The Heretechs

Episode #13 - Creating a transformative engineering culture by demonstrating what’s possible.

Guest Josef Langerman, Head of Engineering and Transformation, Standard Bank, joins co-hosts Justin Arbuckle and Mark Birch to discuss creating a transformative engineering culture by demonstrating what’s possible.

Credits

Editor & Producer: Kathleen Lau

Audio Engineer: Allan Neil

Episode #12 - The transformative power of an Open Source value chain within your business model.

Guest Adam Jacob, CEO, System Initiative, and Co-Founder and Board Member of Chef, joins co-hosts Justin Arbuckle and Mark Birch to discuss the transformative power of an Open Source value chain within your business model.

Credits

Editor & Producer: Kathleen Lau

Audio Engineer: Allan Neil

Episode #11 - New ways of working and managing through agility with Rob England

The next episode of Season 2 of the Heretechs podcast is here with co-hosts Justin Arbuckle and Mark Birch. We welcome guest Rob England, the Founder of Teal Unicorn and formerly the blogger known as The IT Skeptic, to discuss what has changed in the nature of our work and how to navigate that change with agility.

Credits

Editor & Producer: Kathleen Lau

Audio Engineer: Allan Neil

Artwork Designer: Stu Monck

Show notes

VUCA (Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatility,_uncertainty,_complexity_and_ambiguity

How the way we work slows down the work we do

I have expansive music tastes, but one genre that was never among my favorites was the late 70’s-early 80’s classic rock period. I do not mean punk, new wave or hard rock, but the mainstream rock from bands like REO Speedwagon and Bachman–Turner Overdrive.

There was one song though that got stuck in my head. It was “Takin’ Care of Business”. I…

The Choice of Programming Language

What considerations go into the right language for the job

When I was very young, I would spend school breaks with my grandparents in London. My granddad was quite the handyman. On one of these occasions, he asked me to help hand him tools as he was fixing some plumbing issue. Right off the bat I ran into problems as soon as he asked for a spanner. I looked at the big box of tools in front of…

Episode #10 - Building operations sensibility in developers

Welcome to season 2 of the Heretechs podcast! We kick things off with co-hosts Justin Arbuckle and Mark Birch as they welcome guest Christine Yen, CEO and Co-founder of Honeycomb.io, to discuss building an operations sensibility in developers, the importance of observability from a developer perspective, and the best superhero characters.

Credits

Editor & Producer: Kathleen Lau

Audio Engineer: Allan Neil

Artwork Designer: Stu Monck

Show notes

O Code, Where Art Thou

Or how to wrangle insights from a massive codebase…

Music is a core part of my being. I have been a heavy metal musician, a college radio DJ, and traveled hundreds of miles to see my favorite bands. At my peak music obsession, I once had a collection of over 2,000 CD’s featuring over 20,000 songs. Movies are also a big part of my life. When I find a combination of a great movie with a great…

When freedom to build meets the prison of processes

My favorite stories are of underdogs overcoming enormous odds to emerge victorious. Think Luke Skywalker going from farm boy on a desert planet to defeating the dreaded Empire or Frodo Baggins from mild-mannered hobbit to defeating the dark lord Sauron. Underdogs are the backbone of the hero’s journey. We cheer on the underdogs in feel good…

Ten Years of DevOps, So What?

Thoughts from DevOps Days NYC 2020 and what we have learned

Three years ago, I went to my first DevOpsDays event, and it is fair to say that it radically changed my career path. I had been with Stack Overflow for a little over a year, had just launched this newsletter six months prior, and had little clue what DevOps was all about. One of my colleagues, Tom Limoncelli, had mentioned the…

Understanding what developers want from the technology buying process

For many of you that have been long time readers, you know me from my days selling software at Stack Overflow. Before that however, I spent a decade helping startups to understand how to market and sell and in the process created a community called the Enterprise Sales Forum.

I wrote the following essay for that community…

What a naval battle can tell us about building organizational trust

Warfare has often been a useful lens to understand strategy. Battles are rarely won or lost based on numerical strength alone, but on careful planning. Case in point was the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Napoleon had his sights set on an invasion of England but needed to overcome a superior British Royal Navy which controlled…

Episode #9 - Being a high-performance technical leader

Co-hosts Justin Arbuckle and Mark Birch welcome guest Sau Sheong Chang to share his thoughts about what it takes to be a high-performance technical leader.

Credits

Editor & Producer: Kathleen Lau

Audio Engineer: Allan Neil

Artwork Designer: Stu Monck

Show notes

Sau Sheong Chang's blog: https://medium.com/sausheong/simulate-cultural-interactions-using-go-and-python-cac5db427708

Episode #8 - Building a high-performing culture of excellence in engineering

Co-hosts Justin Arbuckle and Mark Birch welcome guest Jason Milkins to share his experience and thoughts about building a high-performing culture of excellence in engineering.

Credits

Editor & Producer: Kathleen Lau

Audio Visual Engineer: Allan Neil

Episode #7 - Four key metrics for organizations to migrate to modern robust cloud architectures

Co-hosts Justin Arbuckle and Mark Birch welcome guest Shaun Norris of Pivotal to discuss the four key metrics for organizations to migrate from legacy infrastructures and architectures to more modern, robust Cloud infrastructures.

Show Notes

Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren

The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Credits

Episode 7 editor: Kathleen Lau

Artwork designer: Stu Monck

We are in the age of the developer as @marksbirch shares at the VNITO conference. Without developers, digital is merely a dream. (at Tân Sơn Nhất Pavilion in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)

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Episode #6 - Designing transformation for success

Co-hosts Justin Arbuckle and Mark Birch welcome guest Axel Winter of Central Group to discuss how to design transformation for success.

Show Notes

Top 10 things Executives should know about software: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3325792

Credits

Episode 6 editor: Kathleen Lau

Artwork designer: Stu Monck