Maintainable Robby Russell

Robby has a chat with former Senior Software Engineer at Remotion, Avery Quinn, about the benefits of having a skeleton project that you can experiment with when weighing up different dependencies, tips for onboarding engineers to your teams, things to consider when building desktop applications, what it is like to work as a consultant and later at a product company, and many more valuable topics around software engineering.

Robby has a chat with the CEO of Lean Mind and Author of Código Sostenible, Carlos Blé, about the four important traits of well-maintained software, examples of what maintainable tests are, the benefits of mutation testing and exploratory testing, services that Lean Mind offers, how to be a good guest in another team's codebase, and so much more.

Robby has a chat with Executive and Leadership Coach, Lena Reinhard (she/her/hers), about how well-maintained software is supposed to serve a business’s goals and continuously improve not just reactively, the importance of organizations investing in their engineering team's skills, software as a team sport, strategies for managing technical debt, and so much more.

Robby has a chat with software engineer, trainer, and author of the book Grokking Simplicity, Eric Normand (he/him/his), about the healthy characteristics of well-maintained software, the pros, and cons of microservices in small organizations, why teams need to ensure they know where they're going with the future of their codebase, and many more awesome topics.

Robby has a chat with Henrik Warne (he/him/his), the Senior Software Engineer at Talos, about the importance of code having structure early on, the importance of engineers being able to read, run, and test code when they join a project, why Henrik feels there is no such thing as software maintainance, how software is better seen as a product versus a project, why all software engineers should spend a portion of their time working on bugs, and much more.

Robby has a chat with Andy Croll (he/him/his), the CTO at CoverageBook, about why the maintainability of software can only be ensured if there is a core focus on the readability of code, the rationale for why weird things in our code should stay weird until we find a better way to express it, his career journey from the front end into the backend, how to manage technical debt in a small team, and so much more.