Brad Smith, author of "DevOps for the Desperate" and Sr. Director of Engineering at Varo Bank, formerly a Sr. Engineering Manager at Amazon, joins the podcast to discuss:00:00 Intro00:30 Minimizing productivity dips when onboarding11:45 Simplification through reduction in cognitive load14:15 Lightweight Architectural Decision Records18:45 Need for SRE? How we got from DevOps to SRE27:10 Scaling startup infrastructure efficiently41:30 Zarar’s crazy story about his old boss 42:53 Viability of one-stack frameworks like Elixir LiveView and OneStack49:50 Where does AI fit in current and future development workflows? Book link: https://www.amazon.ca/DevOps-Desperate-Hands-Survival-Guide/dp/1718502486/YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

Digital accessibility leader, Patrick Dunphy, joins Zarar Siddiqi and Csaba Bereczski on the podcast to discuss:- How to Shift Left on Accessibility- Why accessibility is a mark of a quality product- What developers need to known about accessibility- How does shift left work with accessibility- Models to structure teams so that they produce accessible products- Are Ontario accessibility guidelines too onerous?- Big Tech / operating systems handing accessibilities, which companies are getting it right- Much more...YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

John Ousterhout, author of the influential book A Philosophy of Software Design, joins the podcast. The book is:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of-software-designTopics include:- What does software complexity look like?- How do we identify complexity before it develops?- The importance of continuous refactoring- What the education system gets wrong about teaching software complexity- How John teaches Computer Science at Stanford- What John thinks of agile- Balancing tactical and strategic programming, what TDD gets wrongYouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHjuTopics include:- What does software complexity look like?- How do we identify complexity before it develops?- The importance of continuous refactoring- What the education system gets wrong about teaching software complexity- How John teaches Computer Science at Stanford- What John thinks of agile- Balancing tactical and strategic programming, what TDD gets wrongYouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

Tom Howlett, Head of Product Management at Sonar is our guest today. Sonar is the leader in helping engineers write clean code through continuous feedback during the development process, and is trusted by millions of developers worldwide.We talk about:- The idea of "Start Left" and how it ties into "Shift Left"- Gen AI in developer workflows and how it promotes TDD- How does Sonar empower development teams? What's the role of the PM?- What constitutes a bad test?- Will static code analysis ever eliminate the need for pen testing?- How can static code analysis catch bugs across integration boundaries?- What does a team at Sonar look like?- Is there a QA or BA role at Sonar?- What makes Sonar a great place to workYouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

Max Tykhenko, Security Architect from IBM joins the podcast to talk about:What are the attack surfaces that most people don't think about enough? How has the security landscape changed over the last few years in terms of threat detection.  How vulnerable are we than how we were 10 years ago? We all know what shift left generally means, but what does it mean for security? Analyzing this question from a developer and management point of view.YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

Frederic Harper, Principal Developer Advocate, from kubefirst.io joins the podcast to dive into GitOps. We discuss:- What is GitOps?- How GitOps can help orgs manage their infrastructure- How to get started- Secrets management- Monorepos You can follow Fred here: https://twitter.com/fharperYouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

Elisabeth Hendrickson, author of the hugely impactful book, Explore It! joins the podcast to talk- How the Explore It! text came to be- What is it about testing that tends to make it a gate rather than part of development- How we can scale XP practices- Importance of focus and how XP helps achieve it. - How to deal with resistance when introducing XP practices - How to maintain customer centricity while scaling- How Scrum Masters/Coaches can help Product Managers not slip into Project Manager patterns- Simpler Machines - a newsletter recommendation from Elisabeth: https://simplermachines.gumroad.com/Buy the book: https://www.amazon.ca/Explore-Increase-Confidence-Exploratory-Testing/dp/1937785025YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

Steve Pereira, an author focused on value stream mapping and practical actions, shares insights from his new book. He discusses transforming value stream maps into actionable steps for teams, the importance of ownership in self-organizing teams, and how capability mapping reveals critical resources. The conversation highlights the role of early mapping in understanding value chains and the benefits of game-based learning for Scrum Masters. Pereira emphasizes effective collaboration to drive measurable outcomes in continuous delivery practices.

Jeff "Chezzy" Morgan, Gino Marckx and Zarar Siddiqi address a listener question about Scrum anti-patterns. Halfway through talking about this topic we realized that this episode could easily be three hours long, but we resisted yet managed to unmask a few of them. YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju

Ian Gartley, Principal Engineer from Varo Bank, formerly of Meta and RBC, joins the podcast.  Topics below, timestamps are approximate:00:00 - Putting “Ex-Meta” on LinkedIn Profiles02:15: What makes a good intermediate developer hiring interview question? / MVP Architectures11:30 - Challenges with MicroServices /  Convenience  of Sidecars23:30 - Orchestration Layers, GraphQL and Distributed Queries32:00: Why does it take 10 different engineers to make one change?49:15: Functional programming languages encouraging better testing patterns / mocking private functions / creator/mutator pattern61:03: Whose job is it to write requirements?YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bNrAJKSpotify Podcasts: https://spoti.fi/4bZjtcALinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/3wZIWDMRSS Feed: https://bit.ly/3KsaODWTwitter: https://bit.ly/4ecWHju