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Coffee and Open SourceNikil Nandagopal
Throughout his career, Nikhil Nandagopal has always looked for a better way to do things: he’s built out a logistics operation for the largest e-commerce company in India (a direct competitor to Amazon), helped build up a travel company with over 5 million users, and even worked to scale a food delivery service from 50 meal deliveries a day to over 50,000.
Now, his focus is on internal tools. From developer to product manager to entrepreneur (twice!), Nikhil's experience lends itself to both sides of the internal tool development conversation. Engineers need helpful internal software, but hate actually sitting down and ma...2023-04-0454 min
MaintainableArpit Mohan - Aspiring To Be Boring As PossibleRobby has a chat with Arpit Mohan, the Co-Founder and CTO of Appsmith, an open-source low-code tool that helps developers build dashboards and admin panels very quickly. Appsmith helps businesses build any custom internal application within hours. In regard to well-maintained software, Arpit points to the importance of engineers writing code for humans and not machines while also focusing a lot on readability. He believes useful code comments are also very crucial in facilitating well-maintained software.Arpit will share his wisdom on the importance of conveying the why over the how behind any code being developed, how...2022-12-2651 min
The GitHub PodcastCue the command lineHere’s what’s in store for this episode:00:00 - The hosts discuss GitHub Universe and highlight some of their favorite sessions.02:30 - First Commit: Neha and Martin discuss the US presidential election of November 1952, which was the first time that a computer was used to predict winners.05:55 - Features Story: The ReadME Project Sr. Editor, Klint Finley, joins to discuss his recent story Building the future of the command line.18:30 - #AskRMP - Friend of the podcast and GitHub Senior Software Engineering Manager, Helen Hou-Sandi, joins to answer this month’s list...2022-11-1542 min
The MongoDB PodcastEp 135 The lonely Entrepreneur with Arpit Mohan from AppsmithIn this conversation with Mike Lynn, Arpit Mohan Appsmith CTO talks about his journey into engineering and programming, from dismantling home electronics, building soccer playing robots and ultimately about founding Appsmith. Appsmith is Open source, sharing the same roots as MongoDB, and can be used on prem or in the cloud. Arpit talks about why Appsmith went the open source route in the beginning, and the benefits that brings and talk us through their current implementation of Appsmith and their future roadmap. 2022-10-2535 min
Engineering Culture by InfoQBecoming Better Communicators To Enable Team PerformanceIn this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Arpit Mohan about the importance and value of interpersonal skills in teamwork.
Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3QL2wrW
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IT Career EnergizerFocus On The Soft Skills and Read, Read, Read with Arpit MohanIn this week’s show, Phil talks to Arpit Mohan, who has always been fascinated by technology, from taking apart has Tamagotchi to creating a mobile game that went viral. He is the co-founder and CTO of Appsmith, an open-source project built by engineers for engineers. It is now used by more than 1,000 teams, employs people in 8 countries and has raised over $10 million in capital. Arpit talks about the value of focussing upon soft skills such as communication and enhancing teams. He also discusses the value of reading, and how it can make you a be...2022-08-0123 min
Software Developers Journey#208 Arpit Mohan is running on builder's highArpit's story took us from Tamagotchis to Robotics, and then to discovering that Software development is not just for failed hardware engineers. Arpit took us on a wild ride, made of entrepreneurship, learning on the job, hypergrowth, and finding the product-market-fit (or not). We talked about his transformation from a software engineer to a coding CTO and then to an organization builder. We spoke about his last endeavor AppSmith, and finally about algorithms to live by.Here are the links from the show:https://twitter.com/mohanarpithttps://www.appsmith.com/https://www.linkedin.com...2022-06-2845 min
PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocketAppsmith with Arpit MohanAppsmith is an open-source project created to put customizable app tools directly into developers’ hands. Arpit Mohan, CTO of Appsmith, joins us to talk about how he wants to help engineers accomplish more, how Appsmith is used daily by over 1,000 teams, the difficulty of managing microservices, and more.
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Inside Outside InnovationNo-Code Insights for Startups and Enterprises with Abhishek Nayak, Co-founder of AppsmithOn this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Abhishek Nayak, Co-founder and CEO of Appsmith. Abhisek and I talk about the rise of no-code tools and some of the misconceptions and opportunities that no-code can bring to startups and enterprises alike. Let's get started. Inside Outside Innovation is a podcast to help the new innovators navigate what's next. Each week, we'll give you a front row seat into what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive in today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty. Join us as we explore, engage, and experiment with t...2022-05-1016 min
Inside OutsideNo-code Insights for Startups and Enterprises with Abhishek Nayak, Co-founder of AppsmithOn this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Abhishek Nayak, Co-founder and CEO of Appsmith. Abhisek and I talk about the rise of no-code tools and some of the misconceptions and opportunities that no-code can bring to startups and enterprises alike. Let's get started. Inside Outside Innovation is a podcast to help the new innovators navigate what's next. Each week, we'll give you a front row seat into what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive in today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty. Join us as we explore, engage, and experiment with t...2022-05-1016 min
Hanselminutes with Scott HanselmanYou're not gonna need it with Appsmith's Arpit MohanAppsmith is the first open-source low code tool that helps developers build dashboards and admin panels very quickly. Scott talks to Arpit Mohan about how some things in software engineering are overengineering and YAGNI - you aren't gonna need it! Maybe the solution is far simpler than you'd think it is.http://www.appsmith.com
2022-05-0532 min
Greater Than Code274: Managing People Versus Servers with Arpit Mohan02:03 - Arpit’s Superpower: Tenacity
Tenacious D
05:03 - Managing People vs Servers
Establish Consistent Language and Shared Level of Understanding
Written Word
Following Up
User Manual (Persona Investigation)
Consensus Algorithms: Single Sources of Truth & Responsibility
Independent Failures: Build and Establish Trust
Conway’s Law
Somathesis – Collective Problem Solving: Music, Science, Software - Jessica Kerr
Reliability & Uptime
Reflections:
John: Meeting minutes and clear communication is a form of active listening.
Mae: Thinking about trust in terms of reliability and uptime.
Arpit: Collective Problem Solving: Music, Science, Software - Jessica Kerr
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Hashmap on Tap#102 Building Internal Tools to Drive Success with Arpit Mohan, Co-Founder & CTO at AppsmithOn this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Arpit Mohan. Arpit is Co-Founder and CTO at Appsmith, an open-source framework designed to quickly build internal tools and custom business software. Appsmith uses pre-built widgets that can be connected to any data source, and everything is controlled with Javascript. Prior to starting at Appsmith, Arpit led engineering teams at cure.fit and a number of other startups.
Show Notes:
Learn more about Appsmith: https://www.appsmith.com/
Join Appsmith on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/rBTTVJp
Connect with Arpit on LinkedIn: https://www...2021-12-0851 min