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Bert 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?

Head 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 challenges. We round up the show on how you go about keeping your application up to date. Is it possible just to push code out and live update your app or do you have to push all releases through the official app stores. Tris shares his vast industry experience on all of these topics and many more.

When 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 how you can get started with terramate, what benefits it brings and how it can help you solve some of your infrastructure as code issues.

Lead 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.

In 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 KNative applications. Additionally, the discussion references a relevant AWS article that highlights how Prime Video leverages EC2 and ECS for cost and efficiency gains. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in understanding the basics and nuances of serverless technology in a concise, easy-to-understand format.

Screenloop 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.

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.

Patrycja 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 about scaling & securing microservices at DevBcn, GopherCon UK and ContainerDays. Marcin Niemiec is Cloud Security Engineer at Form3. He is part of the defensive team, keep our team and our platform safe and to the highest security standards. Marcin will be speaking about how to mitigate SSRF vulnerabilities in Go at BSides Ljubljana and BSides Athens. 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.

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 .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.

Michael 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 a university teacher, before starting his corporate career. He joined the Training department of a previous employer and started delivering the system programming course for them. This was the ideal job for him, as it brought together the two things he was passionate about: UNIX and teaching. He is also the author of "The Linux Programming Interface", which is a a detailed guide and reference for Linux and UNIX system programming. 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.

Moritz 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 did not support assuming a role in another AWS account, so Moritz contributed this functionality to the various OSS projects he was using. Eventually, Moritz provided this same feature to kubernetes-external-secrets which was the de-facto secrets synching solution at the time. He then gradually became more involved in this project and helped take on the work of merging multiple secrets solutions together. Lucas Severo Alves is a Software Engineer at RedHat, focusing on open-source. He has a background in DevOps, SRE and system administration. His introduction to open-source was also on the kubernetes-external-secrets project that Moritz was working on. He was excited to focus on a single solution for managing secrets across platforms, which is something that he was focused on as part of his role. 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.

Kaspar 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 form if you'd like to be a podcast guest.

Alexandra 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 new role, which you can easily find using Google. The top boards she recommends are: We Work RemotelyWellfound (formerly AngelList)RemotiveOttaYou can also check Slack channels related to the languages you're interested in. For example, if you're interested in Go opportunities you can check the Gophers Slack.

Dragan 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 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.

Kevin 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.

Jordan 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.

Natan 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 touch with us via this short form if you'd like to be a podcast guest.

Evelina 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 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.

Leah 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.

Arnaud 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 our careers site.