This podcast explores how craftsmanship, architecture, engineering rigor, and organizational practices come together in modern R&D environments. Each edition refines and deepens my earlier reflections, building a coherent and evolving body of knowledge around Agile Software Engineering
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Agile Software Engineering Deep Dive, Alessandro Guida looks back at Smalltalk, one of the most influential programming languages in the history of software development. The episode explores Smalltalk’s origins at Xerox PARC and the ideas that made it so distinctive, from objects communicating through messages to live programming environments where developers could inspect, modify, and continue working with running systems. It also looks a...
30 Sept 2026
MONOLITHIC IS NOT A BAD WORD, BUT WILD DECOMPOSITION OFTEN IS
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Agile Software Engineering Deep Dive, Alessandro Guida explores why the word monolithic has acquired such a bad reputation, and why breaking systems into ever smaller services is not always the architectural improvement we expect. The episode looks at the real problems that microservices were designed to solve, including independent deployment, team autonomy, fault isolation, and scaling, while also examining the complexity that comes with distributed s...
22 Sept 2026
AI RISKS Q&A. Putting recent AI risk debates into perspective.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Agile Software Engineering Deep Dive, Alessandro Guida returns to the subject of AI risk with a Q&A exploring some of the questions raised by recent developments in agentic AI and recursive self-improvement. The discussion begins with the Hugging Face incident and what it tells us about agents that pursue goals in unexpected ways, circumvent restrictions, discover new uses for their environment and interact with systems their designers never intende...
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