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Great technical leadership requires more than just great coding skills. It requires a variety of other skills that are not well-defined, and they are not something that we can fully learn in any school or book. Hear from experienced technical leaders sharing their journey and philosophy for building great technical teams and achieving technical excellence. Find out what makes them great and how to apply those lessons to your work and team.
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Sep 20, 2021 • 50min
#56 - Refactoring–The Discipline for Writing Good Code - Christian Clausen
“Good code should be resilient to bugs. It should make it easier to do the changes that you want to the system. Some refactoring could make it harder to make changes. So, if you guess wrongly the direction of the software, then it can have a negative effect."
Christian Clausen is a Technical Agile Coach specializing in teaching teams on how to refactor their code properly. He is also the author of “Five Lines of Code”. In this episode, Christian explained in-depth about refactoring, when and how we should do refactoring, the components, workflow, and pillars of refactoring. Christian also shared about a few important architectural refactoring, such as composition over inheritance and changing by addition instead of modification. Finally, Christian also shared a few tips for writing quality software, such as the five lines of code rule, the habit of deleting code, and avoiding optimization and generality.
Listen out for:
Career Journey - [00:04:20]
Refactoring & Good Code - [00:06:58]
Refactoring & Testing - [00:10:07]
Components of Refactoring - [00:14:36]
Advice to Start Refactoring - [00:16:17]
Refactoring Workflow - [00:18:21]
Pillars of Refactoring - [00:22:07]
Five Lines of Code - [00:25:51]
Composition Over Inheritance - [00:30:00]
Changing by Addition Instead of Modification - [00:34:12]
Love Deleting Code - [00:37:01]
Avoid Optimizations and Generality - [00:39:38]
Favorite Refactoring Strategies - [00:43:28]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:45:17]
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Christian Clausen’s Bio
Christian Clausen works as a Technical Agile Coach teaching teams how to properly refactor their code. He has previously worked as a software engineer on the Coccinelle semantic patching project, an automated refactoring tool. He holds an MSc degree in Computer Science and has taught software quality at a university level for five years.
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Sep 13, 2021 • 55min
#55 - It's Time to Own Your Tech Career - Don Jones
“Decide where it is you’re going and what kind of career you need to live the life you want and aim for that really deliberately. Because if you don’t know where you’re going, then you never will get there."
Don Jones is the author of “Own Your Tech Career” and the VP of Developer Skills at Pluralsight. In this episode, Don explained why it is important for us to understand the career we want and aim to build that career deliberately, instead of keep chasing promotion and more money continuously, and thus winding up in a rat race. He emphasized a few important things as part of owning our career, such as the importance of soft skills, showing yourself as a professional, building a personal brand, and being a better decision-maker. Do not miss a couple of showing up as professional tips that Don adopted from Disney!
Listen out for:
Career Journey - [00:05:52]
Owning Our Tech Career - [00:07:11]
On Money - [00:11:18]
Importance of Soft Skills - [00:13:24]
Showcasing Strong Profile - [00:16:28]
Showing as Professional: Be Your Word - [00:20:14]
Be Detailed and Precise - [00:23:15]
Cut Your Losses When The Time is Right - [00:25:21]
Let Blue Sky Mode Happen - [00:29:28]
Draw a Yellow Line - [00:31:38]
Building a Personal Brand - [00:34:45]
What to Contribute and Finding Time - [00:40:24]
RAPID Decision Making - [00:43:46]
Deciding What’s Enough - [00:45:29]
Deciding What to Believe - [00:47:55]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:51:23]
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Don Jones’s Bio
Don Jones has been in the IT industry since the mid-1990s, and has worked in roles ranging from software developer to network engineer. He’s most well-known for his work with Microsoft’s Windows PowerShell, and he’s written literally dozens of books on other IT topics. Today, much of Don’s focus is on helping technology professionals become owners of their careers, through books like How to Own Your Tech Career and projects like his Ampere.Club website. You can view Don’s full bibliography at DonJones.com.
Follow Don:
Website – https://donjones.com/
LinkedIn – https://linkedin.com/in/concentrateddon/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/concentrateddon
Ampere Club – https://ampere.club
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Sep 6, 2021 • 51min
#54 - Jumping Into Tech Leadership Roles - Alvaro Moya
“Going from development to management is not a promotion. It’s an entirely new career. And there is normally a lack of proper guidance for that."
Alvaro Moya is the founder of Lidr, a community that prepares and transforms the tech leaders and CTOs of tomorrow through immersive, experiential, and community-driven programs. In this episode, Alvaro shared the story of Lidr and why he started it, learning from his own journey working in multiple startups and scaleups. Alvaro then shared his view on technical leadership, the challenges surrounding it, and why it is important for companies to prioritize on improving leadership. Alvaro also touched on how tech leaders can create and nurture high-performing teams, with an emphasis on cultivating ownership, as well as giving some advice on how we should plan and choose our career track and progression, including tips and practices on how we can become better tech leaders through practising leadership informally.
Listen out for:
Career Journey - [00:05:29]
Lidr.co - [00:10:21]
Technical Leadership Challenges - [00:12:22]
Upskilling Leadership - [00:15:23]
Prioritizing Improving Leadership - [00:18:56]
Career Progression Guide - [00:24:31]
Nurturing High-Performance Team - [00:27:17]
Cultivating Ownership - [00:31:36]
Becoming a Better Tech Leader - [00:36:21]
Advise for Choosing Career Track - [00:41:56]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:45:04]
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Alvaro Moya’s Bio
Alvaro Moya is the founder of Lidr, a community that prepares and transforms the tech leaders and CTOs of tomorrow through immersive, experiential, and community-driven programs. He is an experienced CTO and tech consultant, passionate about tech startups, a serial founder, investor & advisor.
Follow Alvaro:
Lidr – https://www.lidr.co
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvarormoya/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/AlvaroRMoya
Email – alvaro@lidr.co
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Aug 30, 2021 • 53min
#53 - Principles for Adopting Microservices Successfully - Chris Richardson
“The whole point of microservices and adopting microservices is not to have microservices. The goal is to improve the software delivery key metrics, i.e. rapid, reliable, frequent, and sustainable delivery of software."
Chris Richardson is a recognized thought leader in microservices and the author of “Microservices Patterns”. In this episode, we opened our conversation talking about the current state of microservices vs monolith architecture. Chris then explained why he thinks monolith is not actually an anti-pattern and when it’s a good time for us to consider adopting microservice architecture. He then shared about the success triangle for implementing microservices, important concepts such as design time coupling and some microservices patterns, such as the Saga pattern, and how his current work on Eventuate can help developers to implement these patterns easier. At the end, Chris briefly explained some of his important principles for decomposing a monolith successfully.
Listen out for:
Career Journey - [00:05:52]
State of Microservices vs Monolith - [00:11:56]
Monolith is Not an Anti-Pattern - [00:15:43]
When to Adopt Microservices - [00:18:46]
Microservices Success Triangle - [00:23:04]
Design Time Coupling - [00:26:40]
Distributed Transaction and Saga Pattern - [00:33:21]
Eventuate - [00:36:36]
Tips for Implementing Saga Pattern - [00:39:00]
Principles to Decompose Monolith - [00:43:49]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:50:12]
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Chris Richardson’s Bio
Chris Richardson is a software architect and serial entrepreneur. He is a Java Champion, a JavaOne rock star and the author of “POJOs in Action”, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris was also the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an early Java PaaS for Amazon EC2. Today, Chris is a recognized thought leader in microservices, having authored the book “Microservices Patterns”. He regularly speaks at international conferences and delivers consulting and training that helps organizations successfully adopt and use the microservice architecture.
Follow Chris:
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/pojos/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/crichardson
Consulting, Training & Blog – https://chrisrichardson.net/
Microservices Patterns – http://adopt.microservices.io/
Eventuate – https://eventuate.io/
“Distributed Data Patterns for Microservices” online course – https://microservices.matrixlms.com/user_catalog_class/show/350821
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Aug 23, 2021 • 53min
#52 - Software Qualities for Quality Software - Marco Faella
“Seriously good software is not just software that works. It is not just software that satisfies its functional requirements, so it does the right thing, but it also does it in the right way."
Marco Faella is an associate professor at the University of Naples Federico II and the author of “Seriously Good Software”. In this episode, Marco explained what he means by seriously good software, looking at software quality from multiple different perspectives. We then dived deep into several of those software qualities with some practical tips on how software engineers can improve their craft to produce high-quality software. Towards the end, we also touched on the concept of minimum viable code, why it is important to have an idea of what the ideal code looks like, while still being practical in finding the right compromise.
Listen out for:
Career Journey - [00:05:00]
Role of Education for Software Engineers - [00:07:18]
Seriously Good Software - [00:12:02]
Software Quality Quadrants - [00:17:15]
Speed and Time Efficiency - [00:20:23]
Space and Memory Efficiency - [00:24:10]
Reliability Through Monitoring - [00:26:54]
Invariants - [00:32:11]
Reliability Through Testing - [00:33:43]
Readability - [00:36:15]
Reusability - [00:39:25]
Thread-Safety - [00:41:17]
Minimum Viable Code - [00:46:29]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:48:44]
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Marco Faella’s Bio
Marco Faella is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Besides his research on theoretical computer science, Marco is a passionate teacher and programmer. For the last 13 years he has been teaching classes on advanced programming and has published a Java certification manual and a video course on Java streams. More recently, Marco has released his book titled “Seriously Good Software” that teaches techniques for writing high quality software.
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LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-faella-8675574/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/m_faella
Website – http://wpage.unina.it/m.faella
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Aug 16, 2021 • 49min
#51 - JHipster Open Source Story and Java at Microsoft - Julien Dubois
“The most important thing is to make it easy for people to contribute. And the second thing is to have as many people as possible. For that, you build a community, and decide what people you want in your community."
Julien Dubois is the creator of JHipster and manages the Java Developer Advocacy team at Microsoft. In this episode, Julien shared about the state of Java for cloud native applications, as well as Java adoption within Microsoft and Azure. Julien also shared his story on founding JHipster, his developer advocacy work at Microsoft, as well as some tips on how to run a successful open source project.
Listen out for:
Career Journey - [00:04:30]
Java at Microsoft - [00:07:38]
State of Java for Cloud Native App - [00:10:39]
Java Adoption in Azure - [00:16:58]
JHipster Story - [00:21:29]
Open Source Tips - [00:29:43]
Independent Developer Advocacy - [00:35:42]
Microsoft and Open Source - [00:40:28]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:43:08]
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Julien Dubois’s Bio
Julien manages the Java Developer Advocacy team at Microsoft. Julien is a Java Champion, and is mostly known in the Java community as the creator and lead developer of JHipster, a popular open source development platform. He is also the co-author of “Spring par la pratique” and a speaker in numerous conferences including Devoxx, SpringOne, and Paris Java User Group amongst others.
Follow Julien:
Twitter – https://twitter.com/juliendubois
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliendubois/
Github – https://github.com/jdubois
Website – https://www.julien-dubois.com/
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Aug 9, 2021 • 1h 10min
#50 - Riding the Architect Elevator to the Cloud - Gregor Hohpe
“The cloud is a change in operating model. It isn’t IT procurement. If you don’t change the way your organization works, the cloud is going to look much more like another data center.“
Gregor Hohpe is the author of “Software Architect Elevator” and “Cloud Strategy”. In this episode, Gregor started our conversation by explaining the role of a software architect, the reason for the latest resurgence of the role, and his software architect elevator concept. He then described what a good architecture should look like and how to deal with trade-offs by using the analogy of financial options. We then discussed in-depth about the cloud and why adopting cloud requires a lifestyle change in order to benefit from it the most. Gregor also described why organizations need a good viable cloud strategy and debunked the concern of many organizations on cloud vendor lock-in. He also gave his tips on how organizations should approach building an in-house cloud platform and how to change the organization structure to embrace the cloud better. Towards the end, do not miss our insightful discussion on Gregor’s law of excessive complexity!
Listen out for:
Career Journey - [00:06:48]
Software Architect Role - [00:07:48]
Software Architect Elevator - [00:12:07]
An Architect Stands on 3 Legs - [00:14:37]
Good Architecture - [00:18:08]
Trade-offs - [00:21:09]
Definition of Cloud - [00:25:55]
Cloud is a Lifestyle Change - [00:28:56]
Motivation for Moving to the Cloud - [00:32:18]
Cloud Strategy - [00:36:43]
Building up Cloud Strategy - [00:39:36]
Patterns & Antipatterns - [00:43:57]
Cloud is Not an Infrastructure Topic - [00:49:29]
In-house Cloud Platform - [00:52:38]
Gregor’s Law of Excessive Complexity - [00:57:39]
Organization Structure - [01:01:37]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [01:05:16]
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Gregor Hohpe’s Bio
As an Enterprise Strategist at AWS, Gregor advises CTOs and tech leaders in their organizational and technology platform transformation. Prior to joining AWS, Gregor served as a Smart Nation Fellow to the Singapore government, as technical director in Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO, and as Chief Architect at Allianz SE, where he oversaw the architecture of a global data center consolidation and deployed the first private cloud software delivery platform. He is an active member of the IEEE Software advisory board.
Follow Gregor:
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghohpe/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/ghohpe
The Architect Elevator – https://architectelevator.com/
Cloud Strategy – https://cloudstrategybook.com
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Aug 2, 2021 • 47min
#49 - Visualizing Your Value Stream With Kanban - Dimitar Karaivanov
“Kanban is a flow strategy that helps you to optimize the flow of value through your value streams from ideation to customer."
Dimitar Karaivanov is a Lean-thinker, a Kanban practitioner, and the CEO and co-founder of Kanbanize. In this episode, Dimitar shared his story on how he got fascinated by the simplicity and the effectiveness of Kanban, which then led him to start Kanbanize. He shared in-depth the concept of Kanban and why Kanban becomes one of the most popular Lean practices. Dimitar then shared about the principles, practices, and anti-patterns behind Kanban, as well as tips on how companies can improve their Kanban practices, including dealing with external dependencies.
Listen out for:
Career Journey - [00:05:06]
Kanbanize Story - [00:07:05]
Kanban - [00:10:25]
Why Kanban Becomes Popular - [00:12:24]
Kanban Principles - [00:14:53]
Visualize the Workflow - [00:20:23]
Limit Work in Progress - [00:23:11]
Manage Flow - [00:28:26]
Make Process Policies Explicit - [00:30:49]
Feedback Loops and Improve Collaboratively - [00:31:43]
Kanban Metrics - [00:33:52]
Kanban Anti-patterns - [00:36:17]
Handling External Dependencies - [00:40:39]
Tips to Improve Your Kanban Practice - [00:42:01]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:43:40]
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Dimitar’s Bio
Dimitar Karaivanov is a Lean-thinker and a Kanban practitioner with a solid background in the areas of software development and process improvement. Dimitar is also a keynote speaker and the author of ‘Lean Software Development with Kanban’. His expertise was gained through more than 15 years of career development at companies like Johnson Controls, SAP, and Software AG.
Dimitar has envisioned and brought to life the idea of Kanbanize aimed at solving problems in the way companies manage big initiatives spread across multiple teams. Through the success of his company, he has proven that Kanban can be used not just for change management, but also for product development. He is passionate about achieving extreme performance at scale and applying Lean / Kanban outside IT, and is an active member, supporter and promoter of initiatives within these communities.
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LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitar-karaivanov
Twitter – https://twitter.com/dimitar_hk
Kanbanize – https://kanbanize.com/
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Jul 26, 2021 • 59min
#48 - Communicate to Become a Happy & Productive Engineer - Chris Laffra
“A lot of engineers are unhappy and a lot of that has to do with not being able to control their environment, or even articulate what they want to have changed in the environment. By becoming a better communicator, you will also become happier."
Chris Laffra is an experienced and talented software engineer having worked in companies such as IBM, Google, and Uber. His wide variety of experiences ensures Chris understands what motivates engineers, what stresses them out, and how to help them get the most out of themselves. In this episode, Chris shared some insights from his book “Communication for Engineers” about why communication is such an important skill for engineers and how they should learn to improve it to become more impactful engineers. Chris also shared great insights and tips on how to deal with engineers’ typical sources of unhappiness–impostor syndrome, stress, and burnout–in order to become successful, productive, and happy engineers.
Listen out for:
Career Journey - [00:04:53]
“Communication for Engineers” Book - [00:06:37]
Why Engineers Have Difficulty Communicating - [00:09:51]
Importance of Communication for Engineers - [00:13:18]
Communication for Performance Review and Promotion - [00:21:54]
How to Become More Impactful Engineers - [00:30:58]
Impostor Syndrome - [00:42:01]
How to Deal with Impostor Syndrome - [00:45:18]
Handling Burnout - [00:53:58]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:56:40]
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Chris Laffra’s Bio
Chris Laffra is an experienced software engineer with a strong drive to help other engineers grow. Chris has been a manager, tech lead, technical lead manager, advisor, mentor, and staff software engineer with companies such as IBM, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Google, Uber, Plato, and Sourcegraph. This wide variety of experiences ensures Chris understands what motivates engineers, what stresses them out, and how to help them get the most out of themselves. Through decades of personal experience, Chris has analyzed and summarized the topic of software development into numerous blogs, presentations, and books. The summit of his work is his book Communication for Engineers and the accompanying interactive course.
Follow Chris:
Website – https://chrislaffra.com/
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrislaffra/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/laffra
GitHub – https://github.com/laffra
Medium – https://laffra.medium.com/
“Communication for Engineers” book – https://amzn.to/3eP9FH0
Chris’s episode notes – https://chrislaffra.com/TLJ/
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Jul 19, 2021 • 52min
#47 - Micro-Frontends and the Socio-Technical Aspect - Luca Mezzalira
“Micro-frontends are representations of business subdomains. We should differentiate them from components, because components are solving technical problems. Micro-frontends are looking from the product side on how you can create value in isolation for your users."
Luca Mezzalira is a Principal Architect at AWS, an expert on micro-frontends, and the author of the upcoming “Building Micro-Frontends” book. In this episode, Luca described the concept of micro-frontends in-depth, along with the where and when companies should apply this concept for building the frontends. Luca also shared about the principles behind micro-frontends, why it is important to be technology agnostic, and how to design the CI/CD pipelines. Luca also mentioned some of the common pitfalls and anti-patterns that we should avoid when using micro-frontends, as well as sharing his tips on how organisations can start adopting micro-frontends in their architecture.
Listen out for:
Career Journey - [00:04:41]
Micro-Frontends - [00:11:11]
Where to Apply Micro-Frontends - [00:14:18]
Team Structure - [00:16:08]
When to Consider Micro-Frontends - [00:18:34]
Examples of Apps Using Micro-Frontends - [00:23:01]
Micro-Frontends Principles - [00:24:33]
Technology Agnostic Micro-Frontends - [00:27:21]
Application Shell Concept - [00:30:19]
Micro-Frontends CI/CD - [00:33:42]
Micro-Frontends Anti-Patterns - [00:36:22]
Starting with Micro-Frontends Tips - [00:40:43]
“Building Micro-Frontends” Book - [00:43:30]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:46:54]
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Luca Mezzalira’s Bio
Working in the industry since 2004, Luca have lent his expertise predominantly in the field of solution architecture. After helping DAZN becoming a global streaming platform in just 5 years, Luca is now working as a Principal Architect at AWS, helping customers in the media and entertainment space to deliver cost-effective and scalable cloud solutions. He has gained accolades for revolutionising the scalability of frontend acrhitectures with micro-frontends, from increasing the efficiency of workflows to delivering quality in products. Known as an excellent communicator who believes in using an interactive approach for understanding and solving problems of varied scopes, Luca often shares with the community the best practices to develop cloud-native architectures to solve technical and organisational challenges.
Follow Luca:
Twitter – https://twitter.com/lucamezzalira
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucamezzalira
Website – https://lucamezzalira.com/
“Building Micro-Frontends” book – https://www.buildingmicrofrontends.com/
Micro-Frontends Tips – https://buildingmfe.com/
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