Conway’s Law. The relationship between Agile and DevOps. Autonomy vs. alignment. Inversion of control. The false promise of “loose Agile.” The difficulty of assessing team health. The critical role of change management. Why you don’t want to buy a “box of Agile.” The surprising influence of physical architecture on team productivity. The importance of flowers.

These are just some of the important topics that New Relic Developer Evangelist Tori Wieldt, and I discuss with Brent Miller, a principal engineer and architect in New Relic's Portland engineering headquarters in the latest episode of the New Relic Modern Software Podcast.

If you still think multi-cloud is all about deliberately choosing several cloud providers to avoid vendor lock-in, you may be missing the point.

That’s just one key takeaway from the latest episode of the New Relic Modern Software Podcast, as we welcome New Relic's Lee Atchison and Aaron Newcomb to delve into the complex world of running—and monitoring—applications and infrastructure in multi-cloud environments.

Stephen Weinberg, director of site reliability engineering (SRE) at investment research firm Morningstar, shares the successes and challenges of building an SRE practice in the financial services industry—including the essential role of monitoring.

Rob Gindes, Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at media giant Gannett, plays buzzword bingo, talks cultural alignment, and rolls out major new technology on election night.

In the inaugural episode of 2018, New Relic's Fredric Paul & Tori Wieldt are joined by Lee Atchison, New Relic Senior Director of Strategic Architecture, to discuss the hot-button issue of SaaS security. Specifically, the heretical idea that your precious data may actually be safer with a Software-as-a-Service provider in the cloud than in your own data center.

RedMonk Principal Analyst Stephen O’Grady joins New Relic’s own Fredric Paul, Abner Germanow, and James Nguyen to discuss what goes into delivering a great customer experience, including the importance of performance. And the Modern Software Podcast Crew tackles cloud reliability, AI in the cloud, and the impact of security and privacy concerns on the software industry.

DevOps guru Gene Kim joins us to discuss the state of DevOps in 2017 and his latest book: The DevOps Handbook. Plus the Modern Software Podcast crew returns to share their predictions for the top software trends of 2017, and their take on doing DevOps now.

The New Relic Modern Software Podcast crew discusses the newest developments in mobile, the Docker open source fork controversy, and details about our upcoming FutureStack16 conference in San Francisco. Plus Amazon Web Services Solutions Architects Scott Ward and Dave Rocamora stop by to discuss AWS GameDay, a fun and clever simulation designed to teach participants real-world AWS skills.

The New Relic podcast crew discusses how the rise of augmented reality affects developers, debates the challenges of SPAs, and looks back at beloved but departed technologies. Plus authorJurgen Appelo, and New Relic's own Rebecca Campbell and Jonathan Karon share tips on how to keep software engineers happy and productive.

The New Relic podcast crew talks mobile in the age of falling iPhone sales and rising Facebook mobile ads, is Minecraft the perfect way to learn programming, and the Harvard Business Review on" every company is a software company."

Plus we welcome BloomThat's Kevin Klein to share how the flower delivery service relies on New Relic to scale up for its biggest day of the year. With a coupon code for Mother's Day flowers!