What do the teams at Stack Overflow, DataStax and Reprise have in common?
First, they’ve all built amazing organizations powered by amazing developers.
Why Great Money Doesn’t Retain Great Devs w/ Stack Overflow, DataStax & Reprise
The Subversive Structure of the World’s Best-Performing Dev Teams w/ A Radical Enterprise Author Matt K. Parker
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?
Your Daughter’s Favorite Dev Fixed Tech’s Mentorship Problem w/ AMEX VP Sarvenaz Myslicki
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.
How Promotions Ruin Dev Careers w/ Shopify’s Dir. of Engineering James Stanier
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.
What the Next 20 Million Devs Want — With Tiff in Tech and Stereotype Breakers’ Masha Zvereva
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.
Is Your Dev Team TOO Big to Succeed? w/ SAIC’s Bob Ritchie
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.
What Devs Need To Teach CEOs About AI w/ Lexion’s Emad Elwany
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.
Creating a Culture of Engineering Productivity at Netflix
At Netflix, we don’t just think about productivity - we engineer it. There’s an entire team within Netflix dedicated to productivity. I lead the Develop Domain along with my Delivery and Observability Domain peers, and together, we make up Productivity Engineering.
I recently sat down with the Dev Interrupted podcast to discuss all things productivity, how I run my team, and how other managers should view employee success. Here’s how we think about it at Netflix:
How to Reclaim Your Dev Team’s Focus w/ Ambassador Labs’ Katie Wilde
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.
What If You Don’t Want To Be a Developer Anymore? w/ CTO Connection’s Peter Bell
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?
Why Imperfect Data Isn’t Just Bad, It’s Harmful w/ Treeverse’s Einat Orr
Data junkies rejoice, this is the episode for you.
On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, Einat Orr, co-founder and CEO of Treeverse, sits down with us to talk about the state of data… where it’s been, where it’s going and why having bad data might be worse than having no data at all.
What Hackers Know About Your Software Supply Chain (That You Don’t)
You’ve heard of the supply chain, but what about the software supply chain?
Unlike the standard supply chain that you often hear about in the news, this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted dives into the supply chain responsible for holding together the systems that companies, orgs and governments depend upon.
Why an Autistic Developer is Your Next Great Hire w/ Matt Nigh of UW Medicine
Like most fast-growing companies, LinearB spends WAY too much time trying to hire developers.
So when we came across a brilliant article about hiring autistic talent, we knew we had to have its author Matt Nigh on the podcast. Matt is one of the most prominent thought leaders on neurodiversity in the workplace.
From Devs, to VPs, to Co-Founders: 10Xing a Startup 5,000 Miles Apart
We knew we had to kick off the new year with something big - so welcome to Season 2 of Dev Interrupted!
This episode probes the murky depths of a time before the pandemic by exploring the story of LinearB's founding in 2018, how co-founders Dan Lines and Ori Keren met at Cloudlock in 2012 - and how they decided to co-found a company while 5,000 miles apart.
Community AMA: Bryan Finster and Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery isn’t about how fast you can deliver, it’s about the outcome your delivery achieves. Bryan Finster, author of the 5-minute DevOps series and founder of the DevOps Dojo, joined our Dev Interrupted Discord community to answer your questions about outcome-based development, continuous delivery, and why failing small is better than failing fast.
Bryan is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Defense Unicorns but has also worked for Walmart as a systems analyst and eventually became a staff software engineer for Walmart Labs. He had previously appeared on the Dev Interrupted Podcast to further talk about these subjects as well as the most common pitfalls dev teams find when trying to optimize their delivery process. Listen to the episode here:
Holidays, Entrepreneurship and SLOs with Nobl9
It's finally here, the end of season 1 of the podcast is upon us! To celebrate, Santa is bringing something special - entrepreneurship advice for all the would-be founders of the world, ages 1 to 92.
Brian Singer, co-founder & CPO of Nobl9, sits down with Dev Interrupted to help us close out season 1 with a conversation on what it takes to found your own company. Having founded a pair of companies, one of which he sold to Google, Brian has a deep understanding of what it takes to successfully found and scale a startup. More than that, he knows what VCs are looking for.
Combining Machine Learning and Human Intelligence at Unbabel
Companies that do business in the native language of their customer build better customer relationships. Although this may seem fairly obvious, it's easier said than done.
After all, when your customer base is spread around the world, how do you scale your customer service?
Under the Lid: How AtomicJar is Reshaping Testcontainers
Let’s get nerdy with it.
On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, Dan gets technical with Sergei Egorov, co-founder and CEO of AtomicJar.