Today's guest is Martin Fowler!Martin is chief scientist at ThoughtWorks. He is one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto and author of several legendary books, among which there is Refactoring, which shares the name with this podcast and this newsletter. With Martin, we talked about the impact of AI on software development, from the d…

Today's guest is Aviv Ben Josef!Aviv has more than 20 years of experience in tech. He is an executive coach working with hundreds of engineering teams and leaders.With Aviv, we talked about profitable engineering, what makes engineering valuable, why impact is hard to measure,and what are the cultural and organizational traits that make engineering…

Today's guest is Pat Kua!Pat is a professional engineering and leadership coach with more than 20 years of experience in tech.He was CTO of N26 and principal consultant at ThoughtWorks. He is an accomplished speaker and writes an awesome newsletter for tech leaders called Level Up.With Pat, we talked about his journey in tech, from Australia to Lon…

Today's guest is Francesco Dominidiato! Francesco Dominidiato is CTO at Moneyfarm, one of the largest wealth management companies in Europe, and former CTO at high-growth startups like Casavo and Docebo. During his career he scaled organizations from zero to hundreds of employees, and has incredible experience at all levels: from leading small team…

Today's guest is Stephanie Wong! Stephanie is the Head of Technical Marketing at Google Cloud, where she blends storytelling and technology to inspire developers and build customer growth. She’s an award-winning host, global keynote speaker, and creator of viral tech content.With Stephanie, we talked about her journey from sales to content creation…

Today's guest is Pramoda Vyasarao! Pramoda is a leadership and communication coach, he has 20+ years of experience in big tech, wrote the book “Beyond Your Limits”, and runs a course called Communication EngineeringWith Pramoda, we will talk about what good communication looks like, especially for engineers and managers, how it impacted his career …

Today's guest is Camille Fournier! Camille is an accomplished CTO and executive with 20+ years of experience in tech, and author of the timeless The Manager’s Path, possibly the most influential book ever about engineering management.With Camille we talked about good vs bad management, the controversial new founder mode, career advice for managers …

Today's guest is David Heinemeier Hansson! David is the creator of Rails, co-founder & CTO of Basecamp, a NYT bestselling author, and professional racing driver for 10+ years!In our chat, we explored many of David's strong opinions on software development, including today's excessive complexity in software and infrastructure, the role of AI, and th…

Today's guest is Henry Poydar! Henry is CEO and founder at Steady, with more than 25 years of experience in tech leadership roles.With Henry, we talked about continuous coordination, an open source framework he co-created, providing a set of principles and practices for running modern, effective engineering teams.Here is what we talked about:(01:25…

Today's guest is Dana Lawson! Dana is CTO at Netlify and held leadership roles at incredible companies like GitHub, New Relic, InVision, and more.With Dana, we talked about her journey, starting in the military, becoming a manager and major lessons she has learned. We also talked about how to hire engineers, how to create a diverse and inclusive te…

Today's guest is Irina Stanescu! Irina is a full-time engineering coach, course instructor, and former manager at Uber and Google.With Irina, we talked about her journey through Silicon Valley, big tech, and high growth startups, balancing IC and management duties, and achieving impact through influence.Here is what we talked about:(01:21) Introduc…

Today's guest is Greg Foster! Greg is CTO at Graphite, a tool that helps teams doing better code reviews, and smaller and faster code changes.With Greg, we talked about what good code reviews look like, how AI is changing the development process, and how the Graphite engineering team works.Here is what we talked about:(02:01) Introduction(03:06) Wh…

Today's guest is Malte Ubl! Malte is CTO at Vercel, the frontend cloud provider, and creator and maintainer of Next.js, the most popular React framework. Malte has also been Engineer Director at Google, where he led Google Search for desktop computers.With Malte, we deep dived into how Vercel works as a team, what could developer experience look li…

Today's guest is Anna Shipman! Anna is CTO at Kooth, former Technical Director at Financial Times, a Keynote speaker and accomplished author.With Anna, we talked about her journey in tech and how to develop a good technical strategy, drawing from stories and examples from her 20 plus years of engineering experience.Here is what we talked about:(00:…

Today's guest is Rebecca Murphey. Rebecca is field CTO at Swarmia, former manager at Stripe and Indeed, and the author of Build: Elements of an Effective Software Organization.With Rebecca, we talked about her journey through Indeed, Stripe and Swarmia and the three pillars of her book, business outcomes, developer productivity, and developer exper…

Today's guest is Rachel Potvin. Rachel is SVP of Engineering at Sanity, ex-VP of Engineering at Github, and previously worked at Google and Ubisoft. She has had an incredible career journey and is a world renowned speaker.With Rachel we talked about her journey across what feels like different generations of companies. We talked about scaling teams…

Today's guest is Denis Yarats. Denis is co-founder & CTO at Perplexity, one of my favorite products and one of the most successful AI startups today. Perplexity was founded less than two years ago and has just raised $250M in venture capital, at a $2B+ evaluation.With Denis, we talked about the state of AI products and his vision of where they're g…

Today's guest is Aditya Agarwal. Aditya is a legend: he joined Facebook as employee #10 and, years later, joined Dropbox as CTO when there were ~20 engineers. Today, he is partner at South Park Commons, through which he invested in more than 300 companies.Today we talked about early stage Facebook, differences and similarities with Dropbox, enginee…

Today's guest is Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb and one of myabsolute favorite writers. I believe I have recommended more articlesfrom her blog than any other author on the newsletter.Today we talked about observability, testing in production, continuous delivery, developer experience and much more.Here is what we talked about:(00:49) Introductio…

Today's guest is Laura Tacho, CTO at DX, engineering leadership coach, and speaker. At DX, she works with hundreds of companies on improving their developer experience and engineering productivity. Here is what we talked about: (02:20) Introduction(03:36) Why measure engineering productivity(05:58) Finding the proper framework(13:33) Value metrics …

Today's guest is Daniel Vassallo, the creator of the Small Bets community, which counts more than 5 ,000 members and includes engineers, entrepreneurs, and creators of all kinds.Daniel is also a former software engineer at AWS, the author of The Good Parts of AWS and created a successful Twitter course.With Daniel, we will talk about his unconventi…

Today's guest is Thiago Ghisi, Director of Engineering at Nubank. Thiago has had an incredible tech career. Before Nubank, he worked at Apple, Amex and ThoughtWorks. He is also a deep thinker, hosts a podcast and constantly shares great advice on X and LinkedIn.During our chat with Thiago, we talked about what makes managers successful, career expe…

Andrew Weaver is co-founder and CEO of CTO Academy, an educational product that works with thousands of CTO today. Andrew has over 25+ years of executive-level experience with companies of various size, including enterprises, SME and early-stage companies across multiple sectors. With Andrew, we discussed gaining the proper skillset to be a good CT…

Wes Kao is a marketing executive, entrepreneur, and advisor who writes an amazing newsletter for high-performers in tech. She is co-founder of Maven, an edtech company that raised $25M from First Round and Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, she co-founded the altMBA with bestselling author Seth Godin. Here is what we talked about: (00:00) Introductio…

Maria Gutierrez is the VP of Engineering at Personio, and ex VP of Engineering and Operations at Twitter.With Maria we talked about how to build healthy and impactful engineering orgs as they scale. We touched on everything from processes to remote work, development cycle, hiring, structuring teams and more.(00:00) Introduction(02:12) Maria's caree…

Kathryn Koehler is the Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix. Her teams focus on the development environment and associated experiences, which enable and empower developers at Netflix to bootstrap, code, build, test, debug, and maintain software more effectively and efficiently. Productivity is an ever-controversial topic in engineering, …

Farhan Thawar is VP of Engineering at Shopify, angel investor, and entrepreneur. Shopify is a public company with thousands of employees, and one of the very few companies of its scale to be remote-first. While other big tech quietly issued RTOs, Shopify doubled down on processes and culture that allowed it to stay remote, or, in their own words: d…

Today’s guest is Kent Beck, original signer of the Agile manifesto, creator of Extreme Programming, and all-round programming legend. With Kent we had the unique opportunity to talk about the big picture. I inquired him about the state of the software engineering craft today, discussing things like: (00:00) Introduction(02:27) Agile vs Power Struct…

Disheng Qiu is VP of Engineering at Translated, one of the largest translation companies in the world, powering localization for the likes of Airbnb, Uber, Skyscanner, and more. Translated has been working on proprietary AI models and tools for 20+ years. It has an internal research team and develops tools that power the work of tens of thousands o…

Aadil Maan is Lead Engineering Program Manager at Humane and a big tech veteran, having worked at the likes of Google, Apple, and Blackberry. Today’s theme is The World Builder Framework — Aadil's own approach to problem solving and solutioning processes, frameworks and workflows for product and engineering teams. Here are a few things we discussed…

Lena Reinhardt has dedicated her career to helping technology leaders build successful engineering organizations. Her background includes roles such as VP of Engineering at CircleCI and TravisCI, along with being a co founder and CEO of a SaaS startup. She now works as a leadership coach, management trainer, and organizational developer. Here are a…

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In this episode of Rails Refactoring Podcast, Wiktor and Marcin are discussing new Frontend-Friendly Rails book. It tells about improving frontend infrastructure provided by Rails. We are covering few topics from the bookبقلم Wiktor Mociun and Marcin Grzywaczewski

Robert Pankowecki & Marcin Grzywaczewski in the fifth episode of the podcast. In this episode we discuss the good and bad sides of React.JS. We talk how and why to introduce it into legacy codebase.بقلم Robert Pankowecki and Marcin Grzywaczewski

Andrzej Krzywda & Adam Hawkins in the fourth episode of the podcast. In this episode we discuss Adam's latest blogpost (see it in shownotes links) about technical and mindset issues of Ruby community.بقلم Andrzej Krzywda and Adam Hawkins

Andrzej Krzywda & Markus Schirp in the third episode of the podcast. We are talking mostly about the problem of test coverage. We're discussing why the popular tools (rcov and simplecov) may give you a false sense of security and coverage.بقلم Andrzej Krzywda and Markus Shirp

Andrzej Krzywda & Robert Pankowecki in the second episode of the podcast. We are talking mostly about The Rails Way. Good side, bad side of it and consequences. We also talk what brought us into Rails, how we feel about and what's in the DNA of the community. Is it testing? Or hate for Java?بقلم Andrzej Krzywda and Robert Pankowecki

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