Software Engineering Unlocked

Michaela Greiler
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  • TECHNOLOGY
  • EVERY TWO WEEKS

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.

  1. 10/05/2024

    Relationships Ruin Your Code Reviews

    Key Insights: Importance of Code Reviews: Code reviews are essential for error detection, understanding new features, adhering to coding standards, and ensuring only reviewed code is deployed.Emotional Impact: Emotional dynamics play a significant role, with 30% of developers reviewing code from less favored colleagues, which can lead to biased judgments and negative feelings.Striving for Objectivity: Despite personal feelings, approximately 76% of developers strive for objectivity to maintain professionalism.Impact of Developer Experience: The experience level of a developer also influences the depth of code reviews and the manner in which feedback is provided.Perceptions Formed: Reviewers' perceptions of code quality can affect their views on the author's skills or character.Strategies to Mitigate Bias: The episode outlines multiple strategies to reduce bias in code reviews, such as involving multiple reviewers, standardizing review criteria, and implementing anonymous reviews. Additional Resources:  Read the full paper called "How social interactions can affect Modern Code Review"Visit awesomecodereviews.com to discover Dr. McKayla’s latest article on the top 10 code review techniques and methodologies, including systematic approaches like using checklists and change-impact analysis.Conclusion: The podcast sheds light on both the positive and negative impacts of human factors in code reviews and emphasizes the need for strategies to minimize bias, enhancing both code quality and team dynamics.

    15 min

  2. 23/06/2023

    Measuring and improving developer experience

    Make code reviews your superpower at awesomecodereviews.com!Episode Resources: Paper on improving developer experience Abi's thoughts on the DX paper Abi Noda's LinkedIn Abi's podcast for Engineering Enablement leaders About Abi Noda Abi Noda is the CEO and founder of DX, a company that helps measure and improve developer experience.

    45 min

  3. 22/03/2023

    From DevOps to Platform Engineering

    Earn additional income by sharing your opinion on userinterviews.com!Episode Resources: What is platform engineering? What is an internal developer platform? What is Dynamic Configuration Management? Salesman tricks for the Platform Engineer Platform Engineering community PlatformCon 2023 Luca’s LinkedIn and Twitter About Luca Galante Luca is leading product at Humanitec, saw hundreds of DevOps and platform setups, and shares his learnings in his weekly newsletter PlatformWeekly (with 10k subscribers). He is also the core contributor to the Platform Engineering community, with 10k+ meetup members, and 8k+ Slack members. Make code reviews your superpower at awesomecodereviews.com!Other episodes you'll enjoyCan Engineering metrics be ethical? Measure developer productivity using the SPACE framework High-performing engineering teams through DX

    49 min

  4. 08/03/2023

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

    Earn additional income by sharing your opinion on userinterviews.com!Episode Resources: Nadia's Book Nadia's website Nadia's Twitter About Nadia Zhuk Nadia is a software engineer at Intercom, and was previously working at Zendesk. Before, Nadia was an English teacher, and journalist, until she decided to learn programming and enter the tech world. Make code reviews your superpower at awesomecodereviews.com!  Other episodes you'll enjoyDo code reviews frustrate developers? The Secret To High-Quality Code Vulnerability disclosure with Katie Moussouris

    45 min

  5. 22/02/2023

    Do code reviews frustrate developers?

    Earn additional income by sharing your opinion on userinterviews.com!Episode Resources: Alexander's Twitter Alexander's Research Awesome Code Reviews Papers: An exploratory study on confusion in code reviews Emotions and Perceived Productivity of Software Developers at the Workplace Recognizing developers' emotions while programming Gendered Experiences of Software Engineers During the COVID-19 Crisis Developer experience research paper   About Alexander Serebrenik Alexander is a Full Professor of Social Software Engineering at the Software Engineering and Technology cluster of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Alexander’s research goal is to facilitate evolution of software by taking into account social aspects of software development.

    39 min

  6. 08/02/2023

    Fighting software vulnerabilities with software bill of materials

    Earn additional income by sharing your opinion on userinterviews.com!Episode Resources: Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity Alpha-Omega Projects Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) Tools to create SBOM   About Barak Brudo Barak Brudo helps organizations secure their software supply chain. He works as a Developer Relations Advocate at Scribe Security. Other episodes you'll enjoyWhat developers should know about securityThe Secret To High-Quality CodeVulnerability disclosure with Katie Moussouris

    39 min

  7. 18/01/2023

    A soul-crushing job search

    Earn additional income by sharing your opinion on userinterviews.com!Episode Resources: Heather's Twitter Heather's job search blog post Heather's Blog About Heather Reid Heather Reid is a Test Engineer at Glofox. Before that she was the community boss for Ministry of Testing, making sure that the testing community had everything to be successful. Before that, she was a software tester at Exploristics and at Moola. Episode Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:00 What does a test community boss do? 06:28 Can we forget our skills? 08:00 Attending workshops 09:00 4-hour interview experience 10:00 Hurtful rejections pile up 12:10 Can't ask questions in an interview 14:00 A good interview experience 19:00 A technical test 23:00 Different backgrounds and perspectives 26:10 Arguing during an interview 30:50 Improving the state of testing 33:50 Adding accessibility 40:00 Career advice for job seekers

    45 min

  8. 04/01/2023

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

    This episode samples: Alvaro Trigo, who once was a web developer but could quit his day job to work on his open source software Fullpage.js.Daniel Vassallo tells us why he left his cushy job at Amazon to start many small businesses.Dagna Bieda explains how you can fast-track your engineering career and what mindset has to do with professional growth.Mauricio Aniche explains how to write tests that find bugs and what domain-driven testing is.Nuchals Dular shares why the engineering manager position he worked hard toward to wasn’t meant for him. YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/XKKFCmvK7_M

    58 min
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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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