alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders #39 - Chad Fowler // CTO, Musician, Author and VC
Chad Fowler - an engineer, musician, and author - transformed Wunderlist ๐ from a messy monolith to a neat multi-language microservice.
Be inspired by his unique view on technology stemming from his background as a musician ๐ต and RPG player ๐ฎ.
Open your mind ๐คฏand prepare to reevaluate ๐คafter you hear from this creative thinker who -in the course of his 25-year career - has worked as both a coder and manager at both startups and enterprise companies in the US ๐บ๐ธ, EU ๐ช๐บ and India ๐ฎ๐ณ.
Listen to find out:
- Why we should rethink how computer science is taught ๐ to get better coders ๐งโ๐ป
- Why and how he used multiple languages in his microservice architecture ๐๏ธ
- Why startups ๐should wait before adopting a named methodology (e.g. Agile, scrum, kanban, OKR)
- Unique applications of concepts touted in the decentralized Web 3๏ธ.0 ๐ฎ
Listen here
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