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.
Pierre Pureur is the co-author of “Continuous Architecture in Practice” and an acclaimed software architect. In this episode, Pierre shared his own perspectives on the 6 key principles of continuous architecture and described in-depth the two important quality attributes–scalability and performance.
Jana Axline is the founder and Managing Director of Project Genetics. In this episode, Jana explained in-depth about the important role of project management and how it is still much relevant in the current era of agile and “project to product” movement within the tech industry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
