Software World with Candost Podcast

In this episode of The Software World, I tried something new and spoke without a guest.

I mentioned The Role of a Software Architect in the previous issue of my newsletter. The podcast idea came out from that issue to have a couple of sessions about what I learned about systems and architectural thinking over the last months. This is the first episode about the topic.

Here are the links I mention in the episode:

On Thinking Architecturally by Peter Cripps

The Evolutionary Architect from Building Microservices book by Sam Newman

Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards and Neal Ford

Rumsfeld Matrix

On this episode of the Software World, I welcomed Jim Allen, Head of Engineering at Jimdo. We talked about managing changes in organizations, the reasons for changes, and how to navigate difficult situations caused by the changes.

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If you want to reach out to Jim, you can find him on Twitter @jimallen.

Jim and Dennis's podcast, Yet Another Management Podcast (YAMP), is also available on your favorite podcast platform.

On this episode of the Software World, I welcomed Denise Jacobs, speaker, author, and creativity evangelist. We talked about the inner critic that we all have and how it impacts our creativity. Denise gave answers to my questions regarding how to understand our inner critic and approach it in a better way.

Join thousands of others and enroll in Denise's Linkedin Learning Courses from Linkedin Learning.

Denise's website, where you can find links to buy her book and all the information to invite her as a speaker or for a workshop: denisejacobs.com

You can find all show notes and transcription at https://mediations.candost.blog/s/podcast

In this episode, my guest is Benedicte Raae, the software developer behind POW! App. In this episode of the Software World, we talked about her indie hacker journey and how she navigates the indie hacker life, overcomes challenges, and stays motivated.

You can find show notes on https://mediations.candost.blog/s/podcast

In this episode of the Software World, Candost is talking with Dennis Benkert about how the job requirements change for senior and staff-level software engineers and how they can prioritize their work.

How do you prioritize your work when you grow into senior and staff roles?

Which tasks do you choose to have a better impact on the company?

What are your strategies for deciding which task is better?

Dennis Benkert is an Engineering Manager at Jimdo.

Dennis & Jim's Podcast YAMP (Yet Another Management Podcast).

We talked about two articles from Suzan Bond "When leaders protect the team" and "Your fantasy leadership self." Follow Suzan on Twitter @suzanbond. I really enjoyed our talk with Suzan; I hope you do too.

The popularity and growth of DevOps are very attractive to many people. Site Reliability Engineering shares the same foundational principles with DevOps. Since both topics are very popular since the beginning of the 2010s, engineers can create a good career in both.

This week, we focused on how people can grow in DevOps and SRE. My guest was Rene Hernandez. He is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Fullscript.

If you are looking to become a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer or would like to grow your career in one of them, watch Rene and me.

Rene's Twitter: https://twitter.com/renehr9102

Show Notes

Have you ever asked yourself about you should learn something different than your expertise? In every engineer's career, there comes the point when they have to decide if they want to learn something new. Sometimes it means changing career goals, but sometimes it's expanding the horizon.

Changing the career might look like a step back. If an engineer is on the senior level, they might go back to mid-level. This week we talked about the life of a generalist (or all-rounder) software engineer.

My guest was Ricardo Smania. He is a software engineer at Jimdo. He worked as a software architect, manager, and full-stack engineer before.

Whether you want to be a specialist or a generalist, this session is for you.

Learning frontend development is exciting as discovering something new. And getting better at it has different challenges. Although the frontend ecosystem changes all the time, it doesn't have to be hard. We can apply specific strategies to our learning path to make learning easier and improve our knowledge quickly.

This week, we talked about learning and getting better at front-end development. My guest was Ali Spittel. She is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS Amplify, co-host at Ladybug Podcast, and Blogger at welearncode.com.

Whether you're learning or want to learn frontend development or improve your skills, join Ali and me for this live stream.

Being in the on-call rotation requires a different set of skills. Some people think that they build resilient systems so that they don't need on-call. The purpose of on-call is not to blame someone but to find the root cause.

This week, we talked about building healthy on-call culture and how engineers should approach on-call. 

My guest was Serhat Can. Serhat is a Tech Evangelist at Atlassian, AWS Community Hero, and Global Core Organizer of devopsdays.  

You can find show notes at candost.blog.