Sven Johann talks with Susan Landau about Security and Privacy. After defining those terms they proceed to find out why this important to individuals and societies. They discuss why its the job of intelligence agencies to collect data, but how we can protect us against them. Then Susan discusses the importance of Two-Factor Authentication, how wiretapping and backdoors work these days and how the FBI tries to unlock locked devices with “1984” terminology. The conversation moves from end-to-end encryption, metadata analysis and VOIP decryption to targeted attacks and political influence of security threats. They finish the conversation with what we can learn from Google and Sun Microsystems on privacy, security and the architectural requirements of anonymized test data.

Security and Privacy with Susan Landau

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Aino explains to Sven what skills are required to make meetings more successful. They talk about
the different roles of meeting attendees. They continue with the thinking process to organize a
meeting: do we need it at all? What is the expected outcome? Who should be invited? How long
it should take? Do we need preparation for the attendees? Icebreakers? How do we craft an
agenda? Then they discuss how to steer a meeting as a meeting facilitator, how to engage
(quite) attendees and how to deal with negative people. Finally, they close with methods on how
to improve your moderator skills.

Aino Corry on Better Tech Meetings

Solid is a specification that lets people store their data securely in decentralized data stores called Pods. But why do we want to keep our data decentralized? What problems does Solid solve? In this episode, Angelo Veltens explains to Lucas Dohmen the advantages (but also potential disadvantages) of this project.

Angelo Veltens on Solid

Stefan Tilkov talks to Mark Seemann about his book “Code that fits in your head”, heuristics about software engineering, and the role of craftspeople and engineers. They dive into three selected topics: Vertical slices, triangulation, and rhythm.

Mark Seemann on heuristics for software engineering

How do you enable a developer to quickly start the development of business logic of a new microservice without losing too much time on setting up everything else like monitoring, tracing, dependency management, security, configuration and much more. After the motivation, they move from service templates to service chassis, continue with governance as code and close with the possible need of product management skills to keep the chassis and the derived services current.

Chris Richardson on Service Templates and Service Chassis

Sven Johann talks to Adam Tornhill about the link between how organizations write code and how teams work together. Adam Tornhill can make this link visible to help improve your team’s code and your organization's work. The interview is based on Adam's book "Software Design X-Rays".

Security and Privacy with Susan Landau

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