Taking stock of the crypto crash and tech turbulence
Data show's Silicon Valley's share of new startup funding deals dropped below 20% for the first time.What does it mean to experiment with big changes to an engineering org, in public and in real time?...
2 Des 202219min
Talking UX philosophies and deployment best practices with Patreon's VP of Engineering
Srivastava reflects on his upbringing in India, learning to write Assembly, and going to Stanford University to complete his Ph.D in computer science.He shares his early career experiences at big tech...
29 Nov 202227min
Here’s what it’s like to develop VR at Meta
Cami and Cassidy take us down memory lane, sharing how they got into computer science together, hosted a web series (and still podcast together sometimes), and overlapped at two jobs together.We discu...
22 Nov 202228min
Cloudy with a chance of… the state of cloud in 2022
SPONSORED BY PLURALSIGHTEarly in the days of high-traffic web pages and apps, any engineer operating the infrastructure would have a server room where one or more machines served that app to the world...
21 Nov 202228min
The creator of Homebrew has a plan to fix the funding problem in open source
Over the years Homebrew, an open source package manager, has emerged as the project with the greatest number of individual contributors. Despite all that, it’s creator Max Howell, couldn’t make a livi...
18 Nov 202232min
Want to work as a developer in Japan?
Eric explains that great jobs are available for developers in Japan, but it can be tough to find these opportunities.We talk about interesting startups that are gaining traction in the Japanese tech s...
15 Nov 202231min
Another hard week in tech
Episode notes:The team questions whether a print out of 60-90 days worth of code is the right benchmark for whether to lay someone off. Ben gives our podcast listeners a heads up to reports of repo j...
11 Nov 202219min
Hashgraph: The sustainable alternative to blockchain
When most people talk about Web3 or cryptocurrencies and related technologies, they usually mean blockchains. But blockchain is only the first generation of distributed ledger technology (DLT). As wit...
9 Nov 202220min
