Software Engineering Unlocked

May 10 2024 78 ep. 44 mins 890
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In this show, I open you the doors to companies and thought leaders around the world. With my guests, I discuss software engineering best practices and pitfalls, and how they strive to build software people love.

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Relationships Ruin Your Code Reviews

May 10 2024 15 mins  
In this episode of the Software Engineering Unlocked podcast, hosted by Dr. McKayla, we delve into the critical aspects of code reviews in software development. Dr. McKayla returns to the airwaves to explore how interpersonal relationships influence the outcomes of code reviews. The discussion highlights that nearly 70% of developers feel that their relationship with reviewers affe

Measuring and improving developer experience

Jun 23 2023 44 mins  
In this episode, Abi Noda explains how to measure developer experience and why a good developer experience matters. We also talk about: What factors influence developer experience What developer experience has to do with productivity, performance and even job retention The SPACE framework, and how to use it to measure productivity

From DevOps to Platform Engineering

Mar 22 2023 48 mins  
Luca Galante runs a vibrant and fast-growing community around platform engineering and today he shares with us why every organization should invest in a platform engineering team. We also talk about: - what is platform engineering - the difference between platform engineering and DevOps - what developer productivity has to do with platform engineering - why self-service for develo

From English teacher to dev in 9 month: A self-taught developer journey

Mar 08 2023 44 mins  
Nadia Zhuk shares how to build a career as a self-taught programmer successfully. She learned to program all by herself and changed her career from being an English teacher to a full-stack developer. We also talk about: - teaching yourself programming - starting your developer career as a self-taught developer - getting your foot into tech - changing your career by teaching yourse

Do code reviews frustrate developers?

Feb 22 2023 38 mins  
Alexander Serebrenik gives us an overview of his exciting research on emotions and social aspects of software engineering. We also talk about: social aspects of software engineering, what software productivity has to do with your emotions and how you feel, problems such as confusion or frustration in code reviews, how to give respectful, yet candid code review feedback, and how a

Fighting software vulnerabilities with software bill of materials

Feb 08 2023 38 mins  
Especially in recent years, several attacks on the software supply chain, like the SolarWinds attack or the ongoing Log4j vulnerability, made it clear that our complex software ecosystems are hard to understand and even harder to keep secure. The software bill of material aims at solving this problem. In this episode, Barak Brudo explains what a software bill of material is and why

A soul-crushing job search

Jan 18 2023 44 mins  
Heather Reid shares her difficult job search journey and how she overcame self-doubt and kept trying until she found the perfect job. Although Heather had been active in the testing community for over a decade, when she was searching for her newest role, she heard ‌she wasn’t a tester and that she had been gone too long gone. We also talk about: - bad interview experiences - w

Entrepreneurship, Career Growth and Testing: Top 5 Episodes of 2022

Jan 04 2023 57 mins  
Let's revisit the top 5 interviews in 2022, which gives us all the opportunity to listen to some episodes you might have already forgotten or missed. Episode Chapters: 0:00 Intro 01:21 Making money with open source 09:08 Profitable small bets 24:15 Career growth and mindset 35:12 Writing tests that find bugs 45:15 Drawbacks of being an engineering manager 55:50 Wrap-up and support

Coding practices at MAANG companies versus startups

Dec 20 2022 53 mins  
Michael Lynch shares what he learned by writing code at Microsoft and Google, and how that differs from the software practices that he embraces in his own software company. We also talk about: - what is the root cause when code reviews are evil - how to establish a great code review practice - software engineering practices at Google and Microsoft, - how to balance code quality, ti

Can Engineering metrics be ethical?

Dec 07 2022 53 mins  
Lauren Peate shares how engineering metrics can be ethical with Multitudes. We also talk about: - what are ethical developer metrics? - how to best measure developer productivity? - ensuring engineering metrics can not be misused - do developer metrics lead to gaming the system? - how can DORA metrics be used to improve team performance?