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Nora Jones on Establishing, Growing, and Maturing a Chaos Engineering Practice
Nora Jones, a senior software engineer on Netflix’ Chaos Team, talks with Wesley Reisz about what Chaos Engineering means today. She covers what it takes to build a practice, how to establish a strategy, defines cost of impact, and covers key technical considerations when leveraging chaos engineering.
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Security Considerations and the State of Microservices with Sam Newman
Wesley Reisz talks with Sam Newman about microservices. They explore the current state of the art with regards to the architectural style and corresponding tooling and deployment platforms. They then discuss how microservices increase the surface area of where sensitive information can be read or manipulated, but also have the potential to create systems that are more secure.
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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.
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Martin Hadley on R and the Modern R Ecosystem
In this podcast Werner Schuster talks to Martin Hadley, data scientist at University of Oxford. They discuss the state of the R language, the rich R ecosystem that covers development (RStudio), notebooks for publication (R Notebooks, RPubs), writing web apps (Shiny), and the pros/cons of the different data frames implementations.
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Pony Language Designer Sylvan Clebsch on Pony’s Design, Garbage Collection, and Formal Verification
In this podcast Charles Humble talks to Sylvan Clebsch, who is the designer of the actor-model language Pony programming and now works at Microsoft Research in Cambridge in the Programming Language Principles group. They talk about the inspirations behind Pony, how the garbage collector avoids stop-the-world pauses, the queuing systems, work scheduler, and formal verification.
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Anna Obukhova on The Biology of Leadership and Working with Tired Teams
In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference, Shane Hastie spoke to Anna Obukhova about the neuroscience and biology of leadership and what it takes to coach and work with tired teams.
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Ash Coleman on Testing, Ethics, Diversity and What it Means to Be an Ally
In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ash Coleman about testing, ethics, diversity and what it means to be an ally.
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Deema Dajani & Shannon Mason on the Women in Agile Community and Supporting Women in Technology
In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Deema Dajani (Advisor Transformation Consulting) & Shannon Mason (VP Product Management, Agile Central) of CA Technologies about the Women in Agile organisation, their own experiences as women in the technology industry and ways to support and increase diversity in organisations.
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Chloë Bregman on High Performance Design
In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Chloë Bregman about high performance design.
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Seb Rose on BDD, Cucumber, Cyber-Dojo, Certification and Testers in Code Reviews
In this podcast recorded at the Agile 2018 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Seb Rose, the dispassionate developer, and one of the principals of Cucumber Limited, about his work at Cucumber, the Cyber-dojo charity, designing a robust certification program and involving testers in code reviews.