Podcasts

Decentralizing Decision-Making with Shawna Martell & Dan Fike

In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Shawna Martell and Dan Fike about the Navigators program at Carta and how they are finding ways to decentralize decisions and empower individual contributors. The quality of technical decisions is improved, and decisions are reached more quickly because the people involved are close to the relevant context.

Architecture Modernization with Nick Tune

In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Nick Tune, co-author of the book Architecture Modernization - Socio-Technical Alignment of Software, Strategy, and Structure. The discussion includes how to know if it makes sense to invest in an architecture modernization journey, how to get started, what benefits you can expect to achieve, and how to measure the improvements.

Deepthi Sigireddi on Distributed Database Architecture in the Cloud Native Era

In this podcast, Vitess CNCF project technical lead Deepthi Sigireddi discusses the architecture of cloud native distributed databases, sharding, replication, and failover. She also talks about what DB developers should consider when choosing distributed databases.

Object-Oriented UX (OOUX) with Sophia Prater

In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Sophia Prater about Object-Oriented UX (OOUX). OOUX focuses on identifying the objects and relationships within a system, allowing for better communication and collaboration among designers, product owners, engineers, and architects. Prater explains the process of OOUX, which involves multiple rounds of discovery, requirements, prioritization, and revision.

Security Requires Traveling the Unhappy Path - a Conversation with Robert Hurlbut

In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Robert Hurlbut about what it means to make an application, not just the code, secure. Robert is a principal application security architect and threat modeling lead at Aquia, a PhD student at Cap TechU and co-host of the Application Security Podcast.