Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Platform thinking promises to give your business more bang for its technology investment buck, by putting your business priorities at the heart of your approach to delivery. But embracing platform thinking has profound implications for your technical architecture landscape.

Join our co-hosts Alexey Bôas and Zhamak Dehghani as they hear from Renan Martins and Luiz Ribeiro, both of whom are Lead Consultants based out of ThoughtWorks Brazil. They take an in-depth look at the practical realities of introducing platforms into organizations with legacy infrastructure and well-established development teams.

The concepts of governance can sometimes conjure up images of groups whose only task is to say no to the rest of the organization. But it needn’t be that way. Our co-hosts, Rebecca Parsons and Mike Mason are joined by Jonny LeRoy, Head of Technology for ThoughtWorks North America and Zhamak Dehghani — also one of our regular co-hosts, but here for her expertise in distributed systems architecture.

Together they’re exploring new ways of thinking about architectural governance that help the business and IT.

We’re increasingly seeing a trend of organizations exposing events — particularly business domain events — before knowing who the consumers are or what the specific applications are, in the hope that people elsewhere in the organization can discover these events and create value, without us directly orchestrating it.

But creating big upfront architectures can make developers nervous — not least about costs. Neal Ford and Zhamak Dehghani are joined by Erik Dörnenburg, Head of Technology at ThoughtWorks Germany, and Evan Bottcher, Technology Lead in ThoughtWorks Australia.

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Serverless has become the buzzword du jour. But what does it mean? What are the implications for your enterprise applications when you’re using services where you’re not responsible for the infrastructure that they run on? How do AWS Lambda, Azure Functions and GCP Cloud Functions fit in

To explore these issues, our co-hosts Mike Mason and Zhamak Dehghani are joined by Paula Paul, a Tech Principal at ThoughtWorks and Mike Roberts, an external cloud engineering consultant and former ThoughtWorker.

With so many advances in tech promising to redefine the business landscape, how can you establish what to prioritize? How can you make sense of all this change?

ThoughtWorks uses the lens of five Seismic Shifts, which help unpack the significance of these changes: the tech that will power them and the impact they’ll have on business. Taking a deep dive into these issues, we’ve gathered together all of our ThoughtWorks Podcasts hosts — what better way to kick off 2019?

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For this bonus episode, Rebecca Parsons, ThoughtWorks’ CTO is joined by special guest Danah Boyd, a sociotechnical researcher at Microsoft Research. They explore how bias is introduced in algorithms, the damaging impacts this can have and how this can be mitigated.

Danah is a renowned academic, widely published author and campaigner, with a focus on the intersection between people and technology. She has a strong interest in understanding how contemporary social inequities relate to technology and society more generally.

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Microservices has emerged as an important architectural choice for the enterprise. But the ecosystem to support microservices is still being built.

In this episode, co-hosts Zhamak Dehghani and Mike Mason are joined by James Lewis — author of one of the seminal articles on microservices — and Lakshminarasimhan Sudarshan, both Principal Consultants at Thoughtworks. They explore the state of microservices today, the pitfalls and anti-patterns (like distributed monolith) we see emerging and how microservices is being used successfully.

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The way we interact with computers has transformed, from the classic keyboard-screen combination, to touchscreen and latterly — with the advent of digital personal assistants — to voice. These changing interfaces bring with them new challenges in creating software.

In this episode, regular co-hosts Alexey Villas Boas and Mike Mason are joined by Neil Redding and Barbara Wolff Dick as they explore the impact of innovation in our computer interfaces.

RESTful APIs quickly established themselves as useful architectural style for replatforming legacy systems with web-based ones. But increasingly, developers are running into the boundaries of deploying REST and API purity — confronting real world issues such as the rapid evolution of APIs for frontend layers where connectivity is patchy and where APIs should meet the changing visual representation and behavior of the frontend, where we increasingly see the adoption of alternatives such as GraphQL.

In this episode, co-hosts Mike Mason and Zhamak Dehghani are joined by Brandon Byars, Market Technical Principal at ThoughtWorks North America and James Gregory, Tech Lead at ThoughtWorks Australia to explore the current state of API design and look at the impact of event-based architectures.

The ThoughtWorks Technology Radar is the must-read report for anyone interested in state-of-the-art software development. In this episode, we take a behind-the-scenes look at how the Radar is built: how technologies get onto the Radar; the in-depth discussions over where they’re placed; and why some things miss out. Regular co-hosts Dr Rebecca Parsons and Neal Ford are joined by Marco Valtas, lead consultant at ThoughtWorks Brazil and Camilla Crispim, the outgoing Technical Assistant to OCTO.

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