When you look back over 2014, and all the new ideas or concepts that you encountered, which struck you as big "a-ha"s -- that is, what did you learn that will reshape how you approach software development next year and beyond? Perhaps listening to Bett and Russ discuss their's you will more easily recall some of yours.

In this episode, Bett and Russ recount their big software related "a-ha"s for 2014.

What are your "A-ha"s for 2014?

In this episode, Thomas Betts speaks with Andrew Harmel-Law about his new book, Facilitating Software Architecture: Empowering Teams to Make Architectural Decisions. The conversation includes a discussion of what constitutes an architecturally significant decision, how the practice of architecture is evolving, and how architects have a role to facilitate software architecture, rather than being the only ones making architectural decisions.

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Facilitating Software Architecture with Andrew Harmel-Law

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

In this episode, Thomas Betts speaks with Ian Miell about how the financial aspects of a business affect how software is designed and built. If Conway’s Law says organizational structures determine the software design, then following the money helps us understand why those organization structures exist, and ultimately whether software will be successful in achieving its goals.

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The Financial Architecture of Software with Ian Miell

لو سألني سائل، هل ابني موقع تجاري بمعمارية  SOA 
الإجابة الصحيحة لا،
الإجابة العبقرية نعم،
لتعرف كيف، استمع الى جيف، المدير التنفيذي لأمازون، كيف اختار هذا الاختيار الاستراتيجي، ليكون سببا رئيسيا في ان تكون امازون هي الأسبق.
هذا جزء من كورس من يوم واحد اشرح فيه اجابة هذا السؤال

Should I follow SOA to build my e-commerce website? the right answer from amazon

In this episode of the O’Reilly Podcast, I sat down with Hugh McKee, solutions architect at Lightbend. McKee and I discussed why the actor model is an ideal choice for building today’s distributed architecture, how actor-based systems manage requests to perform tasks, the kinds of enterprises already having success with actors, and best practices for getting started with asynchronous systems.

Understanding Reactive Architecture Through the Actor Model

In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk with Adam Scott, who has authored a series of ebooks on the topic of ethical web development, the most recent of which is "Collaborative Web Development." He is also the presenter of the video "Introduction to Modern Front-End Development." Scott is the web development lead at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he focuses on building open source tools.

Adam Scott on Ethical Web Development

In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk with Michael Nygard, a software architect at Cognitect. He has spoken about “architecture without an end state” at numerous O’Reilly Software Architecture events, and he is the author of the book "Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software."

Michael Nygard on Architecture Without an End State

In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk with Matt Stine, global CTO of architecture at Pivotal. He is the presenter of the O’Reilly live online training course "Cloud-Native Architecture Patterns," and he has spoken about cloud-native architecture at the recent O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference and O’Reilly Security Conference.

Matt Stine on Cloud-Native Architecture

In this episode of the O’Reilly Media Podcast, I talk with JP Phillips, platform engineer at IBM Cloud. IBM is driving development in the container space, as shown through last year’s launch of Istio, an open cloud service that allows developers to connect, manage, and secure networks of different microservices. Istio, a joint collaboration between IBM, Google, and Lyft, (in conjunction with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation), is platform agnostic and runs on Kubernetes platforms, such as IBM’s Cloud Container Service. Interest in the platform is growing. IBM's Daniel Berg, who is giving a talk on Istio at the upcoming OSCON conference in Portland, recently led a hands-on workshop at KubeCon in Copenhagen to help developers learn how Istio can solve common challenges with microservices deployed within Kubernetes.

Kubernetes and Containers for Enterprise Developers

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