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Coding Over Cocktails has now concluded.
Originally produced under our former name, Toro Cloud, the podcast was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic and featured  conversations with some of the world's leading IT experts.

While we are no longer releasing new episodes, the full archive remains available to explore.

The fundamentals of software architecture and microservices with Mark Richards

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"Fundamentals of Software Architecture" co-author Mark Richards discusses the important concepts behind microservices, breaks down the challenges encountered with their implementation, and qualifies his stance on the non-existence of "best practices" in software architecture.

The evolution of microservices for modern software development with James Lewis

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ThoughtWorks Director and Software Architect James Lewis talks about the dynamic concept and nature of microservices, and how its evolution shaped better standards for modern software development in organizations around the world.

On matters of cloud success with Ian Moyse

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Technology Sales Leader and Cloud - Social Influencer Ian Moyse explains how cloud adoption has driven the innovation of efficiently delivering the needed services of enterprises especially in the time of pandemic, how the cloud will affect future technologies, and how organizations can respond to the increasing security challenges brought by the rise of cloud adoption.

How Toro Cloud killed the API connector

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TORO Cloud's CEO and Founder David Brown and Software Architect Vivien Jovet talk about connectors, and how connectors are used as a way to facilitate connections with integration platforms.

Toro Cloud looks back at 2020

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We take you back to 2020 on how our company strived to address all the challenges we encountered in the past year while also detailing how we have created platforms to manage the digital transformation and integration of businesses.

Are automated APIs the future? with Zdenek “Z” Nemec

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Superface.ai Co-Founder and CTO Zdenek Nemec delves on how developers can establish autonomy for APIs, revolutionizing how businesses connect digitally.

Investing in agility with James Shore

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Agile Fluency<sup class='reg'>&reg;</sup> Project Consultant & Co-Founder James Shore discusses how agile evolved from early 2000s, what organizations need to focus on in terms of effectively adopting agile for software development, and why businesses need to remember the core idea of agile, being people-oriented instead of process-oriented.

Getting to the new future of work with Dion Hinchcliffe

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Constellation Research VP & Principal Analyst Dion Hinchcliffe delves on what CIOs are prioritizing for 2021, the challenges and opportunities presented by remote working and the digital transformation efforts, initiatives, challenges, and tools that have emerged and will soon drive the IT industry and business into the future.

Creating a formal API program with James Higginbotham

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API Consultant and LaunchAny Founder James Higginbotham describes APIs as the “ultimate do-over solution for enterprise IT” and discusses how organizations can establish a formal API program.

Defining polyglot programming with Neal Ford

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ThoughtWorks Director and Software Architect Neal Ford delves on how polyglot enables developers to express their creativity, how it is a natural fit for microservices, and where low-code fits into all of this.