Brad Smith, author of "DevOps for the Desperate" and Sr. Director of Engineering at Varo Bank, formerly a Sr. Engineering Manager at Amazon, joins the podcast to discuss:

00:00 Intro
00:30 Minimizing productivity dips when onboarding
11:45 Simplification through reduction in cognitive load
14:15 Lightweight Architectural Decision Records
18:45 Need for SRE? How we got from DevOps to SRE
27:10 Scaling startup infrastructure efficiently
41:30 Zarar’s crazy story about his old boss
42:53 Viability of one-stack frameworks like Elixir LiveView and OneStack
49:50 Where does AI fit in current and future development workflows?

Book link: https://www.amazon.ca/DevOps-Desperate-Hands-Survival-Guide/dp/1718502486/

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Digital accessibility leader, Patrick Dunphy, joins Zarar Siddiqi and Csaba Bereczski on the podcast to discuss:

- How to Shift Left on Accessibility
- Why accessibility is a mark of a quality product
- What developers need to known about accessibility
- How does shift left work with accessibility
- Models to structure teams so that they produce accessible products
- Are Ontario accessibility guidelines too onerous?
- Big Tech / operating systems handing accessibilities, which companies are getting it right
- Much more...

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John Ousterhout, author of the influential book A Philosophy of Software Design, joins the podcast. The book is:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of-software-design

Topics include:

- What does software complexity look like?
- How do we identify complexity before it develops?
- The importance of continuous refactoring
- What the education system gets wrong about teaching software complexity
- How John teaches Computer Science at Stanford
- What John thinks of agile
- Balancing tactical and strategic programming, what TDD gets wrong

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Topics include:

- What does software complexity look like?
- How do we identify complexity before it develops?
- The importance of continuous refactoring
- What the education system gets wrong about teaching software complexity
- How John teaches Computer Science at Stanford
- What John thinks of agile
- Balancing tactical and strategic programming, what TDD gets wrong

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