no dogma podcast

Summary David Gatti talks about developer communities, why they are important and how to build them. Details Who he is; what is a developer community, difference with evangelist, Amazon as an example, smaller examples; how does a community developer deliver value; how to build a community, takes time, costs money; finding the right developer to help, good speaker, good with people; community relat...

Summary Mark Seemann, author, creator of AutoFixture and Plural Sight coach tells me about functional programming and F# in particular. Details His background, started with VB and C++, now programs in C# only for money; what functional programming is; isolating side effects to boundaries of the program; is functional programming only suitable for certain types of application; isolation, great for...

Summary On Freund VP of Engineering at WeWork talks to me about how a company scales as it grows. Details Who he is, background; WeWork is more than a real estate company; scaling in many ways, scaling ability to manage people is most important, promotion paths; change within the organization as it grows, speed vs agility, very hard for large company to change but it is still very productive; as y...

Summary Eric Bloom and I discuss productivity, what it means and how to be more productive in an IT environment. Details What is productivity, different kinds of productivity; not viewing IT as a cost centre; knowing what you are good at as a company - The Box book; how to increase your productivity, getting in the zone, picking the right task for your level of energy; culture as an influence on p...

Summary Rachel Reese tells me about her work at Jet, F#, chaos testing and being one of the Rachii. Details Who she is; what she does at Jet, F#, why did Jet choose F#, tech.jet.com blog; does the architecture have to change for F#, what's different for a C# developer, F# readability; Pipe operator; microservices at jet, "event driven cloud based functional microservices"; dividing up mi...

Summary Julie Lerman tells me all about Entity Framework Core* and her love of learning. Details What's new with EF, whole new code base, no EDMX, no object context, EF 6 is not going away; in memory provider for testing, better disconnected scenarios, proof of concept for NOSql, batch updates; is it production ready; learning cool things; Julie has been working on EF since 2006; books on EF; usin...

Summary Patrick Thevoz, CEO and cofounder of Flyability tells me about their collision tolerant drone, why they build it, how it works and how it is saving lives. Details Who he is; what Flyability does; how they are different than other drone manufacturers; examples of usage in crevasses and dangerous industrial environments; special sensor usage on drone; how the drone tolerates crashes; buying...

Summary Peter Waegemann author of Knowledge Capital in the Digital Society and I discuss security in the medical industry and why he advocates for less privacy. Details Who he is; Peter's background; overview of security in the medical field, more secure than the media suggests, less secure than it should be; Peter's views on privacy/security have changed over the years; why he was booed off stage...

Summary Alec Lazarescu, CTO of LearnBop tells me how to introduce and expand DevOps inside your organization. Details Who he is, what Learnbop does, how tutoring works; how Alec defines DevOps; how to introduce DevOps, lone consultant, re-branded admin team, dedicated team; why is software dev so messy; getting people to accept change, Conway's law, DevOps is about more than just dev; DevOps as fa...

Summary Terrence Ryan author of Driving Technical Change tells me how to initiate change, tackle difficult colleagues and convince the boss. Details Who he is, driving technical change, choosing the right change to make, who makes the decision, using authority, gathering allies; skeptics - the uninformed, cynic, burned, irrational; become an expert in the change you propose; fighting the boss, tar...

Summary Michal Klos of Localytics tells me about their big data stack and where he thinks the industry is going. Details Who he is, what he does; overview of the world of big data, history, batch processing, stream processing and micro batching; databases, Apache Spark, separating storage and compute; where he thinks the industry is going in the next five years, more about Spark, data lakes, query...

Summary Bill Wagner, author, Microsoft MVP and member of the ECMA C# Standards Committee, tells me about his writing, C# 7, language standards and the move the open source. Details Who he is, how he writes, C# standardization, compiler implementations, .NET Foundation Advisory Council, the move to open source, port to Linux, .Net core, .Net foundation, C# 7 new features, async streams, non nullabl...

Summary Amir Rubin, CEO of Paracosm tells me about his company, the state of augmented reality, mixed reality and where his company fits in. Details Who he is, what he does, what Paracosm does; human level of understanding; what is augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality, devices, phones, tablets, headsets; virtual reality is finally here?; common uses of Paracosm's tool, engineering...

Summary Eric Schles tells me that "slavery is the most extreme version of income inequality" and how he is using technology to end it. Details Who he is, how he became interested in human trafficking; Manhattan district attorney, technological deficiencies, Eric introduced databases, predictions not allowed; Demand Abolition, factors leading to trafficking, changing policies to fight tra...

Summary Ken Finnegan, chief technologist of the Industrial Development Agency of Ireland tells me about what Ireland has to offer the tech industry. Details Who he is, what the Industrial Development Agency does, sales and marketing for Ireland; why should companies invest in Ireland, 1,200 foreign companies, favorable tax rate, high education level; proximity to European cities, technology backpa...

Summary Lisa Nielsen and Daniel Kador of Keen IO tell about their approach to business, decision making, managers and building software. Details Who they are; what Keen IO does, types of analytics; type of organization, going their own way, hiring and firing, voting, holacracy; ideas that didn't work and the response from staff; developing people, coaching program, who trains the coaches, non viol...

Summary Scott Allen, author, Pluralsight author, podcast host and consultant tells me all about the upcoming release of ASP.NET 5. Details Who he is; is ASP.NET 5 a rewrite; lightweight, better for SPAs; Scott's favorite new features ; don't need vs 2015, works on Linux; more modular; cross platform, core (subset) CLR; lighter on resources; inbuilt dependency injection; new configuration system; m...

Summary Mark Eisenberg of Microsoft talks to me about the private cloud and why it has failed. Details Definition of private cloud, virtualized data centers, getting value from the cloud; enterprise scale, web scale and hyper scale; differences between private and public cloud, daytime and nighttime workloads; cultural change is needed when adopting cloud; same software problem, different decade;...

Summary Andrei Simionescu of the now closed Lavaboom talks to me about the encrypted email service they wanted to make. Details Who he is; a little about Lavaboom; PGP is unfriendly, why did they make it, connection to Lavabit; "but I've got nothing to hide", do I make myself a target by using it; other PGP email initiatives; lawful legal requests; open source for core features, verifyin...

Summary Nicholas Blumhardt discusses Seq, Serilog and structured event logging with me. Details Who he is, what is serilog, Event Tracking for Windows (ETW) and Semantic Logging Application Block (SLAB), structured event streams, no more regex; finding events in your log, navigating from one type of event to another; what feedback he gets; datastore; seq, use cases, filtering by type; seq data sto...

Summary Trevor Stricker of Disco Pixel tells me all about indie game development. Details Who he is and what he does; what is an indie game developer; skills needed to be an indie dev; protecting your work; platforms to develop on, naming your child Unity, learning about Unity, technical limitations; importance of partnerships as a game developer, corporate and developer partnerships; learning non...

Summary Justin Mills, software engineer at Yesware tells me about their flat organizational structure and development practices. Details Little about Justin and Yesware; team structure, no test team, no defined team leads; no cohesive architecture; shared infrastructure, hierarchy might be needed; getting approval to reduce technical debt; assigning teams to tasks, trying open allocation, ending o...

Summary Eliot Knudsen, field engineer at Tamr talks to me about their machine learning tool and a new way of examining data. Details Who he is and what he does; what is Tamr; working with data sources, the traditional way, the Tamr way, machine learning combined with human guidance;data quality and foreign languages; Thompson Reuters example, curating data, increasing speed; deploying Tamr; how Ta...

Summary Jason MacInnes, CTO of Draft Kings tells me about their architecture and scaling demands. Details A little aabout Jason; what Draft Kings is, why it's not gambling, how Draft Kings started; controlling growth, SDLC, Agile growing pains, aligning skills; software stack (MySql, RabbitMq, MassTransit), choice of ASP.NET; scaling the system; transitioning to micro-services, dev ops; service le...

Summary Boston was host to the first ever Open Data Science Conference over the weekend of May 30th and 31st 2015. I spent the days wandering around talking to people with interesting stories. I hope you enjoy this episode, it was fun making it. My next podcast will be back to the normal interview format.