Front End Happy Hour

Episode 118 - Good manager, bad manager - tasty drink, bland drink

21 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In our last episode, we talked about leaving a job, and one of those reasons for leaving was due to a bad manager. In this episode, we follow up our d...

Episode 117 - Quitting a job - leaving the bar

29 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all decided at one point or another that it’s time to look for a new job. In this episode, we talk through reasons that lead to us looking f...

Episode 116 - Live at QCon Plus 2020

15 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we were joined by our guests, Ben Ilegbodu and Jason Lengstorf to discuss frontend patterns live at this year's QCon Plus conference....

Episode 115 - Imposter Syndrome - Wine connoisseur with a $15 bottle

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What’s it like to deal with Imposter Syndrome? In this episode, we are joined by Shirley Wu, to talk through each of our experiences dealing with im...

Episode 114 - Remote interviewing - drinking on video calls

18 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When you can’t interview in person, we are forced to interview over video calls. In this episode, we are joined by Bianca Bortolussi, and Jen Pi to ...

Episode 113 - Severless - serving(less) drinks

04 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Do you remember the days of FTP? In this episode, we are joined by Jerome Hardaway to talk with us about the changes made to hosting websites and how ...

Episode 112 - SEO - Searching for our drinks

20 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Build it and they will come, right? Wrong. Search Engine Optimization is a key component of how people will discover your website or application. In t...

Episode 111 - Patron, Palomas, and programmatic problem solving

06 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When we are writing code as engineers, no matter what programming language, we are doing some form of planning and problem solving. In this episode, w...

Episode 110 - Bartending to everyone - Inclusive language

23 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alongside the Black Lives Matter movement, we’ve started to see a lot of positive discussions on how the tech community can be more inclusive with i...

Episode 109 - Quick pour - Web Performance

10 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Web performance continues to be an input factor to prioritize when building web applications. In this episode, we speak with Google engineers, Kristof...

Episode 108 - Whiteboarding for our drinks - The coding interview

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all been there, coding interviews always have their challenges. In this episode, we are joined by Emma Bostian to talk with us about the techn...

Episode 107 - Public speakeasy - Public speaking

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you’re giving a presentation to a large audience at a conference, your team, or articulating an idea, public speaking is an important skill ...

Episode 106 - Carefully Sipping Sangria - CSS

28 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Writing CSS is quick to learn, but writing strong CSS patterns that can scale is a lot more challenging. In this episode, we are joined by Brad Frost ...

Episode 105 - A parcel of drinks - Parcel

14 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In previous episodes, we’ve talked a lot about bundling JavaScript, but we haven’t talked a lot about Parcel. In this episode, we are joined by Ma...

Episode 104 - #BlackLivesMatter

05 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Instead of listening to an episode of Front End Happy Hour this week, we want to encourage you to use the hour to listen to, watch, and read education...

Episode 103 - Brews in Bars - Ecosystem Engineering

24 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we learn more about Ecosystem Engineering from Netflix engineers, Michael James, and Shravan Heroor. Guests: Michael James Shravan H...

Episode 102 - Complex flavors - complex systems

10 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all been there, a project starts off simple, but quickly becomes more complex. In this episode, we are joined by Sarah Drasner to talk with us...

Episode 101 - Showing off our personal bars - Personal projects

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We all focus a lot of our time on engineering work for large companies, but we’ve each had our side projects we’ve worked on in our careers. In th...

Episode 100 - 100 beers on the wall

13 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This is our 100th episode, it’s an exciting milestone for the podcast. In this episode, we talk about the history of the podcast and talk about some...

Episode 099 - No REST with Quintessential Libations - GraphQL

29 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Shruti Kapoor to talk with us about GraphQL and why your company could benefit from leveraging GraphQL on the front ...

Episode 098 - Drinking alone? Together? - Working from home

21 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With the COVID-19 situation, we are all confined to our homes. In this episode, we thought it’d be an excellent opportunity to talk through our expe...

Episode 097 - Cocktail recipes - Design systems

16 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we recorded live on stage at Root Insurance in Columbus, Ohio. We were joined by Jibran Kutik and Oliver Farshi to talk with about de...

Episode 096 - Our preferred beverages - Work preferences

01 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a constant debate on what the preferred work environment is, in office, remote, or work from home. In this episode, we talk about our prefer...

Episode 095 - Shot for Shot - One on Ones

16 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As engineers, we spend a lot of our time coding, but we also spend a lot of time in meetings. A typical meeting we are in is one on one meetings. In t...

Episode 094 - Will code for wine - Civic hacking

21 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It’s always great to be able to put our skills to good use. In this episode, we are joined by Sarah Yu to talk with us about civic hacking. Guests:...

Episode 093 - Beers and Careers - Career Management

06 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It can be really important to think through what you want in your career. In this episode, we are joined by Michael Gaskill to talk with us about care...

Episode 092 - Keeping the taps on - Holiday code freeze

23 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Holidays! In this episode, we talk about supporting large applications over the holidays and what the best practices are in order to make sure y...

Episode 091 - Balancing your drinks & belonging - Inclusion & Diversity in Tech

08 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It is really important to make sure our community is an inclusive environment for everyone to feel like they belong. In this episode, we are joined by...

Episode 090 - Sipping our drinks, enjoying the Vue - Vue JS

25 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Sarah Drasner and Gift Egwuenu to talk with us about the popular JavaScript framework, VueJS. Guests: Sarah Drasner...

Episode 089 - Hollywood Martinis - Netflix Studio Engineering

27 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode, we are going to be talking with Priyankaa Vijayakumar and Lauren Tan about an interesting engineering effort their teams at Netf...

Episode 088 - Tech lead engineer - herding cats & drinks

30 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We often talk a lot about growth path as engineers. One of those growth paths could be a tech lead engineer. In this episode, we are joined by Tony Ed...

Episode 087 - Open bar - all things open source

16 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As engineers we have a lot of excellent tools and resources to help us do our jobs well, one of those resources is open source code. In this episode, ...

Episode 086 - A new brand of bourbon - code migrations

19 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all faced some form of code migration in the past and wanted to share some of the things we’ve learned. In this episode, we’re joined by M...

Episode 085 - The art of mixology - creative coding

04 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by a returning guest, Shirley Wu to talk with us about the combination of code and art. Guests: Shirley Wu - @sxywu P...

Episode - 084 - Niagara Falls, on the rocks - development process

22 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There are quite a few ways to organize a team to build out a new feature. Two of the most talked-about are Waterfall and Agile. In this episode, we’...

Episode 083 - Behind the bar - Collaborating with the Backend

24 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Ujjwal Tyagi and Eric Eiswerth to talk with us about how Backend and Frontend engineers can be most effective collab...

Episode 082 - Product management - Pouring Martinis

09 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’re joined by product managers, Michael Spiegelman, Cathy Conk, and Eddy Wu from Netflix to talk with us about the relationship b...

Episode 081 - CSS - continually sipping sazeracs

26 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Tyler Childs, a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix to talk with us about building out scalable CSS and share some o...

Episode 080 - User experience - what if users are drunk?

14 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Randall Koutnik, a Senior Software Engineer at Slack to talk with us about how we should be thinking about ways to b...

Episode 079 - Home-brewing front end culture

28 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Katie Sylor-Miller, a Staff Software Engineer from Etsy, to talk with us about ways to help build and foster a front...

Episode 078 - Our drinks are overrated

14 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Jem and Ryan each toss out frontend terms, languages, technologies, and patterns to debate if they are underrated or overrated. Pane...

Episode 077 - Career growth - beers and careers

31 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In past episodes we’ve shared our thoughts on helping others grow or how to help interns in your company, but we haven’t discussed our thoughts on...

Episode 076 - Bandersnatching our drinks

04 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Bandersnatch is an exciting Netflix interactive film that’s not only an amazing story, it has seamless experience that Netflix engineering teams hav...

Episode 075 - Component libraries - sharing our drinks

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Jeeyun Linn, and Cole Turner to talk with us about building and using component libraries in a company. Guests: Jee...

Episode 074 - Beer money - negotiating salaries

04 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve talked about interviewing for engineering jobs, but once you have an offer, how do you negotiate the salary? In this episode, we’re joined b...

Episode 073 - Drinks to go - Native mobile solutions

21 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There are a lot of great solutions available to support a native mobile experience for your application, but what’s the best option? In this episode...

Episode 072 - Pacing our drinks - Engineering Performance

07 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Creating performant websites and applications continues to be really important, but what about engineering performance. How do we make sure we are imp...

Episode 071 - Web Performance - Chugging our drinks down fast

10 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Creating performant websites and applications continue to be more and more important. In this episode, we are joined by Addy Osmani to talk with us ab...

Episode 070 - Senior Engineer - Master Brewer

26 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We are often asked, what makes you a Senior Software Engineer. It’s not an easy answer, there are a lot of interesting thoughts and responses. In th...

Episode 069 - Internships - Intern-sips

29 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Starting your career is a daunting task. You’ve learned these brand new skills, but how do you apply them and get experience? In this episode, we ar...

Episode 068 - Progressive Web Apps - Pale Wheat Ale

15 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Progressive Web Apps have been hailed as the next big leap forward in building web applications. In this episode we’re joined by Aaron Gustafson fro...

Episode 067 - Ethics - to drink or not to drink?

01 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we recorded a special live discussion on ethics in software development. The panel discussion was part of Certified Fresh Events with...

Episode 066 - Type systems - a static drink list

17 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Static type systems in JavaScript provide a lot of value and have been growing in popularity. In this episode, we’re joined by Lauren Tan and Kunal ...

Episode 065 - Recruiting - do you have time for a quick beer?

03 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve had a lot of great recruiting discussions on previous episodes. In this episode, we’re joined by 3 recruiters, Matt Stephenson, Zack Skelly,...

Episode 064 - Librations - JavaScript libraries

20 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’ll be discussing JavaScript libraries. We talk about when to use a library and when it might not be that practical. Panelists: ...

Episode 063 - IoT - Internet of Tequila

06 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we share our thoughts on IoT and smart devices in the home. We also talk about how JavaScript can be used to create your own smart de...

Episode 062 - Web Components - shots of shadow dom

23 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we talk with Ravi Srinivas and Erick Purino from Netflix to share how they are leveraging Web Components to create dynamic advertisem...

Episode 061 - Build tooling - brewing complex bundles

09 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The front end ecosystem of build tooling continues to grow and become more powerful over the years. In this episode, we’re joined by Jamie Kyle and ...

Episode 060 - Shots to growlers - finding the right size drink

25 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Shirley Wu and Brian Holt to talk with us about the various experiences we’ve had with startups, large companies, ...

Episode 059 - A/B testing - Ale or Bourbon?

11 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In our previous episode, we talked about user testing and to better understand how a product or application resonates with users. In this episode, we’...

Episode 058 - User testing - Even a drunk person can do it

28 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A lot of the work we do impacts the people using the product or application we’ve made and it’s important to understand how our users resonate wit...

Episode 057 - Falcor - Modeling our drinks

14 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’re joined by the Netflix Software Engineer, Anup Bishnoi to talk with us about the Netflix, open source, virtual JSON graph libr...

Episode 056 - Drink-a-thon onstage at Reactathon

29 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we were live on stage at Reactathon conference in San Francisco discussing how to scale a React application. We share our thoughts on...

Episode 055 - A mixologist's tools

17 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we discuss how we stay productive in our jobs. To help us with the discussion, we’re joined by Ellen Chisa, CEO, and Cofounder of D...

Episode 054 - Wasted on Elm

01 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Richard Feldman to talk about the functional language Elm, which compiles to JavaScript. In the episode, we learn ab...

Episode 053 - Bar-tending to your codebase

18 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we recorded live at SacJS event in Sacramento, California. On stage we discuss the challenges of migrating a codebase and when to mak...

Episode 052 - Looking Forward to a drink

04 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we recorded live on stage at Forward JS conference in San Francisco. We were joined by our special guest, Allen Wirfs-Brock to talk a...

Episode 051 - Gin and toxic culture

19 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’ll be discussing things we’ve noticed in companies that have unhealthy culture, shady business practices, moving business targ...

Episode 050 - Angling for a drink

05 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

For our 50th episode, we are on stage live at the 2018 ngATL conference. We are joined by four of the talented speakers, Aimee Knight, Simona Cotin, J...

Episode 049 - Independent taste testing

22 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We are back in 2018, for the first episode of the New Year we have two special guests, Shirley Wu and Amy Wibowo to talk with us about freelancing and...

Episode 048 - Toast to a new year

19 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a great year! With 2017 coming to an end, we’ve decided to talk the highlights, trends, and disappointments of the year. We also talk ab...

Episode 047 - Speak(easy)

27 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Often times in our careers we’ve wanted to speak at conferences, meetups or even within our companies. It’s been a great way to share ideas and th...

Episode 046 - Locking down the liquor

14 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Front End Happy Hour podcast, we discuss how as front end engineers we can impact security vulnerabilities in the applications ...

Episode 045 - Getting the bartender's attention

30 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In a previous episode, we discussed working with a recruiter during a job interview process. In this episode, we’re joined by Netflix recruiter, Bia...

Episode 044 - Champagne ideas and caviar dreams

15 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Writing great code isn’t always the only part of our jobs. In order to impact changes on our teams or the business, we need to be able to persuade o...

Episode 043 - Our first drink

01 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We all had to start somewhere. In this episode, we are joined by Preethi Kasireddy to talk with us about her and our experiences of being a beginner t...

Episode 042 - Work hard, drink hard

14 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

There’s always a lot to be done, but having a good work life balance is extremely important. In this episode, we are joined by Sarah Showers from Li...

Episode 041 - Maintaining a healthy buzz

28 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Maintaining and scaling code is an important aspect of our careers. In this episode, we discuss and share ideas to help keep a healthy code base that ...

Episode 040 - React Native - Mix Once, Drink Everywhere

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’re joined by Naoufal Kadhom, a Software Engineer from Netflix who’s also just released a payment library for React Native. In ...

Episode 039 - Smashed after a Swift shot

30 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’re joined by Stefan Stumpfl, a mobile software engineer at LinkedIn working on LinkedIn Learning. During the past 5 years as an ...

Episode 038 - Plotting our drinks

18 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’re joined by Shirley Wu, a Freelance Software Engineer who focuses on Data Visualization. Shirley shares a lot of knowledge abou...

Episode 037 - Amazing Manhattans Anywhere

05 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve received a lot of great questions from our listeners and wanted to take the time to answer them as an AMA (Ask Me Anything) episode. Thank you...

Episode 036 - First drink in a new bar

18 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Starting a new job is never easy, but a good onboarding process can make all the difference. In this episode, we talk about our experiences with onboa...

Episode 035 - Top shelf style guides

04 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’re joined by Jyri Tuulos and Josh London to help discuss reusable components and building style guides. Jyri is a Staff Engineer...

Episode 034 - npm install beer --save-in-mouth

22 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Laurie Voss, the COO and former CTO at npm. Npm, also known as Node Package Manager has been an important tool in th...

Episode 033 - One part beer, three parts web components. Add lemon to taste

08 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Trey Shugart who is a front-end developer (Principal Developer) at Atlassian, proponent of web components, and autho...

Episode 032 - Imposter Syndrome - These are not the drinks you're looking for

23 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What’s it like to deal with Imposter Syndrome? In this episode, we are joined by Jessica Grist, a Software Engineer at Adroll to discuss how we’ve...

Episode 031 - A flaming shot of burnout

10 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Burnout is not a rare phenomenon that engineers deal with. In this episode, we talk about the ways we’ve been affected by burnout and how we’ve de...

Episode 030 - Static site generators and dynamic drink drinkers

24 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Websites have gotten a lot more complicated over the years. What happened to static HTML? In this episode we’re joined by Harry Wolff, the creator o...

Episode 029 - Alcoholic Angular

13 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’re joined by our special guest, Ayşegül Yönet, a Software Engineer Autodesk, who will help us discuss the popular Google Java...

Episode 028 - JavaScript Universi-LongIslandIce-ty

26 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all started somewhere. JavaScript isn’t always an easy language to learn. In this episode, we’re joined by Gordon Zhu, who teaches worksho...

Episode 027 - A drink for the "Rust" of us

16 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Rust is an exciting systems programming language that’s being developed in Mozilla. In this episode, we’re joined by Jafar Husain to talk about th...

Episode 026 - Design, neat

07 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we’re joined by Julie Horvath, a Design Lead at Apple to help us talk about design. We discuss ways to help improve the collaborati...

Episode 025 - From bar-back to frontender

25 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all started out somewhere in our career. In previous episodes, we’ve talked about various ways we’ve learned front end development, but ha...

Episode 024 - The hangover of 2016

16 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

As we look forward to all the great trends and changes that will happen in 2017, in this episode we discuss our thoughts and opinions on the various d...

Episode 023 - Ember - Gin & Tomster

31 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ember is a growing JavaScript framework that large companies like LinkedIn are using for their web application. In this episode, we are joined by Stac...

Episode 022 - Drinking with more style and less sass

17 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Writing CSS seems pretty straight forward until your project and team starts to grow. CSS has a lot of issues, in this episode we share some advice fo...

Episode 021 - Mixed drinks and mixed languages

06 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Have you had to deal with supporting more than one language in your web application? Offering content in several languages makes a better experience f...

Episode 020 - Wasted on workflows

21 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

We are lost without our tools. In this episode, we share the tools and applications we can’t live without. We discuss what development environments ...

Episode 019 - Drinking to digital nomads

07 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The idea of working remotely has become more realistic over the past few years, making it easier for engineers to do their work without being tied to ...