TechKitchen Talks

In our final episode for this year, Glyn Roberts and Dave Hecker discuss this year’s standout moments and what 2023 could bring to the tech industry. Our hosts look at Twitter, funding, self-driving cars, the great resignation, AI, and the almighty fall of FTX. They dive into the year ahead and talk about layoffs, and security threats in auto-coding and crypto. Will the Metaverse finally take off?

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Who’s to blame when projects fail? Glyn Roberts and Dave Hecker zero in on the roles of the leadership team, developers, and fractional CTOs. Our hosts discuss the benefits of testing in production; and, while it may not be a new concept and can deliver a much-needed cost benefit, it comes at the risk of alienating users. They then dive into the recent sentencing of Elizabeth Holmes and how the crimes of Silicon Valley are coming under increasing public scrutiny. Will Elon Musk be next?

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Carnage on the employment dance floor. Glyn Roberts and Dave Hecker discuss layoffs in the tech sector, from Twitter’s rapid-fire approach to being given your digital pink slip by an avatar, and shine a spotlight on the need for leadership teams to cut strategically and swiftly. What if kindness can be used as a tool to retain the talent left behind? They also dive into the technical debt knowledge gaps managers face and answer the question, What can engineers do to better communicate the value of their work?

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As companies embrace automation and AI, some jobs will be created or enhanced, but many are likely to disappear completely. Glyn Roberts and Dave Hecker talk through if some automation can be positive, enabling more productivity. Or is it cheating, promoting unhealthy working habits, and a deceptive workplace culture? Our hosts then discuss the confusion employees feel around equity shares and option pools and if they are actually a good thing for staff. 

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Our CTOs discuss the positive engineering culture of Pollen; a world-class experiences company that monumentally collapsed earlier this year. What exactly made their culture so unique? In addition to this, our resident CTOs take a nostalgic stroll down memory lane, looking at old tech that has managed to cling to its relevancy in today’s world. 

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With ten episodes now under their belt, this week our hosts set their most ambitious goal yet: to stay positive. Some businesses were impressively quick to pivot during the pandemic – Glyn and Dave consider what organisations can learn from that. They then dive into California’s new child online safety bill. How easy will it be for society to achieve the praiseworthy aims behind this new initiative? 

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Several big tech CEOs have recently asserted they’re turning up the heat on staff productivity and performance. Is employee performance really decreasing or is there something else going on here? Glyn Roberts and Dave Hecker, two leading CTOs from London and Silicon Valley, discuss. Our hosts then turn to a related question: what makes developers unhappy? 

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TikTok is looking to sustain its meteoric rise by diversifying into other product areas. While its e-commerce initiative has now crashed and burned, areas like games and music could fare better. When should a company stay focused on one product and when should it expand into new areas? 

Glyn Roberts and Dave Hecker, two leading CTOs from London and Silicon Valley, put their heads together. They then bring microservices and serverless into question. With a huge organisation like Stack Exchange successfully running on such a small architecture set, are we sometimes too quick to jump to the microservices or serverless option? 

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With their reduced-time-to-benefit, scalability and lower costs, SaaS solutions have become ubiquitous. But with drawbacks including reduced control and security, some companies naturally begin looking to other hosting options. At what point should you move away from SaaS? Can hosting providers like AWS become an issue?  

Glyn Roberts and Dave Hecker, two leading CTOs from London and Silicon Valley, discuss. Our hosts then move onto Gen Z – how much of company platforms and marketing efforts should be built around TikTok, Instagram, and the like? 

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Amazon CodeWhisperer, the new AI pair programming tool that uses ‘contextual clues’ to create code recommendations, has just landed. Do the productivity gains of these tools outweigh potential security issues and developer de-skilling? Glyn Roberts and Dave Hecker, two leading CTOs from London and Silicon Valley, discuss. Our hosts then cut through the noise surrounding tech layoffs and industry slowdown. 

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