Creating Zeal Podcast

Marcus has established himself as a go-to coach for tech team leads for organizations of all sizes. We at Zeal have learned a lot from Marcus over the years and lean on him for counsel often. We are excited to introduce you to him if you are just now discovering Marcus.

Featured Links:

• Marcus Blankenship: https://www.marcusblankenship.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/justzeros
• Framework: https://marcusblankenship.com/one-on-one-framework

Michelle May, founder of Seva Foods and Benjii's Canine Cuisine joins us to share the journey from web design/development entrepreneur to packaged food founder. We cover steps and recommendations for founders trying to break into new fields and the challenges of starting a food company.

Featured Links:

• Seva Foods: http://sevafoods.com/
• Benjii's Canine Cuisine: https://benjiis.com/
• Vegan Lady Boss: http://veganladyboss.com/

Adam Wathan is the host of Full Stack Radio, creator of Nitpick-CI, co-founder of Refactoring UI, and creator of Tailwind CSS. We discuss his path to publishing his books, why he prefers utility-first CSS frameworks, and the many other side-projects Adam has created and works on.

• Tailwind CSS
• Refactoring UI
• Full Stack Radio
• Nitpick-CI
• Personal website
• Test-driven Laravel

Dawn Ressel of Next Leap Design gives us some powerful techniques from the UX research and design world. We touch on user testing, design systems and how Dawn weaves the causes that she cares deeply about into her consulting practice.

• Next Leap Design
• Good Food Conference

April Wensel of Compassionate Coding breaks down how burnout and toxic cultures cause software companies to lose effectiveness. She also gives us great tips on team-building and becoming more attractive to diverse candidates.

• April on Twitter
• Compassionate Coding Newsletter

Ben Orenstein, founder of Tuple, shares the journey from engineer to entrepreneurship and the origin story of Tuple. We get into why Tuple will be the best tool for remote pair programming and what Ben's personal goals for Tuple are.

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Krijn van der Raadt of everydev walks us through everydev's hiring and deployment of code school grads on real consulting projects. We dig into his story of how he got involved with everydev and the details of everydev's vision.

everydev

Chris and Jason interview Daniel Beauchamp, the head of Augmented and Virtual Reality at Shopify, to discuss the exciting frontier of VR and AR and its intersection with commerce and the shopping experience.

“Our vision is more and more AR is going to start taking over parts of the commerce journey, where at first it starts with just the product viewing, then maybe product discovery, the product payment… The whole journey could then eventually be all in AR.” —Daniel Beauchamp

• Build the Future of Immersive Shopping

Brian Zambrano, Cloud Architecture Lead at Very and author of "Serverless Design Patterns and Best Practices" joins us to explore the benefits and challenges of serverless architecture

Will Larson, Infrastructure Engineering Manager at Stripe explains how large system migration are an opportunity to reduce tech debt and paints a picture of infrastructure engineering at companies with massive scale.

"The most important thing when you start a migration is to think about you're actually asking dozens or hundreds or maybe thousands of people to take a bet on you...that is why it's so important to make sure that the migrations really solve the problem and two that you're going to be able to complete them once you start" - Will Larson

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