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.tech podcast by Form3EP 57 .tech - Running containers on GCPThere are three main options available to run containers on GCP: cloud functions, cloud run and GKE (Kubernetes). Which is the right fit for your workload and what factors should you consider upon making the decision? JB Jean-Baptiste Leroy a customer engineer from GCP and expert on running containers on GCP takes us through the container landscape on GCP. JB informs us on how powerful the three technologies are and how you can mix and match them according to your needs.2025-01-2324 min.tech podcast by Form3EP 56 .tech - Pact contract testingMicro service architectures are exploding in popularity, but a tough problem that is often overlooked is to ensure all of the services that depend on each other still work together after a change is made. One solution is to deploy them all to a test environment and run end to end tests which results in very slow feedback cycle and keeps the testing far away from the engineer.
Enter Pact, which solves this problem by enabling you to test dependencies between services as part of your local testing. Pact acts as a super charged mock server, enabling you to test...2024-12-1832 min.tech podcast by Form3EP55 .tech - Automated Cloud Failure Testing at Form3A common requirement for a modern technology company is to have a DR strategy and to prove that their DR strategy works. Often this is executed using a manual set of tests run annually. This approach has many pitfalls, the biggest of which being that your tests become out of date the minute a change is made to the system.
In this episode our host Kevin Holditch interviewed Viktor Peacock Head: SRE and Mike Tonks: Staff SRE on how Form3 have approached DR testing with their multi-cloud platform. Listen to the episode to find out from Viktor and Mike how...2024-11-1327 min.tech podcast by Form3EP 54 .tech - Learn to be a tech leaderTech leadership is often something that people find themselves in because they have excelled as an individual contributor, when people first make the leap it is often very hard for them to adjust to the different work patterns and how to manage a team.
Sean Hawkridge from Makers, runs leadership programs that teach people how to be great tech leaders. In this episode Sean takes me through the common problems that people face when stepping into tech leadership, how people need to think about changing their mindset as they make the transition and if a good leader can be trained?2024-07-1829 min.tech podcast by Form3EP 53 .tech - SpaceliftSpacelift is a platform that adds workflows on top of infrastructure as code tooling. One of its USPs is that it is agnostic to the underlying infrastructure as code tool, so it can be used with Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulomi, to name but a few.
This concept becomes super powerful in that you can combine stacks written for different infrastructure as code tools into dependency workflows, for example the output of a cloud formation stack could feed into a stack written in Terraform.
Jean-Marc Fontaine, head of solutions & support at Spacelift, takes us through some of the possibilities that Spacelift enables...2024-06-1227 min.tech podcast by Form3EP 52 .tech - The landscape of hackingBert Sinnema, expert in defensive security engineering leads us through the hacking landscape today. He answers why hacking groups are starting to target smaller companies and tells us what smaller companies can do to fight back.
Bert takes us behind the curtain, in the arms race between the two sides of the hacking war. In a world where the weapons used by both sides are constantly getting stronger, what can we do to stay safe?2024-04-1724 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 51 .tech - World of mobile developmentHead of mobile from NewDay, Tris Bates, joined Kevin Holditch to give us the grand tour of the world of mobile development, there is a lot more to think about than initially meets the eye.
What is the best way to develop an application for both iOS and Android? Can you use a single code base or is the only option to rewrite the whole application for both platforms? How do you test for all of the device combinations? What about users who use accessibility settings such 2x font? Tris expertly guides us through how the industry is approaching these...2024-03-2832 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 50 .tech - Reducing friction with terramateWhen using infrastructure as code tools such as terraform engineers typically run into issues such as execution times, difficulty managing environment promotion and detecting drift when their code base reaches a certain size.
Terramate is a tool that is designed to work with your infrastructure as code tool such as Terraform, to work with you and solve those problems. It also comes with a cloud based observability platform that gives you a lens into what is happening across all of your infrastructure as code environments, even if you are using GitHub runners or Jenkins for execution.
Soren takes us through...2024-02-1528 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 49 .tech - SRE Engineering at Form3Lead platform SRE, Viktor Peacock takes us through what is SRE Engineering and why is it important to have an SRE function? Viktor then goes on to explain how you can use SLOs and error budgets to build your alerts and decide what a team should work on.2024-01-1730 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 48 .tech - Serverless patterns and pitfallsIn this engaging episode of the Form3.tech Engineering Podcast, we explore the essentials of serverless computing with AWS Serverless Ambassador Bojan Zivic. Our guest sheds light on the types of workloads best suited for serverless environments and dispels common myths, especially concerning long-running tasks. The conversation also dives into the comparison between serverless and Kubernetes, discussing their respective efficiencies in cloud computing.
A key focus is the security aspect of serverless computing, where our expert outlines the unique challenges and best practices. We also touch upon the practical use of serverless in Kubernetes environments, with a special emphasis on...2023-11-2932 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 47 .tech - Leveraging AI for technical interviewsScreenloop have built a set of products that leverage modern AI to give an indepth analysis of interviews. In this episode we dive under the covers into what advances in AI have made this possible and what technology Screenloop use out of the box vs what they chose to build themselves. The team at Screenloop go through the architecture of their platform and how the principle of keeping the architecture as simple as possible has lead them to their design.2023-10-1831 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 46 .tech - An introduction to Rust for GophersOur .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3. Get in touch with us via this short form if you'd like to be a podcast guest.
2023-08-1640 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 45 .tech - All about conference speakingPatrycja Wegrzynowicz is Lead SRE Engineer at Form3. She works on reliability and performance of UK payments. She has a wealth of experience, having been a professional software engineer for over 20 years. Her main area of expertise lies in Java, C++, security and performance tuning. Patrycja will be speaking about securing Kubernetes at Code Europe, European Women in Tech, KCD Munich, GopherCon UK, JavaZone, Porto Tech Hub, JAX London and DevOpsCon.Artur Kondas is Lead Engineer at Form3. He has a music background and is a self taught engineer, specialising in the Go programming language. Artur will be speaking a...2023-07-1936 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 44 .tech - What's new in NATS?Byron Ruth is Director of Developer Relations at Synadia, who are the maintainers of NATS.io. Byron is a long time NATS user and has a background in health tech. He has extensive experience developing data pipelines, integrating data, ETL and building applications. As he got more and more involved with the NATS community, the opportunity to join the team and advocate for the technology he really believed in was a no-brainer.Here are some further resources from Byron where you can learn more about NATS:NATS by ExampleNATS newsletterSynadia screencastSynadia Developer Education questionnaireOur .t...2023-06-1440 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 43 .tech - The core components of container systemsMichael Kerrisk is a Linux expert and runs a Linux System Programming course, which is a very popular course for Form3 engineers. He started working with UNIX, the predecessor of Linux, and has used this knowledge in his Linux courses. Linux was roughly a re-implementation of the UNIX kernel that had been writted more than 20 years before at Bell Laboratories. His primary area of focus is not the kernel internals, but the kernel interface that it presents to the world, which is the same as classical UNIX. Michael has always had a passion for teaching, having spent years as...2023-05-1731 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 42 .tech - Building and maintaining External Secrets OperatorMoritz Johner is a Senior Software Engineer at Form3. He has roughly 10 years experience in the tech industry. He comes from a non-conventional background, having studied Media Technology in University. He has worked in a variety of industries, including web agencies, startups and consulting. He is also a Linux Foundation trainer for Kubernetes. He joined Form3 a year ago and works on providing cloud agnostic Kubernetes experience for product teams. Moritz's journey into open-source began in 2018 when he was working in consulting and had to build a Kubernetes platform that would work across AWS accounts. Most projects d...2023-04-1250 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 41 .tech - Internal Developer PlatformKaspar Von Grünberg is the CEO and founder of Humanitec. Kaspar is passionate for platform engineering and been building platforms at multiple companies. In 2019, he started building the commercial and open-source products for Internal Developer Platforms, including growing communities at platformengineering.org and PlatformCon. His mission is to consolidate tooling and education for modern internal developer platforms.Our .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3. Get in touch with us via this short for...2023-03-1528 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 40 .tech - Landing your next remote jobAlexandra Forsberg is a Talent Acquisition Lead at Form3. Alexandra co-leads Form3's Engineering hiring across the UK, Europe, Argentina and Canada. She is currently leading a team of experienced Talent partners. Alexandra joined the business in 2018 and has had the privilege of growing Form3's Product, Engineering and Security departments. She has a background in agency recruitment, but is passionate about talent acquisition. She has shared her top interviewing tips in her article "How to Land Your Dream Remote Software Engineer Job".Alexandra recommends a few remote job boards to use in your search for a...2023-02-1521 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 39 .tech - Alternatives to async code reviewsDragan Stepanović is a Senior Principal Engineer at Talabat. Dragan has experience working at different sizes of companies, from small to large corporates. He became interested in Extreme Programming (XP) early on in his career. Then, he started diving into architecture, Domain Driven Design (DDD) and LEAN as tools to enable engineers to maximise their throughput for their stakeholders.Renato Rodrigues de Araujo is a Senior Software Engineer at Form3. Renato is part of the Tooling Team, which is responsible for making the lives of engineers easier by maintaining internal tools.Our .tech series invites gu...2023-01-1935 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 38 .tech - Building multi-cloud at Form3Kevin Holditch is Head of Platform Engineering at Form3. Kevin leads and looks after the Platform Engineering teams, who have been working on the Form3 multi-cloud platform.Our .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3. Get in touch with us via this short form if you'd like to be a podcast guest.
2022-12-1429 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 37 .tech - Flexible remote working at Form3Jordan Van Dyk is a Senior Software Developer on the Tooling Team at Form3. Two of the major projects he's working on are k8s-promoter and a variety of GitHub actions tooling. Based in Canada, Jordan has been at Form3 since November 2021.Our .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3. Get in touch with us via this short form if you'd like to be a podcast guest.
2022-11-1724 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 36 .tech - Kubernetes as a cloud operating systemNatan Yellin is the CEO of Robusta Dev. He has a background as an engineer and has been tackling the challenges of the business world in his role as CEO.Make sure explore these excellent resources to learn more from Natan:Common Kubernetes Mistakes - CPU and Memory RequestsThe Robusta YouTube channelStop using CPU limits on KubernetesKubernetes is the POSIX of the cloudOur .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3. Get in...2022-09-1527 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 35 .tech - Measuring the success of engineering teamsEvelina Vrabie is an Engineering Manager at Hopin. She is an engineering leader with over 15 years of experience, with a strong entrepreneurial, management and technical background. In her, Master's degree she explored the use of artificial intelligence in work therapy for high performance environments. Her work culminated in co-founding Touco Labs, a FinTech with the purpose of helping personal finance. Evelina's blog is called Jumpstart and she often publishes for CTO Craft as well. Follow these resources to connect with her.Our .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the...2022-08-1633 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 34 .tech - Supporting diversity in techLeah Cohen is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at School of SOS. She has a background as an entrepreneur, developer and is now in charge of building the platform and leading the technical team at School of SOS.Our .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3. Get in touch with us via this short form if you'd like to be a podcast guest. Interested in joining Form3? Check out our careers site.
2022-07-2725 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 33 .tech - Designing and Evolving APIsArnaud Lauret is currently working on the Postman Open Technology team. The team educates engineers and organisations to take advantage of APIs. Arnaud shares his knowledge on his blog apihandyman.io and has also written the book "The Design of Web APIs".Our .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3. Get in touch with us via this short form if you'd like to be a podcast guest. Interested in joining Form3? Check out...2022-06-2028 min
The Coder Career#38: Kevin Holditch (Head of Platform Engineering at FORM3) on Fintech, Contracting vs Perm and Air Traffic ControlKevin Holditch is Head of Platform Engineering at FORM3, a FinTech company based in London, UK. A highly experienced engineer, Kevin joins the podcast to discuss his journey from programming games on his school computer to being responsible for large engineering teams in high growth tech companies.Contact Kevin:Linkedin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-06-0639 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 32 .tech - Careers in EngineeringOur .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3. Get in touch with us via this short form if you'd like to be a podcast guest. Interested in joining Form3? Check out our careers site.
2022-05-2728 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 31 .tech - Testing at Form3Our .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3. Get in touch with us via this short form if you'd like to be a podcast guest. Interested in joining Form3? Check out our careers site.
2022-05-1124 min
DevOps For EveryoneKevin Holditch - Head of Platform Engineering for Form3
Hear how Form3 are moving from #ECS to #Kubernetes, and the complexity that Kubernetes brings.
Kevin tells us why joining a company on the ground floor is exciting in itself, but when you couple that with joining alongside your former colleagues, it made accepting a #Form3 offer a no brainer.
Hear how the business has gone from 10 employees when Kevin joined to 420 today!
Why Kubernetes was the only choice for them.
And Kevin tells us about one of their projects alongside Goldman Sachs which involves building a cross border payment solution.
Get in touch with Kevin here https://www...2022-05-0640 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 30 .tech - Security scanning using tfsecOur .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3. Get in touch with us via this short form if you'd like to be a podcast guest. Interested in joining Form3? Check out our careers site.
2022-04-2622 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 29 .tech - Infrastructure as code to control access to everythingOur .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3. Get in touch with us via this short form if you'd like to be a podcast guest. Interested in joining Form3? Check out our careers site.
2022-04-1327 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 28 .tech - Delivering at scale for MetaOur .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3. Get in touch with us via this short form if you'd like to be a podcast guest. Interested in joining Form3? Check out our careers site.
2022-03-2837 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 27 .tech - PulumiOur .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? Check out our careers site.
2022-03-1532 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 26 .tech - Role of a platform engineerOur .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://www.form3.tech/careers
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.tech podcast by Form3Ep 25 .tech - Backing up KubernetesOur .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://www.form3.tech/careers
2022-02-1636 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 24 .tech - Moving to GoOur .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://www.form3.tech/careers
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.tech podcast by Form3Ep 23 .tech - Running Cockroach DBOur .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://www.form3.tech/careers https://www.cockroachlabs.com/ Our last episode with Daniel Holt: https://techpodcast.form3.tech/episodes/ep-13-tech-cockroachdb-a-cloud-native-global-database
2022-01-1431 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 22 .tech - How do interpreters work? Our .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://www.form3.tech/careers Interpreter book: https://interpreterbook.com Thorsten Ball's Github: https://github.com/mrnugget
2021-11-3039 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 21 .tech - AWS Serverless PatternsOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://www.form3.tech/careers Marcia's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/FooBar_codes
2021-11-0831 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 20 .tech - Buying Cloud with Strategic BlueOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://www.form3.tech/careers
2021-10-1831 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 19 .tech - Machine Learning and Data ScienceOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://www.form3.tech/careers
2021-10-0429 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 18 . tech - How Elastic runs across multiple cloudsOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://www.form3.tech/careers
2021-09-0230 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 17 . tech - Observability with Grafana LabsOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://www.form3.tech/careers
2021-08-1334 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 16 .tech - Supercharge your Kubernetes clusters with CiliumOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://www.form3.tech/careers Cilium website : https://cilium.io/
2021-07-2632 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 15 .tech - Hashiconf, Vault and TerraformOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://www.form3.tech/careers Hashicorp website -https://www.hashicorp.com/ Kevin's talk at Hashiconf: https://www.youtube.com/20watch?v=oRsDn8iiozs
2021-07-0533 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 14 .tech - CNCF's role in the cloud native worldOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://hubs.li/H0zlrGd0Cloud Native Computing Foundation website: https://www.cncf.io/
2021-06-1426 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 13 .tech - CockroachDB - a Cloud Native Global DatabaseOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://hubs.li/H0zlrGd0Cockroach website: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/
2021-06-0128 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 12 .tech Ethical HackingOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://www.form3.tech/careers
2021-05-1830 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 11 .tech Harnessing the power of Serverless on AWSOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://hubs.li/H0zlrGd0Yan's website: https://theburningmonk.com/
2021-05-0436 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 10 .tech Running Containers on AWS with Aidan GraceOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://hubs.li/H0zlrGd0
2021-04-2031 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 9 .tech Dart and Flutter with Majid HajianOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://hubs.li/H0zlrGd0Flutter : https://flutter.dev/ Dart : https://dart.dev/Majid's website: https://majidhajian.com/
2021-04-0744 min.tech podcast by Form3Ep 8 .tech All about Terraform with Anton BabenkoOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://hubs.li/H0zlrGd0Topics covered in this show include: -What is infrastructure as code and how Terraform fits in to the landscape-Contrasting Terraform and AWS Cloud Formation -Using Terraform as glue across public clouds -Terraform Modules -Terraform registry ( https://registry.terraform.io/ ) -Controlling cost in a cloud infrastructure -Ensuring Compati...2021-03-2236 min
Powering Payments Podcast by Form3Ep 06. Digital Transformation in Banking with Jan-Willem Weggemans from Publicis Sapient, Kevin Holditch from Form3 and Gary Dempsey from Money20/20 EUIt is hard to transform to digital-first, or as our guest co-host Kevin Holditch says, "Replatforming a bank is like swapping out a couple of decades-old jet engine, mid-flight, whilst being 38,000 feet in the air with an over-pack passenger list." Seems like that might cause a few difficulties, doesn't it? You can also find this episode and Money20/20s great podcast here: The MoneyPotGuest: Jan-Willem Weggemans, Senior Client Partner, Publicis Sapient. Hosts: Gary Dempsey, Content Lead, Money20/20 EUKevin Holditch, Head of Platform Engineering, Form3Producers: Gary D...2021-03-1816 min
The MoneyPotHow do you Re-Platform a Bank?It is hard to transform to digital first, or as our guest co-host Kevin Holditch says, "Replatforming a bank is like swapping out a couple of decades old jet engine, mid flight, whilst being 38,000 feet in the air with an over-pack passenger list." Seems like that might cause a few difficulties, doesn't it? This is the first of a special series with Form3. Gary Dempsey, Content Lead, Money20/20 EU brings on Kevin Holditch, Head of Platform Engineering at Form3, to co-host. They speak with Jan-Willem Weggemans, Senior Client Partner at Publicis Sapient to unpick the issues as banks...2021-03-1816 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 7 .tech All about GraphQL with Devonte EmokpaeOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://hubs.li/H0zlrGd0About GraphQL - https://graphql.org/
2021-03-0937 min
.tech podcast by Form3EP 6 .tech Working in the GO ecosystem with Bartłomiej KlimczakTopics discussed in this episode include: -Transitioning to Go from PHP-Differences of Go as a language-Simplicity-Bart's approach to testing-Docker containerisation-Klio (Crossover between a CLI framework and a package manager)-Bart's blog
2021-02-1928 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 5 .tech: NATS with founder Derek CollisonTopics discussed in this episode include: -What was the idea behind NATS & where it came from -The technical choice to use Go & broker based system design-Simplicity as a feature-Security-Liftbridge -Running a popular open source project as a company -Jetstream & what the future holds for NATSAbout NATS: https://nats.io/about/
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.tech podcast by Form3Ep4 .tech: Engineering in Go with Tom ArrellOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Interested in joining Form3? - https://hubs.li/H0zlrGd0
2021-01-1837 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep3 .tech: Power of Linkerd Service Mesh with William MorganOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedding light into some of the engineering practices here at Form3.Topics/questions covered in this episode:How did Will start Linkerd?Linkerd and the intrinsic value of a service meshThe benefits of changes at a platform level with LinkerdForm3's transition to KubernetesBecoming cloud agnosticWhat to think about when choosing which service mesh to useRust, Garbage collection and Tail latency.ContainerizationLinkerd 2 and mutual TLS.Multi region with LinkerdTelemetry and Monitoring on LinkerdInterested in joining Fo...2020-12-0735 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 2 .tech: Making an Open Source Go project a full time job with Ashley JeffsOur new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing what's going on in the engineering community an shedding light about how engineering works at Form3.Topics/questions covered in this episode:How did Ash get into Go?Was it difficult?How easy was it to pick up?Benthos's use case in the beginningDeveloping an open source project alongside workC++ vs Go and the issue of Memory Leaks in C++Using Benthos for projections and transformationsHow Ash deals with Pull Requests and the community driven nature of BenthosOpen Source contribution to BenthosGo adoptionBenthos Graphic...2020-11-2531 min
.tech podcast by Form3Ep 1 .tech: How and why you should move to Go with Johan Brandhorst & Andy KuszykEpisode NotesIn this episode, we invited Johan Brandhorst from Buf & our very own Andy Kuszyk to dive into the wonderful world of Go, with a new host for our tech-focused series, Kevin Holditch.Our new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing what's going on in the engineering community, sheds light about how engineering works at Form3 and gives engineers advice.Topics/questions covered in this episode:How did our guests get into Go?Was it difficult?How easy was it to pick up?What are the limitations...2020-11-2339 min
EnginearsCloud-native Payments with FORM3 | Enginears PodcastWe're thrilled to have sat down with Kevin Holditch from FORM3 for this episode.What did we discuss? Who are FORM3, what “Cloud-native” payments are, 4 years of hiring talent globally “avoiding the commuter belt of London”, hiring tech-agnostic engineers, Terraform beginners to masters and why IaC and Terraform?If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr Host: Elliot Kipling: https://bit.ly/3i1KIY...2020-10-2146 min
The InsiderThe Insider with Kevin HolditchOn this weeks episode of The Insider I spoke with Kevin Holditch, Head of Platform Engineering at FORM3.FORM3 are a business with circa 80 Engineers working remotely in over 15 countries. This has been the hiring strategy over the past four years and enabled them to continue their fantastic growth through Covid with minimal changes. 2020-09-2929 min