The Continuous Delivery Podcast

Brad Smith, author of "DevOps for the Desperate" and Sr. Director of Engineering at Varo Bank, formerly a Sr. Engineering Manager at Amazon, joins the podcast to discuss:00:00 Intro00:30 Minimizing productivity dips when onboarding11:45 Simplification through reduction in cognitive load14:15 Lightweight Architectural Decision Records18:45 Need for SRE? How we got from DevOps to SRE27:10 Scaling startup infrastructure efficiently41:30 Zarar’s crazy story about his old boss 42:53 Viability...

Digital accessibility leader, Patrick Dunphy, joins Zarar Siddiqi and Csaba Bereczski on the podcast to discuss:- How to Shift Left on Accessibility- Why accessibility is a mark of a quality product- What developers need to known about accessibility- How does shift left work with accessibility- Models to structure teams so that they produce accessible products- Are Ontario accessibility guidelines too onerous?- Big Tech / operating systems handing accessibilities, which companies are getting ...

John Ousterhout, author of the influential book A Philosophy of Software Design, joins the podcast. The book is:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of-software-designTopics include:- What does software complexity look like?- How do we identify complexity before it develops?- The importance of continuous refactoring- What the education system gets wrong about teaching software complexity- How John teaches Computer Science at Stanford- What John thinks of agile- Balancing ...

Tom Howlett, Head of Product Management at Sonar is our guest today. Sonar is the leader in helping engineers write clean code through continuous feedback during the development process, and is trusted by millions of developers worldwide.We talk about:- The idea of "Start Left" and how it ties into "Shift Left"- Gen AI in developer workflows and how it promotes TDD- How does Sonar empower development teams? What's the role of the PM?- What constitutes a bad test?- Will static code analysis ev...

Max Tykhenko, Security Architect from IBM joins the podcast to talk about:What are the attack surfaces that most people don't think about enough? How has the security landscape changed over the last few years in terms of threat detection. How vulnerable are we than how we were 10 years ago? We all know what shift left generally means, but what does it mean for security? Analyzing this question from a developer and management point of view.YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Xfv2bpApple P...