Dev Interrupted

Sit back, relax, grab your favorite beverage and listen as Dev Interrupted co-hosts Dan Lines & Conor Bronsdon recap the Season 2 of the podcast.  In this special episode, our co-hosts describe their perfect holiday meal, share some of their favorite moments from the past year (personal and professional!) and give a sneak peek at what the audience can expect from Season 3 of the podcast. From...

Picture this: an auto manufacturer with no clue what parts are in its supply chain, where those parts come from and no ability to recall those parts if vulnerabilities are discovered. That’s not a reality consumers would accept. So why do organizations (and manufacturers!) tolerate it when it comes to software?  On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, Brian Fox, co-founder & CTO, and Stephe...

Sometimes among all the sprints,  the pressure to ship faster,  tools to measure lines of code written,  it seems like we as an industry forget a simple fact: developers are knowledge workers, not robots To remind us what it means to be a human, we invited some of the most empathetic engineering leaders we know to Interact and asked them to sit on a panel together. The conversation that followed i...

Dev Interrupted takes a detour to Vegas! In a first for the show, we took the podcast on the road to attend the DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas. While at DOES, we had the pleasure of interviewing Gene Kim, famed researcher and author of "The Phoenix Project" and "Accelerate". Also attending DOES were friends of the podcast Bryan and Dana Finster, whose presentation on the...

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...

When your startup is struggling to find its product-market fit, security is the last thing on your mind - and according to security expert Matt Spitz, that’s perfectly fine! Matt is Vanta's Head of Engineering and he joins this week's episode of Dev Interrupted to  explain everything you ever wanted to know about startups and security. Matt debunks the real security risks we face (think...

It's no secret this has been a difficult year for many companies in tech. The truth is, it's easy to be a leader when times are good. It's less easy in the midst of a storm. That's why we assembled a panel of some of the smartest engineering leaders we know at Interact to talk about the leadership principles that help guide an engineering organization no matter what is happenin...

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 engi...

Hosts Dan Lines & Conor Bronsdon remind listeners that Interact is today - October 25th - and why it's the must-attend event for engineering leaders. They also rundown some of the most exciting speakers at Interact, why they are so proud of what the event has become - and which of the two is Robin to the other's Batman. Join Dan & Conor and thousands of other engineering leaders...

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 w...

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 und...

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...

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 mos...

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 m...

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...

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 managi...

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-trafficke...

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...

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 Or...

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, C...

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-cla...

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 t...

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, Dr...

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 t...

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...