Your Software Architecture Follows The Money. Here's Why
Most senior engineers don't realize they're stuck until it's too late. The longer you stay, the more people around you have already decided who you are and what you're for. Ian Miell, CTO at Container...
25 Mar 1h
How to Battle Complexity Before It Kills Your Software (30-Year Veteran's Take)
Most architects stop coding... and that's exactly where they lose their edge. Dennis Doomen has been a hands-on coding architect for 30 years, and his take is blunt: if you're not in the code, you can...
18 Mar 52min
Uber Engineering Manager on Scaling Systems, Career Trade-offs, and Why Clarity Beats Seniority
Sendil Nellaiyapen, Engineering Manager at Uber, has built systems that scale to millions of users. In this episode he shares what most engineers get wrong about both system design and the move into e...
11 Mar 44min
Lead Software Engineer: Why You Can Write the Code in a Day but Ship in a Month
Are you over-engineering for a future that might never come? In this episode, we explore why "future-proofing" often leads to wasted time and sunk costs, and how shifting your mindset from opinions to...
4 Mar 39min
How Senior Software Engineers Balance Speed and Quality (Scale-Up Lessons)
The difference between a junior and a senior engineer isn't coding speed, it's knowing when to say "no.""The best code you can write is the code you don't write." In this episode, I sit down with Ales...
25 Feb 47min
How to Think About Software Engineering (CTO's Perspective)
We are at a unique point in history where there is finally an alternative to human coding. If AI can write the code effectively, what is left for the software engineer?In this episode, Joris Conijn (A...
18 Feb 46min
How to Build the Best Platforms for Software Engineers
Is your internal developer platform actually improving velocity, or is it a bottleneck? We discuss why platform teams building "cool" abstractions is a red flag, and you should aim to create the best ...
11 Feb 43min
