Everything we do is online. We bank online, access healthcare, pay our taxes, build our businesses - and along the way we put trust in companies to keep us protected. Unfortunately, companies aren’t great at writing secure software. Contrast Security wants to change that. Jeff Williams, Co-founder & CTO of Contrast Security, and Steve Wilson, CPO, join the Dev Interrupted podcast to discuss the future of application security (AppSec), the importance of security automation and why the traditi...
Dec 04, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 56
" Where is the future of work" is almost as important a question as, " What is the future of work?" That's why the minds behind Range are on a mission to keep teams connected, focused and productive no matter where they're working. Dan Pupius, CEO and co-founder of Range, joins us this week to discuss the need for better, more collaborative tools as work becomes increasingly team and project based. Dan believes software development was the vanguard to the 21st century work model: when a distinct...
Nov 27, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 55
How do you build an engineering organization that can drive your company to a billion-dollar valuation and unicorn status? And how do you do it in an emerging and highly-competitive product category like influencer/creator management? Just ask Brent Bartlett, VP of Engineering at GRIN who joins us this week to share his blueprint for success and his path to leadership. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB D...
Nov 20, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 54
It's time we recognize that the way we build digital products is broken. That's because the products we use today represent the people who build them more than the people who use them. There is a digital divide between the experiences of people with disabilities and people who are able-bodied. Bridging this divide is about more than compliance or checking a box. Fable is helping companies practice accessibility at scale with the goal of operationalizing accessibility in the same way we already d...
Nov 13, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Has your entire career ever hinged on a single moment? For Darren Dillon, free beer in college set him on the path to a computer science degree and eventually a wildly successful career at Microsoft. Today, as the CTO of Azure and AI at Microsoft, Darren leads an impressive team of over 130 engineers and is at the forefront of cloud computing and AI technology. Listen to Darren as he discusses his management philosophy, why he believes status reports are overrated, how to best think about buildi...
Nov 06, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Grammarly has a simple but ambitious goal: turn all of its users into great writers. How good is it? We even used it to edit this text - and since Heidi Williams Joined Grammarly a year ago, the company has doubled in size. As Head of Engineering for B2B & Platform, she's at the forefront of crucial new initiatives - all while navigating hypergrowth and keeping users in mind. Heidi joins us to share the lessons she's learned from hypergrowth, her experience as a CTO and Co-Founder, her time ...
Oct 30, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 51
When we asked some of our favorite engineering leaders if they had any mistakes they would be willing to share with our audience the response was always the same: "Yes, but where do I begin? There's so many." The great thing about opening up about past mistakes is that it normalizes failure. All of us will make decisions that we come to regret - the best we can do is learn and grow from them. This is especially true of people in leadership positions who are responsible for managing teams. In wha...
Oct 23, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Is observability mission critical at this point? The folks at New Relic think so. And they’re not alone, according to their recent whitepaper on observability 90% of respondents believe observability is strategically important to their business. New Relic’s GVP & GM Buddy Brewer and SVP Greg Perotto join the podcast to discuss observability best practices, how to avoid data silos, the value of telemetry across the entire software life cycle and the five key insights of New Relic’s observabil...
Oct 16, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 49
This week we have another episode from the 2021 engineering leadership conference INTERACT. In this live conversation, Conor Bronsdon, Community Lead at LinearB and the executive producer of the Dev Interrupted podcast, interviews Henrik Gütle, GM of Azure for Microsoft Canada. Henrik joins the podcast to break down the results and key takeaways of Microsoft’s research into the impact of remote work on developer velocity - and what engineering leaders can learn from it. The exhaustive study take...
Oct 10, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering for Strategy and Operations at Twitter. She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to share her career journey, her strategies for sustainably scaling engineering teams, and the three pillars of engineering processes. Maria has also been working and managing engineering teams remotely for over a decade and offers a great deal of practical advice for team leads everywhere. In a first for the Dev Interrupted podcast, this episode was reco...
Oct 02, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Paulo Rosado, CEO and founder of OutSystems, is on a mission to cancel technical debt for businesses everywhere - and he might have a point. Technical debt is estimated to cost businesses $5 trillion in the next 10 years. Learn about Paulo’s 20 year journey founding OutSystems, his fight against technical debt and much more on this episode of Dev Interrupted. OutSystems Tech Debt Report: https://www.outsystems.com/stop-tech-debt/ Learn more about our September 30th INTERACT Conference: devinterr...
Sep 25, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 46
DZone is a thriving online community with more than 10 million visits a month doing incredible research reports into the state of software engineering. They're also a partner for Dev Interrupted's INTERACT conference on September 30th. DZone's Director of Product Kellet Atkinson joins Dan Lines to talk about developer workflow optimization, continuous integration/continuous delivery, low code trends, DZone's community, INTERACT, and much more. Learn more about our September 30th INTERACT Confere...
Sep 19, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Rukmini Reddy started out doing needlepoint - and today she's VP of Platform Engineering at Slack. At Slack, she lives and breathes metrics. But she knows that without people and the context they bring, metrics alone won't solve engineering leadership challenges. To successfully use metrics to improve your teams and engineering processes - you need a culture of trust, and much more. Rukmini joined LinearB COO Dan Lines to talk about their shared vision for metrics success - and how she's buildin...
Sep 11, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Brendan Burns co-founded Kubernetes and today leads a 650 person engineering organization at Microsoft today. This week on the Dev Interrupted Podcast he joins Dan Lines to take us through the founding story of Kubernetes and what he learned from that experience about open source projects, community building, leadership, and more. Plus he delves into what Microsoft is doing for devs - and what he and his teams are working on. Learn more about our September 30th INTERACT Conference: devinterrupte...
Sep 01, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Brendan Burns not only co-founded Kubernetes, but he also leads a 650 person engineering organization at Microsoft today. This week on the Dev Interrupted Podcast he joins Dan Lines to tell the story of how he got into engineering and share his strategies and advice for how he leads his engineering teams - next week, he'll be back to take us through the founding story of Kubernetes and what he learned from that experience. Learn more about our September 30th INTERACT Conference: devinterrupted.c...
Aug 26, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Dan is joined on the Dev Interrupted podcast by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton the writers of the book Team Toplogies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow for an in-depth discussion of how software teams are organized and how to optimize and streamline them for best effect. Learn more about our September 30th INTERACT Conference: devinterrupted.com/interact Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB? ►► Book ...
Aug 22, 2021•22 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Dan is joined on the Dev Interrupted podcast by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton the writers of the book Team Toplogies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow for an in-depth discussion of how software teams are organized and how to optimize and streamline them for best effect. 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 Check out the Team ...
Aug 14, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Facebook is one of the most successful companies in the world, and Jeff Meyerson, the Founder of Software Daily, spend two and a half years talking to Facebook's top engineers to discover how they fit product, culture, and strategy together to succeed. Jeff joined Dev Interrupted to give us the founding story of Software Daily, the secrets to success at Facebook he learned while writing his new book Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software., the inside scoop on his new company SuperCompute, and h...
Aug 08, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Tech Executive Consultant Aviv Ben-Yosef rejoins Dev Interrupted to finish sharing his advice for technical leaders and how to make use of the "tech executive operating system" and its techniques to improve your leadership and your organization. Get a sample chapter of Aviv's book here. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to attend the New Leaders of Remote Work Panel? https://linearb.io/new-leaders-remote-work-panel/ Want to try Linear...
Jul 28, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Tech Executive Consultant Aviv Ben-Yosef joins Dev Interrupted to explain his strategies for your first 100 days at an organization and how to make use of the "tech executive operating system" and its techniques to improve your leadership and your organization. Get a sample chapter of Aviv's book here. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to attend the New Leaders of Remote Work Panel? https://linearb.io/new-leaders-remote-work-panel/ Wa...
Jul 24, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Helen Beal, Chair of the new Value Stream Consortium joins Dev Interrupted to break down the key takeaways from her new research showing that high-performing teams need Value Stream Management. Read Helen's VSM Research 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 ...
Jul 16, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Stack Overflow is all about developers - and they've launched a new solution, Collectives to further their mission of serving developers. Come hear from Stack Overflow's Director of Engineering Ben Matthews about Stack Overflow's culture, teams, operations, and their new Collectives product. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Check out ►► Collectives by Stack Overflow Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the s...
Jul 10, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Google is a titan of technology with one of the largest codebases in the world - and there are many lessons to be learned from how Google has scaled and its success. Senior Google Staff Engineers Hyrum Wright and Titus Winters joined Dan on the pod to share their lessons learned from programming at Google and talk about their new book. In fact, the discussion was so good, we split it into our first two-part episode! Here's part II Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: https://discord.gg/QM...
Jul 02, 2021•21 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Google is a titan of technology with one of the largest codebases in the world - and there are many lessons to be learned from how Google has scaled and its success. Senior Google Staff Engineers Hyrum Wright and Titus Winters joined Dan on the pod to share their lessons learned from programming at Google and talk about their new book. In fact, the discussion was so good, we split it into a two-part episode! Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devinterrupted Visit the Dev Inte...
Jun 26, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Observability is crucial to understanding and adapting your product and your data - and open source telemetry is increasingly important. To go behind the data and understand where telemetry is going, Spiros Xanthos joined Dan on the pod today to talk about how data analysis and tracking are changing, and what is next for Splunk. Spiros is the Founder of Omnition and the current VP of Product Management, Observability, and IT at Splunk. Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devin...
Jun 18, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Modern businesses run on code - and ensuring code quality is crucial to success. To get the inside scoop on Quality Assurance (QA), Dan Lines talks with Erika Chestnut, Head of QA at Calendly at what you need to do to set up QA that works for your business needs, how to socialize the right values for your team, what not to do, and how to adapt these processes when necessary. Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devinterrupted Visit the Dev Interrupted Website: devinterrupted.co...
Jun 10, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 31
How can you build and scale an effective remote organization? In our digital world, figuring out the answer to this question is crucial, and Chris Brookins the VP of Engineering at Appcues, has some great ideas about how to improve team focus time and maintain company culture in remote-first work environments. Hear from Chris how he and his team are using LinearB's metrics to inform their decision-making and create a culture of continuous improvement on this new episode of Dev Interrupted. Join ...
Jun 02, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 30
What happens if we stay remote? This is the big question engineering leaders are answering in 2021. That’s why I’ve brought in Eric Johnson, the CTO of GitLab, to help us learn how the experts create high performance remote engineering teams. 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 GitLabs Remote Work Playbook: https://about.gitlab.com/com...
May 17, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 29
In this episode of Dev Interrupted we get into exactly what Chaos Engineering is, how it came to be and how you can implement it at your organization. Join the Dev Interrupted Continuous Improvement watch party on May 20th with leaders from GitHub, Netflix and Honeycomb: https://linearb.io/continuous-improvement-leaders/ 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 s...
May 11, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 28
The open source community is the most pure expression of collaboration and engineering that exists today. That’s why we’ve brought in Doron Gill, the VP of Engineering at Logz.io, to answer our questions about open source security, implementation, and which companies an open source tool stack is perfect for. Join the Dev Interrupted watch party on May 20th: https://linearb.io/continuous-improvement-leaders/ Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com...
May 05, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 27
