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Dev Interrupted
AI is the future of the SDLC
Imagine saving as much as 75 days of work within a six-month period, all through intelligent automation.Building on last week’s discussion about the critical shift from passive metrics to active productivity, host Ben Lloyd Pearson and LinearB co-founder Dan Lines now look forward to realities like this: 19% cycle time reduction and reclaiming significant engineering time. They move beyond common narratives surrounding AI to present actionable success stories and strategic approaches for engineering leaders seeking tangible results from their AI initiatives. This concluding episode tackles how to safely and effectively adopt AI across your software dev...
2025-06-10
35 min
Dev Interrupted
Developer Productivity Will Decline in 2025 | Predictions from LinearB’s Ori Keren
2025 will test every assumption about how engineering teams work.With the new year fast approaching Ori Keren, CEO of LinearB, has some bold predictions that might surprise you, like why developer productivity could actually go down in 2025.Yep, you read that right.As AI tools flood the market, we might see a dip in both productivity and creativity before the long-term benefits kick in. It’s a wake-up call for engineering leaders to rethink how they lead their teams.Ori dives into the trends that’ll dominate:- AI’s rise
2024-12-10
38 min
Dev Interrupted
Labs: Setting Engineering Goals and Reporting to Stakeholders
In our first Labs episode of the year, LinearB COO and Co-founder Dan Lines is joined by CTO Yishai Beeri to explore how elite engineering organizations set and report on their engineering goals. Modern engineering leaders face a dual mandate of achieving operational excellence while aligning their work with business priorities. To achieve this, you need to deliver software predictably—projects need to be delivered on time, within scope, and as promised so the rest of the business can drive ROI. Dan and Yishai highlight goal-setting methodologies to achieve predictable delivery and key metrics to focus on, ran...
2024-05-14
38 min
Dev Interrupted
Labs: Programmable Workflows & Policy-as-Code | Ben Lloyd Pearson
With all of the hype around the future impacts of AI, it can be easy to overlook existing solutions that solve some of the biggest pain points faced by your engineering team. On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, co-host Conor Bronsdon and LinearB’s Head of Developer Relations, Ben Lloyd Pearson, discuss programmable workflows and how you can apply policy-as-code principles. Recorded live at the DevOps Enterprise Summit, Conor and Ben explore how gitStream’s programmable workflows can reduce manual effort, facilitate faster feedback loops, and improve developer experience.They also touch on...
2023-11-14
22 min
פיתוח בהפרעה Dev Interrupted (Hebrew Edition)
Platform? Product? How About Both? Yifat Matatof-Yaacov, JFrog and Linda Haviv, AWS
בפרק הזה של פיתוח בהפרעה חזרנו לאחד הנושאים האהובים עלינו - Platform Engineering, אבל הפעם מהכיוון המוצרי. מצטרפות לישי בארי, CTO ב LinearB, יפעת מתוף יעקב, מנהלת מוצר בכירה היום ב JFrog שמביאה הרבה שנות נסיון בניהול פלטפורמה, ו DevOps, ולינדה חביב Developer Advocate ב AWS בעולם ה Serverless שלפני כן הגיעה מ Fox News ויודעת איך זה נהיה להיות גם הצרכנית וגם המשווקת של טכנולוגיות לאנשי פלטפורמה ו DevOps. הצטרפו לשיחה מרתקת.In this episode of Dev Interrupted we have returned to one of our favorite topics - Platform Engineering, but this time from a product perspective. Joining Yishai Beeri, CTO at LinearB are Yifat Matatof Yaacov, today Senior Product Manager at JFrog who brings many years of experience in platform engineering and DevOps, and Linda Haviv Developer Advocate at AWS from the serverless world who previously worked at Fox News and knows what it's like to be both a consumer and the "marketer" of technologies for Platform and DevOps engineers. Join a fascinating conversation.
2023-11-01
49 min
Dev Interrupted
Career Journey 5: Bringing Diversity to Tech Leadership | Bhavini Soneji
We know diversity fuels innovation, so how do we bring diversity into engineering leadership? On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, Bhavini Soneji joins host Dan Lines for another installment in our series on the career journey of an engineering leader. Bhavini speaks to the synergy between diverse teams and enhanced performance, painting a vivid picture of creativity, insights, and knowledge sharing enriched by varied perspectives.Bhavini connects these dynamics to a culture of converting intention into action, emphasizing that intentions are just the starting point. If companies are to follow through on their pro...
2023-10-24
39 min
Dev Interrupted
Unpacking DORA’s State of DevOps Report | Nathen Harvey
What does this year’s Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2023 mean for your team?LinearB & DORA have officially joined forces. On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, co-host Conor Bronsdon interviews Nathen Harvey, Head of Google Cloud’s DORA team. With data gathered from over 36,000 global professionals, this year’s report investigated how top DevOps performers integrate technical, process, and cultural capabilities into their practices for success.Listen to learn how your team can focus on three core outcomes of DevOps: enhancing organizational value, boosting team innovation and collaboration, and promoting team member we...
2023-10-17
45 min
Dev Interrupted
Labs: The Magic of Compound Efficiencies in Engineering
As the milestone book Atomic Habits laid out, the key to life-changing habits is adopting one effectively and then layering another desirable habit on top of it.The same is true for efficiencies in software engineering.When your team adopts one efficiency, sees it bear fruit, then adds the next efficiency habit on top of it, the result is compounding efficiencies.In this conversation, LinearB’s CTO Yishai Beeri reveals the data on compound efficiencies as experienced by real dev teams out in the wild.Show Notes:Learn mor...
2023-05-30
43 min
פיתוח בהפרעה Dev Interrupted (Hebrew Edition)
IC to Leader and Back: Swinging on the Pendulum, Anna Bankirer AIDoc, Eitan Yanovsky, Optibus
הצטרפו לאנה בנקירר, מפתחת בכירה במשרד ה CTO של AIDoc, ואיתן ינובסקי, CTO ושותף מייסד ב Optibus לשיחה פתוחה עם ישי בארי, CTO ב LinearB על המעבר מניהול פיתוח וחזרה ל IC, עם שני א.נשים עם המון פרספקטיבה משני העולמות הללו. הם צוללים לעומק על כל השיקולים כשבוחרים מסלול קריירה, ועל צומת הדרכים של קבלת החלטות, וגם איפה זה פוגש אותם.ן בארגוני פיתוח שעובדים עם תעשיות קצת מיושנות.Join Anna Bankirer, Senior Software Engineer at AIDoc and Eitan Yanovsky, CTO and Co-Founder at Optibus for an authentic conversation with Yishai Beeri, CTO at LinearB, on engineering leadership back to IC, and vice versa with two people who have deep perspective on both worlds. The considerations involved when choosing your engineering career path and what to think about when at the crossroads and making these decisions-- and how this impacts their work with highly regulated industries.
2023-04-02
51 min
פיתוח בהפרעה Dev Interrupted (Hebrew Edition)
What's next in DevOps and what on EARTH is Platform Engineering? Nati Shalom, Cloudify (Dell) & Eran Bibi, Firefly
בפרק הזה של פיתוח בהפרעה, ישי בארי, CTO ב LinearB מארח את נתי שלום, CTO ו Co-Founder ב Cloudify ואת ערן ביבי CPO ו Co-Founder ב Firefly. הם צוללים לעומק על כל עולם ה DevOps שעבר אבולוציה מעניינת ב 15 שנים האחרונות - מ SRE ל Platform Engineering ו Production Engineering וכל מה שביניהם. איך ייראה עולם ה DevOps בעתיד הקרוב, ואפילו היותר רחוק, וגם למה אנשי DevOps צריכים להיערך ואיזה skills לפתח כדי לעמוד באתגרים המשמעותיים הבאים.In our next episode of Dev Interrupted - the Hebrew Edition, Yishai Beeri, CTO at LinearB, hosts Nati Shalom CTO & Co-Founder at Cloudify, and Eran Bibi CPO and Co-Founder at Firefly. Together they take a deep dive on the evolution in the world of DevOps over the last 15 years - from SRE to Platform and Production Engineering, and everything in between. What the world of DevOps will look like in the immediate future and farther along, and even the things DevOps engineers need to prepare themselves for and which skills they need to evolve to overcome the next big challenges coming their way.
2023-03-09
1h 00
פיתוח בהפרעה Dev Interrupted (Hebrew Edition)
Building Data Products - the Do's and Don'ts - Yulia Trakhtenberg, Gloat & Victoria Kalmanovich
בפרק הראשון בעונה השניה של פיתוח בהפרעה, ישי בארי, CTO ב LinearB מארח שתי אורחות מ Gloat, יוליה טרכטנברג ה VP R&D וויקטוריה קלמנוביץ מנהלת פיתוח לבקאנד ודאטה. איתו הן סוקרות את כל העולם של מוצרי דאטה, האתגרים הייחודיים בפיתוח טכנולוגיה עם דגש על אספקטים של דאטה, ואיפה זה פוגש את ניהול הפיתוח וחוויית מפתח כמובן - הנושאים האהובים עלינו.In our first episode in Season 2 of Dev Interrupted - the Hebrew Edition, Yishai Beeri, CTO at LinearB, hosts two guests from Gloat - Yulia Trakhtenberg VP R&D, and Victoria Kalmanovich, Backend & Data Engineering Manager (as well as DevOpsDays Tel Aviv musical performer). In this episode they chat about the unique challenges of building data products, software engineering with a focus on data aspects, and of course how this impacts engineering management and developer experience...our favorite topics.Tune in!
2023-02-28
59 min
Dev Interrupted
Labs: The Science Of Allocating Dev Resources In 2023
The days of growth at all costs are over; your 2023 engineering strategy needs to be about scaling efficiently.In the first Labs episode of the year, Dan invites LinearB's VP of Product, Eran Shitrit, on the show to discuss how teams are proactively addressing concerns around cost reduction and efficiency through smarter project allocation.Dan and Eran also discuss the rollout of LinearB's resource allocation dashboard and the success of the Scaling Developer Efficiency workshop.Show NotesWatch the Scaling Developer Efficiency workshop on LinearB's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube...
2023-02-21
37 min
פיתוח בהפרעה Dev Interrupted (Hebrew Edition)
Woof! The Art of Dogfooding! - Yaniv Shani, VP R&D Lightrun
בפרק הזה, ישי בארי, CTO ב LinearB מארח את יניב שני, VP R&D ב Lightrun על כל נושא ה dogfooding בארגוני פיתוח, למי זה מתאים, איך עושים את זה נכון, ומה האתגרים בדרך להצלחה.In this episode, Yishai Beeri, CTO at LinearB, Yaniv Shani, VP R&D at Lightrun, who unpacks the world of dogfooding in engineering organizations...the types of organizations this works for, how to get started, and the challenges you'll encounter on your way to success.
2022-12-22
38 min
Dev Interrupted
Economic Downturn is No Excuse to Use Individual Metrics w/ Ori Keren, Co-Founder & CEO of LinearB
Bad habits have a way of resurfacing during difficult times. Unfortunately for engineering teams everywhere, this is one of those times. In this topical episode of Dev Interrupted, LinearB co-founders Dan Lines & Ori Keren discuss the current macroeconomic climate, its effect on engineering teams, and why individual metrics are - and should remain - a relic of days gone by. Our heart goes out to anyone who has been affected by the layoffs across the tech industry. Please reach out to the Dev Interrupted community if there is any way we can help.
2022-11-22
30 min
פיתוח בהפרעה Dev Interrupted (Hebrew Edition)
Individual Contributors: The Art of Leading Without Managing, Orit Wasserman & Shlomi Noach
בפרק הזה, ישי בארי, CTO ב LinearB מארח את אורית ואסרמן Distinguished Engineer ב Red Hat, ושלומי נח Engineer & Database Geek ב PlanetScale על איך נראה מסלול ה Individual Contributor כהחלטת קריירה, משני ICs ותיקים ומנוסים, ואיפה זה פוגש את ה engineering management בארגון.In this episode, Yishai Beeri, CTO at LinearB, hosts Orit Wasserman, Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat, and Shlomi Noach, Engineer & Database Geek at Planetscale, who talk about their journey as individual contributors, the path of ICs as a career choice, and where this meets and impacts engineering managers.
2022-11-20
37 min
Dev Interrupted
The Promise of Platform Engineering w/ Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb
Live from Interact, we're bringing you an interview with our favorite CTO, Charity Majors. Never one to be shy about speaking her mind, Charity is an outspoken advocate for devs everywhere - and this passion made her a fan favorite at Interact. Listen as Charity discusses her career, why the hierarchy is bullshit (disclaimer: she likes to swear - we like that about her), and why platform engineering is the most exciting place to sit in computing today. Show NotesLearn about the power of Continuous MergeCharity's blogJoin the Dev...
2022-11-01
47 min
פיתוח בהפרעה Dev Interrupted (Hebrew Edition)
VP of Engineering? You need to skill up! - Ronny Shapiro, Daniel Ben Tov, Yaron Cohen
בפרק המיוחד הזה, ישי בארי CTO ב LinearB מארח שלושה אורחים מוכשרים - בוגרי תכנית Leap (זוכרים את עדי שחם-שביט מהפרק הראשון שלנו?!) בפרק הזה שלושה VPs of Engineering חולקים את דרכם, את החשיבות בלמצוא קבוצה תומכת לתפקיד כנראה הכי בודד בטק, וגם את החשיבות שתמיד להקדיש זמן לדברים כמו skilling up ואסטרגיה - אחרת זה מעולם לא יקרה באטרף של היום יום בסטארטאפים בצמיחה.In this special episode, Yishai Beeri, CTO at LinearB hosts three talented guests - Leap program alumni (remember our first episode with Adi Shacham-Shavit?!) In this episode, three VPs of Engineering share a bit about their journey, the importance of finding a support community for what is likely the loneliest job in tech, and the important to intentionally and consciously dedicate time to skilling up and strategy that tends to get lost i the day to day.
2022-10-27
1h 00
Dev Interrupted
Why Discord is Betting Big on Devs w/ Anjney Midha VP of Platform Ecosystem at Discord
How does a platform with 150 million monthly active users build for the future? In a word: Developers. Discord is betting big that the future of their company, their product and their community is in supporting developers - and they're putting their money where their mouth is. On this week's episode of Dev Interrupted, Anjney Midha, Discord's VP of Platform Ecosystem, sits down with us to discuss Discord's past, present and future. In this incredible episode, Anjney details Discord's recent product announcement, its spiritual connection to gaming, and why a totally moddable platform is th...
2022-10-18
39 min
פיתוח בהפרעה Dev Interrupted (Hebrew Edition)
Developer Marketing Does Not Exist, Baruch Sadogursky
בפרק השישי של פיתוח בהפרעה, ישי בארי CTO ב LinearB מדבר עם ברוך סדוגורסקי, Principal Developer Advocate בחברת JFrog על מה זה לעזאזל Developer Advocacy ו Relations, איך זה מתחבר ל engineering, ניהול פיתוח, וכל מה שביניהם. האם בכלל אפשר לעשות שיווק למפתחים.ות?!In the sixth episode of Dev Interrupted - the Hebrew Edition, Yishai Beeri, CTO at LinearB chats with Baruch Sadogursky, Principal Developer Advocate at JFrog about all things Dev Advocacy and Relations. WTF is dev advocacy anyway?! How does it relate to engineering? How do you interface with engineering managers, and will answer the question...is developer marketing even possible?!
2022-10-13
53 min
Dev Interrupted
Where Did All The Focus Time Go? Dissecting 1.5 Million Meetings w/ Clockwise's VP of Engineering, Dan Kador
Where has all the focus time gone? Why does there seem to be less of it at big companies than at startups? And do managers really have as little as they claim?It should come as no surprise to our listeners that we're big fans of data here at Dev Interrupted. The coolest thing about having Dan Kador, VP of Engineering at Clockwise, on the show is that he brings data we already intuitively understood but could not quantify.Armed with data from 1.5 million meetings, 80,000 engineers and over 5,000 companies, this episode answers every question your...
2022-10-11
44 min
Dev Interrupted
Labs: The Best & Worst Programming Languages For Dev Workflow
The argument about which programming language reigns supreme is about to get a lot more clear with the release of research on the best and worst languages for dev workflow.In this episode of LinearB Labs, CTO Yishai Beeri reveals what the company’s data scientists have discovered about programming-language productivity following analysis of thousands of dev teams and hundreds of thousands of pull requests.Industry-changing research on which programming languages linger under excessively long shipping lifespans and which ones are impressively efficient, this pod should help settle debates that have been entirely subjective up to...
2022-10-04
41 min
פיתוח בהפרעה Dev Interrupted (Hebrew Edition)
Skilling Up for Devs: The Real Deal, Eti Dahan Noked
בפרק החמישי של פיתוח בהפרעה, ישי בארי CTO ב LinearB מדבר עם אתי דהאן נוקד, VP R&D בחברת Wilco על כל מה שקשור ב skilling up של מפתחים.ות, איך זה שונה מטריינינג ואונבורדינג רגיל, ומי אחראי.ת להצלחה - המנהל.ת או המפתח.ת? In the fifth episode of Dev Interrupted - the Hebrew edition, Yishai Beeri, CTO at LinearB, chats with Eti Dahan Noked, VP R&D at Wilco about skilling up your engineers...how this differs from regular training and onboarding, and who's responsible for the success - managers or the engineers themselves?
2022-09-29
44 min
Dev Interrupted
Atlassian’s Eye-Opening State of Teams Report w/ Mark Cruth Modern Work Evangelist
When you get the chance to geek out over the metrics behind happy dev teams, you take it.As one of the companies shaping how the modern workforce, well… works, Atlassian is one of the foremost thought leaders in the space thanks to an amazing research and data team.Case in point: Atlassian’s State of Teams Report.In this week’s episode, modern work evangelist Mark Cruth takes us through the most interesting, insightful and counterintuitive findings from their deep dive on what is separating healthy teams from unhealthy ones.From w...
2022-09-27
47 min
Dev Interrupted
Ship/Show/Ask - A Branching Strategy for Modern Dev Teams w/ Author & Eng Leader Rouan Wilsenach
Branching strategy has been reimagined. Meet the mind behind it. In his first-ever podcast appearance, Rouan Wilsenach, author of Ship/Show/Ask: A Modern Branching Strategy, joins Dev Interrupted to talk about his work as an author and the inspiration behind his musings on branching strategy. If you haven’t already read Ship/Show/Ask, you can find it on Martin Fowler’s website. It’s one of the most influential articles we’ve read in years. Rouan has been more than an inspiration, he’s changed the way our dev teams work at LinearB...
2022-09-20
38 min
Dev Interrupted
We Solved Dev Infrastructure, So Why Does it Suck to Build Stuff? w/ Hasura's Tanmai Gopal
In the last decade there have been enormous advances in infrastructure and ops, so why does it suck to build stuff? That’s the question Tanmai Gopal kept asking himself before founding his company, Hasura. Now, as Hasura’s CEO he’s channeling his chaotic energy in order to solve this problem. This week’s episode of Dev Interrupted implores listeners to forget about pivoting (it’s just the story other people impose on your journey), shames backend devs for their elitist tendencies and asks why, if Netflix won the battle for infrastructure, are they losing the s...
2022-09-13
42 min
Dev Interrupted
Lessons Learned from Programming at Google w/ Hyrum Wright & Titus Winters
Today, we are releasing the full interview of one of our favorite episodes: Dan’s 2021 conversation with engineers-turned-authors, Hyrum Wright & Titus Winters.As two of the most senior staff engineers at Google, both guests brought a deep understanding of software engineering to the show: Hyrum is semi-famous as the "Hyrum" of Hyrum's Law; while Titus is responsible for managing 250 million lines of code.In their brilliant book Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time, Hyrum & Titus explore the engineering practices that make one of the largest codebases in the world sustainable and he...
2022-09-06
51 min
Dev Interrupted
The Day-1 Decisions that Make or Break Companies w/ PlanetScale's CEO Sam Lambert
Your early tech stack decisions won’t ensure long term success, but they can certainly set you up for long term failure. Pragmatists rejoice! This week’s episode of Dev Interrupted features Sam Lambert, CEO & President of PlanetScale, a tech leader known as the ‘Oracle of Pragmatism’. In a winding conversation that touches on Sam’s time at GitHub, where he helped the then 40th most-trafficked website in the world run on just 2 servers, to his experience working at Facebook where he learned that you don’t need to sacrifice quality in order to move fast, this epi...
2022-08-27
33 min
Dev Interrupted
Stripe on Treating Dev Bandwidth as Your Most Valuable Resource w/ Stripe’s Head of Engineering, Smruti Patel
The unofficial first rule of engineering: When the minds behind the world’s most valuable startup, Stripe, want to talk about making better dev orgs, you listen.In this episode of Dev Interrupted, Stripe’s Head of Engineering Smruti Patel joined us to talk about the daily, weekly and yearly engineering decisions that have engineered the company’s meteoric success.Smruti has a gift for making the logic behind make-or-break strategic decisions digestible for every engineer, regardless of where they are on the company ladder.With a breadth of wisdom on what it takes...
2022-08-20
48 min
Dev Interrupted
Labs: Solving The Pull Request Problem w/ Continuous Merge
Fact: The state of pull requests is broken and we finally have the data to prove it. In our latest LinearB Labs episode we reveal the information that has led us to the inevitable conclusion that pull requests have become a massive source of toil, bottlenecks and a huge barrier to shipping.Better yet, two people who have been thinking about how to attack this dev workflow issue – Dan Lines and Ori Keren of LinearB – are ready to actually propose a solution: continuous merge.The next step in CI/CD, continuous merge is the concept of c...
2022-08-13
40 min
Dev Interrupted
Why Devs Break Up with Their Bosses w/ Oliver Wyman's Carolyn Vo
Everyone who manages a team would like to think that their employees admire them as individuals and as leaders. That you make an impact on those employees while they work under you and long after you end up moving to new companies and opportunities.One such engineering leader who has mastered the mix of manager, friend and mentor is Carolyn Vo. A Partner and Head of Engineering at Oliver Wyman, Carolyn is one of engineering’s leading advocates on the benefits of creating a culture of approachability, tinkering and healthy levity. In fact, in our con...
2022-08-06
46 min
Dev Interrupted
The Art of Letting Your Devs Step Up w/ Equinix’s Rajah Kalipatnapu
Like every other team-based profession, engineering needs leaders. But identifying a true, tested and proven road for taking a programmer and putting them in a position of managing projects & priorities is still a work in progress.That’s why I was so excited to speak with Rajah Kalipatnapu, Global Head of Product Engineering at Equinix. One of the most experienced minds in building world-class engineering orgs, Rajah credits his success with focusing on different ways to incrementally identify leaders and empower them to be the managers their business needs and their colleagues admire.Fro...
2022-07-30
24 min
Dev Interrupted
How a Trained Therapist Diagnoses Healthy Dev Teams w/ Engineer & Entrepreneur, Kelly Vaughn
Not only is Kelly Vaughn one of the pioneers in building thought-leadership content for the developer community, she’s one of the rare programmers who comes to the craft with the background of a trained therapist.From knowing what content devs need to grow to being able to recognize the cognitive-behavioral impacts of the developer experience, Kelly Vaughn is truly one of our most unique guests to date.In our conversation, Kelly leveraged her background as a therapist to explore what dev orgs should be doing to recognize developers as unique human beings, with their ow...
2022-07-23
50 min
Dev Interrupted
The Dangers of Shipping at All Costs w/ CEO & Cofounder of 33 Teams, Drew McManus
In a field like engineering, to have a truly unique 30,000-feet view of the profession, you need someone with 30 years of experience in adapting, innovating and creating in the space.That’s why we were so excited to talk to Drew McManus, CEO and Cofounder of 33 Teams.An engineer who’s helped shape the formative years of Apple, Adobe and so many more companies you have on your phone right now, Drew McManus is now advising rapidly growing dev orgs across the world at 33 Teams.Drew is an oracle (no pun intended) on how...
2022-07-16
48 min
Dev Interrupted
What a Healthy Relationship with Open Source Looks Like ft. GitLab's John Coghlan
There’s an open secret about open source: Developers use it. Teams use it. Businesses use it. But no one really thinks about how they contribute to it.That’s why we jumped at the chance to get a state-of-open-source discussion with Gitlab’s John Coghlan, Senior Manager of Developer Advocacy.Someone who joined the open source community with the goal of making developers’ lives better, John came to the table with a wealth of insights into just how individual engineers leverage open source, how businesses leverage it and, most importantly, how to make our relation...
2022-07-09
35 min
Dev Interrupted
How to Train Devs to Disrupt Industries w/ Lessen's CTO Chris Bee
Not all dev orgs work in all situations. Especially if your dev org is looking to completely reshape and disrupt an entire industry.That’s why we were so excited to talk to Chris Bee, CTO of Lessen.Lessen is looking to change the way property owners hire vetted professionals for renovation, maintenance and turn services. That means so much of what their programmers are building hasn’t been built before.Chris opened up about how the company trains and empowers developers to design and build things customers didn’t know they wanted. He als...
2022-07-02
40 min
Dev Interrupted
Creating a Better CTO Playbook w/ Dama Financial's CTO Zach Goldberg
Fact: There are guidebooks for everything in programming except for actually leading, managing and inspiring programmers.That’s why I was so happy to have my friend Zach Goldberg on the podcast.Someone who has made learning and self-improvement a core pillar of his professional and personal life, Zach Goldberg is someone who I turn to when I need to know who smart CTOs are turning to.In this great conversation, Zach talks about the most important things he’s learned in separating signal from noise in the realm of engineering leadership. He also prov...
2022-06-25
52 min
Dev Interrupted
The Best Solution to Burnout We’ve Ever Heard | A Conversation With Slack, Netlify & Ambassador Labs
With registration for our free October Interact conference now open, we wanted you to hear one of our favorite sessions from this past April’s Interact.Featuring the best minds from Slack, Netlify and Ambassador Labs, our session on Inspiring Engineering Leaders & Driving Developer Creativity turned into one of the best conversations we’ve ever heard on topics like dev toil, dev focus and dev burnout.This is a great preview of the type of content we’re working on for our conference in October, and this panel completely made us rethink how we approach burnou...
2022-06-18
46 min
Dev Interrupted
Labs: What Do Elite Dev Teams Look Like? w/ Ori Keren, Co-Founder & CEO of LinearB
In an industry that has trouble looking beyond the next sprint, it’s good to know there are very smart people researching the conscious and unconscious pain points keeping devs from focusing on what they actually want to do: code.In our new series LinearB Labs we’ll be looking at the most interesting research on how devs work, communicate and code.The best way to start should be understanding what is actually a well-performing engineering org versus one that’s struggling. That’s why we’re so excited to have Ori Keren, co-founder of LinearB, a...
2022-06-15
50 min
Dev Interrupted
Getting the Respect Your Work Deserves: A Live Workshop w/ Engineering Coach Lena Reinhard
The last thing anyone who does great work should be doing is having to take time out from doing great work to promote it to their higher-ups. Unfortunately, until the person you report to achieves omnipotence, you’re going to have to make sure their perception of your work lines up with the quality.In fact, when we asked our community what issue they would want professional coaching on, it was this: How to improve the impression of your work.With the help of the great Lena Reinhard, engineering & executive coach, we’re giving a prac...
2022-06-11
59 min
Dev Interrupted
The 2 Things You Ask Your Team When You Pass $1B w/ Hippo’s VP of Engineering
When you think of a billion-dollar tech company, you probably imagine rooms full of monitors with dashboards and non-stop data streams.Well, after talking to Hippo - a certified unicorn and newly minted giant in the insurance industry - we realized this couldn’t be further from the truth.Mike Gordon, VP of Engineering at Hippo, sat down with Dev Interrupted to chat about what it’s actually like to run the dev teams powering a company that just passed a $1 billion valuation.His insights about what actually matters to him were amazing for...
2022-06-04
45 min
Dev Interrupted
The Quest to Build the Perfect Bot w/ Ubisoft's Joshua Romoff
Almost every single company we talk to focuses on having their engineering teams solve problems.This is why we jumped at the opportunity to talk to Joshua Romoff from Ubisoft.Why? The goal of gaming companies isn’t so much to solve problems, but to enrich their customers’ lives.That’s a unique, powerful change in how to think about building, developing and shipping features. Something that required Ubisoft to bring in Research Scientists like Joshua to figure out just what it is customers engage with in their games and how to give them m...
2022-05-28
34 min
Dev Interrupted
The 3 Conversations That Improve Developers' Lives w/ Reprise's Jennie MacDougall
If you’re doing your job right, most of your time and your team’s time should be spent actually building things. That means conversations should be reserved to the very important ones.In our latest Dev Interrupted episode, Reprise’s Director of Engineering Jennie MacDougall looks back on the most useful conversation she has ever had with her devs that are also the ones she encourages them to have with others.From the most important conversation when evaluating a prospective dev to the question that actually keeps engineers motivated and invested, this was an incred...
2022-05-21
42 min
Dev Interrupted
Why Engineers Make the Best Entrepreneurs w/ Drata's Co-founder & CTO Daniel Marashlian
There are so many books, videos and workshops on starting your own company. The problem for anyone listening to this podcast is that none of them come from the perspective of a developer.That’s why we were so excited that the founder & CTO of Drata, Daniel Marashlian – who has previously founded eight companies before hitting a billion-dollar valuation with Drata – was open to talking about what it’s like to build a company from a coder’s perspective.From the signs you’re an entrepreneur at heart, to filling out your skills gap to leaning in t...
2022-05-14
56 min
Dev Interrupted
Stupid Things Orgs Do That Kill Productivity | A Conversation With Netflix, FloSports & Refactoring.club
At LinearB, we like to think we spend all our time figuring out how to unlock developer potential. To find ways to let devs do more of the work they love and reduce the amount of time they spend dealing with needless hurdles, idling and churn.We’re not the only ones thinking about how to do this, though. At our recent INTERACT panel, we assembled amazing engineering leaders from Netflix, FloSports and the Refactoring.club newsletter to give us their inside knowledge on how they increase productivity and promote creativity in their own organizations.On...
2022-05-07
51 min
Dev Interrupted
Why 1 Good UX Is Worth 5 Engineers w/ Toast's Director of Engineering Brad Pielech
Few companies have mastered making products consumers actually want to use like Toast.A $30 billion giant in the tech-food business, Toast faced their worst case scenario during the pandemic when the restaurants at the heart of their business were all forced to shut down.Toast rose like a phoenix to become one of the best success stories of pivoting during the pandemic by making users love using their food delivery systems.To understand how Toast became one of the great success stories of the last 2 years, we spoke to Brad Pielech, the company’s...
2022-04-30
47 min
פיתוח בהפרעה Dev Interrupted (Hebrew Edition)
Is the VP Engineering Just a Glorified Project Manager?, Adi Shacham-Shavit
בפרק הראשון של פיתוח בהפרעה ישי בארי, CTO ב LinearB מארח את עדי שחם-שביט. היא תדבר על המגמות, הטכנולוגיות, התרבות והכילים אשר שינו את פני התעשיה במהלך ה 20 שנה שהיא מנהלת פיתוח בחברות מובילות מ Liveperson ל AppsFlyer, Lemonade, והיום SVP Engineering ב Transmit Security, ו co-founder ב Leap המכשיר מנהלי.ות פיתוח לאתגרים של scale-up בצמיחה מהירה.In our first Hebrew episode of Dev Interrupted, Yishai Beeri, CTO at LinearB hosts Adi Shacham-Shavit. She will talk about the different trends, technologies, culture, and tools that changed the face of the industry over the course of the past 20 years, where she served as an engineering leader at some of the hottest Israeli companies from Liveperson to AppsFlyer, Lemonade and today is SVP Engineering at Transmit Security and co-founder of Leap--the program to help engineering leaders in scale-ups handle the challenges of rapid growth.
2022-04-29
41 min
Dev Interrupted
Why Great Money Doesn’t Retain Great Devs w/ Stack Overflow, DataStax & Reprise
What do the teams at Stack Overflow, DataStax and Reprise have in common?First, they’ve all built amazing organizations powered by amazing developers. Second, they’ve managed to build and retain these amazing developers in an ultra-competitive hiring market.Third, they all took time at our recent INTERACT conference to discuss how they created engineering organizations that are productive, successful and - best of all - happy.It’s a rare treat to have this many amazing minds on one live panel and we couldn’t be more excited to share the...
2022-04-23
47 min
Dev Interrupted
The Subversive Structure of the World's Best-Performing Dev Teams w/ A Radical Enterprise Author Matt K. Parker
You ever get the feeling that the way most companies are set up doesn’t really make sense?That the passion you have for coding and tech gets sucked out when you do it for a business, instead of it being amplified?Matt K. Parker had that realization… hard.A third-generation programmer, Matt’s epiphany that there was something wrong with the way the majority of the world sets up its teams and workplaces led him on a journey to explore the way the world’s best companies operate.After diving into cas...
2022-04-16
55 min
Dev Interrupted
How to Fix Tech's Mentorship Problem w/ Amex's VP of Technology, Sarvenaz Myslicki
If you looked up the term “firing on all cylinders” in the dictionary, I’m fairly confident there would be a picture of Sarvenaz Myslicki next to it.A next-gen leader who earned the role of VP of Technology at American Express by the age of 30, Savernaz is a published author, an in-demand thought-leader on mentorship and has one of the largest followings on programmer TikTok.Our favorite thing about Sarvenaz, though, is that all her work is aspirational but radically inclusive. She tailors her message, content and guidance based on wherever someone is in their...
2022-04-09
55 min
Dev Interrupted
How Promotions Ruin Dev Careers w/ Shopify's Dir. of Engineering James Stanier
In so many professions, the reward for exceptional work is a promotion to management. Unfortunately, for developers whose programming gets them singled out for promotion, the skills to manage a team have nothing to do with the work that got them recognized in the first place.James Stanier, Director of Engineering at Shopify, understands the pitfalls of being promoted from an IC to an engineering manager, and began writing as a way to think through the mistakes he himself was making. Today, James is an accomplished author; his first book Become An Effective Software Engineering M...
2022-04-02
45 min
Dev Interrupted
What The Next 20 Million Devs Want w/ Tiff in Tech & Stereotype Breakers' Masha Zvereva
The world is shortly going to need another 20 million developers and with over 1,000 engineering leaders joining us for INTERACT on April 7th, there’s no better time to talk to two people who have captured the minds of millions of developers - and will be featured at INTERACT - Tiffany Janzen and Masha Zvereva.In addition to their own tech careers, both women have become prominent voices in the dev community, Tiffany is most well-known for her Tiff in Tech Youtube channel and Masha for her company Stereotype Breakers.Tiff and Masha spend their time con...
2022-03-26
40 min
Dev Interrupted
Is Your Dev Team TOO Big to Succeed? w/ SAIC’s Bob Ritchie
Modern problems require modern solutions, right? The problem is, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to understand what solutions are required for a given problem and even harder to task a team with finding them. That’s why Bob Ritchie, VP of Software at SAIC, thinks the top-down management model is dead. To replace it, Bob is championing a “team of teams” model that provides his developers with far more autonomy - so much, in fact, that they can even self-elect their leaders. On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, Bob discusses the challenges of...
2022-03-19
44 min
Dev Interrupted
What Devs Need To Teach CEOs About AI w/ Lexion’s Emad Elwany
For decades Artificial Intelligence has been a focus of best-selling science fiction authors and an antagonist for blockbuster Hollywood movies. But AI is no longer relegated to the realm of science fiction, it inhabits the world around us. From the biggest enterprise companies to plucky startups, businesses everywhere are building and deploying AI at incredible speed. In fact, open source allows anyone with a laptop to build impressively good AI models in a day.But for all the recent advances in AI, what are its limitations? And if you are a developer or business leader, w...
2022-03-12
49 min
Dev Interrupted
How to Reclaim Your Dev Team’s Focus w/ Ambassador Labs' Katie Wilde
Hate interruptions? Ever feel like you’ve lost your ability to focus on coding? Katie Wilde, VP of Engineering at Ambassador Labs, knows your pain and she’s on a crusade to help devs everywhere reclaim their focus. Spoiler: She's got a message for managers who can’t meet with devs whenever they want: “Don’t like it? Well, suck it up.”The thing about productivity is, you can’t have it both ways. You can either protect your devs’ ability to focus by providing them meaningful time for creativity or you can call them into mee...
2022-03-05
40 min
Dev Interrupted
What If You Don't Want To Be a Developer Anymore? w/ CTO Connection's Peter Bell
It used to be that in order to make your parents proud you had to go into management. Then along came the self-contained IC career path. Today, this dual-track career path remains the unchallenged standard of companies everywhere.Or does it?Peter Bell, the founder and CTO of CTO Connection, wants developers everywhere to know that there are several dev adjacent career paths. From product to dev advocate to sales engineer, Peter has the insights you need if you’ve ever considered switching up your career while utilizing your hard-earned skills as a developer. I...
2022-02-26
42 min
Dev Interrupted
Why Imperfect Data Isn’t Just Bad, It’s Harmful w/ Treeverse’s Einat Orr
Data junkies rejoice, this is the episode for you. On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, Einat Orr, co-founder and CEO of Treeverse, sits down with us to talk about the state of data… where it’s been, where it’s going and why having bad data might be worse than having no data at all.Einat's path to becoming a CEO is different from many of the folks who come on the podcast. After graduating with a PhD in mathematics, she spent much of her career as a CTO due to her extraordinary technical...
2022-02-19
42 min
Dev Interrupted
How a $725M VC Judges Your Engineering Team w/ Redpoint Ventures' Jason Warner
How does a former-CTO-turned-VC assess companies now that they're the one with the money? What do they look for - and expect to find - in a company’s engineering team?Enter Jason Warner on the Dev Interrupted stage.Jason is the most unique of investors: He made the jump from being a CTO to managing his own $725M fund at Redpoint Ventures. After leading GitHub to one of the best exits in the history of Silicon Valley, Jason is now dedicating his full time to picking the tech, teams and products he thinks will de...
2022-02-12
46 min
Dev Interrupted
What Hackers Know About Your Software Supply Chain (That You Don’t) w/ Chainguard's Kim Lewandowski
You’ve heard of the supply chain, but what about the software supply chain? Unlike the standard supply chain that you often hear about in the news, this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted dives into the supply chain responsible for holding together the systems that companies, orgs and governments depend upon. Kim Lewandowski, a software supply chain security expert, co-founded Chainguard in 2021 with a mission to make the software supply chains secure by default.In our conversation, Kim discusses why hackers are way ahead of the game on the software supply chain, what compan...
2022-01-29
30 min
Dev Interrupted
Why an Autistic Developer is Your Next Great Hire w/ Matt Nigh of UW Medicine
Like most fast-growing companies, LinearB spends WAY too much time trying to hire developers.So when we came across a brilliant article about hiring autistic talent, we knew we had to have its author Matt Nigh on the podcast. Matt is one of the most prominent thought leaders on neurodiversity in the workplace.Matt himself was diagnosed with autism late in life following a very unique job interview at Google. He’s since spent countless hours researching, writing and talking about how companies can not only bring neurodiverse talent into the fold, but why engineering te...
2022-01-22
1h 04
Dev Interrupted
How a hacker, a hustler and a designer made RSS feeds cool
Building a platform that 100,000 devs use every day is no accident, but it can happen (almost) overnight. Daily.dev is the fastest growing online community for developers to stay updated on the hottest developer news, and their mission is to build the home page that every developer deserves. It pulls together and rewards dev-focused content from 400 sources – letting its users vote on which ones they find the most useful, the most interesting or the most entertaining.Co-founders Nimrod Kramer and Ido Shamun sit down with me to discuss their mission, the trick to building something tha...
2022-01-15
27 min
Dev Interrupted
From Devs, to VPs, to Co-Founders: 10Xing a Startup 5,000 Miles Apart
We knew we had to kick off the new year with something big - so welcome to Season 2 of Dev Interrupted!This episode probes the murky depths of a time before the pandemic by exploring the story of LinearB's founding in 2018, how co-founders Dan Lines and Ori Keren met at Cloudlock in 2012 - and how they decided to co-found a company while 5,000 miles apart.Listen as Dev Interrupted host and all-around renaissance man, Dan Lines, steps behind the mic to be interviewed not as host of the podcast, but as COO and co-founder of LinearB...
2022-01-08
46 min
Dev Interrupted
Holidays, Entrepreneurship and SLOs with Nobl9
It's finally here, the end of season 1 of the podcast is upon us! To celebrate, Santa is bringing something special - entrepreneurship advice for all the would-be founders of the world, ages 1 to 92.Brian Singer, co-founder & CPO of Nobl9, sits down with Dev Interrupted to help us close out season 1 with a conversation on what it takes to found your own company. Having founded a pair of companies, one of which he sold to Google, Brian has a deep understanding of what it takes to successfully found and scale a startup. More than that, he knows what...
2021-12-29
36 min
Dev Interrupted
Combining Machine Learning and Human Intelligence at Unbabel
Companies that do business in the native language of their customer build better customer relationships. Although this may seem fairly obvious, it's easier said than done.After all, when your customer base is spread around the world, how do you scale your customer service?Unbabel has built their business around the idea that customer service can be delivered in any language quickly and efficiently with the right blend of AI and human intelligence, creating a platform they call "Language Operations" or LangOps.Jonathan Sowler, VP of Engineering at Unbabel, joins Dev Interrupted to...
2021-12-18
38 min
Dev Interrupted
Under the Lid: How AtomicJar is Reshaping Testcontainers
Let’s get nerdy with it. On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, Dan gets technical with Sergei Egorov, co-founder and CEO of AtomicJar. With the mission to make integrated testing simpler and easier, AtomicJar created the Testcontainers Cloud which allows developers to test their code against real dependencies, not mocks. Today, Testcontainers powers over a million builds per month, helping developers build and release their software with confidence.Dan and Sergei also talk about the difficulty of finding time to code once you become a CEO, the challenges of building a produc...
2021-12-11
38 min
Dev Interrupted
Automating AppSec with Contrast Security
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 traditional way of doing security - where you scan app after app a few times a year - is ov...
2021-12-04
42 min
Dev Interrupted
Rethinking Teamwork with Range
"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 distinction between 'normal' work and hybrid work will no longer exist...
2021-11-27
36 min
Dev Interrupted
Building a Unicorn Engineering Org at GRIN
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/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" di...
2021-11-20
40 min
Dev Interrupted
Beyond Compliance: Fable’s Mission to Improve Digital Accessibility
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 do for things like DesignOps and DevOps. Listen as Fable's CEO and...
2021-11-13
32 min
Dev Interrupted
Management and the Future of AI with Azure's CTO
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 building products for your end user and the implications of th...
2021-11-06
43 min
Dev Interrupted
How to handle hypergrowth like Grammarly
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 as VP of Engineering at Box, and other...
2021-10-30
39 min
Dev Interrupted
Live From INTERACT: Engineering Leadership Screwups
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 what will be the l...
2021-10-23
29 min
Dev Interrupted
Unearthing Observability with New Relic
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 observability report.New Relic's Observability Forecast: https://newrelic.com/resources/white-papers/2021-observability-forecast...
2021-10-16
32 min
Dev Interrupted
Live From INTERACT: Microsoft's Developer Velocity Research
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 taken over the course of more than a year, both before the pandemic and while it was ongo...
2021-10-10
15 min
Dev Interrupted
How to Scale Engineering Processes w/ Twitter's VP of Engineering
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 recorded live during our virtual engineering leadership conference INTERACT. Maria was a fantastic guest, sticking around after her...
2021-10-02
44 min
Dev Interrupted
OutSystems: the journey to a $9.5B valuation
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: devinterrupted.com/interactJoin our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterruptedO...
2021-09-25
37 min
Dev Interrupted
Creating a 10 million visits a month community at DZone
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 Conference: devinterrupted.com/interactJoin our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to...
2021-09-19
33 min
Dev Interrupted
Building a culture of trust - with Metrics - at Slack
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 building on Slack's successful engineering culture - plus the story of what brought her to where she is...
2021-09-11
42 min
Dev Interrupted
Co-Founding Kubernetes with Microsoft CVP Brendan Burns
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: devinterrupted.com/interactJoin our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterruptedOur Websit...
2021-09-01
24 min
Dev Interrupted
Leading 650 engineers with Microsoft’s Brendan Burns
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.com/interactJoin our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted
2021-08-26
33 min
Dev Interrupted
Team Topologies 2: Organizing Business and Technology Teams w/ Manuel Pais & Matthew Skelton
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/interactJoin our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB DemoHave 60 se...
2021-08-22
22 min
Dev Interrupted
Team Topologies 1: Organizing Business and Technology Teams w/ Manuel Pais & Matthew Skelton
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/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB DemoHave 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple PodcastsCheck out the Team Toplo...
2021-08-14
25 min
Dev Interrupted
Move Fast, Break Things & Win: How Facebook Builds Software w/ Jeff Meyerson
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 his secrets to leveraging his pokers skills in business and in software engineering. ...
2021-08-08
41 min
Dev Interrupted
The Tech Executive Operating System - Part II
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/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to attend the New Leaders of Remote Work Panel? https://linearb.io/new-leaders-remote-work-panel/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB DemoHave 60 second...
2021-07-28
23 min
Dev Interrupted
The Tech Executive Operating System - Part I
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/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to attend the New Leaders of Remote Work Panel? https://linearb.io/new-leaders-remote-work-panel/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo
2021-07-24
36 min
Dev Interrupted
Improve Your Engineering Pipeline with Value Streams
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/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB DemoHave 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple PodcastsSupport the show: Subscribe to our Substack Leave us a review Subscribe on YouTube Fo...
2021-07-16
38 min
Dev Interrupted
Developer First Culture & Collectives at Stack Overflow
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/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Check out ►► Collectives by Stack OverflowWant to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB DemoHave 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts...
2021-07-10
36 min
Dev Interrupted
Focus, Culture, and Metrics in a Remote-First World w/ Chris Brookins of Appcues
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 the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devinterruptedVisit the Dev I...
2021-06-02
29 min
Dev Interrupted
The Organization Behind Chaos Engineering with Matt Fornaciari of Gremlin
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/devinterruptedVisit the Dev Interrupted Website: devinterrupted.com/Book a ►► LinearB DemoHave 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple PodcastsSupport the...
2021-05-12
27 min
Dev Interrupted
Using Open Source Tools at Your Company w/ Doron Gill of Logz.io
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/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB DemoHave...
2021-05-05
23 min
Dev Interrupted
Engineering Productivity & Culture at Netflix w/ Kathryn Koehler
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/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB DemoHave 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple...
2021-04-27
26 min
Dev Interrupted
The 7 Categories of Engineering Management w/ Ian Nowland of Datadog
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/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB DemoHave 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcas...
2021-04-20
26 min
Dev Interrupted
Lessons When Scaling From 0 - 130 Devs w/ Kirby Frugia of MURAL
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/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB DemoHave 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple PodcastsSupport the show: Subscribe to our Substack Leave us a review Subscribe on YouTube Follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn...
2021-04-14
27 min