Building Resilient Event-Driven Microservices in Financial Systems with Muzeeb Mohammad

Presenters Thomas Betts Muzeeb Mohammad Source InfoQ podcast Navigating Tomorrow’s Tech: Unlocking Speed, Security, and AI in Financial Services 🚀 If you’re a senior engineer, architect, or technical leader constantly scanning the horizon for the next big thing, you know the tech landscape is a whirlwind. QCON London, a conference focused on deep practical insights from senior practitioners, is where many look to stay ahead. Recently, on the InfoQ podcast, host Thomas Betts sat down with Muzeeb Mohammad, a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at JP Morgan Chase, to dive into the fascinating world of designing secure, resilient, and high-performance distributed microservices for large-scale financial platforms. Their conversation illuminates how financial giants embrace cutting-edge architectures and AI, proving that even the most established industries are ready for radical transformation. ...

February 16, 2026 · 6 min

Clean Architecture with Python • Sam Keen & Max Kirchoff

Presenters Sam Keen Max Kirchoff Source GOTO podcast Welcome to the GoTo Podcast Book Club! 🚀 Today, we’re diving deep into the world of Clean Architecture in Python with none other than its brilliant author, Sam Keen, in a captivating chat with GoTo’s Max Kirchoff. Get ready to transform your approach to Python development! Sam’s Journey to Clean Architecture 💡 Sam Keen is a seasoned software developer with nearly 30 years of experience, spanning the entire web era. He started his career in Java, then explored PHP, rode the Ruby on Rails train, and for the last 8 to 10 years, Python has been his daily go-to for backend web development. Sam has worked across a diverse range of companies, from small startups to giants like Nike, Lululemon, and AWS (where he spent six and a half years). ...

February 13, 2026 · 8 min

Technology, Societal Collapse, and the Growth Death Cult | Gerry McGovern

Presenters Gerry McGovern Gaël Duez Source Green IO podcast 🌍 The 99th Day: Why Tech is a Growth Death Cult and How to Find a Way Out You might not think so, but there is a world of wisdom that technologists can learn from indigenous philosophy. In a provocative and deeply moving episode of Green IO, host Gaël Duez sits down with Gerry McGovern, the author of the eye-opening book World Wide Waste. ...

February 10, 2026 · 6 min

Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson

Presenters Thomas Betts Madelyn Olson Source InfoQ podcast From Redis to Valkey: Engineering the Future of In-Memory Data 🚀 In the fast-moving world of software architecture, few events trigger as much immediate action as a major licensing shift. When Redis moved away from its open-source roots in March 2024, the community didn’t just complain—they built. Thomas Betts recently sat down with Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and Principal Engineer at AWS, to discuss how a dedicated group of engineers birthed a new industry standard in just eight days. Beyond the drama of the fork lies a story of deep technical refinement, where modernizing a 2009-era hashmap design led to staggering memory savings and performance gains. ...

February 9, 2026 · 5 min

gRPC Observability: A Guide To Distributed Debugging and Monitoring - Abhishek Agrawal, Madhav Bissa

Presenters Abhishek Agrawal Madhav Bissa Source grpConf India 2025 Unlocking gRPC’s Secrets: Your Ultimate Guide to Observability! 🚀 Ever felt like you’re flying blind when your gRPC applications hit a snag? You’re not alone! Understanding the inner workings of distributed systems, especially those powered by gRPC, can feel like trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded. But what if you could have X-ray vision into every request, every connection, and every potential bottleneck? ...

February 4, 2026 · 8 min