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Software Engineering Daily episodes

  • Andela with Brice Nkengsa

    Africa has a huge reservoir of untapped technical talent. Tech companies have a huge amount of work they need skilled employees for. Andela recruits the most talented technologists across Africa, shapes them into world-class software developers, and places them with tech companies worldwide such as Google and Microsoft.

    Brice Nkengsa is the director of engineering at Andela, and he joins the show to discuss Andela. This episode touches on many of the themes of Software Engineering Daily–boot camps, scaling an organization, microservices, and the future of work.

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    56 min
  • Andela with Brice Nkengsa
    Africa has a huge reservoir of untapped technical talent. Tech companies have a huge amount of work they need skilled employees for. Andela recruits the most talented technologists across Africa, shapes them into world-class software developers, and places them with tech companies worldwide such as Google and Microsoft. Brice Nkengsa is the director of engineering at Andela, and he joins the show to discuss Andela. This episode touches on manyContinue reading...
    59 min
  • Remote Work with Scott Berkun

    After nine years at Microsoft, Scott Berkun left to become an author. One of his books on project management was read by Matt Mullenweg, the creator of the WordPress blogging tool that runs a large percentage of the internet (including Software Engineering Daily). Scott became friends with the WordPress founder, who is also the CEO of Automattic, a company that sells WordPress hosting and support.

    Around that time, Automattic was run as a completely flat company. Everyone reported to Matt. This was unsustainable, and eventually Matt decided that Automattic should try management, and he convinced Scott to take a break from his writing career to return to the world of software engineering as Automattic’s first manager.

    Scott accepted the role under the condition that he could write a book about the experience, and the result of that agreement is “The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work”, which is a brilliant depiction of what it is like to work at a completely remote software company.

    Scott joins the show today to talk about his book and his career journey–from Microsoft, to writing, to WordPress, and back to writing. He also shares his thoughts on the workplace dynamics that we spend our days in at software companies.

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    55 min
  • Remote Work with Scott Berkun
    After nine years at Microsoft, Scott Berkun left to become an author. One of his books on project management was read by Matt Mullenweg, the creator of the WordPress blogging tool that runs a large percentage of the internet (including Software Engineering Daily). Scott became friends with the WordPress founder, who is also the CEO of Automattic, a company that sells WordPress hosting and support. Around that time, Automattic wasContinue reading...
    58 min
  • Tech Leadership with Jeff Norris

    The role of “tech lead” is a combination of a software engineer, a project manager, and an architect. A tech lead might spend 30% of her time coding and 70% managing a project, resolving conflicts, and planning.

     

    In today’s episode, we discuss the structure of software teams, and when it might make sense to have a tech lead on your team, in contrast to the more common team structure of project managers, engineers, and engineering managers. Jeff Norris, an engineer from ThoughtWorks joins the show to discuss the idea of the tech lead.

     

    This is a great show for anyone in management who is looking for alternative team structures, and this episode might also appeal to engineers who are looking to transition to a role with more variety.

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    44 min
  • Tech Leadership with Jeff Norris
    The role of “tech lead” is a combination of a software engineer, a project manager, and an architect. A tech lead might spend 30% of her time coding and 70% managing a project, resolving conflicts, and planning.   In today’s episode, we discuss the structure of software teams, and when it might make sense to have a tech lead on your team, in contrast to the more common team structureContinue reading...
    46 min
  • Commodity Discussion with Preethi Kasireddy

    A previous episode of Software Engineering Daily called “You Are Not A Commodity” received a lot of feedback, both negative and positive. The episode was a monologue I wrote about why engineers should build products on their own as a default career path, rather than work at a large corporation as a default career path.

     

    A reddit thread about the episode was almost entirely negative. Most of the emails I received about the episode were very positive. Other regular listeners wrote in and said they had mixed feelings. One of those listeners was Preethi Kasireddy, a previous guest of the show.

    In this episode, Preethi gives some counterarguments and questions the ideas that were presented in the “You Are Not A Commodity” episode. This will be a useful discussion for anyone who is thinking about their career path, and whether to go work for a company or do something on their own.

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    34 min
  • Commodity Discussion with Preethi Kasireddy
    A previous episode of Software Engineering Daily called “You Are Not A Commodity” received a lot of feedback, both negative and positive. The episode was a monologue I wrote about why engineers should build products on their own as a default career path, rather than work at a large corporation as a default career path.   A reddit thread about the episode was almost entirely negative. Most of the emailsContinue reading...
    36 min
  • Microsoft Antitrust with Harry First

    Microsoft was the dominant technology company in the 1990’s, until it came under fire for anticompetitive practices. Internet Explorer was tightly coupled to the Windows operating system, which prevented Netscape Navigator–a competing browser–from reaching users on the dominant platform.

     

    This episode is about antitrust–what businesses can and cannot do in the name of competition, what the impact of Microsoft’s legal battles in the late 90’s was, and how the law might respond to potential technology monopolies in the near future–such as Facebook, Google, and Uber.


    Our guest Harry First is a professor of law at New York University School of Law. He wrote a textbook called “The Microsoft Antitrust Cases: Competition Policy for the Twenty-First Century”. 

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    58 min
  • Microsoft Antitrust with Harry First
    Microsoft was the dominant technology company in the 1990’s, until it came under fire for anticompetitive practices. Internet Explorer was tightly coupled to the Windows operating system, which prevented Netscape Navigator–a competing browser–from reaching users on the dominant platform.   This episode is about antitrust–what businesses can and cannot do in the name of competition, what the impact of Microsoft’s legal battles in the late 90’s was, and how theContinue reading...
    1 hr

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