Programming Language

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 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 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? ...