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This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubElisabeth Hendrickson - Advisor, Coach, Speaker & Co-Author of "Signals & Levers"Joel Tosi - Co-Founder & CTO at Dojo & Co & Co-Author of "Signals & Levers"Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & ConsultantCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/448RESOURCESElisabethhttps://ruby.social/@testobsessedhttps://github.com/testobsessedhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/testobsessedhttps://curiousduck.ioJoelhttps://mastodon.social/@joeltosihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-tosi-531a3bCharleshttps://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.socialhttps://linkedin.com/in/charleshumblehttps://mastodon.social/@charleshumblehttps://conissaunce.comLinkshttps://ruthmalan.comhttp://www.ask-force.org/web/Discourse/Rittel-Dilemmas-General-Theory-Planning-1973.pdfDESCRIPTIONElisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi open by explaining why systems thinking is having a moment right now: organizations that went all-in on Agile and DevOps are finding those returns plateauing, and the rise of AI is forcing engineering teams to reexamine where their real bottlenecks are. The book, Signals & Levers, gives software engineers a practical vocabulary and toolkit for that examination. A core insight is that most organizational dysfunction isn't caused by bad people or bad intentions, but by systems that produce bad outcomes predictably and structurally. The named archetypes in the book — over 20 of them, covering patterns like escalating technical debt, the "fixes that fail" loop, and the boiling frog — give teams a shared language to recognize and reason about those patterns without having to discover them from scratch.The most practically actionable section of the conversation covers signals versus levers: understanding the difference between information (a signal) and an intervention point (a lever) is the foundation for making changes that actually work rather than changes that feel productive and achieve nothing. On AI, both authors are cautious in the right ways: Elisabeth uses it daily as a thinking partner but keeps herself firmly at the steering wheel. Joel's warning is starker — AI amplifies whatever is already true about your organization, including dysfunction, and if it lets you ship faster than you can learn, the consequences may be severe. The book closes with an exercise for the reader: if AI doubles your delivery speed, what happens when you can ship faster than you can adapt?RECOMMENDED BOOKSElisabeth Hendrickson & Joel Tosi • Signals & Levers • https://amzn.to/4g6Fb3CDiana Montalion • Learning Systems Thinking • https://amzn.to/3ZpycdJDon Norman • The Design of Everyday Things • https://amzn.to/4fV6QVlGene Kim • The Unicorn Project • https://amzn.to/3woXQDzGene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford • The Phoenix Project • https://amzn.to/3X9cYxaPeter Degrace & Leslie Hulet Stahl • Wicked Problems, Righteous Solutions • https://amzn.to/3ScP0D9Frederick Brooks Jr. • The Mythical Man-Month • https://amzn.to/4gd10OVGerald Weinberg • An Introduction to General Systems Thinking • https://amzn.to/4dZCsaODonella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems • https://amzn.to/3XtqYCVBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techLuca Mezzalira - Solutions Architect, Consultant, International Speaker & Author of "Building Micro-Frontends"Teena Idnani - Senior Solutions Architect at Microsoft & Woman in Tech LeaderCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/447RESOURCESLucahttps://www.buildingmicrofrontends.comhttps://twitter.com/lucamezzalirahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/lucamezzalirahttps://linktr.ee/lucamezzalirahttps://lucamezzalira.comTeenahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/teenaidnaniDESCRIPTIONLuca Mezzalira and Teena Idnani open with a clear framing: AI is accelerating certain tasks architects do, but the fundamentals — understanding context, connecting technical decisions to business capability, designing for evolutionary systems — are unchanged and arguably more important than ever. Luca identifies what he calls the shift from a T-shaped to an "M-shaped" architect: broader and deeper simultaneously, using AI as a research accelerator that collapses days of trade-off analysis into hours. Both agree that the biggest current risk isn't that AI will replace architects, but that AI-generated code can look convincingly correct and pass initial testing while concealing edge-case failures that only surface under load, regulatory audit, or upstream change — particularly dangerous in regulated industries like finance.The conversation sharpens around what architects must double down on to stay relevant. Luca advocates for merging deterministic and probabilistic systems through harness engineering — combining linters, static analysis, and deterministic guardrails with AI code assistants to produce more predictable outcomes. More broadly, both conclude that empathy is now a core technical skill: the architect's real job is riding the "elevator" between the engine room and the C-suite, translating freely in both directions. Luca's rule of thumb has shifted from 70% people and context, 30% technical — to nearly 90/10 in the AI era. The competitive edge for architects, they agree, is not in generating code, but in knowing which problems are worth solving and why.RECOMMENDED BOOKSLuca Mezzalira • Building Micro-Frontends • https://amzn.to/4ekqV5YLuca Mezzalira • Front-End Reactive Architectures • https://amzn.to/43a8VVJGregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator • https://amzn.to/3F6d2axGregor Hohpe • Enterprise Integration Patterns, Vol 2 • https://amzn.to/3TNedQ3BlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubDennis Hansen - Air Force Veteran, Chief Systems Engineer & Author of "Model-Based Systems Engineering and Requirements Definition"Jorge Orellana - Model Based Systems Engineer at IERUS Technologies & CEO & Founder at SCATTERBRAINSCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/445RESOURCESJorgehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jorge-orellana-0b729129DESCRIPTIONDennis Hansen brings over six decades of systems engineering experience to this GOTO Book Club conversation — from Air Force airborne navigation technician to Chief Systems Engineer at L3Harris on programs including the complete rebuild of the GOES-R ground system for NOAA and NASA. His book argues that the fundamental failure mode in complex system development is the same every time: requirements are defined too loosely, too late, or across multiple model layers simultaneously. He structures the approach using an onion model — a layering framework he was taught by a Motorola engineer in 1961 — where each layer (mission, capabilities, activities, technical requirements, specifications) must be completed before the next is begun. Skipping layers or trying to do two at once invariably produces excess or faulty requirements that surface as expensive failures during system testing, or worse, after deployment.The second half of the conversation focuses on why modeling tools are databases, not drawing programs — a distinction Dennis considers critical. Every element in the model carries its associated requirements and the reasoning behind design decisions, which means that when you return to work after a weekend, you don't lose hours reconstructing your thinking. More importantly, when change requests arrive — and they always do — a maintained model lets you trace the impact backwards through the system and understand exactly what has to be modified, rather than slapping on a fix that creates five new problems. Dennis's closing advice is the thread that runs through the entire book: collaborate at every stage, every discipline working together rather than in silos, and define things properly upfront. Everything else follows from that.RECOMMENDED BOOKSDennis Hansen • Model-Based Systems Engineering and Requirements Definition • https://amzn.to/4e6IiqJKossiakoff, Seymour, Flanigan & Biemer • Systems Engineering Principles and Practice • https://amzn.to/4a7Elj9Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass • Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Cookbook • https://amzn.to/4wYnj12BlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted in May 2026.https://gotopia.techRead the full transcription of this interview here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/445Jake Warner - Co-Founder & CEO at Cycle  @JakeWarner  Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & ConsultantRESOURCESJakehttps://bsky.app/profile/jakewarner.comhttps://x.com/jakewarnerhttps://github.com/JakeWarnerhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jakewarnerhttps://jakewarner.comCharleshttps://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.socialhttps://linkedin.com/in/charleshumblehttps://mastodon.social/@charleshumblehttps://conissaunce.comDESCRIPTIONJake Warner, co-founder and CEO of Cycle.io, traces a pattern he's watched repeat itself since his OpenStack days: a new orchestration technology arrives, developers adopt it enthusiastically, it grows in complexity, and organizations eventually ask whether managing it is really a core competency. He made a decade-long bet that Kubernetes would follow the same arc — and built Cycle as the answer: a distributed control plane that lets companies own their own infrastructure and compute while still getting a clean, platform-like experience on top of it. The key design principle is a high ceiling without sacrificing simplicity — companies shouldn't have to re-platform every time they grow, and they shouldn't have to give up infrastructure ownership to get ease of use.The conversation then pivots to Sovereign Cloud, which Jake frames not as a niche regulatory concern but as a fundamental trust and ownership question. He draws attention to a risk many organizations underestimate: the control plane itself. Unlike many platforms where the control plane is a single point of failure and a blackbox, Cycle's architecture ensures that even if the control plane goes down, customer infrastructure keeps running — servers maintain their own manifests and restart containers independently. Looking ahead, Jake expects more regions and countries to build their own cloud equivalents, driven by privacy concerns, data residency laws, and geopolitical pressures that are accelerating faster than the technology is.His conclusion: the organizations that handed AWS all the keys are beginning to realize the cost — and the industry is correcting.RECOMMENDED BOOKSAlan Hamilton • Sovereign Cloud Operations • https://amzn.to/4dqYAe4Leonard J. Horta • The Cloud Exit Strategy • https://amzn.to/4dXqeiNCharles Curry & Tanessa Curry • Cooling the Cloud • https://amzn.to/4a0d4iALiz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJeLiz Rice • Kubernetes Security • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-security/9781492039075BlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2025.https://yowcon.comMatt Brunt - Dungeon Master & Team TinkererRESOURCEShttps://bsky.app/profile/brunty.mehttps://mastodon.social/@bruntyhttps://github.com/Bruntyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mattbrunthttps://brunty.meABSTRACTYou enter the dungeon, as the echoes of your footsteps sound around you, something catches your eye - is that… oh, oh no.You grab your trusty sword and with your fellow adventurers, you seek to overcome the mighty challenge that lays ahead of you: building software.This talk is a look at some of the parallels between Dungeons and Dragons, and software development.We'll see how lessons learned through delving into dungeons and fighting monsters with a party of adventurers can help teams of developers when building software in the real world.Are you ready to join me in a mighty quest for better software? [...]Download slides and read the full abstract here:https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3641RECOMMENDED BOOKSHeidi Helfand • Dynamic Reteaming • https://amzn.to/3Fvu5BAHeidi Helfand • How to Change Your Teams • https://leanpub.com/DRTGuideCarl Larson & Frank M J LaFasto • Teamwork • https://amzn.to/4cFWseQGene Kim & Steve Spear • Wiring the Winning Organization • https://amzn.to/3QJcfBpBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.https://gotocph.comAbby Bangser - Principal Engineer at Syntasso & Team Topologies AdvocateDave Farley - Bestselling Author, Founder & Director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.RESOURCESAbbyhttps://bsky.app/profile/abangser.bsky.socialhttps://twitter.com/a_bangserhttps://github.com/abangserhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangserhttps://www.syntasso.io/members-area/abby/profileDavehttps://bsky.app/profile/davefarley77.bsky.socialhttps://www.continuous-delivery.co.ukhttps://linkedin.com/in/dave-farley-a67927https://twitter.com/davefarley77http://www.davefarley.netDESCRIPTIONDave Farley and Abby Bangser open with a clear statement: Continuous Delivery isn't a relic of the pre-AI era — it's the foundation that makes the AI era survivable. Dave's definition is simple but consequential: software should always be in a releasable state, verified after every small change. That's not just a workflow preference; it's the same incremental, hypothesis-driven approach that underpins science and engineering. In an AI-assisted world where code can be generated far faster than humans can reason about it, the discipline of small, safe, verifiable steps becomes more critical, not less. The danger isn't AI writing bad code — it's AI writing a lot of code very fast that nobody is properly checking.The conversation turns to a genuinely alarming DORA report statistic: 70% of developers using AI tools don't distrust the output. Abby draws a parallel to the long-running debate over whether developers can be trusted to test their own code — they usually can't, without a deliberate change in perspective. The same challenge applies to AI-generated code: you need to consciously shift from "prompter" mode to "verifier" mode, and most developers aren't making that switch. Dave closes with a surprising note of optimism: AI may be the industry's best-ever opportunity to finally get XP practices — small increments, automated tests, continuous feedback — embedded into how teams actually work. Not because anyone chose to adopt them ideologically, but because working without them while using AI is visibly, measurably risky.Read the full abstract here:https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3779RECOMMENDED BOOKSKief Morris • Infrastructure as Code • https://amzn.to/4e6EBQcMatthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQDave Thomas • simplicity • https://amzn.to/43FghBJDave Farley & Jez Humble • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/3ocIHwdDavid Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468MDave Farley • Continuous Delivery Pipelines • https://amzn.to/3rjetdiBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubBarry Feigenbaum - Retired Sr. Principal Software Engineer & Author of "Go for Java Programmers"Shon Saliga - IBM Storage EvangelistCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/444RESOURCESBarryhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/barryfeigenbaumShonhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/shon-saliga-32336b2DESCRIPTIONDr. Barry Feigenbaum — an IBM, Amazon and Dell veteran with a PhD in Computer Engineering and decades of Java experience — spent time working with Go on microservices and liked it enough to write the book he wished had existed when he made the switch. In this GOTO Book Club episode with longtime colleague Shon Saliga, he walks through the core contrasts: Go is a compiled language that targets a narrower domain than Java — primarily command-line tools and web servers — but excels there with smaller binaries, faster startup, and dramatically lower container overhead. Concurrency is the headline difference: Go's goroutines are far lighter than Java threads, and its channel-based communication model sidesteps many of the problems that make concurrent Java code hard to reason about.The error handling conversation is particularly illuminating. Java's exception mechanism, while powerful, encourages developers to overuse it for ordinary error reporting — Go simply doesn't allow that by design. Errors in Go are return values, not throws; panics are reserved for truly catastrophic situations. Similarly, Go's implicit interfaces (if you implement the methods, you implement the interface — no declaration required) give the language a flexibility that feels alien to Java developers at first but becomes a strength quickly. Barry's conclusion is clear: for greenfield servers and containerized microservices, Go is worth serious consideration — and for Java developers willing to reset a few mental models, the transition is more tractable than it looks.RECOMMENDED BOOKSBarry Feigenbaum • Go for Java Programmers • https://amzn.to/4uRL3liKen Christopher, Barry Feigenbaum, Shon Salig • DOS 5: The Basic • https://amzn.to/4tKDVGsA N M Bazlur Rahman • Modern Concurrency in Java • https://amzn.to/42w8cOkBen Evans & Jim Gough • Optimizing Cloud Native Java • https://amzn.to/41nivD9Ian F. Darwin • Java Cookbook 5th ed. • https://amzn.to/3QH0NZyVictor Grazi & Jeanne Boyarsky • Real-World Java • https://amzn.to/4oCEeBRBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.https://gotocph.comSarah Wells - Independent Consultant & Author of "Enabling Microservice Success"Patrick Kua - Founder of the Tech Lead AcademyDaniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & AssociatesRESOURCESSarahhttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahjwells.bsky.socialhttps://linkedin.com/in/sarahjwells1https://www.sarahwells.devPatrickhttps://hachyderm.io/@patkuahttps://twitter.com/patkuahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/patkuahttps://github.com/thekuahttps://patkua.comDanielhttps://bsky.app/profile/tastapod.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/tastapodhttps://github.com/tastapodhttps://mastodon.social/@tastapodhttp://dannorth.net/blogDESCRIPTIONEngineering leadership becomes significantly more complex in times of uncertainty. This conversation highlights how leaders must shift from rigid plans to adaptable thinking—balancing delivery, team well-being, and long-term direction while navigating constant change.A key takeaway is that great leadership isn't about having all the answers, but about creating clarity, trust, and resilience within teams. The speakers emphasize communication, context-awareness, and empowering engineers as the foundation for thriving—even when everything feels unstable.RECOMMENDED BOOKSSarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success • https://amzn.to/4aa8xrvPatrick Kua • Talking with Tech Leads • https://amzn.to/3ECO3xBPatrick Kua • The Retrospective Handbook • https://amzn.to/4jpxxQNNeal Ford, Rebecca Parsons & Patrick Kua • Building Evolutionary Architectures • https://amzn.to/42qXJV2Mary Lynn Manns & Linda Rising • Fearless Change • https://amzn.to/49uuuneMary Lynn Manns & Linda Rising • More Fearless Change • https://amzn.to/4tX6GARBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubA N M Bazlur Rahman - Java Champion & Author of "Modern Concurrency in Java"Michael Redlich - Java Champion & Lead Java Queue News Editor at InfoQCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/443RESOURCESBazlurhttps://bsky.app/profile/bazlur.cahttps://x.com/bazlur_rahmanhttps://github.com/rokon12https://www.linkedin.com/in/bazlurhttps://bio.site/bazlurhttps://bazlur.caMichaelhttps://twitter.com/mpredlihttps://github.com/mpredli01https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-redlich-13a966https://about.me/mpredliDESCRIPTIONIn this GOTO Book Club episode, Java Champion A N M Bazlur Rahman joins host and fellow Java Champion Michael Redlich to discuss Modern Concurrency in Java — the first comprehensive update to Java concurrency literature in 20 years. Bazlur traces his motivation to the arrival of virtual threads in JDK 21, which he describes as a fundamental shift in Java's concurrency cost model: platform threads were expensive and scarce, demanding careful pooling; virtual threads are cheap, plentiful, and behave like ordinary threads from the developer's perspective, without requiring a new programming model. The book covers this evolution end-to-end, from the history of threads through to structured concurrency, scope values, and the modern frameworks that have already adopted virtual threads — most with a single config change.The conversation also takes a nuanced look at reactive programming's future. Bazlur's conclusion is that reactive remains compelling in specific contexts — event-driven streaming systems, architectures needing end-to-end back-pressure — but it's no longer the default answer to scalability. For most microservices doing blocking I/O, virtual threads are now the stronger default, and reactive becomes a deliberate architectural choice rather than an automatic one. The book's goal is to give developers both the conceptual grounding and the practical guidance to make that choice confidently — understanding the tool one level deep, so they can design better systems, not just configure their way through a framework.RECOMMENDED BOOKSA N M Bazlur Rahman • Modern Concurrency in Java • https://amzn.to/42w8cOkBen Evans & Jim Gough • Optimizing Cloud Native Java • https://amzn.to/41nivD9Ben Evans, Jason Clark & David Flanagan • Java in a Nutshell • https://amzn.to/43FDoMAIan F. Darwin • Java Cookbook 5th ed. • https://amzn.to/3QH0NZyVictor Grazi & Jeanne Boyarsky • Real-World Java • https://amzn.to/4oCEeBRBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techRichard Feldman - Software Engineer at Zed Industries & Author of "Elm in Action"Anjana Vakil - Freelance Software Engineer & Developer EducatorCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/442RESOURCESRichardhttps://bsky.app/profile/rtfeldman.bsky.socialhttps://twitter.com/rtfeldmanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/rtfeldmanhttps://github.com/rtfeldmanAnjanahttps://bsky.app/profile/anjana.devhttps://github.com/vakilahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/anjanavakilhttps://anjana.devLinkshttps://zed.devhttps://adventofcode.comhttps://www.roc-lang.orgDESCRIPTIONRichard Feldman and Anjana Vakil trace the Roc programming language's ambitious ground-up compiler rewrite — from Rust to Zig — which happened to coincide almost exactly with the year AI coding assistants went from useful to transformative. Richard describes how AI's role shifted over just 12 months: from mechanical test-porting grunt work, where it was reliable but limited, to genuine architectural collaboration on harder problems. The key insight is that guardrails don't live in prompts ("never do this" gets ignored constantly), they live in the code itself — invariants and automated feedback loops that catch the AI when it strays, rather than instructions it will cheerfully disregard.The conversation widens into what the AI era means for software quality and trust. Both are wary of the coming wave of AI-generated "slop" — buggy, mediocre software produced at scale — but Richard makes the counterintuitive case that competitive pressure might actually force quality up: if everything is slop, the products that aren't will stand out hard. Anjana draws a parallel to consumer electronics brand trust: just like we pay a premium for the USB-C cable we know won't cause a fire, developers and users will increasingly gravitate toward names and communities they can vouch for. The open source contribution model, they agree, needs new systems to navigate this — and Roc v1, due before the end of 2026, will be a test case.RECOMMENDED BOOKSRichard Feldman • Elm in Action • https://amzn.to/387kujIDean Bocker • Don't Panic! I'm A Professional Zig Programmer • https://amzn.to/3ljKT8dTim McNamara • Rust in Action • https://amzn.to/3ux2R9uDavid Drysdal • Effective Rust • https://amzn.to/4dAjbdXEric Normand • Grokking Simplicity • https://amzn.to/3gz7o3CBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.https://gotocph.comMartin Fowler - Pioneer of Various Topics around Object-Oriented Technology & Agile MethodsKent Beck - Software Engineer & Creator of Extreme ProgrammingRESOURCESMartinhttps://x.com/martinfowlerhttps://www.martinfowler.comhttps://toot.thoughtworks.com/@mfowlerhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-fowler-comKenthttps://bsky.app/profile/kentbeck.bsky.socialhttps://www.kentbeck.comhttps://github.com/KentBeckhttps://twitter.com/KentBeckhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kentbeckhttps://tidyfirst.substack.com/aboutDESCRIPTIONMartin Fowler and Kent Beck — two of the authors of the Agile Manifesto and perhaps the most influential duo in software engineering history — reunite for an unscripted conversation spanning thirty years of friendship, craft, and the relentless pace of change. They discuss how AI ("the Genie") has become a genuine part of both their workflows: Kent uses it as an endlessly patient tutor for exploration between features, while Martin distinguishes between AI as a tool for talking to computers versus the irreplaceable human skill of talking to the people who need software built. Both are optimistic about the future, though Kent's optimism takes characteristically sharp form: he expects the industry to keep making the same mistakes, which means he'll still be employed teaching the same lessons 20 years from now.The conversation also revisits the Agile Manifesto at nearly 25 years old, with both reflecting on what Extreme Programming got right — feedback loops, testability, evolutionary design — and what the broader adoption missed or diluted. Martin is candid that progress in software has been slower than he'd like, though he points to a "forest" of practitioners who have genuinely advanced the craft. On the question of a Manifesto reunion, both gently redirect: it belongs to the next generation now. Their closing advice to a junior developer in the audience is perhaps the most memorable exchange in the whole session — use the gaps between features to learn, and never forget that understanding the domain and the people in it is ultimately what separates good programmers from great ones.Read the full abstract here:https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3780RECOMMENDED BOOKSMartin Fowler • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3EVcHXQMartin Fowler & Pramod Sadalage • NoSQL Distilled • https://amzn.to/3ChIpu7Martin Fowler • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture • https://amzn.to/3lp4sIqMartin Fowler • Domain-Specific Languages • https://amzn.to/3nzOIFkMartin Fowler • UML Distilled • https://amzn.to/3kahjyAKent Beck • Tidy First? • https://amzn.to/4gscjjKKent Beck & Cynthia Andres • Extreme Programming Explained • https://amzn.to/3sBASDGKent Beck • Test Driven Development • https://amzn.to/3U4AXLsKent Beck, Fowler, John, William, Don & Gamma • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3SFBYbNKent Beck • Implementation Patterns • https://amzn.to/3sBlCGLBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techDaniel Terhorst-North - Originator of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) & Principal at Dan North & AssociatesGojko Adzic - Software Delivery Consultant & Author of "Lizard Optimization" and many more BooksCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/441RESOURCESDanielhttps://bsky.app/profile/tastapod.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/tastapodhttps://github.com/tastapodhttps://mastodon.social/@tastapodhttp://dannorth.net/blogGojkohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/gojkohttps://github.com/gojkohttps://twitter.com/gojkoadzichttps://gojko.netDESCRIPTIONGojko Adzic and Daniel Terhorst-North tackle the question every software team is wrestling with right now: does AI-assisted development actually work, and if so, how?Their verdict is nuanced. One-shot "spec-to-product" approaches are doomed — both compare them to CASE tools and model-driven architecture of past decades, great for selling to enterprise buyers, disappointing in practice. What does work is tight, iterative feedback loops where AI handles the more deterministic, structural parts of the job while humans retain ownership of domain knowledge, semantic correctness, and architectural judgment.The most practically useful thread of the conversation is Gojko's insight on guardrails: instead of relying on markdown files and hoping your AI agent stays in line, encode your rules as real, automated linting checks — ones that run in CI, apply to humans and bots alike, and include actionable error messages.Daniel adds a complementary observation: AI shines brightest not on core domain code, but on the "quality of life" tasks that never quite make it to the backlog. Their shared conclusion is that the teams winning with AI right now are the ones treating published frameworks as starting templates to rapidly adapt — not gospel to follow blindly.RECOMMENDED BOOKSGojko Adzic • Lizard Optimization • https://leanpub.com/lizardoptimizationGojko Adzic • Impact Mapping • https://amzn.to/3dQFCOqAdzic, Evans & Roden • Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Tests • https://amzn.to/3yuDaoLAdzic, Evans & Korac • Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories • https://amzn.to/3jQ4QjPAdzic & Korac • Humans vs Computers • https://amzn.to/2Utz55AGojko Adzic • Specification by Example • https://amzn.to/3hHrEjbEliyahu M. Goldratt • Beyond the Goal • https://amzn.to/3wDbAL1Kent Beck, Fowler, John, William, Don & Gamma • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3SFBYbNBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This Q&A session was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.https://gotocph.comKen Hughes - The King of Customer ExperienceKeynote available here: https://youtu.be/tHf-BFM2CNMRESOURCEShttps://twitter.com/KenHughesIEhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kenhughesiehttps://www.kenhughes.infoDESCRIPTIONIn this extended Q&A following his GOTO Copenhagen 2025 keynote, Ken Hughes — "The King of Customer Experience" — tackles the questions every business avoids asking honestly. He argues that employee experience always comes first: you cannot ask people to deliver extraordinary customer moments unless they themselves feel seen, empowered, and purposeful at work. On ROI, he challenges the entire premise, proposing a shift from "Return on Investment" to "Desire to Invest" — because measuring caring with a ledger is the behavior of, as he puts it, a toxic psychopath. The real unlock, he insists, is placing the user genuinely at the centre — not as a metric, but as a human being who deserves to feel like the only person in the room.The conversation turns to AI's role in making this scalable, and here Hughes lands his most forward-looking point: the era of having to choose between serving the masses and making an individual feel special is ending. AI will enable what he calls "scaled personalization" — the ability to make every customer their own blue dot simultaneously, the way a personalized Minecraft lesson teaches area and perimeter to an 8-year-old who wasn't getting it in a classroom. The session closes with a striking reminder: the brands people remember aren't the ones with the slickest products — they're the ones that made them feel genuinely seen. A nurse. A fishing magazine. Five dollars. That's the bar.Read the full abstract here:https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3778RECOMMENDED BOOKSKen Hughes • Taylormaking • https://amzn.to/3WOEgd9Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz • The Good Life • https://amzn.to/4orelUSBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO State of the Art in March 2026.https://gotopia.techBen Evans - Senior Principal SW Engineer at Red Hat & Co-Author of "Optimizing Cloud Native Java" & many more BooksRead the full transcription of this interview here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/439RESOURCESBenhttps://mastodon.social/@kittylysthttps://bsky.app/profile/ogkittylyst.bsky.socialhttps://github.com/kittylysthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kittylysthttps://www.kittylyst.comLinkshttps://newrelic.com/resources/report/2024-state-of-the-java-ecosystemhttps://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/06/18/language-rankings-1-25https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/hackerbot-claw-github-actions-exploitationhttps://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-coding-agentshttps://openjdk.org/jeps/8305968https://openjdk.org/jeps/353https://openjdk.org/jeps/416https://developer.ibm.com/articles/j-ffmhttps://openjdk.org/jeps/8350458https://openjdk.org/jeps/8303099DESCRIPTIONIn this GOTO State of the Art, Java Champion & Red Hat Senior Principal SW Engineer Ben Evans delivers a sweeping, data-driven audit of Java's health in 2026 — and the picture is far healthier than the tech press would have you believe. Server-side Java workloads have roughly doubled in the last 7 years, developer wages are stable (unlike JavaScript, which is heading south), Java has been in the top 4 programming languages for 12 consecutive years, and the entire cloud-native infrastructure stack — Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, OpenTelemetry, Keycloak — runs on it. The real insight is mathematical: explosive growth of a small language base is still dwarfed by modest growth of Java's enormous installed base. Java isn't dying; it's just not shiny enough to get clicks.The meat of the talk is a masterclass in Java's architecture and roadmap. Ben unpacks the fundamental tension between dynamism (the JVM's Lisp-and-Smalltalk-heritage runtime) and integrity (modern security demands that restrict unchecked internal API access), before walking through the near and far future: Project Valhalla's value types (the most fundamental change to Java ever — bigger than generics or lambdas), the Vector API waiting on Valhalla to land, nullability markers, ahead-of-time compilation, and beyond that, type classes and Project Babylon.His honest take on AI tooling is sharp: great for greenfield, genuinely poor at architectural reasoning and version-specific code, and only a real productivity multiplier for teams who already have solid engineering practices. Oh, and it's a wolf in sheep's clothing — the JVM's dynamism makes it way closer to Lisp than to C++, and Java's philosophy of "boring done right" turns out to be an excellent foundation for AI-era enterprise software.RECOMMENDED BOOKSBen Evans & Jim Gough • Optimizing Cloud Native Java • https://amzn.to/41nivD9Ben Evans, Jason Clark & David Flanagan • Java in a Nutshell • https://amzn.to/43FDoMABlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubEkaterina Gorshkova - Apache Kafka Engineer at SOFTEC & Author of "Kafka for Architects"Viktor Gamov - Principal Developer Advocate at Confluent & Co-Author of "Kafka in Action"Check out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/440RESOURCESEkaterinahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ekaterina-gorshkova-978bb6https://medium.com/@katyagorshkovaViktorhttps://bsky.app/profile/gamussa.devhttps://x.com/gAmUssAhttps://github.com/gamussahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/vikgamovhttps://gamov.ioLinks45% off discount code (expires on 25 May 2026): GOTOKGKafkaAffiliate link: https://hubs.la/Q044HgTvhttps://current.confluent.io/londonDESCRIPTIONApache Kafka has evolved far beyond a simple message broker — it has become a foundational layer for modern enterprise software. In this GOTO Book Club episode, Ekaterina Gorshkova, author of "Kafka for Architects", shares how her decade-long journey with Kafka — starting in a Czech bank's integration team in 2015 — shaped her understanding of what it really takes to design Kafka-based systems at scale. The conversation covers core architectural decisions, real-world patterns for enterprise integration, the role of Kafka Streams, and how to avoid the classic pitfalls of building systems that "only three engineers understand".The episode also looks forward: Ekaterina and host Viktor Gamov explore how Kafka is increasingly becoming the connective tissue for AI-driven systems, acting as an orchestration layer between intelligent agents, real-time data, and business workflows. Her book's central argument is that while AI and tooling change fast, the fundamental knowledge of how to design robust, event-driven systems is durable and career-proof. Kafka for Architects is framed not just as a technical manual, but as a roadmap for architects who want to get Kafka right from day one — requirements, design, testing, and all.RECOMMENDED BOOKSEkaterina Gorshkova • Kafka for Architects • https://amzn.to/42mDarUDylan Scott, Viktor Gamov & Dave Klein • Kafka in Action • https://amzn.to/4vJ3KcjViktor Gamov, Tartakovsky, Rasputnis & Fain • Enterprise Web Development • https://amzn.to/3CezL0RShapira, Palino, Sivaram & Petty • Kafka: The Definitive Guide • https://amzn.to/3RPtdLPBill Bejeck • Kafka Streams in Action • https://amzn.to/3CGJiiMBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.https://gotocph.comSam Aaron - Live Coding Musician & Creator of Sonic PiJames Lewis - Principal Consultant & Technical Director at ThoughtworksRESOURCESSamhttps://www.patreon.com/samaaronhttps://bsky.app/profile/samaaron.bsky.socialhttps://twitter.com/samaaronhttps://github.com/samaaronhttps://linkedin.com/in/samaaronJameshttps://bsky.app/profile/boicy.bovon.orghttps://twitter.com/boicyhttps://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservicesLinkshttps://sonic-pi.nethttps://twitter.com/sonic_pihttps://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pihttps://www.ableton.com/en/linkhttps://hydra.ojack.xyzDESCRIPTIONProgramming isn't just lines of code, it's a gateway to creating music & art. Legends such as Ada Lovelace are proof of that. With the aim to reshape the perception of coding which has traditionally been complex and intimidating, Sam Aaron created Sonic Pi, an open-source, free-to-use platform that empowers users to create music through code.What began as a humble endeavor has grown exponentially with more than millions of downloads globally and a large number of schools integrating the tool as part of their computing curriculum to teach children how to program.RECOMMENDED BOOKSSam Aaron & Russell Barnes • Code Music with Sonic Pi • https://amzn.to/4hBRYtCHans Gruendel • Making Music with Sonic Pi • https://amzn.to/3oVxGV7Hans Gruendel • Learn to Program with Sonic PI • https://amzn.to/3qCrLEOSimon Monk • Raspberry Pi Cookbook • https://amzn.to/43AGPRXMatthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQForsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • https://amzn.to/3tCz1xOBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techWill McGugan - Creator of Toad & the Python Packages, Rich, Textual & PyFilesystemOlimpiu Pop - Technologist & Tech JournalistORIGINAL TALK TITLEThe Python Dev Who Built Rich, Textual & now Toad Just Redesigned How You Talk to AICheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/437RESOURCESWillhttps://mastodon.social/@willmcguganhttps://x.com/willmcguganhttps://bsky.app/profile/willmcgugan.bsky.socialhttps://github.com/willmcguganhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/willmcguganhttps://willmcgugan.github.ioOlimpiuhttps://x.com/olimpiupophttps://github.com/zrollhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/olimpiupopLinkshttps://www.textualize.iohttps://www.batrachian.aihttps://github.com/textualize/richhttps://github.com/Textualize/textualhttps://zed.devhttps://willmcgugan.github.io/toad-releasedhttps://willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toadDESCRIPTIONIn this GOTO Unscripted episode, Olimpiu Pop sits down with Will McGugan — Python PSF Fellow and creator of Rich (4+ billion downloads) and Textual — to demo his sabbatical project: Toad, a slick terminal-based universal frontend for AI coding agents.Will's frustration was simple and justified: every major AI coding tool (Claude Code, Gemini, Codex) was built on top-tier models but wrapped in a UI that looked like it was designed in 2004. Toad fixes that by using the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) as a standardized plug-in layer, giving users elegant prompt editing, proper streaming markdown rendering, beautiful tables, syntax highlighting, and a hybrid shell-plus-AI interface — all in the terminal, where developers already live.The conversation gets sharply honest when the topic turns to AI and developer craft. Will — a 30-year coding veteran who admits it's not instinctive for him to reach for AI — shares a clear-eyed view of its strengths and limits: AI is extraordinarily fast at anything well-defined and unambiguous, but still struggles with genuinely novel problems.His conclusion?Most of what software developers do day-to-day isn't actually novel — it's pattern assembly — and that's precisely where AI shines. The future of coding isn't replacement; it's liberation from the mechanical grind. Oh, and the podcast host literally reading out "music intro here" because stage directions ended up in the transcript? That one's a cautionary tale for the ages.RECOMMENDED BOOKSWill McGugan • Beginning Python Games Development 2nd ed. • https://amzn.to/4ebBfxuWill McGugan • Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame • https://amzn.to/4cyVdB3Sam Keen • Clean Architecture with Python • https://amzn.to/4pBT5g0Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design • https://amzn.to/3tnGhwmNaomi Ceder • The Quick Python Book • https://amzn.to/3zwdDOaBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubIan F. Darwin - Java, Android & Unix Developer, Trainer, Mentor & Author of "Java Cookbook"Jeanne Boyarsky - Oracle Java Champion, Co-Author of "Real-World Java" & "OCP 21 Java Cert Book"Check out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/438RESOURCESIanhttps://fosstodon.org/@IanDarwinhttps://x.com/Ian_Darwinhttps://github.com/IanDarwinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/idarwinhttps://www.darwinsys.comJeannehttps://bsky.app/profile/jeanneboyarsky.bsky.socialhttps://mastodon.social/@jeanneboyarskyhttps://x.com/jeanneboyarskyhttps://github.com/boyarskyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-boyarskyhttps://sites.google.com/view/jeanneboyarskyhttps://www.selikoff.netLinkshttps://javacookbook.orghttps://dev.java/community/jcsDESCRIPTIONIn this GOTO Book Club, Java Champion Jeanne Boyarsky interviews Ian F. Darwin — author of one of Java's most enduring reference books, Java Cookbook, now in its fifth edition covering up to Java 25. The conversation traces Ian's extraordinary journey: from writing Java's first commercial training course outside of Sun Microsystems, to meeting Tim O'Reilly at a Unix conference and handing him a chapter on lint, to delivering a class in Houston where the entire room had just been laid off and were using the course as their golden handshake into a new career. Ian talks about the philosophy behind the book — culling a peak 900-page beast down to a tight 600 pages, anchoring tool choices on proven, battle-tested picks like JUnit, Mockito, and logging — and shares his three favourite chapters: Regular Expressions, Object-Oriented Techniques, and Reflection.The conversation gets sharply honest about AI and the future of the industry. Ian — who uses Claude as his coding assistant and does vibe code — warns that his greatest fear isn't AI taking over the world, but something subtler and more dangerous: companies stopping junior hires because AI can do the work, leaving no one to grow into the deep expertise that retires with the current generation. The parallel risk for books is equally candid: AI was trained on older editions, so the fifth edition is genuinely new and un-scraped territory.His advice for anyone who has learned the basics of Java?Don't ask an AI — buy the cookbook, save yourself years of trial and error, and for goodness' sake, read the code before you deploy it. "It's like building an airplane and putting passengers on it without flight testing."RECOMMENDED BOOKSIan F. Darwin • Java Cookbook 5th ed. • https://amzn.to/3QH0NZyIan F. Darwin • Java Cookbook 1st ed. • https://amzn.to/4sUpPlLIan F. Darwin • Checking C Programs with Lint • https://amzn.to/3Q2C69YVictor Grazi & Jeanne Boyarsky • Real-World Java • https://amzn.to/4oCEeBRJeanne Boyarsky & Scott Selikoff • OCP 21 Java Cert Book • https://amzn.to/4lF8OICBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techMarcin Grzejszczak - Software Engineer at HeroDevs & Java ChampionJakub Pilimon - Software Architect at jPilo & Software Consultant at Bottega IT MindsORIGINAL TALK TITLEThe Typo That Broke Production — And Accidentally Created Spring Cloud ContractCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/435RESOURCESMarcinhttps://bsky.app/profile/toomuchcoding.comhttps://mastodon.social/@toomuchcoding@fosstodon.orghttps://twitter.com/MGrzejszczakhttps://github.com/marcingrzejszczakhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/marcin-grzejszczak-15565119https://toomuchcoding.comJakubhttps://twitter.com/JakubPilimonhttps://github.com/pilloPlhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jakub-pilimon-449b7984http://pillopl.github.ioLinkshttps://toomuchcoding.com/posthttps://martinfowler.com/articles/consumerDrivenContracts.htmlhttps://www.tomakehurst.comDESCRIPTIONIn this GOTO Unscripted episode, Jakub Pilimon sits down with Marcin Grzejszczak — Java Champion, Spring Cloud Contract contributor, author, mentor, and founder of a rural housewives' circle (yes, really) — to trace a 15+ year career that went from C++ on the Côte d'Azur to becoming one of the key architects of Spring Cloud Contract and the Micrometer Observation API. Marcin shares how real production pain — a junior dev fixing a typo in an API that silently broke every client — gave birth to what would become Spring Cloud Contract, and how he's never shy about calling out his own embarrassing code (complete with a Javadoc that opens with "I'm sorry").The conversation pivots sharply into 2025 territory, with Marcin sketching out an AI-powered future for contract testing: instead of manually writing contracts (which developers routinely abandon), capture live production traffic, let AI generate the contracts, and let humans do what they're actually good at — reviewing and approving. Wrapping up with observability, Marcin argues the most underrated pillar isn't logs, metrics, or traces — it's context. Without knowing why something happened (a deployment, a business event), raw telemetry data is just noise. Practical, honest, and occasionally self-deprecating: a thoroughly human conversation in the age of AI.RECOMMENDED BOOKSMarcin Grzejszczak • Mockito Cookbook • https://amzn.to/4rXOrtfMarcin Grzejszczak • Instant Mockito • https://amzn.to/4lV2ePQSam Newman • Building Microservices • https://amzn.to/3dMPbOsSam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96ERoy Osherove • The Art of Unit Testing • https://bit.ly/3obiKNBCharity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda • Observability Engineering • https://amzn.to/38scbmaBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubLukasz Dynowski - Independent Consultant & Co-Author of "Learning API Styles"Sam Newman - Author of "Building Microservices" & "Monolith to Microservices"Check out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/436RESOURCESLukaszhttps://github.com/ludyn-leohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ldyniahttps://learningapistyles.comSamhttps://twitter.com/samnewmanhttps://github.com/snewmanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/samnewmanhttp://samnewman.iohttp://samnewman.io/blogLinkshttps://www.youtube.com/@ldynia1https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRkB-vSK4koOHYIhpKXuXpipVpByEKuPuhttps://learningapistyles.comhttps://github.com/ldynia/learning-api-styleshttps://nordicapis.com/the-bezos-api-mandate-amazons-manifesto-for-externalizationhttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1176617.1176622DESCRIPTIONIn this GOTO Book Club episode, Sam Newman — author of "Building Microservices" — sits down with Lukasz Dynowski, co-author of "Learning API Styles", for a refreshingly low-level deep dive into a subject most developers think they already understand. The book deliberately starts from the network layer up — transmission modes, TCP, protocol stacks — rather than jumping straight to REST and GraphQL, because, as Lukasz explains, most API problems only become visible when you understand the substrate beneath them. The conversation covers the full spectrum: public vs internal APIs, the Bezos API Mandate moment, why treating your API as a product is non-negotiable, and why the choice between binary and textual protocols is never as obvious as performance benchmarks suggest.The real gold comes in two moments. First, Lukasz lays out a crisp checklist for what makes a good API — audience-awareness, maintainability, efficiency, intuitiveness, resilience, security, testability, and documentation that actually matches behavior. Second, Sam shares a war story about a credit derivative system where the only way to figure out who was accessing the database was to turn off the credentials and wait for angry phone calls.The lesson: context shapes every trade-off, there's no universal right answer between REST, gRPC, WebSockets, or messaging, and the best API decision is the one that fits your situation — not the one that fits the conference talk.RECOMMENDED BOOKSLukasz Dynowski • Learning API Styles • https://amzn.to/3PFembKSam Newman • Building Resilient Distributed Systems • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-resilient-distributed/9781098163532Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96ESam Newman • Building Microservices • https://amzn.to/3dMPbOsRonnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running• https://amzn.to/3c4HmmLBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubJay Wengrow - Author of “A Common-Sense Guide to AI Engineering” & CEO of ActualizeKris Jenkins - Lifelong Computer Geek and Podcast HostRESOURCESJayhttps://x.com/jaywengrowhttps://github.com/jaywengrowhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jaywengrowhttps://www.commonsensedev.comKrishttps://bsky.app/profile/krisajenkins.bsky.socialhttps://twitter.com/krisajenkinshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkinshttps://github.com/krisajenkinshttp://blog.jenkster.comDESCRIPTIONIn this GOTO Book Club episode, host Kris Jenkins sits down with Jay Wengrow — founder of coding bootcamp Actualize and author of the bestselling Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms — to dig into his latest book, A Common-Sense Guide to AI Engineering. Jay demystifies how AI agents actually work: at heart, they're a clever hack where your code intercepts an LLM's text output, watches for special notation, and triggers real functions when it spots them. From there, the conversation expands into guardrails (regex, judge LLMs, and specialist ML models), multi-agent architectures for complex tasks, and a hands-on example of a 150-line podcast-generating app built entirely from scratch — no framework required.The real throughline is a pragmatic, sceptical take on the current AI tooling landscape. Jay argues that frameworks can lock you into patterns that haven't been proven yet, and that the field is too new to know which abstractions are genuinely worth having. His rule of thumb: reach for a framework only when it will do something meaningfully better than you can — not just faster. The book was deliberately written around fundamentals rather than specific tools, so it ages well even as the ecosystem moves at breakneck speed. The conclusion is refreshingly grounded: understand the LLM's inherent limitations, build the middle layer thoughtfully, and don't outsource your system prompts to anyone — or anything.RECOMMENDED BOOKSJay Wengrow • A Common-Sense Guide to AI Engineering • https://pragprog.com/titles/jwpaiengJay Wengrow • A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms • https://amzn.to/4bPiTjdJay Wengrow • A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures & Algorithms in Python • https://amzn.to/3PpwtlTJay Wengrow • A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript • https://amzn.to/4dDSZBlBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techJodie Burchell - Senior Data Science Developer Advocate at JetBrainsMichelle Frost - AI Advocate at JetBrainsCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/431RESOURCESJodiehttps://bsky.app/profile/t-redactyl.bsky.socialhttps://fosstodon.org/@t_redactylhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jodieburchellhttps://github.com/t-redactylhttps://t-redactyl.ioMichellehttps://bsky.app/profile/aiwithmichelle.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-frost-devhttps://aiwithmichelle.comLinkshttps://www.youtube.com/@Asianometryhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547https://softwareengineeringproductivity.stanford.eduDESCRIPTIONMichelle Frost and Jodie Burchell - both developer advocates at JetBrains — sit down for a candid, wide-ranging conversation about the state of AI. Drawing on Jodie's unusual path from clinical psychology to biostatistics to NLP, and Michelle's background in machine learning fairness and AI ethics consulting, the two offer a measured, research-grounded perspective on generative AI's real capabilities and limitations. They trace historical parallels between today's AI boom and earlier 'AI summers,' unpack the contested definitions of AI and AGI, make the case for why foundational machine learning knowledge still matters, and examine what the evidence actually says about AI's impact on developer productivity.RECOMMENDED BOOKSMark Coeckelbergh • AI Ethics • https://amzn.to/3SuXUbYDebbie Sue Jancis • AI Ethics • https://amzn.to/44yuEbRAlex Castrounis • AI for People and Business • https://amzn.to/3NYKKToPhil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/432Hannah Foxwell - Independent Consultant & Founder of "AI for the rest of us"Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & ConsultantRESOURCESCharleshttps://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.socialhttps://linkedin.com/in/charleshumblehttps://mastodon.social/@charleshumblehttps://conissaunce.comHannahhttps://bsky.app/profile/hannahfoxwell.nethttps://medium.com/@hannahfoxwellhttps://x.com/HannahFoxwellhttps://github.com/hannahfoxwellhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-foxwellLinkshttps://conissaunce.com/services.htmlhttps://www.aifortherestofus.co/newsletterhttps://conissaunce.com/music.htmlhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0ynenr1enoDESCRIPTIONHannah Foxwell sits down with Charles Humble - speaker, advisor, podcast host, and author - to explore his e-book "Kubernetes at the Edge". They cover what "edge computing" actually means, why it matters across industries from precision agriculture to healthcare and retail, how to approach vendor selection and day-two operations, and why sustainability must be central to how we build and deploy technology. The conversation closes with a frank and thoughtful discussion about the responsibilities of the tech industry in the age of generative AI.RECOMMENDED BOOKSCharles Humble • Kubernetes at the Edge • https://www.conissaunce.com/kubernetes-edge-ebookCharles Humble • Professional Skills for Software Engineers • https://conissaunce.com/professional-skills-shortcutCharles Humble • The Developer's Guide to Cloud Infrastructure, Efficiency & Sustainability • https://conissaunce.com/sustainability-ebookBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.https://gotocph.comRebecca Parsons - CTO Emerita at ThoughtworksGregor Hohpe - Author of "Platform Strategy", "The Software Architect Elevator", et al.Barry O'Reilly - Founder at Black Tulip Tech and Author of "Residues" & "The Architect's Paradox"Andrew Harmel-Law - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks & Author of "Facilitating Software Architecture"RESOURCESRebeccahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-parsons-871491https://twitter.com/rebeccaparsonsGregorhttps://twitter.com/ghohpehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ghohpehttp://eaipatterns.comhttps://architectelevator.comBarryhttps://bsky.app/profile/technologytulip.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-o-reilly-b924657https://www.blacktulip.seAndrewhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewhl.bsky.socialhttps://twit.social/@ahlhttps://x.com/al94781https://github.com/andrewharmellawhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewharmellawhttps://andrewharmellaw.github.ioABSTRACTSpeakers interview each other on topics that matter to them. [...]Read the full abstract here:https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3782RECOMMENDED BOOKSFord, Parsons, Kua & Sadalage  • Building Evolutionary Architectures 2nd Edition • https://amzn.to/3lqr5Q8Gregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdbGregor Hohpe • The Software Architect Elevator • https://amzn.to/3F6d2axBarry O'Reilly • Residues • https://leanpub.com/residualityBarry O'Reilly • The Architect's Paradox • https://leanpub.com/architectsparadoxAndrew Harmel-Law • Facilitating Software Architecture • https://amzn.eu/d/5kZKVfUBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/428Laurenţiu Spilcă - Java Champion, Java Community Lead at Endava & Author of "Software Security for Developers" & more booksThomas Vitale - Senior Software Architect at Systematic & Author of "Cloud Native Spring in Action"RESOURCESLaurhttps://bsky.app/profile/laurspilca.bsky.socialhttps://x.com/laurspilcahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenţiu-spilcă-01a931107https://laurspilca.comThomashttps://bsky.app/profile/thomasvitale.comhttps://mastodon.online/@thomasvitalehttps://twitter.com/vitalethomashttps://linkedin.com/in/vitalethomashttps://github.com/ThomasVitalehttps://www.thomasvitale.comLinkshttps://www.manning.com/books/software-security-for-developershttps://adibsaikali.wordpress.comDESCRIPTIONThomas Vitale sits down with Java Champion and author Laurentiu Spilca to discuss his co-authored book "Software Security for Developers". The conversation explores why security is so often avoided by developers, the widespread confusion between foundational concepts like encoding, hashing, and encryption, the dangers of reinventing established security standards, the growing risks of AI-generated code written without security awareness, and why understanding topics like PKI and certificates is more important than ever in modern software development.RECOMMENDED BOOKSAdib Saikali & Laurentiu Spilca • Software Security for Developers • https://amzn.to/4aPhqu0Laurentiu Spilca • Spring, Start Here • https://amzn.to/3L6Sv6cLaurentiu Spilca • Spring Security in Action • https://amzn.to/3LqEkZWLaurentiu Spilca • Troubleshooting Java • https://amzn.to/4u5vkj0Thomas Vitale • Cloud Native Spring in Action • https://amzn.to/3kLu1nsBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/428Elton Stoneman - Freelance Consultant, Trainer & Author of "Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches"Bret Fisher - Docker Captain, Cloud Native Ambassador, Course Creator, YouTuber & PodcasterRESOURCESEltonhttps://bsky.app/profile/eltonstoneman.bsky.socialhttps://x.com/EltonStonemanhttps://github.com/sixeyedhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/eltonstonemanhttps://blog.sixeyed.comBrethttps://bsky.app/profile/bretfisher.comhttps://x.com/BretFisherhttps://github.com/BretFisherhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bretefisherhttps://www.bretfisher.com/starthttps://www.bretfisher.comLinksGet 45% discount on Manning products with code: GOTOstoneman3https://www.manning.comhttps://blog.sixeyed.com/why-would-you-write-a-book-about-docker-in-2025https://12factor.netDESCRIPTIONIn this conversation, Docker educator Brett Fisher sits down with Elton Stoneman - freelance consultant, former Docker employee, and author of "Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches" — to discuss the newly released second edition of his book. They cover what has changed in the container ecosystem over the last five years, why Docker fundamentals still matter even as Kubernetes dominates production environments, and what separates a Docker beginner from a true expert.RECOMMENDED BOOKSElton Stoneman • Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches • https://amzn.to/4kJVSSDElton Stoneman • Learn Kubernetes in a Month of Lunches • https://amzn.to/4qKjateElton Stoneman • Docker on Windows • https://amzn.to/4cD6kJDBurns, Beda & Hightower • Kubernetes: Up & Running • https://amzn.to/3sueuuILiz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJeLiz Rice • Kubernetes Security • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-security/9781492039075BlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techWilliam Rizzo - Global Field CTO at Mirantis & CNCF AmbassadorColin Griffin - CEO at Krumware & Co-Chair of CNCF Platform Engineering Working GroupRESOURCESWilliamhttps://bsky.app/profile/williamrizzo.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/william-rizzohttps://github.com/wrkodeColinhttps://bsky.app/profile/devnetes.bsky.socialhttps://github.com/krumwarehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-e-griffinLinkshttps://www.cncf.io/reports/cloud-native-artificial-intelligence-whitepaperhttps://cloudnativeplatforms.com/whitepapers/platform-eng-maturity-modelDESCRIPTIONColin Griffin and William Rizzo explore the evolving state of platform engineering in 2026. They discuss how the discipline plays out very differently across verticals such as fintech, telco, and automotive, and why generic frameworks must be tailored to the unique regulatory, cultural, and technical realities of each industry.The conversation moves through the growing pressure to align platform investments with measurable business outcomes, the distinct compliance challenges facing European organizations under tightening AI regulation, and the infrastructure reckoning triggered by large-scale GPU investment. Both speakers converge on a shared wish: that the CNCF Platform Engineering White Paper and Maturity Model be updated to reflect vertical-specific guidance, informed directly by end-user organizations.RECOMMENDED BOOKSGregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdbGregor Hohpe • Cloud Strategy • https://amzn.to/3TOS3NvZhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh • https://amzn.to/3tTCwACSandeep Uttamchandani • The Self-Service Data Roadmap • https://amzn.to/3wAw5W2BlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.https://gotopia.techMarko Klemetti - CTO of EficodeKris Jenkins - Lifelong Computer Geek and Podcast HostORIGINAL TALK TITLERewriting the SDLC Playbook with GenAI: How To Build a GenAI-Augmented Software Organization?RESOURCESMarkohttps://bsky.app/profile/mrako.comhttps://twitter.com/mrakohttps://github.com/mrakohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mrakohttps://mrako.comKrishttps://bsky.app/profile/krisajenkins.bsky.socialhttps://twitter.com/krisajenkinshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkinshttps://github.com/krisajenkinshttp://blog.jenkster.comABSTRACTSpeakers interview each other on topics that matter to them.Expect the unexpected. [...]Read the full abstract here:https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3931RECOMMENDED BOOKSMatthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQForsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • https://amzn.to/3tCz1xOJohn Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3hKZvI5Wynne, Hellesoy & Tooke • The Cucumber Book • https://amzn.to/3tEUINJSol Rashidi • Your AI Survival Guide • https://amzn.to/3UFYnKCDavid Foster • Generative Deep Learning • https://amzn.to/48ZgP4xPhil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/429Ajay Chankramath - Founder & CEO at Platformetrics & Co-Author of "Effective Platform Engineering"Nic Cheneweth - Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks & Co-Author of "Effective Platform Engineering"RESOURCESAjayhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/chankramathhttps://github.com/achankrahttps://x.com/ajchantwhttps://chankramath.comhttps://platformetrics.comNichttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nicchenewethhttps://github.com/nchenewethhttps://x.com/NicChenewethhttps://ncheneweth.comLinkshttps://effectiveplatformengineering.comhttps://epetech.iohttps://dora.devhttps://dora.dev/research/2025/dora-reportDESCRIPTIONAjay Chankramath (founder and CEO of Platformetrics) and Nic Cheneweth  Cheneweth (Principal Technologist at ThoughtWorks) explore the evolving world of platform engineering. They discuss why a product mindset is critical for internal platforms, how control planes and API-first design create scalable foundations, the real challenges organizations face when implementing Backstage, and where AI and agents are beginning to change the platform landscape. Throughout, both speakers emphasize that cutting corners on architectural foundations ultimately compounds problems at scale.RECOMMENDED BOOKSChankramath, Cheneweth, Oliver & Alvarez • Effective Platform Engineering • https://amzn.to/3OnxN8iGregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdbBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO State of the Art in November 2025.https://gotopia.techRead the full transcription of this interview here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/425Adrian Mouat - Developer Relations at Chainguard & Author of 'Using Docker'Charles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & ConsultantRESOURCESAdrianhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianmouat.comhttps://twitter.com/adrianmouathttps://github.com/amouathttps://linkedin.com/in/adrianmouathttp://www.adrianmouat.comCharleshttps://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.socialhttps://linkedin.com/in/charleshumblehttps://mastodon.social/@charleshumblehttps://conissaunce.comLinkshttps://images.chainguard.devhttps://www.cisa.gov/sbomhttps://www.chainguard.dev/supply-chain-security-101/the-npm-registry-cant-protect-you-the-new-javascript-supply-chain-attackshttps://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/discovering-the-xz-backdoor-with-andres-freundhttps://edu.chainguard.devDESCRIPTIONIn this State of the Art episode, Charles Humble speaks with Adrian Mouat, Developer Relations at Chainguard and author of "Using Docker", about the evolution of container security and the persistent challenge of outdated packages.Adrian explains how traditional Linux distributions weren't designed for the immutable, frequently-replaced nature of containers, leading to security vulnerabilities that scanners detect but teams struggle to address. He discusses how Chainguard tackles this problem by building everything from source using Wolfi, creating minimal "distroless" images with near-zero CVEs, and how concepts like SBOMs, attestations, and defense in depth are reshaping security practices.The conversation also covers major security incidents including the XZ Utils backdoor and Shai-hulud attacks, emphasizing the importance of building from source, using short-lived credentials, and replacing rather than updating containers – practices pioneered by companies like Google that are gradually spreading across the industry.RECOMMENDED BOOKSAdrian Mouat • Using Docker • https://amzn.to/3PEYIJLLiz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJeLiz Rice • Kubernetes Security • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-security/9781492039075BlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/427Nick Selby - Managing Partner at EPSDSarah Wells - Independent Consultant & Author of "Enabling Microservice Success"RESOURCESNickhttps://infosec.exchange/@fuzztechhttps://bsky.app/profile/nickselby.comhttps://github.com/nickselbyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nickselbyhttps://nickselby.comSarahhttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahjwells.bsky.socialhttps://linkedin.com/in/sarahjwells1https://www.sarahwells.devLinkshttps://ainowinstitute.org/contributor/heidyhttps://www.heidyk.comDESCRIPTIONIn this conversation, Sarah Wells and Nick Selby explore why the current rush to adopt AI tools introduces significant business risks. They discuss how AI vendors deliberately blur security terminology to confuse buyers, how AI tools' insatiable appetite for data creates enormous blast radii when breaches occur, and what organizations can do to adopt AI responsibly - from threat modeling and cross-disciplinary governance to minimum-permission principles and incident readiness.RECOMMENDED BOOKSSarah Wells • Enabling Microservice Success • https://amzn.to/4aa8xrvKatharine Jarmul • Practical Data Privacy • https://amzn.to/3OafC3mKatharine Jarmul & Jacqueline Kazil • Data Wrangling with Python • https://amzn.to/3Ue5BV5BlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/426Frances Buontempo - Consultant, Developer & Author of "Learn C++ by Example"Matt Godbolt - Low-level Latency Geek & Creator of Compiler ExplorerRESOURCESFranceshttps://bsky.app/profile/fbuontempo.bsky.socialhttps://mastodon.social/@fbuontempohttps://x.com/fbuontempohttps://github.com/doctorlovehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/francesbuontempohttps://about.me/frances_buontempohttps://buontempoconsulting.blogspot.comMatthttps://bsky.app/profile/matt.godbolt.orghttps://xania.orghttps://github.com/mattgodbolthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/godbolthttps://twitter.com/mattgodbolthttps://godbolt.orgLinkshttps://cppinsights.ioDESCRIPTIONMatt Godbolt interviews Frances Buontempo about her book "Learn C++ by Example", a practical guide aimed at helping programmers relearn modern C++ features introduced since C++11. Frances shares her unique teaching philosophy, which emphasizes self-contained, playable examples like simple games that make complex concepts accessible and memorable.Drawing on her background in mathematics and her father's work in teacher education, she explains how her approach—exemplified by her famous "X Out of a Y Paper Bag" series of talks—uses humor and practical scenarios to help learners understand challenging topics like coroutines, the spaceship operator, and the "almost always auto" style. The discussion touches on the evolution of C++, the upcoming reflection features in C++26, and Fran's current project: writing an introductory C++ book for complete beginners, despite finding concepts like "constant variable" challenging to explain even as an experienced author.RECOMMENDED BOOKSFrances Buontempo • Learn C++ by Example • https://amzn.to/4rgxSZXFrances Buontempo • Introducing C++ • https://amzn.to/40aHQQCFrances Buontempo • Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning for Programmers • https://amzn.to/3OLjXMVDaniel Kusswurm • Modern Parallel Programming with C++ and Assembly Language • https://amzn.to/4o5J3SFBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO State of the Art in January 2026.https://gotopia.techRead the full transcription of this interview here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/423Dr. Ewelina Kurtys - Strategic Advisor on Frontier Technologies at FinalSparkCharles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & ConsultantRESOURCESEwelinahttps://x.com/ewelina_kurtyshttps://github.com/ewelinaewelahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ewelinakurtyshttps://www.ewelinakurtys.comCharleshttps://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.socialhttps://linkedin.com/in/charleshumblehttps://mastodon.social/@charleshumblehttps://conissaunce.comLinkshttps://finalspark.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/biologically-inspired-computing-dr-ewelina-kurtys-udnhehttps://finalspark.com/finalspark-6-month-research-technology-updatehttps://finalspark.com/first-publication-from-a-neuroplatform-userDESCRIPTIONDr. Ewelina Kurtys, Strategy Advisor at FinalSpark, discusses the revolutionary potential of biological computing with host Charles Humble.The conversation explores FinalSpark's ambitious goal to build computers using living neurons that are 1 million times more energy efficient than current digital systems. Ewelina explains the technical challenges of working with brain organoids, the ethical considerations of using human stem cells, and why biological neurons could dramatically reduce AI costs while offering unique advantages for complex tasks like generative AI.The interview covers everything from neural encoding and plasticity to consciousness and the deterministic nature of the brain.RECOMMENDED BOOKSRobert M. Sapolsk • Determined • https://amzn.to/4akv2giJin Xu • Biological Computing • https://amzn.to/4a4Wwp9BlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/424Susanne Kaiser - Independent Tech Consultant & Author of "Architecture for Flow"James Lewis - Software Architect & Director at ThoughtworksRESOURCESSusannehttps://bsky.app/profile/suksr.bsky.socialhttps://mastodon.social/@suksrhttps://twitter.com/suksrhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/susannekaiser1https://susannekaiser.netJameshttps://bsky.app/profile/boicy.bovon.orghttps://twitter.com/boicyhttps://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microserviceshttps://github.com/boicyhttps://www.bovon.orgLinkshttps://susannekaiser.net/the-architecture-for-flow-canvashttps://susannekaiser.net/articleshttps://www.christenseninstitute.org/theory/jobs-to-be-doneDESCRIPTIONJames Lewis interviews Susanne Kaiser about her comprehensive new book "Architecture for Flow: Adaptive Systems with Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping and Team Topologies".Susanne shares how she brought together 3 powerful frameworks over several years of her consulting work, creating a holistic approach to designing socio-technical systems. The discussion covers her journey from startup CTO to independent consultant, the evolution of her thinking around value streams and team organization, and her practical "Architecture for Flow Canvas" that teams can use to assess their current state and envision their future.With 126 hand-drawn illustrations and 599 sticky notes in the book, Kaiser emphasizes the importance of visual communication and starting with the problem space before jumping to solutions.RECOMMENDED BOOKSSusanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/3XTmNCcMatthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/4a2gh0iWoods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice • https://amzn.to/2QWAmklSteve Pereira & Andrew Davis • Flow Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GY3u44Stefan Hofer & Henning Schwentner • Domain Storytelling • https://amzn.to/3EroBH7BlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.https://gotocph.comAbby Bangser - Platform Engineering Insights from Syntasso delivering KratixAdrian Mouat - Developer Relations at Chainguard & Author of 'Using Docker'Holly Cummins - JavaOne Rock Star. Building Quarkus to Make the Cloud CloudierRESOURCESAbbyhttps://bsky.app/profile/abangser.bsky.socialhttps://twitter.com/a_bangserhttps://github.com/abangserhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangserhttps://www.syntasso.io/members-area/abby/profileAdrianhttps://bsky.app/profile/adrianmouat.comhttps://twitter.com/adrianmouathttps://github.com/amouathttps://linkedin.com/in/adrianmouathttp://www.adrianmouat.comHollyhttps://hollycummins.comhttps://hollycummins.com/type/bloghttps://bsky.app/profile/hollycummins.comhttps://hachyderm.io/@holly_cumminshttps://twitter.com/holly_cumminshttps://github.com/holly-cumminshttps://linkedin.com/in/holly-k-cumminsRECOMMENDED BOOKSAdrian Mouat • Using Docker • https://amzn.to/3PEYIJLLiz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJeLiz Rice • Kubernetes Security • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-security/9781492039075Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, & Sara Bergman • Building Green Software • https://amzn.to/3UjSClvKief Morris • Infrastructure as Code • https://amzn.to/4e6EBQcBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/422Fabrice Bernhard - Co-Author of “The Lean Tech Manifesto” & Co-Founder & CTO at TheodoSteve Pereira - C o-Author of “Flow Engineering” & Principal Consultant at Visible Flow ConsultingRESOURCESFabricehttps://bsky.app/profile/fab-ber.bsky.socialhttps://x.com/fabricebhttps://github.com/fabricebhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/fabricebernhardStevehttps://x.com/steveelsewherehttps://github.com/stevepereirahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/devopstohttps://stevepereira.caLinkshttps://hbr.org/1986/01/the-new-new-product-development-gameDESCRIPTIONFabrice Bernhard, co-founder of Theodo and co-author of "The Lean Tech Manifesto", shares his journey from agile practitioner to lean thinking advocate. The discussion explores how lean principles can scale agile practices beyond small teams, the misconceptions around both methodologies, and the emergence of tech-enabled networks of teams as a new organizational model.Fabrice emphasizes that both lean and agile are fundamentally about people, not processes, and shares practical lessons from scaling his consultancy to 700 people while maintaining agility through lean principles.RECOMMENDED BOOKSFabrice Bernhard & Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle • The Lean Tech Manifesto • https://amzn.to/3Z4EbU6Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis • Flow Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GY3u44General Stanley McChrystal, Collins, Silverman & Fussell • Team of Teams • https://amzn.to/4bUzhQYMatthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/4a2gh0iBill Frasure, Bruce Eckel, James Ward • Effect Oriented Programming • https://amzn.to/4sO6wLVSusanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/3XTmNCcBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/421Félix GV - Current Interests: Multi-Planetary Databases, Data Sovereignty & LifeloggingOlimpiu Pop - Technologist & Tech JournalistRESOURCESFélixhttps://bsky.app/profile/felixgv.ninjahttps://github.com/FelixGVhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/felixgvOlimpiuhttps://x.com/olimpiupophttps://github.com/zrollhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/olimpiupopLinkshttps://venicedb.orghttps://github.com/linkedin/venicehttps://rocksdb.orghttps://duckdb.orgDESCRIPTIONFélix GV, a former engineer at LinkedIn and architect of the Venice database system, discusses the complexity of building planetary-scale data systems. He explains Venice's unbundled architecture where each component—from Kafka-based pub/sub to RocksDB-powered servers—operates as an independent distributed system. Félix details their rigorous chaos engineering practices, including regular load tests that push data centers beyond normal capacity to ensure reliability.The discussion covers fundamental distributed systems concepts like the CAP theorem and the trade-offs between consistency and availability in multi-region deployments. He also explains why Venice, as a derived data system, deliberately sacrifices strong consistency for high throughput and availability, and concludes by discussing their experimental integration of DuckDB for SQL-based analytics and data exploration capabilities.RECOMMENDED BOOKSKasun Indrasiri & Danesh Kuruppu • gRPC: Up and Running • https://amzn.to/3sBGBJJTomer Shiran, Jason Hughes & Alex Merced • Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide • https://amzn.to/488Z30kWilliam Smith • Arrow Flight Protocols and Practices • https://amzn.to/4o2Q2fdAdi Polak • Scaling Machine Learning with Spark • https://amzn.to/3N9vx1HMark Needham, Michael Hunger & Michael Simons • DuckDB in Action • https://amzn.to/45QwSliSimon Aubury & Ned Letcher • Getting Started with DuckDB • https://amzn.to/3VPk4qBlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.https://gotocph.comSam Newman - Author of Building Microservices & Monolith to MicroservicesJacqui Read - Author of Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and ArchitectsSimon Rohrer - Global Head of Enterprise Tech Architecture and Ways of ThinkingORIGINAL TALK TITLESoftware Design, Architecture & Giving Clarity at ScaleRESOURCESSamhttps://twitter.com/samnewmanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/samnewmanhttp://samnewman.iohttp://samnewman.io/bloghttps://github.com/snewmanJacquihttps://bsky.app/profile/tekiegirl.bsky.socialhttps://jacquiread.comhttps://fosstodon.org/@tekiegirlhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinereadhttps://github.com/tekiegirlSimonhttps://bsky.app/profile/simon.bvssh.comhttps://mastodon.social/@simonrhttps://x.com/sirohrerhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/simonrohrerhttps://github.com/sirohrerhttps://www.soonersaferhappier.comLinkshttps://acedmodel.comABSTRACTIn this session, we will explore the nature of software design - what is it, and where is the intersection with architecture? We'll also look at the importance of communicating context, design, and architecture across an organization.If you'd like to do some advanced reading, head over to acedmodel.com for more.Both Jacqui and Simon will be sharing their expertise and experiences, but this session is also all about your questions. Come along, and get involved! [...]Read the full abstract here:https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3932RECOMMENDED BOOKSJacqui Read • Communication Patterns • https://amzn.to/3E37lvvSam Newman • Building Resilient Distributed Systems • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-resilient-distributed/9781098163532Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96ESam Newman • Building Microservices • https://amzn.to/3dMPbOsJonathan Smart, Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie & Simon Rohrer • Sooner Safer Happier • https://amzn.to/3Emm9p2BlueskyInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/420Bill Frasure - Co-Author of  "Effect Oriented Programming"Bruce Eckel - Author of many books such as "Thinking in Java", "Thinking in C++" & Atomic Kotlin & Co-Author of  "Effect Oriented Programming"James Ward - Principal Developer Advocate at AWS & Co-Author of  "Effect Oriented Programming"Andrew Harmel-Law - Technical Principal at Thoughtworks & Author of "Facilitating Software Architecture"RESOURCESBillhttps://github.com/swoogleshttps://x.com/bill_frasureBrucehttps://bsky.app/profile/bruceeckel.bsky.socialhttps://x.com/BruceEckelhttps://github.com/BruceEckelhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bruceeckelJameshttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesward.comhttps://twitter.com/_JamesWardhttps://github.com/jameswardhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jameswardAndrewhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewhl.bsky.socialhttps://twit.social/@ahlhttps://x.com/al94781https://github.com/andrewharmellawhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewharmellawhttps://andrewharmellaw.github.ioLinkshttps://effectorientedprogramming.comhttps://happypathprogramming.comhttps://zio.devhttps://www.unison-lang.orghttps://www.roc-lang.orgDESCRIPTIONAndrew Harmel-Law explores the core concepts of effect oriented programming with authors Bill Frasure, Bruce Eckel, and James Ward. The discussion reveals that effects are composable operations that encapsulate side effects and defer execution, giving developers the right handles to manage unpredictability through compiler-checked types.The authors explain how ZIO tracks three critical types: outputs, failures, and environmental requirements, enabling better testing with mock clocks and random number generators.They share their intentional avoidance of intimidating functional programming terminology like "monads" proving you don't need mathematical foundations to understand effects. The conversation covers effect systems' expansion beyond Scala into TypeScript, Kotlin, and new languages like Unison and Roc, and how their collaborative writing process with strict constraints like 47-character line limits - created a coherent 100-page book readable in portrait mode on your phone.RECOMMENDED BOOKSBill Frasure, Bruce Eckel, James Ward • Effect Oriented Programming • https://amzn.to/4sO6wLVBruce Eckel & Svetlana Isakova • Atomic Kotlin • https://amzn.to/4qT1gEQBruce Eckel • Thinking in C++ • https://amzn.to/4qnrIGWAndrew Harmel-Law • Facilitating Software Architecture • https://amzn.eu/d/5kZKVfUSam Keen • Clean Architecture with Python • https://amzn.to/4pBT5g0Eric Evans • Domain-Driven Design • https://amzn.to/3tnGhwmBlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.https://gotocph.comRod Johnson - Building the future of agent frameworks at EmbabelArjen Poutsma - Practical Insights from a Spring Framework VeteranTrisha Gee - Award-winning Engineer, Author and PC MemberRESOURCESRodhttps://twitter.com/springrodhttps://github.com/johnsonrhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsonrodahttps://the-composition.com/@springrodArjenhttps://bsky.app/profile/poutsma.bsky.socialhttps://fosstodon.org/@poutsmahttps://github.com/poutsmahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/arjen-poutsma-288ba6Trishahttps://bsky.app/profile/trishagee.bsky.socialhttps://twitter.com/trisha_geehttps://github.com/trishageehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/trishageehttps://trishagee.comABSTRACTAsk me anything.Read the full abstract here:https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3927RECOMMENDED BOOKSRod Johnson • Expert One-On-One J2Ee Design and Development • https://amzn.to/48oCxAJJohnson, Höller, Arendsen, Risbert & Sampaleanu • Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework • https://amzn.to/44J4SRbTrisha Gee & Helen Scott • Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA • https://amzn.to/3ZBgnGcKevlin Henney & Trisha Gee • 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3kiTwJJTrisha Gee, Kathy Sierra & Bert Bates • Head First Java • https://amzn.to/3k59BJ6BlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Serverless 2025.https://conferences.gotopia.tech/goto-serverless-bengaluru-2025Nick Coult - Director of Product for Serverless at AWSRobbie Kohler - VP of Software Engineering, Byte by Yum!David Anderson - Software Architect at G-P/Globalization Partners & Author of "The Value Flywheel Effect"Janak Agarwal - Senior Manager, Product Management, AWS LambdaAkshatha Laxmi - Solution Architect at AntStackJeevan Dongre - CEO & Co-Founder at AntStackRESOURCESNickhttps://x.com/nickcoulthttps://github.com/coultnhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nickcoultRobbiehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/rkohlerhttps://x.com/robbie_kohlerDavidhttps://x.com/davidand393https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-anderson-belfasthttps://theserverlessedge.comJanakhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/janakagarwalAkshathahttps://github.com/AkshathaLaxmihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/akshatha-laxmiJeevanhttps://x.com/jeevandongrehttps://github.com/jeevandongrehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jeevandongreRead the full abstract here:https://conferences.gotopia.tech/goto-serverless-bengaluru-2025/sessions/3856RECOMMENDED BOOKSPeter Sbarski • Serverless Architectures on AWS • https://amzn.to/3hJzEUMMichael Stack • Event-Driven Architecture in Golang • https://amzn.to/3G5e8STAshley Peacock • Serverless Apps on Cloudflare • https://amzn.to/3EU7P85Jeroen Mulder • Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects • https://amzn.to/3FdNDOABlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/418Sam Keen - Founder & Researcher at AlteredCraft & Author of "Clean Architecture with Python"Max Kirchoff - CTO at Ginko & Multidisciplinary Technologist & CreativeRESOURCESSamhttps://bsky.app/profile/samkeen.bsky.socialhttps://x.com/samkeenhttps://github.com/samkeenhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/samkeenhttps://samkeen.devMaxhttps://x.com/ProductNihilisthttps://github.com/maxkirchoffhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/maxkirchoffhttps://maxkirchoff.comLinkshttps://www.heyginko.comhttps://martinfowler.com/bliki/TestPyramid.htmlDESCRIPTIONMax Kirchoff interviews Sam Keen about his book "Clean Architecture with Python". Sam, a software developer with 30 years of experience spanning companies from startups to AWS, shares his approach to applying clean architecture principles with Python while maintaining the language's pragmatic nature.The conversation explores the balance between architectural rigor and practical development, the critical relationship between architecture and testability, and how clean architecture principles can enhance AI-assisted coding workflows. Sam emphasizes that clean architecture isn't an all-or-nothing approach but a set of principles that developers can adapt to their context, with the core value lying in thoughtful dependency management and clear domain modeling.RECOMMENDED BOOKSSam Keen • Clean Architecture with Python • https://amzn.to/4pBT5g0Fabrizio Romano & Heinrich Kruger • Learn Python Programming • https://amzn.to/4myLBItUncle Bob • Clean Code • https://amzn.to/3soPO6kUncle Bob • Clean Architecture • https://amzn.to/3x0gjBQEric Evans • Domain-Driven Design • https://amzn.to/3tnGhwmNaomi Ceder • The Quick Python Book • https://amzn.to/3zwdDOaLuciano Ramalho • Fluent Python • https://amzn.to/3oSw2jeDavid Beazley • Python Distilled (Developer's Library) • https://amzn.to/3QjNBEvSaleem Siddiqui • Learning Test-Driven Development • https://amzn.to/35OMb3nMaciej «MJ» Jedrzejewski • Master Software Architecture • https://leanpub.com/master-software-architectureBlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/419Roman Zhukov - Principal Architect - Security Communities Lead at Red HatDamian Brady - Staff Developer Advocate at GitHubRESOURCESRomanhttps://github.com/rozhukovhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/rozhukovDamianhttps://bsky.app/profile/damovisa.mehttps://hachyderm.io/@damovisahttps://x.com/damovisahttps://github.com/Damovisahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/damianbradyhttps://damianbrady.com.auLinkshttps://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-assisted-development-and-open-source-navigating-legal-issuesDESCRIPTIONRoman Zhukov (Red Hat) and Damian Brady (GitHub) explore the evolving landscape of AI-assisted software development. They discuss how AI tools are transforming developer workflows, making developers about 20% faster on simple tasks while being 19% slower on complex ones.The conversation covers critical topics including code quality and trust, security concerns with AI-generated code, the importance of education and best practices, and how developer roles are shifting from syntax experts to system architects. Both experts emphasize that AI tools serve as amplifiers rather than replacements, with humans remaining essential in the loop for quality, security, and licensing compliance.RECOMMENDED BOOKSPhil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZAlex Castrounis • AI for People and Business • https://amzn.to/3NYKKToHolden Karau, Trevor Grant, Boris Lublinsky, Richard Liu & Ilan Filonenko • Kubeflow for Machine Learning • https://amzn.to/3JVngcxKelleher & Tierney • Data Science (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) • https://amzn.to/3AQmIRgLakshmanan, Robinson & Munn • Machine Learning Design Patterns • https://amzn.to/2ZD7t0xLakshmanan, Görner & Gillard • Practical Machine Learning for Computer Vision • https://amzn.to/3m9HNjPBlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/417Olaf Molenveld - Technology Advisor at CircleCIJulian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWSRESOURCESOlafhttps://x.com/olafmolenveldhttps://medium.com/@olafmolenveldhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/olafmolenveldJulianhttps://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.comhttps://twitter.com/julian_woodhttps://github.com/julianwoodhttp://www.wooditwork.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwoodDESCRIPTIONCircleCI's Technology Advisor Olaf Molenveld discusses the evolution of CI/CD practices with AWS's Julian Wood. They explore how modern software delivery has transformed from simple monolithic deployments to complex microservices ecosystems, drawing parallels between managing production code and managing the "factory" that produces it.The discussion covers optimization strategies, the balance between local and remote development, platform engineering trends, and how AI is reshaping DevOps practices. Olaf emphasizes that getting software into users' hands is as critical as writing it, and shares how teams can leverage observability, right-sizing, and intelligent automation to improve their delivery pipelines.RECOMMENDED BOOKSDavid Farley • Continuous Delivery Pipelines • https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelinesJez Humble & Dave Farley • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/3ocIHwdNicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim • Accelerate • https://amzn.to/442Rep0Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook • https://amzn.to/47oAf3lLauren Maffeo • Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up • https://amzn.to/3QhIlnVRoy Osherove • The Art of Unit Testing • https://bit.ly/3obiKNBBurns, Beda & Hightower • Kubernetes: Up & Running • https://amzn.to/3sueuuIGojko Adzic • Lizard Optimization • https://leanpub.com/lizardoptimizationGregor Hohpe • Platform Strategy • https://amzn.to/4cxfYdbBlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/416Martin Štefanko - Quarkus Core Engineer at IBM & Co-Author of "Quarkus in Action"Jan Martiška - Software Engineer Quarkus at IBM & Co-Author of "Quarkus in Action"Holly Cummins - Senior Technical Staff Member, Quarkus at IBMRESOURCESMartinhttps://bsky.app/profile/xstefank.bsky.socialhttps://mastodon.cloud/@xstefankhttps://x.com/xstefankhttps://github.com/xstefankhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-stefankoJanhttps://bsky.app/profile/janmartiska.bsky.socialhttps://x.com/janmartiskahttps://github.com/jmartiskhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/janmartiskaHollyhttps://hollycummins.comhttps://hollycummins.com/type/bloghttps://bsky.app/profile/hollycummins.comhttps://hachyderm.io/@holly_cumminshttps://twitter.com/holly_cumminshttps://github.com/holly-cumminshttps://linkedin.com/in/holly-k-cumminsLinkshttps://code.quarkus.iohttps://vaadin.comDESCRIPTIONHolly Cummins sits down with Martin Stefanko and Jan Martiška, authors of "Quarkus in Action", to discuss their journey writing this comprehensive guide to the Java framework. The authors share insights about Quarkus's developer experience, from its blazing-fast dev mode to native compilation capabilities, while revealing what they learned writing about 29 different extensions across 12 chapters.They discuss the book's structure - from getting started to deploying in the cloud- and offer practical advice on when to use JVM versus native compilation, making this essential reading for both Quarkus newcomers and experienced developers.RECOMMENDED BOOKSMartin Stefanko • Jan Martiska • Quarkus in Action • https://amzn.to/3K1En2zBen Evans & Jim Gough • Optimizing Cloud Native Java • https://amzn.to/41nivD9Kief Morris • Infrastructure as Code • https://amzn.to/4e6EBQcAlex Soto Bueno & Jason Porter • Quarkus Cookbook • https://amzn.to/4au3QfFBlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO State of the Art in October 2025.https://gotopia.techRead the full transcription of this interview here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/415Nathen Harvey - DORA Lead, Product Manager at Google Cloud & AuthorCharles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & ConsultantRESOURCESNathenhttps://bsky.app/profile/nathenharvey.bsky.socialhttps://x.com/nathenharveyhttps://github.com/nathenharveyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nathenhttps://linktr.ee/nathenharveyhttp://nathenharvey.comCharleshttps://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.socialhttps://linkedin.com/in/charleshumblehttps://mastodon.social/@charleshumblehttps://conissaunce.comLinkshttps://dora.devhttps://dora.dev/research/2025/dora-reporthttps://dora.dev/research/2024/dora-reporthttps://thenewstack.io/ebooks/kubernetes/kubernetes-at-the-edge-container-orchestration-at-scaleDESCRIPTIONCharles Humble speaks with Nathen Harvey, leader of Google's DORA research team, about the real impact of AI on software development.Drawing from surveys of nearly 5,000 practitioners, Nathen reveals a surprising finding: increased AI adoption initially correlates with decreased stability and throughput - the very metrics teams have optimized for decades. The conversation explores why this happens, what capabilities organizations need before scaling AI adoption, and how AI acts as an amplifier of existing systems rather than a silver bullet.Nathen introduces DORA's seven AI capabilities model and discusses critical issues around trust, documentation, skill devaluation, and the future of software delivery in an AI-native world.RECOMMENDED BOOKSEmily Freeman & Nathen Harvey • 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know • https://amzn.to/3UlWBLtCharles Humble • Professional Skills for Software Engineers • https://www.conissaunce.com/professional-skills-shortcutNicole Forsgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim • Accelerate • https://amzn.to/442Rep0Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook • https://amzn.to/47oAf3lJez Humble & David Farley • Continuous Delivery • https://amzn.to/452ZRkyJez Humble, Joanne Molesky & Barry O'Reilly • Lean Enterprise • https://amzn.to/47pcOXDAdrienne Braganza Tacke • "Looks Good to Me": Constructive Code Reviews • https://amzn.to/3E75XrDYevgeniy Brikman • Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery • https://amzn.to/3WMPMFUBlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/413Alexandre Malavasi - CTO at Marelo & Author of "Modern Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core"Albert S. Tanure - Cross Solutions Architec at Microsoft & Author of "ASP.NET Core 9 Essentials"RESOURCESAlexandrehttps://x.com/alemalavasihttps://github.com/alexandremalavasihttps://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandremalavasiAlberthttps://x.com/alberttanurehttps://github.com/tanurehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-tanurehttps://www.codefc.io/enDESCRIPTIONMicrosoft Cloud Solution Architect Albert Tanure interviews Microsoft MVP Alexandre Malavasi about his fourth book, "Modern Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core". The discussion explores the challenges of writing comprehensive technical books, the importance of foundational knowledge in full stack development, and how to integrate ASP.NET Core with modern JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue.js.Alexandre emphasizes that successful architecture decisions depend primarily on team expertise and the ability to facilitate change, rather than following trends.The conversation also highlights the critical importance of looking beyond just coding - encompassing project planning, DevOps practices, monitoring, and continuous optimization - to truly bring value to customers and become well-rounded software engineers.RECOMMENDED BOOKSAlexandre Malavasi • Modern Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core • https://amzn.to/4pvEXnYAlexandre Malavasi • Implementing Design Patterns in C# 11 and .NET 7 • https://amzn.to/49CapwnAlexandre Malavasi • Enterprise Applications with C# and .NET • https://amzn.to/4iiVidkAlexandre Malavasi • Implementing Design Patterns in C# and .NET 5 • https://amzn.to/3JU5UD2Albert Tanure • ASP.NET Core 9 Essentials • https://amzn.to/43bH73tBlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/410Holden Karau - Co-Founder at Fight Health InsuranceJulian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWSRESOURCESHoldenhttps://bsky.app/profile/holdenkarau.comhttps://twitter.com/holdenkarauhttps://github.com/holdenkhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/holdenkarauhttp://holdenkarau.comJulianhttps://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.comhttps://twitter.com/julian_woodhttps://github.com/julianwoodhttp://www.wooditwork.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwoodResourcehttps://fighthealthinsurance.comDESCRIPTIONApache Spark contributor Holden Karau discusses the evolution of distributed data processing, the challenges of integrating machine learning with big data tools, and the technical complexities of working with GPUs at scale.The conversation takes a personal turn as Holden reveals her latest project: an open-source AI tool that helps people appeal health insurance claim denials. Drawing from personal experiences with denied claims, she has built a system that trains on independent medical review data to generate effective appeals, making it freely available at https://fighthealthinsurance.com while grappling with the classic open-source challenge of sustainable funding.RECOMMENDED BOOKSHolden Karau • Distributed Computing 4 Kids • https://www.distributedcomputing4kids.comHolden Karau • Scaling Python with Dask • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/scaling-python-with/9781098119867Holden Karau & Boris Lublinsky • Scaling Python with Ray • https://amzn.to/44GU6cCHolden Karau & Rachel Warren • High Performance Spark • https://amzn.to/3v2eLbnHolden Karau, Konwinski, Wendell & Zaharia • Learning Spark • https://amzn.to/397e2NEHolden Karau & Krishna Sankar • Fast Data Processing with Spark 2nd Edition • https://amzn.to/3xKhXKuHolden Karau • Fast Data Processing with Spark 1st Edition • https://amzn.to/3rHQgOuBlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/articles/412Andrew Lamb - Staff Engineer at InfluxData, ASF Member & PMC Apache DataFusion & Apache ArrowOlimpiu Pop - Technologist & Tech JournalistRESOURCESAndrewhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewlamb1111.bsky.socialhttps://x.com/andrewlamb1111https://github.com/alambhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewalambhttps://andrew.nerdnetworks.orgOlimpiuhttps://x.com/olimpiupophttps://github.com/zrollhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/olimpiupopLinkshttps://www.influxdata.com/blog/flight-datafusion-arrow-parquet-fdap-architecture-influxdbhttps://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2005/papers/P19.pdfDESCRIPTIONOlimpiu Pop speaks with Andrew Lamb, staff engineer at InfluxData and PMC member of Apache DataFusion and Apache Arrow, about how modern data systems are built using standardized open source components rather than being developed from scratch.Andrew discusses the FDAP Stack (Flight, DataFusion, Arrow & Parquet), the shift from row-based to columnar data storage, and how technologies like Apache Iceberg are enabling a new era of interoperability across data platforms. The discussion covers why this modular approach saves years of development time while providing better performance and compatibility.RECOMMENDED BOOKSKasun Indrasiri & Danesh Kuruppu • gRPC: Up and Running • https://amzn.to/3sBGBJJTomer Shiran, Jason Hughes & Alex Merced • Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide • https://amzn.to/488Z30kWilliam Smith • Arrow Flight Protocols and Practices • https://amzn.to/4o2Q2fdMatthew Topol • In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow • https://amzn.to/4oJQ6BMApache Parquet A Complete Guide • https://amzn.to/4i7HVN6BlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/411Daniel Kusswurm - SW Developer, Computer Scientist & Author of "Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming" & many more booksMatt Godbolt - Low-level Latency Geek & Creator of Compiler ExplorerRESOURCESMatthttps://bsky.app/profile/matt.godbolt.orghttps://xania.orghttps://github.com/mattgodbolthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/godbolthttps://twitter.com/mattgodbolthttps://godbolt.orgLinkshttps://link.springer.comhttps://youtu.be/L2Qu9rk05rEhttps://youtu.be/-HNpim5x-IEhttps://youtu.be/hgcNM-6wr34DESCRIPTIONMatt Godbolt, creator of Compiler Explorer, interviews Daniel Kusswurm, author of "Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming", about the enduring relevance of assembly language in modern software development. They explore what SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) is and why it enables dramatic performance improvements for specific computational tasks, discuss when assembly language programming is justified versus using compiler intrinsics, and examine the challenges of writing vectorized algorithms. Dan shares insights from his career optimizing image analysis software and explains how understanding low-level architecture can improve code quality even when writing in higher-level languages.RECOMMENDED BOOKSDaniel Kusswurm • Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming v3 • https://amzn.to/44hIVZfDaniel Kusswurm • Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming v2 • https://amzn.to/3LJlMIZDaniel Kusswurm • Modern X86 Assembly Language Programming v1 • https://amzn.to/43DPANjDaniel Kusswurm • Modern Arm Assembly Language Programming • https://amzn.to/4rbyH6MDaniel Kusswurm • Practical C++ STL Programming • https://amzn.to/4ickAdqDaniel Kusswurm • Modern Parallel Programming with C++ and Assembly Language • https://amzn.to/4o5J3SFBlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.http://gotopia.tech/bookclubCheck out more here:https://gotopia.tech/episodes/409Dr. Larysa Visengeriyeva - Author of "The AI Engineer's Guide to Surviving the EU AI Act" & Independent Consultant for EU AI Act EngineeringBarbara Lampl - Behavioral Mathematician at empathic business by Barbara LamplRESOURCESLarysahttps://x.com/visengerhttps://bsky.app/profile/visenger.bsky.socialhttps://github.com/visengerhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/larysavisengerBarbarahttps://x.com/BarbaraLamplhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaralamplhttps://barbara-lampl.tumblr.comLinkshttps://ml-ops.orghttps://github.com/visenger/awesome-mlopshttps://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj/enghttps://machinelearningcanvas.comhttps://louisdorard.gumroad.com/l/mlcanvashttps://ml-ops.org/content/crisp-mlDESCRIPTIONBarbara Lampl interviews Larysa Visengeriyeva, software engineer and "godmother of MLOps", about her new book on AI engineering and compliance. What starts as a discussion about the EU AI Act quickly reveals a deeper truth: the real challenge isn't regulatory compliance - it's fundamental engineering practices.Larysa argues that quality AI systems require robust MLOps, comprehensive documentation, and proper data governance, whether regulation mandates it or not. Drawing from frameworks like CRISP-ML and the Machine Learning Canvas, the book provides practical checklists and methodologies for taking AI projects from prototype to production. Written partially in Ukraine during wartime, this "battle-tested" guide addresses the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders, offering a common language for building sustainable AI systems.RECOMMENDED BOOKSLarysa Visengeriyeva • The AI Engineer's Guide to Surviving the EU AI Act • https://amzn.to/42SKOuULakshmanan, Robinson & Munn • Machine Learning Design Patterns • https://amzn.to/4ox4EosPhil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZDiana Montalion • Learning Systems Thinking • https://amzn.to/3ZpycdJBernd Rücker • Practical Process Automation • https://amzn.to/3cs3BSHLauren Maffeo • Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up • https://amzn.to/3QhIlnVKatharine Jarmul • Practical Data Privacy • https://amzn.to/46XPrnsZhamak Dehghani • Data Mesh • https://amzn.to/3tTCwACKate Stanley & Mickael Maison • Kafka Connect • https://amzn.to/40Jq5JzBlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!