Modern Software Engineering

An InfoQ podcast series about intentional corporate culture and software management in engineering organizations. Hosted by Shane Hastie, InfoQ's Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, it features conversations with senior software leaders about building engineering teams and systems, organizational practices, hiring, leadership, and lessons from decisions they would handle differently. The podcast is intended for software architects and senior developers and is distributed through services including Apple Podcasts, YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, Overcast, and an RSS feed.

Backstage is an open-source framework for building internal developer portals. Created by Spotify and hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as an Incubation-level project, it uses a centralized Software Catalog to manage services and infrastructure, including microservices, libraries, data pipelines, websites, and machine-learning models. Its built-in Software Templates create projects with standardized organizational tooling, while TechDocs uses a "docs like code" approach to create, maintain, find, and use technical documentation. An ecosystem of open-source plugins extends the portal's functionality, including the Tech Insights plugin discussed in the videos. Backstage is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

AI Engineer is an AI engineering events and community organization operated by Software 3.0 INC. It runs flagship and regional events alongside year-round community engagement, knowledge exchange, and collaborative activities focused on practical AI engineering. Its public program includes conferences, workshops, talks, guides, and other opportunities for the global AI engineering community.

A DataExpert-io GitHub repository that curates learning resources for data engineering. It organizes a 2024 career roadmap, free beginner and intermediate boot-camp materials, required software, hands-on projects, interview guidance, books, communities, newsletters, company and tool directories, engineering blogs, whitepapers, and data-engineering creator accounts. Its categorized references cover areas including orchestration, data lakes and clouds, warehouses, data quality, analytics, data integration, semantic layers, modern OLAP, LLM application libraries, real-time data, and data lineage.

gstack is an open-source skill and tooling framework for Claude Code, developed by Garry Tan. It turns Claude Code into a virtual engineering team through Markdown-based slash commands and specialist roles covering product review, engineering management, design review, code review, browser-based QA, security auditing, release management, documentation, and other software-delivery tasks. Its tools can drive a real browser and support unit-test, end-to-end-test, and black-box verification loops. The repository describes 23 specialist tools and eight power tools, and distributes the project under the MIT license. It requires Claude Code, Git, and Bun; Node.js is additionally required on Windows.