Charles Humble

    Charles Humble
    Charles Humble is a former software engineer, architect and CTO who has worked as a senior leader and executive of both technology and content groups. He was InfoQ’s editor-in-chief from 2014-2020, and was chief editor for Container Solutions from 2020-2023. He writes regularly for The New Stack and other publications, is a highly experienced content strategist, and has spoken at multiple international conferences including GOTO (keynote), Devoxx, WTF is SRE and QCon. His primary areas of interest are how we build software better, including sustainability and ethics, cloud computing, remote working, diversity and inclusion, and inspiring the next generation of developers. Charles is also a keyboard player, and half of the ambient techno band Twofish.

    Podcast: Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors on Code Rewrites, Acquisitions, Observability, and Team Performance

    Charles Humble talks to Honeycomb CTO and co-founder Charity Majors. They talk about her experience at Parse, re-writing Parse in Go, and her lessons from Parse’s acquisition and shut-down by Facebook...

    Podcast: Jennifer Mace on How Google Does SRE

    Charles Humble talks to Jennifer Mace, aka as Macey. She gives us her definitions of "site reliability engineer" and “toil”, discusses how google recruits SREs, explores how to manage risk and speed, ...

    Podcast: Syntasso COO Paula Kennedy on Platform Team Responsibilities, Patterns and Anti-patterns

    Charles Humble talks to Paula Kennedy about the rise of platforms. They discuss platform definitions; common anti-patterns and how to guard against them at both a team and organisational level; provin...

    Podcast: Adrian Cockcroft on Serverless, Continuous Resilience, Wardley Mapping, Large Memory Systems and Sustainability

    Charles Humble talks to Adrian Cockcroft, ex of AWS, Battery Ventures and Netflix. They discuss: memes in computing, serverless first, chaos and ideas around continuous resilience, strategy and Wardle...

    Podcast: Toli and Andy Norton from Cinch on Team Topologies, Theory of Constraints, and Serverless

    Charles Humble talks to Apostolis Apostolidis (aka Toli) and Andy Norton from Cinch, arguably one of the UKs most successful start-ups. They discuss: how the company got started, how Team Topologies, ...

    These Companies Keep Running Thousands of Failed Experiments, and You Should Too

    Twenty-odd years ago most big companies would run just a handful of experiments each year. These days, firms like Amazon, Google, Intuit and Netflix run thousands. But how are they able to do this? An...

    Podcast: Silicon Valley Product Group’s Christian Idiodi on Product Management Skills and Product Discovery

    In this episode Charles Humble talks to Silicon Valley Product Group partner Christian Idiodi about how he got started in product management, the Certified Scrum Product Owner and MBA pathologies, how...

    Podcast: Sudden Compass Co-Founder Matt LeMay on Effective Product Management and Conducting User Research

    In this episode Charles Humble talks to Matt LeMay, co-founder and partner at Sudden Compass about the job of product management. They explore what the job entails, common A/B testing pitfalls, conduc...

    Podcast: GitHub Director of Engineering, Liz Saling, on Pausing Feature Development to Focus on Tech Debt and DevEx

    Charles Humble talks to Liz Saling, Director of Engineering at GitHub. They discuss the role of developer experience at GitHub, why the firm paused feature development for an entire quarter to focus o...