Product Engineering

Presenters Roman Zhukov Damian Brady Source GOTO podcast AI-Assisted Coding: Amplifier, Not Replacement 🚀 The world of software development is buzzing with the advent of AI-generated code. While the hype is real, the reality is more nuanced. We’re not talking about replacing developers wholesale, but rather about amplifying their capabilities. This shift is transforming developer workflows, but it’s crucial to understand the challenges, best practices, and the evolving roles within our tech landscape. ...

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 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. ...

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? ...