Podcast Episodes

MCP and SRE: Why the future of IT operations is agent-driven

What if your AI agents could think more like IT operations staff — and less like tools?

In this episode, we catch up with Zichuan Xiong, to explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — a powerful new w…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Unpacking Google I/O 2025

Google I/O 2025 took place in May. It's always a great opportunity to find out how Google is trying to shape the industry agenda, but this year the predominance of Gemini meant the event was a chance…

Published on 5 months ago

Accelerating mainframe modernization using generative AI

Mainframe modernization is hard: there's a huge amount of complexity that needs to be understood before it can be effectively addressed. Generative AI, however, can be a particularly powerful tool fo…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Exploring the fundamentals of software engineering

You might think you know software engineering, but what are the really fundamental elements? What are the concepts, ideas and practices that are completely essential? What makes software engineering …

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Themes in Technology Radar Vol.32

Thoughtworks Technology Radar Vol.32 was published at the start of April 2025. Featuring 105 blips, it offered a timely snapshot of what's interesting and important in the industry. Through the proce…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

We need to talk about vibe coding

The term 'vibe coding' — which first appeared in a post on X by Andrej Karpathy in early February 2025 — has set the software development world abuzz: everyone seems to have their own take on what it…

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

Infrastructure as code in 2025

Nearly ten years after the first edition of Infrastructure as Code was published by O'Reilly, Kief Morris is publishing a third edition of the book. But why a new edition now? What's changed in techn…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

How fitness functions can help us govern and measure AI

AI is inherently dynamic: that's true in terms of the field itself, and at a much lower level too — models are trained on new data and algorithms adapt and change to new circumstances and information…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Architecture as code

How can we better define and clarify architectures to ensure consistency and control? If, as Neal Ford and Mark Richards discussed on a recent episode of the Technology Podcast, software architectur…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Decoding DeepSeek

The release of DeepSeek's AI models at the end of January 2025 sent shockwaves around the world. The weeks that followed have been rife with hype and rumor, ranging from suggestions that DeepSeek has…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago