Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBuilding a culture of innovation
Thoughtworks regularly emphasises the importance of culture in building and maintaining high-quality software when working with clients. So, for episode 100 of the Thoughtworks Technology Podcast, we…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago
Starting out with sensible default practices
The idea of best practices is becoming an anachronism — given today's complex technology landscape, the notion that there can be a single best way of doing anything seems fanciful. Our crew explore t…
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Better testing through mutations
Mutation testing has long been a proven method for driving software quality in a way unit testing can't. But it can be a long, expensive and computationally intensive process. Our podcasters explore …
Published on 3 years, 5 months ago
Patterns of legacy displacement — Part two
In the second part of our exploration of legacy displacement, we look at the practicalities of making upgrades work, from strategies for decomposing huge monoliths into manageable chunks as well as t…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Patterns of legacy displacement — Part one
Updating legacy systems has been a common feature of enterprise IT. But — strangler-fig pattern aside — there's little written about how to do it effectively. We explore the ideas of legacy replaceme…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Mitigating cognitive bias when coding
We're all subject to cognitive biases. And whether we're aware of them or not, they can have a profound impact on the code we write — especially when working in an agile environment, where we have to…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Following an usual career path: from dev to CEO
From extreme programming to pairing with Ward Cunningham and the earliest days of .Net to building communities in a remote-first world, Thoughtworks' CEO Guo Xiao has seen huge changes in the tech in…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Software engineering with Dave Farley
We catch up with Dave Farley to hear about the genesis of his blockbuster book, Continuous Delivery — which he authored with Jez Humble — as well as his latest tome, Modern Software Engineering. He s…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Tackling bottlenecks at scale-ups
There are a handful of common problems organizations encounter on their journey as a scale-up, where some of the practices that enabled them to flourish as a start-up produce a level of technical deb…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Coding lessons from the pandemic
From pair programming to the daily standup, the global pandemic challenged how we think about the practices and rituals that were a daily part of developers' lives. Our podcasters explore what change…
Published on 3 years, 9 months ago