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Helping software developers, engineers, and architects get their projects done better and faster.

  1. 04/05/2018

    Kyle Simpson and Tammy Everts on the challenges of the modern web

    The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: Rising barriers to entry, the complexity of the modern web, and a preview of upcoming Fluent sessions. In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk with two of the program chairs for the upcoming O’Reilly Fluent Conference (July 11-14 in San Jose), Kyle Simpson and Tammy Everts. Simpson is co-author of the HTML 5 Cookbook, and the author of the You Don’t Know JS series of books. Everts is the chief experience officer at SpeedCurve and the author of Time is Money: The Business Value of Web Performance. Discussion points: Simpson says that one of the biggest challenges facing JavaScript developers is that the previously low barrier to entry has been raised significantly: “JavaScript developers are facing a monumental task of juggling a vast ecosystem of tools and processes that go around, and on top of, and in front of, what used to just be opening a text file and typing JavaScript.” Everts talks about the challenges of designing for the modern web: “The web has become so complex, and the user base and the types of devices and bandwidths that people are experiencing are so incredibly diverse,” she says. “Developers and designers are somehow magically expected to take all these assets, all these scripts and make them perform reliably and consistently on everything from a smartphone over a 2G connection to someone who has blazingly fast internet.” Simpson and Everts preview numerous Fluent sessions and presentations. Other links: Everts’ recent O’Reilly blog post “Building for the modern web is really, really hard” Simpson’s free ebook JavaScript and HTML5 Now Everts co-curates WPO Stats, a collection of performance case studies Redux, the open source JavaScript library often used with the React JavaScript library The W3C’s list of web accessibility evaluation tools Simpson's recent post Fluent: Trainings To Further The Web

    49 min

  2. 03/22/2018

    Rebecca Parsons on evolutionary architecture

    The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: How to build evolvable systems. In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk with Rebecca Parsons, chief technology officer at ThoughtWorks. She will be leading the workshop Building Evolutionary Architectures Hands-On at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), July 16-19, 2018, in Portland, Oregon. Parsons also is co-author (with Neal Ford and Patrick Kua) of the book Building Evolutionary Architectures. Discussion points: The shift in focus to evolvability rather than predictability: “When you look at the way the technology landscape is changing,” Parsons says, “trying to say you can predict any kind of technology roadmap is simply impractical.” Why evolutionary systems need to be easy to understand: “How easy it is to change an architecture directly correlates with how easy it is to understand what’s happening in the system,” she says. The role of fitness functions: “Fitness functions are defining what outcomes we want the architecture to achieve,” Parsons says.  “Fitness functions guide our decisions about how we are going to evolve the architecture.” An advocate for diversity in the technology industry, Parsons talks about groups she has worked with, including CodeChix and Women Who Code, and the issues that women in the field continue to face. “The climate and culture in the tech industry is still not a comfortable place for women to be,” she says.  “We would like to believe as an industry that we’re a meritocracy, but we’re not. Part of the problem we’re dealing with is that women leave at a significantly greater rate than men do. We can double the number of women who come in, but if they’re leaving at a faster rate, we’re not going to make progress.” Other links: Video of Parsons’ presentation The evolution of evolutionary architectures at the 2016 O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference Parsons praises the work of other groups working to increase diversity, including Black Girls Code and AnitaB.org

    26 min

  3. 03/08/2018

    Bridget Kromhout on Kubernetes

    The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: Containers, orchestrators, and new projects. In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk about Kubernetes, containers, and more with Bridget Kromhout, a principal cloud developer advocate at Microsoft, and a frequent speaker at tech conferences. She will be leading the workshop Kubernetes 101 at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference in San Jose, June 11-14, 2018, and at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), July 16-19, 2018. Discussion points: The role that Docker played in popularizing containers. “Docker democratized containers and made them more available so that it increased adoption significantly,” Kromhout says. “You didn’t need to be a kernel expert; you could use containers as a developer without needing to focus on kernel features.” The main parts of a Kubernetes architecture, including the master and nodes, and a look at a Kubernetes cluster Some open source projects that are making Kubernetes easier to use, including kubicorn, which makes it possible to manage clusters across clouds. Kromhout’s work as the lead organizer for devopsdays, a worldwide series of technical conferences covering software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. “It’s really a powerful mechanism to let people in an area start sharing across organizations, and figuring out where they can learn from each other,” she says. Other links: Kromhout is co-host of the Arrested DevOps podcast. Video of Kromhout’s presentation Containers will not fix your broken culture and other hard truths at the 2016 O’Reilly Velocity Conference Microsoft’s Azure Container Service (AKS) Kubernetes-related projects at heptio, Brigade, Istio, and Honeycomb Video of Kromhout’s keynote Computers are easy; people are hard at the 2017 O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference

    22 min

  4. 02/22/2018

    Brent Laster on Jenkins 2 and Git

    The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: Creating and implementing continuous delivery pipelines. In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk about Jenkins 2 and Git with Brent Laster, who presents a number of live online training courses on these topics (including Building a deployment pipeline with Jenkins 2, and Next level Git). Laster will also present the workshop Power Git at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, July 16-19, 2018, in Portland, Oregon, and he is the author of the forthcoming O’Reilly book Jenkins 2: Up and Running. Discussion points: The benefits of the pipeline-as-code model, introduced in Jenkins 2. Laster calls it “more of a DevOps take on things. It adds a lot more flexibility around creating your pipelines, and allows you to treat them like source code.” The differences between continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment, the topic of a 2017 report by Laster The Groovy-based Jenkins DSL, and Blue Ocean, Jenkins’ visual interface Jenkins’ GitHub organization project type, which “really makes it easy to scale up the automatic creation of jobs,” says Laster. “You can point Jenkins at a GitHub organization, and it can go out and look at each project, and then within each project, scan for Jenkinsfile.” Other links: The online training course Migrating Jenkins Environments to Jenkins 2, presented by Laster Laster’s book Professional Git

    29 min

  5. 02/08/2018

    Richard Warburton and Raoul-Gabriel Urma on Java 8 and Reactive Programming

    The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: Building reactive applications. In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk with Richard Warburton and Raoul-Gabriel Urma of Iteratr Learning. They are the presenters of a series of O’Reilly Learning Paths, including Getting Started with Reactive Programming and Build Reactive Applications in Java 8. Warburton is the author of Java 8 Lambdas, and Urma is the author of Java 8 in Action. Discussion points: The benefits to developers that came out of the introduction of lambdas and streams in Java 8 How Akka’s actor model helps in the creation of reactive and asynchronous applications Comparing the uses of RxJava versus the Java 8 streams API to develop reactive code Warburton’s and Urma’s ideas for preparing the next generation of developers for the requirements of industry, the focus of their forthcoming book Real World Software Development Other links: The Learning Path Build Reactive Applications with RxJava, presented by Warburton and Urma The Learning Path Build Reactive Applications with Akka, presented by Warburton and Urma The video Programming Actors with Akka, presented by Warburton and Urma Warburton has been involved as an organizer in the London Java Community Urma is co-founder of Cambridge Spark and the Cambridge Coding Academy The schedule for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference, February 25-28, 2018, in New York

    37 min

  6. 01/25/2018

    Paul Bakker and Sander Mak on Java 9 modularity

    The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: The Java module system and the “start of a new era.” In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk with Paul Bakker, senior software engineer on the edge developer experience team at Netflix, and Sander Mak, a fellow at Luminis Technologies. They are the authors of the O’Reilly book Java 9 Modularity, in which they call the introduction of the module system to the platform “the start of a new era.” Discussion points: The adoption and usage of the Java 9 module system: “This won’t happen overnight,” Mak says. “The community will see that when they’re creating new applications on top of Java 9, they will definitely be able to reap the benefits from the module system.” Factors to consider when making a decision on whether to use the Java 9 module system or OSGi. Issues regarding how to modularize existing code. Frameworks that support the Java 9 module system: Bakker cites Vert.x, and Mak discusses Spring Framework 5. Netflix’s edge architecture, the topic of Bakker’s presentation at the upcoming 2018 Software Architecture Conference. Other links: Bakker’s article “Handling dependency injection using Java 9 modularity” Mak’s blog post on what Java library maintainers should do to get ready for the Java 9 module system The book Building Modular Cloud Apps with OSGi, by Paul Bakker and Bert Ertman Mak’s presentation, Modules or Microservices, at the 2017 O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference

    30 min

  7. 01/11/2018

    Luciano Ramalho on Python’s features and libraries

    The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: A look at some of Python’s valuable, but often overlooked, features. In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk about Python with Luciano Ramalho, technical principal at ThoughtWorks, author of the O’Reilly book Fluent Python, and presenter of the Oriole Fluent Python: The Power of Special Methods. Discussion points: The value of some often-overlooked features of Python, including generators, iterators, and the range() function. How Python’s Asyncio module “brought a definition of what the interface should be for an event loop into the core standard library,” says Ramalho. Why Ramalho calls pytest his “go-to library for unit testing, and other kinds of testing.” Striving to avoid surprises and trying to follow the conventions of the language are two characteristics of what Ramalho describes as a “good Pythonic API.” The work of the Python Software Foundation to increase diversity in the Python community. Other links: Ramalho’s presentation Fluent Python: Implementing Intuitive and Productive APIs at OSCON 2016 IEEE Spectrum article on the top programming languages of 2017 The Zope web application server written in Python

    21 min

  8. 12/28/2017

    Sam Newman on building microservices

    The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: How to effectively make the transition from monoliths to microservices. In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, we revisit our June 2017 conversation with Sam Newman, presenter of the O’Reilly video course The Principles of Microservices and the online training course From Monolith to Microservices. He is also the author of the book Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems. Here are some highlights from the conversation: Getting started with microservices If you’re interested in adopting a microservice architecture, start with only one or two services at the beginning. Get them deployed into production, and see if it gives you the outcome you’re looking for. How microservices allow scaling By breaking apart a monolithic system into individual services, those individual services could be scaled up as required. I could run my pricing engine on multiple separate physical machines, allowing it to handle more load. I could take another part of my system and run it on a smaller machine that doesn’t need as much load. The importance of independent deployability If you create a systems architecture where you have that characteristic of independent deployability—where you can make a change to a service and deploy that service by itself into a production environment without having to redeploy anything else—so many other benefits flow from that. Other links: Newman’s presentation Confusion in the land of the serverless at the O’Reilly 2017 Velocity Conference in London

    29 min
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