The Confident Commit

By CircleCI

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Covering topics ranging from pipeline security to engineering team efficiency, The Confident Commit is for anyone looking to join the conversation on how to deliver software better and faster. Listen in today!

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The Confident Commit episodes:

02.23.2024
Achieving AI development at scale ft. Luis Ceze of OctoAI
In this episode, Rob is joined by Luis Ceze, CEO of OctoAI and a distinguished professor of computer science at the University of Washington. Together, they unpack the surge of interest in AI, attributing it to the convergence of factors...
02.09.2024
Exploring the AI impact on Logistics ft. Carolyn Mooney
In this episode, Rob is joined by Carolyn Mooney, the CEO of Nextmv, a decision ops platform. As a seasoned expert in Decision Science, Carolyn delves into the nuanced differences in decision optimization and logistics across various industries, drawing from...
01.12.2024
What's in store for AI in 2024 with Patrick Debois
In this episode, Rob is joined by Patrick Debois, a seasoned industry expert and DevOps pioneer. Patrick shares his personal odyssey within the realm of DevOps, reflecting on the current state of the industry compared to his initial expectations. The...
12.08.2023
Dave Farley reflects on 25 years of software development & the future of AI
In this episode Rob is joined by Dave Farley, software legend and author of books "Continuous Delivery" and "Modern Software Engineering”. The two tackle the essence of software development culture and the current state of software delivery. They unpack why...
12.01.2023
What’s next for CI/CD? Analyst predictions
In today’s episode, Rob is joined by CircleCI’s own Aisling Conroy. Aisling, a key player in CircleCI’s product marketing and competitive intelligence, provides a window into the thoughts of analysts in the ever-evolving CI/CD space. Their discussion explores how the...
11.22.2023
AI and the evolution of learning: Insights from Coding with Lewis
In this episode, Rob sits down with Lewis Menelaws from Coding with Lewis, a prominent social media influencer and content creator specializing in entertaining and empowering software developers. Together, they explore the evolving landscape of learning the craft, drawing comparisons...
11.17.2023
ML for software engineers ft. Gideon Mendels of Comet ML
In this episode, Rob explores the fascinating crossroads of machine learning and software engineering with Gideon Mendels, the co-founder and CEO of Comet ML. Gideon navigates the often ambiguous world of training ML models, focusing on building a common language...
10.27.2023
Getting GenAI into your product roadmap
In this episode, dive deep into the world of AI-enabled products and the push to explore and integrate them at CircleCI. Rob is joined by Aakar Shroff, CircleCI’s VP of product. Aakar shares valuable insights into AI product development and...
10.20.2023
Testing GenAI: How to approach nondeterministic software development
Michael Webster, principal engineer at CircleCI, talks to Rob about testing AI-enabled applications. In this episode, learn how to face the unique challenges posed by the probabilistic and non-deterministic nature of AI output, as well as the importance of subjective...
10.13.2023
GenAI in production: how we built AI into CircleCI
In this episode, you’ll learn how to empower your team to do the most challenging thing when it comes to AI - getting started! Rob is joined by Kira Muehlbauer and Ryan Hamilton, two engineers who worked on building a...
05.26.2023
Season 3 finale: Top tips for teams + Rob's best team of all time
In this finale episode, Rob Zuber explores what he has learned from the season on what makes teams great. Rob recaps how to achieve people-centered scaling and debates whether revolutions in software delivery exist. Plus, get to know Rob better...
05.05.2023
Unleashing creativity: trust & leadership in teams, inspired by jazz
What can successful ad hoc jazz groups teach us about trust, personal preparedness, and leadership dynamics? In this special episode Rob is joined by jazz guitarist, Jeff Massanari, to explore the similarities between high-functioning jazz groups and software teams. Through...
04.21.2023
How to position yourself for the AI revolution ft. Steve Yegge of Sourcegraph
How do we keep up with this rapidly changing AI revolution? Steve Yegge, Head of Engineering at Sourcegraph joins Rob to discuss all things generative AI. Rob and Steve discuss the “innovator’s dilemma” and the concerns around jobs and productivity.Have...
04.07.2023
DevOps is dead? Nope, it is maturing ft. Jesse Robbins of Heavybit
In this episode, Rob sits down with the DevOps “party starter” himself, Jesse Robbins, to discuss the current state of software delivery. Is DevOps really dead, or are we simply witnessing a maturing model as organizations grow and evolve? Tune...
03.24.2023
Why psychological safety matters ft. CEO of Pulumi, Joe Duffy
Joe Duffy, co-founder and CEO of Pulumi, joins Rob in this episode to discuss how we can become architects of culture in our environment. What is psychological safety and how can your team achieve it? How can psychological safety, blameless...
03.10.2023
Scaling your org with teams in mind ft. CTO of Apollo GraphQL, Matt DeBergalis
In this episode, Matt DeBergalis gives us an inside look into what it took to scale Apollo GraphQL with teams in mind. From hiring new members to equipping and empowering current ones, tune in to hear Matt share valuable perspectives...
02.24.2023
Curating culture ft. Raji Subramanian, CTO of Opendoor
Raji Subramanian sits down with Rob to talk about her experience being on several world-class teams. At Amazon, Pro.com, and OpenDoor, Raji has a developed a deep understanding of what it takes to build a culture that is customer-centric, operates...
02.10.2023
Gene Kim on what makes teams great
To kick off season 3, Rob is joined by DevOps enthusiast and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, Gene Kim. Gene has spent years researching and documenting the evolution of DevOps. In this episode, hear Gene conceptualize high-performing teams using a...
11.18.2022
Season 2 finale: How to grow from failure in 2023 + Rob's worst failure
In the finale episode of season 2, our podcast producer Julia McClellan turns the tables on Rob to see what he's really learned from interviewing 18 top tech leaders in 2022.Rob reflects on how to grow, communicate, and change our...
11.11.2022
Leveraging failure to achieve scale ft. Shailesh Kumar, SVP of Engineering at ClickUp
How do you not take failure personally, but instead use it as a tool for growth?Shailesh Kumar, SVP of Engineering at ClickUp, sits down with Rob to share his experiences being a part of numerous organizations on the brink of...
10.28.2022
Turo's approach to reliability with real-world objects ft. Avinash Gangadharan
What reliability factors does Turo have to consider when it comes to transportation and real-world objects?Avinash Gangadharan, CTO of Turo, joins Rob to discuss the complexities involved in managing software for a car sharing marketplace. He shares valuable strategies and...
10.14.2022
The "aha moment" fallacy ft. Justin Bauer, CPO of Amplitude Analytics
We all love a good “aha moment” story, where an innovative product comes by a moment of brilliance. But most successful ventures involve a continuous journey of testing to see if something works. Justin Bauer, Chief Product Officer at Amplitude...
09.30.2022
What role does ingenuity play in software development? ft. Bryan Finster of Defense Unicorns
Is it possible that the new tech and clever ideas can get in the way of adding value to our business?Bryan Finster, Distinguished Engineer at Defense Unicorn, sits down with Rob and shares how his perspective on solving business problems...
09.16.2022
Experimenting our way to success ft. Aniel Sud, CTO of Optimizely
In this episode, Rob is joined by Optimizely CTO, Aniel Sud, to discuss the importance of experimenting for growth. Entrepreneurship and innovation require courage, but having courage can bring on emotions that make it difficult for us to experiment objectively....
09.02.2022
Do we all benefit equally from failure? ft. Lisa Gelobter
How do you restructure your team, language, and practices so that your team can grow from failure?Lisa Gelobter, CEO of tEQuitable sits down with Rob to share her mission: helping companies create culture that works, for everyone. In this episode,...
08.19.2022
Overcoming data chaos ft. Thomas Hazel, founder of ChaosSearch
In this episode, Rob is joined by Thomas Hazel, founder and CTO of ChaosSearch. Every software company has tons of data to manage. Have we set ourselves up for failure? How do we recover from a data mess? Learn how...
08.05.2022
Securing software supply chain without panicking ft. Chainguard co-founder Kim Lewandowski
Chainguard co-founder, Kim Lewandowski joins Rob to discuss the ways she presses forward in the fear-driven world of software supply chain security. In any kind of mistake or failure, security breaches have to be something that we can learn from....
07.22.2022
How to communicate about failure ft. CircleCI VP of Comms, Emma Webb
This season we've been talking about dealing with failure, so we decided to bring in an expert to explain how she communicates about failure. Rob sits down with CircleCI's VP of corporate communications, Emma Webb to dive deep on:Learning from...
07.08.2022
How the best leaders are fueled by failure ft. TaxBit CTO, Tramale Turner
How should leaders be showing up during failure? Rob sits down with TaxBit CTO, Tramale Turner to dive deep on embracing failure.In this episode, learn how to integrate failure as part of your company culture, when to ask pertinent questions,...
06.24.2022
Why focus on developer productivity? ft. Gradle CTO, Justin Reock
Rob sits down with Justin Reock to discuss developer productivity engineering (DPE). Get answers to valuable questions like, Why should you focus on DPE?How can you find the bottlenecks in flow? Where is the productivity gap most commonly found? How...
06.10.2022
How to change your mind about failure with Rollbar CPO, Cyrus Radfar
Nearly every project can benefit from improvements, but which effort has the most impact? Rob sits down with Rollbar CPO Cyrus Radfar to discuss how to reframe your mindset on failure, knowing and operating from your top-level goal, and making...
05.27.2022
Drew McManus on Agile in practice and lessons from Pivotal Labs
Rob sits down with Drew McManus, CEO of 33 Teams to discuss Agile development. Hear stories from Drew's time at Pivotal Labs and the valuable lessons he's taking with him. This episode covers how to suggest change, finding the best...
05.13.2022
Incident response: leadership & psychological safety with Jeli founder Nora Jones
Incident response can tricky. How do you create a culture prepared to handle it in a healthy and efficient way? What should and shouldn't leaders be involved in? How do you create a psychologically safe environment? Find out in this...
04.29.2022
How Kubernetes dominated the containers space ft. Amazon EKS GM Chandler Hoisington
Rob is joined by Amazon EKS GM, Chandler Hoisington to discuss the speedy rise of Kubernetes. Chandler explains the power of getting the right tooling for your team and how sometimes the costs of moving fast may be worth the...
04.15.2022
The key principles that doubled eBay's software delivery productivity ft. Randy Shoup
Rob is joined by Randy Shoup, VP of Engineering at eBay to discuss how to deliver fast, without losing quality. Learn about the value of consistent teams, having a long-term vision, and diligently measuring against key success metrics. Tune in...
04.01.2022
How mission critical services build for failure ft. Hector Aguilar of Okta
If you can’t get through Okta, you can’t do your job. But failures happen. With this reality is not about preventing failure but about getting really good at dealing with failure. Rob is joined by Hector Aguilar, former VP of...
03.18.2022
Docker's genius shift: How one decision set the course for success ft. Justin Cormack
Docker CTO Justin Cormack joins Rob Zuber to discuss how Docker moved from very few paid users among millions of others to their current level of success. In this episode, Cormack shares the paths Docker took to transform its massive...
01.07.2022
Season 1 finale: The top 3 themes for software leaders in 2022
CircleCI CTO Rob Zuber reflects on season 1 of The Confident Commit, finding the common threads that emerged, including these top 3 themes for software leaders: complexity, scale, and people. Listen to Rob's take on where software is headed and...
12.10.2021
How AI and ML will impact the future of software development with Nathan Mellis
Rob sits down with Nathan Mellis, Director of Engineering at Modzy to discuss all things ML and AI in the space of software development. Get answers to questions like, How will ML and AI tools help the unique problems of...
11.26.2021
10 practices that are changing in software today with Alex Williams
Rob sits down with Alex Williams, founder and editor in chief of The New Stack, to discuss the several changes occurring in software development. Alex shares what he's been hearing on everything from API management to synchronizing supply chain to...
11.12.2021
Collapsing your model for the sake of product-market fit ft. Grant Miller
Rob sits down with Replicated co-founder and CEO, Grant Miller to discuss the evolution of orchestration and shifting fast to find product-market fit. Grant recalls a time when Replicated needed to change its model quickly to achieve the success it...
10.29.2021
Creating the ideal dev experience with Pulumi’s Kat Cosgrove & Matt Stratton
Rob sits down with Pulumi staff developer advocates, Matt Stratton and Kat Cosgrove to discuss the complexities of systems and team management. Join the discussion on important topics such as, The importance of automating of repeated tasksCultivating a zero blame...
10.15.2021
Embrace simplicity: the #1 rule for software leaders ft. Deepak Giridharagopal
Rob sits down with Deepak Giridharagopal, CTO of Puppet to discuss the lessons they've learned through years as software leaders. Deepak shares the history and trajectory of Puppet, navigating shifting roles as your company scale, and his top leadership practices...
10.01.2021
CircleCI's newest and oldest employee reflect on company turning 10
In this special episode of The Confident Commit, Rob celebrates CircleCI's 10 year anniversary with two CircleCI guests: the company's longest-tenured engineer, Gordon Syme, and one of our newest employees, our SVP Engineering, JP LeBlanc, to discuss the company's past,...
09.17.2021
Observability and CI/CD: meaningful measurement with Charity Majors
Rob sits down with Charity Majors to discuss the journey to creating Honeycomb, business building practices, and the importance of proper CI/CD and monitoring. Charity gives us the latest insights on observability and the necessities for engineering team success. What...
09.03.2021
Observability improving speed and reliability with Ben Sigelman
Rob sits down with Lightstep CEO, Ben Sigelman to discuss observability and how it connects with delivering change with confidence.Get answers to questions like,What is observability vs monitoring, tracing, and logging? Do they all have their own jobs or is...
08.20.2021
Amplifying your organizational expertise with Marko Gargenta
Rob sits down with Marko Gargenta to discuss helping developers build real knowledge about delivering software effectively. Marko shares how he came to realize how vital learning, training, and empowering new knowledge is for aspiring technical professionals. For many organizations,...
08.06.2021
Embedding empathy in your software development ft. Andrea Goulet
Rob interviews Andrea Goulet, Co-Founder of Corgibytes, and a prominent thought leader in the technology industry.Get answers to big questions like, - Is there a change afoot in software that makes empathy more relevant now? Or is talking about empathy...
07.23.2021
Designing your org for fast flow of change with Matthew Skelton
Rob interviews co-author of Team Topologies and founder of Conflux, Matthew Skelton on how to structure your team for a fast flow of change. Discover the signs, symptoms, and proper metrics that indicate your organization's structure may need a...
07.09.2021
Architecture meets delivery with Chris Richardson
DevOps pros know that architecture can enable or inhibit a team’s ability to make changes quickly and confidently. Rob interviews Chris Richardson about engineering metrics that can help teams evaluate the effectiveness of their architecture. Rob and Chris discuss how...

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The Confident Commit episodes:

Achieving AI development at scale ft. Luis Ceze of OctoAI

Exploring the AI impact on Logistics ft. Carolyn Mooney

What's in store for AI in 2024 with Patrick Debois

Dave Farley reflects on 25 years of software development & the future of AI

What’s next for CI/CD? Analyst predictions

AI and the evolution of learning: Insights from Coding with Lewis

ML for software engineers ft. Gideon Mendels of Comet ML

Getting GenAI into your product roadmap

Testing GenAI: How to approach nondeterministic software development

GenAI in production: how we built AI into CircleCI

Season 3 finale: Top tips for teams + Rob's best team of all time

Unleashing creativity: trust & leadership in teams, inspired by jazz

How to position yourself for the AI revolution ft. Steve Yegge of Sourcegraph

DevOps is dead? Nope, it is maturing ft. Jesse Robbins of Heavybit

Why psychological safety matters ft. CEO of Pulumi, Joe Duffy

Scaling your org with teams in mind ft. CTO of Apollo GraphQL, Matt DeBergalis

Curating culture ft. Raji Subramanian, CTO of Opendoor

Gene Kim on what makes teams great

Season 2 finale: How to grow from failure in 2023 + Rob's worst failure

Leveraging failure to achieve scale ft. Shailesh Kumar, SVP of Engineering at ClickUp

Turo's approach to reliability with real-world objects ft. Avinash Gangadharan

The "aha moment" fallacy ft. Justin Bauer, CPO of Amplitude Analytics

What role does ingenuity play in software development? ft. Bryan Finster of Defense Unicorns

Experimenting our way to success ft. Aniel Sud, CTO of Optimizely

Do we all benefit equally from failure? ft. Lisa Gelobter

Overcoming data chaos ft. Thomas Hazel, founder of ChaosSearch

Securing software supply chain without panicking ft. Chainguard co-founder Kim Lewandowski

How to communicate about failure ft. CircleCI VP of Comms, Emma Webb

How the best leaders are fueled by failure ft. TaxBit CTO, Tramale Turner

Why focus on developer productivity? ft. Gradle CTO, Justin Reock

How to change your mind about failure with Rollbar CPO, Cyrus Radfar

Drew McManus on Agile in practice and lessons from Pivotal Labs

Incident response: leadership & psychological safety with Jeli founder Nora Jones

How Kubernetes dominated the containers space ft. Amazon EKS GM Chandler Hoisington

The key principles that doubled eBay's software delivery productivity ft. Randy Shoup

How mission critical services build for failure ft. Hector Aguilar of Okta

Docker's genius shift: How one decision set the course for success ft. Justin Cormack

Season 1 finale: The top 3 themes for software leaders in 2022

How AI and ML will impact the future of software development with Nathan Mellis

10 practices that are changing in software today with Alex Williams

Collapsing your model for the sake of product-market fit ft. Grant Miller

Creating the ideal dev experience with Pulumi’s Kat Cosgrove & Matt Stratton

Embrace simplicity: the #1 rule for software leaders ft. Deepak Giridharagopal

CircleCI's newest and oldest employee reflect on company turning 10

Observability and CI/CD: meaningful measurement with Charity Majors

Observability improving speed and reliability with Ben Sigelman

Amplifying your organizational expertise with Marko Gargenta

Embedding empathy in your software development ft. Andrea Goulet

Designing your org for fast flow of change with Matthew Skelton

Architecture meets delivery with Chris Richardson

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