Refactoring Podcast

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October 04, 2024Communication Engineering 💬 — with Pramoda Vyasarao
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 Engineering
With Pramoda, we will talk about what good communication looks like, especially for engineers and managers, how it impacted his career and the career of the leaders he helps.
Here is what we talked about:
(02:05) Introduction
(02:51) The Toastmasters Club
(07:12) Engineering Communication issues
(10:18) Communication through Pramoda's career
(13:28) The TALL framework
(19:11) Evaluation vs Information
(20:44) The TALL framework: Asking
(34:19) The GROW model
(36:18) The TALL framework: Listening
(38:05) The Path to action
(46:04) From feelings to facts
(50:38) The TALL framework: Leadership
(53:51) Get a coach!
(55:28) Mentoring vs Coaching
(58:39) Beyond your Limits: a look on Pramoda's work
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Communication Engineering course: https://www.changesmith.me/communication

Beyond Your Limits book: Amazon
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September 20, 2024Founder Mode & The Manager’s Path 👑 — with Camille Fournier
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 and her next book about platform engineering.
Here is what we talked about:
(02:01) Introduction
(03:51) About the founder mode
(11:46) Good weed, bad weeds
(17:49) Finding "the formula"
(21:24) Managing at different levels
(28:03) The identity war
(32:55) The staples of management
(39:53) Having a strong opinion
(43:21) Staying valuable
(49:53) Keep your skills valuable
(55:15) Platform engineering
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September 06, 2024Merchants of Complexity 🏯 — with DHH
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 the future of open source.
We also talked about his racing and how he approaches learning any topic from scratch.
Here is what we talked about:
(02:20) Introduction
(03:42) Merchants of Complexity
(13:19) Innovating the dev experience
(21:53) Complexity in small projects
(28:14) Incentives hurt open source
(32:49) Subscription vs ONCE
(35:24) David and AI
(47:27) Using AI as training wheels
(49:42) The art of learning
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August 23, 2024Continuous Coordination 🔀 — with Henry Poydar
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) Introduction
(02:25) Henry's Career
(13:23) Create async communication
(16:47) Keeping a steady beat
(23:02) Define a necessary meeting
(26:00) The proper alignment
(30:58) Applying continuous coordination
(37:06) Discovering how your team works
(38:38) Managing in the AI era
(44:27) How remote can improve working
(48:20) How AI is affecting team work
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August 09, 2024Dana’s Journey, Hiring Engineers & AI 🗺️ — with Dana Lawson
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 team, and the impact of AI on engineering.
Here is what we talked about:
(01:25) Introduction
(02:07) Dana's tech journey
(08:43) Career's tipping points
(14:53) Balancing technical and managing skills
(19:32) Connecting is key
(22:11) Hiring in 2024
(28:04) How AI is affecting hiring
(32:54) Pursuing diversity in a team
(43:39) Pushing boundaries and growth
(45:47) Integrating AI in the workflow
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July 26, 2024The Power of Influence 📣 — with Irina Stanescu
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) Introduction
(02:02) Irina’s first steps
(06:10) Joining Google
(08:15) From Google to Uber
(10:16) Being a young TLM
(14:34) The restraints of a TLM
(18:14) Uber vs Google
(22:01) Impact through influence
(28:09) Training your influence skills
(35:42) Applying influence in specific roles
(38:04) How to be an helpful EM
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July 12, 2024 Code Reviews, AI, and Modern Engineering 🔍 — with Greg Foster
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) What is Graphite?
(05:05) Graphite's code reviewing
(09:58) Combining different workflows
(13:07) Monorepos vs polyrepos
(17:28) Conducting code reviews
(21:57) The landscape of automated review
(25:09) The hidden meaning behind skipping code reviews
(27:43) Common mistakes
(29:53) Integrating AI in code review
(34:36) AI - human balance
(38:27) Tech apprenticeship in the AI era
(41:14) Graphite's structure
(45:15) A dev tool from devs
(47:23) Delivery process at Graphite
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June 28, 2024How Vercel Works 🔍 — with Malte Ubl
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 like, and the future of AI-enabled applications.
Here is what we talked about:
(01:21) Introduction
(02:17) How Vercel works
(05:01) Vercel team strategy
(06:29) The journey of a new code
(13:45) Do we need engineering managers?
(16:59) Necessary and useless roles
(22:51) Vercel' developing strategy
(33:19) The ideal development process
(37:25) Finding and avoiding bottlenecks
(40:48) Thoughts on AI shift
(47:46) Adapting software to AI interaction
(53:01) AI and open source
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June 21, 2024Good Tech Strategy / Bad Tech Strategy 🔮 — with Anna Shipman
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:
(00:54) Introduction
(01:20) Anna's journey in Tech
(06:36) Going from public to private
(09:17) What does Kooth do?
(12:53) Technical strategy definition
(15:01) Applying the strategy
(24:53) Improving over time
(30:10) The strategy framework
(33:38) The pitfalls of setting up a strategy
(36:23) Converge team and strategy
(41:45) The strategist authority
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June 14, 2024Elements of an Effective Software Organization 🔧 — with Rebecca Murphey
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 experience.
Here is what we talked about:
(00:58) Introduction
(02:15) Rebecca's Journey
(08:24) Joining Swarmia
(15:02) 1st Pillar: Business outcomes
(23:08) Team structure & Company architecture
(29:18) Keeping the lights on
(33:56) 2nd Pillar: Developer productivity
(38:44) Using numbers in the right way
(43:25) The best way of working
(51:07) 3rd Pillar: Developer experience
(56:52) The effects of "Build" on Swarmia
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