Sunday, May 18, 2025

Good talks/podcasts (May)

These are the best podcasts/talks I've seen/listened to recently:
  • Escaping A MAJOR Platform Engineering PITFALL (Steve Smith) [Engineering Culture, Platform, Platform engineering, Technology Strategy] [Duration: 00:11] This talk explores the pitfalls of technology anarchy and autocracy in platform engineering and advocates for escaping them by building opinionated platform capabilities with contextual technical alignment to accelerate delivery teams
  • How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School (Tom Blomfield) [AI, Developer Productivity, Devex, Generative AI] [Duration: 00:16] Practical best practices for effective vibe coding and using AI tools/LLMs in software development workflows, from planning and testing to debugging and leveraging multiple models.
  • o11ycast - Ep. #80, Augmented Coding with Kent Beck (Ken Rimple, Kent Beck, Jessica Kerr) [AI, Engineering Culture, Inspirational, testing] [Duration: 00:39] (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) Explore augmented coding with Kent Beck, discussing how AI agents transform software development, the essential role of observability and testing for control and understanding, and the future impact on engineering careers.
  • Devoxx Greece 2025 - Data Modeling for Software Engineers by Scott Sosna (Scott Sosna) [Agile, Architecture, Data Engineering, Flow, Software Design] [Duration: 00:40] Learn why thoughtful, consistent data modeling and decoupling external data views from internal implementations are critical responsibilities for software engineers in modern agile environments, given that data persists forever and outlives the code that uses it.
  • Devoxx Greece 2025 - How Flow Works and other curiosities by James Lewis (James Lewis) [Continuous Delivery, Flow, Lean, Lean Product Management, Lean Software Development] [Duration: 00:40] "How Flow Works and other curiosities" by James Lewis explains how work flows as information through organizational value streams, detailing blockages like queues and offering principles like batch size reduction to improve delivery and throughput.
  • 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.
Reminder: All of these talks are interesting, even just listening to them.

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