

Dev Interrupted
LinearB
Dev Interrupted is the go-to podcast for software engineering leadership. Each week, hosts Andrew Zigler, Ben Lloyd Pearson, and Dan Lines sit down with industry experts to explore the strategies, struggles, and stories behind high-performing software teams. Paired with weekly industry news coverage, the conversations dive deep into the real challenges that define excellence in modern tech.
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Oct 2, 2021 • 45min
How to Scale Engineering Processes w/ Twitter's VP of Engineering
Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering for Strategy and Operations at Twitter. She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to share her career journey, her strategies for sustainably scaling engineering teams, and the three pillars of engineering processes. Maria has also been working and managing engineering teams remotely for over a decade and offers a great deal of practical advice for team leads everywhere.In a first for the Dev Interrupted podcast, this episode was recorded live during our virtual engineering leadership conference INTERACT. Maria was a fantastic guest, sticking around after her interview with Dan to take questions from the audience. Her lessons on team management, building company culture, hiring, and mentorship are not to be missed. Twitter is hiring: Check out their open positions.Watch the livestream of the INTERACT Conference: devinterrupted.com/interactJoin our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code.Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple PodcastsSupport the show: Subscribe to our Substack Leave us a review Subscribe on YouTube Follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn Offers: Learn about Continuous Merge with gitStream Get your DORA Metrics free forever

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Sep 25, 2021 • 38min
OutSystems: the journey to a $9.5B valuation
Paulo Rosado, CEO and founder of OutSystems, is on a mission to cancel technical debt for businesses everywhere - and he might have a point. Technical debt is estimated to cost businesses $5 trillion in the next 10 years. Learn about Paulo’s 20 year journey founding OutSystems, his fight against technical debt and much more on this episode of Dev Interrupted. OutSystems Tech Debt Report: https://www.outsystems.com/stop-tech-debt/ Learn more about our September 30th INTERACT Conference: devinterrupted.com/interactJoin our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code.Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple PodcastsSupport the show: Subscribe to our Substack Leave us a review Subscribe on YouTube Follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn Offers: Learn about Continuous Merge with gitStream Get your DORA Metrics free forever

Sep 19, 2021 • 33min
Creating a 10 million visits a month community at DZone
DZone is a thriving online community with more than 10 million visits a month doing incredible research reports into the state of software engineering. They're also a partner for Dev Interrupted's INTERACT conference on September 30th. DZone's Director of Product Kellet Atkinson joins Dan Lines to talk about developer workflow optimization, continuous integration/continuous delivery, low code trends, DZone's community, INTERACT, and much more. Learn more about our September 30th INTERACT Conference: devinterrupted.com/interactJoin our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code.Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple PodcastsSupport the show: Subscribe to our Substack Leave us a review Subscribe on YouTube Follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn Offers: Learn about Continuous Merge with gitStream Get your DORA Metrics free forever

Sep 11, 2021 • 43min
Building a culture of trust - with Metrics - at Slack
Rukmini Reddy started out doing needlepoint - and today she's VP of Platform Engineering at Slack. At Slack, she lives and breathes metrics. But she knows that without people and the context they bring, metrics alone won't solve engineering leadership challenges. To successfully use metrics to improve your teams and engineering processes - you need a culture of trust, and much more. Rukmini joined LinearB COO Dan Lines to talk about their shared vision for metrics success - and how she's building on Slack's successful engineering culture - plus the story of what brought her to where she is today. You don't want to miss this episode. Learn more about our September 30th INTERACT Conference: devinterrupted.com/interactJoin our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code.Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple PodcastsSupport the show: Subscribe to our Substack Leave us a review Subscribe on YouTube Follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn Offers: Learn about Continuous Merge with gitStream Get your DORA Metrics free forever

Sep 1, 2021 • 24min
Co-Founding Kubernetes with Microsoft CVP Brendan Burns
Brendan Burns co-founded Kubernetes and today leads a 650 person engineering organization at Microsoft today. This week on the Dev Interrupted Podcast he joins Dan Lines to take us through the founding story of Kubernetes and what he learned from that experience about open source projects, community building, leadership, and more. Plus he delves into what Microsoft is doing for devs - and what he and his teams are working on. Learn more about our September 30th INTERACT Conference: devinterrupted.com/interactJoin our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code.Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple PodcastsFollow Brendan on Twitter: @BrendanBurnsSupport the show: Subscribe to our Substack Leave us a review Subscribe on YouTube Follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn Offers: Learn about Continuous Merge with gitStream Get your DORA Metrics free forever

Aug 26, 2021 • 33min
Leading 650 engineers with Microsoft’s Brendan Burns
Brendan Burns not only co-founded Kubernetes, but he also leads a 650 person engineering organization at Microsoft today. This week on the Dev Interrupted Podcast he joins Dan Lines to tell the story of how he got into engineering and share his strategies and advice for how he leads his engineering teams - next week, he'll be back to take us through the founding story of Kubernetes and what he learned from that experience. Learn more about our September 30th INTERACT Conference: devinterrupted.com/interactJoin our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code. Have 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple PodcastsFollow Brendan on Twitter: @BrendanBurnsSupport the show: Subscribe to our Substack Leave us a review Subscribe on YouTube Follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn Offers: Learn about Continuous Merge with gitStream Get your DORA Metrics free forever

Aug 22, 2021 • 22min
Team Topologies 2: Organizing Business and Technology Teams w/ Manuel Pais & Matthew Skelton
In this podcast, Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton discuss optimizing software teams for fast flow, evolving team structures, reducing cognitive load, Conway's Law impact on software architecture, and promoting the Dev Interrupted Conference.

Aug 14, 2021 • 25min
Team Topologies 1: Organizing Business and Technology Teams w/ Manuel Pais & Matthew Skelton
Explore efficient team collaboration, breaking silos, and enhancing interactions with Team Topologies. Learn about the foundations and strategies for minimizing handoffs between teams. Discover the benefits of single teams for software development flow and adaptability. Dive into remote team dynamics and tools like Team Topologies Academy for improved efficiency.

Aug 8, 2021 • 42min
Move Fast, Break Things & Win: How Facebook Builds Software w/ Jeff Meyerson
Facebook is one of the most successful companies in the world, and Jeff Meyerson, the Founder of Software Daily, spend two and a half years talking to Facebook's top engineers to discover how they fit product, culture, and strategy together to succeed. Jeff joined Dev Interrupted to give us the founding story of Software Daily, the secrets to success at Facebook he learned while writing his new book Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software., the inside scoop on his new company SuperCompute, and his secrets to leveraging his pokers skills in business and in software engineering. Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to attend the New Leaders of Remote Work Panel? https://linearb.io/new-leaders-remote-work-panel/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB DemoHave 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple PodcastsSupport the show: Subscribe to our Substack Leave us a review Subscribe on YouTube Follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn Offers: Learn about Continuous Merge with gitStream Get your DORA Metrics free forever

Jul 28, 2021 • 23min
The Tech Executive Operating System - Part II
Tech Executive Consultant Aviv Ben-Yosef rejoins Dev Interrupted to finish sharing his advice for technical leaders and how to make use of the "tech executive operating system" and its techniques to improve your leadership and your organization. Get a sample chapter of Aviv's book here.Join our Discord Community ►► discord.gg/devinterruptedOur Website ►► devinterrupted.com/Want to attend the New Leaders of Remote Work Panel? https://linearb.io/new-leaders-remote-work-panel/Want to try LinearB? ►► Book a LinearB DemoHave 60 seconds? Review the show on Apple PodcastsSupport the show: Subscribe to our Substack Leave us a review Subscribe on YouTube Follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn Offers: Learn about Continuous Merge with gitStream Get your DORA Metrics free forever