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. ...
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. ...
Presenters Aparna Prabhu Saubhik Singh Source grpConf India 2025 From Vanilla gRPC to DRPC: Scaling Microservices at DigitalOcean 🚀 Ever wondered how cloud giants handle the immense complexity of running thousands of services, all while keeping things lightning-fast and reliable? Today, we’re diving deep into the world of gRPC and how DigitalOcean has not only adopted it but evolved it into their own robust solution, DRPC. Get ready for a journey from the basics of remote procedure calls to the nitty-gritty of their custom platform! ...
Presenters Sreenithi Sridharan Source grpConf India 2025 Demystifying gRPC: Your High-Speed Highway for Distributed Applications 🚀 Welcome to a fascinating journey into the heart of gRPC, the powerful framework that’s redefining how our applications communicate! If you’re building modern, distributed systems, you’ve likely heard the buzz around gRPC. Today, we’re cutting through the complexity to give you a clear, exciting look at its core, its lifecycle, and the advanced features that make it an industry favorite. ...
Presenters Goutam Verma Expedia Source grpConf India 2025 Unleash Your gRPC Services: Securely & Confidently on Kubernetes with APK! 🚀 gRPC services are powerful, fast, and production-ready. They’ve revolutionized how microservices communicate with their efficiency and performance. But let’s be honest, deploying and exposing these high-performance services to the outside world – external users, partners, or even other internal teams – often feels like navigating a minefield. How do you maintain control, security, and scalability without burdening your backend teams? ...