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Atlassian’s journey with developer experience | Preeti Kota (Atlassian)
This week we’re joined by Preeti Kota, the Head of Engineering for Compass at Atlassian. Preeti walks us through Atlassian’s journey with developer experience: includi...

Shopify’s developer happiness survey | Mark Côté (Shopify)
This week we’re joined by Mark Côté, who leads the Developer Infrastructure organization at Shopify, to learn about their developer survey program. Mark shares what we...

Leading platform engineering at Trivago | Thomas Khalil (Trivago)
Thomas Khalil, Head of Platform and SRE at Trivago, describes how the teams reporting into him are structured, the tactics they’re using to increase awareness of their...

Enabling teams to drive their own productivity improvements | Jenny McClain (Toast)
This week’s guest is Jenny McClain, who leads R&D Team Enablement at Toast. Jenny’s team focuses on enabling individual teams at Toast to drive their own productivity ...

How Google measures developer productivity | Ciera Jaspan, Collin Green (Google)
This week we’re joined by Ciera Jaspan and Collin Green, who lead the Engineering Productivity Research team at Google. Ciera and Collin have written several papers fr...

A customer service approach to improving DevEx | Jason Kennedy (One Medical)
This week we’re joined by Jason Kennedy, Senior Engineering Manager of Developer Experience at One Medical. Jason’s team takes a uniquely customer-driven approach to i...

Behind the scenes with Extend’s developer experience team | Matthew Schrepel and Luke Patterson (Extend)
Matthew and Luke lead Extend’s Developer Experience team, a team that has approached their work in a way that is more forward-thinking than most. In this episode, they...

Platform teams vs enabling teams | Manuel Pais (Team Topologies)
Manuel Pais delves into one of the concepts covered in his book “Team Topologies”: platform and enabling work. Manuel shares how he views the strategy behind when and ...

A close look at Peloton’s developer experience survey | Thansha Sadacharam (Peloton)
Thansha Sadacharam, who leads Tech Learning and Insights at Peloton walks us through the journey of building the company’s developer experience survey. She shares what...

A better way to measure developer productivity | A special episode with Laura Tacho and Abi Noda
In this episode, Abi is interviewed by Laura Tacho about the new paper he co-authored with Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey, and Dr. Michaela Greiler. Abi...

The developer experience of building a database | Tara Hernandez (MongoDB, Google)
Tara Hernandez, the VP of Developer Productivity at MongoDB, joins the podcast to give an inside look at what the developer experience looks like at an organization th...

How teams use productivity metrics at LinkedIn | Max Kanat-Alexander (LinkedIn, Google)
Max Kanat-Alexander, the Tech Lead for the Developer Productivity and Insights Team at LinkedIn, shares an inside look at LinkedIn’s metrics platform and how teams acr...

Inside Etsy’s multi-year DevEx initiative | Mike Fisher (Etsy, PayPal)
Mike Fisher, the former CTO at Etsy, spearheaded a multi-year developer experience initiative aimed at improving developer happiness and efficiency during his time at ...

Implementing a developer portal | Karl Haworth (American Airlines)
Karl’s team at American Airlines were early adopters of Backstage, and in this episode he shares their journey of implementing and rolling out a developer portal. He a...

Bringing the product management discipline to platform teams | Russ Nealis (Plaid)
As product lead, Russ Nealis has been focused on introducing the discipline of product management in the Developer Foundations organization. This episode discusses the...

Intercom’s approach to a great on-call experience | Brian Scanlan (Intercom)
In this deep-dive episode, Brian Scanlan, Principal Systems Engineer at Intercom, describes how the company’s on-call process works. He explains how the process starte...

How Instagram Reels manages reliability | Jack Li (Instagram, Shopify)
Jack Li explains how his production engineering team rolled out a new incident review process, how they’ve made the case for investing in reliability, and specific too...

A masterclass on DORA – research program, common pitfalls, and future direction | Nathen Harvey (Google)
Nathen Harvey explains how DORA has evolved in recent years, the common challenges companies face as they adopt DORA metrics, and where the program may be heading in t...

An inside look at the SPACE framework | Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey (co-author, SPACE)
Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey discusses what the SPACE framework is and how the metrics and categories were developed.

Spotify’s failed #SquadGoals | Jeremiah Lee (Spotify, Stripe)
What parts of the Spotify Squad Model were challenging, and advice for leadings considering adopting the model.
