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

Presenters Gerry McGovern Ga毛l Duez Source Green IO podcast 馃實 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 Ga毛l Duez sits down with Gerry McGovern, the author of the eye-opening book World Wide Waste. ...

February 10, 2026 路 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 馃殌 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鈥檛 just complain鈥攖hey 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 路 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鈥檚 Secrets: Your Ultimate Guide to Observability! 馃殌 Ever felt like you鈥檙e flying blind when your gRPC applications hit a snag? You鈥檙e not alone! Understanding the inner workings of distributed systems, especially those powered by gRPC, can feel like trying to solve a Rubik鈥檚 Cube blindfolded. But what if you could have X-ray vision into every request, every connection, and every potential bottleneck? ...

February 4, 2026 路 8 min

Running gRPC at Scale: Lessons From the Frontlines of Production - Sailesh Singh & Prashubha Pathak

Presenters Sailesh Singh Prashubha Pathak Source grpConf India 2025 馃殌 Scaling gRPC: Battle-Tested Lessons from the Production Frontlines Moving a system from a local development environment to a high-scale production ecosystem changes everything. While running gRPC locally feels like a breeze, operating at scale means managing high throughput, low latency, and high availability across multi-region deployments. In this post, we synthesize real-world insights from experts who have spent 5+ years navigating the trenches of system administration and microservices architecture. We will explore what actually breaks when the traffic hits and how to build resilient systems that stay upright under pressure. 馃 ...

February 4, 2026 路 5 min

Safe, Fast, and Scalable: Why gRPC-Rust Should Be Your Next RPC Framework - Arjan Bal & Saurav

Presenters Arjan Bal Saurav Source grpConf India 2025 馃殌 The Future of gRPC in Rust: From Tonic to a High-Performance Successor The Rust ecosystem is moving at lightning speed, and for those building high-performance distributed systems, the evolution of gRPC Rust is one of the most exciting developments on the horizon. At a recent tech briefing, Saurav and Arjan from the gRPC Rust team shared a deep dive into how they are evolving the current landscape, moving beyond the popular Tonic library to create a more robust, feature-rich, and official successor. ...

February 4, 2026 路 4 min