Developer Experience

Apr 07 2022 10 ep. 49 mins 35
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Developer Experience is a podcast brought to you by Algolia. We chat with guests who build products for developers about their developer experience strategy, what it means for them and why it’s important.

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The Art of Teaching Developers - Jason Lengstorf (Netlify)

Apr 07 2022 39 mins  
This episode of Developer Experience is about Developer Education. It’s a wonderful time to become a developer: the demand has never been higher, and there’s a literal ocean of free and paid content to kick start a new career in tech. This firehose of educational content is a side-effect of such a high demand for developers, and it makes it difficult to spot actual quality cont

Sustaining Open Source - Nicholas Zakas (ESLint)

Mar 10 2022 64 mins  
On today's episode, Sarah Dayan discusses open source sustainability with Nicholas Zakas, creator of ESLint. ESLint is a widely popular JavaScript linter with a giant ecosystem of third-party plugins. If you have a JavaScript project with a continuous integration, you are certainly using ESLint and you do not want it to fail. Nicholas is also a seasoned author who wrote several boo

Documentation is a Product - Adam Wathan (Tailwind CSS)

Feb 17 2022 67 mins  
On today's episode, our hosts Sarah and Bryan are chatting about Documentation with Adam Wathan from Tailwind CSS. To talk about this today, we invited (for the second time in the show) Adam Wathan, creator of Tailwind CSS. Tailwind is a CSS framework optimized for building custom designs really quickly without having to start totally from scratch.Documentation is a tremendous topi

Accessibility and Developer Experience - Kitty Giraudel (Gorillas)

Jan 20 2022 47 mins  
On this episode, our hosts Sarah and Bryan are chatting about accessibility with Kitty Giraudel. Kitty is a front-end developer and accessibility specialist who is currently leading the front-end team at Gorillas. Before this, they have led the front-end team to rebuild the web platform at N26, with a strong focus on accessibility.We are going to talk about accessibility and its im

The Role of Community in Developer Experience - Cassidy Williams (Netlify)

Dec 03 2021 41 mins  
On today's episode, our hosts Sarah and Bryan are going to talk about the role of community in Developer Experience.We're all part of communities, whether we participate in them or not.Are they any major differences between developers centric communities and more traditional ones, centered around geography or interests? We're also seeing more and more developers communities popping

Fostering Developer Collaboration in a Remote World - Ives Van Hoorne (CodeSandbox)

Nov 04 2021 48 mins  
On today's episode, we're going to talk about fostering developer collaboration in a remote world. This is a special edition because Sarah Dayan is joined for the first time by her new co-host Bryan Robinson, Senior Developer Advocate at Algolia. Working remotely is not something new, especially in the tech industry, but since the beginning of the pandemic in 2019, there has been a

Nailing Down the Right Abstractions - Tim Neutkens (Vercel)

Sep 30 2021 63 mins  
How to nail down the right abstractions for optimal DX? Building abstractions is at the core of API design. They become the face of your software, and they dictate a significant part of its developer experience. How to design the right abstractions? What is the difference between an opinionated software and a failing abstraction?To answer these difficult questions, we're happy to w

Blending in Other People’s Codebases - Sadek Drobi (Prismic)

Aug 18 2021 43 mins  
In this episode, Sarah Dayan chats with not only one, but two guests:- Sadek Drobi, Founder and CEO at Prismic- Haroen Viaene, Javascript Library Developer at AlgoliaThey chat about what it takes for a technical product to blend into other people's codebases. How do you ensure that developers want to put your code in their code? Why is it as important to offer idiomatic integration

Providing Amazing DX Regardless of the Technical Stack - Ben Hong (Netlify)

Jul 15 2021 39 mins  
In this episode, we chat with Ben Hong from Netlify about the challenges of providing amazing developer experience for a wide variety of technical stacks. How do you consistently provide incredible DX to everyone when what you build isn't tied to a single platform? How do you properly think of such systems? Ben gives us insights on how the DX team works at Netlify, and how a cultur

What Is Developer Experience? - Adam Wathan (Tailwind CSS) and Lee Robinson (Vercel)

Jun 22 2021 41 mins  
In this first episode, we dive deeper into what is developer experience with Adam Wathan from Tailwind Labs and Lee Robinson from Vercel. Why did developer experience become so important? Concretely, what does it mean and how do you achieve it? Sarah Dayan chats with our 2 guests to uncover what makes awesome DX, what are the best examples out there, and how they imagine the future