Bits and Trees

Bits and Trees episodes:

• 01.10.2021

  Product Engineers Operating Infrastructure with André Henry and Jeff Koenig

  In this episode, André Henry (Venmo) rejoins us along with Jeff Koenig (Auth0) to discuss the pros and cons of a product engineering team operating their own infrastructure.

  
• 12.21.2019

  Exploding Pi's, Ethics, and Fundamentals with André Henry

  André Henry and I discuss burning up Raspberry Pi Zero's, fundamentals for ops engineers and developers,

  
• 11.24.2019

  Engineer to Cofounder and Back Again with Mat Silva

  Our first guest from my home town of Erie, PA, Mat Silva, walks us through his journey of moving from being a full time engineer, moving into a CTO role as a cofounder of a company with a small team,...

  
• 03.16.2019

  Becoming a CTO and The Soft Stuff with Jim Wrubel

  Jim Wrubel tells us about his path to CTO, his project the Soft Stuff, his experiences with hiring, things new managers need to learn, and moving between independent contributor and managerial tracks.

  
• 01.29.2019

  Vets Who Code with Jerome Hardaway

  Jerome Hardaway, Geek at Arms at Vets Who Code, joins us to discuss the Vets Who Code program, pragmatism / being tactical, and teaching development.

  
• 01.15.2019

  Engineering Management and Remote Working with Derek Prior

  Derek Prior and I take time to chat about how he worked with his team to release the new free private repos at GitHub, our experiences as Engineering Managers, and our love for working remotely.

  
• 11.05.2018

  Pair Programming with Ben Orenstein

  In this episode Ben Orenstein tells us about his experiences with pair programming, moving from consulting to product work, creating a screen sharing application, and more.

  
• 10.24.2018

  SRE and Incident Response with Dirceu Tiegs

  In this episode, Dirceu Tiegs from Auth0 joins me to discuss his role as an Site Reliability Engineer, how he handles Incident Responses, and how to write a good Post-mortem.

  
• 09.24.2018

  Rust and Writing Books with Carol (Nichols || Goulding)

  In this episode, Carol tells us all about the Rust Programming Language, her experiences writing the book, and launching the first Rust consultancy in Rust's early days.

  
• 09.12.2018

  REST API's with Phil Sturgeon

  Phil Sturgeon explains to us why REST is still a rock solid solution for many use cases in 2018, where GraphQL and gRPC have their roles, and gives tips on how to keep your API's reasonable and scalable.

  
• 09.04.2018

  Going Solo with Adam Wathan

  Adam Wathan, host of Full Stack Radio, joins us to talk about his experience starting as an entrepreneur, creating educational products, and more.

  
• 08.26.2018

  Introspection with Caleb Porzio

  In our kickoff episode we speak with Caleb Porzio, co-host of Twenty Percent Time podcast and developer at Tighten Co., about introspection and how he approaches deep thinking.