The InfoQ Podcast
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Software engineers, architects and team leads have found inspiration to drive change and innovation in their team by listening to the weekly InfoQ Podcast. They have received essential information that helped them validate their software development map. We have achieved that by interviewing some of the top CTOs, engineers and technology directors from companies like Uber, Netflix and more. Over 1,200,000 downloads in the last 3 years.
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May 11, 2026 • 37min
From Java EE to Quarkus and LLMs: Adam Bien’s Playbook for Boring, Future‑Proof Systems
Adam Bien, independent Java consultant known for minimal dependencies and BCE patterns. He discusses choosing Quarkus for fast startup and cloud cost savings. He explains how BCE and standards make systems long-lived and LLMs better at code generation. He also covers modularizing monoliths, local inference options, and practical observability tips.
May 4, 2026 • 21min
Roq: Leveraging Quarkus to Build Static Sites at the Speed of Go
Andy Damevin, a full-stack developer and long-time Quarkus contributor who built Roq, a Quarkus-powered static site generator. He explains why Java and Quarkus were chosen and how Roq leverages Quarkus internals for fast builds. Discussion covers architecture differences between build and runtime, migrating content into Roq, templating and bundling, dev UX, and plans for writer-friendly tooling and AI features.
Apr 27, 2026 • 41min
A Java Performance Quest: Taming Unsafe Code, Embracing Idiomatic Style & Debugging the Linux Kernel
Jaromir Hamala, a generalist engineer behind QuestDB with deep JVM and low-level debugging experience. He talks about high-throughput time-series design, balancing Unsafe with modern Java APIs like Vector/Valhalla, native JIT and bytecode approaches for speed. He also recounts tracking down a Linux kernel deadlock and clever CPU-level tricks for extreme performance.
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Apr 20, 2026 • 57min
Engineering Stable, Secure and Scalable Platforms: A Conversation with Matthew Liste
Matthew Liste, who oversees American Express’s data center, resiliency and multi-cloud strategies with 30+ years in infrastructure engineering. He talks about building stable, secure, and scalable platform foundations. Conversations cover using customer journeys to find risk, managing resource tradeoffs, chaos testing for edge-of-failure scenarios, and how AI changes apprenticeship and observability.
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Apr 13, 2026 • 38min
How SBOMs and Engineering Discipline Can Help You Avoid Trivy’s Compromise
Viktor Pettersson, co-founder of sbomify and CISA SBOM contributor, helps teams navigate SBOMs, CRA compliance, and supply chain safety. He discusses why SBOMs are operational tools not just paperwork. He covers CI generation and signing, TEA for vendor-neutral discovery, ecosystem-specific tooling, and lessons from the Trivy compromise.
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Apr 6, 2026 • 31min
Context Engineering with Adi Polak
Adi Polak, Director at Confluent and author focused on streaming systems and ML engineering. He discusses context engineering as a stateful alternative to prompt-only approaches. Topics include turning prompts into reusable skills, building agentic workflows with long-term memory, using event streams like Kafka and Flink to enrich model context, and practical tips for experimenting with AI-enabled developer tooling.
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Mar 31, 2026 • 52min
Failure As a Means to Build Resilient Software Systems: A Conversation with Lorin Hochstein
Lorin Hochstein, a staff software engineer who built chaos tools at Netflix and Airbnb, shares stories from real incidents and resilience work. He talks about the limits of fault injection tools. He discusses how reliability fixes can create new complexity. He explores resilience versus robustness, storytelling for post-mortems, and how organizations shape system behavior.
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Mar 25, 2026 • 55min
Agentic Systems Without Chaos: Early Operating Models for Autonomous Agents
Joseph Stein, an experienced software architect who builds centralized AI platforms, discusses running autonomous agents without chaos. He outlines how agentic systems differ from traditional automation. Short takes cover boundaries and orchestration, new security risks like prompt injection, observability and explainability needs, platform design, cost tradeoffs, and the surprises that come with rapid adoption.
Mar 16, 2026 • 32min
Andres Almiray on How to Release Any Software to Any OS with JReleaser
Andres Almiray, creator of JReleaser and longtime open-source maintainer, guides releases across ecosystems beyond Java. He discusses JReleaser’s roadmap, rebranding to be language-agnostic, stability-focused 2.0 work, multi-platform distribution choices, modular refactoring, signing/announcer improvements, and the Common House Foundation’s role supporting open-source projects.
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Mar 9, 2026 • 38min
Mindful Leadership in the Age of AI
Sam McAfee, Silicon Valley leader, author, and founder of Humanize, helps teams scale and design healthier orgs. He talks about AI reshaping behavior, why big companies struggle with experimentation, the pains of unclear decision structures, and how mindful leadership and psychological safety change engineering culture.
