Ryan welcomes Jeu George, cofounder and CEO of Orkes, to the show for a conversation about microservices orchestration. They talk through the evolution of microservices, the role of orchestration tools, and the importance of reliability in distributed systems. Their discussion also touches on the transition from open-source solutions to managed services, integration opportunities for AI agents, and the future of microservices in cloud computing.

Eira May

At HumanX 2025, Ryan chatted with Rodrigo Liang, cofounder and CEO of SambaNova, about reimagining 30-year-old hardware architecture for the AI era.

Eira May

Ken Stott, Field CTO of API platform Hasura, tells Ryan about the data doom loop: the concept that organizations are spending lots of money on data systems without seeing improvements in data quality or efficiency.

Eira May

On this episode Ryan and Stack Overflow Director of Brand Design David Longworth chat with Matt Biilmann, CEO and co-founder of Netlify, about composable architecture, how making it easier to code will create more developers, and why the future of the front end is portability.

Ryan Donovan

MVC is an old pattern, but it's still relevant to web apps.

Adam Konrád

While the future may be a mystery, you can design software to accommodate future changes. But how much future-proofing gets in the way of good design?

Daniel Orner

Do you design software with a big requirements doc upfront or let architecture emerge during agile processes? Is there a middle ground?

Pierre Pureur

While computing has changed a lot in the 20 years since the SOLID principles were conceived, they are still the best practices for designing software.

Daniel Orner

This is a story about trying to rethink complex systems: the challenges you face when you try to rebuild them, the burdens you face as they grow, and how inaction itself can cause it’s own problems. When you’re weighing the risk and reward of replacing architecture, it can take several attempts to find a solution that works for you.

Chris Casey, James Lees

One of the tough decisions you and your team may face as you scale is deciding between keeping your current codebase and rebuilding on a new architecture.

Mohamad Aladdin