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   E67 · 16 Nov 2022 · 44 min

   Collaborative debugging with Fiberplane

   Micha Hernandez van Leuffen shares how and why he built Fiberplane, a platform for collaborative debugging notebooks. We also talk about: - the idea behind collaborative debugging notebooks, - how Fiberplane can help resolve incidents faster and blamelessly, - how Fiberplane works together with other debugging, monitoring, and observability tools, and - Micha's entrepreneurial journey building two startups in the developer productivity space.​

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   E66 · 2 Nov 2022 · 45 min

   Deeply caring for developer experience

   Ashley Hunsberger deeply cares for developers, their happiness, and their productivity. After seeing how vital developer experience is, Ashley set-out to work in a relatively new role with new responsibilities: developer experience. Now, she is the Director of developer experience at Tackle.io, and in this interview, she tells us all about what that actually means.

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   E65 · 24 Aug 2022 · 45 min

   Making security easier for developers

   In this episode, I talk to Harshit Chitalia about how we can make security easier for developers. Harshit is the co-founder and CTO of Tromzo, a start-up dedicated to reducing the friction between developers and security. Before that Harshit spent eight years as Director of Engineering at Juniper Networks. We talk about: - why software security is sometimes difficult for developers - how static analysis tools can help developers with security - why Harshit founded Tromzo and - how this start-up journey is going.

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   E64 · 28 Jul 2022 · 39 min

   Being an engineering manager wasn't for me

   In this episode, I talk to Nicolas Dular, a senior full-stack engineer at GitLab, about his experience of becoming an engineering manager. We talk about: - how he became an engineering manager - what he liked about this role - what he did not like about being an engineering manager - and why he decided to move back to an individual contributor role.

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   E63 · 13 Jul 2022 · 50 min

   Mentoring as an engineering manager

   From workplace dynamics to code reviews, misunderstandings can arise for a variety of reasons. People have different interpretations of things or of what is said, different assumptions of others' motives, and simply miss out on the information they need to understand something. This can lead to conflict building up over time. But what if there’s a way that people could come to a common understanding through common knowledge and similar wavelength? Jess Rose joins me in today’s episode to share her insights on creating better workplace experiences and how managers can balance contractual…

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   E61 · 15 Jun 2022 · 42 min

   Running a profitable training business for Ruby developers

   In the software world, there are a lot of opportunities. You just have to have the right mindset, preparations, and systems. In this episode, my guest Avdi Grimm shares how he found his independence by running a training and consulting business for over ten years. He reiterates the importance of time efficiency, task delegation, and why you should remove yourself as a bottleneck from your business. He also goes in-depth about the work he does on Graceful.Dev and how he is utilizing WordPress for the website. Avdi is a consulting pair-programmer, the author of several popular Ruby programming…

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   E60 · 31 May 2022 · 28 min

   What the heck is data-oriented programming?

   There is a simpler way to reduce complexity in our systems, and it starts with rethinking data. This is the core of Data-Oriented Programming and, in this episode, my guest Yehonathan Sharvit answers our questions about the paradigm. As an expert in the field, Yehonathan breaks down the basics of Data-Oriented Programming, how it compares to object-oriented programming and functional programming, and how we can apply it in our codebases.

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   E27 · 4 May 2022 · 45 min

   How I got a job at Spotify - Baby Break

   In this episode, I talk to Emma Bostian, who recently started as a software engineer at Spotify. And Emma is the kind of person, that not only applies and interviews for jobs, but at the same time writes a complete book about her interviewing experience hunting for this dream job. This book sold so well, that she could pay back all her medical debt. Before joining Spotify, she worked for LogMeIn, and IBM. She won competitions and moved countries several times. We talk about: - her interview experience with Spotify and Google, - her experience moving countries during a global pandemic, - what…

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   E59 · 13 Apr 2022 · 38 min

   Improving Code Reviews with Github’s Copilot

   In this episode, my guest, Paige Bailey, shares her experience as a director of machine learning and machine learning operations. We discuss how we can ease the processes of reviewing data science codes through GitHub's codespaces and Copilot.

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    E58 · 30 Mar 2022 · 44 min

    Foster a learning culture in software engineering to overcome learning debt

    What does it take to foster a workplace culture where employees, specifically coders, have the liberty to learn without feeling punished for it by the system? Innovation is impossible without failure, but most work cultures suffocate creativity without realizing it. We talk about: - how she deviated away from a traditional path of a researcher to start her company, Catharsis Consulting, - how to foster a learning culture within your engineering team - what learning debt is and - how learning debt hinders software engineering teams from reaching their full potential.