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Virtual meetings were growing in popularity before the need accelerated as a result of the pandemic. Gather is a place where you can create a space for your community today. Users who join find themselves in a shared virtual space that offers the ability to interact with other users as well as interact with the environment itself.

In this episode, I interview Phillip Wang, CEO at Gather about the platform, online communities, and bridging the gap between people, technology, and connecting with each other.

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The gig economy involves independent contractors engaging in flexible jobs. Today gig workers often get work from centralized platforms that facilitate the process of connecting workers with employers in exchange for a fee.  Some workers find the relationship between worker and platform to be adversarial in nature since the platform can establish and enforce rules at its own discretion.

In this episode, I interview Adam Jackson, Founder & CEO of Freelance Labs, builders of Braintrust.  We discuss the state of the gig economy and his vision for how Braintrust can create a new kind of marketplace.

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Venture capital investment has continued to flow into technology startups.  No one builds technology from scratch.  There are cloud services, software libraries, 3rd party services, and software platforms that modern entrepreneurs must adopt to build their products efficiently and quickly.  These layers of infrastructure are a key area for many investors.

In this episode, I interview Tim Chen, managing partner of Essence VC, a venture fund on a mission to help highly technical founders go from zero to one.  We discuss his approach to investment in infrastructure companies, developer tools, and similar areas for early-stage investments.

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The expression firing on all cylinders dates back to the early 1900s and refers to a function of the internal combustion engine.  This expression poetically applies to successful businesses as well.  Each department must operate at peak performance and the couplings between departments need optimization as well.

In this episode, I interview business coach Jon Dwoskin about a variety of topics related to entrepreneurship and how to engineer a successful organization.

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By most accounts, demand for software engineers exceeds supply.  Not just anyone can develop this skill set to the level required to deliver enterprise-grade production code.  For those that can, companies are incentivized to take extra measures to ensure software engineers are as productive as possible.  The pace of business is often throttled by the pace of software releases.

In today’s episode, we speak with Utsav Shah about developer productivity in the context of the monolith, CI/CD, and best practices for growing teams.

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Financial technology or fintech has always been a hot topic.  This is increasingly true in recent years as disruptive companies enter the market to give better alternatives and solutions to consumers.

Current is focused on creating better financial outcomes.  In addition to providing banking services, their app has many tools and reminders to help users learn and execute better money management strategies.  In this episode, I interview Trevor Marshall, CTO of Current about starting a fintech company, how banking software is written, and what opportunities exist for disruption.

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A software engineer will make many mistakes on their career journey.  In time, engineers learn to make smaller mistakes, recognize them faster, and build with appropriate guardrails.  The demands of delivering software in a timely and efficient fashion often demands developers carefully optimize tradeoffs to deliver solutions to the problems at hand.

Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs: How to Make Good Programming Decisions is the book by Tomasz Lelek and Jon Skeet.  In this episode, we interview Tomasz about his experiences as a software engineer and sample the advice found in this book.  Listeners interested in a copy can use the special discount code sedlelek35 at manning.com.

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The Israeli Tech Radar is an opinionated map of the latest technologies and trends in the Israeli tech industry. Now in its fifth edition, the Tech Radar was built in collaboration with Monday, Wix, Riskified, Netapp, Tabula, and other tech companies.

Lior Kanfi is the CEO of Tikal. In this episode, we interview Lior about the Tech Radar as well as his thoughts for addressing the current tech talent shortage.

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This episode is hosted by Kyle Polich of the Data Skeptic podcast. We’re glad to welcome Kyle to the Software Daily team.

Becoming a contributor to an existing software project can be a daunting task for an engineer. A common convention is to add a README file to your repository to serve as a trailhead which gives new visitors step by step instructions for running, exploring, and understanding the structure of the codebase.

The Missing Readme is the recently published book which prepares new software engineers to both survive and succeed.  Learning to code in school, in a bootcamp, or independently can prepare you to write software. This book prepares you to do it effectively in a professional setting.

In this episode, we talk to authors Chris Riccomini and Dmitriy Ryaboy.

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