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Software engineers, architects and team leads have found inspiration to build better, high performing teams by listening to the weekly InfoQ Podcast. We have achieved that by interviewing some of the top CTOs, engineers and technology directors from companies like Uber, Netflix and more. Over 500,000 downloads in the last 3 years.
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Jun 26, 2023 • 33min
Jim Highsmith Looking Back and Looking Forward
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Jim Highsmith, looking back on six decades in software engineering and his new book Wild West to Agile.
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Jun 16, 2023 • 29min
Charity Majors on Intentional Culture, Dual Track Careers and AIOPS
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Charity Majors about enabling culture, the pendulum swing between engineering and management, rethinking career paths and opportunities challenges with AIOPS.
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Jun 9, 2023 • 23min
Exploring Staff-Plus Engineering Roles with Fabiane Nardon
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Fabiane Nardon about the Staff Plus career pathway and what it takes to become a data engineer.
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May 26, 2023 • 28min
Continuing the Culture and Methods Trends Conversation
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Ben Linders about current trends in the culture and methods space.
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May 19, 2023 • 20min
Data Privacy, Retention and Security Challenges and Opportunities
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Shiva Nathan about data security, privacy, retention and enabling a security mindset in development.
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May 12, 2023 • 19min
Hiring and Growing Great Site Reliability Engineers
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Narayanan Raghavan, Senior Director for Site Reliability Engineering for Managed Services at Red Hat, about hiring and growing.
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May 5, 2023 • 20min
Creating a Developer-Centric Culture and Building Platform as Runtime
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Aviran Mordo of Wix about creating a developer-centric culture, building a platform as runtime environment to speed up development and shifting left in design through developer and designer pairing.
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Apr 28, 2023 • 21min
Building Trust and Safety in Remote Teams at Shopify
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Jesse McGinnis of Shopify about building trust and safety in remote teams and developing yourself as a leader.
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Apr 24, 2023 • 32min
Work-life Integration and the Modern Workplace
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke Peter Miscovich co-author of the book The Workplace You Need Now: Shaping Spaces for the Future of Work about creating human-centric working environments where work-life integration of mental wellbeing, social wellbeing, and physical wellbeing matter.
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Apr 7, 2023 • 24min
Moving from Technical Contributor to People Leader with Lena Reinhard
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Lena Reinhard about new skills that are needed when moving from an individual contributor role to a people leader, communicating outside of engineering and the layoffs in tech.
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