Happy Path Programming Bruce Eckel & James Ward

We chat with Trond Hjorteland about Agile and why it hasn't led to successful outcomes in many traditional organizations.

Mentioned and related resources:


Trond & João Rosa's training on Agile + DP2
Open Systems Theory
LinkedIn Group for Open Systems Theory
More material on Open Systems Theory
Resource List from Trond
Some of Trond's recorded talks

We chat with Valentina Servile about her upcoming book on Continuous Deployment and reducing the risks to keeping HEAD not just always deployable, but automatically deployed to production.

Book for preorder on Amazon: Continuous Deployment: Enable Faster Feedback, Safer Releases, and More Reliable Software

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We chat with Philip Hölzenspies, one of the maintainers of the new Pkl configuration language (pkl-lang.org).

Resources:


James' Pkl for GitHub Actions: github.com/jamesward/pklgha

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We chat with April Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, about helping programmers bring more compassion to themselves and others.

Resources:


Confessions of a Recovering Jerk Programmer
Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication
Kristin Neff - Self-Compassion
Karen Armstrong - Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center definition of compassion
Oren Jay Sofer's Needs & Feelings Lists

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We chat with Gwen Shapira, co-founder of Nile, about her journey to creating a virtualized, serverless Postgres database service. We also dive into the challenges with traditional data architectures and approaches like ORMs.

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We chat with Trisha Gee about Test Driven Development (TDD), flaky tests, ops & observability for builds, and developer productivity.

Mentioned TDD Article:

The beautiful theory of TDD and the reality check of practice



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