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| The Need for Speed | 2025 Engineering Benchmarks | 21 Jan 2025 | 00:31:06 | |
Want to ship better software? Get in the fast lane. Show Notes:
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| Managing Developer Feedback Effectively | Atlassian’s Andrew Boyagi | 14 Jan 2025 | 00:41:48 | |
Is your company relying on surveys alone to bridge the gap between developers and managers? Show Notes:
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| Back to First Principles | Productiv CTO Ashish Aggarwal | 29 Oct 2024 | 00:38:45 | |
Everyone knows the era of growth at all costs is over, but where does that leave us? And specifically, where does that leave founders? The answer is straightforward: founders have to start thinking like business people. Show Notes: Support the show:
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| It’s Not Open Source, It’s You. Where Open Source Risk Comes From w/ Sonatype | 13 Dec 2022 | 00:36:31 | |
Picture this: an auto manufacturer with no clue what parts are in its supply chain, where those parts come from and no ability to recall those parts if vulnerabilities are discovered. Show Notes Support the show:
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| Treating Devs Like Human Beings | A Conversation with Kelly Vaughn, Jean Hsu & Lena Reinhard | 06 Dec 2022 | 01:00:58 | |
Sometimes among all the sprints, the pressure to ship faster, tools to measure lines of code written, it seems like we as an industry forget a simple fact: developers are knowledge workers, not robots Support the show:
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| Gene Kim + The Rise and Fall of DevOps | Conversations from DevOps Enterprise Summit | 29 Nov 2022 | 00:51:59 | |
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| Economic Downturn is No Excuse to Use Individual Metrics w/ Ori Keren, Co-Founder & CEO of LinearB | 22 Nov 2022 | 00:30:42 | |
Bad habits have a way of resurfacing during difficult times. Unfortunately for engineering teams everywhere, this is one of those times. Support the show:
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| Why Startups Suck at Security w/ Vanta's Head of Engineering, Matt Spitz | 15 Nov 2022 | 00:38:35 | |
When your startup is struggling to find its product-market fit, security is the last thing on your mind - and according to security expert Matt Spitz, that’s perfectly fine! Support the show:
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| Leading Engineers in Uncertain Times | A Conversation with CircleCI, Blockchain.com & Oliver Wyman | 08 Nov 2022 | 00:56:52 | |
It's no secret this has been a difficult year for many companies in tech. The truth is, it's easy to be a leader when times are good. It's less easy in the midst of a storm. Support the show:
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| The Promise of Platform Engineering w/ Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb | 01 Nov 2022 | 00:47:26 | |
Live from Interact, we're bringing you an interview with our favorite CTO, Charity Majors.
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| Interact: A Word From Your Co-Hosts | 25 Oct 2022 | 00:04:08 | |
Hosts Dan Lines & Conor Bronsdon remind listeners that Interact is today - October 25th - and why it's the must-attend event for engineering leaders. Support the show:
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| Why Discord is Betting Big on Devs w/ Anjney Midha VP of Platform Ecosystem at Discord | 18 Oct 2022 | 00:39:33 | |
How does a platform with 150 million monthly active users build for the future? In a word: Developers.
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| Where Did All The Focus Time Go? Dissecting 1.5 Million Meetings w/ Clockwise's VP of Engineering, Dan Kador | 11 Oct 2022 | 00:44:09 | |
Where has all the focus time gone? Why does there seem to be less of it at big companies than at startups? And do managers really have as little as they claim?
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| The Real Measure of Success in Platform Engineering | MassDriver CEO Cory O'Daniel | 22 Oct 2024 | 00:45:04 | |
It’s time we recognize the idea of a ‘Golden Path’ is unrealistic. In this episode of Dev Interrupted, host Dan Lines is joined by Cory O'Daniel, CEO of MassDriver, to discuss Cory’s provocative article 'DevOps is Bullshit'. They cover the pitfalls of DevOps, the evolution of cloud operations and whether or not platform engineering is the solution the industry needs . Cory shares insights on why many organizations struggle with DevOps implementation, the impact of cloud technology on traditional operations, and how internal developer platforms are reshaping the industry. Topics:
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| Labs: The Best & Worst Programming Languages For Dev Workflow | 04 Oct 2022 | 00:41:26 | |
The argument about which programming language reigns supreme is about to get a lot more clear with the release of research on the best and worst languages for dev workflow. In this episode of LinearB Labs, CTO Yishai Beeri reveals what the company’s data scientists have discovered about programming-language productivity following analysis of thousands of dev teams and hundreds of thousands of pull requests. Industry-changing research on which programming languages linger under excessively long shipping lifespans and which ones are impressively efficient, this pod should help settle debates that have been entirely subjective up to this point. If your programming language of choice ends up on the wrong side of the spectrum, don’t fret. Yishai and team also came up with recommendations to overcome the hurdles and bottlenecks for languages that require better workflow. Show Notes
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| Atlassian’s Eye-Opening State of Teams Report w/ Mark Cruth Modern Work Evangelist | 27 Sep 2022 | 00:47:46 | |
When you get the chance to geek out over the metrics behind happy dev teams, you take it. As one of the companies shaping how the modern workforce, well… works, Atlassian is one of the foremost thought leaders in the space thanks to an amazing research and data team. Case in point: Atlassian’s State of Teams Report. In this week’s episode, modern work evangelist Mark Cruth takes us through the most interesting, insightful and counterintuitive findings from their deep dive on what is separating healthy teams from unhealthy ones. From whether hybrid or in-office is the best for modern teams to what work principles are the most important to keep in a remote world, this conversation about the State of Teams report is an eye-opener for anyone whose success depends on the work of others. Show Notes
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| Ship/Show/Ask - A Branching Strategy for Modern Dev Teams w/ Author & Eng Leader Rouan Wilsenach | 20 Sep 2022 | 00:38:58 | |
Branching strategy has been reimagined. Meet the mind behind it. In his first-ever podcast appearance, Rouan Wilsenach, author of Ship/Show/Ask: A Modern Branching Strategy, joins Dev Interrupted to talk about his work as an author and the inspiration behind his musings on branching strategy. If you haven’t already read Ship/Show/Ask, you can find it on Martin Fowler’s website. It’s one of the most influential articles we’ve read in years. Rouan has been more than an inspiration, he’s changed the way our dev teams work at LinearB - and he might just change yours too. Show Notes
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| We Solved Dev Infrastructure, So Why Does it Suck to Build Stuff? w/ Hasura's Tanmai Gopal | 13 Sep 2022 | 00:42:29 | |
In the last decade there have been enormous advances in infrastructure and ops, so why does it suck to build stuff? That’s the question Tanmai Gopal kept asking himself before founding his company, Hasura. Now, as Hasura’s CEO he’s channeling his chaotic energy in order to solve this problem. This week’s episode of Dev Interrupted implores listeners to forget about pivoting (it’s just the story other people impose on your journey), shames backend devs for their elitist tendencies and asks why, if Netflix won the battle for infrastructure, are they losing the streaming wars to Disney? Show Notes
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| Lessons Learned from Programming at Google w/ Hyrum Wright & Titus Winters | 06 Sep 2022 | 00:51:42 | |
Today, we are releasing the full interview of one of our favorite episodes: Dan’s 2021 conversation with engineers-turned-authors, Hyrum Wright & Titus Winters. As two of the most senior staff engineers at Google, both guests brought a deep understanding of software engineering to the show: Hyrum is semi-famous as the "Hyrum" of Hyrum's Law; while Titus is responsible for managing 250 million lines of code. In their brilliant book Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time, Hyrum & Titus explore the engineering practices that make one of the largest codebases in the world sustainable and healthy. Show Notes
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| The Day-1 Decisions that Make or Break Companies w/ PlanetScale's CEO Sam Lambert | 27 Aug 2022 | 00:33:26 | |
Your early tech stack decisions won’t ensure long term success, but they can certainly set you up for long term failure. Pragmatists rejoice! This week’s episode of Dev Interrupted features Sam Lambert, CEO & President of PlanetScale, a tech leader known as the ‘Oracle of Pragmatism’. In a winding conversation that touches on Sam’s time at GitHub, where he helped the then 40th most-trafficked website in the world run on just 2 servers, to his experience working at Facebook where he learned that you don’t need to sacrifice quality in order to move fast, this episode has the insights you need to make straightforward, no BS decisions about your tech stack. Or as Sam says, learn how to avoid “the new hotness” in order to build a culture that reflects the often boring decisions that make or break a company.
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| Stripe on Treating Dev Bandwidth as Your Most Valuable Resource w/ Stripe’s Head of Engineering, Smruti Patel | 20 Aug 2022 | 00:48:44 | |
The unofficial first rule of engineering: When the minds behind the world’s most valuable startup, Stripe, want to talk about making better dev orgs, you listen. In this episode of Dev Interrupted, Stripe’s Head of Engineering Smruti Patel joined us to talk about the daily, weekly and yearly engineering decisions that have engineered the company’s meteoric success. Smruti has a gift for making the logic behind make-or-break strategic decisions digestible for every engineer, regardless of where they are on the company ladder. With a breadth of wisdom on what it takes to make tough decisions based on tradeoffs, opportunity cost and developer bandwidth, Smruti Patel’s insights can be applied to any org – even ones worth less than $100 billion!
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| Labs: Solving The Pull Request Problem w/ Continuous Merge | 13 Aug 2022 | 00:40:51 | |
Fact: The state of pull requests is broken and we finally have the data to prove it. In our latest LinearB Labs episode we reveal the information that has led us to the inevitable conclusion that pull requests have become a massive source of toil, bottlenecks and a huge barrier to shipping. Better yet, two people who have been thinking about how to attack this dev workflow issue – Dan Lines and Ori Keren of LinearB – are ready to actually propose a solution: continuous merge. The next step in CI/CD, continuous merge is the concept of creating lanes where pull requests can be merged based on their risk. Plain and simple, pull requests should not all be treated the same. The first step in continuous merge proposed in the episode is the dev tool gitStream, which automates and optimizes merging pull requests based on risk and level of attention required. A game-changing conversation, this episode is the first time you might hear about continuous merge but it certainly won’t be the last. Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code. Support the show:
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| Why Devs Break Up with Their Bosses w/ Oliver Wyman's Carolyn Vo | 06 Aug 2022 | 00:46:37 | |
Everyone who manages a team would like to think that their employees admire them as individuals and as leaders. That you make an impact on those employees while they work under you and long after you end up moving to new companies and opportunities. One such engineering leader who has mastered the mix of manager, friend and mentor is Carolyn Vo. A Partner and Head of Engineering at Oliver Wyman, Carolyn is one of engineering’s leading advocates on the benefits of creating a culture of approachability, tinkering and healthy levity. In fact, in our conversation, Carolyn makes a strong argument that without honing the art of approachable management, not only does productivity suffer, but engineers are consistently looking for the door. One of our liveliest pods to date, we hope you can absorb Carolyn’s insights and energy no matter where you are on your leadership journey. Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code. Support the show:
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| The Art of Letting Your Devs Step Up w/ Equinix’s Rajah Kalipatnapu | 30 Jul 2022 | 00:24:32 | |
Like every other team-based profession, engineering needs leaders. But identifying a true, tested and proven road for taking a programmer and putting them in a position of managing projects & priorities is still a work in progress. That’s why I was so excited to speak with Rajah Kalipatnapu, Global Head of Product Engineering at Equinix. From his unique perspective on creating CEOs for features to dealing with beloved employees who can’t code up to the teams’ needs, Rajah’s theories on how and when to let your developers step up to the moment need to be heard. Access the engineering benchmarks report here: http://linearb.io/benchmarks/ Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code. Support the show:
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| Transforming Customer Support with AI | DevRev’s Co-founder & CEO Dheeraj Pandey | 15 Oct 2024 | 00:49:52 | |
This week, host Conor Bronsdon chats with Dheeraj Pandey, CEO and co-founder of DevRev. Dheeraj shares his incredible journey from leading Nutanix to a valuation of $16 billion, to now striving to build another unicorn with DevRev. Dheeraj opens up about the lessons learned from his entrepreneurial journey, emphasizing the significance of having a holistic approach to building products and companies. He explores how his experiences at Nutanix have shaped his vision at DevRev, especially in terms of integrating AI as a core component rather than a mere add-on. The discussion also covers a range of topics including the transformative power of AI in business operations, customer-centric design, and the importance of balancing innovative technology with intuitive user experience.
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| How a Trained Therapist Diagnoses Healthy Dev Teams w/ Engineer & Entrepreneur, Kelly Vaughn | 23 Jul 2022 | 00:50:33 | |
Not only is Kelly Vaughn one of the pioneers in building thought-leadership content for the developer community, she’s one of the rare programmers who comes to the craft with the background of a trained therapist. Access the engineering benchmarks report here: http://linearb.io/benchmarks/ Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code. Support the show:
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| The Dangers of Shipping at All Costs w/ CEO & Cofounder of 33 Teams, Drew McManus | 16 Jul 2022 | 00:48:38 | |
In a field like engineering, to have a truly unique 30,000-feet view of the profession, you need someone with 30 years of experience in adapting, innovating and creating in the space. That’s why we were so excited to talk to Drew McManus, CEO and Cofounder of 33 Teams. An engineer who’s helped shape the formative years of Apple, Adobe and so many more companies you have on your phone right now, Drew McManus is now advising rapidly growing dev orgs across the world at 33 Teams. Drew is an oracle (no pun intended) on how to see dev orgs as living organisms, identifying the structural, psychological and technological maladies keeping teams from becoming who they aspire to be. In our conversation, we touch upon everything from tech debt, to unlocking creativity to the all-too-common danger of shipping at all costs. If ever there was a way to download 30 years of engineering leadership in one hour, this is it. Access the engineering benchmarks report here: http://linearb.io/benchmarks/ Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code. Support the show:
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| What a Healthy Relationship with Open Source Looks Like ft. GitLab's John Coghlan | 09 Jul 2022 | 00:35:54 | |
There’s an open secret about open source: Developers use it. Teams use it. Businesses use it. But no one really thinks about how they contribute to it. That’s why we jumped at the chance to get a state-of-open-source discussion with Gitlab’s John Coghlan, Senior Manager of Developer Advocacy. Someone who joined the open source community with the goal of making developers’ lives better, John came to the table with a wealth of insights into just how individual engineers leverage open source, how businesses leverage it and, most importantly, how to make our relationship with open source better - not just for you and me, but for the community as a whole. We hope you find this candid conversation on how to be thinking about using open source in the right ways as empowering and insightful as we did! Access the engineering benchmarks report here: http://linearb.io/benchmarks/ Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code. Support the show:
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| How to Train Devs to Disrupt Industries w/ Lessen's CTO Chris Bee | 02 Jul 2022 | 00:40:31 | |
Not all dev orgs work in all situations. Especially if your dev org is looking to completely reshape and disrupt an entire industry. That’s why we were so excited to talk to Chris Bee, CTO of Lessen. Lessen is looking to change the way property owners hire vetted professionals for renovation, maintenance and turn services. That means so much of what their programmers are building hasn’t been built before. Chris opened up about how the company trains and empowers developers to design and build things customers didn’t know they wanted. He also goes in depth about how to bring those new ideas to market when it can seem like the ground is shifting every minute. Access the engineering benchmarks report here: http://linearb.io/benchmarks/ Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code. Support the show:
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| Creating a Better CTO Playbook w/ Dama Financial's CTO Zach Goldberg | 25 Jun 2022 | 00:52:48 | |
Fact: There are guidebooks for everything in programming except for actually leading, managing and inspiring programmers. That’s why I was so happy to have my friend Zach Goldberg on the podcast. Someone who has made learning and self-improvement a core pillar of his professional and personal life, Zach Goldberg is someone who I turn to when I need to know who smart CTOs are turning to. In this great conversation, Zach talks about the most important things he’s learned in separating signal from noise in the realm of engineering leadership. He also provides some amazing guidance on who you should be listening to (when you’re not listening to us). Enjoy. Access the engineering benchmarks report here: http://linearb.io/benchmarks/ Zach's reading list: http://go.zachgoldberg.com/readinglist Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts Support the show:
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| The Best Solution to Burnout We’ve Ever Heard | A Conversation With Slack, Netlify & Ambassador Labs | 18 Jun 2022 | 00:46:47 | |
With registration for our free October Interact conference now open, we wanted you to hear one of our favorite sessions from this past April’s Interact. Featuring the best minds from Slack, Netlify and Ambassador Labs, our session on Inspiring Engineering Leaders & Driving Developer Creativity turned into one of the best conversations we’ve ever heard on topics like dev toil, dev focus and dev burnout. This is a great preview of the type of content we’re working on for our conference in October, and this panel completely made us rethink how we approach burnout at LinearB. If you like it as much as we do, be sure to sign up for October’s free, virtual Interact conference at: https://devinterrupted.com/event/interact/ Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code. Support the show:
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| Labs: What Do Elite Dev Teams Look Like? w/ Ori Keren, Co-Founder & CEO of LinearB | 15 Jun 2022 | 00:50:19 | |
In an industry that has trouble looking beyond the next sprint, it’s good to know there are very smart people researching the conscious and unconscious pain points keeping devs from focusing on what they actually want to do: code. In our new series LinearB Labs we’ll be looking at the most interesting research on how devs work, communicate and code. The best way to start should be understanding what is actually a well-performing engineering org versus one that’s struggling. That’s why we’re so excited to have Ori Keren, co-founder of LinearB, as our first guest to discuss the results of the first-ever “Engineering Benchmarks Report.” The product of comprehensively analyzing the work of almost 2,000 dev teams, “The 2022 Engineering Benchmarks Report” is the first EVER look at what performance metrics make engineering orgs elite, average or underwhelming. We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did and that you’re able to find out where your dev team ranks as well as concrete ways to improve. Access the engineering benchmarks report here: http://linearb.io/benchmarks/ Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code. Support the show:
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| Getting the Respect Your Work Deserves: A Live Workshop w/ Engineering Coach Lena Reinhard | 11 Jun 2022 | 00:59:39 | |
The last thing anyone who does great work should be doing is having to take time out from doing great work to promote it to their higher-ups. Unfortunately, until the person you report to achieves omnipotence, you’re going to have to make sure their perception of your work lines up with the quality. In fact, when we asked our community what issue they would want professional coaching on, it was this: How to improve the impression of your work. With the help of the great Lena Reinhard, engineering & executive coach, we’re giving a practical solution to this problem. Designed as a real-time workshop where you should be thinking about the questions and answering them yourself, this was a game-changing conversation for us and hopefully a game-changing way for your work to get the respect it deserves. Access the engineering benchmarks report here: http://linearb.io/benchmarks/ Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Support the show:
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| The 2 Things You Ask Your Team When You Pass $1B w/ Hippo’s VP of Engineering | 04 Jun 2022 | 00:45:07 | |
When you think of a billion-dollar tech company, you probably imagine rooms full of monitors with dashboards and non-stop data streams. Well, after talking to Hippo - a certified unicorn and newly minted giant in the insurance industry - we realized this couldn’t be further from the truth. Mike Gordon, VP of Engineering at Hippo, sat down with Dev Interrupted to chat about what it’s actually like to run the dev teams powering a company that just passed a $1 billion valuation. His insights about what actually matters to him were amazing for how simple, focused and – brilliant – they are. A great conversation on what’s important to a company re-writing the rules of insurance, Mike Gordon is by far one of the most thoughtful-yet-pragmatic minds we’ve had on yet. Access the engineering benchmarks report here: http://linearb.io/benchmarks/ Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Support the show:
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| The Quest to Build the Perfect Bot w/ Ubisoft's Joshua Romoff | 28 May 2022 | 00:34:06 | |
Almost every single company we talk to focuses on having their engineering teams solve problems. This is why we jumped at the opportunity to talk to Joshua Romoff from Ubisoft. Why? The goal of gaming companies isn’t so much to solve problems, but to enrich their customers’ lives. That’s a unique, powerful change in how to think about building, developing and shipping features. Something that required Ubisoft to bring in Research Scientists like Joshua to figure out just what it is customers engage with in their games and how to give them more of it using AI. Whether or not you're a gamer, this is a fascinating conversation on how every engineering team should think about building self-improving features. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Support the show:
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| Observability as a Success Catalyst | Momento’s Co-Founder & CTO Daniela Miao | 08 Oct 2024 | 00:42:05 | |
This week, co-host Conor Bronsdon sits down with Daniela Miao, co-founder and CTO of Momento, to discuss her journey from DynamoDB at AWS to founding the real-time data infrastructure platform Momento.
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| The 3 Conversations That Improve Developers' Lives w/ Reprise's Jennie MacDougall | 21 May 2022 | 00:42:59 | |
If you’re doing your job right, most of your time and your team’s time should be spent actually building things. That means conversations should be reserved to the very important ones. In our latest Dev Interrupted episode, Reprise’s Director of Engineering Jennie MacDougall looks back on the most useful conversation she has ever had with her devs that are also the ones she encourages them to have with others. From the most important conversation when evaluating a prospective dev to the question that actually keeps engineers motivated and invested, this was an incredible download of things I started doing right after the recording was finished.
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| Why Engineers Make the Best Entrepreneurs w/ Drata's Co-founder & CTO Daniel Marashlian | 14 May 2022 | 00:56:52 | |
There are so many books, videos and workshops on starting your own company. The problem for anyone listening to this podcast is that none of them come from the perspective of a developer. That’s why we were so excited that the founder & CTO of Drata, Daniel Marashlian – who has previously founded eight companies before hitting a billion-dollar valuation with Drata – was open to talking about what it’s like to build a company from a coder’s perspective. From the signs you’re an entrepreneur at heart, to filling out your skills gap to leaning in to the edge you have with your background, this episode of Dev Interrupted is essential listening for anyone who can code - or anyone who has dreamed of founding their own company. Dev Interrupted survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PRYRNC5 Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Support the show:
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| Stupid Things Orgs Do That Kill Productivity | A Conversation With Netflix, FloSports & Refactoring.club | 07 May 2022 | 00:51:02 | |
At LinearB, we like to think we spend all our time figuring out how to unlock developer potential. To find ways to let devs do more of the work they love and reduce the amount of time they spend dealing with needless hurdles, idling and churn. We’re not the only ones thinking about how to do this, though. At our recent INTERACT panel, we assembled amazing engineering leaders from Netflix, FloSports and the Refactoring.club newsletter to give us their inside knowledge on how they increase productivity and promote creativity in their own organizations. One of the highlights of our INTERACT conference, this panel conversation is filled with real wisdom and takeaways we hope you can apply to your own teams the moment it’s over. Dev Interrupted survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PRYRNC5 Miss INTERACT? Watch it all on our YouTube channel: https://tinyurl.com/494tpm96 Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Support the show:
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| Why 1 Good UX Is Worth 5 Engineers w/ Toast's Director of Engineering Brad Pielech | 30 Apr 2022 | 00:47:52 | |
Few companies have mastered making products consumers actually want to use like Toast. A $30 billion giant in the tech-food business, Toast faced their worst case scenario during the pandemic when the restaurants at the heart of their business were all forced to shut down. Toast rose like a phoenix to become one of the best success stories of pivoting during the pandemic by making users love using their food delivery systems. To understand how Toast became one of the great success stories of the last 2 years, we spoke to Brad Pielech, the company’s Director of Engineering. An amazing conversation that’s informed how we think about product at LinearB, Brad made a flawless case for the importance of UX - and why the alliance between UX and devs at Toast produced a market-beating pivot that took the company from unicorn to brink of collapse and back again. Toast is hiring: https://careers.toasttab.com/jobs/search Support the show:
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| Why Great Money Doesn’t Retain Great Devs w/ Stack Overflow, DataStax & Reprise | 23 Apr 2022 | 00:47:12 | |
What do the teams at Stack Overflow, DataStax and Reprise have in common? First, they’ve all built amazing organizations powered by amazing developers. Second, they’ve managed to build and retain these amazing developers in an ultra-competitive hiring market. Third, they all took time at our recent INTERACT conference to discuss how they created engineering organizations that are productive, successful and - best of all - happy. It’s a rare treat to have this many amazing minds on one live panel and we couldn’t be more excited to share their insights, wisdom and advice to the community at large. Quick note, if you notice a tiny fluctuation in the audio quality for each speaker, it’s because this was recorded live at INTERACT. Enjoy! Miss INTERACT? Watch it all on our YouTube channel: https://tinyurl.com/494tpm96 Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Support the show:
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| The Subversive Structure of the World's Best-Performing Dev Teams w/ A Radical Enterprise Author Matt K. Parker | 16 Apr 2022 | 00:55:20 | |
You ever get the feeling that the way most companies are set up doesn’t really make sense? That the passion you have for coding and tech gets sucked out when you do it for a business, instead of it being amplified? Matt K. Parker had that realization… hard. A third-generation programmer, Matt’s epiphany that there was something wrong with the way the majority of the world sets up its teams and workplaces led him on a journey to explore the way the world’s best companies operate. After diving into case studies, academic research and leveraging his own professional experience, Matt concluded that the most productive companies all had one thing in common: They were radical. Radical in how they structure their employees. Radical in how they treat their employees. Radical in how they empower their employees. Fortunately for us, Matt stopped by Dev Interrupted to share some conclusions from his new book “A Radical Enterprise: Pioneering the Future of High-Performing Organizations.” One of our favorite recordings to date, this is your ticket if you’re looking for some inspiration on how to increase productivity while decreasing BS. Matt's book: Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Support the show:
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| How to Fix Tech's Mentorship Problem w/ Amex's VP of Technology, Sarvenaz Myslicki | 09 Apr 2022 | 00:55:16 | |
If you looked up the term “firing on all cylinders” in the dictionary, I’m fairly confident there would be a picture of Sarvenaz Myslicki next to it. A next-gen leader who earned the role of VP of Technology at American Express by the age of 30, Savernaz is a published author, an in-demand thought-leader on mentorship and has one of the largest followings on programmer TikTok. Our favorite thing about Sarvenaz, though, is that all her work is aspirational but radically inclusive. She tailors her message, content and guidance based on wherever someone is in their professional journey – even if they’re just tinkering with code in a junior high classroom. Sarvenaz joined us and 1700 other engineering leaders for an incredible live conversation at our INTERACT conference about the real trial and errors that have led to her role at Amex, as well as the beliefs, mindset and rituals that have allowed her to become a mentor for developers she’s never met. We hope you enjoy this discussion as much as we did. AMEX is hiring: americanexpress.com/techcareers Support the show:
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| How Promotions Ruin Dev Careers w/ Shopify's Dir. of Engineering James Stanier | 02 Apr 2022 | 00:45:00 | |
In so many professions, the reward for exceptional work is a promotion to management. Unfortunately, for developers whose programming gets them singled out for promotion, the skills to manage a team have nothing to do with the work that got them recognized in the first place. James Stanier, Director of Engineering at Shopify, understands the pitfalls of being promoted from an IC to an engineering manager, and began writing as a way to think through the mistakes he himself was making. Today, James is an accomplished author; his first book Become An Effective Software Engineering Manager debuted in 2020, and his second book Effective Remote Work was published earlier this year. On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, James talks about how developers can prepare themselves for a role in management, or alternatively, why they should avoid a career in management altogether. He also discusses why Shopify loves remote pair programming, how to find your voice as a developer and why writing a book can be a spiritual experience. Don't miss your chance to register for INTERACT on April, 7th: https://devinterrupted.com/event/interact/ James is the author of two books:
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| What The Next 20 Million Devs Want w/ Tiff in Tech & Stereotype Breakers' Masha Zvereva | 26 Mar 2022 | 00:40:45 | |
The world is shortly going to need another 20 million developers and with over 1,000 engineering leaders joining us for INTERACT on April 7th, there’s no better time to talk to two people who have captured the minds of millions of developers - and will be featured at INTERACT - Tiffany Janzen and Masha Zvereva. In addition to their own tech careers, both women have become prominent voices in the dev community, Tiffany is most well-known for her Tiff in Tech Youtube channel and Masha for her company Stereotype Breakers. Tiff and Masha spend their time connecting, communicating and inspiring the next generation of devs. They’re the ideal experts to dive deep on how Gen Z devs think and what they want. That’s why we were so happy when they agreed to sit down for an episode of Dev Interrupted to give us some incredible insights on what it’s going to take to recruit, hire and retain the millions of new developers who are joining the workforce. If you want to join Tiffany and Masha at INTERACT on April 7th, it’s easy: Just register at https://devinterrupted.com/event/interact/ See you there! Tiff in Tech
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| Is Your Dev Team TOO Big to Succeed? w/ SAIC’s Bob Ritchie | 19 Mar 2022 | 00:44:25 | |
Modern problems require modern solutions, right? The problem is, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to understand what solutions are required for a given problem and even harder to task a team with finding them. That’s why Bob Ritchie, VP of Software at SAIC, thinks the top-down management model is dead. To replace it, Bob is championing a “team of teams” model that provides his developers with far more autonomy - so much, in fact, that they can even self-elect their leaders. On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, Bob discusses the challenges of software development in an increasingly dynamic environment, why he believes developers should be no further than 4 steps away from their CEO and the historical challenges of connecting results in Silicon Valley to those in the federal government. Who would've expected a federal government tech integrator (Science Applications International Corporation), to be on the leading edge of developer autonomy? Learn more about our INTERACT conference on April, 7th: https://devinterrupted.com/event/interact/ SAIC is hiring: https://jobs.saic.com/ Support the show:
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| Iteration Velocity is the Key to Engineering Success | Vercel’s Malte Ubl | 01 Oct 2024 | 00:37:51 | |
This week, our host Dan Lines chats with Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel, about why iteration speed is a game-changer for teams trying to deliver more efficiently. Malte shares how accelerating the development cycle and embracing platform engineering can supercharge productivity, helping teams ship faster and innovate more effectively. We explore what it really means to streamline workflows, reduce bottlenecks, and create an environment where developers can focus on what they do best—building great products. Malte also gives us a behind-the-scenes look at how engineering strategies are evolving to keep up with the ever-growing demands. Topics:
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| What Devs Need To Teach CEOs About AI w/ Lexion’s Emad Elwany | 12 Mar 2022 | 00:49:36 | |
For decades Artificial Intelligence has been a focus of best-selling science fiction authors and an antagonist for blockbuster Hollywood movies. But AI is no longer relegated to the realm of science fiction, it inhabits the world around us. From the biggest enterprise companies to plucky startups, businesses everywhere are building and deploying AI at incredible speed. In fact, open source allows anyone with a laptop to build impressively good AI models in a day. But for all the recent advances in AI, what are its limitations? And if you are a developer or business leader, what use cases can AI solve for your company? In this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, Emad Elwany, CTO and Co-founder of Lexion, walks us through the practical realities of AI in today’s world and how its constraints apply to your business. He also discusses the biggest breakthroughs in AI, how to build machine learning models that actually solve a business need and why it’s almost impossible to retrofit AI once it’s already built. Whether you are a business leader who is considering implementing AI at their company, a consumer curious about how AI impacts your daily life or a researcher wanting to understand how to better deploy AI outside of the lab - this episode has got something for you! Learn more about our INTERACT conference on April, 7th: https://devinterrupted.com/event/interact/ Lexion is hiring: https://www.lexion.ai/careers Support the show:
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| How to Reclaim Your Dev Team’s Focus w/ Ambassador Labs' Katie Wilde | 05 Mar 2022 | 00:40:38 | |
Hate interruptions? Ever feel like you’ve lost your ability to focus on coding? Katie Wilde, VP of Engineering at Ambassador Labs, knows your pain and she’s on a crusade to help devs everywhere reclaim their focus. Spoiler: She's got a message for managers who can’t meet with devs whenever they want: “Don’t like it? Well, suck it up.” The thing about productivity is, you can’t have it both ways. You can either protect your devs’ ability to focus by providing them meaningful time for creativity or you can call them into meetings all day long for constant feedback - but you can’t have both. These concepts don’t have to be at odds with each other, though. On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, Katie details exactly what managers can do to foster a harmonious, productive environment between themselves and their devs. She also talks about the importance of “shifting left,” the dangers of doing it too quickly, and why “hiring great people and getting out of their way” may not be a good mantra. Learn more about our INTERACT conference on April, 7th: https://devinterrupted.com/event/interact/ Ambassador Labs is hiring: https://www.getambassador.io/ Support the show:
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| What If You Don't Want To Be a Developer Anymore? w/ CTO Connection's Peter Bell | 26 Feb 2022 | 00:42:09 | |
It used to be that in order to make your parents proud you had to go into management. Then along came the self-contained IC career path. Today, this dual-track career path remains the unchallenged standard of companies everywhere. Or does it? Peter Bell, the founder and CTO of CTO Connection, wants developers everywhere to know that there are several dev adjacent career paths. From product to dev advocate to sales engineer, Peter has the insights you need if you’ve ever considered switching up your career while utilizing your hard-earned skills as a developer. If you're an engineering leader, then Peter’s advice on the importance of building a community at your company is not to be missed. Through his work with CTO Connection, engineering leaders everywhere have found a community to call home - and a resource to leverage. In fact, CTO Connection bills itself as the “Stack Overflow for managers.” Peter is a gifted speaker and presenter, you won’t want to miss this episode! Learn more about our INTERACT conference on April, 7th: https://devinterrupted.com/event/interact/ CTO Connection website: https://www.ctoconnection.com/ Support the show:
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