Dev Interrupted

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...

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 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 effi...

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...

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...

" 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 incre...

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...

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 compan...

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...

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...

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...

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 o...

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 w...

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...

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://w...

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...

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. Rukm...

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...

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 h...

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 Co...

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 L...

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 n...

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...

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 ►► devinterr...

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 Ap...