Hangar DX Podcast

In this episode, Jack McCloy, engineering manager at Snowflake, discusses the concept of product engineering infrastructure, and the unique pieces of infrastructure that enable product teams to move fast and build better. Jack also covers measuring and quantifying tech debt, and how teams can de-risk it to make projects progress faster. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this w...

In this episode of the Hangar DX Podcast, Ankit Jain interviews Adam about developer experience (DevEx) and the challenges and strategies involved in improving it. They discuss topics such as the evolution of DevEx, the different approaches to structuring DevEx teams, the importance of defining metrics and KPIs, the role of empathy in DevEx, the potential of cloud development environments, and the...

In this episode of the Hangar DX Podcast, Ian Nowland, former SVP of Engineering at Datadog, discusses the philosophy behind having a platform engineering team and the challenges of scaling an organization. He emphasizes the importance of culture in scaling and the need to balance the inner loop and outer loop of developer experience. Ian also shares his thoughts on KPIs, the use of metrics in dec...

In this podcast episode, Ankit Jain interviews Nadeem Ahmad from Netflix about developer productivity and the challenges of building and deploying TV apps. They discuss how Netflix thinks about developer productivity, the team structures and responsibilities, and the use of AI tools like Copilot. They also touch on topics such as scaling code bases and repositories, the migration to GitHub Enterpr...