Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLow-code/no-code platforms: The 10% trap and the limits of abstractions
Low-code and no-code development platforms have been heralded in recent years as a solution to engineering talent gaps and as a trend that will properly democratize technology, allowing even non-code…
Published on 3 years ago
Welcome to the fediverse: Exploring Mastodon, ActivityPub and beyond [Special]
For many who have been part of the recent migration of users from Twitter to Mastodon, their first encounters with the "fediverse" have been puzzling, even disorienting. Given a decade in which we've…
Published on 3 years ago
Rethinking software governance: Reflecting on the second edition of Building Evolutionary Architectures
Building Evolutionary Architectures was published in 2017. In it, Thoughtworks CTO Rebecca Parsons, Neal Ford and Pat Kua defined and developed the concept of "evolutionary architecture" and demonstr…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Reckoning with the force of Conway's Law
While putting together this year's Technology Radar, Conway's Law — the idea that organizations are constrained to produce systems that mirror their communication structures — was the subject of a lo…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
Exploring the Basal Cost of software
The "Basal Cost" of software is an idea from Eduardo Ferro Aldama. The term is borrowed from biology, where the "Basal Metabolic Rate" refers to the number of calories a human body burns just to main…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Why full-stack testing matters
Although many books have been written on software testing over the years, Gayathri Mohan's Full-Stack Testing, released earlier this year with O'Reilly, is unique: by taking a comprehensive look at m…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Acknowledging and addressing technical debt in startups and scale-ups
Technical debt is a ubiquitous problem in software engineering, yet its causes — and the potential ways to address it — are often context-specific, dependent on the challenges and goals of an organiz…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
XR in practice: the engineering challenges of extending reality
Extended Reality technology — XR — has had a lot of hype in recent years thanks to the concept of the metaverse. But bold visions of the future can obscure the reality of what engineers and organizat…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
Agent-based modelling for epidemiology: EpiRust and BharatSim
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that epidemiology is incredibly complex: the millions of edge cases, what-ifs, and counterfactuals make modelling exceptionally difficult. One way of tack…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
Mastering architectural metrics
Given the variety of architectural styles — and the unique technology landscapes at every organization — how can you develop a set of metrics that can reliably guide your organization to improve? And…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago