Dev Interrupted

Connecting Your Devs' Work to the Business | A Conversation with Shopify, Slack & Stripe

Jan 24, 2023

48:23

Episode guests

Smruti Patel

Rukmini Reddy

James Stanier

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Making a Difference in the Engineering Community

01:44

Keeping Users at the Heart of Engineering

01:52

What's the Biggest Thing to Do in a Data-Driven Framework?

02:22

Introduction

2min

How to Solve for the Right Problem

2min

Connecting Devs to Business

2min

How Did Shopify Layoffs Affect Your Business?

2min

Is There a Culture of Slack?

2min

How Do You Validate a Product?

2min

What Is the Investment Portfolio of Your Product?

2min

What's the Biggest Thing to Do in a Data-Driven Framework?

2min

What Are the Metrics That You're Using?

2min

10.

Slack Developer Tank Phone - What Are the Metrics?

2min

11.

Are You Using the Right Metrics in Your Product?

2min

12.

Are You Into Space Metrics?

2min

13.

Dev X Is What They Call It, That Kind of Thing

2min

14.

Your Data Is Only Half the Story

2min

15.

Are You Feeling That?

2min

16.

Is the Cycle Time Metric Something That Engineers Need to Understand?

2min

17.

Is There a Speed Resiliency?

2min

18.

The Best Service Is One That's Available and Always Reliable

2min

19.

Shipping Theater

3min

20.

Keeping Users at the Heart of Engineering

2min

21.

Slack and Customer Empathy

2min

22.

Shopify

2min

23.

Making a Week at Sleep

2min

24.

Making a Difference in the Engineering Community

2min

25.

Interact - Awesome Sauce Time

2min

"Is my team solving the right problem?"

To answer this seemingly simple question, we assembled a panel of some of the smartest engineering leaders we know and asked them how they answer this question with their own teams.

Featuring Rukmini Reddy, SVP of Platform Engineering at Slack, James Stanier, Dir. of Engineering at Shopify, and Smruti Patel, VP of Engineering at Apollo, the following conversation debuted in front of a live audience at the Interact engineering conference.

Originally an exclusive conversation for Interact attendees, we listened to our fans and decided to drop the full conversation as an episode of the podcast.

Items of note:

This panel was filmed in October prior to many of the recent layoffs that have been in the news.
When this panel was recorded Smruti Patel worked at Stripe. She has since taken a job with Apollo.

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