What is it like to work at Netflix as a developer? How do they think about culture, their customers and engineering productivity? In this incredible episode of Dev Interrupted, I bring in Kathryn Koehler, the Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix, to chat about what makes Netflix so unique and why they are standardizing data-driven engineering today. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Ha...
Apr 27, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Ian Nowland, the SVP of Core Engineering at DataDog. Ian joins us to share his experience coaching engineering managers and how the reality is different from the books. We get into Ian’s seven categories of engineering management, how to take your ego out of your mistakes, and how to measure the impact of your team. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podca...
Apr 20, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 25
MURAL has gone through enormous growth in the past two years and Kirby Frugia, VP of Eng, came on to discuss the ins and outs of rapidly scaling engineering organizations. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free. Book a Demo: Learn how you can ship faster, improve Dev...
Apr 14, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 24
We’re tackling one of the most ambiguous and subjective roles in the software engineering career path, the Staff Engineer. Many companies don’t even have this role, and the ones that do have a hard time defining exactly what it means. Will Larson, the CTO of Calm, and author of the new book, Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track , joins us to share his research on what a staff engineer actually is. Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devinterrupted Visit the D...
Apr 06, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Change is difficult. And it’s even more difficult, if you’re the one trying to make change happen. That’s where Dominica DeGrandis comes in. As the author of Making Work Visible, Dominica has been helping teams make big changes for decades. And now she is joining us to explain the steps we can take to start making a change inside of our organizations, today. Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devinterrupted Visit the Dev Interrupted Website: devinterrupted.com/ Book a ►► Line...
Mar 31, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 22
As the VP of Engineering at GitHub, Dana Lawson’s team makes decisions that change the development workflows for millions of people at a time. On this episode of Dev Interrupted we chat about the role of technical leadership, how to implement continuous improvement, and how positivity relates to dev team culture. Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devinterrupted Visit the Dev Interrupted Website: devinterrupted.com/ Book a ►► LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on A...
Mar 23, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In this incredible episode, I bring in Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb.io, to explain how to implement continuous delivery, and why you should walk out if your organization doesn’t support the practice. Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devinterrupted Visit the Dev Interrupted Website: devinterrupted.com/ Book a ►► LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free. Book a Dem...
Mar 17, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 20
In the second and final part of our DevSecOps series with John Willis we take a deep dive into the types of information engineering leaders should be providing their developers, how we can shift security left to save time and resources, and the steps scaling companies can start making today to apply modern DevSecOps methodologies. Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devinterrupted Visit the Dev Interrupted Website: devinterrupted.com/ Book a ►► LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Re...
Mar 09, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 19
DevSecOps is one of those buzzwords that can mean a lot of things or nothing at all. But where DevOps helped us gain a more holistic understanding of our delivery pipeline, DevSecOps does the same for our security efforts. Over the next two episodes of Dev Interrupted I explore what DevSecOps actually means to dev teams with John Willis. Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devinterrupted Visit the Dev Interrupted Website: devinterrupted.com/ Book a ►► LinearB Demo Have 60 seco...
Mar 03, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 18
The wars of the future will be fought with software and system architecture, as much as any other weapon. That’s why the US armed forces needed to start applying modern software methodologies at scale. The beginning of this incredible digital transformation began in 2017 when the US Air Force started a project called Kessel Run. Leading the project then, and now Chief of Platform of over 200 Kessel Run developers is my guest, Adam Furtado. Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/d...
Feb 23, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 17
It’s time for project management not to suck anymore. That's why I've brought in Zach Ozer, the VP of Engineering at Clubhouse.io to talk about how the new partnership between LinearB’s and Clubhouse is helping dev teams eliminate the need for status update meetings, and automate the manual tasks so many project management tools require from developers. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 s...
Feb 15, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 16
We have to start giving our developers the ability to find and fix security vulnerabilities before their code is merged. I brought in Liran Tal, a security expert from Snyk.io to talk about how our community can begin evolving traditional security workflows into a more modern way of working. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts Want to continue lear...
Feb 09, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 15
What would happen if you eliminated all of the processes that surround your software development teams today? Adam Carmi, CTO of Applitools, joins me to discuss how his methodology works, and why you need to start eliminating processes too. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platf...
Feb 02, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 14
It’s safe to say that everyone wants more visibility into their software delivery process. That’s why I’ve brought in Anders Wallgren, the VP of Technology Strategy at Cloudbees, to discuss how we can start connecting the small islands of visibility our current systems give us. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get starte...
Jan 26, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 13
The skills you use as a software engineer, and the skills you need as a technical team leader are not the same. This week I brought in former CTO turned engineering leadership coach Pat Kua to discuss what you need to think about when making the jump to leadership. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with Linear...
Jan 21, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Customer success can make or break any business, especially when you’re scaling. That's why I've brought in Sunil Mavadia to explain how to scale a customer success initiative and what dev teams can do to help. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free. Book a Demo: Lea...
Jan 13, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Continuous Delivery isn’t about how fast you can deliver, it’s about the outcome your delivery achieves. On our first episode of the new year I talk with Bryan Finster, author of 5-minute DevOps, about outcome-based development and why failing small is better than failing fast. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get starte...
Jan 05, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Automation is key when it comes to scaling your engineering efforts, but can you automate yourself out of a job? On this week’s episode I brought in Judy Johnson to answer my questions about what shouldn’t be automated and how to convince your business to take on the upfront cost of an automation initiative. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want metrics & software delivery intelligence for dev teams? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 sec...
Dec 23, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 9
The most prolific companies of our time are run by former developers. That's why I brought in former developer turned CEO, Stephen Magill, to chat about what it takes to make the jump from developer to business leader. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want metrics & software delivery intelligence for dev teams? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's...
Dec 15, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Should you be hiring a software developer or a senior software developer...and what's the difference? And how do you know during an interview? To answer these questions and more, I brought in Tomasz Waraksa, a tenured Senior Software Developer with decades of hiring experience to help us figure out exactly what makes a software developer senior, and how to hire one with confidence. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want metrics & softw...
Dec 08, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 7
You've probably heard of Site Reliability Engineering, but what does it really mean? Brian Murphy knows. As the SRE Manager at G-Research, Brian has spent his career building and managing successful SRE teams. He joins me on this episode of Dev Interrupted to explain how SRE teams operate, what success looks like, and why uptime isn't the most important metric. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want metrics & software delivery intellig...
Dec 01, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Gaming dev metrics is easy. In this episode I'm joined by software architecture expert and agile enthusiast, Ray Elenteny, to discuss how people game dev metrics and the underlying issues with culture and leadership that lead to it. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want metrics & software delivery intelligence for dev teams? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started ...
Nov 24, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 5
After years of experience managing dev teams asynchronously, Cate Huston, Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo, joins me to discuss why communicating asynchronously makes more sense for distributed dev teams. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want metrics & software delivery intelligence for dev teams? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI producti...
Nov 17, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Why do we measure dev team metrics and what should you start measuring first? Luca Rossi, Head of Engineering at Translated, helps me answer these questions and more in this dev team metrics focused episode. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want metrics & software delivery intelligence for dev teams? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI product...
Nov 11, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this episode I learn how to create my own Development Methodology from the VP of Engineering at GigSmart. Chris Downard and I discuss how he doesn't let Agile define what's right for his time and how the development process has changed due to the hybrid remote reality. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want metrics & software delivery intelligence for dev teams? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcas...
Nov 02, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 2
LinearB CEO Ori Keren joins me on our first episode of Dev Interrupted to talk about Asynchronous Development, a new software development methodology build for remote teams. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want metrics & software delivery intelligence for dev teams? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free. Book a De...
Oct 22, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 1
