Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

While much recent attention has fallen on the use of microservices for building server-side software, many enterprises still struggle with monolithic frontend codebases. In this episode, our regular host Rebecca Parsons talks to Cam Jackson, a senior consultant at ThoughtWorks Australia. 

They explore the trend of breaking up a web application into decoupled micro frontends, and how such an architecture can improve delivery quality and efficiency for the teams working on frontend code.

Most organizations today face tension over how many programming languages they should support. But standardizing on just one is likely to be limiting — particularly when many enterprises favor giving dev teams a degree of autonomy. So if one is too few, how many is too many? 

In this episode, our co-hosts Rebecca Parsons and Mike Mason are joined by Evan Bottcher, Technical Principal at ThoughtWorks Australia. Together they explore how enterprises can make practical decisions about language choices, so that their developers have the right tools for the right jobs. How can you put in place guard rails that ensure you’re able to maintain standards while giving developers enough autonomy? 

In today’s intensely competitive markets, most business leaders recognize the imperative to innovate. But that recognition doesn’t always lead to results. Many companies still struggle to deliver meaningful innovation — something that adds value to their customers.

Our regular podcast host Alexey Boas is joined by Swapnil Deshpande, Global Head of Product Innovation and Incubation at ThoughtWorks. Together they explore how to break down the barriers to innovation, using practical examples from ThoughtWorks’ internal TechOps incubator initiative.

The shift from legacy to digital infrastructure is central to many companies’ strategy to compete in a fast-changing world. But at the architectural level, such change can be hard — or at least expensive — to effect. Not everyone wants to break things when they move fast.

In this episode, our hosts, Zhamak Dehghani and Mike Mason are joined by Ryan Murray, Director of Digital Platforms at ThoughtWorks, to consider how organizations can transform themselves through a deeper understanding of their systems, the information and their business capabilities — and the interrelation between these things.

There are always intense debates to be had when programmers try to decide what the best language will be to accomplish any given task.

In this episode, our co-hosts Alexey Vilas Boas and Rebecca Parsons are joined by Luciano Ramalho, renowned author and Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks Brazil to explore programming language features and the benefits of thinking about languages in terms of labels — fundamental language features — rather than paradigms, such as object-oriented or functional languages.

Does thinking in terms of labels help you adopt different programming styles? Can focusing on labels make language syntax less daunting? Can you have too many labels? Listen in to hear the team in exploring new ways of thinking about language choices.

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At ThoughtWorks, we’ve long been wary of the use of multiple cloud providers for the sake of it. We think there’s a significant upside in using the best provider for particular use cases. But in some regulated environments, organizations are forced to adopt a multicloud approach for highly critical workloads.

In this episode, our regular co-hosts, Mike Mason and Zhamak Dehghani are joined by Scott Shaw, Head of Technology for ThoughtWorks Australia and James Lewis, Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks UK. They explore the challenges of delivering an effective multicloud solution and how to assess the criticality and sensitivity of workloads.

Most organizations today recognize the critical importance of security today. But at the same time, development teams are pushed to move faster, deliver quicker and more frequently, and to behave autonomously. It can be tough to meet these twin demands.

In this episode, our co-hosts, Rebecca Parsons and Mike Mason explore the ideas of DevSecOps, which seeks to bake security into the development process. They’re joined by Cade Cairns a former Tech Principal at ThoughtWorks, and Ken Mugrage, Technology Advocate for ThoughtWorks Products.

Scott Davis, a principal engineer at ThoughtWorks has been working on web development his entire career. Like many of us, he’s been excited about the emergence of conversational UIs and the growing importance of voice — but Scott’s particular interest stems from the ideas of accessibility.

Our regular podcast hosts, Neal Ford and Rebecca Parsons, talk to Scott about why the path towards accessibility needn’t be hard, and explore some of the simple things that can be done to make tech more accessible.

Microservices and containers have kick started a revolution in enterprise architectures — and in the developer experience.

In this episode, our host Zhamak Dehghani is joined by Sheroy Maker, head of technology at ThoughtWorks Products, look at how these changes have impacted the ideas of continuous delivery. They explore the challenges such as how to maintain the integrity of complex distributed systems and how to manage deployments of disparate technology stacks.

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