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Adam Storm, Director of Engineering at Cockroach Labs, introduces the concept of multi-region databases, the use cases for deploying them, and the tradeoffs to consider.  He describes how CockroachDB addresses some of the hardest problems related to multi-region databases, how its geo-partitioned data feature works, and how it supports serverless technologies.

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Adam Storm on Multi-Region Databases

Keith McClellan, Director of Partner Solutions Engineering at Cockroach Labs, reviews the results of the 2022 Cloud Report, which benchmarks the three most popular public clouds:  AWS, GCP, and Azure. Keith describes the testing methodology that was used, some of the surprises from the report, and highlights key areas of the benchmark that CTOs should pay attention to when picking a cloud provider.

Keith McClellan: Results of the the 2022 Cloud Report

Martijn Verburg, Principal Engineering Group Manager for Java at Microsoft, describes how the company runs 2 million JVMs in production across a wide range of its internal systems, including those that support Minecraft, LinkedIn, and Azure.  He describes the different kinds of Java workloads and deployment models that Azure supports, new monitoring and observability tools, and the various Java community initiatives that Microsoft is a part of, including Eclipse Adoptium, the Jakarta EE and MicroProfile working groups, and others.

Martijn Verburg: How Microsoft Azure Supports Modern Java Workloads

Responsiveness is much more than a front-end web app issue. Tyler Jewell will challenge you to think differently about how to achieve elasticity, agility, and resilience. Learn how to transform cloud-native and multi-cloud architectures so you can guarantee responsiveness for your microservices and distributed systems. Listen now.

Reimagining the concept of responsive apps

Tyler Jewell, CEO of Akka and creator of the Developer-Led Landscape, shares how agentic AI is reshaping system architecture. He discusses real-world engineering challenges, scaling to 2M TPS, balancing cost vs. quality, and the role of actor-based concurrency in managing complexity. Tyler also highlights how Akka contributes to agentic AI and what’s next for building resilient, scalable AI systems.

Building Agentic AI Systems at Scale: Insights from Akka CEO Tyler Jewell

Dan Nelson, Head of Data at Ocado Technology, is responsible for developing systems that allow Ocado - a well known, UK-based online grocer that provides home delivery - to harvest it's data both locally and in the cloud. In this interview, Dan shares examples of how Ocado is using machine learning (ML), natural language processing, and Tensorflow. He describes what Ocado is doing today with Data Science, Google Cloud, and AWS, and how he sees the ML and deep learning space evolving over the next several years.

Dan Nelson: Machine Learning & Data Science Innovation at Ocado Technology

In this interview NGINX's Chris Stetson describes some of the biggest pain points associated with microservices development and describes the various patterns and models - including the Circuit Breaker Pattern - covered in his new book, "Microservices Reference Architecture."  Chris also talks about the fundamental differences between microservices and SOA and how NGINX has extended the 12-Factor App to encompass microservices.  

Chris Stetson, Chief Architect of Microservices Engineering at NGINX, has architected applications for twenty years, including the first versions of Sirius Satellite Radio, Visa.com, Intel.com, Microsoft.com, and Lexus.com. He has built large monolithic systems, service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications, and most recently microservice-based systems. Most recently, Chris has authored The Microservices Reference Architecture eBook, a practical guide that helps solve many of the challenges of building microservices-based applications.

Chris Stetson on the Microservices Reference Architecture

In this interview, Qlik Evangelist Rey Riel explains some of the key concepts - and challenges - a developer should be aware of when getting started with data visualization. He describes how Qlik - business Intelligence software for data visualization and guided analytics - addresses many of these challenges. He also introduces Qlik Playground, a free programming environment that allows you to use, explore, and quickly test your most complex and innovative data driven application ideas using Qlik technology.

Rey Riel serves as an Evangelist on the Developer Relations team at Qlik. Responsible for keeping Qlik Branch and Qlik Playground awesome places for developers to connect and share their creations, he is well-versed in JavaScript, SQL, HTML and has touched on over a dozen different languages in the last decade. He is also certified by Code School in Node.js, Angular.js, Express.js, MongoDB, Ruby Rails and JavaScript ES2015.

Rey Riel: Getting Started with Data Visualization and Qlik

In this podcast, Nicole Bryan, Vice President of Product Management at Tasktop Technologies, introduces the concept of software lifecycle integration, and how it enables the seamless flow of information - and software artifacts - between different tools and end users.  She describes how it  affects DevOps toolchain improves traceability between requirements and software artifacts (e.g. features, epics, stories), and explores some of the most common software lifecycle integration patterns being used today.  Finally, she talks about what's new in TaskTop integration Hub and the role of Value Stream Networks.  

Bio:

Nicole Bryan is Vice President of Product Management at Tasktop Technologies with extensive technical background and demonstrated leadership and management skills. Proven ability as both a thought leader and executor resulting in visionary, well thought out products primarily focused on data analytics and business intelligence, data visualization and software development processes. Unique, well rounded combination of experience as both technical and business practitioner and manager in both industry and consulting roles.

Nicole Bryan: Software Lifecycle Integration, Value Streams, and the DevOps Toolchain

In this podcast, Roland Plaszowski, Head of OSP Retail Systems at Ocado Technology, introduces the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) and delves into its overall architecture.

He describes how both AWS and Google Cloud Platform are being used, how cloud has impacted the way his team works, and how data and machine learning have been useful in the context of a cloud-based, grocery retailer such as Ocado.  

He talks about the evolution of OSP’s microservices architecture and explains what skills software engineers need to have as a result of widespread cloud adoption.

Roland Plaszowski: A Look Inside the Cloud and Microservices Architecture at Ocado

Owen Garrett, Head of Products @NGINX, talks about some of the biggest challenges companies are facing transitioning from monoliths to microservices. He describes the proxy model (Kubernetes-Ingress controller model), delves into why and when you might need to use a service mesh and reviews the various service mesh products on the market today.  Finally, he introduces NGINX Unit, a dynamic web and application server – configured via API – that is designed to run applications in multiple languages. https://unit.nginx.org/	

Owen Garrett leads the product and go-to-market strategy for NGINX’s web acceleration and application delivery technologies. Owen has over 15 years of experience in software engineering and product leadership at companies such as Zeus and Riverbed, and holds a number of patents in the field.

Owen Garrett: Pragmatic Microservices, Service Mesh, and NGINX Unit

Anil Kumar – The Database Side of Microservices

In this interview, Charles Elkan, Head of Machine Learning at Goldman Sachs, explains how financial services firms benefit from AI, how Goldman Sachs is applying it to their business, and highlights industry breakthroughs that are allowing AI to progress.  

He delves into the mechanics of deep learning, explains the difference between superficial and subtle understanding, and talks about how NLP methods have been successful at Goldman Sachs. Finally, he describes how much further AI can realistically develop to meet the needs of financial firms.

Applying AI: The Present and Future for Financial Services Firms

In this interview, Kevin Stanley, Industrial IoT Practice Lead at Object Computing,  and Jordan Walker, Senior Software Engineer at Object Computing, talk about different strategies for implementing IoT on the Edge along with the core components of an Edge IoT infrastructure.  They also talk about the impact of machine learning on IoT, using Google Coral to train neural networks, and the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol for the internet of things.

Related Resource:

Machine Learning in Practice: Using Artificial Intelligence to Read Analog Gauges: https://objectcomputing.com/resources/publications/sett/june-2019-using-machine-learning-to-read-analog-gauges

Kevin Stanley and Jordan Walker: IoT and Machine Learning on the Edge

Liam Crilly, Director of Product Management at NGINX, talks about the impact microservices is having on API gateways and how a CI/CD pipeline should interface with API gateways.  He describes how API gateways help with messaging and event-driven architectures, how they integrate with IoT devices and real-time streaming, and shares some API trends he expects to see in 2020.

Liam Crilly on the Future of API Gateways

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Roland Plaszowski: A Look Inside the Cloud and Microservices Architecture at Ocado

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