Business Metrics and the Lack of Context
We discuss business metrics, reporting, statistics, and how many of the numbers, without context, lack much value. Can your business deliver the Five Nines? Does it even need to? What kind of performa...
23 Apr 201942min
Typescript Pain. Is there any Gain?
Randy is diving back into the Chasms backend using Firebase Functions, which is written (by him) in Typescript. We discuss the ins and outs as to why Typescript was chosen, some pain points that cropp...
16 Apr 201933min
Writing a Job Description for a Non-specific Job
Don's firm is looking to hire a non-senior Python developer to help spread the workload of the engineering team. We discuss how he's writing up the job description, who he's really looking for in the ...
9 Apr 20191h 8min
Document Datastores and Many-to-Many Relationships
While continuing work on the Chasms app, Randy asks Don for his two cents on an approach to solving a document datastore (firestore) schema involving a many-to-many relationship. A discussion ensues t...
2 Apr 201928min
Customer Perspectives and Managing Expectations
A customer claims the service provided didn't meet expectations despite them choosing the more “economical” solution. Another client’s manager felt a contractor “yelled” at them, but the contractor fe...
26 Mar 201949min
Building an App (and Learning) with Vue.js
Randy has started working on the Chasms project again, and after the previous episode with David Rogers, he chose to use (and learn) Vue.js to get it started. Don and Randy discuss the various librari...
19 Mar 20191h 1min
Hiring Good Consultants
This week we talk about how we’ve hired consultants in the past, where we’ve failed, and the perspective of consultants that might help tech leaders understand who they’re hiring.
12 Mar 201950min
Just Doing It Yourself Because of Liam Neeson
As a continuation to a previous episode, Don discusses why he's going to roll up his sleeves and handle a data-gathering project himself. He attempts to support his choice using a reference to a Liam ...
5 Mar 201954min
