In this episode, Amir interviews Ryan Fox, VP of Engineering at Super, about their journey with developer internal tooling and CICD. Ryan talks about the growth of the engineering team and the current focus on internal tooling. He discusses how the team views these internal tools as a competitive advantage.

Highlights:

[00:00:00] Super's journey and growth. 

[00:04:27] Mission-aligned teams. 

[00:08:33] Elastic Beanstalk's limitations. 

[00:13:26] Canarying support. 

[00:17:00] Deploy time and frequency. 

[00:19:27] Engineering team competitive advantage. 

[00:24:37] How to measure team productivity. 

[00:26:55] Continuous deployment and lessons learned. 

[00:31:09] Maintaining end-to-end testing.

Guest:

Ryan Fox is the VP of Engineering at Super.com, a mobile commerce and fintech platform focused on saving money for people who need to save, not just want to save. Super.com is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in North America and has raised more than USD 100 million to date. Previously, Ryan worked as both a SWE and SRE at Google, where he worked on systems handling millions of requests per second.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-m-fox/

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