Asynchronous & Unreliable - Conversations on The Edge of Software
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Podcast Overview
<p>Welcome to <b>Asynchronous and Unreliable</b>, the new weekly podcast where we discuss the latest and most fascinating ideas in: software engineering, AI, management, leadership and communications, efficiency, operations, clouds, hyperscaling, resilience and sustainability.</p><p></p><p>Our host is Anne Currie, tech veteran, co-author of O'Reilly's Building Green Software (on building cheaper and more flexible systems ready for the energy transition), The Cloud Native Attitude (on industry embrace of fast flow), and the science fiction Panopticon series (on killer robots in space, amongst other topics).</p><p></p><p>Expect animated, friendly, and lighthearted discussions with some of the most renowned & interesting thinkers and practitioners in technology. </p><p></p><p>To find out about just a few of our amazing guests in 2026, <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.asynchronousunreliable.com/" target="_blank">visit our website</a>.</p>
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Recent Episodes
July 13, 2026
Ep 17: Will the Future of Software Really Contain No Humans? With Jon Berger
<p><b>The Future of Software: Insights from Experience</b></p><p>Discover how seasoned experts (aka old people in computer years) predict the evolution of software development over the next decade, focusing on #AI's transformative role, hardware implications, and the potential for machine-only software.</p><p></p><p><b>In this episode:</b></p><ul><li>Reflection on recent episodes discussing AI and code generation and what they imply for the future</li><li>The challenge of maintaining software</li><li>The shift from human to AI-centric code creation and the implications for trust and reliability</li><li>How hardware limitations and technological advances will shape software design and optimization</li><li>The concept of "wet code" — intentionally un-Dry, performance-optimized, AI-generated code that forgoes human maintainability</li><li>The potential for machine code to replace high-level programming languages entirely</li><li>The evolution from microservices as team management tools to pure operational resilience components</li><li>The revolutionary impact of AI training on code creation, emphasizing self-learning models akin to AlphaGo</li><li>The concept of unikernels and the radical idea of single-kernel systems replacing traditional OS structures</li><li>The importance of shifting from maintainable code by humans to trust-based, AI-driven code systems<p></p></li></ul><p><i>This episode explores paradigm-shifting ideas about the core foundation of software and hardware in a future where AI rewrites the very fabric of code creation and system design.</i></p><p></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.asynchronousunreliable.com/episode-17-jon-berger" target="_blank"><i>Transcript</i></a></p>
July 6, 2026
Ep 16: Could YOU Recreate Amazon S3 At Home With Claude?? With Justin Cormack
<p>A wild ride through Justin Cormack's attempts to build really hard stuff using AI. Did he recreate Amazon s3 in his back bedroom in a couple of weeks?</p><p></p><p>A fun dive into the fascinating world of AI-assisted software development, Unikernels, and the future of programming languages, with Justin Cormack. </p><p></p><p>Justin was the CTO of Docker for a decade, is one of the founders of Unikernels and is a leading figure in cloud-native and systems programming. In this episode, Anne hears all about his current experiments with building big, proper systems code using AI.</p><p></p><p>We also hear about his thoughts on the future of languages. Does Rust have it nailed or might there be something better coming along? Should we really have coding languages at all anymore?</p><p></p><p>In this episode we hear about:</p><ul><li>Justin's recent experiments with AI-generated code and how it accelerates complex software creation</li><li>The concept of unikernels and how they differ from traditional operating systems</li><li>Challenges and opportunities in building cloud-native and AI-optimized software systems - good, hard, scaleable software</li><li>The role of programming languages like Rust, Zig, and emerging trends in AI-friendly languages</li></ul><p>Justin's <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://buttondown.com/justincormack/archive/" target="_blank">newsletter </a></p><p>#Nix, #RustLang, #AI</p>
June 29, 2026
Ep 15: How Are Systems Changing To Improve Operational Efficiency & Resilience? With Holly Cummins
<p>In another friendly conversation, Anne and Holly Cummins of IBM discuss IBM's cloud native platform Quarkus and why it is so, so important right now. You've got to be able to turn it off and on again for operatioal efficiency, to take any advantage of the cloud and - vitally - for security because in the new world, patches have to be applied rapidly.</p><p></p><p>Anne and Holly, Java champion, explore the evolution of Java from its initial flexible, runtime-centric design to a modern cloud-native, operationally efficient platform. Holly shares insights into how the shift to immutable, start-up friendly environments like Quarkus is transforming how we build and deploy Java applications in the era of cloud computing, AI, and sustainability.</p><p></p><p>#Java #Javasoftware #security #operationalefficiency #ai #podcast</p><p></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.asynchronousunreliable.com/episode-14-holly-cummins" target="_blank">Transcript</a></p>
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- What is Asynchronous & Unreliable - Conversations on The Edge of Software?
<p>Welcome to <b>Asynchronous and Unreliable</b>, the new weekly podcast where we discuss the latest and most fascinating ideas in: software engineering, AI, management, leadership and communications, efficiency, operations, clouds, hyperscaling, resilience and sustainability.</p><p></p><p>Our host is Anne Currie, tech veteran, co-author of O'Reilly's Building Green Software (on building cheaper and more flexible systems ready for the energy transition), The Cloud Native Attitude (on industry embrace of fast flow), and the science fiction Panopticon series (on killer robots in space, amongst other topics).</p><p></p><p>Expect animated, friendly, and lighthearted discussions with some of the most renowned & interesting thinkers and practitioners in technology. </p><p></p><p>To find out about just a few of our amazing guests in 2026, <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.asynchronousunreliable.com/" target="_blank">visit our website</a>.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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