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  • GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech

    Architecture for Flow • Susanne Kaiser & James Lewis

    13/03/2026 | 30 mins.
    This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
    http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

    Check out more here:
    https://gotopia.tech/episodes/424

    Susanne Kaiser - Independent Tech Consultant & Author of "Architecture for Flow"
    James Lewis - Software Architect & Director at Thoughtworks

    RESOURCES
    Susanne
    https://bsky.app/profile/suksr.bsky.social
    https://mastodon.social/@suksr
    https://twitter.com/suksr
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannekaiser1
    https://susannekaiser.net

    James
    https://bsky.app/profile/boicy.bovon.org
    https://twitter.com/boicy
    https://linkedin.com/in/james-lewis-microservices
    https://github.com/boicy
    https://www.bovon.org

    Links
    https://susannekaiser.net/the-architecture-for-flow-canvas
    https://susannekaiser.net/articles
    https://www.christenseninstitute.org/theory/jobs-to-be-done

    DESCRIPTION
    James Lewis interviews Susanne Kaiser about her comprehensive new book "Architecture for Flow: Adaptive Systems with Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping and Team Topologies".

    Susanne shares how she brought together 3 powerful frameworks over several years of her consulting work, creating a holistic approach to designing socio-technical systems. The discussion covers her journey from startup CTO to independent consultant, the evolution of her thinking around value streams and team organization, and her practical "Architecture for Flow Canvas" that teams can use to assess their current state and envision their future.

    With 126 hand-drawn illustrations and 599 sticky notes in the book, Kaiser emphasizes the importance of visual communication and starting with the problem space before jumping to solutions.

    RECOMMENDED BOOKS
    Susanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/3XTmNCc
    Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/4a2gh0i
    Woods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice • https://amzn.to/2QWAmkl
    Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis • Flow Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GY3u44
    Stefan Hofer & Henning Schwentner • Domain Storytelling • https://amzn.to/3EroBH7
    Bluesky
    Instagram
    LinkedIn
    Facebook

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  • GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech

    Security & Developer Experience: Can We Have Both? • Abby Bangser, Adrian Mouat & Holly Cummins

    10/03/2026 | 43 mins.
    This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
    https://gotocph.com

    Abby Bangser - Platform Engineering Insights from Syntasso delivering Kratix
    Adrian Mouat - Developer Relations at Chainguard & Author of 'Using Docker'
    Holly Cummins - JavaOne Rock Star. Building Quarkus to Make the Cloud Cloudier

    RESOURCES
    Abby
    https://bsky.app/profile/abangser.bsky.social
    https://twitter.com/a_bangser
    https://github.com/abangser
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser
    https://www.syntasso.io/members-area/abby/profile

    Adrian
    https://bsky.app/profile/adrianmouat.com
    https://twitter.com/adrianmouat
    https://github.com/amouat
    https://linkedin.com/in/adrianmouat
    http://www.adrianmouat.com

    Holly
    https://hollycummins.com
    https://hollycummins.com/type/blog
    https://bsky.app/profile/hollycummins.com
    https://hachyderm.io/@holly_cummins
    https://twitter.com/holly_cummins
    https://github.com/holly-cummins
    https://linkedin.com/in/holly-k-cummins

    RECOMMENDED BOOKS
    Adrian Mouat • Using Docker • https://amzn.to/3PEYIJL
    Liz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJe
    Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-security/9781492039075
    Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, & Sara Bergman • Building Green Software • https://amzn.to/3UjSClv
    Kief Morris • Infrastructure as Code • https://amzn.to/4e6EBQc
    Bluesky
    Instagram
    LinkedIn
    Facebook

    CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS
    Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join

    Looking for a unique learning experience?
    Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.tech

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  • GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech

    The Lean Tech Manifesto • Fabrice Bernhard & Steve Pereira

    06/03/2026 | 33 mins.
    This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
    http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

    Check out more here:
    https://gotopia.tech/episodes/422

    Fabrice Bernhard - Co-Author of “The Lean Tech Manifesto” & Co-Founder & CTO at Theodo
    Steve Pereira - C o-Author of “Flow Engineering” & Principal Consultant at Visible Flow Consulting

    RESOURCES
    Fabrice
    https://bsky.app/profile/fab-ber.bsky.social
    https://x.com/fabriceb
    https://github.com/fabriceb
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabricebernhard

    Steve
    https://x.com/steveelsewhere
    https://github.com/stevepereira
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/devopsto
    https://stevepereira.ca

    Links
    https://hbr.org/1986/01/the-new-new-product-development-game

    DESCRIPTION
    Fabrice Bernhard, co-founder of Theodo and co-author of "The Lean Tech Manifesto", shares his journey from agile practitioner to lean thinking advocate. The discussion explores how lean principles can scale agile practices beyond small teams, the misconceptions around both methodologies, and the emergence of tech-enabled networks of teams as a new organizational model.

    Fabrice emphasizes that both lean and agile are fundamentally about people, not processes, and shares practical lessons from scaling his consultancy to 700 people while maintaining agility through lean principles.

    RECOMMENDED BOOKS
    Fabrice Bernhard & Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle • The Lean Tech Manifesto • https://amzn.to/3Z4EbU6
    Steve Pereira & Andrew Davis • Flow Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GY3u44
    General Stanley McChrystal, Collins, Silverman & Fussell • Team of Teams • https://amzn.to/4bUzhQY
    Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/4a2gh0i
    Bill Frasure, Bruce Eckel, James Ward • Effect Oriented Programming • https://amzn.to/4sO6wLV
    Susanne Kaiser • Adaptive Systems With Domain-Driven Design, Wardley Mapping & Team Topologies • https://amzn.to/3XTmNCc
    Bluesky
    Instagram
    LinkedIn
    Facebook

    CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS
    Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join

    Looking for a unique learning experience?
    Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.tech

    SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!
  • GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech

    Building Planetary-Scale Data Systems with Venice • Felix GV & Olimpiu Pop

    03/03/2026 | 28 mins.
    This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.
    https://gotopia.tech

    Check out more here:
    https://gotopia.tech/articles/421

    Félix GV - Current Interests: Multi-Planetary Databases, Data Sovereignty & Lifelogging
    Olimpiu Pop - Technologist & Tech Journalist

    RESOURCES
    Félix
    https://bsky.app/profile/felixgv.ninja
    https://github.com/FelixGV
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/felixgv

    Olimpiu
    https://x.com/olimpiupop
    https://github.com/zroll
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/olimpiupop

    Links
    https://venicedb.org
    https://github.com/linkedin/venice
    https://rocksdb.org
    https://duckdb.org

    DESCRIPTION
    Félix GV, a former engineer at LinkedIn and architect of the Venice database system, discusses the complexity of building planetary-scale data systems. He explains Venice's unbundled architecture where each component—from Kafka-based pub/sub to RocksDB-powered servers—operates as an independent distributed system. Félix details their rigorous chaos engineering practices, including regular load tests that push data centers beyond normal capacity to ensure reliability.

    The discussion covers fundamental distributed systems concepts like the CAP theorem and the trade-offs between consistency and availability in multi-region deployments. He also explains why Venice, as a derived data system, deliberately sacrifices strong consistency for high throughput and availability, and concludes by discussing their experimental integration of DuckDB for SQL-based analytics and data exploration capabilities.

    RECOMMENDED BOOKS
    Kasun Indrasiri & Danesh Kuruppu • gRPC: Up and Running • https://amzn.to/3sBGBJJ
    Tomer Shiran, Jason Hughes & Alex Merced • Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide • https://amzn.to/488Z30k
    William Smith • Arrow Flight Protocols and Practices • https://amzn.to/4o2Q2fd
    Adi Polak • Scaling Machine Learning with Spark • https://amzn.to/3N9vx1H
    Mark Needham, Michael Hunger & Michael Simons • DuckDB in Action • https://amzn.to/45QwSli
    Simon Aubury & Ned Letcher • Getting Started with DuckDB • https://amzn.to/3VPk4q
    Bluesky
    Instagram
    LinkedIn
    Facebook

    CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS
    Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join

    Looking for a unique learning experience?
    Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.tech

    SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!
  • GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech

    SW Design, Architecture & Clarity at Scale • Sam Newman, Jacqui Read & Simon Rohrer

    27/02/2026 | 46 mins.
    This conversation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025.
    https://gotocph.com

    Sam Newman - Author of Building Microservices & Monolith to Microservices
    Jacqui Read - Author of Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects
    Simon Rohrer - Global Head of Enterprise Tech Architecture and Ways of Thinking

    ORIGINAL TALK TITLE
    Software Design, Architecture & Giving Clarity at Scale

    RESOURCES
    Sam
    https://twitter.com/samnewman
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/samnewman
    http://samnewman.io
    http://samnewman.io/blog
    https://github.com/snewman

    Jacqui
    https://bsky.app/profile/tekiegirl.bsky.social
    https://jacquiread.com
    https://fosstodon.org/@tekiegirl
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelineread
    https://github.com/tekiegirl

    Simon
    https://bsky.app/profile/simon.bvssh.com
    https://mastodon.social/@simonr
    https://x.com/sirohrer
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonrohrer
    https://github.com/sirohrer
    https://www.soonersaferhappier.com

    Links
    https://acedmodel.com

    ABSTRACT
    In this session, we will explore the nature of software design - what is it, and where is the intersection with architecture? We’ll also look at the importance of communicating context, design, and architecture across an organization.

    If you’d like to do some advanced reading, head over to acedmodel.com for more.

    Both Jacqui and Simon will be sharing their expertise and experiences, but this session is also all about your questions. Come along, and get involved! [...]

    Read the full abstract here:
    https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3932

    RECOMMENDED BOOKS
    Jacqui Read • Communication Patterns • https://amzn.to/3E37lvv
    Sam Newman • Building Resilient Distributed Systems • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/building-resilient-distributed/9781098163532
    Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E
    Sam Newman • Building Microservices • https://amzn.to/3dMPbOs
    Jonathan Smart, Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie & Simon Rohrer • Sooner Safer Happier • https://amzn.to/3Emm9p2
    Bluesky
    Instagram
    LinkedIn
    Facebook

    CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS
    Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join

    Looking for a unique learning experience?
    Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.tech

    SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

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The GOTO podcast seeks out the brightest and boldest ideas from language creators and the world's leading experts in software development in the form of interviews and conference talks. Tune in to get the inspiration you need to bring in new technologies or gain extra evidence to support your software development plan.
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