InfoQ Courses

Why Software Development Sucks and 7 Mental Models to Help Fix It

Discover 7 mental models and a 4-step framework to overcome software delivery struggles by identifying bottlenecks, balancing work types, and investing 20-30% effort in team improvement.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Why 99% of AI Products Fail - A CTO's Hard-Won Lessons

Uncover why most AI products fail through a CTO's 30-year experience, revealing critical mistakes by major companies and practical lessons for building resilient production AI systems.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Architect's Dilemma - Tech-First vs. Human-Centered Design

Discover how to build genuinely impactful products by balancing technical excellence with human-centered design principles in AI and emerging technologies.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Microfrontends - Heuristics, Patterns and Antipatterns

Discover microfrontends evolution, heuristics for gradual implementation, and patterns to optimize development loops with expert Luca Mezzalira in this 45-minute InfoQ talk.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Pair Programming - The Unexpected Key to Continuous Delivery

Discover how pair programming becomes the unexpected catalyst for achieving ultra-fast deployments and eliminating waste in continuous delivery workflows.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Amazon's 3000% Growth - The Hard Truths of Engineering at Scale

Discover how Amazon scaled through a multi-million dollar crisis, exploring CI/CD philosophies, proprietary tooling, and the tension between speed and quality gates in rapidly evolving environments.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Team Building in the Brave New World - Transforming Software Engineering Culture and Leadership

Explore how AI transforms software engineering teams into polymorphic cultures, requiring leaders to develop new coaching skills and rethink career paths as technology bridges experience gaps.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Financial Architecture of Software

Explore how financial structures shape software design and organizational decisions, connecting Conway's Law to business economics for successful development outcomes.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The $200M Reason AMQP Became a Standard - A CTO's Inside Story

Uncover the untold story of how a $200M vendor pricing crisis led major banks and tech giants to create AMQP, transforming enterprise messaging from proprietary lock-in to open standard.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Systems Thinking for Quality Engineering

Discover systems thinking approaches to quality engineering, focusing on relationships between problem elements and maintaining human oversight in AI-accelerated development environments.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Security Theater EXPOSED - End Dev Pain and Build BLISS

Discover the BLISS framework to eliminate security theater and boost developer productivity while maintaining robust protection through Bulkheads, Levels, Impact, Simplicity principles.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Continuous Deployment and Pair Programming for Lean Software Delivery Even Without Jira

Discover how two Sparebank1 developers achieved continuous deployment and pair programming using TDD and waste clock techniques for lean software delivery.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Multi-Cloud Architecture - 4 Latency and Resilience Secrets Senior Engineers Must Know

Master 4 critical secrets for multi-cloud architecture: latency optimization, resilience patterns, event ordering, and duplicate handling with production-ready code examples.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Beyond the Hype - Architecting Systems with Agentic AI

Discover production-ready Agentic AI architecture through expert insights on governance, system integration, trust frameworks, and the mindset shift from software to learning architect.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Kotlin to Rust - The Hard Truths of Rewriting a High-Scale Data Plane

Discover the challenges and benefits of migrating from Kotlin to Rust for high-performance serverless caching, focusing on achieving predictable low-latency at scale.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video