Dev Interrupted
Episodes
The Best Solution to Burnout We’ve Ever Heard | A Conversation With Slack, Netlify & Ambassador Labs
18 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With registration for our free October Interact conference now open, we wanted you to hear one of our favorite sessions from this past April’s Inter...
Labs: What Do Elite Dev Teams Look Like? w/ Ori Keren, Co-Founder & CEO of LinearB
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In an industry that has trouble looking beyond the next sprint, it’s good to know there are very smart people researching the conscious and unconsci...
Getting the Respect Your Work Deserves: A Live Workshop w/ Engineering Coach Lena Reinhard
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The last thing anyone who does great work should be doing is having to take time out from doing great work to promote it to their higher-ups. Unfortun...
The 2 Things You Ask Your Team When You Pass $1B w/ Hippo’s VP of Engineering
04 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you think of a billion-dollar tech company, you probably imagine rooms full of monitors with dashboards and non-stop data streams.Well, after tal...
The Quest to Build the Perfect Bot w/ Ubisoft's Joshua Romoff
28 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Almost every single company we talk to focuses on having their engineering teams solve problems.This is why we jumped at the opportunity to talk to Jo...
The 3 Conversations That Improve Developers' Lives w/ Reprise's Jennie MacDougall
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re doing your job right, most of your time and your team’s time should be spent actually building things. That means conversations should b...
Why Engineers Make the Best Entrepreneurs w/ Drata's Co-founder & CTO Daniel Marashlian
14 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are so many books, videos and workshops on starting your own company. The problem for anyone listening to this podcast is that none of them come...
Stupid Things Orgs Do That Kill Productivity | A Conversation With Netflix, FloSports & Refactoring.club
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At LinearB, we like to think we spend all our time figuring out how to unlock developer potential. To find ways to let devs do more of the work they l...
Why 1 Good UX Is Worth 5 Engineers w/ Toast's Director of Engineering Brad Pielech
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Few companies have mastered making products consumers actually want to use like Toast.A $30 billion giant in the tech-food business, Toast faced their...
Why Great Money Doesn’t Retain Great Devs w/ Stack Overflow, DataStax & Reprise
23 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What do the teams at Stack Overflow, DataStax and Reprise have in common?First, they’ve all built amazing organizations powered by amazing developer...
The Subversive Structure of the World's Best-Performing Dev Teams w/ A Radical Enterprise Author Matt K. Parker
16 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You ever get the feeling that the way most companies are set up doesn’t really make sense?That the passion you have for coding and tech gets sucked ...
How to Fix Tech's Mentorship Problem w/ Amex's VP of Technology, Sarvenaz Myslicki
09 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you looked up the term “firing on all cylinders” in the dictionary, I’m fairly confident there would be a picture of Sarvenaz Myslicki next t...
How Promotions Ruin Dev Careers w/ Shopify's Dir. of Engineering James Stanier
02 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In so many professions, the reward for exceptional work is a promotion to management. Unfortunately, for developers whose programming gets them single...
What The Next 20 Million Devs Want w/ Tiff in Tech & Stereotype Breakers' Masha Zvereva
26 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The world is shortly going to need another 20 million developers and with over 1,000 engineering leaders joining us for INTERACT on April 7th, there...
Is Your Dev Team TOO Big to Succeed? w/ SAIC’s Bob Ritchie
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modern problems require modern solutions, right? The problem is, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to understand what solutions are required for...
What Devs Need To Teach CEOs About AI w/ Lexion’s Emad Elwany
12 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For decades Artificial Intelligence has been a focus of best-selling science fiction authors and an antagonist for blockbuster Hollywood movies. But A...
How to Reclaim Your Dev Team’s Focus w/ Ambassador Labs' Katie Wilde
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hate interruptions? Ever feel like you’ve lost your ability to focus on coding? Katie Wilde, VP of Engineering at Ambassador Labs, knows your pain ...
What If You Don't Want To Be a Developer Anymore? w/ CTO Connection's Peter Bell
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It used to be that in order to make your parents proud you had to go into management. Then along came the self-contained IC career path. Today, this d...
Why Imperfect Data Isn’t Just Bad, It’s Harmful w/ Treeverse’s Einat Orr
19 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Data junkies rejoice, this is the episode for you. On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, Einat Orr, co-founder and CEO of Treeverse, sits down...
How a $725M VC Judges Your Engineering Team w/ Redpoint Ventures' Jason Warner
12 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How does a former-CTO-turned-VC assess companies now that they're the one with the money? What do they look for - and expect to find - in a compa...
What CTOs Say vs. What Developers Hear w/ DataStax's Shankar Ramaswamy
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone who’s been in a rapidly scaling company with an ever-expanding engineering team knows that communication is never as simple as it seems. That...
What Hackers Know About Your Software Supply Chain (That You Don’t) w/ Chainguard's Kim Lewandowski
29 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve heard of the supply chain, but what about the software supply chain? Unlike the standard supply chain that you often hear about in the news,...
Why an Autistic Developer is Your Next Great Hire w/ Matt Nigh of UW Medicine
22 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Like most fast-growing companies, LinearB spends WAY too much time trying to hire developers.So when we came across a brilliant article about hiring a...
How a hacker, a hustler and a designer made RSS feeds cool
15 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Building a platform that 100,000 devs use every day is no accident, but it can happen (almost) overnight. Daily.dev is the fastest growing online com...
From Devs, to VPs, to Co-Founders: 10Xing a Startup 5,000 Miles Apart
08 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Holidays, Entrepreneurship and SLOs with Nobl9
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Combining Machine Learning and Human Intelligence at Unbabel
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Companies that do business in the native language of their customer build better customer relationships. Although this may seem fairly obvious, it&apo...
Under the Lid: How AtomicJar is Reshaping Testcontainers
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Automating AppSec with Contrast Security
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Rethinking Teamwork with Range
27 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"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 ...
Building a Unicorn Engineering Org at GRIN
20 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Beyond Compliance: Fable’s Mission to Improve Digital Accessibility
13 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Management and the Future of AI with Azure's CTO
06 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ev...
How to handle hypergrowth like Grammarly
30 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Hei...
Live From INTERACT: Engineering Leadership Screwups
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 alwa...
Unearthing Observability with New Relic
16 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 obs...
Live From INTERACT: Microsoft's Developer Velocity Research
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have another episode from the 2021 engineering leadership conference INTERACT. In this live conversation, Conor Bronsdon, Community Lead ...
How to Scale Engineering Processes w/ Twitter's VP of Engineering
02 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering for Strategy and Operations at Twitter. She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to shar...
OutSystems: the journey to a $9.5B valuation
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Creating a 10 million visits a month community at DZone
19 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
DZone is a thriving online community with more than 10 million visits a month doing incredible research reports into the state of software engineering...
Building a culture of trust - with Metrics - at Slack
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rukmini Reddy started out doing needlepoint - and today she's VP of Platform Engineering at Slack. At Slack, she lives and breathes metrics. But ...
Co-Founding Kubernetes with Microsoft CVP Brendan Burns
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan Burns co-founded Kubernetes and today leads a 650 person engineering organization at Microsoft today. This week on the Dev Interrupted Podcast...
Leading 650 engineers with Microsoft’s Brendan Burns
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan Burns not only co-founded Kubernetes, but he also leads a 650 person engineering organization at Microsoft today. This week on the Dev Interru...
Team Topologies 2: Organizing Business and Technology Teams w/ Manuel Pais & Matthew Skelton
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dan is joined on the Dev Interrupted podcast by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton the writers of the book Team Toplogies: Organizing Business and Techno...
Team Topologies 1: Organizing Business and Technology Teams w/ Manuel Pais & Matthew Skelton
14 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dan is joined on the Dev Interrupted podcast by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton the writers of the book Team Toplogies: Organizing Business and Techno...
Move Fast, Break Things & Win: How Facebook Builds Software w/ Jeff Meyerson
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Tech Executive Operating System - Part II
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tech Executive Consultant Aviv Ben-Yosef rejoins Dev Interrupted to finish sharing his advice for technical leaders and how to make use of the "t...
The Tech Executive Operating System - Part I
24 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 us...
Improve Your Engineering Pipeline with Value Streams
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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-per...
Developer First Culture & Collectives at Stack Overflow
10 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stack Overflow is all about developers - and they've launched a new solution, Collectives to further their mission of serving developers. Come ...
Lessons Learned from Programming at Google - Part II
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Lessons Learned from Programming at Google - Part I
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Understanding Open Telemetry and Observability w/ Splunk's Spiros Xanthos
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Observability is crucial to understanding and adapting your product and your data - and open source telemetry is increasingly important. To go behin...
Ensuring Quality Code that Fits Your Business w/ Erika Chestnut of Calendly
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Focus, Culture, and Metrics in a Remote-First World w/ Chris Brookins of Appcues
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Bro...
Building High Performance Remote Dev Teams w/ Eric Johnson of GitLab
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 C...
The Organization Behind Chaos Engineering with Matt Fornaciari of Gremlin
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Using Open Source Tools at Your Company w/ Doron Gill of Logz.io
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Engineering Productivity & Culture at Netflix w/ Kathryn Koehler
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
The 7 Categories of Engineering Management w/ Ian Nowland of Datadog
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Nowland, the SVP of Core Engineering at DataDog. Ian joins us to share his experience coaching engineering managers and how the reality is differe...
Lessons When Scaling From 0 - 130 Devs w/ Kirby Frugia of MURAL
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 engin...
Defining The Role Of Staff Engineer w/ Will Larson of Calm
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re tackling one of the most ambiguous and subjective roles in the software engineering career path, the Staff Engineer. Many companies don’t ev...
Running Experiments To Create Change w/ Dominica DeGrandis of TaskTop
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Stop Telling Devs What To Do w/ Dana Lawson of GitHub
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
No Continuous Delivery? Then Walk Out. w/ Charity Majors of Honeycomb
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Diving Into DevSecOps with John Willis pt.2
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Diving Into DevSecOps with John Willis of Red Hat
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Winning Wars (Literally) with Agile & DevOps w/ Adam Furtado of Kessel Run
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Making Project Management Not Suck w/ Zach Ozer of Clubhouse
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Finding Time For Security When Scaling w/ Liran Tal of Snyk
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 sec...
Eliminating Software Development Process w/ Adam Carmi of Applitools
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What would happen if you eliminated all of the processes that surround your software development teams today? Adam Carmi, CTO of Applitools, joins me ...
Improving Visibility Without Being Annoying w/ Anders Wallgren of Cloudbees
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Technical Leadership: Beyond Problem Solving w/ Pat Kua
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 turn...
Engineering Customer Success with Sunil Mavadia of Cloudbees
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Outcome-based Development with Bryan Finster
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Continuous Delivery isn’t about how fast you can deliver, it’s about the outcome your delivery achieves. On our first episode of the new year I ta...
Automation Limitations with Judy Johnson
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Automation is key when it comes to scaling your engineering efforts, but can you automate yourself out of a job? On this week’s episode I brought in...
Evolving from Dev to CEO with Stephen Magill of Muse.dev
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The most prolific companies of our time are run by former developers. That's why I brought in former developer turned CEO, Stephen Magill, to cha...
Uncover the Real Senior Developer with Tomasz Waraksa
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Should you be hiring a software developer or a senior software developer...and what's the difference? And how do you know during an interview? To...
Uptime Is For Amateurs with SRE Expert Brian Murphy
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You've probably heard of Site Reliability Engineering, but what does it really mean? Brian Murphy knows. As the SRE Manager at G-Research, Brian ...
How to game dev metrics with Ray Elenteny of Solutech
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gaming dev metrics is easy. In this episode I'm joined by software architecture expert and agile enthusiast, Ray Elenteny, to discuss how peopl...
Asynchronous Communication with Cate Huston of DuckDuckGo
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After years of experience managing dev teams asynchronously, Cate Huston, Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo, joins me to discuss why communicating as...
What should dev teams measure first? With Luca Rossi of Translated
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we measure dev team metrics and what should you start measuring first? Luca Rossi, Head of Engineering at Translated, helps me answer these que...
Does dev methodology matter? w/ Chris Downard of GigSmart
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I learn how to create my own Development Methodology from the VP of Engineering at GigSmart. Chris Downard and I discuss how he doesn&...
Asynchronous Development for Hybrid Remote Teams w/ Ori Keren of LinearB
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
LinearB CEO Ori Keren joins me on our first episode of Dev Interrupted to talk about Asynchronous Development, a new software development methodology ...