The Story of Software

Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis , is joined by Siobhán Fairman , Software Development Manager at Compliance and Risks , as they discuss how to successfully enable remote work for software engineering teams. Remote Work Becomes the Norm; How Software Teams are Shaping the Way We Work Together Siobhan has been working remotely for over 10 years and has managed a distributed software engineering team...

Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis , is joined by Matthias Feys , CTO at ML6 , as they discuss artificial intelligence, machine learning and their current and potential use cases. On Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: This episode takes a deep dive into the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), as Matthias shares his expertise and insights into this field. Here...

Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis , is joined by Alex Wilson , Co-Founder at The Giving Block , as they discuss how technology is changing the philanthropy world. This episode explores the huge opportunity for technology to make an impact within the philanthropy sector, focusing on what is already being done, how has Covid impacted the transition and what the future holds. Alex walks us through the i...

Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis , is joined by Rob Zuber , CTO at CircleCI , as they discuss the evolution of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) technology. Rob has spent more than 20 years at the forefront of tech innovation and software startups. During this time, he co-founded 4 companies and served as CTO at 3, including CircleCI, the world’s largest shared contin...

In this episode, Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis , is joined by Mark MacMahon , CTO at the Steinbeis School of Management and Innovation in Germany and Dr. Tony Matthews from Griffith University in Australia, as they explore the evolution of educational technology in the context of universities.  Third level institutions have been late to the party when it comes to tech innovation. Users of tech ha...

In this episode, Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis , is joined by Connor Murphy , CEO of Bridge, and a serial entrepreneur and investor, to discuss tech entrepreneurship and what he has learned from his involvement in more than thirty startups. The world of tech startups is fraught with challenges as well as opportunities, and it can be difficult for company founders to navigate the risks. Connor she...

In this episode, Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis , is joined by Ronan Ryan , Co-Founder & President of  IEX Exchange and co-host of the Boxes & Lines podcast. IEX Exchange is the eighth largest stock exchange operator globally in terms of the value of shares traded every day. To put this in context, on a daily basis, IEX Exchange processes more trades than the London stock exchange.    Rona...

In this episode, Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis and podcast host, is joined by James Lapic , Chief Technology Officer at Zipwhip , as they discuss the history and evolution of texting technology. Note: The ‘History of Software’ podcast has been rebranded to The Story of Software since the recording of this episode. The History of Texting Technology: Messaging technology has changed our world in ma...

In this episode, Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis and podcast host, is joined by Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman , authors of ‘ A Mind at Play ,’ a fascinating biography, exploring the life and work of Claude Shannon, considered the Architect of the Information Age.  Note: The ‘History of Software’ podcast has been rebranded to The Story of Software since the recording of this episode. Claude Shannon -...

In this episode, Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis and podcast host, is joined by Brian Kelly , VP of Engineering at FlipDish , as they explore the history and evolution of the agile movement. Note: The ‘History of Software’ podcast has been rebranded to The Story of Software since the recording of this episode. Agile & The Challenges of Scrum: The Agile Manifesto was published in 2001 and has la...

In this episode, Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis and podcast host, is joined by Joshua Forman , Director of Engineering at Shapeshift , as they explore the evolution of cryptocurrencies and bitcoin.  Note: The ‘History of Software’ podcast has been rebranded to The Story of Software since the recording of this episode. From the very first examples of digital currencies, through the evolution of Bit...

In this episode, Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis and podcast host, is joined by Colm Lyon , founder of Fire and Realex Payments, as they explore the history of online payments. Note: The ‘History of Software’ podcast has been rebranded to The Story of Software since the recording of this episode. In 1871, Western Union authorized the ability to send money via wire transfer, which marked the dawn of...

In this episode, Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis and podcast host, is joined by Alec Turnbull , VP of Product at Dotdash . They explore how the internet has changed how we seek out and learn new things with specific focus on the 1990s and early 2000s.  Note: The ‘History of Software’ podcast has been rebranded to The Story of Software since the recording of this episode. In 1993, there were only ab...

In this episode,   Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis and podcast host, is joined by JP Beaudry , Vice President of Engineering at edX, as they explore the history of educational technology. Note: The ‘History of Software’ podcast has been rebranded to The Story of Software since the recording of this episode. In 2012, edX published their very first online course called ‘Circuits and Electronics’. Mor...

This week Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis and podcast host, is joined by Aidan Donnelly , a technologist who spent many years in the online poker business. Note: The ‘History of Software’ podcast has been rebranded to The Story of Software since the recording of this episode. When and what was the first online poker game? As many other platforms have appeared in the market since, what made some of...

In this episode, Padraig Coffey , CEO of Zartis, is joined by Sean O’Sullivan , CTO at Engage EHS , as they explore the evolution of the Irish tech sector in the second half of the 20th century.  Note: The ‘History of Software’ podcast has been rebranded to The Story of Software since the recording of this episode. For the past 5 years, Ireland has ranked as the fastest growing economy in the Euro...

In this episode, Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis, is joined by André Neubauer , CTO at Smava , to discuss software architecture and its evolution throughout the years. Note: The ‘History of Software’ podcast has been rebranded to The Story of Software since the recording of this episode. We live in a changing world and a changing economy, where the demands of the market and the customers evolve at...

In this episode of our tech podcast, Padraig Coffey, CEO at Zartis, is joined once again by John Dennehy, Founder of Zartis, Agreeable and Hirehive , to continue their discussion on the evolution of video games. This time, tackling a new decade - the 90s. The 90s brought in a lot of innovation across the gaming sector. On the games side, we saw the rise of first-shooter games and the further popul...

In this episode of our software podcast, we explore the early days of video games, from the first game in 1952 till the glory days of arcade games. Note: The ‘History of Software’ podcast has been rebranded to The Story of Software since the recording of this episode. We look into the rise and fall of the early console gaming industry in the 80s. The market collapsed by 97% between 1983 and 1985,...

In this episode of our weekly software podcast, we look at the life and legacy of George Boole. Boole was a 19th century mathematician, whose work laid the theoretical foundation for digital computing as we know it today.  We explore his symbolic logic and its impact on the evolution of modern computing - from the logic behind 0s and 1s in the circuits of a computer processor, to the instruction s...

This is the second episode of our two-part podcast series on the Dot-com bubble of the late 90s. While in episode 5 we explored the inflation of the bubble, we are now looking at the bust. Between the years 1995 and 2000, there was a 4-fold increase in the NASDAQ index and a level of VC investment in the sector which has never been seen before or since. As the bubble burst, from peak to trough, th...

In this two-part series of episodes, we explore the dot-com bubble of the 1990, which has been referred to as the biggest economic rise and fall in business history. In this first podcast episode, we look specifically at the inflation of the dotcom bubble - the social, economic and technological factors that defined the era of innovation, excessive valuations and a noticeably changing work culture...

For this episode, Padraig Coffey , CEO at Zartis, is joined by John Dennehy , Founder at HireHive and Zartis . Episode 3 had covered the birth of hacker culture in the 50s and 60s. Following up, in this episode we look at how the movement progressed in the 1970s. We explore what happened as the centre of gravity shifted to the West Coast, and specifically Northern California. We look at the pionee...

In this episode, we explore Hacker Culture in its early years. We look into the birth of hacker culture in MIT in the late 1950s, and look at the progress of the movement up until 1970.  Note: The ‘History of Software’ podcast has been rebranded to The Story of Software since the recording of this episode. What is Hacker Culture? It is considered hacker culture was born when members of the Tech Mo...

For the second episode, Padraig Coffey, CEO at Zartis , is joined by Phil Thomas, UI Lead at Zartis . This week, we look at advances in software during the period from 1945 to 1961 - essentially we are looking at the incipient stages of the Cold War, up to the era of the Bay of Pigs invasion.  This period is marked by a hypercompetitive duopoly of superpowers - the US and the USSR. We explore how...