Maintainable

Cameron Jacoby - Am I Learning From This?


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Robby has a chat with Cameron Jacoby (she/her/hers), a Senior Full-Stack Engineer at BetterUp, a platform that uses world-class coaching and science-backed solutions that help people grow personally and professionally. The one thing that Cameron says should stand out about code being maintainable is that it should be easy to read and understand. She explains why procedural code can often be easier to communicate with and highlights the importance of having helpful data metrics for most new features one works on.

Robby and Cameron also discuss real-world approaches to tracking metrics for monitoring purposes, the benefits of using feature flags, especially within internal-facing software applications, the struggles engineering teams have with maintaining a staging environment, how being on-call is one of the fastest ways to ramp up one’s debugging skills and build intuition as a software engineer, and so much more. Stay tuned!

Helpful Links:
  • Personal Website - https://www.cameronjacoby.com/
  • LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjacoby/
  • Stitch Fix - https://www.stitchfix.com/
  • BetterUp - https://www.betterup.com/

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