Podcast Episodes

Beyond the DORA metrics: Measuring engineering excellence

Is it really possible to measure the impact engineering teams have on a business' success? At a time when growth is challenging for many organizations and questions about productivity and effectivene…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Asynchronous collaboration: Getting it right

Thanks to the pandemic, asynchronous working is, today, fairly common. However, it's often easily confused with simply working remotely — and while there are certainly neat synergies between the two,…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Looking back at key themes across technology in 2023

With each edition of the Thoughtworks Technology Radar, we identify a number of key themes that we see as significant in the industry. In the most recent edition — volume 29, published in September —…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Leveraging generative AI at Bosch

Generative AI has, unsurprisingly, been a major topic of conversation within Thoughtworks in 2023. However, as enjoyable as it is to get sucked into discussions about the reality, the risks and the b…

Published on 2 years ago

Jugalbandi: Building with AI for social impact

It's easy for key industry players to talk up AI's potential positive social impact, but what does building for social impact actually look like? At Thoughtworks, a small team has been working on a p…

Published on 2 years ago

AI-assisted coding: Experiences and perspectives

Generative AI appears to be making an impact in a huge range of fields, but one that we're particularly interested in at Thoughtworks is its use in software development.

In recent months, there's bee…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

What's it like to maintain an award-winning open source tool?

Open source contributors and maintainers play a vital role in the technology ecosystem. But what's it like to develop and maintain an open source tool — especially one that thousands of other develop…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Engineering platforms and golden paths: Building better developer experiences

The concept of the developer platform and the discipline of platform engineering have been important in shaping how the industry thinks about enabling developers. But what does it mean to actually bu…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Managing cost efficiency at scale-ups

Many of the scale-ups we've partnered with over the years will hit road bumps along the way. One common bottleneck we've seen are unexpected and dramatic rises in costs. In this episode we talk to me…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Exploring SQL and ETL

The evolution of SQL and the ease of access to ever larger sizes of computational power has made SQL and ETL a useful pairing for practitioners in the data space. But how do they work together exactl…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago