Podcasts

Jessica Kerr on Productivity, Slack Chatbots, Yak Shaving, & Why Diversity Matters for Innovation

Wesley Reisz talks with Jessica Kerr about her focus on developer productivity. Topics include her work at Atomist building Slack Chatbots, an approach to categorizing Yak Shaving (in an effort to prioritize and automate development dependencies), how an innovation culture drives diversity, and, finally, the role of 10x developers in the lifecycle of a company or product.

Jean Barmash on Binary RPC with gRPC and Thrift, and Constraint Theory in Product Design

Jean Barmash is the director of engineering for Compass. He talks to Wesley Reisz about binary communication protocols like Apache Thrift and Google’s gRPC, as well as code generation and API design.

Neha Batra - Pivotal Labs Pair Programming

In this week’s podcast Neha Batra has taken time to discuss about pair programming and techniques to get started with the practice as well as tips for implementing it on your team. Neha also touches on vulnerability based trust and how it can help effectively build a trusting team environment.

Randy Shoup on Stitch Fix's Technology Stack, Data Science and Microservices

In this week's podcast Wes Reisz talks to Randy Shoup. Shoup is the vice president of engineering at Stitch Fix. Prior to Stitch Fix, he worked for Google as the director of engineering and cloud computing, CTO and co-founder of Shopilly, and chief engineer at Ebay.

Wendy Closson on Mindfulness and Algorithmic Approaches to Communicating

In this week's podcast, Barry Burd talks with Wendy Closson. With over a decade of experience immersed in development and championing agile practices, Closson coaches technology leaders to manage effectively, respond reasonably, and navigate the choppy waters of business. Closson's presentation at QCon New York was entitled Syntactic Sugar for English: Pragmatic Eloquence.

Techniques to Tackle Technical Debt with Dustin Thostenson

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dustin Thostenson about techniques to recognise and tackle technical debt.

Engineering Excellence: Declan Whelan on Technical Health, Agile Practices, and Team Culture

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Declan Whelan about technical health, useful metrics, modern technical practices, code stewardship and cultural aspects of good engineering teams.

Engineering Leadership: Balancing Autonomy, Growth, and Culture with Michael Gray

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Michael Gray of ClearBank about engineering culture and leadership.

The Evolution and Challenges of Engineering Management

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Peter Gillard-Moss about the evolution and challenges of engineering management.

The State of Engineering Management in 2024

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Andrew Lau about the State of Engineering Management Report for 2024.