Good talks/podcasts (April)

These are the best podcasts/talks I've seen/listened to recently:

• AWS re:Invent 2023 - Do modern cloud applications lock you in? (Gregor Hohpe) [Architecture, Cloud, Software Design, Technology Strategy] [Duration: 00:55] (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) This talk reframes modern cloud application lock-in as switching costs, explaining how to manage them through architecture trade-offs, increasing developer velocity, and focusing on design intent rather than just service selection
• Test Driven DESIGN - Step by Step (Dave Farley) [Small Safe Steps (3s), Software Design, Technical Practices, testing] [Duration: 00:24] In this episode Dave Farley describes how to use TDD to build your system in a series of small steps, using a project of his own to demonstrate the approach.
• Anthropic CEO Declares Programming Over, We Respond (Ray Myers) [AI, Engineering Culture, Generative AI] [Duration: 00:22] (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) The talk discusses reactions and scenarios related to the Anthropic CEO's prediction that AI will soon write essentially all code, proposing challenges to this claim and exploring different potential futures for software engineering roles and processes
• Keynote: AI without the BS, for humans (Scott_Hanselman) [AI, Generative AI, Mental models, ethics] [Duration: 00:58] Scott Hanselman's "AI without the BS" talk cuts through the hype, explaining AI models as statistical predictors based on context and biased data, highlighting ethical concerns, and demonstrating the practicality of running smaller models locally
• Observability 2.0: Transforming Logging & Metrics • Charity Majors & James Lewis (Charity Majors, James Lewis) [Engineering Culture, Observability, Platform engineering] [Duration: 00:30] Interesting interview about observability, and the tools and models needed to develop a systems thinking approach that allows us to understand and manage our software systems, which are often complex and distributed.
• Observability & Testing in Production (Charity Majors, Luca Rossi) [Continuous Delivery, Observability, Testing in production] [Duration: 00:53] Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb and observability expert, discusses observability, testing in production, continuous delivery, and developer experience
• Human Robot Agent: Scouting AI Beyond Hype and Doom (Jurgen Appelo) [AI, Agile, Generative AI, Teams] [Duration: 00:53] (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) Jurgen Appelo discusses how AI is fundamentally changing the nature of work, teams, and processes within an agile context, highlighting new uncertainties and the enduring importance of the human experience.
• Software Engineering F&*K Up Behind The Passport E-gate Failure" (Dave Farley) [Architecture, Resilience, Software Design] [Duration: 00:17] In this episode, Dave Farley talks about the issue, how poor software engineering led to this, how distributed systems come into it all, how to avoid something like this happening again and at the end of the video asks for answers on some concerning issues around the whole story.

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