In this #GOTOPodcast episode, Martin Fowler and Kent Beck sit down to talk about AI, software engineering, and nearly 30 years of watching our industry evolve. 🎧 Listen in: gotopia.tech/podcast

OpenStack was simple – everyone adopted it. Then it became unmanageable. #Kubernetes followed the exact same arc. @jakewarner.com saw it coming & built Cycle.io as an escape hatch. He & @charleshumble.bsky.social talk #SovereignCloud & the geopolitics of infrastructure. 👇 youtu.be/ajX56E4G5qk?...

AI doesn’t have to mean billion-dollar hype. @krisajenkins.bsky.social shows how to build personal AI tools with MCP: ⚡ context-rich assistants ⚡ custom tools ⚡ local workflows ⚡ AI that actually helps your life Also: “MCP is just JSON-RPC in a trench coat.” 😂 Watch: youtu.be/ekOTT0siHSo?...

AI is bringing spec-driven development back. Sort of. In this #GOTOPodcast episode, Gojko Adzic and @tastapod.com discuss what is working with AI-assisted development right now. 🎧 Listen in: gotopia.tech/podcast

One line of code "fixes" the bug. Creates five new ones. Dennis Hansen spent 60+ years in aerospace and defense learning why modeling upfront is the only way to avoid that. His new GOTO Book Club episode with Jorge Orellana is the antidote. 👇 youtu.be/-6BbPwlR6o4?...

Turns out running a great #EngineeringTeam has a lot in common with running a Dungeons & Dragons campaign 😄 @brunty.me connects D&D, leadership, collaboration, problem-solving & SW development in one of the most unexpectedly relatable talks at @yowconf.bsky.social. Watch: youtu.be/VN9j3NSoeps?...

WebAssembly running inside #Kubernetes… with a 300KB container?! 😳 @frankel.ch demos: ⚡ #Wasm on Kubernetes ⚡ Tiny container images ⚡ Rust + #WasmEdge ⚡ HTTP servers in #WebAssembly ⚡ Why this might (or might not) be the future Watch: youtu.be/fMpDgsjBQzg?...

In this #GOTOPodcast Q&A, Ken Hughes talks about something surprisingly simple: People simply remember how you made them feel. *employee experience *AI-driven personalization *why ROI can become a very strange lens for measuring human experience 🎧 Listen in: gotopia.tech/podcast

70% of devs using AI don't distrust its output and @davefarley77.bsky.social is scared. Dave & @abangser.bsky.social break down why #ContinuousDelivery isn't just surviving the AI era — it's more essential than ever. Small steps. Verified. Always. 👇 youtu.be/Juk6SBz8zEc?...

AI productivity gains? AI agents? AI-generated everything? @ondfisk.bsky.social asks an uncomfortable question: What if we’re optimizing the wrong problem? A sharp & funny talk on hype, SW teams, productivity, customer value & why process may be the real villain. Watch: youtu.be/wPt6Aeui5bM?...

Java keeps “dying” while half the internet quietly runs on it. #GOTOpodcast: @ogkittylyst.bsky.social takes a closer look at where Java stands in 2026. 🎧 Listen to the episode: gotopia.tech/podcast

Java called them "exceptions". Go calls them "panics". There’s a reason for that — and it shapes everything. Dr. Barry Feigenbaum (ex-IBM, Amazon, Dell) spent decades writing #Java, switched to #Golang, and wrote the book that bridges the two. GOTO Book Club deep dive 👇 youtu.be/vw2k5WVPJKE?...

The next AI wave isn’t just chatbots. It’s robots, multimodal reasoning, synthetic data, edge AI, autonomous systems, and models that can actually "think" before answering. Ekaterina Sirazitdinova explains where AI is heading next 👀 Watch: youtu.be/WOmgmKSi_BQ?... #PhysicalAI

What if building a full-stack AWS app was actually… fast? @erikch.bsky.social demos AI-assisted app development using: ⚡ CDK ⚡ Amplify Gen 2 ⚡ Bedrock ⚡ Next.js ⚡ AI coding workflows Watch: youtu.be/fto4t3Vl7dE?...

Ekaterina Gorshkova joins @gamussa.dev to talk about what Kafka becomes once systems get large, teams multiply, and architecture decisions start lasting longer than expected. 🎧 Listen to the #GOTOPodcast episode: gotopia.tech/podcast

Martin Fowler introduced himself at their first meeting as "the only person in the room he'd never heard of". Thirty years later, Martin & @kentbeck.com are still the sharpest double act in software. AI, XP, the Agile Manifesto at 25 — nothing is off limits. 👇 youtu.be/ii_rLjQfjp0?...

"You can’t change the laws of physics" — unless you’re a SW Eng. with a deadline 😅 In this brilliant talk, @kevlin.bsky.social explores the physical limits behind software, scalability, complexity & why reality always wins in the end. Smart, funny & painfully relatable. 👉 youtu.be/lMZ7I3fQzVs?...

What if the first thing you built with code was music instead of a TODO app? @samaaron.bsky.social joins @boicy.bovon.org to talk about Sonic Pi and a surprisingly simple idea: People learn differently when coding feels creative. 🎧 Listen to this #GOTOpodcast episode: gotopia.tech/podcast

#Java concurrency: famously hard, frequently avoided & the last book on it was written 20 years ago. @bazlur.ca just wrote the update. #VirtualThreads, structured #concurrency, reactive — when to use which & why it finally matters. Time to look under the hood 👇 #JVM youtu.be/8G8jeAUYLAQ?...

AI agents are cool until they: • hallucinate • loop forever • ignore your tools • confidently lie 😅 @antonarhipov.bsky.social shows how to build more reliable AI agents in #Kotlin using typed workflows, orchestration, DSLs, structured outputs, and local LLMs. Watch: youtu.be/Lq1lZRhsZjs?...

"Serverless" used to mean uploading ZIPs in a console. 😅 Now? Remote debugging, observability, VS Code integrations, OpenTelemetry, Step Functions, Lambda Layers & far better DevEx. @zachjonesnoel.bsky.social explains how modern serverless development works. Watch: youtu.be/oItac1VPsso?...

#GOTOpodcast: @willmcgugan.bsky.social joins Olimpiu Pop to talk about Toad, his terminal-based UI for AI coding agents. • proper markdown rendering • syntax highlighting • clean streaming output • AI and shell workflows in the same place All in the terminal. 🎧gotopia.tech/podcast

Richard Feldman rewrote the #Roc compiler from scratch in #Zig. @rtfeldman.bsky.social and @anjana.dev talk about Roc v1 being on the horizon — the first ever numbered release. Two smart people, no slides, no filter. 👇 youtu.be/XSXGf3oN2yU?... #FunctionalProgramming #ProgrammingLanguages

Leadership in tech is hard… Leading in turbulent times? Even harder 👀 @tastapod.com, @sarahjwells.bsky.social & @patkua.bsky.social share hard-earned lessons on navigating uncertainty, teams & change 👇 youtu.be/wqztpXI0zJc?... #Leadership #TechLead #TechLeadership #Change

#GOTOpodcast: @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social sits down with Ian Darwin to talk about Java, books & AI. -> why battle-tested tools usually win -> reading the code still matters -> why AI-generated code without understanding is a bad habit waiting to scale 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

5M users refreshing for tickets. 500M streaming at once. How do you scale for THAT without outages or insane costs? Janak Agarwal explains real-world serverless patterns for extreme scale — and why sometimes the answer is literally: do nothing. Watch: youtu.be/tKO29SA7CAU?...

The stuff you don’t focus on at work? Yeah… that’s probably what’s holding you back 👀 From soft skills to "invisible" decisions — these things have a bigger impact than you think. @hollycummins.com explains why👇 youtu.be/OkVjqwkveiY?... #SoftwareEngineering #CareerGrowth #DevLife #Tech

AI agents are everywhere… but how do you actually build them in the real world? 👀 Serverless + agents + real tooling (Strands SDK, MCP, AWS) — no fluff, just practice. Akshatha Laxmi breaks it down 👇 youtu.be/CY2VPHMhD0U?... #AI #Serverless #Cloud #LLM #SoftwareEngineering

@toomuchcoding.com & Jakub Pilimon discuss how typo broke production and the fix became a framework. They also look at where this is going next. Capture real traffic, generate contracts automatically, and let people review what matters. 🎧 #GOTOpodcast: gotopia.tech/podcast

Half the industry is at level 1 of architecture diagram maturity. That means: nothing. Just vibes & boxes. @simonbrown.je — creator of the #C4Model — explains what levels 2 through 5 look like & how to get there. Spoiler: you need to stop diagramming & start modeling. youtu.be/FqTL-_tLf6I?...

"A loyalty card isn't loyalty. It's entrapment." Ken Hughes on ROI of caring, why your employee IS your first customer — and the AI shift that changes everything about how we connect at scale. You won't see Customer Experience the same way after this 👇 youtu.be/qrcVvo6BQVw?... #CX

#GOTOpodcast: Most API problems start below the API. Sam Newman & Lukasz Dynowski go deep: • network and protocol basics • public vs internal APIs • “API as a product” is not optional anymore • binary vs text is rarely a simple performance choice 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

What actually motivates developers? 🤔 More money? Better tools? Free snacks? Turns out… it comes down to 3 simple things — and most teams get them wrong. Yanina Ledovaya breaks it down 👇 youtu.be/y0j9rzME8YY?... #SoftwareEngineering #Leadership #DevEx #Productivity #DeveloperProductivity

Charts look great…but can everyone use them? 👀 What if your data viz is completely inaccessible to part of your audience? At @yowconf.bsky.social @frank.computer explored accessible & interactive data experiences — beyond the defaults 👇 youtu.be/uDrlUF-KXeY?... #Accessibility #UX #DataVisualization

"The role of a business analyst is not writing documents. It's understanding the problem domain and coming in with a vast amount of preexisting domain knowledge." @tastapod.com Which is why expecting an AI agent to "one-shot" specs is futile. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mLY...

#GOTOpodcast: Jay Wengrow joins @krisajenkins.bsky.social y.social to break down in AI engineering. agents are mostly your code interpreting LLM output how guardrails work what breaks when you trust the model too much frameworks might be locking you in too early 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

Serverless isn’t just “no servers”… it’s a whole platform problem. How do you actually build & run serverless at scale—beyond the hype? Shilpa Nagavara breaks it down 👇 youtu.be/DLQCZ0snNOs?... #Serverless #Cloud #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #SoftwareEngineering

Spec-driven development is back. But not how you think. Gojko Adzic & @tastapod.com debate custom linting rules, AI guardrails, and why "automation makes things faster — not better." Enjoy 40 minutes of signal. 🔥 youtu.be/6mLYZF97oaU?... #BDD #SoftwareCraft #Linting

What if learning to code felt more like making music? 🎶 @samaaron.bsky.social & @boicy.bovon.org explore teaching programming through @sonic-pi.net — creative, engaging, and surprisingly powerful 👀 🎥 youtu.be/Exh0jWu-88o?... #Coding #EdTech #LearnToCode #SonicPi

#GOTOpodcast: @t-redactyl.bsky.social & @aiwithmichelle.com look at what’s really going on with AI. • why defining “AI” and “AGI” is still messy • why basic ML knowledge pays off • what the research says about dev productivity • how bias and fairness show up 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

Is Kafka just a message broker, or the backbone of modern enterprise architecture? 🤔 Katya Gorshkova joins @gamussa.dev to discuss her book "Kafka for Architects" — a journey from Kafka Streams to Apache Flink. 🎙️ youtu.be/6Uks7r652T8?... #ApacheKafka #SoftwareArchitecture #EventDrivenArchitecture

Line charts are great… until they’re not 📉👀 What happens when your data is too complex for simple visuals? At @yowconf.bsky.social @yaoyue.org explored better ways to visualize data — and why most charts don’t tell the full story. Watch here 👉 youtu.be/vUu4s2vQne0?... #DataVisualization #TechTalk

Your API docs are confusing. Your human developers are confused. Your AI agents are somehow even more confused. Giedrius Praspaliauskas covers all 10 stages of the #API lifecycle — including where AI agents, #MCP & governance actually fit in today. 👇 youtu.be/xqRUnoaQiUM?... #APIManagement

#GOTOpodcast: @charleshumble.bsky.social and @hannahfoxwell.net get into what changes when software leaves the comfort of the data center. • “edge” in practice • day-two ops • vendor lock-in • sustainability • generative AI 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

Since 1999, people have confidently predicted "Java is dead". They've been wrong every single time. #Java Champion @ogkittylyst.bsky.social (Red Hat) breaks down the real data, the JVM's secret Lisp soul, and the coming revolution of Projects Valhalla & Babylon. 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/v9Pq69Y_yqM?...

Microservices, Kubernetes, Modular Monoliths, "best practices"...What if they’re just opinions, not truths? 👀 Maciej “MJ” Jedrzejewski breaks down why most teams overengineer too early — and what actually matters: building for now, not some imaginary future. youtube.com/shorts/6In1d...

TDD + DDD sound great in theory… But how do they actually work together in real systems? 👀 @chrissimon.au breaks it down from the ground up — from tests to domain models to real-world design decisions. Watch here 👉 youtu.be/o3--D6ydS4o?... #TDD #DDD #SoftwareEngineering #CleanCode #Programming

Every software org is dysfunctional. Yes, yours too. 😉 Rebecca Parsons, Gregor Hohpe, @technologytulip.bsky.social & @andrewhl.bsky.social sat down and basically said it out loud. You shouldn’t aim to “fix” dysfunction, but to work with it instead. 🎧 Listen in: gotopia.tech/podcast

One of #Java's longest-running reference books just dropped its 5th edition — and its author has thoughts about AI, junior hiring & why deploying vibe-code unreviewed is like "putting passengers on a plane w/o flight testing". Ian Darwing & @jeanneboyarsky.bsky.social Watch: youtu.be/1jtM6bzQgRg?...

He has an #EC2 server that's been running for 2,673 days. Load average? Barely a whisper. 💻 #AWSServerlessHero Dhaval Nagar on 10 years of cloud evolution — from filling out paper forms to buy servers, to paying per millisecond. Closing line is gold. 👇 youtu.be/H7xmET_Z6eo?...