In this episode, Donn talks with Glenn Leifheit from Microsoft about a concept known as “Secure Development Lifecycle”. Glenn is a Senior Security Program Manager at Microsoft.
Glenn explains to you what the secure development lifecycle is, how it works and how you can implement something like this in your company. He also shares the top tips you can implement in order to get the quickest benefit of the Secure Development Lifecycle
This is the original story of how Uber was built … this is a fascinating story. You don’t want to miss this. Donn talks to Jason Roberts. Jason was chosen to be Uber’s CTO when the company was in its infancy (but didn’t accept the offer). Jason shares the story of developing the code that eventually ran Uber from a couple of cars to a highly distributed system with an impressive amount of rides.
We talk about building what is needed when it’s needed, the tools that he chose to build Uber’s platform on. Early startup learnings, and how Uber originally ran on PHP before he chose to move it to Node.js.
Jason shares his story of how he met Travis (Uber’s CEO who took it from a small company to a huge international corporation), how they built the systems, and team and much more. You’ll learn how networking, working on interesting things, and seizing the moment and luck played into him landing his role at Uber.
Finally, we wrap up by chatting a bit about how being a generalist in an early-stage startup is beneficial (vs being a specialist).
In this episode, Donn outlines how you can optimize your home office so that you look, sound, and perform the best that you can. From audio to video, to your body, and everything beyond, it’s covered here.
In this episode, Donn talks with DevOps expert, Will Button about everything DevOps-related. If you’re ever wondered how and what DevOps is, then listen in.
In this episode, Donn talks about the best way to learn a new technology from the ground up. Want to learn something new? This episode is for you.
You’ll learn Donn’s proven 5-step methodology for learning new technology. This is the same method Donn has used for over 2 decades of learning new technology. We hope it helps you.
In this episode, Donn returns for a solo episode to talk about his thoughts on Quality over Quantity and why it’s important to software development and productivity in general.
In this episode, we talk to acclaimed Android developer Joaquim Verges. He recently embarked on a journey of making is laptop not burn like a furnace when using Android Studio. He landed up on this unknown effort by Jetbrains called Projector and seems to have found programmer Nirvana.
Listen to his adventures.
Anvil is a Kotlin compiler plugin that makes your life a tad bit easier when using Dagger 2. In this episode we talk to Ralf Wondratschek from Square who created the library and open sourced it for all of us.
After touching on some of the basics, Ralf dives into the thinking behind Anvil and how it evolved into the tool it is today. It’s filled with nuggets of wisdom especially if your app uses Dagger for Dependency Injection.
Enjoy!
In episode 1 of Fragmented we talked about Testing. 200 episodes in, we decided it’s a good time to do a state of the union for mobile testing. We talk with Valera Zakharov who’s a Staff Engineer at Slack and considered one of the experts in the field of mobile testing. Hope you enjoy this one!
In our 200th episode, we talk about Serverless Programming.
What is it? What’s an example of a service I could build with Serverless Programming? What are the advantages or disadvantages? We talk about it all in this episode.
Also, 🙏 for being listeners. We’ve stuck together for 200 of these. Kaushik & Donn are incredibly grateful to have you folks as listeners.