Effective Patterns and Practices for Polyglot Programming

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Argues polyglot is practical: replaced a monolith workflow engine (IBM BPM) with Golang heart replacement, completed and runnable on Cloud Foundry in two weeks, which sped delivery and energized the team. Recommends anti-corruption layer shims to route traffic during upgrades and break apart monoliths into language-appropriate services. Notes operations pushback and governance needs solved by using Cloud Foundry buildpacks and a limited set of supported languages rather than unlimited freedom.

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1. 0:00Introduction and thanks
2. 1:28What is a polyglot programmer
3. 3:15Why polyglot programming matters
4. 5:47Polyglot in everyday systems
5. 6:29Breaking down a polyglot app
6. 7:30Why use different languages
7. 8:57Future of programming languages
8. 9:58Interface corruption layers
9. 11:24Breaking up a monolith
10. 13:55Q&A: Legacy monolith translation
11. 16:48Q&A: Management nightmare concerns
12. 18:55Q&A: API standardization benefits
13. 20:21Q&A: DevOps and language choice
14. 23:09Q&A: Operator stakeholder importance
15. 24:14Q&A: DevOps mindset perspective
16. 25:18Closing thoughts on polyglot

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