The InfoQ Podcast

Erica Pisani, host of the performance and sustainability track at QCon London 2025, retrospects on the lessons learned from assembling the track and the lessons learned from attending the talks. She touches on the importance of the environmental-social aspects of software and hints on how developers can improve these aspects with small steps in the architecture and practices of building software.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Zquqjj

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Upcoming Events:

QCon London 2026 (March 16-19, 2026)
QCon London equips senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders with trusted, practical insights to lead the change in software development. Get real-world solutions and leadership strategies from senior software practitioners defining current trends and solving today's toughest software challenges.
https://qconlondon.com/

QCon AI Boston 2026 (June 1-2, 2026)
Learn how real teams are accelerating the entire software lifecycle with AI.
https://boston.qcon.ai

The InfoQ Podcasts:
Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts:

- The InfoQ Podcast https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/
- Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture
- Generally AI: https://www.infoq.com/generally-ai-podcast/

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In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke with David Gudeman about software architecture for startups. The discussion starts by illuminating how to make decisions with imperfect information, and how uncertainty and ambiguity flow through all aspects of developing the architecture. This leads to analyzing how the architect must focus on both product strategy and technical decisions, and how there must be a collaborative effort between the product and technical teams.

David Gudeman then talks about how one never really throws away working software, and how to evolve your architecture as the startup grows. The podcast concludes with advice for somebody who is thinking about being a software architect in a startup.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3NEvVrc

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Upcoming Events:

QCon London 2026 (March 16-19, 2026)
QCon London equips senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders with trusted, practical insights to lead the change in software development. Get real-world solutions and leadership strategies from senior software practitioners defining current trends and solving today's toughest software challenges.
https://qconlondon.com/

QCon AI Boston 2026 (June 1-2, 2026)
Learn how real teams are accelerating the entire software lifecycle with AI.
https://boston.qcon.ai

The InfoQ Podcasts:
Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts:

- The InfoQ Podcast https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/
- Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture
- Generally AI: https://www.infoq.com/generally-ai-podcast/

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In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Olivia McVicker, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft about AI-driven software development. The conversation covers the current, mainstream AI coding assistants and gets into where those tools are quickly heading. They then look to the future of how the entire software development lifecycle will see the benefits of AI in the next few years.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4qIJT9F

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Upcoming Events:

QCon London 2026 (March 16-19, 2026)
QCon London equips senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders with trusted, practical insights to lead the change in software development. Get real-world solutions and leadership strategies from senior software practitioners defining current trends and solving today's toughest software challenges.
https://qconlondon.com/

QCon AI Boston 2026 (June 1-2, 2026)
Learn how real teams are accelerating the entire software lifecycle with AI.
https://boston.qcon.ai

The InfoQ Podcasts:
Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts:

- The InfoQ Podcast https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/
- Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture
- Generally AI: https://www.infoq.com/generally-ai-podcast/

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In this podcast, InfoQ spoke with Somtochi Onyekwere on recent developments in distributed data systems, how to achieve fast, eventually consistent replication across distributed nodes, and how Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDTs) can help with conflict resolution when managing data.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Lrq9Zf

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Upcoming Events:

QCon London 2026 (March 16-19, 2026)
QCon London equips senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders with trusted, practical insights to lead the change in software development. Get real-world solutions and leadership strategies from senior software practitioners defining current trends and solving today's toughest software challenges.
https://qconlondon.com/

QCon AI Boston 2026 (June 1-2, 2026)
Learn how real teams are accelerating the entire software lifecycle with AI.
https://boston.qcon.ai

The InfoQ Podcasts:
Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts:

- The InfoQ Podcast https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/
- Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture
- Generally AI: https://www.infoq.com/generally-ai-podcast/

Follow InfoQ:
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In this end-of-year panel, the InfoQ podcast hosts reflect on AI’s impact on software delivery, the growing importance of sociotechnical systems, evolving cloud realities, and what 2026 may bring.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Lk6SsF

Subscribe to the Software Architects’ Newsletter for your monthly guide to the essential news and experience from industry peers on emerging patterns and technologies:
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Upcoming Events:

QCon London 2026 (March 16-19, 2026)
QCon London equips senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders with trusted, practical insights to lead the change in software development. Get real-world solutions and leadership strategies from senior software practitioners defining current trends and solving today's toughest software challenges.
https://qconlondon.com/

QCon AI Boston 2026 (June 1-2, 2026)
Learn how real teams are accelerating the entire software lifecycle with AI.
https://boston.qcon.ai

The InfoQ Podcasts:
Weekly inspiration to drive innovation and build great teams from senior software leaders. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts:

- The InfoQ Podcast https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/
- Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture
- Generally AI: https://www.infoq.com/generally-ai-podcast/

Follow InfoQ:
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