Understanding Internal Software Development and Its Challenges

Michael Gat joins us for a look back on mainframes & why sometimes deploying on a Friday IS the right thing to do.

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Featuring:

• Michael Gat – LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

• Mainframe blog post
• SCaLE 21x talk
• Changelog #1 with Cameron Seay
• Changelog #2 with Cameron Seay

Outro

• Facebook research
• Google research
• Amazon research
• Netflix research
• Microsoft research
• Disney Animation research
• Pixar research
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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