Dev Interrupted
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The Dev Interrupted Podcast is the premier podcast for software engineering leaders. Hosts Dan Lines, Ben Lloyd Pearson, and Andrew Zigler invite expert guests from around the world to explore strategy and day-to-day topics ranging from dev team metrics to accelerating delivery. Join us weekly for new episodes.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Dev Interrupted episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Dev Interrupted for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Dev Interrupted episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
Why Teams Will Break This Year (and How to Fix Them) | Battery Venture’s Dharmesh Thakker
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02/11/25 • 66 min
Live from San Francisco, Dev Interrupted explores the future of developer productivity with Ori Keren (CEO, LinearB) and Dharmesh Thakker (General Partner, Battery Ventures). The conversation, recorded before a live audience in San Francisco, examines the exciting possibilities and potential challenges of AI-powered tools, from code completion and review to the more advanced agentic AI.
Moderated by Ben Lloyd Pearson, this episode captures the excitement of the event, including audience Q&A and feedback. Ori and Dharmesh share their insights on how these trends will shape the future of software development over the next 12 to 24 months, offering predictions and practical advice for engineering teams and leaders. Discover how these shifts will impact your work and the broader tech industry.
Check out:
- 8 Habits of Highly Productive Engineering Teams
- Beyond the DORA Frameworks
- Introducing AI-Powered Code Review with gitStream
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Referenced in today's show:
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says They've 'Been on the Wrong Side of History
- Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 10 years in the industry
- Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
- NASA is going to do a Twitch stream from the ISS
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07/04/23 • 38 min
In this week's episode of Dev Interrupted, we’re focusing on the increasingly valuable role of DevRels. Francesco Ciulla, Developer Advocate at the open-source daily.dev community - which has more than 100,000 daily active users - joins us for a DevRel deep dive.
Listen as Francesco explains how a career change in his thirties set him on a path towards becoming a developer, being hired by the European Space Agency and, eventually, landing a role as a developer advocate, crediting much of his success on his ability to leverage social media to advance his career.
Outside of his personal story, Francesco shares his thoughts on connecting with devs, why YouTube is such a powerful platform and settles the debate on the kind of content developers are most interested in.
Show Notes:
- Accelerate State of DevOps Survey
- Francesco's YouTube
- daily.dev | where developers grow together
- Dev Interrupted YouTube
- Register for our summer series!
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How Microsoft Integrates AI into Security | Binil Pillai
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04/02/24 • 29 min
In the past year, ransomware attacks have been up almost 300%, with over 50% targeting small businesses. To help mitigate this increase, Microsoft is launching their new Security Copilot, and we sat down with their SMB Security Strategy Head, Binil Pillai, to learn more.
We dive into the importance of SMBs assessing their security posture, how to leverage AI for efficient threat detection and response, and the role of Microsoft's partner ecosystem in providing comprehensive security solutions. The episode concludes with advice for SMB leaders on starting their security assessments and the benefits of integrating AI into their cybersecurity strategies.
Episode Highlights:
01:39 Why is SMB security a priority for Microsoft?
07:34 Key security challenges for SMBs
09:26 How can SMBs leverage AI within security?
16:28 How VPs of Engineering can use new tech to deal with threats
20:25 Microsoft Security Copilot
24:30 Where is the best place to learn about Microsoft's security strategy?
Show Notes:
- Microsoft Copilot for Security is generally available on April 1, 2024 | Microsoft Security Blog
- Microsoft Copilot for Security: General Availability details - Microsoft Community Hub
- Microsoft 365 Business Premium | Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Defender for Business | Microsoft Security
- Automatic attack disruption in Microsoft 365 Defender | Microsoft Learn
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Microsoft Security
- What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud? - Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Microsoft Learn
- Solution Assessment Program (microsoft.com)
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08/27/22 • 33 min
Your early tech stack decisions won’t ensure long term success, but they can certainly set you up for long term failure.
Pragmatists rejoice! This week’s episode of Dev Interrupted features Sam Lambert, CEO & President of PlanetScale, a tech leader known as the ‘Oracle of Pragmatism’.
In a winding conversation that touches on Sam’s time at GitHub, where he helped the then 40th most-trafficked website in the world run on just 2 servers, to his experience working at Facebook where he learned that you don’t need to sacrifice quality in order to move fast, this episode has the insights you need to make straightforward, no BS decisions about your tech stack.
Or as Sam says, learn how to avoid “the new hotness” in order to build a culture that reflects the often boring decisions that make or break a company.
Show Notes
- Register for Interact on October 25th
- Learn about the power of Continuous Merge
- Check out PlanetScale
- Want to try LinearB? Book a LinearB Demo and use the "Dev Interrupted Podcast" discount code.
- Join our Discord Community
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08/06/22 • 46 min
Everyone who manages a team would like to think that their employees admire them as individuals and as leaders. That you make an impact on those employees while they work under you and long after you end up moving to new companies and opportunities.
One such engineering leader who has mastered the mix of manager, friend and mentor is Carolyn Vo. A Partner and Head of Engineering at Oliver Wyman, Carolyn is one of engineering’s leading advocates on the benefits of creating a culture of approachability, tinkering and healthy levity.
In fact, in our conversation, Carolyn makes a strong argument that without honing the art of approachable management, not only does productivity suffer, but engineers are consistently looking for the door.
One of our liveliest pods to date, we hope you can absorb Carolyn’s insights and energy no matter where you are on your leadership journey.
Access the engineering benchmarks report here: http://linearb.io/benchmarks/
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Combining Machine Learning and Human Intelligence at Unbabel
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12/18/21 • 38 min
Companies that do business in the native language of their customer build better customer relationships. Although this may seem fairly obvious, it's easier said than done.
After all, when your customer base is spread around the world, how do you scale your customer service?
Unbabel has built their business around the idea that customer service can be delivered in any language quickly and efficiently with the right blend of AI and human intelligence, creating a platform they call "Language Operations" or LangOps.
Jonathan Sowler, VP of Engineering at Unbabel, joins Dev Interrupted to talk about machine learning, what it takes to build a product that seamlessly integrates AI and human-powered translations, and why the future of language involves emojis.
Dan and Jonathan also rundown LinearB metrics and why Jonathan believes implementing LinearB has improved the health of Unbabel's engineering team.
**With the holidays fast-approaching, the team here at LinearB will be going on a short break to unwind and spend time with our families. Coinciding with our short break, will be the end of season 1 of the podcast and the beginning of season 2.
You’ll hear from us one more time before the year is over - on Wednesday, December 29th. That episode will mark the end of season 1 of the podcast.
Then we will return to our normal schedule on January, 8th 2022, with the start of season 2. We have some incredible guests lined up for season 2, so stay tuned!
From our family here at LinearB to yours, happy holidays !**
Unbabel's hiring: https://unbabel.com/careers/
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How a Trained Therapist Diagnoses Healthy Dev Teams w/ Engineer & Entrepreneur, Kelly Vaughn
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07/23/22 • 50 min
Not only is Kelly Vaughn one of the pioneers in building thought-leadership content for the developer community, she’s one of the rare programmers who comes to the craft with the background of a trained therapist.
From knowing what content devs need to grow to being able to recognize the cognitive-behavioral impacts of the developer experience, Kelly Vaughn is truly one of our most unique guests to date.
In our conversation, Kelly leveraged her background as a therapist to explore what dev orgs should be doing to recognize developers as unique human beings, with their own feelings, motivations and biases.
A discipline-crossing discussion, this pod is invaluable if you’re thinking about what a healthy dev team should look like as well as how to build one.
Access the engineering benchmarks report here: http://linearb.io/benchmarks/
Register for Interact on October 25th: https://devinterrupted.com/event/interact/
Kelly's book recommendations: Crucial Conversations, The First 90 Days
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02/14/23 • 43 min
A decades-old physical goods manufacturing concept is being applied to modern dev teams with great results. What can software development learn from the past?
Value Stream Management (VSM) has been a focus of business and manufacturing for years but big tech has only recently taken notice.
Steve Pereira, a.k.a. "The VSM Guy", joins us to talk about what engineering leaders can learn from VSM, its impact on individual and team workflow, how it differs from Agile and DevOps, and why its emphasis on the creation and delivery of value represents an opportunity for dev teams everywhere.
Show Notes
- Steve's Twitter: @SteveElsewhere
- Bain's B2B Elements of Value and B2C Elements of Value
- Learn how to increase your dev team's efficiency by up to 30% at our free Scaling Developer Efficiency workshop on February, 15th. Register: linearb.io/efficiency
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06/15/22 • 50 min
In an industry that has trouble looking beyond the next sprint, it’s good to know there are very smart people researching the conscious and unconscious pain points keeping devs from focusing on what they actually want to do: code.
In our new series LinearB Labs we’ll be looking at the most interesting research on how devs work, communicate and code.
The best way to start should be understanding what is actually a well-performing engineering org versus one that’s struggling. That’s why we’re so excited to have Ori Keren, co-founder of LinearB, as our first guest to discuss the results of the first-ever “Engineering Benchmarks Report.”
The product of comprehensively analyzing the work of almost 2,000 dev teams, “The 2022 Engineering Benchmarks Report” is the first EVER look at what performance metrics make engineering orgs elite, average or underwhelming.
We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did and that you’re able to find out where your dev team ranks as well as concrete ways to improve.
Access the engineering benchmarks report here: http://linearb.io/benchmarks/Compare your team metrics to industry standards in < 5 mins: Get My Metrics
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12/17/24 • 40 min
It's the end of an era on Dev Interrupted as we say farewell to host Conor Bronsdon and welcome a fresh voice, Andrew Zigler!
Join us for a nostalgic trip down memory lane as Conor revisits his favorite interviews and moments from Season 4 and beyond, including discussions on chaos engineering, technical debt, and the human side of managing software engineers. He shares memorable stories from guests like Charity Majors, Rob Zuber, Kelly Vaughn, and many more, while reflecting on the evolution of Dev Interrupted and its impact on the engineering leadership community.
But it’s not all bittersweet. Get an exclusive sneak peek at the exciting changes coming to Dev Interrupted in 2025. Expect the show to double down on research and data, explore new formats, and even hit the road with live events. Plus, the Dev Interrupted Substack will feature more frequent newsletters, unique analysis of research white papers, and insights from guest writers.
You don’t want to miss this special episode filled with laughter, reflection, and a surprise holiday-themed game of Would You Rather.
The team is taking off the holidays but we’ll see you back here on January 7th for the start of Season 5!
Show Notes:
- 2025 Engineering Benchmarks Insights Webinar
- Keep up with Conor: Substack
- Listen to Conor at: Chain of Thought Podcast
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FAQ
How many episodes does Dev Interrupted have?
Dev Interrupted currently has 221 episodes available.
What topics does Dev Interrupted cover?
The podcast is about Devops, Data, Software, Software Development, Agile, Podcasts, Technology and Developer.
What is the most popular episode on Dev Interrupted?
The episode title 'It’s Not Open Source, It’s You. Where Open Source Risk Comes From w/ Sonatype' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Dev Interrupted?
The average episode length on Dev Interrupted is 38 minutes.
How often are episodes of Dev Interrupted released?
Episodes of Dev Interrupted are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Dev Interrupted?
The first episode of Dev Interrupted was released on Oct 22, 2020.
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