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

CI/CD Evolution: From Pipelines to AI-Powered DevOps • Olaf Molenveld & Julian Wood

Presenters Olaf Molenveld Julian Wood Source GOTO podcast 🚀 The Last Mile: Why Your CI/CD Pipeline is the Real Product In the world of software development, writing code has never been easier. With AI assistants and vibe coding becoming the norm, developers can spin up scripts in minutes. But as Julian Wood and Olaf Molenveld (Technology Advisor at CircleCI) discussed in a recent episode of GoTo Unscripted, writing code is only half the battle. If you can’t get that software in front of a customer safely and securely, it’s effectively useless. ...

February 6, 2026 · 5 min

Dial Once, Scale Infinitely: Production-Ready gRPC Without the Mess - Aparna Prabhu & Saubhik Singh

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! ...

February 4, 2026 · 5 min