InfoQ editors interview engineers and architects on Kafka, AI governance, and JVM internals.
The InfoQ Podcast treats modern software work as a set of concrete trade-offs rather than a stream of trends. Its conversations move through SBOM discipline, context engineering, agentic system boundaries, resilience, DevEx, open source release tooling, and leadership in the age of AI.
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The InfoQ Podcast is a weekly interview show produced by InfoQ, a publication focused on software architecture and engineering trends. Episodes are hosted by InfoQ editors, most often Thomas Betts, along with Michael Redlich and Olympio Pop, each interviewing a single guest about a specific technical topic. Guests are typically senior engineers, architects, or technical leads at established companies: examples in the sample include a JPMorgan Chase engineering manager on Kafka-based microservices migration, an Azul deputy CTO on OpenJDK's Project Leiden, an Amazon ElastiCache engineer on Valkey's hash table redesign, a Microsoft cloud advocate on GitHub Copilot workflows, and an SBOM tooling co-founder on software supply chain security. Recurring themes include event-driven and microservices architecture, generative AI's effect on software development and enterprise architecture governance, software supply chain security and SBOMs, Java/JVM internals, and distributed systems and database internals. Episodes generally run 35 to 50 minutes and follow a structured question-and-answer format grounded in the guest's specific project or research rather than broad trend discussion. Several episodes reference InfoQ's other editorial output, including its Next Generation Architecture Playbook series and QCon conference talks, with some framed as direct follow-ups to earlier interviews. Content is technical and practitioner-oriented, citing specific tools, protocols, and metrics. The show is aimed at software engineers, architects, and technical leads looking for implementation-level detail on how specific companies solved specific engineering problems. Production is a straightforward two-person interview format without narrative framing, and some episodes carry vendor sponsorship segments tied to InfoQ's QCon conferences.
Made for: Software engineers, architects, and technical leads wanting practitioner-level detail on production architecture, AI governance, and language-runtime engineering decisions.
What sets it apart: Each episode centers on one practitioner's specific project, such as a JPMorgan Chase Kafka migration or Valkey's hash table redesign, rather than general industry commentary.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Practitioner interviews connect software architecture, AI development and security choices to the engineering consequences that follow.
The InfoQ Podcast turns interviews with working technologists into close readings of the decisions underneath software systems. Thomas Betts, Michael Redlich and Olympio Pop keep their questions close to implementation, moving among AI-assisted development, autonomous-system…
Architecture gets a safety briefing before you hand AI agents the office keys.
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A practical SBOM discussion that turns the Trivy compromise into concrete CI/CD hygiene.
The InfoQ Podcast treats SBOMs as an engineering habit, not a box to tick for regulators. Olympio Pop and Victor Pettersson move from the pressure created by software supply chain rules into the work most teams can actually start: map application dependencies, feed SBOM data…
A practical InfoQ conversation on turning prompt habits into reusable, searchable context for AI-assisted software work.
Context engineering comes across here as the practical step beyond prompt engineering: not clever phrasing, but deciding what knowledge an AI system should bring into a task.
A thoughtful leadership conversation about smaller bets, faster learning, and making room for teams to be wrong.
Mindful Leadership in the Age of AI frames AI-era management as less a tooling problem than a tolerance-for-uncertainty problem. Thomas Betts gives Sam McAfee space to draw a useful line from agile's original promise to today's leadership pressures: smaller releases were never…
A practical architecture discussion on agent boundaries, guardrails, and keeping AI autonomy under deliberate control.
AI autonomy is framed less as a product feature than as an architecture problem: where boundaries sit, what agents are allowed to do, and how LLM-driven systems connect to existing procedural, microservices-based platforms.
A practical look at event sourcing as a bridge from mainframes to resilient financial microservices.
Event driven microservices in financial systems are treated here as a migration path as much as an architecture choice. Thomas Betts keeps the conversation grounded with Muzib Mohammad, moving from account events and replayable histories to the problem of easing a mainframe out…
A grounded Valkey performance discussion about throughput, hash tables, benchmarking, and memory-access costs.
InfoQ turns Valkey performance into a concrete engineering discussion, centered on how an in-memory system is measured and improved when simple commands may take about a microsecond but real deployments add network hops, contention, and memory-access costs.
A grounded look at AI coding tools as team memory, code reviewer, and fast-changing development habit.
AI-driven development comes across here as a practical shift in team workflow, not a pitch for instant code generation. Thomas Betts and Olivia McVicker talk through the tools developers are already using, then move into coding assistants, agents, and the habits that make them…
A practical OpenJDK discussion that turns Java startup, Graal, and Project Leiden into real engineering tradeoffs.
The InfoQ Podcast puts Simon Ritter, Azul deputy CTO and JDK 26 expert group member, in a useful conversation for engineers who follow Java closely.
Host Jack Rhysider narrates true hacking, breach, and privacy stories from the people involved.
David Pierce and Verge staffers cover AI industry news, gadgets, and tech policy weekly.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
David Sparks and Stephen Robles dig into Keyboard Maestro, Shortcuts, and Mac automation weekly.
SBOM work can start as a mandate and become real engineering discipline.
Prompting is just the entry point here.
This episode explores how software architects can leverage failures to build more resilient systems, featuring an interview with Lorin Hochstein, a staff software reliability engineer at Airbnb.
This episode discusses early operating models for autonomous agentic systems, exploring how engineering teams can evolve design and architecture decisions to manage AI in production without chaos.
Andres Almiray discusses his 20-year open source journey, focusing on software release tools like JReleaser and his work with Java and Groovy.
AI work stays focused on the space between a promising proof of concept and something a team can actually run in production.
The InfoQ Podcast episode "AI Autonomy Is Redefining Architecture: Boundaries Now Matter Most" opens with the Next Generation Architecture Playbook and a follow-up to the earlier Grady Booch conversation about what changes and what stays the same in the AI era.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode features an interview with Chris Richardson, a recognized architect and thought leader in microservices, discussing his journey into architecture and his work modernizing software systems.
Thomas Betts speaks with Muzib Mohamed, a senior manager of software engineering at JPMorgan Chase and a senior member of IEEE, about building secure, resilient, event-driven microservices for large-scale financial platforms.
This episode explores how software architects are rethinking design, platforms, and delivery in the age of AI tools, featuring an interview with IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist Greddy Booj.
Valky performance starts with a constraint: the engine can handle simple commands in about one microsecond, but the network can stretch what users see into hundreds of microseconds or more.
An interview with Erika Pisani about the Performance and Sustainability track at QCon London, discussing software engineering and tech leadership.
This episode features a conversation with David Gudeman about his experiences with software architecture in startups, emphasizing that architectural decisions have lasting impacts and discussing his career journey through various technical roles.
AI-driven development gets more useful when it remembers things.
Interview with a software engineer about distributed data systems, eventual consistency, and CRDTs.
A panel of InfoQ editors discusses the most popular technologies and trends from the past year.
Michael Redlich brings in Simon Ritter for a practical look at the JDK26 expert group and Java startup costs.
An interview with Will McGuggan about his journey into computer science and software development.
This episode explores how platform teams at LinkedIn enable enterprise-scale AI through secure, compliant multi-agentic systems and MCP frameworks.
Interview with Gabriele Colombro, general manager of Linux Foundation Europe, discussing open source impact on commercial entities and the Fintech Open Source Foundation.
This episode discusses the erosion of digital trust due to deepfakes and disinformation in the age of generative AI.
An interview with David Blank-Edelman about site reliability engineering and making system design more robust.
An interview with Stripe engineering manager Vivek Yadav about using Apache Spark unconventionally to solve a problem.
An interview with Marina Moore about container security, Kubernetes, and integrating AI across the software lifecycle.
An interview with Randy Schaup, a veteran architect and engineering leader, discussing failure and lessons from his career at Oracle, eBay, Google, and Thrive Market.
A panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities of building software in Europe, featuring experts in cloud, AI, and security.
Interview with Ian Mile about his book 'Follow the Money' exploring financial architecture in software beyond Conway's Law.
An interview with Netflix staff engineer Rashmi Venugopal about her journey in software architecture and building reliable distributed systems.
An interview with Sam Newman discussing microservices, his book, and changes in software architecture over the past decade.
An interview with Diana Montalian about systems thinking, nonlinear approaches, and designing for knowledge flow in software architecture.
Interview with Jade Abbott, CTO of Lelapa AI, discussing AI, LLMs, and language technology for African languages.
An interview with Brigitta Buechler, Global Lead for AI Assistance at ThoughtWorks, discussing generative AI in software delivery.
Interview with Vlad Kononov about his book Balancing Coupling in Software Design, discussing why loose coupling is an oversimplification.
Interview with a LinkedIn principal engineer about the Venice database system for AI feature storage.