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Wenjie Zi on Technology and Organizational Aspects for ML Project Success
In this podcast, Wenjie Zi discusses why many ML projects don’t succeed and what technology and organizational aspects affect the success of those projects. She also talked about what potential communication and understanding gaps can exist between business team and ML practitioners and how to address these gaps.
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Balancing Coupling in Software Design with Vlad Khononov
In this episode, Thomas Betts speaks with Vlad Khononov about balancing coupling in software design, the subject of his recent book. They discuss how coupling is necessary for a system to function, but has to be balanced to allow the system to evolve. Vlad identifies three factors that can be used to measure coupling: knowledge sharing, distance, and volatility.
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Simplify Your System by Challenging the Status-Quo and Learning from Other Ecosystems
In this podcast, Max Rydahl Andersen, distinguished engineer at RedHat and the creator of JBang, discusses how continuously learning from other ecosystems and adopting new tools allows you to simplify your thinking and systems. This will increase the developer joy of the coders and further obtain safer and more robust systems.
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Building LinkedIn’s Resilient Data Storage: a Deep Dive into Derived Data Storage with Felix GV
In this podcast, Felix GV, Principal Staff Engineer at LinkedIn, discusses how to create and operate planet-scale data storage solutions for derived data. When it’s time to build a new system, how do you decide on the pieces that must be fitted to ensure a resilient operating system?
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Understanding What Really Matters for Developer Productivity: a Conversation with Lizzie Matusov
In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke with Lizzie Matusov about the dependency of effective, productive, and satisfied teams on good software architecture. Understanding this relationship requires understanding exactly what software productivity really is, how modern software engineering research has become more rigorous and practical, and how to apply that research to software development.
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Techniques for Improving Communication and Connection in Technical and Social Settings
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Geoffrey Huck about how software engineers can improve their communication skills, particularly with non-technical colleagues, by actively seeking feedback, using analogies and stories to explain technical concepts and varying their speaking style to keep audiences engaged.
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Intentional Culture and Continuous Compensation: An Interview with Austin Vance
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Austin Vance, about the importance of intentional onboarding and culture-building, as well as his company's unique approach to compensation and the role of managers in retaining top talent.
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Building Safe and Usable Medical Device Software: A Conversation with Neeraj Mainkar
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Neeraj Mainkar about the challenges of developing safe and usable medical device software in areas where software bugs can have life-and-death consequences, and how to approach these challenges through rigorous processes, user-centered design, and leveraging emerging technologies.
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Leveraging AI Platforms to Improve Developer Experience – From Personal Hackathon to AI at Scale
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Olalekan Elesin about how generative AI tools can elevate developer experience by enabling engineers to be more creative and productive. He stresses the need to manage expectations, develop prompt engineering skills, and maintain a focus on security and customer privacy when leveraging these tools in an enterprise setting.
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Building Effective Engineering Teams and Avoiding Cargo Cult Practices
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to David Guttman about building effective engineering teams, avoiding common pitfalls, critiques of cargo cult practices, building great engineering culture and the importance of individual accountability.