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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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.
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.
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Mar 4, 2026 • 52min
AI Autonomy Is Redefining Architecture: Boundaries Now Matter Most
Jesper Logren, an enterprise architect leading generative AI work at DXC and author of Design or Be Designed, discusses why autonomy changes architecture. He explains how autonomous systems drift, why retrofitting AI fails, and why defining strict boundaries, joined design and governance, and clear agent guardrails are now essential.
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Mar 2, 2026 • 40min
Frictionless DevEx with Nicole Forsgren
Nicole Forsgren, researcher and author on DevOps and developer productivity, discusses identifying and removing developer friction. She covers why friction exposes brittle processes, how to measure developer experience beyond crude proxies, treating agents as actors in workflows, AI risks and communication needs, and practical ways to get organizational buy-in for DevEx improvements.
61 snips
Feb 23, 2026 • 55min
Software Evolution with Microservices and LLMs: A Conversation with Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson, software architect and microservices pioneer who created microservices.io and wrote Microservices Patterns. He discusses evolving monoliths into microservices for faster delivery. He covers breaking apart code and data, data ownership and consistency trade-offs. He also explores using generative AI to understand codebases and the limits of LLMs for architectural decisions.
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Feb 16, 2026 • 35min
Building Resilient Event-Driven Microservices in Financial Systems with Muzeeb Mohammad
Muzeeb Mohammad, senior manager of software engineering at JPMorgan Chase who builds secure, resilient event-driven microservices for finance. He discusses motivations for event-driven architecture, decoupling account flows with Kafka, async processing to meet SLAs, observability and tracing, bridging mainframes to event streams, event sourcing as a system-of-record, security and compliance, and AI for observability.
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Feb 11, 2026 • 51min
The Craft of Software Architecture in the Age of AI Tools
Grady Booch, IBM Fellow and co-creator of UML, reflects on decades of software engineering work. He discusses the history and three golden ages of software, how AI tools fit into platform-era abstraction, and why human judgment, responsibility, and review practices remain essential as machines begin writing code alongside people.
