Find out what it takes to enable developer productivity in a highly autonomous environment 💪 like Netflix where there are no rules ✌️- only trust and accountability 🫵. Kathryn Koehler, Director of Developer Productivity Engineering @ Netflix shares insight into lean teams, internal tooling, and yes, developer productivity. Listen to find out: - How to decide between Build 🛠vs Buy 🛒 in internal tooling - How to measure 📏developer productivity (SPACE vs NPS vs DORA) - How to support developer...
Aug 18, 2022•56 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast Learn how to be the CTO that everyone wants to work for by listening to this talk by Ken Coleman. Known as America’s Career Coach, this Ramsey Personality is also the bestselling author of books like ‘From Paycheck to Purpose’, ‘Proximity Principle’, and more. Discover the winning recipe you need to attract and retain talent in today’s market from someone who has spoken to over 5000 people live-on-air who are looking to leave or join leaders. Plus, find out how to hone your servant-leadership sk...
Aug 04, 2022•51 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast Find out how to maintain developer productivity 🧑💻 in a fast scaling team in this CTO podcast featuring Rachel Potvin, VP Engineering at GitHub (formerly of Google and Ubisoft). She shares how GitHub uses things like fan-out processes, design reviews, and DevSat surveys to stay on track even as the team 3Xed💥. Listen to find out: - Why you should focus on team 👥 productivity metrics (+which ones) - How they are using the ‘Layers of the System’ 🍔 approach to work out GitHub’s future archite...
Jul 21, 2022•54 min•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack, creator of Flickr, and author of ‘Building Scalable Websites’ (O'Reilly Media, 2006) shares how Slack was built from both a tech and product perspective and what you should be doing to reclaim your focus time ⏱️. You don’t want to miss out on hearing about the Slack tech stack from someone who is a pioneer in the use of web APIs and created the basis for OAuth and oEmbed. Listen to find out: >> How Slack does focus time >> What tech stack👩💻 powers Slack across pla...
Jun 23, 2022•51 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast Find out what is new in the world of cybersecurity in this CTO podcast featuring cybersecurity expert Mikko Hypponen, the originator of Hypponen's Law (if it's smart📲, it's vulnerable😨) and Europol 🇪🇺 board member. Tune in to hear what he has to say as an expert with more than 30 years of experience in protecting users’ cyber security and privacy. Listen to find out: - Why you should see open source vulnerabilities as a supply chain problem (and why it's your job to contribute an audit 🧐). ...
Jun 10, 2022•41 min•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke with Oren Etzioni - CEO of Allen Institute for AI (a leading AI research institute). Get an insight into what's new in the world of AI from the person whose company's incubated startups worth $300 million+ and released a number of AI tools and technologies. Listen to find out: >> How to get the scientists 🧪 and engineers 🔧on your team to work together>> >> What opportunities await you 🦸 in the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence? >> What is going to be the next big thing in...
May 27, 2022•44 min•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast Eben Upton, Co-founder & CEO of Raspberry Pi Ltd (which produces low-cost, high-performance Raspberry Pi single-board computers and microcontrollers for kids - and adults) shares what it’s like to build hardware that makes computing accessible to more people (Did you know that some components are camera shy 📸??). In the past decade, they have made 45 million Raspberry Pis while improving on the original’s performance 40X!!! Learn top tips about building great hardware (it is called hard for a r...
May 13, 2022•57 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast Niilo Säämänen, CTO of Wolt (best known for their delivery platform) ⚡, shares how he leads an engineering organisation of 40+ autonomous product teams through hyper-growth to serve millions of customers across 23 countries 🚀. Learn how to structure your team and product across domains, platforms, and countries while putting employee satisfaction at the forefront of your work ⭐. You’re bound to learn a thing or two from his unique approach to building impact-driven tech organisations built on a...
Apr 28, 2022•56 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast Mike Perham, the creator of Sidekiq 🦵🏼 (a background job managers for Ruby) shares how he commercialised the open-source as a solopreneur doing what he loves 💙 without the costs & management headaches 🤦 of a team or the pressures of a VC investment. Discover tips for building sustainable software (e.g. minimise dependencies) and choosing the right business model that enables you to support and maintain your software for years to come. Listen to find out:: -How to get to $4M ARR with 20% YoY ...
Apr 14, 2022•54 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast Michael Kagan, the CTO of computing giant Nvidia and co-founder of Mellanox shares insight into the world of hardware, software, AI, and of course computing. Listen to find out: - Why you should ditch deep hierarchy and allow those close to the product to make the decisions. 🧑⚖️ - The benefits of working with inexperienced engineers 🐤 - How to retain employees by hiring them every day 😃. + Why instead of fighting for a bigger slice of pie 🍰 - we should just bake a bigger pie Listen Here- ht...
Mar 31, 2022•45 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke with Daniel Krauss, the Chief Organisational Plumber at FlixBus - a leading Mobility-as-a-Service 🚍🚆. Learn how to grow a company from a ‘fastest-shippable-product monolith’🙃 to a neat ‘independent service’ architecture 😀 with ‘Team Self Design’ events, empowered teams & domain-orientated org structure. Listen to find out: - How to push technological innovation in a highly-regulated industry⛔ (and its limits). - How to adapt your tech architecture and organizational structure of your...
Mar 17, 2022•48 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast Taylor Otwell, CEO, and Creator of Laravel (a popular PHP framework) - gives tips on how to commercialize an open-source by sharing his winning recipe of a lean team, great UX/UI, time management, product management, and of course, commercial products. He also gives insight into the use of the various frameworks for full-stack engineering (SPOILER ALERT: Full-stack bootcamps should be teaching more than Javascript). Listen to find out:: - How to get to 6M$ ARR starting with an open-source projec...
Mar 03, 2022•56 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of Basecamp and Hey and creator of Ruby-on-Rails💎 blows us away yet again in this thought-provoking podcast about bootstrapping, scaling, remote work, and of course Ruby on Rails. Learn insights into technical leadership from someone who has been leading a remote team since 2004 (hint: You are doing Slack and Zoom wrong), believes in async work, and loves the fact that his company doesn’t have an office 🏢. Plus, after 20 years of creating multi-million dollar SaaS...
Feb 17, 2022•2 hr 43 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast Laura Major - CTO at motional (an autonomous vehicle company 🚗) and author of the book ‘What To Expect When You Are Expecting Robots’🤖 - talks about what it takes to build a commercially-viable SAE Level 4 self-driving vehicle 🚘. The motional team has been working with Hyundai and Lyft to get robotaxis on the streets of Las Vegas by 2023. You don't want to miss this inside scoop on the AV industry from a robotics expert with a background in the aerospace industry🚀. Listen to find out: -What ...
Feb 04, 2022•48 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Our next guest has a serious need for ⚡ speed ⚡! I spoke with Ilya Grigorik, Principal Engineer at Shopify, founder and former CTO of PostRank (acquired by Google), former co-chair of W3C Web Performance working group. Learn how to optimize your website for speed 💨 with tips from the web performance engineer who worked on Google’s ‘Make Web Faster’ team (y’know, the one that brought you Core Web Vitals and Page Speed Insights). Listen to find out: - Why every CTO needs how mobile networks opera...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke with Frédéric Rivain, CTO at Dashlane, a password management 🔐 solution. Learn about the future of passwords, why they are focussing on browsers instead of platforms, and how ‘half-baked agile’ works at Dashlane. Listen to find out: -Why they are moving towards browser-centric delivery (away from OS 🖥️) The impact of ManifestV3 on the extensions 🧩 community. -Why the future🔮 won’t be entirely passwordless -How they minimize the impact of breaches with their zero-knowledge📦 approach ...
Jan 06, 2022•55 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke with Snir Yarom, CTO at Codility,🧑💻 - a leading technical assessment platform - about data-driven technical recruiting 💼, the typical hiring process and how to attract talent in a competitive market. Listen to find out: - How to use data 📊 to optimise each stage of your technical recruiting pipeline (e.g. sourcing, screening, interviews, assessment etc.) - How to lead different tech teams across cultural divides 🇹🇭 🇮🇱 🇩🇪 (e.g. confrontational vs. non-confrontational culture). ...
Dec 23, 2021•42 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke with Marco Palladino, Co-Founder & CTO at Kong 🐒, the market-leading API Manageent Gateway Solution. Learn deep insight into APIs, the future of the API Economy, and what it takes to build a great API from someone who has been involved in the API industry since its infancy. Listen to find out: - How to build an API for each use case (external, microservice & mobile). - Why it's only the beginning of the API economy 💹 - Why the best infrastructure software has its roots in the open-sour...
Dec 09, 2021•45 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast Chad Fowler - an engineer, musician, and author - transformed Wunderlist 📋 from a messy monolith to a neat multi-language microservice. Be inspired by his unique view on technology stemming from his background as a musician 🎵 and RPG player 🎮. Open your mind 🤯and prepare to reevaluate 🤔after you hear from this creative thinker who -in the course of his 25-year career - has worked as both a coder and manager at both startups and enterprise companies in the US 🇺🇸, EU 🇪🇺 and India 🇮🇳. Li...
Nov 26, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke with Sagnik Nandy, CTO & President of Technology at Okta, the market leading IAM Solution 🔐. Discover deep insight into the world of identity management🆔, user feedback 👥, and why the best products provide a simplified interface to a complex solution (with customizability ⚙️ for advanced users). Don’t miss out on this opportunity to hear how to build scalable products ♾️ from someone who scaled and led Google Analytics 📊 and Google Ad 💸 products/ Listen to find out: -Why you need to...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke with Fabian Wesner, Founder at ROQ, a FaaS (Feature-as-a-Service) for web applications. Learn deep insight into the world of web applications and frameworks from someone who had to launch an eCommerce shop each week (in different countries 🇧🇷 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 and industries!👗🛏️🧸). Fabian, as former Rocket Internet CTO and Spryker Co-Founder and CTO is the hidden gem of the German CTO scene. Listen to find out: - How working in the “Samwer sweatshop” felt - Node vs Ruby vs PHP for a modern ...
Oct 29, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke with Kore Nordemann, CTO at Frontastic, a Frontend-as-a-Service for headless CMS and commerce systems. Learn deep insight into what it takes to build a web app today: from choosing a stack to hiring frontend/backend/full-stack developers. Listen to find out: - Which ECommerce 🛒 features are Amazon’s Achilles Heel - Why Pair Programming 🧑 💻🧑 works better than Pull Request Reviews - The pros and cons of Stateful/Stateless, Docker, PHP, CouchDB 🛋️ and more - Why microservices are pro...
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke with Alesia Braga, CTO at SmartRecruiters, an end-to-end recruiting solution. She shares with us insights into the recruiting world, how to improve diversity and what she does to shorten the recruiting cycle time to avoid losing top candidates She also shares with us: - Why she uses a literal scorecard 💯 for each candidate she interviews - How she juggles 🤹 product and tech in the CTO role - The challenges of balancing enterprise use 🏭 with superior end user experience
Sep 23, 2021•54 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke with Mark Porter, CTO at MongoDB. His 40-year career spans time working at companies like Oracle, AWS, and Grab. He shares with us insights into technical leadership, company culture, and the open-source world, Listen to find out -Where DEI initiatives fail〽️ -Why they don’t use OKRs 📏 at MongoDB -How to Build A product around the Open Source 👥 +How being a parent makes him a better manager
Sep 09, 2021•47 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke with Andreas Schranzhofer, CTO of Scalable Capital about the best ways to secure an app. Scalable Capital is a Neo-Broker and robo-advisor based in Munich with over 250 million in funding. Learn about app security from someone highly experienced in running an app in the highly regulated FinTech 💰 industry. Learn: - Why you need both security and obfuscation 🛡️ - How to prevent Supply Chain and Ransomware attacks 🦹🤑 - What external tools he uses in the Software Development Cycle 🛠️...
Aug 27, 2021•53 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast I spoke with Charity Majors, CTO of HoneyComb, a prolific Twitter user, and blogger. WHO TESTS IN PRODUCTION. 😱 And is proud of it. She also shares her insight into socio-technical leadership, observability, and databases. Learn: The importance of a tight feedback loop 🔁 Why the maximum deploy time should be 15 minutes. 🕒🚀 How microservices make engineers job harder😓 Why she wants to do away with hierarchies to increase job satisfaction 😀
Aug 12, 2021•49 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Solomon of PagerDuty is working on making the DevOps world more efficient with on-call-management, AIOps, and automating routine debugging tasks. He shares with us about: - On-Call Management: The only notifications that provide a better Work/Life Balance - How AIOps and Runbook Automation are the future of DevOps (+other trends) - Partner vs Compete: Why they became an ecosystem - How he grew his B2B Saas Startup
Jul 29, 2021•47 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast We spoke with Cheryl Hung of Cloud Native. She runs the ecosystem of over 600 members contributing to over a hundred open source projects. She also started the Cloud Native London meetup where she promotes developer advocacy and diversity. As an early adopter of kubernetes, she has a lot to share! Cheryl shared with us: - The importance of Developer Advocacy 👩💻 - How Edge Computing is the next frontier in Cloud Native ☁️ - Why kubernetes is not for everyone 📦and has to become easier - Why En...
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast We spoke to Matthias Jugel, the co-founder of ubirch, the company behind the 🇩🇪 German digital vaccination passes 💉His technology has generated over 30 million vaccine passes giving German their summer holidays back! And they launched in a matter of weeks! We discussed what was involved in creating digital vaccine passports that worked OFFLINE and allow movement around the EU 🇪🇺; Blockchain verification ✔️ and its applications in pharmaceuticals⚕️, car insurance 🚘and manufacturing 🏭 and w...
Jul 01, 2021•45 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast We spoke to Rasmus Rothe, leader in AI space- he has 5 products just based on machine learning. - What is involved in productising and commercialising a machine learning-based service 📈➡️💰 - The need for ML ops 👨💻 - Google Cloud vs AWS vs Azure and why he doesn’t stick to one ☁️ - AI and its applications in medical field ⚕️, autonomous driving 🚘and BI 📊 + His go-to resources for libraries, ML ops and conferences BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Fastly(http://www.fastly.com/alphalist) and Sastrify (http...
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