Dev Interrupted

 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/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/...

Google is a titan of technology with one of the largest codebases in the world - and there are many lessons to be learned from how Google has scaled and its success. Senior Google Staff Engineers Hyrum Wright and Titus Winters joined Dan on the pod to share their lessons learned from programming at Google and talk about their new book.  In fact, the discussion was so good, we split it into our fir...

Google is a titan of technology with one of the largest codebases in the world - and there are many lessons to be learned from how Google has scaled and its success. Senior Google Staff Engineers Hyrum Wright and Titus Winters joined Dan on the pod to share their lessons learned from programming at Google and talk about their new book.  In fact, the discussion was so good, we split it into a two-p...

Observability is crucial to understanding and adapting your product and your data - and open source telemetry is increasingly important.  To go behind the data and understand where telemetry is going,  Spiros Xanthos joined Dan on the pod today to talk about how data analysis and tracking are changing, and what is next for Splunk.  Spiros is the Founder of Omnition and the current VP of Product Ma...

Modern businesses run on code - and ensuring code quality is crucial to success.  To get the inside scoop on Quality Assurance (QA), Dan Lines talks with Erika Chestnut, Head of QA at Calendly at what you need to do to set up QA that works for your business needs, how to socialize the right values for your team, what not to do, and how to adapt these processes when necessary.  Join the Dev Interru...

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 de...

What happens if we stay remote? This is the big question engineering leaders are answering in 2021. That’s why I’ve brought in Eric Johnson, the CTO of GitLab, to help us learn how the experts create high performance remote engineering teams.  Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devinterrupted Visit the Dev Interrupted Website: devinterrupted.com/ Book a ►► LinearB Demo Have 60...

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/devinterrupted Visit t...

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-improvemen...

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...

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/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrup...

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/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB?  ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcasts OFFERS Start Free Trial: Get started with...

We’re tackling one of the most ambiguous and subjective roles in the software engineering career path, the Staff Engineer. Many companies don’t even have this role, and the ones that do have a hard time defining exactly what it means. Will Larson, the CTO of Calm, and author of the new book, Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track , joins us to share his research on what a staff eng...

Change is difficult. And it’s even more difficult, if you’re the one trying to make change happen. That’s where Dominica DeGrandis comes in. As the author of Making Work Visible, Dominica has been helping teams make big changes for decades. And now she is joining us to explain the steps we can take to start making a change inside of our organizations, today.  Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Commu...

As the VP of Engineering at GitHub, Dana Lawson’s team makes decisions that change the development workflows for millions of people at a time. On this episode of Dev Interrupted we chat about the role of technical leadership, how to implement continuous improvement, and how positivity relates to dev team culture.  Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devinterrupted Visit the Dev...

In this incredible episode, I bring in Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb.io, to explain how to implement continuous delivery, and why you should walk out if your organization doesn’t support the practice. Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devinterrupted Visit the Dev Interrupted Website: devinterrupted.com/ Book a ►► LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple Podcas...

In the second and final part of our DevSecOps series with John Willis we take a deep dive into the types of information engineering leaders should be providing their developers, how we can shift security left to save time and resources, and the steps scaling companies can start making today to apply modern DevSecOps methodologies. Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devinterrupt...

DevSecOps is one of those buzzwords that can mean a lot of things or nothing at all. But where DevOps helped us gain a more holistic understanding of our delivery pipeline, DevSecOps does the same for our security efforts. Over the next two episodes of Dev Interrupted I explore what DevSecOps actually means to dev teams with John Willis. Join the Dev Interrupted Discord Community: discord.gg/devin...

The wars of the future will be fought with software and system architecture, as much as any other weapon. That’s why the US armed forces needed to start applying modern software methodologies at scale. The beginning of this incredible digital transformation began in 2017 when the US Air Force started a project called Kessel Run. Leading the project then, and now Chief of Platform of over 200 Kesse...

It’s time for project management not to suck anymore. That's why I've brought in Zach Ozer, the VP of Engineering at Clubhouse.io to talk about how the new partnership between LinearB’s and Clubhouse is helping dev teams eliminate the need for status update meetings, and automate the manual tasks so many project management tools require from developers. Join our Discord Community ►► disc...

We have to start giving our developers the ability to find and fix security vulnerabilities before their code is merged. I brought in Liran Tal, a security expert from Snyk.io to talk about how our community can begin evolving traditional security workflows into a more modern way of working.   Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try Li...

What would happen if you eliminated all of the processes that surround your software development teams today? Adam Carmi, CTO of Applitools, joins me to discuss how his methodology works, and why you need to start eliminating processes too. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB?  ►► Book a LinearB Demo Have 60 seconds? Review...

It’s safe to say that everyone wants more visibility into their software delivery process. That’s why I’ve brought in Anders Wallgren, the VP of Technology Strategy at Cloudbees, to discuss how we can start connecting the small islands of visibility our current systems give us. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB?  ►► Book...

The skills you use as a software engineer, and the skills you need as a technical team leader are not the same. This week I brought in former CTO turned engineering leadership coach Pat Kua to discuss what you need to think about when making the jump to leadership. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterrupted Our Website ►► devinterrupted.com/ Want to try LinearB?  ►► Book a LinearB Dem...

Customer success can make or break any business, especially when you’re scaling. That's why I've brought in Sunil Mavadia to explain how to scale a customer success initiative and what dev teams can do to help. 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 Apple P...