Tech Lead Journal
Episodes
#65 - Developing Your Leadership Agility Fitness in a VUCA World - Nick Horney
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The best leaders are those that get things done through other people." Nick Horney is the author of “VUCA Masters” and founder of Agility Consu...
#64 - Principles for Designing Successful Web APIs - James Higginbotham
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“API design centers on effective communication, not just between developers, but also communication that combines product thinking, business, and te...
#63 - Being an Effective Generalist & Building Good Developer Experience - Deepu K Sasidharan
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“If you’re a generalist, and if you’re good at multiple things, then you have a lot of options. You have a lot of career paths to choose from." ...
#62 - You're Never Coding Alone, How to Be a Good Team Coder - Fernando Doglio
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Coding well with others or being a team player is at the heart of everything we do as developers. Unless you’re coding yourself for a piece of so...
#61 - The Programmer's Brain and the Importance of Cognition - Felienne Hermans
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Understanding what makes code readable from a cognitive perspective will help you design better. There are so many areas of programming where knowi...
#60 - Software Tradeoffs and How to Make Good Programming Decisions - Tomasz Lelek
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Software engineering involves a lot of decisions, and that decision has some trade-offs. We have pros and cons. It’s not like one decision is alw...
#59 - DevOps Solutions to Operations Anti-Patterns - Jeffery Smith
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“DevOps is about creating a collaborative environment between the development team and the operations team, and aligning goals and incentives betwee...
#58 - Principles for Writing Valuable Unit Tests - Vladimir Khorikov
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The main goal of unit testing is to enable sustainable growth of your software project that enables you to move faster with a more quality code bas...
#57 - Observing Your Production Systems and Yourself - Jamie Riedesel
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Software telemetry is what you use to figure out what your production systems are doing. It’s all about shortening that feedback loop between the...
#56 - Refactoring–The Discipline for Writing Good Code - Christian Clausen
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Good code should be resilient to bugs. It should make it easier to do the changes that you want to the system. Some refactoring could make it harde...
#55 - It's Time to Own Your Tech Career - Don Jones
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Decide where it is you’re going and what kind of career you need to live the life you want and aim for that really deliberately. Because if you d...
#54 - Jumping Into Tech Leadership Roles - Alvaro Moya
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Going from development to management is not a promotion. It’s an entirely new career. And there is normally a lack of proper guidance for that." ...
#53 - Principles for Adopting Microservices Successfully - Chris Richardson
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The whole point of microservices and adopting microservices is not to have microservices. The goal is to improve the software delivery key metrics,...
#52 - Software Qualities for Quality Software - Marco Faella
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Seriously good software is not just software that works. It is not just software that satisfies its functional requirements, so it does the right t...
#51 - JHipster Open Source Story and Java at Microsoft - Julien Dubois
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The most important thing is to make it easy for people to contribute. And the second thing is to have as many people as possible. For that, you bui...
#50 - Riding the Architect Elevator to the Cloud - Gregor Hohpe
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The cloud is a change in operating model. It isn’t IT procurement. If you don’t change the way your organization works, the cloud is going to l...
#49 - Visualizing Your Value Stream With Kanban - Dimitar Karaivanov
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Kanban is a flow strategy that helps you to optimize the flow of value through your value streams from ideation to customer." Dimitar Karaivanov is...
#48 - Communicate to Become a Happy & Productive Engineer - Chris Laffra
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“A lot of engineers are unhappy and a lot of that has to do with not being able to control their environment, or even articulate what they want to h...
#47 - Micro-Frontends and the Socio-Technical Aspect - Luca Mezzalira
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Micro-frontends are representations of business subdomains. We should differentiate them from components, because components are solving technical ...
#46 - Business Agility - Evan Leybourn
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Business agility is a set of organizational capabilities, behaviors, and ways of working that afford your business the freedom, flexibility, and re...
#45 - The Future of Digital Healthcare - Dr. Yong Chern Chet
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“A lot of us in clinical practice always thought of technology as a tool. Today, technology has become not just a “what”, but it’s become a “...
#44 - Team Topologies - Manuel Pais
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Practices and principles are necessary and useful, but they should be informed by what the constraints are in the first place. We need to acknowled...
#43 - The SPACE of Developer Productivity and New Future of Work - Dr. Jenna Butler
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Hybrid work is here to stay. It is going to continue. But we want to make sure that it comes in a way that’s equitable and everyone gets to exper...
#42 - Chaos Engineering - Mikołaj Pawlikowski
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Chaos engineering is the discipline of experimenting on the system in order to increase your confidence that the system will survive difficult cond...
#41 - Building a Cybersecurity Career & Pandemic Security Gaps - Tony Jarvis
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Back when work from home became suddenly virtually overnight, it was all about enabling the business to continue. A lot of this move was rushed out...
#40 - Data-Driven DevOps With Launchable - Kohsuke Kawaguchi
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“By and large, the way people put together the delivery process is by gut and instinct. The next step up from there is to use the data that comes ou...
#39 - Relearning ABCDEFG & Enabling Technology for Social Impact - Jim Lim
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Technology is really impacting our daily life, sometimes without us knowing, and it’s important that we start understanding or relearning what is...
#38 - The Tech Executive Operating System - Aviv Ben-Yosef
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Tech Capital is about creating something that enables things that weren’t possible before, that genuinely helps the business and enables other pe...
#37 - Lean Inception & Fun Retrospectives - Paulo Caroli
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Lean Inception is about aligning a group of people to be successful. It’s about aligning the vision and the MVP from three different angles: the ...
#36 - Building High-Performing Teams with Observability and CI/CD - Charity Majors
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“A high-performing team is one that gets to spend almost all of their time solving interesting problems that move the business forward. Not doing a ...
#35 - AirAsia Super App Transformation and Lessons from COVID-19 Pandemic - Pablo Sanz
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“One of the technological opportunities that we have taken during the pandemic has been transforming the mindset to thinking on products, to thinkin...
#34 - Improving Developers’ Productivity With Universal Code Search and Sourcegraph - Beyang Liu
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Developer productivity is not lines of code written. It’s not the number of commits. It has to do with the ultimate problem you’re solving and ...
#33 - Simplicity Playbook for Innovators - Jin Kang Møller
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Simplicity is an experience that makes things easy for users that leaves positive emotions." Jin Kang Møller is an award-winning customer experien...
#32 - CIO Leadership Lessons from Singapore's First CIO - Alex Siow
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The CIO is a person who uses IT to facilitate and enable a company so that it becomes more competitive, and it becomes more profitable." Alex Siow ...
#31 - Sustainable Digital Innovation at BNY Mellon - Johnny Wijaya
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Your digital agenda is your business agenda. You got to be very deliberate and intentional about your transformation journey. You do it because it’...
#30 - The Engineering Career Dilemma & Growing Through Self-Reflection - Annie Vella
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Be the supply to the unmet demand. Things that you could make a huge difference on if only you just go and do it. You don’t need to seek permissi...
#29 - A Guide to Technical Writing and Content Creation - Helen Scott
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“If a user is even reading documentation that a technical writer has produced, they’re probably already annoyed." Helen Scott is a technical write...
#28 - Becoming an Effective Software Engineering Manager - James Stanier
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The output of a manager is the output of the manager’s team plus the output of the organization that they influence." James Stanier is the SVP En...
#27 - Tech Entrepreneurship Venture From Israel to Vietnam - Doron Shachar
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I truly believe that what set the superstars or people who are very successful is the ability to tell to themselves to quit. Winners quit fast and ...
#26 - Experience Design—Apple's Best Kept Secret - Tim Kobe
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Most people confuse a technical capability with technology. Ultimately, technology is a technical capability plus the human outcome that it creates."...
#25 - Software Craftsmanship & Modernization - Sandro Mancuso
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“When I think about well-crafted software, it’s code that we are not scared to change. The code clearly specifies what it does. When we change one...
#24 - Best Practices for Your Developer Onboarding Process - Tanaka Mutakwa
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“When you recruit an engineer on your team, you actually want to make sure from their first day on, you give them the smoothest entry into your comp...
#23 - Earn People & Leadership Lessons From Hyperscaling Gojek - Ajey Gore
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I always deliver myself against these four things: you should stay true to learning; be curious, understand what is going on; optimize for people, ...
#22 - How to Facilitate Great Retrospectives - Aino Vonge Corry
24 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“A retrospective is a time set aside where you are looking at what has happened, you’re appreciating what happened, and you’re learning from wha...
#21 - Domain-Driven Design and Event-Driven Architecture - Vaughn Vernon
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Programmers have to come out of their cubicles. Innovative software development doesn’t happen with one person in a cubicle with great ideas. Bec...
#20 - Building Products People Love—Lessons from Decades at Apple and Adobe - Arno Gourdol
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“The most important thing we can do in order to get whatever success we want—build the best product you can. Invest all your energy in making the ...
#19 - Scaling Collaboration Across the Globe - Ranganathan Balashanmugam
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“With machines, you know there are limitations. You can’t go beyond that. You have to upgrade your machines. Or the technology changes. But with p...
#18 - Succeeding in Tech & Cloud Latest - Kelsey Hightower
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“What I come to realize is that technology doesn’t move that fast. The fundamentals are roughly the same. It’s the fact that we don’t necessar...
#17 - Remote Work & Asynchronous Communication at Doist - Gonçalo Silva
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Asynchronous communication promotes flow. And flow is generally what we’re all looking for. Not only because it’s more productive. Not only it’...
#16 - Responsible AI and Building Trust in AI - Liu Feng-Yuan
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Having the conversation within the business, the data science teams, and the technology teams about what problems are you trying to solve? What can...
#15 - Tech Resumes & Learnings From Uber Engineering Manager - Gergely Orosz
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“The goal of your resume is to get a recruiter call. It’s a binary yes or no. That is the goal. As soon as you have your recruiter call, your resu...
#14 - Founding Microsoft Office 365 & Digital Transformation - Richard Koh
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Organizations should never set up a central digital transformation office. It should be owned by everybody in the organization. It’s not a CIO’...
#13 - Startup Growth Strategy & Building Gojek Data Team - Crystal Widjaja
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Goal on the behaviors that matter. Don’t goal on your vanity metrics. Figure out what it is that, not just works for your product, but also for y...
#12 - Singapore's Open Government Products - Li Hongyi
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“You can run an organization where you communicate clearly, and you treat people fairly, and you try to set people up for success. I have seen it wo...
#11 - The Journey to Humanise Software Development - Joshua Partogi
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Courage needs to be emphasized even more in software development context. That’s related with respect. We cannot expect the developers will be co...
#10 - State of Java & Code Review Best Practices - Trisha Gee
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“As a leader, it’s not your responsibility to do. It’s your responsibility to teach and help your team to level up. Your job is to level up your...
#9 - Tech Leadership & Hypergrowth at Fintech Bank N26 - Patrick Kua
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“A Tech Lead is a person with a technical background, typically an engineer who is leading a team and particularly responsible and accountable for t...
#8 - Digital Transformation Journey in SP Digital - Chang Sau Sheong
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“There is no permanent failure and there is no guarantee of success either. What you define as success, what you define as failure is just a definit...
#7 - Continuous Delivery and Secrets of Consulting - Sriram Narayanan
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Continuous Integration is when you are integrating with the other developers on the code base as soon as possible. Continuous Delivery is when your...
#6 - Becoming a Tech Influencer Through Storytelling - Stephanie Wong
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“The thing about becoming a Tech Influencer is, content is Queen and consistency, quality and value matter. That’s the trifecta of creating conten...
#5 - Infrastructure as Code - Kief Morris
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"With Infrastructure as Code, you’re not trying to kind of reverse engineer or understand what ended up somehow onto each system, you’re actually ...
#4 - Women in Cybersecurity - Neha Malhotra
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"With the kind of security breaches and attacks that we are witnessing in this era, it becomes of prior importance that we prioritize security at the ...
#3 - Agile Essence and Challenging Status Quo - Stanly Lau
22 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Knowing and understanding are very different things. Unless I practice it along with good guidance, I may not increase my understanding." There are...
#2 - Community Contribution and Mentoring Junior Devs - Michael Cheng
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hear from Singapore's prominent community builder, Michael Cheng, on how to contribute to communities, and learn more about his latest passion for men...
#1 - Startup Tech Leadership - Jerome Poudevigne
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Leading others is leading yourself first. That's a very big work of self awareness, and you should always do that." Jerome Poudevigne is a serial CTO...
Welcome to Tech Lead Journal with Henry Suryawirawan
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Great technical leadership requires more than just great coding skills. It requires a variety of other skills that are not well-defined." In this tra...