.wordpress.com

Eric
https://twitter.com/edjgeek
https://linkedin.com/in/singledigit

Links
https://serverlessland.com
https://serverlessland.com/workflows
https://youtu.be/o8qAlbjX3iU
https://youtu.be/9StQpMLC-5Q
https://youtu.be/4YeZf3HupQA
https://youtu.be/dzW3-Mol1yo
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/latest/dg/workflow-studio-use.html
https://robsutter.com
https://gotoldn.com/2024-eda-aws-day

DESCRIPTION
In this conversation, Eric Johnson and Ben Smith discuss the benefits and evolving capabilities of AWS Step Functions, emphasizing their utility in managing complex workflows involving multiple AWS services. They highlight the initial hesitation due to limitations in earlier versions but acknowledge significant improvements such as express workflows and synchronous invocation, which have made Step Functions more versatile and powerful. They delve into favorite patterns, including concurrent processing with dynamic map states and reusable workflows, underscoring the efficiency and scalability Step Functions bring to serverless architectures. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adam Bellemare • Building Event-Driven Microservices
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS
Michael Stack • Event-Driven Architecture in Golang
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Gerardus Blokdyk • Event-Driven Architecture EDA
James Urquhart • Flow Architectures

Cloud Career Journeys • Prasad Rao & David Linthicum

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Prasad Rao - Principal Solutions Architect at AWS & Co-Author of "Cloud Career Journeys"
David Linthicum - Al & Cloud Thought Leader & Author of "Insider's Guide to Cloud Computing"

RESOURCES
Prasad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kprasadrao
https://cloudcareerjourneys.com

David
https://x.com/DavidLinthicum
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlinthicum

Links
https://become-a-solutions-architect.github.io
https://youtu.be/I_jdTk30sig
https://www.pluralsight.com/cloud-guru

DESCRIPTION
When it comes to Cloud computing careers, despite abundant technical resources, many aspirants grapple with uncertainty regarding their career trajectory and how to thrive in the field. Our goal is to bridge this gap by showcasing the varied journeys of individuals from diverse backgrounds who have achieved success in Cloud careers.

This book serves as a journey through the life experiences that have shaped these individuals into who they are today. By reading their stories, you'll gain insights as if you've personally met each of them, leaving you inspired, just as we were while crafting this book.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Prasad Rao & Ashish Prajapati • Cloud Career Journeys
David Linthicum • An Insider's Guide to Cloud Computing
David Linthicum • Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise
David Linthicum • Enterprise Application Integration
Venkat Subramaniam • Cruising Along with Java

Your AI Survival Guide • Sol Rashidi & Joe Reis

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Sol Rashidi - Author of "Your AI Survival Guide", Keynote Speaker & "Forbes AI Maverick & Visionary of the 21st Century"
Joe Reis - Co-Author of "Fundamentals of Data Engineering", CEO at Ternary Data, Keynote Speaker, Professor & Podcaster

RESOURCES
Sol
https://twitter.com/Sol_Rashidi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sol-rashidi-a672291
https://www.solrashidi.com
https://solrashidi.substack.com

Joe
https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephreis
https://github.com/JoeReis
https://joereis.substack.com
http://josephreis.com

Links
https://learning.oreilly.com/get-learning/?code=LEARNGIT23
Trisha & Helen: https://youtu.be/pfinplXtrkA

DESCRIPTION
Join Sol Rashidi, an AI deployment pioneer, offers practical wisdom on navigating AI's challenges in a conversation with Joe Reis. Her new book, "Your AI Survival Guide," provides actionable insights for individuals and businesses venturing into AI integration, emphasizing hands-on learning and a measured approach to address cost and sustainability concerns.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sol Rashidi • Your AI Survival Guide
David Foster • Generative Deep Learning
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave
Ashley Peacock • Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques

Software Mistakes & Tradeoffs • Tomasz Lelek & Mark Rendle

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Tomasz Lelek - Senior Staff Software Engineer at Dremio & Co-Author of "Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs"
Mark Rendle - Creator of Visual ReCode with 7 Microsoft MVP Awards & 30+ Years of Experience Building Software

RESOURCES
Tomasz
https://twitter.com/tomekl007
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomaszlelek
https://github.com/tomekl007

Mark
https://twitter.com/markrendle
https://github.com/markrendle
https://linkedin.com/in/markrendle

Videos
Mark Rendle: https://youtu.be/Y9clBHENy4Q
Jon Skeet: https://youtu.be/1tpyAQZFlZY
Prag. Dave & Prag. Andy: https://youtu.be/taCNjiiusRk
Uri: https://youtu.be/G_CNnWH8Opw

DESCRIPTION
Code performance versus simplicity. Delivery speed versus duplication. Flexibility versus maintainability—every decision you make in software engineering involves balancing tradeoffs. In Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs, you’ll learn from costly mistakes that Tomasz Lelek and Jon Skeet have encountered over their impressive careers. You’ll explore real-world scenarios where poor understanding of tradeoffs lead to major problems down the road, so you can pre-empt your own mistakes with a more thoughtful approach to decision-making.

Learn how code duplication impacts the coupling and evolution speed of your systems, and how simple-sounding requirements can have hidden nuances with respect to date and time information. Discover how to efficiently narrow your optimization scope according to 80/20 Pareto principles, and ensure consistency in your distributed systems. You’ll soon have built up the kind of knowledge base that only comes from years of experience.

* Book description: © Manning Publication

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Tomasz Lelek & Jon Skeet • Software Mistakes & Tradeoffs
Ashley Peacock • Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2
Woods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice
Unmesh Joshi • Patterns of Distributed Systems

From Objects to Functions • Uberto Barbini & Duncan McGregor

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Uberto Barbini - Author of "From Objects to Functions" & Passionate Polyglot Programmer
Duncan McGregor - Co-Author of "Java to Kotlin" & Independent Consultant

RESOURCES
Uberto
https://twitter.com/ramtop
https://www.linkedin.com/in/uberto
https://github.com/uberto
https://medium.com/@ramtop

Duncan
https://twitter.com/duncanmcg
https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncan-mcgregor-a3038b6
https://github.com/dmcg
http://www.oneeyedmen.com
https://java-to-kotlin.dev

Videos
Hadi: https://youtu.be/BnTtjywqAX8
Alan: https://youtu.be/D43PlUr1x_E
Attila: https://youtu.be/14532OnVprw
Ken: https://youtu.be/M3qQFBGC9tk
Felienne: https://youtu.be/ztdxlkmxpIQ
Sam & James: https://youtu.be/_ehD4D7N4ZU

DESCRIPTION
Build applications quicker and with less effort using functional programming and Kotlin. Learn by building a complete application, from gathering requirements to delivering a microservice architecture following functional programming principles. Learn how to implement CQRS and EventSourcing in a functional way to map the domain into code better and to keep the cost of change low for the whole application life cycle.

If you’re curious about functional programming or you are struggling with how to put it into practice, this guide will help you increase your productivity composing small functions together instead of creating fat objects.

* Book description: © Pragmatic Programmers

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Uberto Barbini • From Objects to Functions
Uberto Barbini & Marco Cantù • Mastering Kylix 2
Duncan McGregor & Nat Pryce • Java to Kotlin
Venkat Subramaniam • Programming Kotlin
Venkat Subramaniam • Functional Programming in Java
Tomasz Lelek & Jon Skeet • Software Mistakes & Tradeoffs
Ashley Peacock • Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques

Learning Git: A Hands-On & Visual Guide • Anna Skoulikari & Helen Scott

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Anna Skoulikari - Author of "Learning Git" & Senior Technical Writer
Helen Scott - Developer Advocate at JetBrains & Co-Author of "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA"

RESOURCES
Anna
https://twitter.com/AnnaSkoulikari
https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaskoulikari
https://www.annaskoulikari.com
https://github.com/annaskoulikari
https://www.udemy.com/course/git-learning-journey

Helen
https://twitter.com/HelenJoScott
https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenjoscott
https://www.helenjoscott.com
https://github.com/helenjoscott

Links
https://learning.oreilly.com/get-learning/?code=LEARNGIT23
Trisha & Helen: https://youtu.be/pfinplXtrkA

DESCRIPTION
This book teaches Git in a simple, visual, and tangible manner so that you can build a solid mental model of how Git version control works. Through the use of color, storytelling, and hands-on exercises, you will learn to use this tool with confidence.

The information is introduced incrementally so that you don't get bogged down with unknown terms or concepts. Learning Git is ideal for anyone who needs to use Git for personal or professional projects: coding bootcamp students, junior developers, data professionals, and technical writers, to name just a few!

This book covers how to:
• Download Git and initialize a local repository
• Add files to the staging area and make commits
• Create, switch, and delete branches
• Merge and rebase branches
• Work with remote repositories including cloning, pushing, pulling, and fetching
• Use pull requests to collaborate with others

* Book description: © O'Reilly

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Anna Skoulikari • Learning Git
Trisha Gee & Helen Scott • Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA
Michael Nygard • Release It! 2nd Edition
Tomasz Lelek & Jon Skeet • Software Mistakes & Tradeoffs
Ashley Peacock • Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques

How Architecture & Culture Go Hand in Hand • Eoin Woods & Charles Humble

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Eoin Woods - Chief Engineer at Endava & Co-Author of 3 Software Architecture Books
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Eoin
https://twitter.com/eoinwoodz
https://linkedin.com/in/eoinwoods
https://eoinwoods.info

Charles
https://twitter.com/charleshumble
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble

Links
https://youtu.be/nchRmYvUf2Y
https://youtu.be/963Ls1X17zs
https://youtu.be/w9YhmMPLQ4U
https://youtu.be/rIgTE9aDVj4
https://youtu.be/aWZFRk-w3ng
https://youtu.be/wtmW89I941I

DESCRIPTION
Charles Humble and Eoin Woods take a step back to look at the changing landscape of software architecture, emphasizing the shift towards continuous architecture and the evolving role of architects in adapting to agile methodologies. They also explore the importance of people skills in architecture, the necessity of open communication, and the preservation of a supportive culture, as exemplified by Endava's approach to fostering a collaborative environment amidst rapid growth. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Multiple Authors • Software Architecture Metrics
Woods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice
Woods & Rozanski • Software Systems Architecture
Gregor Hohpe• The Software Architect Elevator
Elisabeth Hendrickson • Explore It!

Mastering Web Security: Myths, Strategies & More! • Scott Helme & Sebastian Brandes

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Scott Helme - Security Researcher, Hacker & Founder of Report URI & Security Headers
Sebastian Brandes - Senior Principal Product Manager at F5

RESOURCES
Scott
https://twitter.com/Scott_Helme
https://linkedin.com/in/scotthelme
https://scotthelme.co.uk
https://github.com/ScottHelme

Sebastian
https://twitter.com/br4ndes
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianbk
https://github.com/sebastianbk

Links
Sebastian: https://youtu.be/BX0TVzHOJgQ
https://crawler.ninja
https://docs.report-uri.com/setup/wizard
Scott: https://youtu.be/K9MwaSRdA94
https://research.checkpoint.com/2019/hacking-fortnite
Troy: https://youtu.be/pxPEdUFdayA
Jim: https://youtu.be/nvzMN5Z8DJI
Scott pt. 1: https://youtu.be/zvCXUozuI2A
Scott pt. 2: https://youtu.be/8PlCfYflz_A

DESCRIPTION
Get deep into the realm of application security, debunking myths around filters and emphasizing the power of a comprehensive defense strategy. Sebastian Brandes and Scott Helme share practical tips, highlight valuable resources, and underscore the critical role of organizational commitment in securing applications effectively.
Watch this interview to revamp your security approach with their actionable insights!

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Liz Rice • Container Security
Andy Greenberg • Tracers in the Dark
Thomas J. Holt, Adam M. Bossler & Kathryn C. Seigfried-Spellar • Cybercrime and Digital Forensics
Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Simplified
Erdal Ozkaya • Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide

Expert Talk: Are We Post-Serverless? • Julian Wood & James Beswick

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Julian Wood - Developer Advocate at AWS
James Beswick - Senior Manager, AWS Serverless Developer Advocacy

RESOURCES
Julian
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

James
https://twitter.com/jbesw
https://linkedin.com/in/jamesbeswick

Links
https://serverlessland.com
https://www.comicrelief.com/rednoseday
https://www.nationwidechildrens.org
Julian: https://youtu.be/4YeZf3HupQA
James: https://youtu.be/dUXDuxqTxmo
Nicki: https://youtu.be/4N2ywun-wTE
John: https://youtu.be/_76uaHtthYs
Sarah: https://youtu.be/6_Yzybhmj-8
Veda: https://youtu.be/-X-YHHU7p20
Uma & Dhiraj: https://youtu.be/dzW3-Mol1yo
Ricardo: https://youtu.be/YPQ65budGnI
Rosemary: https://youtu.be/7j3h2IqkmIA
Rebekah: https://youtu.be/_ugRNuE9xmA

DESCRIPTION
James Beswick and Julian Wood analyze the evolving landscape of serverless computing, from its current state to its future trajectory. They discuss the fusion of containers and serverless, highlighting the flexibility and efficiency gained from running Lambda functions from container images.
Moreover, they emphasize the importance of asynchronous development and the role it plays in scaling applications, with Julian Wood noting its under-appreciated potential for high performance.

Throughout the dialogue, they touch on cost management, architectural decisions and the collaborative relationship between AWS and its customers in shaping the future of serverless technologies. As they envision the next five years, they anticipate a continued integration of best practices, platform evolution, and groundbreaking innovations influenced by customer feedback and industry trends. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adam Bellemare • Building Event-Driven Microservices
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS
Michael Stack • Event-Driven Architecture in Golang
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Gerardus Blokdyk • Event-Driven Architecture EDA
James Urquhart • Flow Architectures

How Structures Affect Outcomes: Software Insights • Elisabeth Hendrickson & Charles Humble

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Elisabeth Hendrickson - Advisor, Coach, Speaker & Author of "Explore It!"
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Elisabeth
https://twitter.com/testobsessed
https://ruby.social/@testobsessed
https://github.com/testobsessed
https://www.linkedin.com/in/testobsessed
https://curiousduck.io

Charles
https://twitter.com/charleshumble
https://linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
https://mastodon.social/@charleshumble

Links
Better Testing Worse Quality
Managing the Proportions of Testing to Other Developers
https://youtu.be/wtmW89I941I
https://youtu.be/RRp_NwBmcXw
Henrik Kniberg
https://thinker.curiousduck.io
https://donellameadows.org

DESCRIPTION
From debunking testing ratios to exploring the impact of organizational structures on quality, the conversation between Charles Humble and Elisabeth Hendrickson offers actionable insights for engineering leaders. With candid reflections and practical strategies, this episode promises to inspire seasoned professionals and aspiring leaders alike, providing fresh perspectives to drive meaningful change within their teams and organizations.

To understand the future of software testing we need to understand its roots. Discover game-changing strategies for optimizing team alignment, quality assurance, and more!

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Elisabeth Hendrickson • Explore It!
Gerald M. Weinberg • An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
Gerald M. Weinberg • Becoming a Technical Leader
Donella H. Meadow • Thinking in Systems
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline

Dev Harmony: Communication & Proven SRE Practices • Liz Fong-Jones & Marit van Dijk

Fri, 31 May 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Liz Fong-Jones - Field CTO at Honeycomb.io
Marit van Dijk - Developer Advocate at JetBrains & Open Source Contributor

RESOURCES
LIz
https://twitter.com/lizthegrey
https://linkedin.com/in/efong
https://www.lizthegrey.com

Marit
https://twitter.com/MaritvanDijk77
https://linkedin.com/in/maritvandijk
https://mastodon.social/@maritvandijk
https://github.com/mlvandijk
https://medium.com/@mlvandijk
https://maritvandijk.com

DESCRIPTION
Explore the intricacies of efficient development collaboration and gain valuable insights into Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategies in this engaging conversation.
Liz Fong-Jones and Marit van Dijk delve into the challenges developers face, emphasizing streamlined communication and workflow optimization. From managing software dependencies to the evolving role of SRE teams, they share practical experiences and thoughts on building internal platforms, shedding light on the collaborative dynamics that shape successful development endeavors.

Discover how embracing effective communication and proven SRE practices can pave the way for improved team efficiency and impactful software development outcomes.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda • Observability Engineering
Beyer, Murphy, Rensin, Kawahara & Thorne • The Site Reliability Workbook
Kelly Shortridge & Aaron Rinehart • Security Chaos Engineering
Nora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering
Russ Miles • Learning Chaos Engineering
Mark Seemann & Steven van Deursen • Dependency Injection Principles, Practices & Patterns

Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques • Ashley Peacock & Stefan Hofer

Fri, 24 May 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Ashley Peacock - Staff Software Engineer at Simply Business & Author of "Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques"
Stefan Hofer - Co-Author of "Domain Storytelling" & Requirements & DDD Expert at WPS

RESOURCES
Ashley
https://twitter.com/_ashleypeacock
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-peacock-133749120
https://medium.com/@ashley-peacock
https://github.com/apeacock1991

Stefan
https://twitter.com/hofstef
https://social.wps.de/@hofstef
https://github.com/hofstef
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hofstef
https://domainstorytelling.org

DESCRIPTION
Diagrams communicate relationships more directly and clearly than words ever can. Using only text-based markup, create meaningful and attractive diagrams to document your domain, visualize user flows, reveal system architecture at any desired level, or refactor your code. With the tools and techniques this book will give you, you’ll create a wide variety of diagrams in minutes, share them with others, and revise and update them immediately on the basis of feedback. Adding diagrams to your professional vocabulary will enable you to work through your ideas quickly when working on your own code or discussing a proposal with colleagues.

Expand your professional vocabulary by learning to communicate with diagrams as easily and naturally as speaking or writing. This book will provide you with the skills and tools to turn ideas into clear, meaningful, and attractive diagrams in mere minutes, using nothing more complicated than text-based markup. You’ll learn what kinds of diagrams are suited to each of a variety of use cases, from documenting your domain to understanding how complex code pieces together. Model your software’s architecture, creating diagrams focused broadly or narrowly, depending on the audience. Visualize application and user flows, design database schemas, and use diagrams iteratively to design and refactor your application. [...]

* Book description: © Pragmatic Programmers

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ashley Peacock • Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques
Stefan Hofer & Henning Schwentner • Domain Storytelling
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2
Woods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice

Patterns of Distributed Systems • Unmesh Joshi & James Lewis

Fri, 17 May 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Unmesh Joshi - Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks & Author of "Patterns of Distributed Systems"
James Lewis - Principal Consultant & Technical Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Unmesh
https://twitter.com/unmeshjoshi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/unmesh-joshi-9487635
https://www.thoughtworks.com/profiles/u/unmesh-joshi

James
https://twitter.com/boicy
https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices
https://github.com/boicy
https://www.bovon.org
https://www.thoughtworks.com/profiles/j/james-lewis

DESCRIPTION
A Patterns Approach to Designing Distributed Systems and Solving Common Implementation Problems

More and more enterprises today are dependent on cloud services from providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP. They also use products, such as Kafka and Kubernetes, or databases, such as YugabyteDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4j, that are distributed by nature. Because these distributed systems are inherently stateful systems, enterprise architects and developers need to be prepared for all the things that can and will go wrong when data is stored on multiple servers--from process crashes to network delays and unsynchronized clocks.

"Patterns of Distributed Systems" describes a set of patterns that have been observed in mainstream open-source distributed systems. Studying the common problems and the solutions that are embodied by the patterns in this guide will give you a better understanding of how these systems work, as well as a solid foundation in distributed system design principles.

* Book description: © O'Reilly

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Unmesh Joshi • Patterns of Distributed Systems
Darnell, Harrison & Seldess • CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide
Guy Harrison • Next Generation Databases
Burns, Beda & Hightower • Kubernetes: Up & Running
Jez Humble & Dave Farley • Continuous Delivery

The Art of EDA Visuals: Exploring Concepts Through Graphics • David Boyne & Eric Johnson

Fri, 10 May 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
https://gotoldn.com/2024-eda-aws-day

Read the full transcription of this interview here

David Boyne - Senior Developer Advocate at AWS
Eric Johnson - Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless at AWS

RESOURCES
David
https://twitter.com/boyney123
https://linkedin.com/in/david-boyne
https://www.boyney.io

Eric
https://twitter.com/edjgeek
https://linkedin.com/in/singledigit
https://serverlessland.com

Links
https://serverlessland.com/event-driven-architecture/visuals
https://zettelkasten.de
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann
https://youtu.be/39ujoTd2CJI
https://youtu.be/9StQpMLC-5Q
https://youtu.be/GBzr48Mj2JU

DESCRIPTION
Eric Johnson and Dave Boyne take a deep dive into Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) visuals, dissecting complex concepts with clarity and insight. Their discussion stresses the importance of thoughtful event design, the nuances of event delivery failures, and the intricacies of communicating between bounded contexts.
With a wealth of experience and expertise, they shed light on the artistry behind EDA visuals, offering hands-on advice for architects and enthusiasts alike. [...]

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adam Bellemare • Building Event-Driven Microservices
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS
Michael Stack • Event-Driven Architecture in Golang
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Gerardus Blokdyk • Event-Driven Architecture EDA
James Urquhart • Flow Architectures

Elixir, Phoenix LiveView & Erlang • Sophie DeBenedetto & Andrea Leopardi

Fri, 03 May 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Sophie DeBenedetto - Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Andrea Leopardi - Elixir Core Team Member, Developer Advocate & Principal Engineer at Veeps

RESOURCES
Sophie
http://sophiedebenedetto.nyc
https://twitter.com/sm_debenedetto
https://linkedin.com/in/sophiedebenedetto
https://github.com/SophieDeBenedetto

Andrea
https://twitter.com/whatyouhide
https://linkedin.com/in/anleopardi
https://andrealeopardi.com
https://github.com/whatyouhide
https://mas.to/@whatyouhide

Videos
https://youtu.be/mkGq1WoEvI4
https://youtu.be/0ONhPnwKI1o
https://youtu.be/-KCZvquEA6I
https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE
https://youtu.be/Swj47CiK32w
https://youtu.be/PkHZPTn1brc
https://youtu.be/PEbQ-s19wKo
https://youtu.be/vS1_Z4xaeqQ

DESCRIPTION
Sophie DeBenedetto and Andrea Leopardi in an illuminating discussion as they navigate the expansive horizons of Elixir, empowering frontend developers with Phoenix LiveView and unveiling the language's network programming prowess.

This engaging conversation unveils practical applications, highlighting Elixir's elegance in crafting dynamic web solutions and addressing intricate networking challenges. Whether you're a seasoned developer or curious about Elixir's capabilities, this exploration promises a deep dive into the language's versatility.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sophie DeBenedetto & Bruce Tate • Programming Phoenix LiveView
Andrea Leopardi & Jeffrey Matthias • Testing Elixir
Sean Moriarity • Genetic Algorithms in Elixir
Sean Moriarity • Machine Learning in Elixir
Bruce Tate • Programmer Passport: Elixir
Francesco Cesarini & Steve Vinoski • Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
Saša Jurić • Elixir in Action
Joe Armstrong • Programming Erlang

Cloud Native Spring in Action • Thomas Vitale & Josh Long

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Thomas Vitale - Software Architect at Systematic & Author of "Cloud Native Spring in Action"
Josh Long - Spring Developer Advocate & Host of "A Bootiful Podcast"

RESOURCES
Thomas
https://www.thomasvitale.com
https://twitter.com/vitalethomas
https://linkedin.com/in/vitalethomas
https://github.com/ThomasVitale

Josh
https://twitter.com/Starbuxman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshlong
https://mastodon.online/@starbuxman
https://bootifulpodcast.fm
https://joshlong.com
https://www.biodrop.io/joshlong

DESCRIPTION
In Cloud Native Spring in Action, you’ll learn how to containerize your Spring Boot applications with Cloud Native Buildpacks and deploy them on Kubernetes. This practical guide delivers unique insights into hosting microservices, serverless applications, and other modern architectures on cloud platforms. You’ll learn how to use Spring-based methodologies, practices, and patterns that you won’t find anywhere else.

In Cloud Native Spring in Action you’ll learn:
• Cloud native best practices and design patterns
• Build and test cloud native apps with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud
• Handle security, resilience, and scalability in imperative and reactive applications
• Configure, deploy, and observe applications on Kubernetes
• Continuous delivery and GitOps to streamline your software lifecycle

* Book description: © Manning

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Thomas Vitale • Cloud Native Spring in Action
Josh Long • Reactive Spring
Josh Long, Marten Deinum & Daniel Rubio • Spring 6 Recipes
Mauricio Salatino • Platform Engineering on Kubernetes
Mark Heckler • Spring Boot: Up & Running
Laurentiu Spilca • Spring, Start Here
Cornelia Davis • Cloud Native Patterns
Jez Humble & Dave Farley • Continuous Delivery
Kevin Hoffman • Beyond the Twelve-Factor App

Building Green Software Part 5: Green Networking • Anne Currie

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Anne Currie - Co-Author of "Building Green Software", Leadership Team at Green Software Foundation & Veteran Software Engineer

RESOURCES
https://amzn.to/3IKopW5
https://greensoftware.foundation

Anne
https://www.annecurrie.com
https://twitter.com/anne_e_currie

DESCRIPTION
How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for development organizations? In this eye-opening book, sustainable software advocates Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, and Sara Bergman provide a unique overview of this topic—discussing everything from the likely evolution of national grids to the effect those changes will have on the day-to-day lives of developers.

Ideal for everyone from new developers to CTOs, Building Green Software tackles the challenges involved and shows you how to build, host, and operate code in a way that's not only better for the planet, but also cheaper and relatively low-risk for your business. Most hyperscale public cloud providers have already committed to net-zero IT operations by 2030. This book shows you how to get on board.

You'll explore:
• How the energy transition is likely to change hosting on prem and in the cloud—and how your company can prepare
• The fundamental architectural principles of sustainable software development and how to apply them
• How to determine which parts of your system need to change
• The concept of extending hardware longevity and the part that software plays

* Book description: © O'Reilly

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, & Sara Bergman • Building Green Software
Ioannis Kolaxis • 101 Green Software
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour • Green Computing Strategies for Competitive Advantage and Business Sustainability
Lässig, Kersting & Morik • Computational Sustainability
Zbigniew H. Gontar • Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization
Katsoni & Segarra-Oña • Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability

Intro to Roc & Innovation in Functional Programming • Richard Feldman & James Lewis

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Richard Feldman - Functional Programming Language Expert, Author of "Elm in Action" & Creator for the Roc Programming Language
James Lewis - Principal Consultant & Technical Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Richard
https://twitter.com/rtfeldman
https://linkedin.com/in/rtfeldman
https://github.com/rtfeldman
https://www.roc-lang.org
https://twitter.com/sw_unscripted

James
https://twitter.com/boicy
https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

DESCRIPTION
Join Richard Feldman and James Lewis as they unpack a new programming language and what it brings to the ecosystem. They navigate through the nuances of language selection, exploring the sweet spot between fun and standardization. From Elm's role in front-end development to Scala's adoption patterns and Dart's transformation into Flutter, the discussion takes you on a journey across diverse programming landscapes.

Discover the ins and outs of Roc, a fresh face in the coding scene, and the driving force behind its creation. Learn about its architecture, design principles, and standout features, including parsing strategies and a candid comparison with other languages. Explore the excitement around Roc's innovative traits and its knack for performance optimization, unveiling its potential in the dynamic world of functional programming.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Richard Feldman • Elm in Action
Tim McNamara • Rust in Action
Cristian Salcescu • Functional Programming in JavaScript
Yehonathan Sharvit • The Clojure Workshop

Effective Haskell • Rebecca Skinner & Emily Pillmore

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Rebecca Skinner - Author of "Effective Haskell", Lead Software Engineer at Mercury & Member of the Haskell.org Committee
Emily Pillmore - Head of Core Engineering at Kadena & Board Member of the Haskell Foundation

RESOURCES
Rebecca
https://twitter.com/cercerilla
https://www.linkedin.com/in/👩🏻%E2%80%8D💻rebecca-s-b47378b
https://github.com/rebeccaskinner
https://rebeccaskinner.net
https://octodon.social/@cercerilla

Emily
https://twitter.com/yandereidiot
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-pillmore
https://github.com/emilypi
https://mastodon.social/@mlep

DESCRIPTION
Put the power of Haskell to work in your programs, learning from an engineer who uses Haskell daily to get practical work done efficiently. Leverage powerful features like Monad Transformers and Type Families to build useful applications. Realize the benefits of a pure functional language, like protecting your code from side effects. Manage concurrent processes fearlessly. Apply functional techniques to working with databases and building RESTful services. Don’t get bogged down in theory, but learn to employ advanced programming concepts to solve real-world problems. Don’t just learn the syntax, but dive deeply into Haskell as you build efficient, well-tested programs.

* Book description: © Pragmatic Programmers

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Rebecca Skinner • Effective Haskell
Vitaly Bragilevsky • Haskell in Depth
John Whitington • Haskell from the Very Beginning
James Stanier • Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager • James Stanier & Gergely Orosz

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

James Stanier - Director of Engineering at Shopify & Author of "Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager"
Gergely Orosz - Writing The Pragmatic Engineer & Author of "The Software Engineer's Guidebook"

RESOURCES
James
https://twitter.com/jstanier
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jstanier
https://github.com/jstanier
https://www.theengineeringmanager.com
https://www.theengineeringmanager.com/management-101/contracting

Gergely
https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gergelyorosz
https://www.pragmaticengineer.com
https://github.com/gergelyorosz

DESCRIPTION
Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments.
In your career, you’ll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory.
How do you decide whether this career move is right for you?
And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed?
Where do you start?
How do you know that you’re doing it right?
What does “it” even mean?
And isn’t management a dirty word?

This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully.

* Book description: © Pragmatic Programmers:

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
James Stanier • Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager
James Stanier • Effective Remote Work
Gergely Orosz • The Software Engineer's Guidebook
Gergely Orosz • Building Mobile Apps at Scale
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life

Elixir's Impact: Shaping the Evolution of Erlang • Francesco Cesarini & Andrea Leopardi

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Francesco Cesarini - Founder of Erlang Solutions & O'Reilly Author
Andrea Leopardi - Elixir Core Team Member, Developer Advocate & Principal Engineer at Veeps

RESOURCES
Francesco
https://twitter.com/FrancescoC
https://github.com/francescoc
https://linkedin.com/in/francescocesarini

Andrea
https://twitter.com/whatyouhide
https://linkedin.com/in/anleopardi
https://andrealeopardi.com
https://github.com/whatyouhide
https://mas.to/@whatyouhide

DESCRIPTION
Uncover the fascinating journey of Erlang's transformation from a singular language to a diverse ecosystem. Francesco Cesarini, founder of Erlang Solutions, and Andrea Leopardi, a member of the Elixir Core Team, share insights into the emergence of languages on the BEAM, the impact of Elixir on the Erlang ecosystem, and the challenges and opportunities in extending the Erlang VM.
The conversation explores the rich history, diverse languages, and the positive influence Elixir brings back to Erlang's ongoing developments.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Andrea Leopardi & Jeffrey Matthias • Testing Elixir
Francesco Cesarini & Steve Vinoski • Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
Francesco Cesarini & Simon Thompson • Erlang Programming
Sophie DeBenedetto & Bruce Tate • Programming Phoenix LiveView
Saša Jurić • Elixir in Action
Joe Armstrong • Programming Erlang
Dave Thomas • Programming Elixir ≥ 1.6: Functional

Decoding Modern Tech: Cloud, APIs, Wasm, Security, & More • Daniel Bryant & Matt Turner

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Daniel Bryant - Independent Technical Consultant
Matt Turner - DevOps Leader and Software Engineer at Tetrate

RESOURCES
https://llvm.org/pubs/2002-08-09-LLVMCompilationStrategy.pdf
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

Daniel
https://twitter.com/danielbryantuk
https://github.com/danielbryantuk
https://linkedin.com/in/danielbryantuk
https://linktr.ee/danielbryantuk

Matt
https://mt165.co.uk
https://twitter.com/mt165
https://linkedin.com/in/mt165
https://github.com/mt-inside

DESCRIPTION
Join two cloud native experts and passionate adopters of modern tech as they explore the shifting role and impact of APIs. They go beyond the usual tech stack to touch on key aspects of the modern infrastructure and software development space like: platform engineering, mechanical sympathy and the role that Wasm could play in this. Daniel Bryant and Matt Turner will share some of the important but not so well known best practices and questions that one might ask to make sure they are building the right thing with the right tools.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Daniel Bryant, James Gough & Matthew Auburn • Mastering API Architecture
Daniel Bryant & Abraham Marín-Pérez • Continuous Delivery in Java
Mauricio Salatino • Platform Engineering on Kubernetes
Adrian Mouat • Using Docker
Burns, Beda & Hightower • Kubernetes: Up & Running
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim • Accelerate

Programming Phoenix LiveView • Sophie DeBenedetto, Bruce Tate & Steven Nunez

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Sophie DeBenedetto - Staff Software Engineer at GitHub & Co-Author of "Programming Phoenix LiveView"
Bruce Tate - President at Groxio & Co-Author of "Programming Phoenix LiveView" & many more Books
Steven Nunez - Staff Software Engineer at GitHub

RESOURCES
Sophie
http://sophiedebenedetto.nyc
https://twitter.com/sm_debenedetto
https://linkedin.com/in/sophiedebenedetto
https://github.com/SophieDeBenedetto

Bruce
https://grox.io
http://twitter.com/redrapids
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-tate

Steven
http://hostiledeveloper.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-nunez-6947817
http://twitter.com/_StevenNunez
https://github.com/octosteve
https://www.twitch.tv/octosteve
https://genserver.social/Steven

DESCRIPTION
The days of the traditional request-response web application are long gone, but you don’t have to wade through oceans of JavaScript to build the interactive applications today’s users crave. The innovative Phoenix LiveView library empowers you to build applications that are fast and highly interactive, without sacrificing reliability. This definitive guide to LiveView isn’t a reference manual. Learn to think in LiveView. Write your code layer by layer, the way the experts do. Explore techniques with experienced teachers to get the best possible performance.

* Book description: © Pragmatic Programmers:

The interview is based on the book " Programming Phoenix LiveView"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sophie DeBenedetto & Bruce Tate • Programming Phoenix LiveView
Sean Moriarity • Genetic Algorithms in Elixir
Sean Moriarity • Machine Learning in Elixir
Bruce Tate • Programmer Passport: Elixir
Bruce Tate • Programmer Passport: Prolog
Bruce Tate, Ian Dees, Frederic Daoud & Jack Moffitt • Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
Bruce Tate • Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

Traceable Cryptocurrencies & Cryptojacking • Andy Greenberg & Scott Helme

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Andy Greenberg - Author of "Sandworm" & "Tracers in the Dark" and Award-winning Senior Writer for WIRED
Scott Helme - Security Researcher, Hacker and Founder of Report URI & Security Headers

RESOURCES
Andy
https://twitter.com/a_greenberg
https://linkedin.com/in/andygreenbergjournalist
https://andygreenberg.net
https://www.wired.com/author/andy-greenberg
https://infosec.exchange/@agreenberg
@agreenberg.bksy.social

Scott
https://twitter.com/Scott_Helme
https://linkedin.com/in/scotthelme
https://scotthelme.co.uk
https://github.com/ScottHelme

DESCRIPTION
Andy Greenberg and Scott Helme explore the ever-evolving landscape of cyber crimes, discussing the anonymity of cryptocurrencies, the transition from cryptojacking to ransomware, and the enduring impact of blockchains on the realm of cyber security. They expose some of the most famous crytpojacking attacks of all time and reason about the unlimited potential of crime organizations that leverage cryptocurrencies.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Andy Greenberg • Tracers in the Dark
Andy Greenberg • Sandworm
Andy Greenberg • This Machine Kills Secrets
Thomas J. Holt, Adam M. Bossler & Kathryn C. Seigfried-Spellar • Cybercrime and Digital Forensics

Navigating Through Programming's Greatest Mistakes • Mark Rendle & Hannes Lowette

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Mark Rendle - Creator of Visual ReCode with 7 Microsoft MVP Awards & 30+ Years of Experience Building Software
Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover

RESOURCES
Mark Rendle: https://youtu.be/Y9clBHENy4Q
Hannes Lowette: https://youtu.be/wkFx2R4uk2A
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: https://youtu.be/Rxqko96C5ZI
Eli & Mark: https://youtu.be/Gs1exPFXnQ8
Matt & Mark: https://youtu.be/vzqzLSJWo3k
Kevin, Dylan & Hannes: https://youtu.be/HevYXFZcb98
Martin & Hannes: https://youtu.be/vzywu1ol-b8
Anita Sengupta: https://youtu.be/Q_O9pmSpg_8

Mark
https://twitter.com/markrendle
https://github.com/markrendle
https://linkedin.com/in/markrendle

Hannes
https://twitter.com/hannes_lowette
https://github.com/Belenar
https://linkedin.com/in/hanneslowette

DESCRIPTION
Hannes Lowette and Mark Rendle explore the highs and lows of programming, ranging from the monumental mistakes that have shaped the industry to the subtle yet impactful errors in code that translate to wasted time. They dissect the intricate world of FinTec, uncovering the dark side of digital markets and the pitfalls that emerge. The duo scrutinizes JavaScript's role in the programming landscape, questioning whether it's a revolutionary force or a coding misstep, while also delving into the potential drawbacks of package managers.

The conversation takes a turn to the negative aspects of programming languages, highlighting their flaws and the havoc they can wreak on software development. Finally, they reflect on the interconnectedness of coding decisions and business failures, emphasizing the profound impact of programming choices on the success or downfall of a business in the tech realm.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Tomasz Lelek & Jon Skeet • Software Mistakes & Tradeoffs
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Merih Taze • Engineers Survival Guide
Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim • Accelerate

Designing A Data-Intensive Future • Martin Kleppmann & Jesse Anderson

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Martin Kleppmann - Researcher at the Technical University of Munich & Author of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications"
Jesse Anderson - Managing Director of Big Data Institute, Host of The Data Dream Team Podcast

RESOURCES
Jesse Anderson: https://youtu.be/cWSCI1LpoGY
Martin Kleppmann: https://youtu.be/esMjP-7jlRE
Prag. Dave Thomas: https://youtu.be/ug8XX2MpzEw
https://automerge.org

Martin
https://martin.kleppmann.com
https://twitter.com/martinkl
https://nondeterministic.computer/@martin
https://linkedin.com/in/martinkleppmann

Jesse
https://twitter.com/jessetanderson
https://www.jesse-anderson.com
https://sodapodcast.libsyn.com/site
https://linkedin.com/in/jessetanderson
https://www.jesse-anderson.com/category/blog

DESCRIPTION
Jesse Anderson, director at Big Data Institute, and Martin Kleppmann, author of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" explore together the evolving data landscape. They start with the origins of Martin’s book, emphasizing the crucial art of asking the right questions. Martin unveils industry shifts since 2017, spotlighting the transformative rise of cloud services.

The conversation then takes a twist as Martin delves into academia, sharing insights on local-first collaboration software and the fascinating world of Automerge. Aspiring software engineers are treated with some advice on how to navigate the delicate balance between simplicity and adaptability.

The interview concludes with a glimpse into diverse career paths in the dynamic realm of data engineering, making it a must-watch for professionals at every stage of their journey.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann • Secret Colors: A Gentle Introduction to Cryptography
Jesse Anderson • Data Teams
Jesse Anderson • Data Engineering Teams
Jesse Anderson • The Ultimate Guide to Switching Careers to Big Data
Viktor Gamov, Dylan Scott & Dave Klein • Kafka in Action
Fabian Hueske & Vasiliki Kalavri • Stream Processing with Apache Flink

Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up • Lauren Maffeo & Samia Rahman

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Lauren Maffeo - Senior Service Designer at Steampunk & Author of "Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up"
Samia Rahman - Director of Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance at Seagen

RESOURCES
Lauren
https://twitter.com/LaurenMaffeo
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenmaffeo

Samia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samia-r-b7b65216
https://twitter.com/rahman1_samia

DESCRIPTION
Data governance manages the people, processes, and strategy needed for deploying data projects to production. But doing it well is far from easy: Less than one-fourth of business leaders say their organizations are data-driven. In Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up, you’ll build a cross-functional strategy to create roadmaps and stewardship for data-focused projects, embed data governance into your engineering practice, and put processes in place to monitor data after deployment.

In the last decade, the amount of data people produced grew 3,000 percent. Most organizations lack the strategy to clean, collect, organize, and automate data for production-ready projects. Without effective data governance, most businesses will keep failing to gain value from the mountain of data that’s available to them.

There’s a plethora of content intended to help DataOps and DevOps teams reach production, but 90 percent of projects trained with big data fail to reach production because they lack governance.

This book shares six steps you can take to build a data governance strategy from scratch. You’ll find a data framework, pull together a team of data stewards, build a data governance team, define your roadmap, weave data governance into your development process, and monitor your data in production. [...]

* Book description: © Pragmatic Programmers

The interview is based on the book " Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up".

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Lauren Maffeo • Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up
Katharine Jarmul • Practical Data Privacy
Katharine Jarmul & Jacqueline Kazil • Data Wrangling with Python
Yehonathan Sharvit • Data-Oriented Programming
Zhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh
Eberhard Wolff & Hanna Prinz • Service Mesh
Piethein Strengholt • Data Management at Scale
Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): The Technical Breakdown • John Davies & Lars Hupel

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

John Davies - CTO & Co-founder at Velo Payments
Lars Hupel - Chief Evangelist at Giesecke+Devrient

RESOURCES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank_digital_currency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
https://www.iso20022.org/iso-20022

John
https://twitter.com/jtdavies
https://linkedin.com/in/jdavies
https://johntdavies.com

Lars
https://mastodon.hupel.info/@lars
https://linkedin.com/in/lars-hupel
https://lars.hupel.info

DESCRIPTION
John Davis and Lars Hupel explore the distinctiveness of CBDC compared to cryptocurrencies. They emphasize the technical underpinnings, architecture, and practical applications of CBDC, focusing on its potential to facilitate offline payments, enhance security, and ensure efficient, instantly settled transactions. The conversation underscores the flexibility of CBDC and its coexistence with existing payment methods, making it a compelling topic for tech-savvy individuals.
In summary, this discussion offers technical audiences valuable insights into CBDC's technical foundations and its transformative potential in the digital payment landscape.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Rafal Ganowski • CBDC
Rodrigo Belone • New Money: The Guide to CBDC's
Joseph J Wang • Central Banking 101
Vlad CryptoGuy • CBDCs: Introduction to Central Bank Digital Currency

Unleashing Native Imaging Power in GraalVM • Alina Yurenko & Bert Jan Schrijver

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam for GOTO Unscripted.
http://gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Alina Yurenko - Developer Advocate for GraalVM at Oracle Labs
Bert Jan Schrijver - JavaOne Rockstar & Champion, NLJUG Leader & CTO at OpenValue

RESOURCES
Alina
https://twitter.com/alina_yurenko
https://github.com/alina-yur
https://linkedin.com/in/alinayurenko

Bert Jan
https://twitter.com/bjschrijver
https://github.com/bertjan
https://linkedin.com/in/bjschrijver

DESCRIPTION
Embark on a journey into the realm of GraalVM with Bert Jan Schrijver and Alina Yurenko!
Discover the intricacies of ahead-of-time compilation, profile-guided optimizations, and the efficiency gains offered by native image deployment. The conversation delves into the fascinating interplay between runtime adaptability and the powerful capabilities of GraalVM. Whether you're a seasoned developer or a curious tech enthusiast, this insightful discussion sheds light on the innovative landscape of Java applications.
Dive in and unlock a new perspective on performance, startup times, and resource optimization.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
A B Vijay Kumar • Supercharge Your Applications with GraalVM
John Clingan & Ken Finnigan • Kubernetes Native Microservices with Quarkus & MicroProfile
Gerald M. Weinberg • Becoming a Technical Leader

Quarkus Unveiled: Efficiency & Green Impact • Holly Cummins & Charles Humble

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Aarhus for GOTO Unscripted.
gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Holly Cummins - Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus Team
Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & Consultant

RESOURCES
Holly
hollycummins.com
hollycummins.com/type/blog
twitter.com/holly_cummins
hachyderm.io/@holly_cummins
github.com/holly-cummins
linkedin.com/in/holly-k-cummins

Charles
twitter.com/charleshumble
linkedin.com/in/charleshumble
mastodon.social/@charleshumble

DESCRIPTION
Charles Humble and Holly Cummins delve into the transformative power of Quarkus in the Java ecosystem. From addressing compatibility challenges to reflecting on GraalVM's impact, the discussion unfolds the nuances of Quarkus adoption, its influence on workloads, and the surprising environmental efficiency it brings.

Discover how Quarkus is reshaping microservices deployment confidence and making strides in sustainability, offering developers a paradigm shift that not only enhances efficiency but also aligns with the crucial need for environmental responsibility. Join the dialogue to stay informed about the latest developments and insights driving the evolution of Java in the era of Quarkus.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, & Sara Bergman • Building Green Software
Ioannis Kolaxis • 101 Green Software
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour • Green Computing Strategies for Competitive Advantage and Business Sustainability
Anne Currie & Charles Humble • The Cloud Native Attitude
David Allen • Getting Things Done
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Remote Team Interactions Workbook
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies

Building Green Software Part 4: Operational Efficiency • Anne Currie

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Anne Currie - Co-Author of "Building Green Software", Leadership Team at Green Software Foundation & Veteran Software Engineer

RESOURCES
oreilly.com/library/view/building-green-software/9781098150617
greensoftware.foundation

Anne
annecurrie.com
twitter.com/anne_e_currie

DESCRIPTION
How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for development organizations? In this eye-opening book, sustainable software advocates Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, and Sara Bergman provide a unique overview of this topic—discussing everything from the likely evolution of national grids to the effect those changes will have on the day-to-day lives of developers.

Ideal for everyone from new developers to CTOs, Building Green Software tackles the challenges involved and shows you how to build, host, and operate code in a way that's not only better for the planet, but also cheaper and relatively low-risk for your business. Most hyperscale public cloud providers have already committed to net-zero IT operations by 2030. This book shows you how to get on board.

You'll explore:
• How the energy transition is likely to change hosting on prem and in the cloud—and how your company can prepare
• The fundamental architectural principles of sustainable software development and how to apply them
• How to determine which parts of your system need to change
• The concept of extending hardware longevity and the part that software plays

* Book description: © O'Reilly

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, & Sara Bergman • Building Green Software
Ioannis Kolaxis • 101 Green Software
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour • Green Computing Strategies for Competitive Advantage and Business Sustainability
Lässig, Kersting & Morik • Computational Sustainability
Zbigniew H. Gontar • Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization
Katsoni & Segarra-Oña • Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability

Unlocking the Web: Exploring WebAuthn & Beyond • Eli Holderness & Mark Rendle

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam for GOTO Unscripted.
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Eli Holderness - Developer Advocate at Scaleway
Mark Rendle - Creator of Visual ReCode with 7 Microsoft MVP Awards & 30+ Years of Experience Building Software

RESOURCES
Eli
twitter.com/eliholderness
linkedin.com/in/eli-holderness-4890b886
hachyderm.io/@eli

Mark
twitter.com/markrendle
github.com/markrendle
linkedin.com/in/markrendle

DESCRIPTION
Mark Rendle interviews Eli Holderness, a developer advocate at Scaleway, about WebAuthn and the future of web authentication. Eli explains the intricacies of WebAuthn, delving into public key cryptography and hardware security tokens.

The conversation extends to broader topics, including data privacy, the challenges of passwordless authentication, and the potential impact of WebAssembly on cloud computing.

The interview provides insights into the evolving landscape of web development, security, and cloud services, offering a glimpse into the advancements and challenges faced by developers and cloud providers.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Liz Rice • Container Security
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security
Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Simplified
Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Servers
Aaron Parecki • The Little Book of OAuth 2.0 RFCs
Erdal Ozkaya • Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide
Richer & Sanso • OAuth 2 in Action

Data-Oriented Programming • Yehonathan Sharvit & James Lewis

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Yehonathan Sharvit - Author of Data-Oriented programming
James Lewis - Principal Consultant & Technical Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Get 35% discount on all Manning products with code: *ytGOTO35*

Yehonathan
twitter.com/viebel
github.com/viebel
linkedin.com/in/viebel
blog.klipse.tech

James
twitter.com/boicy
linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices

DESCRIPTION
Unlock the power of data-oriented programming with this groundbreaking guide ‘Data-Oriented Programming: Reduce software complexity‘, introducing a paradigm that revolutionizes software design by representing data through generic immutable structures. DOP simplifies state management, streamlines concurrency and eradicates common issues in object-oriented code, all while offering language-agnostic flexibility. In this GOTO Book Club episode, author Yehonathan Sharvit spoke to James Lewis about how you can change the way you look at programming where code is clearer, state-related bugs are history, and your applications are more robust.

This conversation-driven book is complete with code snippets and diagrams about DOP and the best part—it's not bound to a single programming language, making it adaptable to JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Clojure and traditional languages like Java or C#. Learn to design data models for business entities and implement state management systems without mutating data. Discover how to separate code from data, write data-oriented unit tests, and specify the shape of your data, all while gaining a deeper understanding of these exciting new concepts.

The interview is based on the book "Data-Oriented Programming"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Yehonathan Sharvit • Data-Oriented Programming
Yehonathan Sharvit • The Clojure Workshop
Zhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh
Eberhard Wolff & Hanna Prinz • Service Mesh
Piethein Strengholt • Data Management at Scale
Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Practical Data Privacy • Katharine Jarmul & Alyona Galyeva

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Katharine Jarmul - Principal Data Scientist at Thoughtworks & Author of "Practical Data Privacy"
Alyona Galyeva - Principal MLOps & Data Engineer at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
Katharine
twitter.com/kjam
linkedin.com/in/katharinejarmul
kjamistan.com
probablyprivate.com

Alyona
github.com/alyonagalyeva
linkedin.com/in/alyonagalyeva

DESCRIPTION
Integrating privacy-enhancing technologies into software applications is an imperative step for safeguarding user data and adhering to regulatory requirements in the realm of software development. However, prior to implementation, it is vital for development teams to grasp the potential pitfalls associated with incorporating privacy technology. They must also appreciate the significance of iterative processes and the necessity of collaborative efforts to ensure compliance.
Furthermore, achieving the delicate equilibrium between privacy and utility is of paramount importance. Organizations must meticulously fine-tune privacy settings, tailoring them to suit specific use cases.
Additionally, alongside this core evaluation criterion, considerations such as speed and computational efficiency may enter the equation, demanding expertise in privacy engineering for successful implementation at scale.

Katharine Jarmul, the author of "Practical Data Privacy," spoke to Alyona Galyeva from PyLadies Amsterdam, during which she unveiled a slew of open-source libraries and practical examples for implementing privacy technology. Katharine also explored how developers can proactively guarantee that their data science projects prioritize security by design and uphold privacy by default.

The interview is based on the book "Practical Data Privacy"

RECOMMENDED BOOK
Katharine Jarmul • Practical Data Privacy
Katharine Jarmul & Jacqueline Kazil • Data Wrangling with Python
Katharine Jarmul & Richard Lawson • Python Web Scraping
Yehonathan Sharvit • Data-Oriented Programming
Zhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh
Eberhard Wolff & Hanna Prinz • Service Mesh
Piethein Strengholt • Data Management at Scale
Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications

The Current State of Software Engineering • Jez Humble & Holly Cummins

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Aarhus for GOTO Unscripted.
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Jez Humble - SRE at Google Cloud & Lecturer at UC Berkeley
Holly Cummins - Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus Team

RESOURCES
dora.dev

Jez
continuousdelivery.com
github.com/jezhumble
linkedin.com/in/jez-humble
@jezhumble
sre.google/resources

Holly
hollycummins.com
hollycummins.com/type/blog
@holly_cummins
hachyderm.io/@holly_cummins
github.com/holly-cummins
linkedin.com/in/holly-k-cummins

DESCRIPTION
Holly Cummins and Jez Humble explore the delicate balance of communication in the tech industry. They dissect two contrasting trends – the need for increased communication and the burden of communication overhead. Jez highlights the importance of effectively managing limited communication bandwidth, emphasizing the need to focus on the right things and automate processes when possible. They delve into the significance of good platforms and touch on the persistence of the perennial issue of code formatting standards.
Despite the challenges, they remain optimistic about the potential for positive change and acknowledge the progress made through continuous integration.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim • Accelerate
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook
Jez Humble & David Farley • Continuous Delivery
Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky & Barry O'Reilly • Lean Enterprise
Holly Cummins & Timothy Ward • Enterprise OSGi in Action
Liz Rice • Container Security
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security
Brendan Burns, Joe Beda & Kelsey Hightower • Kubernetes: Up and Running

Code, Immutability & the Future of Development • Pragmatic Dave Thomas & Hannes Lowette

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam for GOTO Unscripted.
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Dave Thomas - Author of The Pragmatic Programmer
Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover

RESOURCES
youtu.be/Adu75GJ0w1o
youtu.be/gy44CTCce0o
unison-lang.org

Dave
@pragdav
pragdave.me
github.com/pragdave
linkedin.com/in/dave-thomas-53aa1057

Hannes
@hannes_lowette
github.com/Belenar
linkedin.com/in/hanneslowette

DESCRIPTION
Software development in the 1990s was characterized as a chaotic period with projects often failing or delivering buggy software. The traditional approach involved lengthy requirement gathering, design and coding phases, fraught with issues, such as static requirements that didn't account for evolving business needs and poor assumptions about value and functionality. The rapid evolution of frameworks, tools and techniques in the software industry came as a blessing and fostered innovation. However, it was challenging for developers as they struggled to keep up with the constant changes.

In this GOTO Unscripted conversation, Dave Thomas, original signatory and author of The Manifesto for Agile Software Development and co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer, spoke to Hannes Lowette about the future of software development, focusing on the concept of immutability in code and databases. Immutability in code refers to the idea that once code is made shareable, it becomes unchangeable, and it is identified by a unique identifier rather than its name. This approach allows for frequent code changes without breaking interfaces used by others. Regarding databases, Dave highlights the advantages of immutable databases, which, when combined with unique identifiers, make it easier to manage and work with data. Tune in to get insights into the dynamic landscape of software engineering and the need for continuous self-improvement in an era of advanced AI tools.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer
Dave Thomas • Programming Elixir

Building Secure Container Images with Wolfi • Matt Turner & Adrian Mouat

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam for GOTO Unscripted.
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Matt Turner - DevOps Leader & Software Engineer at Tetrate
Adrian Mouat - Author of 'Using Docker' & Dev Rel at Chainguard

RESOURCES
github.com/wolfi-dev

Matt
@mt165
github.com/mt-inside
linkedin.com/in/mt165
mt165.co.uk

Adrian
@adrianmouat
github.com/amouat
linkedin.com/in/adrianmouat
adrianmouat.com

DESCRIPTION
Adrian Mouat and Matt Turner delve into the world of container image security and network trust. Matt shares his expertise on Chainguard tooling, emphasizing the practical benefits of image size reduction while Adrian explores the parallels between securing container images and implementing a zero-trust network strategy. They emphasize the importance of being explicit and concrete in both domains, highlighting the common thread of strong trust and identity-based authentication. This engaging conversation offers valuable insights for those navigating the complex landscape of containerization and network security.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adrian Mouat • Using Docker
Burns, Beda & Hightower • Kubernetes: Up & Running
Burns, Villalba, Strebel & Evenson • Kubernetes Best Practices
Liz Rice • Container Security

Feelability: How We Lost Touch with Life • Imran Rashid & Fabio Pereira

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Imran Rashid - Author of "Offline" & "Feelability"
Fabio Pereira - TEDx Speaker & Author of "Digital Nudge"

RESOURCES
Imran
@DrImranRashid
linkedin.com/in/imranrashid

Fabio
@fabiopereirame
linkedin.com/in/fabiopereirame
fabiopereira.me

DESCRIPTION
Amid the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has laid bare an exceedingly digitized way of life and a marked reduction in interpersonal interactions, a key question has emerged: How can software developers aspire to foster in this evolving landscape? Is it one that remains subject to external forces and unending technological advancement where metrics such as speed, consumption and financial prosperity dominate? Alternatively, should the pursuit revolve around the re-establishment of an authentic connection with life, thereby enabling a deeper sense of purpose, immersion, and human connectivity, especially in software development?

In "Feelability," the sequel to the acclaimed bestseller "Offline," readers are invited into a thought-provoking discussion between the author, Dr. Imran Rashid, a specialist doctor, and Fabio Pereira, as they explore the profound consequences of our digitized and rapidly accelerating society on individuals. Learn about some practical tools to navigate the challenges posed by technology's impact and confront smartphone addiction. Whether you seek to reclaim a more meaningful and connected existence or are intrigued by the stories behind this insightful work, "Feelability" offers an enlightening journey toward a more fulfilled life in our digitized age.

The interview is based on the book "FEELABILITY"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Imran Rashid & Rikke Østergaard • FEELABILITY
Imran Rashid & Soren Kenner • Offline
Fabio Pereira • Digital Nudge
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thaler & Sunstein • Nudge
Dan Ariely • Predictably Irrational
Robert B Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded

Quantum Computing in the Cloud • Stig Elkjær Rasmussen, Søren Gammelmark & James Lewis

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Aarhus for GOTO Unscripted.
gotopia.tech

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Søren Gammelmark - Quantum Software Architect at Kvantify
Stig Elkjær Rasmussen - Quantum Engineer with a PhD in Quantum Technology & ML at Kvantify
James Lewis - Principal Consultant & Technical Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES

Søren

@SGammelmark
linkedin.com/in/sgammelmark

Stig
linkedin.com/in/s-e-rasmussen

James
@boicy
linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices

DESCRIPTION
Quantum computing today is seen as a promising technology for addressing various challenges and quantum computers are already accessible through major cloud-computing providers, coexisting with classical computing hardware. However, it cannot operate in isolation. Embark on a journey into the integration of quantum computing with classical high-performance computing (HPC).

In a new GOTO Unscripted talk, Søren Gammelmark & Stig E. Rasmussen spoke to James Lewis about the significance of solving complex computational problems efficiently by quantum computing and its potential benefits for humanity, especially in areas like drug design, logistics, and finance. They dive deep into the heart of computational conundrums, showcasing quantum computing's promise and revealing Kvantify's ingenious fusion of quantum and classical computing.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Johan Vos • Quantum Computing in Action (available soon)
Jack D. Hidary • Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach
Sarah C. Kaiser & Christopher Grenade • Learn Quantum Computing with Python and Q#
Venkateswaran Kasirajan • Fundamentals of Quantum Computing
Brian Clegg • Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Scott Aaronson • Quantum Computing Since Democritus
William (Chuck) Easttom • Quantum Computing Fundamentals
Wolfgang Scherer • Mathematics of Quantum Computing

Design for Developers • Stephanie Stimac & Sophie Freiermuth

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Stephanie Stimac - Author of "Design for Developers" and Design & UX Consultant
Sophie Freiermuth - UX & Service Design, Manager, Strategist, Designer, Trainer, Coach, CSPO

RESOURCES
Get 35% discount on all Manning products with code: *ytGOTO35*
mng.bz/z5RQ

Stephanie
seaotta.dev
@seaotta
linkedin.com/in/stephaniestimac
github.com/ststimac
instagram.com/seaotta

Sophie
@wickedgeekie
wakelet.com/@SophieFreiermuth
linkedin.com/in/sophiefrei
github.com/wickedgeekie

DESCRIPTION
Design for Developers reveals essential design and UX principles every web developer needs to know. You’ll love the book’s developer-centric approach, which demonstrates new ideas with examples from popular sites and user interfaces. Discover insightful techniques for user research, and learn to use color, typography, and layout to create communicative web visuals. By the time you’re done reading, you’ll know it’s true: having good design sense will make you a better web developer!

In Design for Developers you will learn how to:
• Use color, typography, and layout to create hierarchy on a web page
• Apply color palettes consistently in a user interface
• Choose the correct typefaces and fonts
• Conduct user research to validate design decisions
• Quickly plan a website’s layout and structure

* Book description: © Manning

The interview is based on the book "Design for Developers"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Stephanie Stimac • Design for Developers
Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code
Martin Fowler • Refactoring
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Problem Solving with Erlang & the BEAM • Robert Virding & Francesco Cesarini

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Aarhus for GOTO Unscripted.
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Robert Virding - Erlang Co-inventor & Principal Language Expert at Erlang Solutions
Francesco Cesarini - Founder of Erlang Solutions & O'Reilly Author

RESOURCES
Robert
@rvirding
github.com/rvirding
linkedin.com/in/robertvirding

Francesco
@FrancescoC
github.com/francescoc
linkedin.com/in/francescocesarini

DESCRIPTION
Erlang is being used in various industries demanding reliability and scalability. Its debugging tools and cross-platform compatibility has solidified its position as an invaluable choice for building resilient, concurrent, and scalable applications in a slew of use cases.

Hear this GOTO Unscripted episode where Robert Virding, one of the original architects of Erlang shares the genesis of Erlang with Francesco Cesarini, founder & technical director at Erlang Solutions. Unveiling the fascinating tale behind the birth of this programming language.

Virding and Cesarini delve into the initial challenges that faced the Erlang ecosystem, the remarkable journey that followed and the plans ahead. Discover how Erlang's unique design has empowered it to play a pivotal role in mission-critical applications for companies like WhatsApp, Ericsson, Klarna, and many more, demonstrating its remarkable concurrency capabilities and fault tolerance, making it an invaluable tool for building high-performance systems in today's interconnected world.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Francesco Cesarini & Steve Vinoski • Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
Francesco Cesarini & Simon Thompson • Erlang Programming
Saša Jurić • Elixir in Action
Joe Armstrong • Programming Erlang
Dave Thomas • Programming Elixir ≥ 1.6: Functional
Simon St. Laurent • Introducing Erlang
Logan, Merritt & Carlsson • Erlang and OTP in Action
McCord, Tate & Valim • Programming Phoenix 1.4

Building Green Software Part 3: Code Efficiency • Anne Currie

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Anne Currie - Co-Author of "Building Green Software", Leadership Team at Green Software Foundation & Veteran Software Engineer

RESOURCES
oreilly.com/library/view/building-green-software/9781098150617
greensoftware.foundation

Anne
annecurrie.com
@anne_e_currie

DESCRIPTION
How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for development organizations? In this eye-opening book, sustainable software advocates Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, and Sara Bergman provide a unique overview of this topic—discussing everything from the likely evolution of national grids to the effect those changes will have on the day-to-day lives of developers.

Ideal for everyone from new developers to CTOs, Building Green Software tackles the challenges involved and shows you how to build, host, and operate code in a way that's not only better for the planet, but also cheaper and relatively low-risk for your business. Most hyperscale public cloud providers have already committed to net-zero IT operations by 2030. This book shows you how to get on board.

You'll explore:
• How the energy transition is likely to change hosting on prem and in the cloud—and how your company can prepare
• The fundamental architectural principles of sustainable software development and how to apply them
• How to determine which parts of your system need to change
• The concept of extending hardware longevity and the part that software plays

* Book description: © O'Reilly

RECOMMEDED BOOKS
Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, & Sara Bergman • Building Green Software
Ioannis Kolaxis • 101 Green Software
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour • Green Computing Strategies for Competitive Advantage and Business Sustainability
Lässig, Kersting & Morik • Computational Sustainability
Zbigniew H. Gontar • Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization
Katsoni & Segarra-Oña • Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability

Genetic Algorithms in Elixir • Sean Moriarity & Bruce Tate

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Read the full transcription of the interview here

Sean Moriarity - Author of "Genetic Algorithms in Elixir" & "Machine Learning in Elixir" Bruce Tate - President at Groxio & Author of many Books

RESOURCES
Sean
seanmoriarity.com
@sean_moriarity
github.com/seanmor5

Bruce
grox.io
@redrapids
linkedin.com/in/bruce-tate

DESCRIPTION
From finance to artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms are a powerful tool with a wide array of applications. But you don’t need an exotic new language or framework to get started; you can learn about genetic algorithms in a language you’re already familiar with. Join us for an in-depth look at the algorithms, techniques, and methods that go into writing a genetic algorithm. From introductory problems to real-world applications, you’ll learn the underlying principles of problem solving using genetic algorithms.

* Book description: © The Pragmatic Bookshelf

The interview is based on the book "Genetic Algorithms in Elixir"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sean Moriarity • Genetic Algorithms in Elixir
Sean Moriarity • Machine Learning in Elixir
Bruce Tate • Programmer Passport: Elixir
Bruce Tate • Programmer Passport: Prolog
Bruce Tate, Ian Dees, Frederic Daoud & Jack Moffitt • Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
Bruce Tate • Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
Svilen Gospodinov • Concurrent Data Processing in Elixir
Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio & Aaron Courville • Deep Learning
Francois Chollet • Deep Learning with Python

Crafting Robust Architectures for a Resilient Future • Eleanor Saitta & Jez Humble

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Aarhus for GOTO Unscripted.
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Eleanor Saitta - International Security Researcher & Co-founder of Open Source Tool Trike
Jez Humble - SRE at Google Cloud & Lecturer at UC Berkeley

RESOURCES
Eleanor
dymaxion.org
linkedin.com/in/dymaxion
@Dymaxion
infosec.exchange/@dymaxion

Jez
continuousdelivery.com
github.com/jezhumble
linkedin.com/in/jez-humble
@jezhumble
sre.google/resources

DESCRIPTION
Whether you're building a new system with an established team, trying to tame a legacy ecosystem, or starting from scratch, how you think about security and reliability has a big impact on how hard they are for you to achieve.

In a candid conversation between security expert Eleanor Saitta and technology thought leader Jez Humble, the critical role of architectural clarity in ensuring robust security and resilience comes to the forefront. Saitta emphasizes the necessity of understanding and intentionally designing your architecture, highlighting the challenges faced by organizations in adapting to changing ecosystems. They discuss the dual aspects of security – external services and internal IT operations – shedding light on the potential risks associated with Windows and Office usage.
Hear in this GOTO Unscripted talk about the significance of architectural awareness and basic IT hygiene in safeguarding organizations against security threats.

Teaching Kids to Code with Sonic Pi • Sam Aaron & James Lewis

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Aarhus for GOTO Unscripted.
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Sam Aaron - Live Coding Musician & Creator of Sonic Pi
James Lewis - Principal Consultant & Technical Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
sonic-pi.net
@sonic_pi
github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi
ableton.com/en/link
hydra.ojack.xyz

Sam
patreon.com/samaaron
@samaaron
github.com/samaaron
linkedin.com/in/samaaron

James
@boicy
linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices

DESCRIPTION
Programming isn't just lines of code but a gateway to creating music and art and legends such as Ada Lovelace were proof of that. With the aim to reshape the perception of coding which has traditionally been complex and intimidating, Sam Aaron created Sonic Pi, an open-source, free-to-use platform that empowers users to create music through code. What began as a humble endeavor has grown exponentially with more than millions of downloads globally and a large number of schools integrating the tool as part of their computing curriculum to teach children how to program.
Tune in to this GOTO Unscripted where Sam spoke to James Lewis about how Sonic Pi is on a mission to democratize coding and break down barriers that have hindered people from engaging with both coding and music.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Hans Gruendel • Making Music with Sonic Pi
Hans Gruendel • Learn to Program with Sonic PI
Simon Monk • Raspberry Pi Cookbook
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps

Building Green Software Part 2: Measurement • Sara Bergman

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Read the full transcription of the interview here

Sara Bergman - Co-Author of "Building Green Software", Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft & Individual Contributor at Green Software Foundation

RESOURCES
oreilly.com/library/view/building-green-software/9781098150617
greensoftware.foundation
ghgprotocol.org
sci-guide.greensoftware.foundation
iso.org/standard/66453.html
cloudcarbonfootprint.org

Sara
@SaraEbergman
github.com/SaraEmilyBergman
linkedin.com/in/sara-bergman1

DESCRIPTION
How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for development organizations? In this eye-opening book, sustainable software advocates Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, and Sara Bergman provide a unique overview of this topic—discussing everything from the likely evolution of national grids to the effect those changes will have on the day-to-day lives of developers.

Ideal for everyone from new developers to CTOs, Building Green Software tackles the challenges involved and shows you how to build, host, and operate code in a way that's not only better for the planet, but also cheaper and relatively low-risk for your business. Most hyperscale public cloud providers have already committed to net-zero IT operations by 2030. This book shows you how to get on board.

You'll explore:
• How the energy transition is likely to change hosting on prem and in the cloud—and how your company can prepare
• The fundamental architectural principles of sustainable software development and how to apply them
• How to determine which parts of your system need to change
• The concept of extending hardware longevity and the part that software plays

* Book description: © O'Reilly

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, & Sara Bergman • Building Green Software
Ioannis Kolaxis • 101 Green Software
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour • Green Computing Strategies for Competitive Advantage and Business Sustainability
Lässig, Kersting & Morik • Computational Sustainability
Zbigniew H. Gontar • Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization
Katsoni & Segarra-Oña • Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability

The Origin of Dylan Beattie & The Linebreakers • Vagif Abilov, Hannes Lowette & Dylan Beattie

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at YOW! London for GOTO Unscripted.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here

Dylan Beattie - Creator of Rockstar Language, Microsoft MVP, Keynote Speaker & Guitarist
Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover
Vagif Abilov - Senior Consultant at Miles with 30+ Years of Programming Experience

RESOURCES
Dylan
@dylanbeattie
github.com/dylanbeattie
linkedin.com/in/dylanbeattie
dylanbeattie.net

Vagif
@ooobject
github.com/object
linkedin.com/in/vagif-abilov-0192b51

Hannes
@hannes_lowette
github.com/Belenar
github.com/Belenar/Axxes.ToyCollector
linkedin.com/in/hanneslowette

DESCRIPTION
When one hears the words ‘HTML’, ‘DCML’, ‘framework’ and ‘blockchain’, one would not think these are the main themes of a rock band. Dylan Beattie, Microsoft MVP and creator of the ‘Rockstar’ language took his passion for music and technology, merged them and created a software-themed rock band, The Linebreakers. What sets them apart is their innovative approach of infusing software-related perspectives into the lyrics of classic rock songs.

Delve into the captivating journey of band members Dylan, Hannes Lowette and Vagif Abilov as they recount the genesis of their endeavor. Join the conversation in this enlightening episode of GOTO Unscripted, where they share insights about their inspirations, challenges and aspirations.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Booch • Design Patterns (Gang of Four)
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering

Gamification, Systems Thinking & the Power of Observability • Jessica Kerr & Jessica Cregg

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at YOW! London for GOTO Unscripted.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here

Jessica Kerr - Principal Developer Evangelist at Honeycomb
Jessica Cregg - Information Technology Operations Engineer at CybSafe

RESOURCES
Jessica Kerr
jessitron.com
@jessitron
github.com/jessitron
linkedin.com/in/jessicakerr
twitch.tv/jessitronica
instagram.com/jessitronica

Jessica Cregg
@JessicaCregg
github.com/jessicarfactory
linkedin.com/in/jessicacregg

DESCRIPTION
Software's evolving landscape goes beyond mere programming, creating far-reaching consequences. Dive into software development's intricate world in this GOTO Unscripted talk where Jessica Kerr explores observability, gamification and systems thinking. Speaking with Jessica Cregg, Kerr highlights the distinct satisfaction derived from collaborative tasks and the pros and cons of integrating gamification as well as competition-driven incentives in software engineering.
The talk underscores the interplay of observability and feature flags for agile deployment and issue resolution. Gain deeper insights into systems thinking, a framework that has evolved to embrace software's constant evolution and uncover how observability extends beyond monitoring to provide actionable insights.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Debbie Levitt • Customers Know You Suck
Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification
Chris Collins • Gamification: Playing for Profits
Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda • Observability Engineering
Kelly Shortridge & Aaron Rinehart • Security Chaos Engineering
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies

Once Upon a Time in Agile • John Le Drew

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2021.
gotochgo.com

John Le Drew - Coach, consultant, trainer, experienced engineer and international keynote speaker; founder of Wise Noodles

ABSTRACT
Stories are the foundation of the human experience. They are what define us, individually and collectively. They engage us, entertain us, bring us together and drive us apart. What stories do you tell about you? Who knows your stories? Everyone? Perhaps just a select few? Maybe, just you.
In this session, we explore how our individual journeys to self-acceptance and alignment are also the heart of how we can work with and support teams. We will learn about how to truly help teams move towards agility, by helping them find and own their process and tell their own story. So they stay aligned and can continually realign when their context changes.

• Why authenticity and self-acceptance matters for both individuals and teams
• How to create lasting change in teams, without imposing process or creating learned helplessness.
• How to help teams own their process and tell their own story.

Over the last 20 years, John has helped countless teams. But in the last 3 years, when his world was turned upside down, he realised that changing a team [...]

Read the full abstract here

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospectives Antipatterns
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Lee, Wickens, Liu & Boyle • Designing for People
Stone, Chaparro, Keebler, Chaparro & McConnell • Introduction to Human Factors

Sustainable Software in Practice • Sophia Davies & Niels Freier

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here

Sophia Davies - Senior Technology Architect & Global Product Manager at BCG
Niels Freier - Chairperson at Green Software Foundation & Principal AI Eng. at BCG

RESOURCES
greensoftware.foundation
linkedin.com/in/sophiaemilydavies
linkedin.com/in/nielsfreier
github.com/Green-Software-Foundation
bcg.com/capabilities/climate-change-sustainability/overview
weforum.org/first-movers-coalition
innoq.com/en/articles/2023/02/what-is-sustainable-software

DESCRIPTION
Join technology architect Sophia Davies and Principal AI Engineering Niels Freier from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as they discuss the implementation of real-life green software projects. Discover the challenges they faced and their insights on how companies can reduce their carbon footprint through initiatives like the Green Software Foundation. As software engineers, you'll gain valuable knowledge on how green code and sustainable software is becoming increasingly important in the industry and what to expect in the future.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ioannis Kolaxis • 101 Green Software
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour • Green Computing Strategies for Competitive Advantage and Business Sustainability
Lässig, Kersting & Morik • Computational Sustainability
Zbigniew H. Gontar • Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization
Katsoni & Segarra-Oña • Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability

Quantum Computing in Action • Johan Vos & Preben Thorø

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Johan Vos - Author of "Quantum Computing in Action" & Co Founder at Gluon
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
Quantum Computing is on the rise. Do you want to know why you shouldn’t wait to program quantum computers until they are available for everyone? Johan Vos will tell you in this GOTO Book Club episode. Watch the teaser now.
The interview is based on Johan's book "Quantum Computing in Action"

Read the full transcription of the interview here

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Johan Vos • Quantum Computing in Action
Jack D. Hidary • Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach
Sarah C. Kaiser & Christopher Grenade • Learn Quantum Computing with Python & Q#
Venkateswaran Kasirajan • Fundamentals of Quantum Computing
Brian Clegg • Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Scott Aaronson • Quantum Computing Since Democritus
William (Chuck) Easttom • Quantum Computing Fundamentals
Wolfgang Scherer • Mathematics of Quantum Computing

Digital Nudge • Fabio Pereira & Linda Rising

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
gotopia.tech/bookclub

Fabio Pereira - Author of "Digital Nudge" & Head of Open Innovation Labs in Latin America at Red Hat
Linda Rising - Author of various books & Computer Software Consultant and Professional

DESCRIPTION
35,000. That's the average number of decisions a person makes every day. Have you ever wondered how many of these are digital decisions — ones made using technology like smartphones, wearables or laptops? How about decisions that computers, algorithms and artificial intelligence make for us?
The vast majority of our decisions are influenced by irrational and emotional factors. For decades, scientists have been studying so we can better understand how it is possible not only to predict but also influence decisions through interventions on the environment where decisions are made.
Learn more by diving into this GOTO Book Club episode with Fabio Pereira and Linda Rising.
The interview is based on Fabio's book "Digital Nudge"

Read the full transcription of the interview here

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Fabio Pereira • Digital Nudge
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thaler & Sunstein • Nudge
Dan Ariely • Predictably Irrational
Robert B Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded
Cathy O'Neil • Weapons of Math Destruction
Nir Eyal • Indistractable
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now
Linda Rising • Design Patterns in Communications Software
Linda Rising • The Pattern Almanac 2000
Linda Rising • The Patterns Handbook
Linda Rising • Fearless Change
Linda Rising • More Fearless Change

Five Lines of Code • Christian Clausen & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Read the full transcription of the interview here

Christian Clausen - Author of "Five Lines of Code" & CEO & Founder of Mistware Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer

RESOURCES
mist-cloud.eu
hbr.org/2016/01/trick-yourself-into-breaking-a-bad-habit

Christian
@thedrlambda
github.com/thedrlambda
linkedin.com/in/thedrlambda
thedrlambda.medium.com

Kevlin
about.me/kevlin
@KevlinHenney
linkedin.com/in/kevlin
instagram.com/kevlin.henney
kevlinhenney.medium.com

DESCRIPTION
Five Lines of Code is a fresh look at refactoring for developers of all skill levels. In it, you’ll master author Christian Clausen’s innovative approach, learning concrete rules to get any method down to five lines—or less! You’ll learn when to refactor, specific refactoring patterns that apply to most common problems, and characteristics of code that should be deleted altogether.

You will learn:
• The signs of bad code
• Improving code safely, even when you don’t understand it
• Balancing optimization and code generality
• Proper compiler practices
• The Extract method, Introducing Strategy pattern, and many other refactoring patterns
• Writing stable code that enables change-by-addition
• Writing code that needs no comments
• Real-world practices for great refactoring

* Book description: © Manning

The interview is based on the book "Five Lines of Code"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Martin Fowler • Refactoring 2nd Ed.
Fowler, Beck, Brant, Opdyke, Roberts & Gamma • Refactoring 1st Ed.
Edsger W. Dijkstra • A Discipline of Programming
Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides & Booch • Design Patterns

Simplifying Developer Environments With the Right Tools • Christian Heilmann & Julian Wood

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Copenhagen.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here

Christian Heilmann - uthor of Several JS Books & Previously Worked at Yahoo, Mozilla & Microsoft
Julian Wood - Developer Advocate at AWS

RESOURCES
codepo8.github.io/more-developer-tools-tricks
codepo8.github.io/dearconsole
devtoolstips.org
canidev.tools

Christian
christianheilmann.com
@codepo8
toot.cafe/@codepo8
github.com/codepo8
linkedin.com/in/christianheilmann

Julian
@julian_wood
wooditwork.com
linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

DESCRIPTION
Developers often face challenges in setting up their development environments and experience a lot of time wasted on customization. In this episode of GOTO Unscripted, Julian Wood interviews Christian Heilmann, former principal program manager for developer tools at Microsoft. Christian emphasizes the need to break free from the traditional monolithic IDE and debugging tools by leveraging the power of web technology and standardizing extensions. By highlighting the importance of contextual tooling, where interfaces learn from user behavior and provide automated suggestions and simplified workflows, he aims to streamline the development process and make it more accessible, empowering developers to focus on writing code rather than navigating complex environments.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Christian Heilmann & Jens Oliver Meiert • The Developer Advocacy Handbook
Christian Heilmann & Russ Ferguson • Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax
Christian Heilmann & Mark Norm Norman Francis • Web Development Solutions
Multiple Authors • Web Accessibility

Building Green Software Part 1: Introduction • Anne Currie

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Anne Currie - Co-Author of "Building Green Software", Leadership Team at Green Software Foundation & Veteran Software Engineer

RESOURCES
www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-green-software/9781098150617
greensoftware.foundation

Anne
www.annecurrie.com
@anne_e_currie

DESCRIPTION
How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for development organizations? In this eye-opening book, sustainable software advocates Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, and Sara Bergman provide a unique overview of this topic—discussing everything from the likely evolution of national grids to the effect those changes will have on the day-to-day lives of developers.

Ideal for everyone from new developers to CTOs, Building Green Software tackles the challenges involved and shows you how to build, host, and operate code in a way that's not only better for the planet, but also cheaper and relatively low-risk for your business. Most hyperscale public cloud providers have already committed to net-zero IT operations by 2030. This book shows you how to get on board.

You'll explore:
• How the energy transition is likely to change hosting on prem and in the cloud—and how your company can prepare
• The fundamental architectural principles of sustainable software development and how to apply them
• How to determine which parts of your system need to change
• The concept of extending hardware longevity and the part that software plays

* Book description: © Manning

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ioannis Kolaxis • 101 Green Software
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour • Green Computing Strategies for Competitive Advantage and Business Sustainability
Lässig, Kersting & Morik • Computational Sustainability
Zbigniew H. Gontar • Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization
Katsoni & Segarra-Oña • Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability

Empowering Consumers: Evolution of Software in the Future • Derek Collison & Linda Stougaard Nielsen

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Copenhagen.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here

Linda Stougaard Nielsen - Data Scientist, Software Developer & Agile Practitioner
Derek Collison - Founder of NATS

RESOURCES
Linda
github.com/stougaard
linkedin.com/in/linda-stougaard-nielsen

Derek
@derekcollison
github.com/derekcollison
linkedin.com/in/derekcollison

DESCRIPTION
In this captivating GOTO Unscripted conversation, Linda Stougaard Nielsen, an accomplished data scientist and agile practitioner at AVA Women, joins forces with Derek Collison, the visionary Founder & CEO at Synadia Communications. They embark on a thrilling exploration of cutting-edge topics, including the path to personal data sovereignty beyond GDPR, the quest for innovative AI systems that break traditional boundaries, unlocking the utility paradigm in cloud computing's exciting future, the shift from developers to empowered consumers shaping the future of software, and their fascinating adventures in programming diversity.
Prepare to be inspired by their insightful and thought-provoking dialogue!

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Jeff Hawkins & Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
Stefan Helzle • Low-Code Application Development with Appian
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering
Zhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh
Piethein Strengholt • Data Management at Scale
Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Platform Engineering on Kubernetes • Mauricio Salatino & Thomas Vitale

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Mauricio Salatino - Author of "Platform Engineering on Kubernetes"
Thomas Vitale - Software Architect & Author of "Cloud Native Spring in Action"

RESOURCES
Mauricio
@salaboy
linkedin.com/in/salaboy
salaboy.com

Thomas
@vitalethomas
github.com/ThomasVitale
linkedin.com/in/vitalethomas
thomasvitale.com

DESCRIPTION
Platform Engineering on Kubernetes accelerates development of cloud-based systems with vibrant open source tools of the Kubernetes ecosystem. You’ll use powerful open source projects like Helm, Tekton, Knative, and Crossplane to automate your projects from testing through delivery. Learn how to package services, build and deploy services to a Kubernetes cluster, and combine different tools to solve the complex challenges of CD in a cloud native environment.

* Book description: © manning.com

The interview is based on the book "Platform Engineering on Kubernetes".

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Mauricio Salatino • Platform Engineering on Kubernetes
Mauricio Salatino, Mariano De Maio & Esteban Aliverti • Mastering JBoss Drools 6
Thomas Vitale • Cloud Native Spring in Action
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering
Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Nicole Forsgren, Patrick Debois & John Willis • The DevOps Handbook
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps
John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes

Hack Like a Pro: Bug Bounties, Web Vulnerabilities & More! • Ben Sadeghipour (NahamSec) & Julian Wood

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Copenhagen.
gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Ben Sadeghipour - VP of Research at Hadrian Security
Julian Wood - Developer Advocate at AWS @julian_wood

RESOURCES
tryhackme.com
hackthebox.com
pentesterlab.com
ctfchallenge.com
bugbountyhunter.com
portswigger.net/burp

Ben
nahamsec.com
@nahamsec
twitch.tv/nahamsec
instagram.com/nahamsec

Julian
@julian_wood
wooditwork.com
linkedin.com/in/julianrwood

DESCRIPTION
Join us for an engaging conversation between Ben Sadegiphour, VP of Research at Hadrian Security, and Julian Wood, Developer Advocate at AWS. In this conversation, we will explore a range of captivating topics, such as: Bug bounties, ethical hacking, Skills, Resources, tips and much more.

Whether you're an aspiring ethical hacker or simply interested in the fascinating world of cybersecurity, this video is packed with knowledge and practical advice. Get ready to hack like a pro and join us on this exciting journey!

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Peter Yaworski • Real-World Bug Hunting
Vickie Li • Bug Bounty Bootcam
Carlos A. Lozano & Shahmeer Amir • Bug Bounty Hunting Essential
Sanjib Sinha • Bug Bounty Hunting for Web Security
Jim Manico & August Detlefsen • Iron-Clad Java
Liz Rice • Container Security
Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Simplified
Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Servers
Erdal Ozkaya • Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide

Scaling Machine Learning with Spark • Adi Polak & Holden Karau

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Adi Polak - VP of Developer Experience at Treeverse & Contributing to lakeFS OSS
Holden Karau - Co-Author of "Kubeflow for Machine Learning" & many more books & Open Source Engineer at Netflix

DESCRIPTION
Learn how to build end-to-end scalable machine learning solutions with Apache Spark. With this practical guide, author Adi Polak introduces data and ML practitioners to creative solutions that supersede today's traditional methods. You'll learn a more holistic approach that takes you beyond specific requirements and organizational goals--allowing data and ML practitioners to collaborate and understand each other better.

Scaling Machine Learning with Spark examines several technologies for building end-to-end distributed ML workflows based on the Apache Spark ecosystem with Spark MLlib, MLflow, TensorFlow, and PyTorch. If you're a data scientist who works with machine learning, this book shows you when and why to use each technology.

You will:
• Explore machine learning, including distributed computing concepts and terminology
• Manage the ML lifecycle with MLflow
• Ingest data and perform basic preprocessing with Spark
• Explore feature engineering, and use Spark to extract features
• Train a model with MLlib and build a pipeline to reproduce it
• Build a data system to combine the power of Spark with deep learning
• Get a step-by-step example of working with distributed TensorFlow
• Use PyTorch to scale machine learning and its internal architecture

* Book description: © O’Reilly

The interview is based on the book "Scaling Machine Learning with Spark"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adi Polak • Machine Learning with Apache Spark
Holden Karau, Trevor Grant, Boris Lublinsky, Richard Liu & Ilan Filonenko • Kubeflow for Machine Learning
Holden Karau • Distributed Computing 4 Kids
Holden Karau • Scaling Python with Dask
Holden Karau & Boris Lublinsky • Scaling Python with Ray
Holden Karau & Rachel Warren • High Performance Spark
Holden Karau, Konwinski, Wendell & Zaharia • Learning Spark
Holden Karau & Krishna Sankar • Fast Data Processing with Spark 2nd Edition
Holden Karau • Fast Data Processing with Spark 1st Edition

Zig Programming Language & Linters • Andrew Kelley & Jeroen Engels

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Copenhagen.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here

Andrew Kelley - Creator of the Zig Programming Language
Jeroen Engels - Author of Elm-review

DESCRIPTION
This conversation between Jeroen Engels, a software engineer at CrowdStrike, and Andrew Kelley, the president and lead software developer of the Zig Software Foundation, discusses the use of linters in programming languages.

They talk about the challenges of refactoring code with custom macros and the need for improved refactoring tools and integration with compilers for programming languages. The conversation also covers the importance of error codes versus warning codes in linters, handling potentially null values, and the tradeoffs of having linting errors.

Although the Zig compiler does not have a separate linter, they agree that a separate linter step from the compilation step is a viable option. The conversation highlighted the importance of enforcing linting in the continuous integration (CI) process and the need for programmers to cooperate to make functions work without side effects.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Dean Bocker • Don't Panic! I'm A Professional Zig Programmer
Richard Feldman • Elm in Action
Jeremy Fairbank • Programming Elm
Wolfgang Loder • Web Applications with Elm
Cristian Salcescu • Functional Programming in JavaScript
Tim McNamara • Rust in Action

Building Evolutionary Architectures • Rebecca Parsons, Neal Ford & James Lewis

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Rebecca Parsons - CTO at Thoughtworks & Co-Author of "Building Evolutionary Architectures
Neal Ford - Software Consultant at Thoughtworks & Co-Author of "Building Evolutionary Architectures
James Lewis - Principal Consultant & Technical Director at Thoughtworks

RESOURCES
thoughtworks.com/radar

Rebecca
@rebeccaparsons
rebeccaparsons.com

Neal
@neal4d
nealford.com

James
@boicy

DESCRIPTION
The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and paradigms. Over the past few years, incremental developments in core engineering practices for software development have created the foundations for rethinking how architecture changes over time, along with ways to protect important architectural characteristics as it evolves. This practical guide ties those parts together with a new way to think about architecture and time.

* Book description: © O’Reilly

The interview is based on the book "Building Evolutionary Architectures"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ford, Parsons, Kua & Sadalage • Building Evolutionary Architectures 2nd Edition
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Mark Richards & Neal Ford • Fundamentals of Software Architecture
Ford, Parsons & Kua • Building Evolutionary Architectures
Neal Ford • Functional Thinking
Michael Feathers • Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code

War Stories from Moving to the Cloud • Holly Cummins & Lorna Jane Mitchell

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Copenhagen.
gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Holly Cummins - Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus Team
Lorna Jane Mitchell - Head of Developer Relations at Aiven & Open Source Specialist

DESCRIPTION
Are you a developer ready to embark on your cloud journey but feeling overwhelmed? Fear not! The benefits of the cloud far outweigh the initial struggles. With automation and proper monitoring, you can avoid sky-high bills while elevating your company and user experience to new heights. Don't miss out on the opportunity to learn from Lorna Jane Mitchell and Holly Cummins as they share their practical war stories from their own cloud migration and operations. Join us and take your development game to the next level!

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Holly Cummins & Timothy Ward • Enterprise OSGi in Action
Liz Rice • Container Security
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security
Brendan Burns, Joe Beda & Kelsey Hightower • Kubernetes: Up and Running
John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes
Pini Reznik, Jamie Dobson & Michelle Gienow • Cloud Native Transformation

Unlocking the Power of Real-Time Analytics • Tim Berglund & Adi Polak

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
gotopia.tech

Read the full transcription of this interview here

Tim Berglund - VP DevRel at StarTree & Author of "Gradle Beyond the Basics"
Adi Polak - VP of Developer Experience at Treeverse & Contributing to lakeFS OSS

RESOURCES
Tim
timberglund.com
twitter.com/tlberglund
linkedin.com/in/tlberglund

Adi
twitter.com/AdiPolak
instagram.com/polak.code
linkedin.com/in/polak-adi

Tools & companies
pinot.apache.org
twitter.com/startreedata
linkedin.com/company/startreedata
dev.startree.ai
stree.ai/slack

YT videos
Data Mesh • Zhamak Dehghani
Beyond Microservices • Gwen Shapira

DESCRIPTION
Adi Polak and Tim Berglund explore the concept of analytics and what it truly means in the software development world. They delve into the benefits of real-time analytics for product development, highlighting the fine line between compute and storage and the technical requirements for achieving effective real-time analytics. They also discuss the applications of real-time analytics through the lens of Apache Pinot and StarTree Cloud, exploring use cases such as the popular "Who's Watched My Profile on LinkedIn" feature powered by Apache Pinot.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adi Polak • Scaling Machine Learning with Spark
Tim Berglund • Gradle Beyond the Basics
Tim Berglund & Matthew McCullough • Building and Testing with Gradle
Mark Needham • Building Real-Time Analytics Systems
Gwen Shapira, Todd Palino, Rajini Sivaram & Krit Petty • Kafka: The Definitive Guide

Quantified Self: From Data to Actionable Dashboards • Felix Krause & Johan Abildskov

Fri, 26 May 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Copenhagen.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here

Felix Krause - Creator of Fastlane & howisfelix.today & Security & Privacy Researcher
Johan Abildskov - Software Engineer at Uber & Author of "Practical Git"

DESCRIPTION
Software engineers are builders and problem solvers by definition. They leverage data and automation not only to solve work-related problems but also to make their life and the life of people around them simpler. Two software engineers that are passionate about what they do, Johan Abildskov and Felix Krause, examine the use and importance of transforming data pushes into data pulls and why dashboards and automation play a central place in the life of a software developer.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Johan Abildskov • Practical Git
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Liz Rice • Container Security
John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes
Pini Reznik, Jamie Dobson & Michelle Gienow • Cloud Native Transformation

Working Effectively with Legacy Code • Michael Feathers & Christian Clausen

Fri, 19 May 2023 11:00:00 +0200

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Michael Feathers - Author of “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” & Chief Architect at Globant
Christian Clausen - Author of "Five Lines of Code" & Founder of mist-cloud & Technical Agile Coach

RESOURCES
github.com/features/copilot
xp123.com/articles/procedural-and-declarative-tests
owasp.org/www-community/Fuzzing
youtu.be/4cVZvoFGJTU
investopedia.com/terms/p/paretoprinciple.asp
codescene.com
sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube

DESCRIPTION
Legacy code has been one of the problems that developers worldwide have been trying to tackle for a long time. But what is legacy code and how can you learn from writing tests that give you more insights into the system and the code?
Christian Clausen, author of “Five Lines of Code”, talks to Michael Feathers, author of “Working Effectively With Legacy Code”, about their shared passion for testing, refactoring, and solving real-life problems with the help of clean code.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Michael Feathers • Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code
Kent Beck • Test Driven Development
Martin Fowler • Refactoring
Adam Tornhill • Your Code as a Crime Scene
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design

How AutoML & Low Code Empowers Data Scientists • Linda Stougaard Nielsen & Moez Ali

Fri, 12 May 2023 11:00:00 +0200

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Linda Stougaard Nielsen - Director of Data Science & Data Engineering at AVA Women
Moez Ali - Creator of PyCaret

DESCRIPTION
Over the past decade, AutoML has revolutionized the world of data science, propelling it several layers forward in terms of abstraction. This powerful technology has paved the way for a new era of democratization, empowering experts from all fields to harness the power of data through the concept of the citizen data scientist. Moez Ali, Creator of PyCaret, and Linda Stougaard Nielsen, director of data science at Ava Women, discuss two sides of this discipline and its future.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Stefan Helzle • Low-Code Application Development with Appian
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering

Expert Talk: Five Lines of Code • Christian Clausen & Julian Wood

Fri, 05 May 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Copenhagen.
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Christian Clausen - Author of "Five Lines of Code", Founder of mist-cloud & Technical Agile Coach
Julian Wood - Developer Advocate at AWS

DESCRIPTION
Revamp your code with refactoring! In an insightful interview with Julian Wood, Christian Clausen, author of Five Lines of Code, shares practical tips for improving your code without relying on “code smells”. Simplifying your code is the key to running your business smoothly. Clausen highlights what matters most in terms of simplifying your code and how it can aid in choosing the right architectural paradigm. Streamline your code today and focus on what really matters!

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code
Martin Fowler • Refactoring
Maude Lemaire • Refactoring at Scale
Uncle Bob • Clean Code
Adam Tornhill • Software Design X-Rays
Adam Tornhill • Your Code as a Crime Scene

Why Cloud Native is the New Standard • Tibi Covaci & Eric Johnson

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Aarhus.
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Tiberiu "Tibi" Covaci - Application Innovation Lead at Microsoft Azure
Eric Johnson - Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless at AWS

DESCRIPTION
A few years ago, cloud native was viewed by many as a buzzword or just a developing trend. Today, it has become the standard for companies seeking to boost team efficiency and reduce costs. To fully realize its benefits, a comprehensive understanding of both its capabilities and costs is essential. AWS and Microsoft are two big players on the market and Tibi Covaci, from Microsoft Azure, and Eric Johnson from AWS Serverless, are advocating for cloud native as a default characteristic of any organization, no matter of its size.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adzic & Korac • Running Serverless
Scott Patterson • Learn AWS Serverless Computing
Steve Miles & Peter De Tender • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification & Beyond
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS
Vlad Riscutia • Data Engineering on Azure
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security

Rust in Action • Tim McNamara & Richard Feldman

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0200

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Tim McNamara - Author of “Rust in Action” & Software Developer at AWS
Richard Feldman - Author of Elm in Action & Head of Open Source at NoRedInk

RESOURCES
Get 35% discount on all Manning products with code: ytGOTO35
mng.bz/z5RQ
rustinaction.com
doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book

DESCRIPTION
Rust in Action introduces the Rust programming language by exploring numerous systems programming concepts and techniques. You'll be learning Rust by delving into how computers work under the hood. You'll find yourself playing with persistent storage, memory, networking and even tinkering with CPU instructions. The book takes you through using Rust to extend other applications and teaches you tricks to write blindingly fast code. You'll also discover parallel and concurrent programming. Filled to the brim with real-life use cases and scenarios, you'll go beyond the Rust syntax and see what Rust has to offer in real-world use cases.

Richard Feldman, author of Elm in Action, goes over the benefits of this multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose language together with Tim McNamara, author of Rust in Action.

* Book description: © manning.com

The interview is based on Tim's book "Rust in Action: Systems programming concepts & techniques"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Tim McNamara • Rust in Action
Richard Feldman • Elm in Action
Brenden Matthews • Code Like a Pro in Rust
Prabhu Eshwarla • Rust Servers, Services & Apps
Bastian Gruber • Rust Web Development
Blandy, Orendorff & Tindall • Programming Rust
Ken Youens-Clark • Command-Line Rust
Kevin Hoffman • Programming WebAssembly with Rust

Building Modern Apps with Serverless & Feature Flags • Jessica Cregg & Julian Wood

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Copenhagen.
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Jessica Cregg - Information Technology Operations engineer at CybSafe
Julian Wood - Developer Advocate at AWS

DESCRIPTION
What are the technologies that one should leverage to build modern, scalable, and flexible applications?
Julian Wood, developer advocate at AWS Serverless, talks with Jessica Cregg, previously a developer advocate at LaunchDarkly, now an information technology operations engineer at CybSafe about the mindset and tools required to build scalable software without over-engineering a solution.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adzic & Korac • Running Serverless
Scott Patterson • Learn AWS Serverless Computing
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS
Gregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps

Code Complete • Steve McConnell & Jeffrey van Gogh

Fri, 07 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0200

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Steve McConnell - Author of “Code Complete” & CEO at Construx Software
Jeffrey van Gogh - Director of Engineering at Google & Secretary of the Board at Kotlin Foundation

RESOURCES
stevemcconnell.com

DESCRIPTION
Widely considered one of the best practical guides to programming, Steve McConnell’s original “Code Complete” has been helping developers write better software for over three decades. The author’s timeless techniques and strategies are still relevant in spite of the evolution of programming languages or the shift from waterfall to agile. He revises the impact these changes have had on the software environment together with Jeffrey Van Gogh, Director of Software Engineering at Google. They don’t step away from covering some of the controversial subjects from the book and give relevant advice for programmers that are just entering this space.

The interview is based on Steve's book "Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction".

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Steve McConnell • Code Complete
Steve McConnell • Software Estimation
Steve McConnell • Rapid Development
Steve McConnell • Professional Software Development
Trisha Gee • Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA
Trisha Gee, Kathy Sierra & Bert Bates • Head First Java
Michael Nygard • Release It! 2nd Edition
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications

The Current State of Cyber Security • Eleanor Saitta & Aino Vonge Corry

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0200

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Eleanor Saitta - International Security Researcher & Co-founder of Open Source Tool Trike
Aino Vonge Corry - Author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns"

DESCRIPTION
It’s almost a given that you or your company will be hacked one day. How fast and how you react is the thing that makes the difference. Eleanor Saitta explains the ins and outs of an attack and what you should have in place to surpass it successfully. The interview is led by Aino Vonge Corry.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospectives Antipatterns
Liz Rice • Container Security
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security
Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Simplified
Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Servers
Aaron Parecki • The Little Book of OAuth 2.0 RFCs
Erdal Ozkaya • Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide
Richer & Sanso • OAuth 2 in Action
Wilson & Hingnikar • Demystifying OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2.0

Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA • Trisha Gee & Helen Scott

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0100

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Trisha Gee - Lead Developer Evangelist at Gradle, Java Champion & Co-Author of "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA"
Helen Scott - Developer Advocate at JetBrains & Co-Author of "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA"

BLOG POSTS
helenjoscott.com
trishagee.com

DESCRIPTION
We’re frequently taught to use a text editor when we’re learning to write code so that we understand the fundamentals. However, if we treat our IDE as a text editor, we are doing ourselves a disservice. As professional developers, we no longer need to learn the fundamentals; we need to deliver working applications. We can use the features of an IDE to help us with this.

IntelliJ IDEA is an extremely fully-featured IDE that can help professional developers with almost any task they need to perform, and this can be overwhelming to get to grips with. Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA uses two approaches to help newcomers and experienced users alike:

• Tutorials that walk through writing code and developing applications that show when, why and how to use IntelliJ IDEA features to create working applications.
• A questions-and-answers approach that demonstrates which features can be used to solve the problems that professional developers face.

Seeing how to use IntelliJ IDEA from these different angles not only showcases the most useful features but also teaches multiple approaches for using these features. No matter which technologies you use or how you like to work, reading this book will help you find an approach that enables you to work comfortably and productively with IntelliJ IDEA.

* Book description: © leanpub.com

The interview is based on Trisha's & Helen's co-authored book "Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Trisha Gee • Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA
Trisha Gee, Kathy Sierra & Bert Bates • Head First Java
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Michael Nygard • Release It! 2nd Edition
Aditya Y. Bhargava • Grokking Algorithms
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

The Path to Becoming a Senior Engineering Manager • Denise Yu & Jiaqi Liu

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
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Jiaqi Liu - Senior Engineering Manager at GitHub
Denise Yu - Senior Software Engineer at GitHub

DESCRIPTION
In this Unscripted episode, Jiaqi Liu and Denise Yu give you insight into their path to becoming senior engineering managers at Github while covering what the position is like. You’ll learn about "glue work" and how speaking at conferences can influence your career.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Will Larson • Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Ken Kousen • Help Your Boss Help You
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager
Michael D. Watkins • The First 90 Days

Software Architecture: The Hard Parts • Neal Ford & Mark Richards

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0100

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Neal Ford - Software Consultant at Thoughtworks & Co-Author of "Software Architecture: The Hard Parts"
Mark Richards - Hands-On Software Architect, Independent Consultant & Co-Author of "Software Architecture: The Hard Parts"

DESCRIPTION
There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no best practices--that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures.

Architecture veterans and practicing consultants Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and Zhamak Dehghani discuss strategies for choosing an appropriate architecture. By interweaving a story about a fictional group of technology professionals--the Sysops Squad--they examine everything from how to determine service granularity, manage workflows and orchestration, manage and decouple contracts, and manage distributed transactions to how to optimize operational characteristics, such as scalability, elasticity, and performance.

By focusing on commonly asked questions, this book provides techniques to help you discover and weigh the trade-offs as you confront the issues you face as an architect.
• Analyze trade-offs and effectively document your decisions
• Make better decisions regarding service granularity
• Understand the complexities of breaking apart monolithic applications
• Manage and decouple contracts between services
• Handle data in a highly distributed architecture
• Learn patterns to manage workflow and transactions when breaking apart applications

* Book description: © O’Reilly

The interview is based on Neal's & Mark's co-authored book "Software Architecture: The Hard Parts"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Mark Richards & Neal Ford • Fundamentals of Software Architecture
Ford, Parsons, Kua & Sadalage • Building Evolutionary Architectures 2nd Edition
Ford, Parsons & Kua • Building Evolutionary Architectures
Neal Ford • Functional Thinking
Michael Nygard • Release It! 2nd Edition
Gene Kim & John Willis • Beyond The Phoenix Project

Agile is Dead – Long Live DevOps? • Lars Kruse, Malte Foegen & Klaus Bucka-Lassen

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Aarhus.
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Lars Kruse - Technology Counselor & Rainmaker at Inc Inc
Malte Foegen - COO at wibas
Klaus Bucka-Lassen - Free Radical at Netcetera & Agile Coach, Trainer & Keynote Speaker

DESCRIPTION
Agile, Lean, and DevOps are more than buzzwords even though they have taken over the world at different times. The processes and technologies they employed have helped improve the entire world, not just the software world. Klaus Bucka-Lassen, Lars Kruse, and Malte Foegen debate the intersection and cross-pollination between the three worlds with a focus on applying them on all levels in practice in large organizations.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Joshua Kerievsky • Joy of Agility
Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospectives Antipatterns
Lee, Wickens, Liu & Boyle • Designing for People
Stone, Chaparro, Keebler, Chaparro & McConnell • Introduction to Human Factors
Derby, Larsen & Schwaber • Agile Retrospectives
Jeff Sutherland • Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
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Release It! • Michael Nygard & Trisha Gee

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0100

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Michael Nygard - Innovative technology leader & Author of "Release It!"
Trisha Gee - Java Champion & Co-Editor of "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know"

DESCRIPTION
Despite the widespread adoption of DevOps and CICD, some companies still rely on manual deployments in 2023. Michael Nygard, author of "Release It!" examines new patterns and anti-patterns that have emerged since the first edition of his book was released in 2007.
Mike and Trisha Gee explore why companies using current best practices continue to encounter challenges.
Come along to hear from the trenches of the DevOps movement.

The interview is based on Mike's book "Release It! (2nd Edition)"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Michael Nygard • Release It! 2nd Edition
Michael Nygard • Release It! 1st Edition
Kim, Humble, Debois, Forsgren & Willis • The DevOps Handbook
James Higginbotham • Principles of Web API Design
Vlad Khononov • Balancing Coupling in Software Design
Eoin Woods, Murat Erder & Pierre Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice

Better Tests at GitHub & Commodore 64 Music • Ole Friis Østergaard & Hannes Lowette

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Aarhus.
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Ole Friis Østergaard - Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover

RESOURCES
hanselminutes.com
hvsc.c64.org

DESCRIPTION
The engineering culture, core functionalities and it’s monolithic architecture are just some of the factors behind GitHub’s success. Ole Friis Østergaard talks about the special division for analyzing tests that are not behaving as expected. In such a complex environment, their work has a big impact on the entire system. Discover how their engineering culture, approach to software overall, and some Commodore 64 love have inspired all this.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Saleem Siddiqui • Learning Test-Driven Development
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering
Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery
Roy Osherove • The Art of Unit Testing
Kent Beck • Test Driven Development
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim • Accelerate

Simplicity & Complexity: The Beauty & the Beast? • Sander Hoogendoorn & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2022 for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech

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Sander Hoogendoorn - CTO at iBood.com
Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer

DESCRIPTION
In most cases, there is more than one way to solve a problem. Based on our evolution, however, we are tempted to solve problems by adding features, code, and complexity.
There is an alternative to that, though. Kevlin Henney and Sander Hoogendoorn discuss these attempts in this GOTO Unscripted episode recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2022. A good starting point is to reevaluate the way in which we do things and try to eliminate the complexity that software developers are attracted to.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sander Hoogendoorn • This is Agile
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Gerald M. Weinberg • Becoming a Technical Leader
Lee, Wickens, Liu & Boyle • Designing for People
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running

Beyond the Code: Deploying Empathy • Michele Hansen & Hannes Lowette

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Aarhus.
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Michele Hansen - Author or "Deploy Empathy" and Co-Founder of Geocodio
Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover

RESOURCES
deployempathy.com
brenebrown.com

DESCRIPTION
Code is always a means to an end rather than the end product itself. It’s extremely important to understand the broader picture and see what the code that you or your team are going to write is helping to solve.

Michele Hansen, author of Deploy Empathy and co-founder of Geocodio, reveals some of the best practices around understanding your users and responding to their needs. Join Michele and Hannes Lowette, head of learning & development at Axxes, while they dive into how to run successful and useful customer interviews.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Michele Hansen • Deploy Empathy
Jim Kalbach • The Jobs to be Done Playbook
Brené Brown • The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown • I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't)
Brené Brown • Dare to Lead
Stone, Chaparro, Keebler, Chaparro & McConnell • Introduction to Human Factors

Domain Storytelling • Stefan Hofer, Henning Schwentner & Avraham Poupko

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Stefan Hofer - Co-Author of "Domain Storytelling" & Requirements & DDD Expert at WPS
Henning Schwentner - Co-Author of "Domain Storytelling" & Coder, Coach, Consultant at WPS
Avraham Poupko - Head of Product Security and Compliance at Forescout Technologies

DESCRIPTION
"Some things must be told that cannot be written, so that storytelling is deeply, deeply human."
Stories are the backbone of our culture as humankind. They can be successfully used as agile, collaborative ways to not only view but understand the various domains that software projects touch upon. Avraham Poupko explores how you can better understand and visualize this, in a domain-driven way, with the authors of the "Domain Storytelling: A Collaborative, Visual & Agile Way to Build Domain-Driven Software", Stefan Hofer and Henning Schwentner.

The interview is based on Stefan's & Henning's book "Domain Storytelling":

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Stefan Hofer & Henning Schwentner • Domain Storytelling
James Higginbotham • Principles of Web API Design
Vlad Khononov • Balancing Coupling in Software Design
Eoin Woods, Murat Erder & Pierre Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice

Is Machine Learning a Black Box? • Dean Wampler & Preben Thorø

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted 2021.
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Dean Wampler - Principal Software Engineer at Domino Data Lab
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
Data science has become a bigger part of software engineering. Where does the path lead? What have the changes been over the last couple of years and where are we heading? In this unscripted episode, Dean Wampler takes you on a journey through data science.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Dean Wampler • Programming Scala
Dean Wampler • Functional Programming for Java Developers
Dean Wampler, Edward Capriolo & Jason Rutherglen • Programming Hive
Holden Karau, Trevor Grant, Boris Lublinsky, Richard Liu & Ilan Filonenko • Kubeflow for Machine Learning
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning

97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know • Emily Freeman, Nathen Harvey & Chris Williams

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0100

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Emily Freeman - Head of DevOps Product Marketing, Head of Community Engagement at AWS & Co-Editor of "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know"
Nathen Harvey - Developer Advocate at Google Cloud and Co-Editor of "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know"
Chris Williams - Cloud Therapist at World Wide Technology

DESCRIPTION
Migrating to the cloud has become a "sine qua non" these days. The compact articles in 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know inspect the entirety of cloud computing, including fundamentals, architecture and migration. You'll go through security and compliance, operations and reliability and software development. And examine networking, organizational culture, and more.
Find out the story behind the benefits of curating such a community-driven book from the co-editors Emily Freeman, head of DevOps product marketing at AWS, Nathen Harvey, developer advocate at Google Cloud, and Chris Williams, cloud therapist and principal cloud solutions architect for World Wide Technologies.

The interview is based on Emily's & Nathen's co-edited book "97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Emily Freeman & Nathen Harvey • 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know
Emily Freeman • DevOps For Dummies
Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Emil Stolarsky & Jaime Woo • 97 Things Every SRE Should Know
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Kasun Indrasiri & Danesh Kuruppu • gRPC: Up and Running

Expert Talk: What is Agile Sabotage? • Fred George & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2022 for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech

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Fred George - Early Adopter of OO & Agile, Advocating Microservices & Programmer Anarchy
Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer

DESCRIPTION
Kevlin Henney, an independent consultant, and Fred George, an early adopter of OO & agile development, are exploring the ins and outs of agile transformation. They exchange views on what brings back the joy of programming while still offering companies a competitive advantage. They explore some of the frameworks for dealing with complex problems like Cynefin and agile development They also talk about what went wrong with Microservices.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospectives Antipatterns
Lee, Wickens, Liu & Boyle • Designing for People
Stone, Chaparro, Keebler, Chaparro & McConnell • Introduction to Human Factors
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices
Sam Newman • Building Microservices
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running

Expert talk: Cloud Native & Serverless • Matt Turner & Eric Johnson

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2022 for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech

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Matt Turner - DevOps Leader & Software Engineer at Tetrate
Eric Johnson - Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless at AWS

DESCRIPTION
Should everyone move to the cloud? Are all event-driven architectures serverless or is it rather the other way around?
Join the two experts, Matt Turner, software engineer at Tetrate, and Eric Johnson, principal developer advocate for serverless at AWS, to discover if you should take that journey to become cloud native. Understand the power of these technologies together with some useful tips & tricks about testing and the BEAM languages.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Brendan Burns, Joe Beda & Kelsey Hightower • Kubernetes: Up and Running
Liz Rice • Container Security
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security
Burns, Villalba, Strebel & Evenson • Kubernetes Best Practices
John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes
Adzic & Korac • Running Serverless
Scott Patterson • Learn AWS Serverless Computing
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS
Kasun Indrasiri & Danesh Kuruppu • gRPC: Up and Running

Can Top-Down Agile Work? • Luxshan Ratnaravi, Mikkel Noe-Nygaard & Malte Foegen

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Aarhus.
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Luxshan Ratnaravi - Co-Author of Comic Agilé and Agile Coach at Bankdata
Mikkel Noe-Nygaard - Co-Author of Comic Agilé and UX Design Specialist at Vestas
Malte Foegen - Chief Operating Officer at wibas

DESCRIPTION
In many cases, agile practices have been introduced in organizations starting bottom-up. There is, however, a new trend where management is trying to be the driver of agility. Join the discussion with Malte Foegen, COO at wibas, Luxshan Ratnaravi, agile coach at Bankdata and Mikkel Noe-Nygaard, UX design specialist at Vestas, to understand what changes have to be implemented in an enterprise for such a top-down approach. And more importantly, can it be successful?

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospectives Antipatterns
Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Booch • Design Patterns (Gang of Four)
Subramaniam & Hunt • Practices of an Agile Developer
Derby, Larsen & Schwaber • Agile Retrospectives
Jeff Sutherland • Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Lee, Wickens, Liu & Boyle • Designing for People
Stone, Chaparro, Keebler, Chaparro & McConnell • Introduction to Human Factors

Software Engineering at Google • Titus Winters & Matt Kulukundis

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0100

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Titus Winters - Principal Software Engineer at Google and Co-Curator of "Software Engineering at Google"
Matt Kulukundis - Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google

DESCRIPTION
What’s the difference between programming and software engineering?
Join Titus Winters, co-curator of “Software Engineering at Google”, and Matt Kulukundis while they approach the lessons learned by software engineering teams at Google in establishing the right practices for writing sustainable code in a safe environment. Discover what Google is still trying to improve on and what software decisions are difficult to undo.

The interview is based on Titus' co-curated book "Software Engineering at Google"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck & Hyrum Wright • Software Engineering at Google
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps
George Fairbanks • Just Enough Software Architecture
Fred Brooks Jr. • The Mythical Man-Month
Kim Scott • Just Work
Douglas R. Hofstadter • Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R. Hofstadter • I Am a Strange Loop
Alasdair MacIntyre • After Virtue
N. K. Jemisin • The Fifth Season
Becky Chambers • Wayfarers Series
Ken Liu • The Dandelion Dynasty
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering
Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Zhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh

Legacy Systems & Digital Transformations • Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn & Hannes Lowette

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Aarhus.
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thoughtworks.com/podcasts/technology-podcasts

Ian Cartwright - Technical Director at Thoughtworks
Rob Horn - Technical Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks
Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover

DESCRIPTION
Legacy systems as well as legacy software have a significant impact on any digital transformation project. Join Hannes Lowette, head of learning & development at Axxes, Rob Horn, technical principal director at Thoughtworks, and Ian Cartwright, technical director at Thoughtworks, to learn how to recognize a legacy system. They discuss common patterns and anti-patterns as well as how to break a legacy system into smaller pieces to ensure a successful transformation.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Thomas M. Siebel • Digital Transformation
David L. Rogers • The Digital Transformation Playbook
Fawad A. Khan & Jason M. Anderson • Digital Transformation using Emerging Technologies
Tony Saldanha • Why Digital Transformations Fail
Nitin Seth • Winning in the Digital Age

Kafka in Action • Viktor Gamov & Tim Berglund

Fri, 02 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0100

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Viktor Gamov - Principal Developer Advocate at Kong & Co-Autor of "Kafka in Action"
Tim Berglund - VP DevRel at StarTree & Author of "Gradle Beyond the Basics"

DESCRIPTION
Kafka has been on developers’ radars for quite a while now. Viktor Gamov’s co-authored book “Kafka in Action” ensures that you have a list of recipes to dive into. Joined by Tim Berglund, VP DevRel at StarTree, they explore the fundamentals of Apache Kafka.
Learn what Kafka can help you achieve, what Viktor’s favorite MCU film is and what “Highway to Mars” by Beast In Black has to do with all of this.

The interview is based on Viktor's co-authored book "Kafka in Action"

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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Viktor Gamov, Dylan Scott & Dave Klein • Kafka in Action
Viktor Gamov, Tartakovsky, Rasputnis & Fain • Enterprise Web Development
Tim Berglund • Gradle Beyond the Basics
Tim Berglund & Matthew McCullough • Building and Testing with Gradle
Shapira, Palino, Sivaram & Petty • Kafka: The Definitive Guide
Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Jono Bacon • People Powered
Mary Thengvall • The Business Value of Developer Relations
Jay Kreps • I ❤️ Logs
Zhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh
Bill Bejeck • Kafka Streams in Action

Expert Talk: Cloud Chaos & How Contract Tests Can Help • Holly Cummins & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2022 for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech

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Holly Cummins - Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus Team
Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer

DESCRIPTION
Today cloud native and cloud transformation are more than buzzwords. However, most companies and development teams have not yet surpassed all the hurdles that come with moving to the cloud.
Holly Cummins and Kevlin Henney dismantle why many organizations think by adopting microservices to their cloud strategy, they are ‘doing cloud right’ and how ‘Contract Testing’ can help to reduce the risks of microservices deployments.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Holly Cummins & Timothy Ward • Enterprise OSGi in Action
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Pini Reznik, Jamie Dobson & Michelle Gienow • Cloud Native Transformation
John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes
Kasun Indrasiri & Sriskandarajah Suhothayan • Design Patterns for Cloud Native Applications
Alexander Raul • Cloud Native with Kubernetes

Spring Boot: Up & Running • Mark Heckler & Thomas Vitale

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0100

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Mark Heckler - Principal Cloud Advocate, Java/JVM Languages at Microsoft & Author of "Spring Boot: Up and Running"
Thomas Vitale - Senior Software Engineer at Systematic & Author of "Cloud Native Spring in Action"

DESCRIPTION
Spring Boot is a versatile and supportive environment for developers. Mark Heckler, the author of Spring Boot: Up and Running and Thomas Vitale, software architect at Systematic, explore many of its capabilities while discussing Mark’s book. They cover hot topics such as data integrations, deploying in production, security and reactive vs imperative programming. They both share their views and transforming experiences of joining the Spring Boot community.

The interview is based on Mark's book "Spring Boot Up & Running"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Mark Heckler • Spring Boot: Up & Running
Laurentiu Spilca • Spring, Start Here
Thomas Vitale • Cloud Native Spring in Action (available soon)
Craig Walls • Spring Boot in Action
Craig Walls • Spring in Action

Machine Learning for Autonomous Vehicles • Oscar Beijbom & Prayson Daniel

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0100

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Oscar Beijbom - Co-Founder at Nyckel
Prayson Daniel - Principal Data Scientist at NTT DATA

DESCRIPTION
Self-driving vehicles have been a hot topic for a while now and everyone is waiting for the next breakthrough. Prayson Daniel, principal data scientist at NTT DATA, and Oscar Beijbom, co-founder at Nyckel, stuck their heads together to review what type of machine learning data is needed to run an autonomous vehicle. Furthermore, they talked about topics such as security, language choices and when the time of deploying a model has come.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning
Kelleher & Tierney • Data Science (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Lakshmanan, Robinson & Munn • Machine Learning Design Patterns
Lakshmanan, Görner & Gillard • Practical Machine Learning for Computer Vision
Aurélien Géron • Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras & TensorFlow

Expert Talk: Code Refactoring • Adam Tornhill & Christian Clausen

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at GOTO Aarhus.
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Adam Tornhill - Author of "Software Design X-Rays" and Founder & CTO at CodeScene
Christian Clausen - Author of "Five Lines of Code"

DESCRIPTION
When do you refactoring your code? Learn from Christian Clausen, author of "Five Lines of Code" and Adam Tornhill, author of "Your Code As A Crime Scene" and "Software Design X-Rays” how to analyze your code to understand its need for refactoring. Furthermore, gain an understanding of the social side of refactoring and its implications.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adam Tornhill • Software Design X-Rays
Adam Tornhill • Your Code as a Crime Scene
Christian Clausen • Five Lines of Code
Adam Tornhill • Lisp for the Web
Adam Tornhill • Patterns in C
Martin Fowler • Refactoring
Maude Lemaire • Refactoring at Scale

Expert Talk: Scaling Down Complexity in Software • James Lewis & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2022 for GOTO Unscripted. gotopia.tech

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James Lewis - Principal Consultant & Technical Director at Thoughtworks
Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer

DESCRIPTION
Software shares multiple similarities with living creatures. Embark on a journey with Kevlin Henney, an independent consultant & speaker, and James Lewis, consultant at Thoughtworks, to undercover some of the aspects that make producing software so complex from trending frameworks, that help you understand the human component, to its disposable aspect and the way it influences companies and solves real-world problems.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies
Michael Jackson • Software Requirements and Specifications
Geoffrey West • Scale
Charles Stross • Singularity Sky
Charles Stross • Quantum of Nightmares
Charles Stross • The Atrocity Archives
Charles Stross • Accelerando
Ted Chiang • Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories

AWS Cookbook: Recipes for Success on AWS • John Culkin, Mike Zazon & Kesha Williams

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Kesha Williams - Cloud Leadership at Slalom, Speaker & AWS Machine Learning Hero
Mike Zazon - Senior Cloud Architect at AWS and Co-Author of "AWS Cookbook: Recipes for Success on AWS"
John Culkin - Senior Solutions Architect AWS and Co-Author of "AWS Cookbook: Recipes for Success on AWS"

DESCRIPTION
If you are working with AWS on a daily basis or are looking into applying it, then the AWS Cookbook by John Culkin and Mike Zazon should definitely be on your radar. Explore some of the recipes that can ease and improve your workflow in a discussion with Kesha Williams, senior manager at Slalom. Some of the recipes discussed look at security, networking, storage, serverless, and containers.

The interview is based on John's & Mike's book "AWS Cookbook"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
John Culkin & Mike Zazon • AWS Cookbook
Chris Fregly & Antje Barth • Data Science on AWS
Gareth Eagar • Data Engineering with AWS
Prashant Lakhera • AWS for System Administrators

Craftsmanship: Code, Guitars & Tech • Dylan Beattie, Hannes Lowette & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at CodeNode in London.
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Dylan Beattie - Creator of Rockstar Language, Microsoft MVP, Keynote Speaker & Guitarist
Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes, Monolith Advocate, Speaker & Whiskey Lover
Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer

DESCRIPTION
Writing music, building guitars and writing software share more similarities than one would imagine at first.
Kevlin Henney, an independent consultant, chats with Dylan Beatttie, creator of the Rockstar programming language, and Hannes Lowette, head of learning & development at Axxes, about the craftsmanship and creativity that is required from them. They showcase Hannes’ self-made guitar, the importance of making decisions at the right point in time or how there isn’t a default for solving problems in either of these domains, but rather a personalized and evolving approach.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Henney, Buschmann & Schmidt • Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 5
Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Booch • Design Patterns (Gang of Four)
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering

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Driving Innovation with Kubernetes & Java • Ana-Maria Mihalceanu & Eric Johnson

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Ana-Maria Mihalceanu - Developer Advocate at Red Hat & Java Champion
Eric Johnson - Principal Developer Advocate for Serverless at AWS

DESCRIPTION
Technology can advance faster if we share our knowledge. That’s the mission of a developer advocate. Ana-Maria Mihalceanu, developer advocate at Red Hat, talked to Eric Johnson, principal developer advocate at AWS, about her passion for learning, sharing knowledge, Java and Kubernetes. Discover what a Kubernetes operator is and when to use it vs Terraform.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Brendan Burns, Joe Beda & Kelsey Hightower • Kubernetes: Up and Running
Markus Eisele & Natale Vinto • Modernizing Enterprise Java
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Burns, Villalba, Strebel & Evenson • Kubernetes Best Practices
Adzic & Korac • Running Serverless
Scott Patterson • Learn AWS Serverless Computing
Peter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS

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Expert Talk: How to Deal with Hypergrowth • Lena Reinhard & Blake Walters

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Lena Reinhard - Leadership Coach & Consultant
Blake Walters - Senior Director of Engineering at CircleCI

DESCRIPTION
While hypergrowth means that a company is on the right track, this phase comes with challenges at all levels of the organization. Lena Reinhard, leadership coach & consultant, and Blake Walters, senior director of engineering at CircleCI, share best practices based on their own experiences, navigating the ambiguity that comes along with these hypergrowth phases in a company's life cycle. Learn how to get through this phase successfully, what tools and tips can support the company and what hypergrowth means for the software engineering team.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Frank Slootman • Amp It Up
Aaron Ross & Jason Lemkin • From Impossible to Inevitable
Scott Hallman • The 7 Success Drivers to HyperGrowth
Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospectives Antipatterns
Lee, Wickens, Liu & Boyle • Designing for People
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies

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Restful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook • Mike Amundsen & Alianna Inzana

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Mike Amundsen - Author of "Restful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook" and (Co-)Author of Many More Books
Alianna Inzana - Vice President of Product at WeTransfer

DESCRIPTION
The API ecosystem is evolving and the focus is changing from “how to design them” to “how to implement them”. Mike Amundsen, author of "Restful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook", and Alianna Inzana, VP of Product at WeTransfer, cover the recent changes while also touching on broader subjects like evolvable architectures. Join them in this conversation around restful web API.

The interview is based on Mike's book "Restful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Mike Amundsen • Restful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook
Mike Amundsen • Design and Build Great Web APIs
Mike Amundsen • RESTful Web Clients
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running
Ronnie Mitra, Irakli Nadareishvili, Matt McLarty & Mike Amundsen • Microservice Architecture
Ronnie Mitra, Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde & Mike Amundsen • Continuous API Management
Ronnie Mitra & many more • DataPower SOA Appliance Administration, Deployment, and Best Practices
James Higginbotham • Principles of Web API Design

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How to Help Your Boss Help You • Ken Kousen & Trisha Gee

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Ken Kousen - Author of "Help Your Boss Help You" & President at Kousen IT
Trisha Gee - Co-Editor of "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know" & Java Advocacy Lead at JetBrains

DESCRIPTION
There are tons of books about how to become a manager and how to improve as a manager, but in this Book Club episode, Trisha Gee talks to Ken Kousen about how you can manage your own manager. They explore his book "Help Your Boss Help You," which takes the standpoint of an employee and how you can build a relationship with your boss that helps you get what you want. What drives the dynamic in a professional relationship, and how can you as an employee steer the wheel for your career?
The interview is based on Ken's book "Help Your Boss Help You".

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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ken Kousen • Help Your Boss Help You
Ken Kousen • Kotlin Cookbook
Ken Kousen • Modern Java Recipes
Ken Kousen • Gradle Recipes for Android
Ken Kousen • Making Java Groovy
Robert Axelrod • The Evolution of Cooperation
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies

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Humankind: A Hopeful History • Rutger Bregman & Preben Thorø

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Rutger Bregman - Historian and Author of "Humankind: A Hopeful History"
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
If you look at recent developments in human history, the world may seem like a grim place, in which humanity is setting itself for destruction. However, if you consider the research made in various disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, sociology, philosophy and psychology, you’ll see that in fact the contrary is happening.
Preben Thorø, CTO at Trifork Switzerland, talked to Rutger Bregman, historian and author of “Humankind: A Hopeful History”, about how the world is a much better place than we perceive it and how research can restore our belief in the good of humanity.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Rutger Bregman • Humankind: A Hopeful History
Rutger Bregman • Utopia For Realists
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Expert Talk: What’s Next For .NET? • Hannes Lowette & Martin Thwaites

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes
Martin Thwaites - Developer Advocate at Honeycomb

DESCRIPTION
.NET has been undergoing a massive development since its very beginning. Martin Thwaites, developer advocate for Honeycomb, and Hannes Lowette, head of learning and development at Axxes, enjoyed every step of its path.
Join them as they reveal important milestones in .NET’s evolution as well as gain practical insights into web performance, running .NET at scale, and how to implement observability.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Anthony Brown • Reactive Applications with Akka.NET
Jamie Allen • Effective Akka
Roestenburg, Bakker & Williams • Akka in Action 1st Ed.
Francisco Lopez-Sancho Abraham • Akka in Action 2nd Ed.
Chantzis, Stais, Calderon, Deirmentzoglou & Woods • Practical IoT Hacking

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Observability Engineering • Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Charity Majors - Co- Author of Observability Engineering and CTO at Honeycomb
Liz Fong-Jones - Co- Author of Observability Engineering an Principal Developer Advocate for SRE & Observability at Honeycomb
George Miranda - Co- Author of Observability Engineering and Head of Ecosystems & Partnerships at Honeycomb

DESCRIPTION
Observability is crucial for developing and understanding the software that powers today’s complex systems. Charity, Liz and George, authors of “Observability Engineering” show you how to manage software at scale, deliver complex cloud native applications and systems, and the benefit observability has across the entire software development lifecycle.
You’ll also learn the impact observability has on organizational culture (and vice versa).
The interview is based on Charity's, Liz' and Goerge's book "Observability Engineering".

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda • Observability Engineering
Kelly Shortridge & Aaron Rinehart • Security Chaos Engineering
Nora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering
Mikolaj Pawlikowski • Chaos Engineering
Russ Miles • Learning Chaos Engineering
Murphy, Beyer, Jones & Petoff • Site Reliability Engineering
Beyer, Murphy, Rensin, Kawahara & Thorne • The Site Reliability Workbook
David N. Blank-Edelman • Seeking SRE

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CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide • Ben Darnell & Guy Harrison

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Ben Darnell - Co-Author of "CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide" and CTO at Cockroach Labs
Guy Harrison - Co-Author of "CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide" and CEO at alwaysNFT.cloud, CTO at ProvenDB

DESCRIPTION
How do modern data platforms integrate into today’s world? Join Guy Harrison and Ben Darnell, the authors of "CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide", to learn about the different use cases and unique functions of CockroachDB. Take a deep dive into the migration to the cloud and the different requirements for analytical and transactional data platforms.

The interview is based on Ben & Guy's book "CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide".

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Darnell, Harrison & Seldess • CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide
Guy Harrison • Next Generation Databases
Guy Harrison & Steven Feuerstein • MySQL Stored Procedure Programming
Guy Harrison & Michael Harrison • MongoDB Performance Tuning
Kishen Das Kondabagilu Rajanna • Getting Started with CockroachDB
Regina Obe & Leo Hsu • PostgreSQL
Simon Riggs & Gianni Ciolli • PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook

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Principles of Web API Design • James Higginbotham & Mike Amundsen

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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James Higginbotham - Author of "Principles of Web API Design" and Executive API Consultant at LaunchAny
Mike Amundsen - Author of "Design and Build Great Web APIs" and (Co-)Author of Many More Books

DESCRIPTION
James Higginbotham, author of “Principles of Web API Design”, outlines the key points of creating and using APIs in today’s world. In the conversation with Mike Amundsen, author of “RESTful Patterns and Best Practices for API's Cookbook” you discover the principles of James’ ADDR process and how job stories and event storming contribute to a successful API launch. Furthermore, they touch upon key terms such as minimum viable portal and why API boundaries are so hot at the moment.
The interview is based on James's book "Principles of Web API Design".

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
James Higginbotham • Principles of Web API Design
Mike Amundsen • Design and Build Great Web APIs
Mike Amundsen • RESTful Web Clients
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running
Ronnie Mitra, Irakli Nadareishvili, Matt McLarty & Mike Amundsen • Microservice Architecture
Ronnie Mitra, Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde & Mike Amundsen • Continuous API Management
Ronnie Mitra & many more • DataPower SOA Appliance Administration, Deployment, and Best Practices

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Expert Talk: Software Security • Jim Manico & John Steven

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Jim Manico - Founder at Manicode Security & Co-Author of "Iron-Clad Java"
John Steven - Founding Principal at Aedify Security & CTO at Concourse Labs

DESCRIPTION
Security is a key topic in software. Lately, it has shifted from a security team responsibility to a task every single developer has to think about. Jim Manico, Founder and Secure Coding Educator at Manicode Security, and John Steven, the Founding Principal at Aedify Security, assess the evolution of the security role in order for developers to make the right decisions.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Jim Manico & August Detlefsen • Iron-Clad Java
Liz Rice • Container Security
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security
Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Simplified
Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Servers
Aaron Parecki • The Little Book of OAuth 2.0 RFCs
Erdal Ozkaya • Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide
Richer & Sanso • OAuth 2 in Action
Wilson & Hingnikar • Demystifying OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2.0

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Learning Test-Driven Development • Saleem Siddiqui & Dave Farley

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Saleem Siddiqui - Author of "Learning Test-Driven Development", Technologist & Coach
Dave Farley - Author of "Modern Software Engineering", Continuous Delivery & DevOps Pioneer

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DESCRIPTION
You may think test-driven development wouldn't work in your preferred programming language, or that it would disrupt your code writing — this Book Club episode proves otherwise. Saleem Siddiqui, author of “Learning Test-Driven Development,” and Dave Farley, author of "Modern Software Engineering," review the multiple ways test-driven development can yield more effective results and produce higher quality code.
The interview is based on Saleem's book "Learning Test-Driven Development".
Check out Saleem on O'Reilly's learning platform.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Saleem Siddiqui • Learning Test-Driven Development
Saleem Siddiqui, Michael Landy & Jeff Swisher • Jbuilder Developer's Guide
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering
Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery
Roy Osherove • The Art of Unit Testing
Kent Beck • Test Driven Development
Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim • Accelerate

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Expert Talk: gRPC, Kubernetes & .NET • Mark Rendle & Matt Turner

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Mark Rendle - Incurable Programmer & Lover of C#, .NET Core, Containers, Clouds & DevOps
Matt Turner - DevOps Leader, Software Engineer at Tetrate

DESCRIPTION
Join Mark Rendle, MS Dev Tech MVP, and Matt Turner, DevOps leader, architect, and engineer at Marshall Wace, in a passionate discussion about gRPC’s past and future and how it fits in with technologies such as .NET and service meshes. They get deep in the weeds on technology cycles while debating the future of infrastructure as a code and Kubernetes. And Mark has a brilliant idea on how to build an alternative to Facebook.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Burns, Beda & Hightower • Kubernetes: Up & Running
Burns, Villalba, Strebel & Evenson • Kubernetes Best Practices
Kasun Indrasiri & Danesh Kuruppu • gRPC: Up and Running
Liz Rice • Container Security
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security
John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes
Hausenblas & Schimanski • Programming Kubernetes

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Security Chaos Engineering • Kelly Shortridge, Aaron Rinehart & Mark Miller

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Kelly Shortridge - Co- Author of Security Chaos Engineering and Senior Principal, Product Technology at Fastly
Aaron Rinehart - Co- Author of Security Chaos Engineering and Co-Founder & CTO at Verica
Mark Miller - Co-Author of Epic Failures in DevSecOps and Vice President, Community Engagement and Outreach at The Linux Foundation

DESCRIPTION
What’s the state of the art in modern security practices?
The authors of the book Security Chaos Engineering, Aaron Rinehart and Kelly Shortridge talk to Mark Miller about the shift in the mental model that one has to undertake to reap its benefits. Their approach paves a new way that allows security engineers to uncover bugs in complex systems by chaos experiments before an actual attack.

The interview is based on Kelly's and Aaron's book "Security Chaos Engineering":
www.verica.io/sce-book

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kelly Shortridge & Aaron Rinehart • Security Chaos Engineering
Nora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering
Nora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering
Mikolaj Pawlikowski • Chaos Engineering
Russ Miles • Learning Chaos Engineering
Murphy, Beyer, Jones & Petoff • Site Reliability Engineering

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Expert Talk: Managing Complexity in Software • Hadi Hariri & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at CodeNode in London.
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Hadi Hariri - VP of Developer Advocacy at JetBrains and Podcast Host of Talking Kotlin
Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer

DESCRIPTION
Complexity of software systems sometimes grows beyond control. Left unchecked, it can leave behind bloated applications.
Kevlin Henney talks to Hadi Hariri, developer advocate at JetBrains, about how some of the key traits of developers like creativity and problem solving make them prone to innovate more but also over-engineer their code and not choose solutions based on context.

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Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Henney, Buschmann & Schmidt • Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 5
Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Booch • Design Patterns (Gang of Four)
Venkat Subramaniam • Programming Kotlin
Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices
Sam Newman • Building Microservices
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running

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Expert Talk: Native vs Cross-Platform • Sebastiano Poggi & Carl-Gustaf Harroch

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Sebastiano Poggi - Team Lead at Jetbrains
Carl-Gustaf Harroch - Founder/Managing Director at Novoda

DESCRIPTION
Lately mobile developers have had to answer this question the most: Shall we go native or use a cross-platform framework? And if so, which one?
Sebastiano Poggi, team lead at Jetbrains, and Carl-Gustaf Harroch, founder/managing director at Novoda, explore current best practices around modern mobile development highlighting the impact of team collaboration and matching technologies across platforms.

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Bailey, Biessek & Wills • Flutter for Beginners
Simone Alessandria & Brian Kayfitz • Flutter Cookbook
John Bach • Xamarin: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide
Nader Dabit • React Native in Action
Adam Boduch & Roy Derks • React and React Native
Robert Nagy • Simplifying Application Development with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile

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Modern Software Engineering • Dave Farley & Steve Smith

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Dave Farley - Author of "Modern Software Engineering", Continuous Delivery & DevOps Pioneer
Steve Smith - Author of "Measuring Continuous Delivery", Principal Consultant at Equal Experts

Find plenty more from Dave on his Continuous Delivery YouTube channel

DESCRIPTION
What should the modern software engineer know in order to be the best at their job? Dave Farley and Steve Smith explore the books that can help engineers succeed and why iteration and experiments are crucial.
The interview is based on Dave's book "Modern Software Engineering"

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering
Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery
Steve Smith • Measuring Continuous Delivery
Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design
Kent Beck • Extreme Programming Explained
Michael Feathers • Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Alistair Cockburn • Agile Software Development
Mary & Tom Poppendieck • Implementing Lean Software Development
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2

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What's the Life Cycle of a Data Scientist? • Ekaterina Sirazitdinova, Prayson Daniel & Nicholai Stålung

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Ekaterina Sirazitdinova - Data Scientist for Computer Vision, Video Analytics & Deep Learning at NVIDIA
Prayson Daniel - Principal Data Scientist at NTT DATA
Nicholai Stålung - Lead Data Scientist at Trifork

DESCRIPTION
Data science is so much more than collecting, sorting and analyzing data. What does it take to be a data scientist and how does a day in the life of a data scientist look like? Ekaterina Sirazitdinova, Prayson Daniel and Nicholai Stålung will give you an insight into this and more.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning
Kelleher & Tierney • Data Science (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Lakshmanan, Robinson & Munn • Machine Learning Design Patterns
Lakshmanan, Görner & Gillard • Practical Machine Learning for Computer Vision
Aurélien Géron • Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras & TensorFlow

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Modern Software Practices in a Legacy System • Audun Strand & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted at CodeNode in London.
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Audun Fauchald Strand - Principal Engineer at NAV
Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer

DESCRIPTION
Audun Fauchald Strand, principal engineer at NAV (Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration), shares the story of how they modernized their long-running open source platform NAIS.
In their conversation, Audun and Kevlin Henney touch on topics such as how to organize massive amounts of data and if legacy code can be considered as something good. You’ll also find out how open source fits in a large governmental software team that focuses on transparency.

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Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Henney, Buschmann & Schmidt • Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 5
Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design
Zhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices
Sam Newman • Building Microservices
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running
Mitra, Nadareishvili, McLarty & Amundsen • Microservice Architecture
Rishu Mehra • What is Data Observability

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Expert Talk: Functional Programming • Russ Olsen & Christian Romney

Fri, 03 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted 2022.
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Russ Olsen - Software Engineering Director at Nubank and Author of "Getting Clojure"
Christian Romney - Director of Engineering at Nubank

DESCRIPTION
Learn from Russ Olsen and Christian Romney why you should look into functional programming. They explore the nature of the paradigm as well as its advantages and misconceptions.
In this GOTO Podcast, Russ Olsen shares his war stories and explains how functional programming influences his code for the better.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Russ Olsen • Getting Clojure
Russ Olsen • Eloquent Ruby
Russ Olsen • Design Patterns in Ruby
Richard Feldman • Elm in Action
Neal Ford • Functional Thinking
Venkat Subramaniam • Functional Programming in Java
Eric Normand • Grokking Simplicity
Daniel Higginbotham • Clojure for the Brave and True
Ulisses Almeida • Learn Functional Programming with Elixir

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Expert Talk: Continuous Architecture • Pierre Pureur & Kurt Bittner

Fri, 27 May 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Pierre Pureur - Co-Author of "Continuous Architecture" & "Continuous Architecture in Practice"
Kurt Bittner - Co Author of "The Professional Scrum Team" & Enterprise Solutions at Scrup.org

DESCRIPTION
What is continuous architecture and how does it fit in today’s world? Has the role of a software architect changed over the last few years, and what are the main skills you need to be good at architecting software?
Pierre Pureur, co-author of “Continuous Architecture in Practice,” and Kurt Bittner, Enterprise Solution at Scrum.org, give an overview of what software architects — or those who dream of becoming one — should consider across each of these questions.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Pierre Pureur, M. Erder & E. Woods • Continuous Architecture in Practice
Pierre Pureur & Murat Erder • Continuous Architecture
Kurt Bittner, P. Götz & U. Schirmer • The Professional Scrum Team
Kurt Bittner, P. Kong & D. West • The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum
Kurt Bittner & Ian Spence • Use Case Modeling
Kurt Bittner & Ian Spence • Managing Iterative Software Development Projects
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2
George Fairbanks • Just Enough Software Architecture
Gene Kim • The Unicorn Project
Mark Seemann • Code That Fits in Your Head

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Kubeflow for Machine Learning • Holden Karau & Adi Polak

Fri, 20 May 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Holden Karau - Co-Author of "Kubeflow for Machine Learning" & Open Source Engineer at Netflix
Adi Polak - VP of Developer Experience at Treeverse & Contributing to lakeFS OSS

DESCRIPTION
Machine Learning has been declared dead several times but that’s far from true. Join Adi Polak, vice president of developer experience at Treeverse, and Holden Karau, open source engineer at Netflix, in their conversation about Kubeflow and how it provides better tooling in the ML space. The discussion touches on Holden’s book “Kubeflow for Machine Learning” and expands to cover the worlds of Ray and Dask.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Holden Karau, Trevor Grant, Boris Lublinsky, Richard Liu & Ilan Filonenko • Kubeflow for Machine Learning
Holden Karau • Distributed Computing 4 Kids
Holden Karau • Scaling Python with Dask
Holden Karau & Boris Lublinsky • Scaling Python with Ray
Holden Karau & Rachel Warren • High Performance Spark
Holden Karau, Konwinski, Wendell & Zaharia • Learning Spark
Holden Karau & Krishna Sankar • Fast Data Processing with Spark 2nd Edition
Holden Karau • Fast Data Processing with Spark 1st Edition
Adi Polak • Machine Learning with Apache Spark
Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning
Aurélien Géron • Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras & TensorFlow

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Expert Talk: Web Development & Its Failures • Kevlin Henney, Stefan Judis & Lars Jensen

Fri, 13 May 2022 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021 for GOTO Unscripted.
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Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer
Stefan Judis - Senior team manager on developer relations at Contentful
Lars Jensen - Lead Developer at GOTO

DESCRIPTION
What’s next for web development? In this GOTO Unscripted episode we talk with two web development experts about current practices, influences and where we are headed.
Watch the full episode to find out what yogurt and code have in common.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Henney, Buschmann & Schmidt • Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 4
David Flanagan • JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
Robin Nixon • Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript
Gordon, Adair & Hill • JavaScript Explained

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Building Micro-Frontends • Luca Mezzalira & Lucas Dohmen

Fri, 06 May 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Luca Mezzalira - Author of "Building Micro-Frontends" and Principal Solutions Architect at AWS
Lucas Dohmen - Senior Consultant at INNOQ and Podcast Host at CaSE

You can find more details about Luca here:
buildingmicrofrontends.com

DESCRIPTION
Micro-frontends are more than just a buzzword. In this GOTO podcast episode, Luca Mezzalira, author of “Building Micro-Frontends,” shares best practices around how to use them. The conversation also sheds light on some key terms like SSI and ESI.
The interview is based on Luca's book "Building Micro-Frontends"

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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Luca Mezzalira • Building Micro-Frontends
Luca Mezzalira • Front-End Reactive Architectures
Noel Rappin • Modern Front-End Development for Rails
Michael Geers • Micro Frontends in Action
Jeremy Fairbank • Programming Elm

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Efficiency vs Effectiveness in Agile • Aino Vonge Corry & Klaus Bucka-Lassen

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021 for GOTO Unscripted.
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Aino Vonge Corry - Author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns"
Klaus Bucka-Lassen - Agile Midwife, Coach & Trainer at aragost
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
Learn the difference between effectiveness and efficiency and whether your team can be agile without knowing it in this Unscripted episode, recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021 with Aino Vonge Corry, author of “Retrospective Antipatterns”, Klaus Bucka-Lassen, agile coach and trainer and Preben Thorø, CTO of Trifork.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospectives Antipatterns
Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Booch • Design Patterns (Gang of Four)
Subramaniam & Hunt • Practices of an Agile Developer
Uncle Bob • Clean Agile
Derby, Larsen & Schwaber • Agile Retrospectives
Jeff Sutherland • Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Lee, Wickens, Liu & Boyle • Designing for People
Stone, Chaparro, Keebler, Chaparro & McConnell • Introduction to Human Factors

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The Ideal Programming Language • Richard Feldman & Erik Doernenburg

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Richard Feldman - Author of "Elm in Action" & Head of Technology at NoRedInk
Erik Doernenburg - Head of Technology at Thoughtworks & Passionate Technologist
Lars Jensen - Lead Developer at GOTO

DESCRIPTION
What would your ideal programming language look like?
Erik Doernenburg, head of technology at Thoughtworks, and Richard Feldman, author of “Elm in Action,” sat together at GOTO Copenhagen 2021 to chat about what theirs would look like. They also had a look into the future of up-and-coming languages.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Richard Feldman • Elm in Action
Jeremy Fairbank • Programming Elm
Wolfgang Loder • Web Applications with Elm
Cristian Salcescu • Functional Programming in JavaScript
Tim McNamara • Rust in Action
Saša Jurić • Elixir in Action
Dijkstra, Gøtze & Van Der Ploeg • Right Sourcing
Richard Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Thoughtworks Inc. • The Thoughtworks Anthology
Jimmy Nilsson • Applying Domain-Driven Design And Patterns

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Data Mesh: Data-Driven Value at Scale • Zhamak Dehghani & Samia Rahman

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Zhamak Dehghani - Author of "Data Mesh" & Director of Emerging Technologies at Thoughtworks
Samia Rahman - Director of Data & AI at Seagen

DESCRIPTION
How can modern organizations handle their data in a way that delivers value at scale? Zhamak Dehghani, author of “Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale,” covers the key principles of data mesh and how it can help organizations move beyond the data lake to provide meaningful insights. She’s joined by Samia Rahman, director of data and AI at Seagen, as they also explore the concept of the earliest explorable data.
The interview is based on Zhamak's book "Data Mesh".

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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Zhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh
Zhamak Dehghani, Neal Ford, Mark Richards & Pramod Sadalage • Software Architecture
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices
Sam Newman • Building Microservices
Sandeep Uttamchandani • The Self-Service Data Roadmap
Piethein Strengholt • Data Management at Scale
Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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Programming: Now & Then • Eamonn Boyle & Garth Gilmour

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0200

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Eamonn Boyle - Software Trainer at Instil Software
Garth Gilmour - Head Of Learning at Instil Software
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
The last 20 years have brought several major paradigm shifts in software development. Starting as a software developer was quite different in the early days compared to today. Join Eamonn Boyle and Garth Gilmour as they go down memory lane to discuss the ever-changing world of programming.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer
Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Booch • Design Patterns (Gang of Four)
Allen Holub • Holub on Patterns
Fred Brooks Jr. • The Mythical Man-Month

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Hydrogen Power: How Far Will It Take Us? • Anita Sengupta & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021 for GOTO Unscripted.
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Anita Sengupta - CEO/Founder at Hydroplane & Professor of Astronautical Engineering
Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer

DESCRIPTION
Explore the developments and use cases for hydrogen-powered aircrafts with rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, professor, and CEO and founder of Hydroplane, Dr. Anita Sengupta, interviewed by editor of "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know," Kevlin Henney.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
NASA • NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
Bernice Kastner • Space Mathematics
Kellie Gerardi • Not Necessarily Rocket Science
Piers Bizony & Roger D. Launius • NASA Space Shuttle: 40th Anniversary
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

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Strategic Monoliths & Microservices • Vaughn Vernon & James Higginbotham

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0100

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Vaughn Vernon - Co-Author of "Strategic Monoliths & Microservices" and DDD and Reactive Leader
James Higginbotham - Author of "Principles of Web API Design" and Executive API Consultant at LaunchAny

DESCRIPTION
Microservices have become more than a buzzword and are now viable alternatives to monoliths, which makes understanding why and how they should be used more important than ever. Thinking strategically about software architecture has to be the cornerstone of any software development.
Vaughn Vernon, author of “Strategic Monoliths and Microservices: Driving Innovation Using Purposeful Architecture” (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon)), and James Higginbotham, author of “Principles of Web API Design”, discuss purposeful architecture, why events matter in software and much more.
The interview is based on Vaughn's book "Strategic Monoliths & Microservices".

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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Vaughn Vernon & Tomasz Jaskula • Strategic Monoliths & Microservices
James Higginbotham • Principles of Web API Design
Vaughn Vernon • Implementing Domain-Driven Design
Vaughn Vernon • Domain-Driven Design Distilled
Vaughn Vernon • Reactive Messaging Patterns With the Actor Model
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices
Sam Newman • Building Microservices
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running
Mitra, Nadareishvili, McLarty & Amundsen • Microservice Architecture

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Expert Talk: DevOps & Software Architecture • Simon Brown, Dave Farley & Hannes Lowette

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021 for GOTO Unscripted.
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Simon Brown - Author of "Software Architecture for Developers" & Creator of the C4 Software Architecture Model
Dave Farley - Author of "Modern Software Engineering" Continuous Delivery & DevOps Pioneer
Hannes Lowette - Head of Learning & Development at Axxes

Find plenty more from Dave on his Continuous Delivery YouTube channel.

DESCRIPTION
As software architecture continues to evolve rapidly, we are constantly confronted with new challenges. Simon Brown, Dave Farley and Hannes Lowette cover some of the recent trends in software architecture touching on terms such as DevOps and how to deal with complexity. They also reference concepts that have stirred debates forever and are still not done right, like bounded context and continuous delivery.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering
Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery
Woods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice
George Fairbanks • Just Enough Software Architecture

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Modernizing Enterprise Java • Markus Eisele, Natale Vinto & Ana-Maria Mihalceanu

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0100

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Ana-Maria Mihalceanu - Java Champion, SW Architect, Developer Advocate at Red Hat, Co-Founder of Bucharest Software Craftmanship Community
Natale Vinto - Co-Author of "Modernizing Enterprise Java" & Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat
Markus Eisele - Co-Author of "Modernizing Enterprise Java" & Developer Adoption Lead EMEA at Red Hat

DESCRIPTION
Is your Java application ready for the real world?
Join Markus Eisele and Natale Vinto, authors of the book “Modernizing Enterprise Java,” and Ana-Maria Mihalceanu, developer advocate at Red Hat, to uncover key ways to modernize your Java application.
The interview is based on Markus' & Natale's book "Modernizing Enterprise Java".

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RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Markus Eisele & Natale Vinto • Modernizing Enterprise Java
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer
Joshua Bloch • Effective Java
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices
Sam Newman • Building Microservices
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running
Mitra, Nadareishvili, McLarty & Amundsen • Microservice Architecture

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Kubernetes: Up & Running • Brendan Burns & Matt Turner

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0100

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Brendan Burns - Co-Author of "Kubernetes: Up & Running" & Co-founder of Kubernetes
Matt Turner - SRE at Marshall Wace

DESCRIPTION
Brendan Burns will take you on a journey through the life of Kubernetes. Where does it stand now, what is its history, and what’s waiting for us in the future that you might not expect?
The interview is based on Brendan's book "Kubernetes: Up & Running": https://amzn.to/3sueuuI

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https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/kubernetes-a-journey

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Burns, Beda & Hightower • Kubernetes: Up & Running • https://amzn.to/3sueuuI
Burns, Villalba, Strebel & Evenson • Kubernetes Best Practices • https://amzn.to/3gBXRsr
Liz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJe
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-security/9781492039075
John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3hKZvI5
Hausenblas & Schimanski • Programming Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3qTvKch

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Hands-on Microservices • Ronnie Mitra & Mike Amundsen

Fri, 25 Feb 2022 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Ronnie Mitra - Co-Author of "Microservices: Up and Running"
Mike Amundsen - Author of "Design and Build Great Web APIs"

DESCRIPTION
Microservices have long been a hot topic in software development, with both pros and cons associated with them. In “Microservices: Up and Running,” Ronnie Mitra and Irakli Nadareishvili go on a mission to offer guidelines for your first experience with microservices. In this Book Club discussion with Ronnie, world-class expert of API design, security and enterprise development in general, and Mike Amundsen, author of the book "Design and Build Great Web APIs," you’ll discover the decisions that you’ll need to consider, the reasoning behind each, and how to get started with microservices.
The interview is based on Ronnie's book "Microservices: Up and Running": https://amzn.to/3c4HmmL

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/microservices-hands-on

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running• https://amzn.to/3c4HmmL
Ronnie Mitra, Irakli Nadareishvili, Matt McLarty & Mike Amundsen • Microservice Architecture • https://amzn.to/3fVNAb0
Ronnie Mitra, Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde & Mike Amundsen • Continuous API Management • https://amzn.to/3uxdypw
Ronnie Mitra & many more • DataPower SOA Appliance Administration, Deployment, and Best Practices • https://amzn.to/3t2jhD9
Brendan Burns, Joe Beda & Kelsey Hightower • Kubernetes: Up and Running • http://amzn.to/31OAhB9
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
Mike Amundsen • Design and Build Great Web APIs • https://bookshop.org/a/9452/9781680506808

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The Art of Unit Testing • Roy Osherove & Dave Farley

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Roy Osherove - Author of "The Art of Unit Testing"
Dave Farley - Co-Author of "Continuous Delivery"

You can find more content like this on Dave’s "Continuous Delivery YouTube Channel": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCfqyGl3nq_V0bo64CjZh8g

DESCRIPTION
Good tests are crucial to any software project, and having a test-driven approach should be part of most projects’ goals nowadays. Yet testing can be difficult due to its complexity and challenges. Join a deep dive on how to approach unit testing with the author of “The Art of Unit Testing,” Roy Osherove, and a strong promoter of test-driven design, Dave Farley.
The interview is based on Roy's book "The Art of Unit Testing": https://bit.ly/3obiKNB

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/getting-started-with-unit-testing

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Roy Osherove • The Art of Unit Testing • https://bit.ly/3obiKNB
Roy Osherove • Elastic Leadership • https://amzn.to/3fxEgID
Roy Osherove • Notes to a Software Team Leader • https://amzn.to/3wjroxJ
Dave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/3ocIHwd
David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M
David Farley • Continuous Delivery Pipelines • https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines
Patterson, Grenny, Maxflied, McMillan & Switzler • Influencer: The Power to Change Anything • https://amzn.to/3hMGrdU

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A Fireside Chat with Hannah Fry, Simon Singh & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Unscripted at CodeNode in London.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/fireside-chat-hannah-fry-simon-singh-kevlin-henney

Hannah Fry - Mathematician, Science Presenter, Public Speaker and Bestselling Author
Simon Singh - Author, Journalist and TV Producer Specializing in Science and Mathematics
Kevlin Henney - Consultant, Programmer, Keynote Speaker, Technologist, Trainer & Writer

DESCRIPTION
We invited Hannah Fry, Simon Singh and Kevlin Henney to a fireside chat about their math books.
In this GOTO Unscripted you'll learn about their favorite numbers and equations as well as how humor and science go together. Lastly we will reveal who likes to cook their eggs in a microwave.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Hannah Fry & Adam Rutherford • Complete Guide To Absolutely Everything • https://amzn.to/32gNCpB
Hannah Fry • Hello World • https://amzn.to/3eexibo
Hannah Fry & Thomas Oléron Evans • The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus • https://amzn.to/32q9Epp
Simon Singh • The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets • https://amzn.to/3w9WcRs
Simon Singh • Fermat's Last Theorem • https://amzn.to/3wekpG9
Simon Singh • The Code Book • https://amzn.to/3k4RYFV
Simon Singh • Big Bang • https://amzn.to/3bHsZnm
Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst • Trick or Treatment • https://amzn.to/2ZThR4I
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/2Yahf9U
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know • https://amzn.to/3pZuHsQ
Henney, Buschmann & Schmidt • Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 4 • https://amzn.to/3k4SMur

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Erlang, the Hidden Gem: Solving Problems at Scale for 30+ Years • Francesco Cesarini & Preben Thorø

Fri, 04 Feb 2022 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted 2021.
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https://gotopia.tech/articles/erlang-solving-scaling-30-years

Francesco Cesarini - Founder & Technical Director at Erlang Solutions
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
There is an entire language ecosystem behind Erlang programming, and Francesco Cesarini, founder and technical director at Erlang Solutions, has been using it to solve problems at scale for more than 30 years. Find out how you can leverage Erlang to your own benefit.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Francesco Cesarini & Steve Vinoski • Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP • https://amzn.to/3uCB43V
Francesco Cesarini & Simon Thompson • Erlang Programming • https://amzn.to/3FEko1F
Saša Jurić • Elixir in Action • https://amzn.to/2RZh5eN
Joe Armstrong • Programming Erlang • https://amzn.to/3fzY53g
Dave Thomas • Programming Elixir ≥ 1.6: Functional • https://amzn.to/34Dw3O5
Simon St. Laurent • Introducing Erlang • https://amzn.to/3pbIni6
Logan, Merritt & Carlsson • Erlang and OTP in Action • https://amzn.to/3pjZqP7
McCord, Tate & Valim • Programming Phoenix 1.4 • https://amzn.to/3zcUqj4

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Architecting For Scale • Lee Atchison & Ken Gavranovic

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Lee Atchison - Author of "Architecting for Scale" and Thought Leader, Cloud Expert & Owner of Atchison Technology
Ken Gavranovic - Coach, Author & Brand Ambassador

DESCRIPTION
Ready to scale your company or already in the process of scaling up? Find out how you can build your software architecture or what changes to make to your current architecture so that your product doesn’t break by tuning into the next Book Club episode with Lee Atchison and Ken Gavranovic. You'll learn some best practices around architecting and operating for scale, including risk management, moving to microservices and continuous vs. future releases.
The interview is based on Lee's book "Architecting For Scale": https://amzn.to/3K1UrfH

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/architecting-for-scale

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Lee Atchison • Architecting for Scale • https://amzn.to/3K1UrfH
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2 • https://leanpub.com/visualising-software-architecture
Mark Richards & Neal Ford • Fundamentals of Software Architecture • https://amzn.to/3qmELt7
George Fairbanks • Just Enough Software Architecture • https://amzn.to/3bbjqg3
Nick Rozanski & Eoin Woods • Software Systems Architecture • https://amzn.to/3ajYjsv
Woods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice • https://amzn.to/2QWAmkl
Woods & Rozanski • Software Systems Architecture • https://amzn.to/3fVASr7

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Migrating to Kubernetes + Best Practices for Cloud Native • Thomas Vitale, Lasse Højgaard & Lars Jensen

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021 for GOTO Unscripted.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/cloud-native-kubernetes-and-all-things-related

Thomas Vitale - Senior Software Engineer at Systematic & Author of "Cloud Native Spring in Action"
Lasse Højgaard - Cloud Architect & Software Pilot at Trifork
Lars Jensen - Lead Developer at GOTO

DESCRIPTION
Thinking of going cloud native and looking for the best way to do it? In this Unscripted episode, Lars Jensen talks with cloud specialists Thomas Vitale and Lasse Højgaard about their day-to-day work and experience with cloud native, Kubernetes and all things related.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Thomas Vitale • Cloud Native Spring in Action • https://amzn.to/3355Zy0
Brendan Burns, Joe Beda & Kelsey Hightower • Kubernetes: Up and Running • http://amzn.to/31OAhB9
Burns, Villalba, Strebel & Evenson • Kubernetes Best Practices • https://amzn.to/3gBXRsr
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E
Sam Newman • Building Microservices • https://amzn.to/3dMPbOs
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running• https://amzn.to/3c4HmmL
Mitra, Nadareishvili, McLarty & Amundsen • Microservice Architecture • https://amzn.to/3fVNAb0
Chris Richardson • Microservices Patterns • https://amzn.to/2SOnQ7h
Adam Bellemare • Building Event-Driven Microservices • https://amzn.to/3yoa7TZ
Dave Farley • Continuous Delivery Pipelines • https://amzn.to/3hjiE51

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Functional Programming Through the Lens of a Philosopher & Linguist • Anjana Vakil & Lars Jensen

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted 2021.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/functional-programming-through-the-lens-of-a-philosopher-and-linguist

Anjana Vakil - Developer Advocate at Observable
Lars Jensen - Lead Developer at GOTO

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Eric Normand • Grokking Simplicity • https://amzn.to/3gz7o3C
Daniel Higginbotham • Clojure for the Brave and True • https://amzn.to/38tZjsF
Ulisses Almeida • Learn Functional Programming with Elixir • https://amzn.to/389grn6
Neal Ford • Functional Thinking • https://amzn.to/3DdP35B Petricek & Skeet • Real-World Functional Programming • https://amzn.to/38diF4M
Venkat Subramaniam • Functional Programming in Java • https://amzn.to/2WlOXIt
Cristian Salcescu • Functional Programming in JavaScript • https://amzn.to/3y75jBS
Richard Feldman • Elm in Action • https://amzn.to/387kujI
Jeremy Fairbank • Programming Elm • https://amzn.to/2WhZCE8
Wolfgang Loder • Web Applications with Elm • https://amzn.to/3jblQ3q

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18 Book Recommendations for the Holidays

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0100

These book recommendations were put together from GOTO Book Club authors and interviewers.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

DESCRIPTION
The holiday season is the perfect time to take a step back, relax and read a book, so we asked past authors and interviewers from GOTO Book Club to share the books that they would either give or want to receive as a gift. Watch this episode for a wide selection of more than 30 recommended titles covering software development and more.

Eoin Woods - Co-Author of "Continuous Architecture in Practice"
Fabio Pereira - Author of "Digital Nudge" & Head of Open Innovation Labs in Latin America at Red Hat
Dave Farley - Continuous Delivery & DevOps Pioneer, Award-winning Author, Founder & Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.
Kevlin Henney - Co-Author of "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know"
Phil Winder - Author of "Reinforcement Learning" & CEO of Winder.AI
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland
Sven Johann - Senior Consultant at INNOQ and Podcast Host at CaSE
Mike Amundsen - Author of "Design and Build Great Web APIs"
Saša Jurić - Author of "Elixir in Action"
Jim Webber - Co-Author of "Graph Databases"
Trisha Gee - Co-Author of "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know"
Raymond Camden - Co-Author of "The Jamstack Book" & Developer Evangelist for Adobe
Adam Tornhill - Author of "Software Design X-Rays" and Founder & CTO at CodeScene
Linda Rising - Author of various books & Computer Software Consultant and Professional
Matt Turner - SRE at Marshall Wace
Richard Feldman - Author of "Elm in Action"
Erik Schön - Author of "The Art of Strategy"
Casey Rosenthal - Co-Author of "Chaos Engineering"
James Wickett - Founder of Open Source Project Gauntlt

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https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/2021-best-books-recommended-by-the-goto-book-club

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Rolf Dobelli • The Art of Thinking Clearly • https://amzn.to/3qavZzI
Adam Grant • Think Again • https://amzn.to/3H82Wnb
Ted Nelson • Computer Lib/Dream Machines • https://amzn.to/3mmLDXs
Aileen Nielsen • Practical Fairness • https://amzn.to/3mmblLL
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/3JcfhIQ
Yuval Harari • Sapiens • https://amzn.to/3J8CNqm
Gojko Adzic & David Evans • 50 Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories • https://amzn.to/32hb6e2
Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design • https://amzn.to/3qb7HWn
Nir Eyal • Indistractable • https://amzn.to/3J485OO
Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky • Make Time • https://amzn.to/3mjdsjs
Liz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3e7Hkuy
Duncan McGregor & Nat Pryce • Java to Kotlin • https://amzn.to/32ajzQc
Laurentiu Spilca • Spring Start Here • https://amzn.to/3pbOBQw
Adam Tornhill • Your Code as a Crime Scene • https://amzn.to/3J8GNXU
David Thomas & Andrew Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer • https://amzn.to/3sm8eHG
Adam Rutherford & Hannah Fry • The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) • https://amzn.to/3yIM6br
Rutger Bergman • Humankind • https://amzn.to/3EoD4BR
Emily St. John Mandel • Station Eleven • https://amzn.to/3suVz5o

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Global Himalayan Expedition – Changing the World One Community After the Other • Jaideep Bansal & Preben Thorø

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted 2021.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/Global-Himalayan-Expedition

Jaideep Bansal - COO at Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE)
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
The Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE) empowers the most remote communities on Earth by leveraging tourism as a driving force for development. In this GOTO Unscripted interview, Jaideep Bansal tells you how they do this in a sustainable and scalable way.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Katsoni & Segarra-Oña • Smart Tourism as a Driver for Culture and Sustainability • https://amzn.to/2YXfPQM
Lässig, Kersting & Morik • Computational Sustainability • https://amzn.to/3APBW8r
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour • Green Computing Strategies for Competitive Advantage and Business Sustainability • https://amzn.to/2YXbI7j
Zbigniew H. Gontar • Smart Grid Analytics for Sustainability and Urbanization • https://amzn.to/3pkRVsS

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The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets • Simon Singh & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club at CodeNode in London.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Simon Singh - Author of "Fermat's Last Theorem" & "The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets" and many more books
Kevlin Henney - Author of "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know" & Co-Editor of "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know" and many more books

DESCRIPTION
Math is all around us, you just need to look for it. And look he did. In this GOTO Book Club episode, Simon Singh, author of the best-sellers "Fermat's Last Theorem," "The Code Book," and "Big Bang" gives fascinating insights into the mathematical secrets embedded in the celebrated TV series The Simpsons. You'll learn how Simon started on the path to writing this story, and why he thinks it will be his last book.
The interview is based on Simon's book "The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets": https://amzn.to/3w9WcRs

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/from-fermats-last-theorem-to-the-simpsons-and-their-mathematical-secrets

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Simon Singh • The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets • https://amzn.to/3w9WcRs
Simon Singh • Fermat's Last Theorem • https://amzn.to/3wekpG9
Simon Singh • The Code Book • https://amzn.to/3k4RYFV
Simon Singh • Big Bang • https://amzn.to/3bHsZnm
Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst • Trick or Treatment • https://amzn.to/2ZThR4I
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ
Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/2Yahf9U
Henney & Monson-Haefel • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know • https://amzn.to/3pZuHsQ
Henney, Buschmann & Schmidt • Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 4 • https://amzn.to/3k4SMur

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Java Security & the Java Ecosystem • Nicolas Frankel & Preben Thorø

Fri, 03 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted 2021.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/java-security

Nicolas Frankel - Developer Advocate at Hazelcast
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
A lot has changed over the years for Java. Nicolas Frankel was and is working with Java for decades now and has seen a lot, especially the dark sides of Java security. In this unscripted episode, he is talking about them and how the ecosystem of Java changed.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ
Markus Eisele & Natale Vinto • Modernizing Enterprise Java • https://amzn.to/3EsEtZ3

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Behind the Scenes with a NASA Engineer • Kenneth Harris II & Preben Thorø

Fri, 26 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021 for GOTO Unscripted.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/behind-the-scenes-with-a-nasa-engineer

Kenneth Harris II - Senior Satellite Engineer and Forbes Magazine '30 Under 30 Science' Honoree
Preben Thorø - CTO of Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
Kenneth Harris II shares his journey to becoming an engineer at NASA and why learning to fail is a key cornerstone of their culture. Find out what exciting projects follow the well-known Hubble Telescope.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
NASA • NASA Systems Engineering Handbook • https://amzn.to/3FWjqhR
Bernice Kastner • Space Mathematics • https://amzn.to/3oQCDKF
Kellie Gerardi • Not Necessarily Rocket Science • https://amzn.to/3CW4HS9
Piers Bizony & Roger D. Launius • NASA Space Shuttle: 40th Anniversary • https://amzn.to/3xgsNWh

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The Future of DevOps • PJ Hagerty & Hanna Park

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021 for GOTO Unscripted.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/the-future-of-devops

PJ Hagerty - Head of DevRel at Mattermost
Hanna Park - Workplace Community Manager at Mattermost

DESCRIPTION
The pandemic and remote work have changed the direction of the DevOps movement. Find out what lies ahead with Hanna Park, community manager at Mattermost, and PJ Hagerty, head of developer relations at Mattermost, in their discussion at GOTO Copenhagen 2021.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • https://amzn.to/3tCz1xO
John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3hKZvI5
Wynne, Hellesoy & Tooke • The Cucumber Book • https://amzn.to/3tEUINJ
Robert C. Myers • Essential Test-Driven Development • https://amzn.to/2Xc8ZWa
Roy Osherove • The Art of Unit Testing • https://bit.ly/3obiKNB
Eric Ries • The Lean Startup • https://amzn.to/396fOva
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running• https://amzn.to/3c4HmmL

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Software Design X-Rays • Adam Tornhill & Sven Johann

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0100

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Adam Tornhill - Author of "Software Design X-Rays" and Founder & CTO at CodeScene
Sven Johann - Senior Consultant at INNOQ and Podcast Host at CaSE

DESCRIPTION
There’s a link between how organizations write code and how teams work together. Adam Tornhill can make this link visible to help improve your team’s code and your organization's work.
The interview is based on Adam's book "Software Design X-Rays": https://amzn.to/3DEeEnI

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https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/behavioral-code-analysis
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/behavioral-code-analysis-part2

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Adam Tornhill • Software Design X-Rays • https://amzn.to/3DEeEnI
Adam Tornhill • Your Code as a Crime Scene • https://amzn.to/3FI5E2V
Adam Tornhill • Lisp for the Web • https://leanpub.com/lispweb
Adam Tornhill • Patterns in C • https://leanpub.com/patternsinc
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
John Ousterhout • A Philosophy of Software Design • https://amzn.to/3DBP9DC
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer • https://amzn.to/3azvUy3
Fred Brooks Jr. • The Mythical Man-Month • https://amzn.to/31NJc5C

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Erlang, Elixir, Blockchain & Serverless…Wait What?! • Ulf Wiger, Saša Jurić & Eric Johnson

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 11:00:00 +0100

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Ulf Wiger - Freelance Consultant & Core Developer Team Member at æternity blockchain
Saša Jurić - Author of "Elixir in Action"
Eric Johnson - Principal Developer Advocate - Serverless at AWS

DESCRIPTION
Join Eric Johnson, principal developer advocate at AWS Serverless, as he takes a deep dive into the BEAM languages Elixir & Erlang, along with the help of two experts in the field Saša Jurić, a well-known, independent Elixir mentor, and Ulf Wiger, first paying customer or Erlang and senior specialist in the architecture and design of carrier-class systems. They explore the relationship between the two languages and when they should be used, and they focus on specific use cases such as Erlang in blockchain or bringing the two languages into the serverless space.

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Saša Jurić • Elixir in Action • https://amzn.to/2RZh5eN
Joe Armstrong • Programming Erlang • https://amzn.to/3fzY53g
Dave Thomas • Programming Elixir ≥ 1.6: Functional • https://amzn.to/34Dw3O5
Cesarini & Vinoski • Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP • https://amzn.to/3uCB43V
Simon St. Laurent • Introducing Erlang • https://amzn.to/3pbIni6
Logan, Merritt & Carlsson • Erlang and OTP in Action • https://amzn.to/3pjZqP7
McCord, Tate & Valim • Programming Phoenix 1.4 • https://amzn.to/3zcUqj4

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Leveraging Our "Brains" in Software Development • Fahran Wallace, Benjamin Mitchell & Preben Thorø

Fri, 29 Oct 2021 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Berlin 2019 for GOTO Unscripted.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/software-development-brains

Fahran Wallace - Senior Consultant at OpenCredo
Benjamin Mitchell - Director of Engineering at Kevel
Preben Thorø - CTO of Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
Our brains empower us to run complicated software development programs, but can also be the thing that prevents us from achieving the best possible results due to several psychological biases. Fahran Wallace, senior consultant at OpenCredo, and Benjamin Mitchell, director of engineering at Kevel, discuss those psychological biases at work, how we can tackle them and how we can wire the brain to overcome them.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Fabio Pereira • Digital Nudge • https://amzn.to/3yhxJu9
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow • https://amzn.to/2XmJEtf
Thaler & Sunstein • Nudge • https://amzn.to/3CglrmX
Dan Ariely • Predictably Irrational • https://amzn.to/3lyDBd7
Robert B Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded • https://amzn.to/3tL8GxB
Cathy O'Neil • Weapons of Math Destruction • https://amzn.to/3EO8Bi7
Nir Eyal • Indistractable • https://amzn.to/3EE3Pn9
Eckhart Tolle • The Power of Now • https://amzn.to/39yjS7r
Linda Rising • Design Patterns in Communications Software • https://amzn.to/2XsxDCg
Linda Rising • The Pattern Almanac 2000 • https://amzn.to/3kfgIfi
Linda Rising • The Patterns Handbook • https://amzn.to/3lxDPAS
Linda Rising • Fearless Change • https://amzn.to/3AfvyrK
Linda Rising • More Fearless Change • https://amzn.to/2Z3bYBh

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Command-line, The Underestimated Tool • Bert Jan Schrijver & Preben Thorø

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:00:00 +0200

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https://gotopia.tech/articles/Command-line-the-underestimated-tool

Bert Jan Schrijver - CTO at OpenValue
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
While the command-line might seem like an antiquated means of work from outside it does have unexpected benefits. Bert Jan Schrijver, CTO at OpenValue, is using the command-line to make his work easier, more productive and even fun. Get a quick overview of where to start and what to use the command-line for.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
William Shotts • The Linux Command Line • https://amzn.to/3kpLbrl
Blum & Bresnahan • Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible • https://amzn.to/3kn4j9s

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Should Kotlin Be Your Go-To Language? • Garth Gilmour, Eamonn Boyle & Preben Thorø

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 11:00:00 +0200

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https://gotopia.tech/articles/should-kotlin-be-your-go-to-language

Eamonn Boyle - Software Trainer at Instil Software
Garth Gilmour - Head of Learning at Instil Software
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
In the ever-changing landscape of programming, Eammon Boyle and Garth Gilmour have chosen Kotlin as their default language. Preben Thorø explores the reasons behind that choice and how this language could make your life easier.

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Venkat Subramaniam • Programming Kotlin • https://amzn.to/2MIC8D1
Venkat Subramaniam• Functional Programming in Java • https://amzn.to/3bzFNNQ
Venkat Subramaniam • Pragmatic Scala • https://amzn.to/3oIEq35

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How Team Structure Influences Code Quality • Adam Tornhill, John Le Drew & Preben Thorø

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2019 for GOTO Unscripted.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/how-team-structure-influences-code-quality

Adam Tornhill - Founder and CTO at CodeScene and Author of "Your Code as a Crime Scene"
John Le Drew - Coach, Consultant, Experienced Engineer
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
Does team structure actually have an impact on the code quality? John Le Drew and Adam Tornhill discuss the correlations between factors such as team size, structures, diversity and healthy retrospectives on both code quality and effectiveness.

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Adam Tornhill • Your Code as a Crime Scene • https://amzn.to/3incnpB
Adam Tornhill • Software Design X-Rays • https://amzn.to/3gf8sIV

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How Microsoft is Leading the Way to Sustainable Software • Asim Hussain & Preben Thorø

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:00:00 +0200

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Find plenty more information here:
https://principles.green
https://aka.ms/sse/learn
https://greensoftware.foundation

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https://gotopia.tech/articles/microsoft-leading-the-way-to-sustainable-software

Asim Hussain - Green Cloud Advocacy Lead at Microsoft, Chairperson at Green Software Foundation and co-organiser at https://climateaction.tech
Preben Thorø - CTO of Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
Dive into the impact software has on CO2 emissions, the tools and initiatives that can lead to sustainable software, and some of the important progress made so far in this conversation with Preben Thorø, CTO of Trifork Switzerland, and Asim Hussain, Green Cloud Advocate at Microsoft.

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Quantum Computing in Practice • Murray Thom & Preben Thorø

Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:00:00 +0200

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Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/quantum-computing-in-practice

Murray Thom - VP of Product Management at D-Wave
Preben Thorø - CTO of Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
Is quantum computing just a theory, or is it actually applied in practice? Join Murray Thom in an interview with Preben Thorø to discover the real-life implementations of this technology. You’ll learn how you can leverage D-Wave’s platform as a developer, which is open to all researchers to help solve health problems, and learn how quantum computing has evolved from a theoretical discipline to an applied science that helps researchers and developers solve complex problems 3 million times faster, without consuming any energy.

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Jack D. Hidary • Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach • https://amzn.to/3kdJ3CK
Sarah C. Kaiser & Christopher Grenade • Learn Quantum Computing with Python and Q# • https://amzn.to/3CgL6f8
Venkateswaran Kasirajan • Fundamentals of Quantum Computing • https://amzn.to/3nzk7aL
Brian Clegg • Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution • https://amzn.to/3AcdmiI

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From Objective-C to Swift and the Latest Innovations at Apple • Daniel H Steinberg & Jørn Larsen

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2019 for GOTO Unscripted.
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https://gotopia.tech/articles/From-Objective-C-to-Swift-and-the-Latest-Innovations-at-Apple

Daniel H Steinberg - Editor, Writer, Coder and Podcaster at Dim Sum Thinking; Author of the best selling book "A Swift Kickstart"
Jørn Larsen - CEO of Trifork

DESCRIPTION
Daniel H Steinberg, a leading pioneer of Swift, iOS, and Java, shares his story and views on the early transition from Objective-C to Swift and the impact the latter had on the entire Apple ecosystem. Daniel also discusses recent highlights like SwiftUI and Combine while casting a light on how innovation is encouraged at Apple and where and what developments will lead us to in upcoming years.

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Daniel H Steinberg • Kickstart Series • https://editorscut.com/Books
Daniel H Steinberg • Cocoa Programming • https://amzn.to/3h0XSXD

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Adoption and Future Perspectives for the Cloud • Lynn Langit, Gojko Adzic & Preben Thorø

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Berlin 2019 for GOTO Unscripted.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/adoption-and-future-perspective-cloud

Lynn Langit - Cloud Architect at Lynn Langit Consulting
Gojko Adzic - Partner at Neuri Consulting
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
Join Gojko Adzic, award-winning author and software delivery consultant, and Lynn Langit, cloud architect building serverless bioinformatics cloud data pipelines, to discuss the cloud ecosystem, exploring common and actual use cases and why there are different cloud adoption patterns in different regions across the globe as well as in different industries. They also touch upon what are the next cloud adopters, banks, state institutions, and where the cloud industry heading.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Lynn Langit • Foundations of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence • https://amzn.to/3hFqXXL
Lynn Langit • Foundations of SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence • https://amzn.to/3dQ2Bte
Gojko Adzic • Impact Mapping • https://amzn.to/3dQFCOq
Adzic, Evans & Roden • Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Tests • https://amzn.to/3yuDaoL
Adzic, Evans & Korac • Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories • https://amzn.to/3jQ4QjP
Adzic & Korac • Humans vs Computers • https://amzn.to/2Utz55A
Gojko Adzic • Specification by Example • https://amzn.to/3hHrEjb
Adzic, Marcetic & Bisset • Bridging the Communication Gap • https://amzn.to/3wrjmRQ
Adzic & Korac • Running Serverless • https://amzn.to/3ytdF7o

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The Jamstack Book • Brian Rinaldi & Raymond Camden

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Brian Rinaldi - Co-Author of "The Jamstack Book" & Developer Advocate at StepZen
Raymond Camden - Co-Author of "The Jamstack Book" & Developer Evangelist for Adobe

DESCRIPTION
Ready to go beyond static sites and leverage Javascript, APIs and markup? In this episode, Brian Rinaldi and Raymond Camden, authors of "The Jamstack Book," explore the past and future of this new standard architecture for the web. They provide you with a list of their favorite tools and cover how their book can help you build your first Jamstack website, including advice on the correct framework from deployment to production.
The interview is based on Brian's and Ray's book "The Jamstack Book": https://bit.ly/3gtSYCg

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/guide-for-building-a-jamstack-website

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Rinaldi & Camden • The Jamstack Book • https://bit.ly/3gtSYCg
Kirill Konshin • Next.js Quick Start Guide • https://amzn.to/3gPkU3k

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How Technology Influences Our Decisions • Chris Atherton, Fabio Pereira & Preben Thorø

Fri, 27 Aug 2021 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2019 for GOTO Unscripted.
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Read the full transcription of this interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/articles/how-technology-influences-our-decisions

Chris Atherton - Designer & Former Neuroscientist
Fabio Pereira - Head of Open Innovation Labs at Red Hat & Author of "Digital Nudge"
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
Technology is deeply embedded in our daily lives and can influence our behavior in surprising ways. Join Fabio Pereira and Chris Atherton’s discussion about both the short-term and long-term effects of technology on our lives, along with what a constructive approach to UX design looks like and how that might lead to a healthier relationship with technology.

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RECOMMENDED BOOK
Fabio Pereira • Digital Nudge • https://amzn.to/3yhxJu9

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Continuous Architecture in Practice • Eoin Woods & Simon Brown

Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:00:00 +0200

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Eoin Woods - Co-Author of "Continuous Architecture in Practice" - @eoinwoodz
Simon Brown - Author of "Software Architecture for Developers" - @simonbrown

DESCRIPTION
If you are aiming to achieve the really challenging Internet-style quality attributes about speed and performance and scale you will need a really good architecture. This implies keeping things in sync and having a pragmatic approach. Rather than going after the hyperscalers you can build your own way.
Learn from Eoin Woods and Simon Brown how UML and evolutionary architecture can help you achieve that.
The interview is based on Eoin's book "Continuous Architecture in Practice": https://amzn.to/2QWAmkl

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/is-software-architecture-still-important

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Woods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice • https://amzn.to/2QWAmkl
Woods & Rozanski • Software Systems Architecture • https://amzn.to/3fVASr7
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2 • https://leanpub.com/visualising-software-architecture
George Fairbanks • Just Enough Software Architecture • https://amzn.to/3uZzVo0
Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture 1st Edition • https://amzn.to/3u17EMs

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What Do You Wish You Had Known When You Started as a Developer? • Various Speakers

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Aino Vonge Corry - Author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns"
Allen Holub - Author of "Holub on Patterns" & "Taming Java Threads"
Bernd Rücker - Author of "Practical Process Automation"
Mary Poppendieck - Author of "The Lean Mindset"
Mike Amundsen - Author of "Design and Build Great Web APIs"
Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) - Author of "Clean Code" & "The Clean Coder", Co-author of the Agile Manifesto

DESCRIPTION
Sharing from our experiences is one of the most important ways in which we can help software developers and engineers that are just starting out. We asked some of the well-known and respected names in the industry what are some of the things they wish someone had told them when they were starting out. Dive into this GOTO Unscripted episode to discover the stories of Mary Poppendieck, Mike Amundsen, Allen Holub, Bernd Rücker, Aino Vonge Corry and Uncle Bob Martin.

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https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/you-wish-you-had-known-when-you-started-as-a-developer

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Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospectives Antipatterns • https://amzn.to/3naFk84
Bernd Rücker • Practical Process Automation • https://amzn.to/3cs3BSH
Mike Amundsen • Design and Build Great Web APIs • https://bookshop.org/a/9452/9781680506808
Uncle Bob • Clean Code • https://amzn.to/3soPO6k
Uncle Bob • Clean Coder • https://amzn.to/3dhEPWX
Uncle Bob • Clean Architecture • https://amzn.to/3x0gjBQ
Uncle Bob • Clean Agile • https://amzn.to/3fEqTrO
Allen Holub • Holub on Patterns • https://amzn.to/3g8Is3u
Allen Holub • Taming Java Threads • https://amzn.to/3mLNYdI
Mary & Tom Poppendieck • The Lean Mindset • https://amzn.to/3hqeczX
Mary & Tom Poppendieck • Implementing Lean Software Development • https://amzn.to/3hm6Xuf
Mary & Tom Poppendieck • Leading Lean Software Development • https://amzn.to/2STLX4v
Mary & Tom Poppendieck • Lean Software Development • https://amzn.to/3hkZifI

Getting Started with Chaos Engineering • Nora Jones, Casey Rosenthal & James Wickett

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Nora Jones - Co-Author of "Chaos Engineering"
Casey Rosenthal - Co-Author of "Chaos Engineering"
James Wickett - Founder of Open Source Project Gauntlt

DESCRIPTION
Today we have the authors of the Chaos Engineering book sharing key takeaways from the book and from their experience working on chaos projects. This Book Club episode is an expansion of a recent interview between Nora Jones and Casey Rosenthal on the comedic Chaos Community Broadcast [https://chaos.community]. We now include expanded conversation, including discussion about Nora's work with the Learning from Incidents community.

Chaos engineering is much more than just hype. Get the map and compass that you need to navigate the stormy waters of distributed systems while optimizing to meet business goals. Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones, authors of “Chaos Engineering,” highlight some of the best practices that famous companies like Netflix and Capital One use to break (or not break) their systems in productions, so that you can get a taste of it.
The interview is based on Nora Jones's and Casey Rosenthal's new book "Chaos Engineering": https://www.verica.io/book

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/getting-started-with-chaos-engineering

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Aaron Rinehart • Security Chaos Engineering • https://www.verica.io/sce-book
Nora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering • https://www.verica.io/book
Nora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/3hUmuAH
Mikolaj Pawlikowski • Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/2SQ5Olf
Russ Miles • Learning Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/3hCiUe8
Murphy, Beyer, Jones & Petoff • Site Reliability Engineering • https://amzn.to/2Vg6Mbr

Is Cloud Native & Kubernetes the Same Nowadays? • Lars Jensen, Frederik Mogensen, Lasse Højgaard & Kasper Nissen

Fri, 09 Jul 2021 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Podcast.
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Lars Jensen - Lead Developer at GOTO
Frederik Mogensen - Software Pilot at Trifork
Lasse Højgaard - Software Pilot at Trifork
Kasper Nissen - Lead Platform Architect at Lunar

DESCRIPTION
In this GOTO Podcast you'll discover the cloud native and Kubernetes ecosystem.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Brendan Burns, Joe Beda & Kelsey Hightower • Kubernetes: Up and Running • https://amzn.to/3wrtwlp
John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3hKZvI5
Kasun Indrasiri & Sriskandarajah Suhothayan • Design Patterns for Cloud Native Applications • https://amzn.to/3yCFxWE
Michael Hausenblas & Stefan Schimanski • Programming Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3qTvKch
Alexander Raul • Cloud Native with Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3yw9ckc
Nigel Poulton • The Kubernetes Book • https://amzn.to/3dW8ViU
Marko Luksa • Kubernetes in Action • https://amzn.to/3dXk2Im

97 Things Every [Java] Programmer Should Know • Trisha Gee & Kevlin Henney

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 11:00:00 +0200

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Trisha Gee - Co-Author of "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know"
Kevlin Henney - Co-Author of "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know"

DESCRIPTION
Discover the voices behind the “97 Things Every Java Developer Should Know” in this GOTO Book Club episode with Trisha Gee, Java Champion and leader of the Java Developer Advocacy team at JetBrains, and Kevlin Henley, thought provoker at Curbralan. They highlight how to make the most out of the book, and why it’s not intended as an exhaustive list or only targeted at Java developers.
The interview is based on Trisha's and Kevlin's book "97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know":
https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ

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https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/97-things-every-programmer-should-know

RECOMMENDED BOOK
Kevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJ

Continuous Delivery, Microservices & Serverless in 10min • Nicki Watt, Ken Mugrage & Preben Thorø

Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2019 for GOTO Unscripted.
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https://gotopia.tech/articles/continuous-delivery-microservices-serverless-10-minutes

Nicki Watt - CTO/CEO at OpenCredo
Ken Mugrage - Principal Technologist - Office of the CTO at ThoughtWorks
Preben Thorø - CTO at Trifork Switzerland

DESCRIPTION
Continuous delivery has been around for more than 15 years, but it’s only gained wider adoption in recent years. In this Unscripted interview, Nicki Watt and Ken Mugrage chat with Preben Thorø about the evolution of CD and how it ties in with recent developments in the software architecture space. Find out when you should use CD along with its connection to microservices, serverless, machine learning and graph theory.

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Nicki Watt & Aleksa Vukotic • Neo4j in Action • https://amzn.to/3oPmq8o
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E
Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running• https://amzn.to/3c4HmmL
Ronnie Mitra, Irakli Nadareishvili, Matt McLarty & Mike Amundsen • Microservice Architecture • https://amzn.to/3fVNAb0
Ronnie Mitra, Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde & Mike Amundsen • Continuous API Management • https://amzn.to/3uxdypw
Jim Webber • Graph Databases • https://amzn.to/3l7k8hj

Machine Ethics, Artificial Intelligence & Humanity • Nell Watson, Priyanka Vergadia & Jørn Larsen

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2019 for GOTO Unscripted.
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https://gotopia.tech/articles/machine-ethics-artificial-intelligence

Nell Watson - Co-Founder of QuantaCorp, Engineer, Entrepreneur & Tech Philosopher
Priyanka Vergadia - Developer Advocate at Google
Jørn Larsen - CEO of Trifork

Retrospectives Antipatterns • Aino Vonge Corry & John Le Drew

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 11:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
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Aino Vonge Corry - Author of "Retrospectives Antipatterns"
John Le Drew - Agile Coach

DESCRIPTION
Running retrospectives can be intimidating, especially if you’re just getting started. However, their importance in shaping teams cannot be contested. To ensure that you run successful retrospectives it is essential to understand what common pitfalls or anti-patterns appear while running them. Moreover, in the second episode, based on the book "Retrospectives Antipatterns," Aino Vonge Corry and John Le Drew highlight the role of the facilitator as a team psychologist and what future retrospectives can do for you.
The interview is based on Aino's book "Retrospectives Antipatterns": https://amzn.to/3naFk84

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/how-to-avoid-failure-agile-retrospective
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/retrospective-antipatterns-aino-corry

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Aino Vonge Corry • Retrospectives Antipatterns • https://amzn.to/3naFk84

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How to Get Started With Process Automation • Bernd Rücker & Richard Seroter

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:00:00 +0200

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Bernd Rücker - Author of "Practical Process Automation"
Richard Seroter - Director of Outbound Product Management at Google Cloud

DESCRIPTION
Join Bernd Rücker, author of Practical Process Automation and co-founder at Camunda, and Richard Seroter, director of product management at Google Cloud, for a discussion about process automation. They’ll delve into best practices and anti-patterns after exploring the reasons you should consider doing process automation and how it can help your company.
The interview is based on Bernd's book "Practical Process Automation": https://amzn.to/3cs3BSH

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/process-automation-how-to-get-started
Read Bernd Rücker's blog post about the book here:
https://blog.bernd-ruecker.com/publishing-practical-process-automation-with-oreilly-db993db68411

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Bernd Rücker • Practical Process Automation • https://amzn.to/3cs3BSH

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Programming Kotlin: Why, How & Its Future • Venkat Subramaniam & Hadi Hariri

Fri, 28 May 2021 11:00:00 +0200

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Venkat Subramaniam - Author of "Programming Kotlin"
Hadi Hariri - VP of Developer Advocacy at JetBrains

DESCRIPTION
“Developers don’t just like Kotlin, they LOVE it.”
Understand why in this discussion with Venkat Subramaniam, author of “Programming Kotlin: Create Elegant, Expressive, and Performant JVM and Android Applications 1st Edition” and Hadi Hariri, VP of developer advocacy at JetBrains. They give you reasons to learn more about Kotlin, whether you like dynamic or functional languages, and why you should always be learning something new.
The interview is based on Venkat's book "Programming Kotlin": https://amzn.to/2MIC8D1

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/programming-with-kotlin

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Venkat Subramaniam • Programming Kotlin • https://amzn.to/2MIC8D1
Venkat Subramaniam• Functional Programming in Java • https://amzn.to/3bzFNNQ
Venkat Subramaniam • Pragmatic Scala • https://amzn.to/3oIEq35
Venkat Subramaniam • Test-Driving JavaScript Applications • https://amzn.to/3i9CbmW

Unlock the Secrets of Great, Lasting APIs • Mike Amundsen & Casey Rosenthal

Fri, 21 May 2021 11:00:00 +0200

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Mike Amundsen - Author of "Design and Build Great Web APIs"
Casey Rosenthal - Author of "Chaos Engineering"

DESCRIPTION
Have you been tasked with creating web APIs for your organization?
Mike Amundsen, author of the book "Design and Build Great Web APIs", goes through some of the secrets of building great APIs and what the best process and tools are for doing that with Casey Rosenthal.
The interview is based on Mike Amundsen's new book "Design and Build Great Web APIs": https://bookshop.org/a/9452/9781680506808

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/how-to-build-solid-and-great-apis

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Mike Amundsen • Design and Build Great Web APIs • https://bookshop.org/a/9452/9781680506808
Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering • https://www.verica.io/book

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Getting Started with Service Mesh • Hanna Prinz & Eberhard Wolff

Fri, 14 May 2021 11:00:00 +0200

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Hanna Prinz - Co-Author of "Service Mesh"
Eberhard Wolff - Co-Author of "Service Mesh"

DESCRIPTION
Hanna Prinz, a consultant at InnoQ, and Eberhard Wolff, fellow at InnoQ, explain what a service mesh is and, more importantly, when and if you should use it. They also delve into the main features and reasons for deciding to use one. Hanna and Eberhard are the authors of Service Mesh Primer.
The interview is based on Hanna's and Eberhard's free book "Service Mesh":
https://leanpub.com/service-mesh-primer

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/getting-started-with-service-mesh

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Eberhard Wolff & Hanna Prinz • Service Mesh • https://leanpub.com/service-mesh-primer
Eberhard Wolff • Microservices Book • https://microservices-book.com
Eberhard Wolff • Microservices - A Practical Guide • https://practical-microservices.com
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E

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Anniversary Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer • Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt

Fri, 07 May 2021 11:00:00 +0200

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Dave Thomas - Co-Author of "The Pragmatic Programmer"
Andy Hunt - Co-Author of "The Pragmatic Programmer"

DESCRIPTION
Join the authors of “The Pragmatic Programmer” throughout their journey of writing the book to the 20th anniversary edition. Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt share how the book has evolved and what has remained unchanged in the past two decades. They touch upon the best way to learn something new by teaching it and the responsibility of developers towards the software they produce.

The interview is based on Andy's and Dave's new book "The Pragmatic Programmer": https://bookshop.org/a/9452/9780135957059

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/pragmatic-programmer-in-2020

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt • The Pragmatic Programmer • https://bookshop.org/a/9452/9780135957059

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Discover the Power of Graph Databases • Jim Webber & Nicki Watt

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 11:00:00 +0200

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Jim Webber - Co-Author of "Graph Databases"
Nicki Watt - CTO of OpenCredo

DESCRIPTION
Discover the amazing world of graph databases and how you can leverage graphs to understand your data with Jim Webber, co-author of "Graph Database" and Nicki Watt, CTO at OpenCredo. They'll take you on a journey that starts with the definition of graphs, walks you through case studies and highlights pitfalls.
The interview is based on Jim's book "Graph Databases": https://amzn.to/3l7k8hj

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/discover-graph-databases

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Jim Webber • Graph Databases • https://amzn.to/3l7k8hj
Free eBook version at https://graphdatabases.com

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Elixir in Action • Saša Jurić & Erik Schön

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:00:00 +0200

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Saša Jurić - Author of "Elixir in Action"
Erik Schön - Author of "The Art of Strategy"

DESCRIPTION
Is Elixir the right tool for your job? Find the answer to that question from Saša Jurić, the author of "Elixir in Action". In this conversation, interviewer Erik Schön, managing director at Erlang Solutions Nordics and interviewee Saša explore key benefits and practices in using Elixir, a functional language with over 20k commits on GitHub.
The interview is based on Saša Jurić's new book "Elixir in Action": https://amzn.to/2RZh5eN

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/how-to-start-with-the-elixir-programming-language

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Saša Jurić • Elixir in Action • https://amzn.to/2RZh5eN
Erik Schön • The Art Of Strategy • https://amzn.to/2UPzXPa

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How to Leverage Reinforcement Learning • Phil Winder & Rebecca Nugent

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:00:00 +0200

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Phil Winder - Author of "Reinforcement Learning" & CEO of Winder Research
Rebecca Nugent - Stephen E. and Joyce Fienberg Professor of Statistics & Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University

DESCRIPTION
Reinforcement learning (RL) focuses on sequential decision making and it is significantly different from machine learning. The recommendations based on RL algorithms could help you attain your business goals faster while also increasing engagement.
Join Phil Winder, Author of "Reinforcement Learning" and CEO of Winder Research, while he is talking with Rebecca Nugent, Fienberg Professor of Statistics & Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University, about key concepts from reinforcement learning and reveals the industry applications while also focusing on why some of the fundamentals like “ problem definition”, “how to get started with RL” and the switch in risk-taking from the management level to the engineering department while software is shaping the heart of the business.
The interview is based on Phil's book "Reinforcement Learning": https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/how-to-leverage-reinforcement-learning

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Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ

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Tips & Tricks to Manage Stress as a Developer • John Le Drew, Markus Wittwer & Jørn Larsen

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 14:00:00 +0200

This interview was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2019 for GOTO Unscripted.
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https://gotopia.tech/articles/manage-stress-as-a-developer

John Le Drew - Coach, Consultant, Experienced Engineer
Markus Wittwer - Agile Coach & Mindfulness Trainer
Jørn Larsen - CEO of Trifork

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The Future of Java: Will You Have to Pay For It? • Trisha Gee, Daniel Bryant & Jørn Larsen

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 14:00:00 +0200

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Trisha Gee - Developer Advocate at JetBrains & Java Champion
Daniel Bryant - Director of Developer Relations at Ambassador Labs
Jørn Larsen - CEO of Trifork

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https://gotopia.tech/articles/the-future-of-java-will-you-have-to-pay

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Container Security • Liz Rice & Eoin Woods

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:00:00 +0100

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Liz Rice - Author of "Container Security"
Eoin Woods - CTO of Endava

DESCRIPTION
What should you do to secure your containers?
Liz Rice, author of the book Container Security: Fundamental Technology Concepts that Protect Containerized Applications & VP of open source engineering at Aqua Security, and Eoin Woods, CTO at Endava, explore what containers are, what are the implications of a shared kernel and how to assess potential security risks that could affect your deployments. Learn best practices and understand how containers work in this Book Club interview.
The interview is based on Liz's book "Container Security": https://amzn.to/3oU4iJe

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/secure-your-containers-liz-rice

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Liz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJe
Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-security/9781492039075

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The Secrets of Advanced OAuth 2.0 • Aaron Parecki & Eric Johnson

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:00:00 +0100

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Aaron Parecki - Author of "OAuth 2.0 Simplified"
Eric Johnson - Senior Developer Advocate at AWS Serverless

DESCRIPTION
The OAuth 2.0 authorization framework has become the industry standard in providing secure access to web APIs. It allows users to grant external applications access to their data, such as profile data, photos, and email, without compromising security. OAuth 2.0 Simplified is a guide to building an OAuth 2.0 server. Through high-level overviews, step-by-step instructions, and real-world examples, you will learn how to take advantage of the OAuth 2.0 framework while building a secure API.
The interview is based on Aaron Parecki's new book "OAuth 2.0 Simplified": https://amzn.to/2A3IMOf

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/the-secrets-of-oauth-2

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Aaron Parecki • OAuth 2.0 Simplified • https://amzn.to/2A3IMOf

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When To Use Microservices (And When Not!) • Sam Newman & Martin Fowler

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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Sam Newman - Author of "Monolith to Microservices"
Martin Fowler - Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks

DESCRIPTION
Upgrade your microservices knowledge by listening to a spirited conversation between two living legends: Sam Newman and Martin Fowler. The two touch upon the main reasons for using or not using microservices, and, if you decide to do use microservices, what else you should change along the way to fully benefit from the switch, plus much more.
The interview is based on Sam Newman's new book "Monolith to Microservices": https://amzn.to/2Nml96E

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/moving-to-microservices-with-sam-newman-and-martin-fowler

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E
Sam Newman • Building Microservices • https://amzn.to/3dMPbOs
Martin Fowler • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3EVcHXQ
Martin Fowler & Pramod Sadalage • NoSQL Distilled • https://amzn.to/3ChIpu7
Martin Fowler • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture • https://amzn.to/3lp4sIq
Martin Fowler • Domain-Specific Languages • https://amzn.to/3nzOIFk
Martin Fowler • UML Distilled • https://amzn.to/3kahjyA

Elm in Action • Richard Feldman & Thomas Anagrius

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:00:00 +0100

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Richard Feldman - Author of "Elm in Action"
Thomas Anagrius - Lead Developer at Humio

DESCRIPTION
Elm is a purely functional language that compiles to JavaScript in less than 4 seconds. We sat down with Richard Feldman, author of the book Elm in Action to understand how learning to code in Elm can help software developers whether they work with it on a daily basis or not.
The interview is based on Richard Feldman's new book "Elm in Action": https://www.manning.com/books/elm-in-action?a_aid=trifork&a_bid=a11d59e7

Read the full transcription of the interview here:
https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/upgrade-your-frontend-game-be-an-elm-wizard

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Richard Feldman • Elm in Action • https://amzn.to/387kujI
Jeremy Fairbank • Programming Elm • https://amzn.to/2WhZCE8
Wolfgang Loder • Web Applications with Elm • https://amzn.to/3jblQ3q
Cristian Salcescu • Functional Programming in JavaScript • https://amzn.to/3y75jBS

Software Architecture for Developers • Simon Brown & Stefan Tilkov

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0100

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Simon Brown - Author of "Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2"
Stefan Tilkov - Co-founder & Principal Consultant at INNOQ

DESCRIPTION
Software architecture concepts will help software developers not only advance their careers but also do a better job in their current work. Simon Brown, the creator of the C4Model talks to Stefan Tilkov about why software architecture is something that every developer should understand, how the C4 Model can help with that and why diagrams are so useful in software development.
The interview is based on Simon's book "Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2": https://leanpub.com/visualising-software-architecture

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https://gotopia.tech/bookclub/episodes/software-architecture-for-developers-c4-model

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2 • https://leanpub.com/visualising-software-architecture
Mark Richards & Neal Ford • Fundamentals of Software Architecture • https://amzn.to/3qmELt7
Gregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator • https://amzn.to/3tY8evH
Michael Keeling • Design It! • https://amzn.to/37y4OGH
George Fairbanks • Just Enough Software Architecture • https://amzn.to/3bbjqg3
Nick Rozanski & Eoin Woods • Software Systems Architecture • https://amzn.to/3ajYjsv
Peter Coad, Eric Lefebvre & Jeff de Luca • Java Modeling In Color With UML • https://amzn.to/3bVDTHd
Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design • https://amzn.to/3tnGhwm
Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh & Ivar Jacobson • The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual • https://amzn.to/2OA1Qv1