Good talks/podcasts (July 2019 I)

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently.

• Kent Beck - XP 2018 
• Cultivating Instinct Katrina Owen
• Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson - Cucumber Podcast 
• Advanced Continuous Delivery Best Practices (DEV317-R1) (AWS re:Invent 2018)
• Super Sizing Your Servers and the Payback Trap Dr. Neil J. Gunther. (LISA14)
• Advanced Design Patterns for Amazon DynamoDB (DAT403-R) (AWS re:Invent 2017)
• How Finding & Fixing Faults is the Path to Perfection Steve Spear. Knowing how to get smarter, faster matters a lot :) 

Good talks/podcasts / Scalability theory (June 2019 I)

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently. As I needed to refresh some concepts, this time, the main topic is scalability theory.

• Theory:
• Scalability is Quantifiable: The Universal Scalability Law Baron Schwartz
• Queueing Theory in Practice: Performance Modeling for the Working Engineer Eben Freeman
• Applied Performance Theory Kavya Joshi
• Super Sizing Your Servers and the Payback Trap Neil J. Gunther
• Practice:
• Advanced Design Patterns for Amazon DynamoDB (DAT403-R) Rick Houlihan. Some patterns to design scalable systems using DynamoDB

#AGILE19 / Entrega Continua / Tomándonos la agilidad en serio

Muchas gracias a la organización de  #AGILE19

Hoy he tenido la gran suerte de poder hablar de la Entrega Continua en la jornada Agile19. Muchas gracias a los organizadores por la invitación y por esta jornada tan interesante.

Aquí van la presentación que he usado y dónde intento explicar como la Entrega Continua es requisito imprescindible para la subsistencia en la Era del Software...

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Good talks/podcasts (May 2019 II)

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently:

• facebook management with jocelyn goldfein Software Engineering Daily podcast. A lot of insight into software development macroeconomics.
• Speeding Up Innovation Adrian Cockcroft. Interesting talk about how to use the cloud and how it enables innovation. 
• Applying the Serverless Mindset to Any Tech Stack  Ben Kehoe. Good talk about how serverless enables a new way of thinking.
• Reliability Engineering: One of the Best Jobs in Software Engineering Mary Poppendieck. Good introduction to reliability engineering and SRE.
• Big Transitions in Small Steps Kent Beck. Very deep ideas about how to make any kind of huge technical change using small and incremental changes. This part of the core of agile... Vertical slicing to make changes in small (low risk) steps.

Good talks/podcasts (May 2019 I)

 

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently:

• Parallelizing computation with dask TalkPython podcast. Good episode if you are interested in different solutions to improve the performance of algorithms for Data Science. For python native shops, Dask seems a very good solution with a low entry barrier for Data Scientists.
• InfoQ Podcast: Kim Scott on Radical Candor Very interesting to learn about giving and receiving feedback. To go deeper in the topic, the book is also great Radical Candor Kick Ass Without Humanity.
• Mik Kersten on Moving from Projects to Products An interesting interview about this clear trend.
• keynote: architecting for continuous delivery Jez Humble. Good ideas about how to create agile systems.
• Napoleon DevOps and Delivering Business Value Mark Schwartz. The importance of leveraging DevOps short feedback loops to evolve continuously the system.

Good talks/podcasts (April 2019 II)

These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently

• Systems that Run Forever Self-heal and Scale Joe Armstrong. A great talk by a great genius of our profession who recently passed away.
• Progressive Delivery James Governor. Good ideas to complement and amplify the continuous delivery using canary releasing, segmentation, toggles and so on.
• Scaling Your Architecture with Events and Services Randy Shoup. Very good insights on how to design and evolve a microservice architecture (assuming that you need it). 
• Why the fuss about serverless Simon Wardley. A great talk to improve our orientation skills in the world of technology. Makes an excellent introduction to Wardley's maps and uses them to describe the evolution of technology and what serverless implies.
• Management, soft skills, and other interesting topics:
• EMPOWERED Achieving Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People Martin Cagan. Interesting insights about leadership, management and good ideas for hiring in the context of product management.
• Radical Candor: The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss First Kim Scott. A great talk describing one of the most difficult skills for good management, sincere and actionable feedback.