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A show for software engineers and programmers that are passionate about learning and career growth. Join the women in tech hosts as they share with each other and interview influential folks in the world of software on their career strategies. We cover subjects like AI, software ethics, social media, engineering and leadership strategy, all with the goal of getting better at what we love to do.

  1. Build Real Tools, Skip LeetCode: Systems Programming for Career Growth with John Crickett

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    Build Real Tools, Skip LeetCode: Systems Programming for Career Growth with John Crickett

    Tech careers don't need to mean grinding LeetCode. In episode 57, John Crickett — 30+ year engineer, Coding Challenges creator (90K+ subscribers) — makes the case that programmer productivity skyrockets when you build real tools instead. We dig into why your own Redis, Git, or shell beats practice problems, how Coding Challenges went from $17 domain to viral sensation (1,500 signups in one weekend), and what it means to level up through systems programming. Links Coding Challenges (Newsletter): https://codingchallenges.substack.com/Coding Challenges Website: https://codingchallenges.fyiFrom The Challenges - Git: https://codingchallenges.substack.com/p/from-the-challenges-gitWill AI Kill Coding?: https://codingchallenges.substack.com/p/will-ai-kill-codingUsing AI To Solve A Coding Challenge: https://codingchallenges.substack.com/p/using-ai-to-solve-a-coding-challengeTech Lead Journal #178 — John Crickett: https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/178/Confessions of a Data Guy — What Makes Great Engineers: https://www.confessionsofadataguy.com/decades-in-software-engineering-what-actually-makes-great-engineers-john-crickett/Coding Chats Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/59GU7gzyK2RdIDVkhNS2ntJohn Crickett on GitHub: https://github.com/johncrickettJohn Crickett on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/johncrickettJohn Crickett on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/johncrickett.bsky.socialJohn Crickett on X: https://x.com/johncrickett Hosts Overcommitted: https://overcommitted.devBethany: https://trustyduck.devBrittany Ellich: ⁠https://brittanyellich.com ⁠Erika: ⁠https://github.com/eggyhead

    43 мин.
  2. Run Toward Something - Career Growth, Mentorship & Work-Life Balance with Dave Schwantes

    21 АПР.

    Run Toward Something - Career Growth, Mentorship & Work-Life Balance with Dave Schwantes

    Summary Career growth through mentorship and work-life balance with Dave Schwantes, Senior Software Engineer at GitHub. Brittany and Dave explore why running toward meaningful work beats running from burnout, how mentorship became his primary form of engineering leverage, and what career happiness actually looks like across different life stages. From Instacart and Couchsurfing to building in-house bootcamps, Dave shares how sustainable engineering culture beats individual productivity hacks—and his take on how AI tools reshape what engineers really need to master. Links Dave's personal site: https://dinosaurseateverybody.comDon't Break Prod (bite-sized career advice): https://dontbreakprod.comGrave Danger (Dave's spooky ska band) on Bandcamp: https://gravedangerskath.bandcamp.comDave on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dorkrawk.bsky.socialDave on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidschwantesDave on GitHub: https://github.com/dorkrawkWeb Dev Challenge Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2sEoZG8EIwThe Engineer Manager Pendulum article: https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum/ Host Overcommitted: https://overcommitted.devBrittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com

    39 мин.
  3. Building Your Own Tech Career Path - Bootcamp, Teaching & Big Platforms with Sabrina Goldfarb

    14 АПР.

    Building Your Own Tech Career Path - Bootcamp, Teaching & Big Platforms with Sabrina Goldfarb

    Summary Sabrina Goldfarb rejected the tech career playbook. No CS degree, bootcamp instead, teaching before big platforms. Now an engineer on GitHub's Copilot team and instructor at Frontend Masters, she shares how methodical planning, patience, and trust in the process led to career growth most thought impossible. If you're considering a non-traditional path in software engineering, this episode proves there's more than one way to build a meaningful tech career. Links Frontend Masters: Practical Prompt Engineering: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/prompt-engineering/Sabrina Goldfarb on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sabrinagoldfarb Hosts Overcommitted: https://overcommitted.devBethany Janos: https://github.com/bethanyj28Erika (Eggyhead): https://github.com/eggyhead

    40 мин.
  4. Building Bulletproof Systems: Warren Parad on Software Engineering for High Availability

    7 АПР.

    Building Bulletproof Systems: Warren Parad on Software Engineering for High Availability

    Summary In this episode of the Overcommitted Podcast, hosts Bethany and Erika sit down with Warren Parad, CTO and co-founder of Authress, a user authorization API built for reliability. Warren shares how his team stayed fully operational during the massive AWS US-East-1 outage in October 2025 using DNS failover and multi-region strategies, and what the delayed alert logs taught them about timestamp trust. The conversation kicks off with a candid discussion on AI agents and critical thinking, whether managing multiple coding agents is really multitasking or just micromanagement, and what the trade-offs mean for early-career engineers. Warren traces his reliability-first mindset back to his roots in electrical engineering and healthcare IT, where late-night on-call pages through Citrix proxies and hospital billing systems shaped how he thinks about uptime today. The group also explores what it really takes to build a Five Nines organization and how hiring practices need to match the reliability culture you want. The episode wraps up with a round of Never Have I Ever: SRE Edition, featuring Friday deploys gone wrong, blaming DNS, and discovering outages from customer tweets. Links Authress, Warren's company, user authorization API for software makers. The product he's building and wants to plug. Adventures in DevOps Podcast, Warren's podcast, co-hosted with Will Button. 300+ episodes on DevOps, engineering leadership, and cloud architecture. How When AWS Was Down, We Were Not, Authress's blog post detailing their resilience strategy during the October 2025 AWS outage. Referenced in Theme 1 questions. So You Want to Build Your Own Authorization?, Warren's article on why authorization complexity creeps up on teams. Referenced in Theme 2 questions. An Interview With Warren Parad, CIAM Weekly, March 2025 interview covering Warren's views on CIAM, FedCM, and the future of authentication. FedCM, Browser Native Auth (Adventures in DevOps Episode), Adventures in DevOps episode diving into FedCM and why authentication should move from user-land to kernel-land. Warren Parad on LinkedIn, Warren's LinkedIn profile. Warren Parad on Bluesky, Warren's Bluesky profile. Warren Parad on GitHub, Warren's GitHub profile, includes Authress repos, OpenAPI Explorer, and other open-source work. Authress Knowledge Base, Technical articles from the Authress team on auth, security, and infrastructure. Warren Parad, Personal Site, Warren's personal website. Hosts Overcommitted Bethany Janos Erika (Eggyhead)

    50 мин.
  5. Scaling Search Engineering at DoorDash: From Monoliths to Custom Search Engines with Satish Saley

    31 МАР.

    Scaling Search Engineering at DoorDash: From Monoliths to Custom Search Engines with Satish Saley

    Summary In this episode of Overcommitted, Satish Saley, a senior software engineer with extensive experience on DoorDash's search platform team, discusses scaling search systems at a hyper-growth company. This conversation dives deep into software engineering challenges and software development strategies that impact programmer productivity and career growth. Satish details two major engineering transformations: rebuilding the search indexing pipeline with Kafka, Flink, and Elasticsearch, and later replacing Elasticsearch with a custom search engine based on Apache Lucene, which significantly improved performance and reduced costs. The episode also explores the complexities of migrating off monoliths, securing leadership buy-in for technical rebuilds, and why respecting legacy systems is crucial in engineering culture. Additionally, the hosts share personal stories of database pivots and conclude with a confessional segment on technical decisions that didn't age well. This episode is packed with insights for software engineers and tech professionals interested in the intersection of technology, scaling, and work life balance. Links Satish Saley on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satish-saley-65527525/ Conway's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law Build Faster Indexing with Apache Kafka and Elasticsearch: https://careersatdoordash.com/blog/open-source-search-indexing/ Introducing DoorDash's In-House Search Engine: https://doordash.engineering/2024/02/27/introducing-doordashs-in-house-search-engine/ Hosts Overcommitted: https://overcommitted.devBethany Janos: https://github.com/bethanyj28Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com

    48 мин.

  6. 24 МАР.

    Overcommitted After One Year: Insights on Software Projects, Growth, and What's Next

    Summary In this special one-year anniversary episode of Overcommitted, Brittany, Erika, and Bethany reflect on their journey from a small accountability group to a thriving weekly podcast and community of over 160 software engineers. They discuss their experiences within the software development lifecycle, the challenges of maintaining programmer productivity, and the evolution of their engineering culture. Listeners will hear candid stories about mastering interview skills, handling the complexities of production admin, and navigating promotional efforts. The episode also highlights the podcast's unexpected role as a valuable networking tool for remote workers in tech careers. Looking ahead, the hosts share exciting plans including new panel-format episodes, community events, and automation initiatives. Closing with affectionate roasts in their first-ever Overcommitted Superlatives, this episode offers both insight and entertainment for anyone passionate about software projects and sustainable work-life balance in tech. Links Episode 1 - Imposter Syndrome: https://overcommitted.dev/imposter-syndrome-in-software-engineering/Overcommitted Discord Server: https://discord.gg/d9gZyYuqKdComputer systems: A programmer's perspective: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Perspective-3rd/dp/013409266X Hosts Overcommitted: https://overcommitted.devBethany Janos: https://github.com/bethanyj28Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.comErika Eggyhead: https://github.com/eggyhead

    28 мин.
  7. AI as a Power Up, Not Autopilot: Craig Dennis on Boosting Productivity and Software Development Education

    17 МАР.

    AI as a Power Up, Not Autopilot: Craig Dennis on Boosting Productivity and Software Development Education

    Summary In this episode, we dive deep into software development education and programmer productivity with Craig Dennis, developer educator at Cloudflare and creator of AI Avenue. Craig shares his unique journey through tech careers, from early challenges to leading AI education initiatives that empower software engineers to build confidently using AI tools. He champions the philosophy of AI as a power up, not autopilot, encouraging software developers at all levels to embrace AI to enhance their programming skills and accelerate software projects. We explore Craig's insights from interviewing tech companies like ElevenLabs and HeyGen, tackling skepticism around AI in engineering culture, and highlighting powerful AI capabilities such as structured outputs. Craig also reflects on how global reach and innovative teaching methods are shaping the future of software engineering education, inspiring listeners to move beyond theory and start building with AI today. Join us for this insightful conversation on AI's role in software engineering, career growth, and improving work-life balance in tech through smarter development practices. Links AI Avenue official website: https://aiavenue.show/AI Avenue YouTube playlist (full season): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI6HzeeCy4S-XL166XESd9eAV87beBiWHCraig's GitHub: https://github.com/craigsdennisCraig on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigsdennis/Cloudflare Developer Week 2025 hub: https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-week/Cloudflare Workers AI documentation: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/Model Context Protocol (MCP) on Cloudflare: https://developers.cloudflare.com/agents/model-context-protocol/Build and deploy Remote MCP servers blog post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/remote-model-context-protocol-servers-mcp/ Hosts Overcommitted: https://overcommitted.devBethany Janos: https://github.com/bethanyj28Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com

    47 мин.
  8. Making Long Bets: How GitHub Next Shapes the Future of Software Engineering with Idan Gazit

    10 МАР.

    Making Long Bets: How GitHub Next Shapes the Future of Software Engineering with Idan Gazit

    Summary This week on Overcommitted, Erika and Brittany welcome Idan Gazit, head of GitHub Next — a senior-heavy innovation team making strategic "long bets" on the future of software engineering and software projects. Idan shares insights into running a cutting-edge team within a large company and how GitHub Next fosters programmer productivity through self-assembling squads, weekly demo days, and discovery seasons. They discuss the pressure and excitement behind delivering revolutionary tools like Copilot. Links Idan's Website: https://gazit.meGitHub Next Website: https://githubnext.com/ Hosts Overcommitted: https://overcommitted.devBrittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.comErika Eggemeyer (Eggyhead): https://github.com/eggyhead

    45 мин.
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A show for software engineers and programmers that are passionate about learning and career growth. Join the women in tech hosts as they share with each other and interview influential folks in the world of software on their career strategies. We cover subjects like AI, software ethics, social media, engineering and leadership strategy, all with the goal of getting better at what we love to do.

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