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By Henry Suryawirawan

Great technical leadership requires more than just great coding skills. It requires a variety of other skills that are not well-defined, and they are not something that we can fully learn in any school or book. Hear from experienced technical leaders sharing their journey and philosophy for building great technical teams and achieving technical excellence. Find out what makes them great and how to apply those lessons to your work and team.

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#68 - 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report - Nathen Harvey

Nathen Harvey is the co-author of 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps Report and a Developer Advocate at Google. In this episode, we discussed in-depth the latest release of the State of DevOps Report, from how the report started, the five key metrics, and several new key findings from the latest report.

#67 - Continuous Architecture (Part 1) - Principles and Essential Activities - Murat Erder

Murat Erder is the co-author of “Continuous Architecture in Practice” and CTO of People and Procurement at Deutsche Bank. In this episode, Murat explained what software architecture is, the six principles of continuous architecture mindset, and the four essential activities of architecture.

#66 - Time and Temporal Modeling in Event Sourcing - Tomasz Jaskula

Tomasz Jaskula is the co-founder of Luteceo and an experienced software developer and architect. In this episode, Tomasz explained in depth about the time concept in business applications and temporal modeling, in particular, bi-temporal modeling, and how it relates to Event Sourcing.

#65 - Developing Your Leadership Agility Fitness in a VUCA World - Nick Horney

Nick Horney is the author of “VUCA Masters” and founder of Agility Consulting. In this episode, Nick shared his innovations in leadership agility that include AGILE Model® and Leadership Agility Fitness, which are the cornerstones for becoming inspiring leaders in the current VUCA world, i.e. the VUCA Masters.

#64 - Principles for Designing Successful Web APIs - James Higginbotham

James Higginbotham is the author of “Principles of Web API Design”. In this episode, James explained why it is extremely important to design APIs properly and shared the five key important principles of API design. He also recommended the API Design-First approach using the ADDR process.

#63 - Being an Effective Generalist & Building Good Developer Experience - Deepu K Sasidharan

Deepu K Sasidharan is a polyglot developer and a Senior Developer Advocate for DevOps at Okta. In this episode, Deepu shared the importance of being a polyglot and generalist developer, his tips for learning new stuffs, why interview practices should be improved, and how to build a good developer experience.

#62 - You're Never Coding Alone, How to Be a Good Team Coder - Fernando Doglio

Fernando Doglio is the author of “Skills of a Software Developer”. In this episode, Fernando shared tips on how to be a successful software developer that includes how to work well within a team, avoiding over-engineering and early optimization, succeeding in technical interviews, and writing technical books.

#61 - The Programmer's Brain and the Importance of Cognition - Felienne Hermans

Felienne Hermans is the author of “The Programmer’s Brain” and an Associate Professor at Leiden University. In this episode, Felienne explained why programming is one of the most demanding cognitive activities, the 3 different cognitive processes, and how to get good at reading code and naming things.

#60 - Software Tradeoffs and How to Make Good Programming Decisions - Tomasz Lelek

Tomasz Lelek is the author of “Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs”. In this episode, Tomasz gave advice on how software developers should approach the potential software mistakes and explained some typical trade-offs when making software engineering design decisions.

#59 - DevOps Solutions to Operations Anti-Patterns - Jeffery Smith

Jeffery Smith is the author of “Operations Anti-Patterns, DevOps Solutions”. In this episode, Jeffery described DevOps essentials and explained the CAMS DevOps framework. We also discussed three anti-patterns taken from his book: paternalist syndrome, alert fatigue, and wasting perfectly good incident.