alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders

You know how agile transformations always promise better collaboration but somehow teams end up chasing tickets like a factory assembly line? Klaus Breyer from Edding has some thoughts on why this keeps happening—and what actually works instead. Klaus's path to leading product and technology at Germany's most famous pen company wasn't exactly traditional. Before Edding, he spent years managing 40-person World of Warcraft raids (yes, really) and running startups. Now he's applying those lessons to build software teams that actually solve problems instead of just completing tasks. The conversation digs into Shape Up methodology, but more importantly, Klaus explains the mindset changes needed to stop treating software development like an assembly line. His team at Edding has built some pretty cool stuff too—like a B2B driver license verification system using invisible conductive ink that smartphones can read. What you'll learn: • Why "give me a ticket" thinking kills collaboration (even in tiny teams) • How 6-week cycles help teams focus on one problem without distractions • The art of separating problems from solutions before jumping into code • Why late-stage compromises usually mean your team isn't really collaborating • When senior teams can ditch tickets entirely and just... work • Klaus's templates for getting everyone aligned on what problems are worth solving

What happens when a distinguished engineer who shaped the cloud-native landscape decides to retire at 42? Kelsey Hightower, a pivotal figure in the Kubernetes community and former Google engineer, shares brutally honest insights from his 25-year journey. This isn't a conversation about the next hype cycle; it's a masterclass in the timeless principles of infrastructure, maintenance, and technical strategy. From the fallacy of technology replacement to the hard business realities that should drive engineering decisions, Kelsey provides a minimalist's guide to navigating complexity. Learn why most companies should embrace managed services, why engineers who can't link commits to revenue are at risk, and what the future of AI really means for the systems we build and maintain. Technical insights for CTOs and engineering leaders: - 🏗️ System Accumulation: Why new technology rarely replaces the old, leading to a complex, multi-generational stack that must be maintained. - ☁️ Managed Services: The economic and expertise-driven argument for outsourcing infrastructure management. - 🔄 Evolutionary Architecture: How to avoid the trap of making permanent technology decisions on day one. - 💰 Business-Driven Engineering: The critical need for engineers to understand revenue, and for CTOs to use business metrics to guide technical priorities. - 🤖 The AI Reality: A grounded take on how AI will impact software, and the fundamental system evolution required for it to reach its true potential."

How do you drive meaningful AI transformation across 150 software engineers without mandates or force? Peter Gostev, Head of AI at Moonpig, reveals the technical strategies and organizational approaches behind scaling AI adoption from 130 to 400+ users while navigating the gap between industry hype and implementation reality. From managing complex integration challenges where 80% of AI projects involve traditional software engineering to implementing three-pillar strategies (tool adoption, automation workflows, experimental features), Peter shares hard-earned insights on building AI capabilities through process re-engineering rather than simple automation. Technical insights for CTOs and engineering leaders: • 🏗️ Portfolio approach: balancing quick wins with experimental high-impact projects • ⚡ Prototype-first methodology for validating AI solutions before full development • 🤖 Reality gap between agentic AI hype and production deployment complexity • 👥 Organic adoption strategies that scale without top-down mandates • 🔧 Custom GPT frameworks for non-technical subject matter experts • 📊 Why most AI work is integration, scaffolding, and deployment—not just AI • 🔄 Process re-engineering with AI: changing workflows rather than automating existing inefficiencies

What happens when two experienced CTOs sit down to debunk the latest tech trends? Raz Schweiger-Shuty, CTO at auxmoney, joins Tobi for an unfiltered discussion about the hypes, myths, and wastes of resources that plague modern tech companies. After taking over a 17-year-old fintech platform with no prior CTO, Raz made controversial decisions that flew in the face of conventional wisdom: stopping a microservices migration, questioning Kubernetes adoption, and focusing on measurable business value over engineering trends. His ""dinosaur CTO"" perspective offers a refreshing antidote to tech hype. This conversation cuts through the noise with practical insights on: • 🚫 Why every monolith-to-microservices story ends the same way (spoiler: badly) • 💰 Reducing cloud costs from €120k to €85k through systematic waste elimination • 🔧 When Kubernetes complexity becomes a liability rather than an asset • 📊 Using DORA metrics and cost-per-transaction instead of vanity metrics • 🏗️ Building modular monoliths with domain-driven design principles • 👥 Organizing engineering teams around business value streams, not technology stacks

How do you build a foundation model that can write code at a human level? Eiso Kant (CTO & co-founder, Poolside) reveals the technical architecture, distributed team strategies, and reinforcement learning breakthroughs powering one of Europe’s most ambitious AI startups. Learn how Poolside operates 10,000+ H200s, runs the world’s largest code execution RL environment, and why CTOs must rethink engineering orgs for an agent-driven future.

The physical world is becoming digital—and it requires fundamentally different technical architecture than traditional IT systems. Bernd Groß leads technical leaders through the evolution from enterprise software to industrial IoT, where real-time data from 30,000 wind turbines and millisecond-level decision-making define system requirements. As co-founder and CEO of Cumulocity, Bernd has navigated one of tech's most complex domains: connecting industrial hardware through standardized platforms. His journey from Nokia's early cloud computing initiatives to building Germany's leading IoT platform offers unique insights on technical leadership in physical-digital convergence. Technical leaders will gain valuable perspectives on: • 🏗️ Architecting speed-layer systems that handle 50TB monthly data flows while maintaining real-time responsiveness • 🔄 Managing technical debt across hundreds of industrial protocols while modernizing from monoliths to microservices • 🤖 Implementing "AI-IoT" strategies that bridge machine learning models with operational technology deployments • ⚡ Building edge-cloud hybrid architectures for regulated environments and latency-critical applications • 🛠️ Engineering platforms that scale from device management to data operationalization across industrial verticals

Behind the renewable energy revolution lies complex technical infrastructure that CTOs across industries can learn from. Barbara Wittenberg leads a 250-person tech team at 1KOMMA5° that manages real-time data from 40,000+ connected energy assets while coordinating post-merger integration across 80+ companies in 7 countries. This episode unveils the technical architecture powering virtual power plants, where millisecond-level responsiveness can prevent grid failures and optimize energy usage. Barbara's journey from electrical engineering to Oracle and Google, then back to energy tech, provides unique insights on combining domain expertise with cutting-edge technology. Technical leaders will appreciate: - 🔄 How to manage distributed systems requiring real-time synchronization across numerous endpoints - 🧩 Strategies for standardizing operations while respecting existing successful processes after acquisitions - 🛠️ Practical applications of AI for automating complex technical explanations to customers - 🌐 Navigating complex regulatory environments that differ by country, region, and technical standards - 🚀 Building technical platforms that unite previously disconnected systems and data flows

In this episode, Tobi chats with Adam Schuck, Senior Engineering Director at Canva, a company that has scaled to over 5,000 employees, 2,000+ engineers, and 230 million MAUs while remaining profitable. Adam shares his journey through startups (including acquisitions by Twitter and Canva) and large tech companies like Google, leading to his current role managing 220 engineers at Canva. They dive deep into the challenges and strategies behind Canva's hypergrowth, including: 📈 Scaling engineering teams from 150 to over 2000. 🏗️ Implementing a career framework (Growth & Development Framework) relatively late at 1000+ engineers, moving beyond "minimum viable structure." 🤖 Canva's approach to AI: Viewing it as a tailwind, fostering experimentation ("AI Impact"), providing broad access to tools (Cursor, Copilot, LLMs), and emphasizing human responsibility ("humans as shepherds"). 💻 The core technology decisions enabling Canva's success, particularly the operational transformation logic for real-time concurrent editing and the strategic shift to a unified web-based mobile experience (WebX). ⚙️ Maintaining a startup culture of adaptability despite massive scale. 📅 Adam's personal productivity hacks for leaders, focusing on ruthless calendar management and clear goal setting.

In this episode, Tobi talks with Georg Zoeller, Co-Founder of the Centre for AI Leadership and mercenaries.ai, about the turbulent landscape of AI. Georg, with his background at Meta and deep expertise in AI strategy, cuts through the hype surrounding AI's capabilities and economic impact. They discuss the 'singularity' we're already in, driven by rapid, open-source AI development, and why this makes future predictions impossible. Georg argues that software engineering is being commoditized due to the vast amount of training data available (Stack Overflow, GitHub), making AI adept at code generation but raising profound security concerns like prompt injection. Explore: - Why Georg believes blindly adopting AI early is a 'terrible mistake' for most companies. - The fundamental security flaws in LLMs (prompt injection) and why they're currently unsolvable for open input spaces. - The questionable economics of AI: high costs, self-cannibalizing business models, and the reliance on performative fundraising. - How AI tools impact engineer productivity, shifting the bottleneck to decision-making and validation. - The geopolitical risks and diminishing trust associated with Big Tech's AI dominance. - Actionable advice for CTOs: Invest in understanding, focus on governance beyond the tech team, and consider the strategic value of local/open-source alternatives.

In this episode, Tobi talks with Ivan Kusalic, CTO of Enpal, who leads a team of 250 engineers at one of Germany's leading solar energy companies. Ivan shares insights from his extensive technical leadership journey and his recent return to coding after seven years due to his excitement about AI. Ivan discusses how he navigates complexity and ambiguity in the renewable energy sector, where Enpal builds systems to help households manage solar panels, batteries, EV chargers, and heat pumps as integrated energy solutions. He explains the challenges of coordinating with Germany's fragmented energy grid infrastructure and how Enpal's Virtual Power Plant stabilizes the grid by coordinating household energy consumption in real-time. Discover: - 🧠 How Ivan uses intuition as a leadership tool while managing complex technical organizations - 🌞 The technical challenges of building integrated renewable energy systems for households - ⚡ How Enpal's Virtual Power Plant (VPP) helps stabilize the energy grid through coordinated home energy management - 📱 Ivan's personal productivity system and thought management techniques - 🤖 Insights on AI's impact on engineering productivity and the future of coding - 🚀 Practical tips for managing complexity and making decisions in ambiguous environments

Discover insights into building a high-performance engineering organization with Stefan Richter, founder of freiheit.com technologies. With 25+ years of experience delivering successful software projects for the Who’s Who of European businesses and industries, Stefan shares his philosophy of radical engineering culture and maintaining an exceptionally high bar in recruiting. This episode dives deep into how freiheit.com has achieved their "Never Late, Never Failed" mission through disciplined processes, carefully selected talent, and a relentless focus on simplicity. Listen to find out 🎯 Why shipping great software is their mission 🧑‍💻 How they maintain a high bar in recruiting with "tested in life" candidates 📊 Their approach to engineering career levels and continuous feedback 🏗️ Why they prefer full stack engineers over specialized roles 🧩 How they build complex systems from simple components ⚙️ Their custom-built engineering project management tool 🔄 Their program to continually find and remove friction 📈 How they've delivered every project successfully for 25 years 🔍 Why reducing entropy is critical in large software projects 🌐 Why great software should be simple and maintainable for decades

AI is moving faster than ever, and staying ahead of the curve is a challenge for every tech leader. In this episode, Dat Tran joins Tobi to break down what’s happening in the AI space, from cutting-edge model releases to AI-powered productivity tools and the global race for AI dominance. Dat has spent years leading AI teams at Idealo and Axel Springer, co-founding AI-driven startups, and now helps companies make sense of AI without the fluff. Together, they explore the latest AI trends, the reality behind AI agents, and how engineering teams can actually get more done with AI today. 🚀 Dat’s journey in AI and tech leadership – From hacking on machine learning before it was cool to leading AI at Axel Springer and co-founding AI startups 🤖 DeepSeek R1’s impact – Why this new Chinese AI model is shaking up the industry and what makes it different from OpenAI’s GPT and Meta’s Llama 🛠️ AI agents & automation – What’s real and what’s just hype? Where do AI agents actually work in business today? 💻 The evolution of coding assistants – How AI tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot are redefining what it means to be a full-stack engineer 🌍 The global AI race – Is Europe really falling behind? A look at China’s AI boom, US dominance, and what European AI companies need to do to compete 📈 CTO strategies for AI adoption – How to separate hype from real opportunities and where AI can have the biggest impact in engineering teams today If you’re a CTO, AI enthusiast, or just trying to keep up with the latest AI breakthroughs, this episode is packed with insights you won’t want to miss.

How do you create an effective platform team and optimize DevOps? Tobi interviews Camille Fournier about her career, technical insights, and best practices in platform engineering. Camille shares her journey from building her own computers and installing Linux in high school to becoming Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase and authoring influential books for engineers 📚. 👩‍💻 Camille's early fascination with computers and engineering, including building her own systems and installing Linux 📚 Authoring 'The Manager's Path' and 'Platform Engineering' 🌐 Understanding platform engineering and its evolution from DevOps 🚀 Challenges and strategies in platform engineering for larger companies 💡 Key advice for CTOs on starting and managing successful platform teams

Ever wondered how regulated companies like stock exchanges handle tech growth? Dennis Winter (CTO @ Börse Stuttgart) shares how to build engineering organizations in regulated environments. With experience from embedded systems to leading tech at SolarisBank and Börse Stuttgart, he dives deep into scaling teams while maintaining security and compliance standards 🏦 🏗️ Early-stage tech decisions and building engineering culture 🔄 Evolving team structures and processes as you scale beyond 50 employees 🔐 Security and compliance in regulated environments 🛠️ Infrastructure automation and the importance of early monitoring 🤝 Building team ownership and accountability in regulated companies ⚡️ Role-based access management and device policies

Get insight into the SDK business (and learn about cross-platform performance and developer marketing) with Dr. Daniel Hauschildt (MD & CPTO at IMG.LY). As a client-side offering (no servers!), IMG.LY needs to take extra steps to ensure reliability on all devices 📱, platforms 💻 and browsers 🌐. From crafting developer-friendly documentation to optimizing performance on every device and platform imaginable, Daniel shares hard-earned insights from the SDK business. 👨‍💻What makes an SDK truly developer-friendly? 🤔 📜Documentation: The secret sauce of INBOUND developer marketing 🔌 API Design: Beauty of purpose-driven entry points 🧩How they build for the future with modular design 🐙 Cross-platform support: Native vs. cross-platform frameworks (React, Flutter etc.) ⚙️Why they focus on algorithm optimization over compute optimisation Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/114-daniel-hauschildt-cpto-imgly

Plan and PRACTICE for better incident response with insights from Tim Armandpour, CTO of PagerDuty. Learn the secrets to resilience from the team that mitigated the impact of a major outage—handling a 250% traffic surge while delivering on their SLA. Listen to find out: - 🛠️ Why planning AND practice are both critical for incident response. - 🚧 How to practice for incident response (e.g Failure Fridays with Chaos Engineering) - 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Ownership: Why tech AND business teams must join post-mortems. - ☁️ How to mitigate the impact of your cloud provider’s lower SLA. - ⚓ Which architectural patterns are more resilient? - ⚖️ WARNING: “bend” the CAP theorem at your own risk Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/113-tim-armandpour-cto-pagerduty

Find out about cross-functional team members with Daniel Bartholomae, CTO at optilyz (direct mail SaaS). At optilyz, team members wear multiple hats—whatever hats they need to own the product lifecycle. From product management and design to development and customer engagement, this model eliminates silos and drives efficiency. Daniel breaks down how this innovative approach works, the tools and processes that make it possible, and why it’s a perfect fit for small B2B SaaS companies. Listen to find out: 🚀 How ‘no product managers’ = efficient ‘sprints’ 🛠️ Why optilyz opts for Miro and Asana instead of Jira 🧩 How to find and hire the right people for cross-functional roles 📜 Architectural Decision Records (ADRs): How optilyz documents technical decisions Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/112-daniel-bartholomae-cto-optilyz

How do we actually organize people to consistently deliver value and enjoy the process? This, Eric Bowman (CTO @ King) says, is the core challenge facing any CTO. In this thought-provoking episode, Eric shares insights from his remarkable career in gaming (The Sims, King), e-commerce (Zalando), and navigation technology (TomTom), offering a unique perspective on building high-performing teams and effective tech organizations. Listen in to explore: 🔄 Outcome AND Outputs → Impact (ala Kent Beck’s Universal Value Streams) 🤖 Theory of Adjacent Possibility + Why AI isn’t there yet ⚖️ Product + Tech: Single-threaded (Amazon) vs. Dual Role (Marty Cagan or Google) 🎯 Goals: Kanban-Style Stack Ranking that limits Work-in-Progress 📈 ROI of Tech: Does it increase revenue or speed up delivery? 🧘 Discipline = Action & Commitment + is it time to rethink small teams and platform engineering? Have a listen. Eric has such a great combination of great combination of experience 🦾, knowledge 📚 and wisdom 🧠. Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/111-eric-bowman-cto-king

Become a more effective team in this CTO podcast featuring Rebecca Murphey, Field CTO of Swarmia and co-author of Build. From her years of experience working in the developer productivity organizations at Stripe and Indeed and now at Swarmia, Rebecca knows this conversation isn’t just about developer metrics and productivity - it’s about the broader picture 🖼️. How do we align🧭 our engineering work with with business outcomes💸, developer experience 😀AND developer productivity⚡. And just as important, how do we communicate what we’re doing (and not doing) to other stakeholders? Listen to find out: 🔄 Queuing Theory as paradigm for developer workflow evaluation ⏳ How to allocate time for different engineering tasks 👥 Team Metrics vs. 🧑‍💻 Individual Metrics 📊 Metrics: DORA, SPACE, BRAINs, and more ⚖️ The ethical debate on tracking developer metrics 🤔 If you optimize for the quarter, do you de-optimize for the future? Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/110-rebecca-murphey-field-cto-swarmia-and-co-author-of-build

Save Money on Cloud Costs with Claire Fautsch (CTO @ Joblift). Find out how the team at Joblift slashed monthly cloud costs from €100K to €30K without compromising performance. Listen to find out: 📊 How to build dashboards 📈 How to align cloud costs with business KPIs 🤝 How to get the entire team involved in cost optimization (Spoiler Alert: No FinOps team) 🛠 How to optimize resource allocation and avoid over-provisioning ⚙️ Technical tweaks that made an impact: CUDs, Spot instances, SSD usage, network costs Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/109-claire-fautsch-cto-joblift Brought to you by SmartRecruiters -https://link.alphalist.com/smartrecruiters. Get 10% off when mentioning the alphalist CTO podcast

Keep an eye on the latest trends in this CTO podcast episode featuring Hannes Lenke (CEO and Co-founder of Checkly). Hannes shares insights from over a decade of shaping the testing and monitoring landscape. From AI-powered mobile testing to cloud-based browser testing to synthetic monitoring, he has seen it all. Listen to found out: 👀 What is "Monitoring as Code"? How does it differ from traditional observability? 🔄 Has DevOps changed QA forever? Is there still a place for dedicated QA teams in an automated world? 🚀 How did Checkly evolve into a PLG company with a sales team? ⚙️ How do they run customer code at scale across 21 global data centers? Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/108-hannes-lenke-ceo-co-founder-checkly Brought to you by SmartRecruiters -https://link.alphalist.com/smartrecruiters. Get 10% off when mention the alphalist CTO podcast

Grow the business, not the headcount with insights from Tuomas Artman (CTO of Linear). Saying no to hypergrowth helped Linear succeed, but how did they do it? How did they build a high-quality product with a smaller team? Listen to find out: - How to achieve quality products without increasing headcount 🌱 - Avoiding feature bloat: The pitfalls of customer-driven development ⚖️ - Why you should build for longevity, not acquisition: The downsides of selling too early 🏛 - Why they raised funds after initially planning to bootstrap 💰 - Why Full-Stack Engineers are in 👍, and QA Teams are out 👎 - Why Linear avoids automated UI tests 🚦 - How a local-first synchronization engine ensures a smooth UX ⚙️

Discover new ways to do things with Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, who is working to deprecate backend development using their experience with 150 independent dev teams running a collection of 5,000 microservices. Yet this podcast is more than that (although I was blown away by the demo)—expect great nuggets of wisdom on meritocracy, data, and of course, backend. Think of this podcast as a series of back-to-back nuggets of wisdom that not only help you make sense of what you've observed but also open your mind to emerging trends. Listen to find out 👨‍🍳 How French Restaurants Inspired Engineer-led Sales ⚖️ Finding Success in Contradicting Ideas 🧑‍💻 The Two Types of Engineers: Artists 🎨 vs. Hackers 🔧 🏗️ How he is working on deprecating backend development 📊 Why data is only as good as the decisions it guides and actualizes 📚 The Power of Ontologies 🧩 Inductive vs. Deductive Reasoning 🌈 Diversity in meritocracy through acts of rebellion 💥 ℹ️ Why you need to reduce information asymmetry +🤖 Like Analog to Digital: How LLMs will change things

Find out how to build trust and accountability in a fully remote team in this CTO podcast featuring Sabrina Farmer, CTO @ GitLab. You will also hear how Sabrina draws on her experience in AI, DevSecOps, and her 19 years at Google to rethink the developer experience. Listen to find out: - How Gitlab's CEO Challenge encourages developers to innovate and automate away historic challenges (e.g. Log4js) = Why DevOps is just problem-solving 🕵️‍♀️ at all levels of the stack - How to use AI to create teaching moments 💡 in the developer workflow - How GitLab onboards quicker with detailed documentation📝 (no tribal knowledge)

Discover the benefits of end-to-end technical independence with Alexander Matthey, CTO of Adyen. Learn why Adyen cherishes its in-house strategy as Alexander shares how Adyen’s extreme technical independence (no third-party vendors) enables efficiency in everything from libraries to security. Listen to find out: - Security First: How Adyen makes security a priority for everyone. 🔒 - Pick Up the Phone📞: How direct communication makes them more efficient. - How Adyen’s long-term vision drives innovation. 🚀 - How Conway’s Law is applied to their team structure Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/104-alexander-matthey-cto-adyen?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=referral

Explore the evolution of both a product and the role of its co-founder in this CTO podcast featuring David Cramer (co-founder + CPO @ Sentry). You will discover the pros and cons of each stage in Sentry's journey (open source -> bootstrap -> VC) and why David's role evolved (CEO -> CTO -> CPO). Listen to find out 🔄 Why his role has evolved: CEO -> CTO -> CPO 🧑‍💻 DevTool Marketing 101: Inspiration, Attention, and Conversation 💰 How to monetize open source 🎨 How good branding and design can make an "unsexy" product cool 💳 The power of the self-serve model and its impact on sales 👥 Solopreneur vs. small team with friends ⚖️ Does work-life balance exist in tech? Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/103-david-cramer-co-founder-cpo-sentry

Discover how to leverage platform engineering 🏗️ for convenience, standardization, automation, and reduced cloud costs in this CTO podcast featuring Boyan Dimitrov (CTO @ SIXT). SIXT is a leading global mobility provider serving customers in over 100 countries worldwide. With 800 tech employees globally, they have spent the past eight years standardizing and modularizing their tech stack to achieve unparalleled scalability. Listen to find out: - How to apply the 80:20 rule to Platform ⚖️ - How to automate 🔄infrastructure without tickets 🎟️ - How to reduce cloud costs ☁️with Platform Engineering - How to evaluate ⚖️ an IDP - Why they standardize hosting (cloud and database) 🗄️ - Open Souce vs. Proprietary - Build vs. Buy Listen here - https://alphalist.com/podcast/102-boyan-dimitrov-cto-sixt Brought to you by Storyblok (https://link.alphalist.com/storyblok_podcast)

Get ready for the AI industrial revolution 🦸 in this CTO podcast episode featuring a roundtable of AI AllStars! So much is happening in AI, and you want to be part of it - that is why we asked Jonas Andrulis (Founder and CEO of Aleph Alpha), Rasmus Rothe (Co-founder of Merantix and its AI Campus) and Johannes Schaback (CTO of SumUp) to share with us a broad overview of what CTOs need to know about upcoming AI revolution. Turns out, we aren’t waiting for AGI - we are working on Transformative AI which is in reach for us all. Ready to transform lives with AI? Listen to find out: - ~~AGI~~ Transformative AI by 2030 🤖 - Why your AI strategy (USP💎) matters more than model choice - How to balance AI R&D 🎓with Product 💥and Enterprise Sales 💸 - AI Models: Build⚒️/Buy🛒/Pivot 🧭 - What are emerging opportunities in AI? (Spoiler: B2B SaaS especially in manufacturing 🏭) - How to champion AI 🦸 in your company - Loonshots🚀: how to cultivate innovation - + Hack to attract 🧲 AI talent to non-tech hubs Listen here - https://alphalist.com/podcast/101-ai-revolution-roundtable-feat-jonas-andruilis-aleph-alpha-rasmus-rothe-merantix-johannes-schabak-sumup Brought to you by Storyblok (https://link.alphalist.com/storyblok_podcast)

Trust your intuition, you will gain a lot from this CTO podcast featuring Jason Fried, co-founder and CEO of 37signals, a company known for having groundbreaking policies and products (Basecamp, HEY, Once, etc.). He is also a bootstrapping hero and author of multiple books (Getting Real, REWORK, REMOTE, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work). Listen to find out: - Intuitive🔮 over ‘data-driven’ 🔢decision making - Hook 🪝 vs Towel Rail 🎏: The Power of Simple, Versatile Products - CEO-CTO Relationship: How to counteract the negativity brought on by the typical push-pull 🕹️ - Why they do Customer interviews post-launch - Take-home assessments at 37Signals: paid and overloaded 🪨 + Bezos’ shares in 37Signals Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/100-jason-fried-co-founder-ceo-37signals

Lead a more humane and effective organisation with inspiration from Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies. Inspired by system design💠, cybernetics🤖 and neuroscience 🧠, Team Topologies allows CTOs to structure their teams in a more humane way that reduces cognitive load 🤯 while increasing user value 🎯. Listen to find out: - Value Flow💦: What, why and how to find it - Team Topologies🪢: The 3 team types,1 grouping, and 3 interaction modes - Why Continuous Stewardship 🛞 is important in software - Decoupling🧩 in Time: Amazon’s Secret Source +Why Team Topologies is like Pilates 🏋️ for your company goals🦸 Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/99-matthew-skelton-co-author-of-team-topologies

Embrace the Site Reliability Mindset with Alex Ewerlöf, Sr. Staff Engineer @ Volvo Cars 🚗 and SRE thought leader. Understand how the different aspects of site reliability work together 🪢 and when you need a DevOps vs. Platform Team vs. SRE. Find out how to set your own Service Level Indicators (SLI), Service Level Objectives (SLO), and Service Level Agreements (SLA), as laid out by the creator of the Service Level Calculator. Listen to find out: - SRE 👷 vs. DevOps ⚒️ vs. Platform Engineering🏗️ - Service Level 101: How to set SLIs🚦, SLOs 🎯and SLAs 🤝 - Washing Machine 🧺🫧 vs. Laundry Room🫧🏘️: The Challenges of Standardization - OnCall🎧⚠️: Centralised vs. Team-based? + The unique software challenges of the automotive industry. Listen online: https://alphalist.com/podcast/98-alex-ewerlof-sr-staff-engineer-volvo-cars Read Alex's Website: https://alexewerlof.com. 40% off his book with this coupon code: https://blog.alexewerlof.com/alphalist. This episode was sponsored by DoiT.

Let’s become better Multipliers ✖️ in this CTO Podcast featuring Pat Kua, former CTO of N26 who by popular request now helps CTOs Level Up themselves and their teams. As a sought-after expert in helping ICs transition to leadership roles, Pat shares leadership gems with CTOs. Listen to find out: - Why you should fly high 🕊️and dive deep 🤿 - Why even ICs need leadership skills 🧑‍💻 - Maker⚒️ to Multiplier🌬️: What you need to unlearn when you move into management. - How to communicate: CRY Principle, Translate into Foreign Tongue 💬.. And TCP vs UDP Communication + What the long German Hiring Cycles mean for CTOs Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/97-pat-kua-cto-coach-and-founder-of-the-tech-lead-academy

Discover the power of radical transparency🧐 with Charles Gorintin, CTO of Alan (a French InsurTech) and founding force behind Mistral. He may work in a regulated space, but there is nothing typical about Alan’s setup when it comes to internal matters. Public Salary Framework ✅Searchable Board Meetings ✅4 Managers for 90 FTE✅ Listen to find out: - Why the Manager Role is split into Leads🧑‍💻 and Coaches 🪔 - How Transparent Compensation 💸works with public Salary Levels and Performance Reviews - How he hires 🤝: talent density, culture add and more specialized than him - Why he saw the need for Mistral 🇪🇺 - + How they leverage GitHub Discussions for public decision-making, ownership, and Chesterton’s Fence Brought to you by Instaffo and DoiT

Become a better CTO/CPTO with these insights from David Gebhardt, CTO (and former CPTO) of mobile.de (Germany’s largest car vehicle marketplace). Originally the Head of Tech, David evolved into CPTO, eventually leading the 400-strong Product +Tech teams before evolving business needs led him to bring on a CPO and go back to being ‘just’ the CTO (“only” 250 people). He shares why in this great CTO podcast. Listen to find out: - Why he went from CTO to CTPO and back 🤔 - Self-Efficacy as CTO ✅: How to be effective and FEEL effective - Where innovation 💡 comes from (+ mobile.de’s Innovation Days Format) + Why PHP isn’t all that bad Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/95-david-gebhardt-cto-mobilede Brought to you by Instaffo - https://instaffo.com/cto

Let’s hack cybersecurity in 2024 with Melanie Rieback, Co-founder & CEO of Radically Open Security, the world’s first not-for-profit cybersecurity consultancy with a focus on PenTesting🔏. Melanie is on a mission to fix cybersecurity consulting by putting people before profits and empowering internal teams “how to fish” 🎣. Tune in to hear about the current cybersecurity landscape from the person who not only authored a viral RFID paper (“Is Your Cat Infected with a Computer Virus?”), but also PenTested Tor, Homebrew and Greenpeace. Listen to find out: - What is the business model💸 behind Post Growth Entrepreneurship (90% of profits go towards Open Internet Initiatives via NLNet) - What to prioritise 🕵️‍♀️ in realistic internal IT policies (passwords, backups, updates..) - Internal vs. External Security Teams + Why she uses “Forgot My Password” as a “magic link” to access infrequent sites (and doesn’t remember the password on purpose) Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/94-melanie-rieback-co-founder-ceo-at-radically-open-security

Embrace the technical side 🔧 of the CTO role with Allan Leinwand, CTO of Webflow 🖱️ who has combined technical know-how with great products on every layer of the OSI Model: from setting up HP’s first ethernet, CISCO’s early networks, building the world’s first CDN at Digital Island, and continuing up the stack to enterprise cloud ☁️ (ServiceNow), social gaming​​ 🎮 (zynga), communications 💬 (Slack), eCommerce 🛒 (Shopify) and now webdesign 🎨(Webflow). Listen to find out; - Why deep technical knowledge 🧠 allows better products - How a monolith can combine individual code ownership and great deploy times 🤔 - How to attract 🧲 talent with a ‘boring’ stack (+ Innovation Lab 101) - How to embrace the role of a pre-IPO CTO 🧑‍🚀🚀 - How to stay technical as a CTO 🧑‍💻 - Why he ships small fixes from their #UX-Papercut channel Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/93-allan-leinwand-cto-webflow BROUGHT TO YOU BY: WorkGenius (https://link.alphalist.com/work) and codecentric (https://link.alphalist.com/cc)

Want to become a better manager? Then manage yourself better! From managing the time you spend managing, and all the way to managing how you give your team new tasks... Let's get real with Johanna Rothman, whom they don’t call the Pragmatic Manager for nothing. You will love her straight-talking approach to management. After almost 40 years in management, she can boil down things to sharp principles that will make you either hand pump💯, shoot the link to your buddy🤣… or smile sheepishly🫣. Yip, she got you. (Don’t worry, we won’t judge. Patterns exist because everyone does them. Which is why we need people who have been around the block to call us out 📢on them). Listen to find out: - Why you need to manage yourself to better manage others - Micromanagement: A recipe for multitasking chaos🤯 and WIP overload. - Why Gantt Charts are bad👎. Use Flow Metrics and PERT instead. - Who actually needs to be in the C-Suite (HINT: Not 25 people 🤣) - + how things have changed since the 70s: from the CTO Role to Feedback loops. Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/92-johanna-rothman-the-pragmatic-manager BROUGHT TO YOU BY: WorkGenius (https://link.alphalist.com/work) and codecentric (https://link.alphalist.com/cc)

Empower your team with the right type of autonomy 🚀 as we define the balance in this CTO podcast with Andy Walker, who has years of experience leadings teams at Skyscanner and Google. After 30 years in tech, Andy finally has the time to share what his hard won insights about tech leadership. You will enjoy his nuanced approach to autonomous teams, team size and work-life balance. Listen to find out: Why the more senior you are, the less decisions you should make 🤔 How to give the right amount of autonomy by career stage 🧑‍💻 (and how to have the right conversations about it 💬) How to empower 🚀and support an autonomous team What is the ideal team size?🍕 (What happens beyond Dunbar’s Law?) What motivates your team? 🤗 (SPOILER: Autonomy, Mastery🌟, and Purpose ala Dan Pink) + why Daily Active Users is the Wrong Metric 🫣 Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/91-andy-walker-former-senior-tech-leader-skyscanner-google BROUGHT TO YOU BY: WorkGenius and code-centric

Invest your engineering resources better by truly understanding the core problem your product needs to solve with this CTO podcast featuring Bob Moesta, co-architect of the Jobs to be Done Theory. As an engineer-turned-product-guru, Bob’s explanation of Product Discovery will delight your nerd brain 🧠 (complete with references to set theory, push-pull forces, and the problem space) while being super practical 🔧about the challenges CTOs are dealing with (like scope creep and tradeoffs). Listen to find out: - Why “Build and They Will Come” is a Myth 🫣 - SAM (Serviceable Addressable Market) vs. TAM - Why engineers should be involved in product discovery 🧐 - Customer Interviews: Who to Ask and What to Ask - Why tradeoffs should be influenced by the opinions of those who already bought 🫠 - Hypothesis Building Research vs Hypothesis Proving Research + go inside Tobi’s brain to understand his purchase of his expresso machine. ☕Was it a sudden purchase or were years of ‘forces’ at play? (“The Force(s) made me buy it” 🌬️) Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/90-bob-moesta-co-architect-of-the-jobs-to-be-done-theory

Craft the ideal product strategy in this CTO podcast episode with Melissa Perri, author of “Escaping the Build Trap” and “Product Operations”.Find out how to become truly product-led: from your strategy to your metrics to your tooling. Listen to find out: - How to balance qualitative 😍 and quantitative data 🧪 in product - Were the mass layoffs caused by overhiring? 🫠Is it a natural part of growth or can companies avoid over scaling? - What does the ideal product strategy 🎯look like? - What is ProductOps⚙️ and why you need it - + how to handle your fellow exec’s "greatest idea ever" (AKA Build Trap Alert) 🚧 WARNING: LISTENING TO THIS PODCAST MIGHT CAUSE YOUR PRODUCT STRATEGY TO ACTUALLY BE SUPER FOCUSED AND USED. ONLY LISTEN IF YOU ARE NOT SCARED OF RESULTS. BROUGHT TO YOU BY: [codecentric](https://link.alphalist.com/cc), [Sipgate](https://link.alphalist.com/sipgate) and [WorkGenius](https://link.alphalist.com/work).

Stay on top of your professional development with these learning and productivity tips from Luca Rossi, whose refactoring.club newsletter 🌀 is read by 50k subscribers every week. After scaling Wanderio to 25M users 🚀 as founding CTO, Luca sat down to distill his experiences and in the process created the tech leadership content 📰 he so badly needed. With diagrams. 🖼️ In this alphalist CTO podcast, Luca shares what he has learned about leadership - including the self-leadership needed to structure one's time and effectively harvest the plethora of ideas published online into action. Listen to find out: - What is the flaw in the 'State of Flow"?🌊 - Why CTOs should write more ✍️ - How he structures his day 🌞 - Should CTOs be generalists?🤔 - How he organises his tech leadership 'news clippings' 🗂️ - Tobi getting real 🫣 about recurring 1:1s Listen here: Thank you to our sponsors codecentric, instaffo and WorkGenius

Reimagine version control systems with Scott Chacon, Co-founder of GitHub and GitButler. Because, even Scott, a Git Veteran, will admit it: ``` Git is a pain sometimes. 🫣 ``` There is a serious Merge Conflict ⚔️ between how modern developers code and the workflow ordained by Git in the Linux mailing list days. Version Control Systems need to be taken apart by First Principles 🧩 so they can be better adapted to the needs of modern software teams. And this is the branch he is busy with at GitButler 🔧 - which he invited us to checkout. Pull this episode to find out: - Is the Git Protocol still useful? Does it just need a better client? 🤔 - How to maximize the benefits of centralized version control systems 🫀 - Can we stream🚿 our code and commit less? + T180 calculator hacks Is there life beyond merge conflicts? 🌈 😅 Listen here to find out: https://alphalist.com/podcast/87-scott-chacon-co-founder-of-gitbutler-and-github

Is there a nice way to downsize? Mike Fisher, former CTO of Etsy, shares what he learned when the company downscaled by 27% in 2 rounds of layoffs right before he joined. Find out how you can help your team navigate this sensitive period - both pre- and post-layoff. - How much time⏳ you lose in a layoff (the productivity cost of layoff) - Why you can’t expect to cut costs ✂️ AND grow - Why Availability 🟢 needs to be prioritised as you downsize - Layoffing off Generalists vs. Specialists 🧑‍🔬 - How they migrated to the cloud ☁️

git checkout the future of software development with Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub. In this broad podcast, we discuss everything from refactoring and scaling to the CTO/CEO role, from open source to AI as a Dev Tool. Every day Thomas delves into the development of software development - so his 🧠 was a great brain to pick. Listen to find out: - Why refactoring 🧩 will always be a part of growth. - What was it like being integrated ☂️ into Microsoft post-M&A - What are GitHub’s current challenges 👷 Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/85-thomas-dohmke-ceo-github

Find out the best way to measure Developer Experience 🧑‍💻in a way that truly enables ⚡ your developers (i.e. Developer Productivity) in this CTO podcast with Abi Noda - co-creator of the DevEx Framework and founder of Pull Panda. For years Abi has been on a quest to discover what developer metrics are the key to happier and more productive developers. He tried PR Analytics (he created Pull Panda🐼 - acquired by GitHub) and DORA, before teaming up with other Developer Productivity researchers 🧑‍🔬 to create a new framework which focuses on improving developer experience (DevEx) to improve productivity. Listen to find out: - Why measure Developer Productivity? 🤷(from both CTO and developer perspective) - How to survey your developers? (Sampling, Frequency and Length)📝 - How DORA is done wrong in most companies + Why he prefers bootstrapping -🥾 but got a unique type of funding for his 4th company. Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/84-abi-noda-co-creator-of-the-devex-metrics-framework BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Storyblok (https://link.alphalist.com/cms) and WorkGenius (www.workgenius.com/alphalist). TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Introduction 05:09 His Bootstrapping Inspiration 06:29 When investment is good 09:07 Why measure developer productivity? 13:28 Pull Analytics Approach 16:47 How it backfired at GitHub 17:13 Companies Misuse of Data 19:01 Why DORA didn’t work 20:40 'Shiny New Object Syndrome' 22:10 The right and wrong way to do DORA 24:39 How Developer Metrics have Evolved 33:28 Small Teams and Measuring DX 34:32 Measuring DX in larger companies 36:09 Creating a survey (frequency, length, and sampling) 41:21 Honesty in survey responses 43:48 Tips for getting started

Get inspired about architecture - that of computers and teams - in this CTO podcast with Aviran Mordo, VP Engineering at Wix. I really enjoyed talking with Aviran about both the technical nitty gritty of powering millions of websites as well as the Wix model which - unlike the Spotify model - is still in use at its flagship company over a decade later Listen to find out: - How the Wix model works 🪗(+ hiring, personal development and communication across guilds and companies) - What is Platform-as-a-Runtime 🚄 - Why most microservices 🪢 are done wrong (and are costing you money) - How to encourage mentorship 🫶 - The infra that powers 7% of the web Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/83-aviran-mordo-vp-engineering-wix

Find out how to restructure your org using a matrix structure with Gertrud Kolb, CTO of eyeo (the company behind common adblockers). You will find out how Gertrud implemented changes across an already large organisation - from the team typologies to team communications. Listen to find out: - How to restructure using team topology 🧩best practices in a large organisation. - How to improve requirements engineering ✅ - How to gradually consolidate team communications 💬 - How ad-blockers are working advertisers to enable privacy-friendly 🎯 targeting + Behind-the-scenes at the world’s most popular adblocker Listen here: www.alphalist.com/podcast/82-gertrud-kolb-cto-eyeo --- Timestamps (1:58) - Gertrud’s Nerd Journey (8:24) - Restructuring your org with Team Topologies (15:04) - Working in an interdisciplinary & cross team way (16:00) - Navigating interdependencies with multiple products, teams and interests (21:55) - Inside Eyeo’s Matrix Organization (24:09) - Integrating new companies into the org (28:13) - Consolidating Communication Tools (33:02) - The tech behind ad blocking (41:26) - The move to Ad Filtering -- BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Zoho - https://link.alphalist.com/zoho You have probably heard of Zoho. They have been around for 27 years and now offer an all-in-one platform with over 50 mission-critical apps that offer everything from sales to marketing and HR to accounting. All in one platform- connecting the entire enterprise, ensuring communication between departments. But its the user privacy that Zoho offers that makes it stand out. Not only do they not make money by using your data for advertising, but they also have EU datacenters which is a huge win for GDPR compliance See for yourself. Come to their user conference, named Zoholics on 26th and 27th of September 2023 in Cologne, where you can sit down with experts and get to know the people behind the software. Plus, you get 25% off with the promo code OMR_CTO. Just go to: www.link.alphalist.com/zoho

Find out how to do continuous product discovery with Teresa Torres who has taught over 12,000 people how to sustainably infuse their daily product decisions with customer input. You will find out why product should not be just a job title, but a mindset that the entire C-suite needs to share. Listen to find out: - What is an outcome-orientated mindset? Do we need OKRs?✅ - How to build a continuous feedback loop with customers 🪢 - Business success 👔 vs product discovery success 🫶 - What mistakes people make with product discovery 🕵️ - The pitfalls of founder-led product 🤳 (and how to avoid them) Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/81-teresa-torres-author-of-continuous-discovery-habits

Find out how to use platform engineering to scale your DevOps 🚀with this hands-on podcast with Sarah Polan, Field CTO at HashiCorp. Sarah is passionate about 2 things: DevSecOps 🔏 and automating everything 🔁 (she even automates aspects of her childcare :)). Which is why this podcast episode is all about scalability 📈 - from attrition-proof DevOps to automated audits. This is a must-listen podcast for both CTOs who are new to Platform Engineering as well as those who are troubleshooting from the trenches. Listen to find out: - Why do we need platform engineering?🤔 From financial benefits to DevEx. - Is DevOps dead? Why platform teams is the only scalable way to do DevOps - How to get your platform and application teams to work together 🪢? - How to balance 🤹 autonomy and innovation with centralisation? - How to decide what to build at a platform level? 🧩 🏗 Does it differ by industry? Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/80-sarah-polan-field-cto-hashicorp?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=referral

Did you know that effective 1:1s will 3X your employee engagement? 🤩 Maximise your 1:1 meetings 🤝 by leveraging the meeting science discovered by Steven Rogelberg (Chancellor's Professor at UNC Charlotte and author of 2 top-ranked books about meeting science: “The Surprising Science of Meetings” and “Glad We Met: The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings”). As an organisational psychologist 🧑‍🔬who has advised US Congress 🏛️and Fortune100 companies on workplace matters, Steven is here to share with CTOs the evidence-based 🧐 science that will not only maximise meetings, but also realise their full potential🚀. Listen to find out: - How can we realise the full potential of a 1:1 when it comes to relationships and productivity? Where do async tools fit in? - What are common mistakes to avoid in your 1:1? 🫣 - How often 🤔 should you meet with your direct reports? 🗓️ - How do you evaluate 🧪 the quality of your 1:1s? - How many DRs 👥 can a person have? Can you delegate the 1:1? Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/79-steven-rogelberg-author-of-glad-we-met-the-art-and-science-of-1-on-1-meetings

It is time to stop learning the computer’s programming language, and get computers to learn our language. Prepare think different - or should we say alien 👾 - in this CTO podcast with Stephen Wolfram (Founder & CEO of Wolfram Research). Find out why we need to use computational thinking to create code in a way humans can both write ✍️ and read 📖. Listen to find out: >> What is the programming workflow of the future? 🔮 (SPOILER: Think NLU + LLM + computational layer) >> What is a LUI (Linguistic User Interface) 💬? >> Why should you make your company computable 🖥️? >> What happens at the intersection of technology and judgement?🤔 >> Why the next development in LLMs won’t be so dramatic 📈 >> Why they run on-prem 🗄️? + why they livestream code reviews?🧑‍💻 Listen Here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/78-stephen-wolfram-founder-ceo-of-wolfram-research

Find out how to use tech to deliver (not distract from) business value in this CTO podcast featuring Vikas Gupta, CTO at Choco (a digital platform connecting suppliers to their restaurants), who previously held senior engineering roles at Uber and Dropbox. Listen find out : - ⚖️ How to balance product and platform initiatives - 🔍What the 5 dimensions are for evaluating a language - 🎩 CTPO vs 👷CTO + 🤠CPO - How to determine ROI when migrating from legacy - + Why he chose his tech stack Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/77-vikas-gupta-cto-choco

Get a handle on the latest developments in AI 🤩 in this CTO Podcast featuring Richard Socher, CEO of You.com (the world’s first AI-centric chat-based 💬 search engine). This is your opportunity to learn from the AI professor 🎓who co-authored the paper that introduced the term ‘prompt engineering’, created MetaMind 🧠(now powering Einstein at Salesforce) and pioneered many of the technologies everyone is hyping about today. But for Richard, its not hype. Its just the fusion of technology and business that he has been working on for years. Listen to discover: - How can chat-based search be monetised 💸? - How have MLOps evolved 🔄? - How will AI impact the job market? - What will happen to digital marketing in the age of AI?🤷 - When will we reach AGI? ⏳ (hint: not as soon as you think) + Search Engines: From the current tech complexity to future forms. Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/76-richard-socher-ceo-you-dot-com

Buckle up for a journey through the evolution of DevOps with John Engates, the Field CTO at Cloudflare, who has been leading the charge since his days as CTO of Rackspace (2002-2018). Get ready for a fascinating ride as we explore the role of AI in DevOps and gain insights from a true industry veteran. Listen to discover: - How to handle incident response the Cloudflare way🚨: mission rooms, communication strategies, and best practices - Why we can't just turn off the internet? 🌐 The ethical considerations behind cyber warfare - The unique role of a 🧑‍🌾 Field CTO - How John puts ChatGPT to work 🛠️ Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/75-john-engates-field-cto-cloudflare

Dig deep into how to use generative AI as developer tool 🧑‍💻in this CTO podcast featuring Shawn ‘Swyx’ Wang. Shawn has not only headed Developer Experience at 3 Unicorns 🦄, but he is also the editor of the Latent Space AI/ML newsletter. Tune in to discover how generative AI will change programming and how to start exploring the world of LLMs. Learn: - How our infrastructure 🏗️ needs will evolve with the explosion of the AI frontier - How much time a CTO should spend trying out new technology vs. sticking with the tried and true ⚖️ - Why AI-native databases 🗃️ are the future + Best practices for using generative AI as a developer tool 🦾 Listen here - https://alphalist.com/podcast/74-shawn-swyx-wang-developer-experience-expert

Focus on your CTO career in this podcast with Will Larson about leaving a CTO role, finding a new CTO role, and negotiating your compensation. Will is the thought leader behind the popular blog "Irrational Exuberance" and the book "An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management" and "Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track". Additionally, he is the former CTO of Calm who has also led teams at Uber, Digg, and Yahoo. Listen to find out: - How to find 🔍 the ideal CTO Role in 2023: Location 🌍, Stage, Domain, Culture 🤝 and Red Flags 🚩 - Moving on from your Current CTO role 👋: When, Why and How (succession, exit options etc.) - What to look out for in CTO💸 compensation and options - Why he predicts tech salaries will decrease in the 10 years Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/73-will-larson-thought-leader-irrational-exuberance-lethain

Like the UX of a SPA but developing it is a nightmare🤔? Then you should listen to this podcast about PESPA (Progressively Enhanced Single Page apps.🤩. You will learn from Kent C. Dodds, 💁‍♂️co-founder of Remix about this latest web architecture which combines the UX of a SPA (no full-page refreshes 🔄 with a better DX👨‍💻 (no code duplication and less mess🫣). With companies like Microsoft, Netflix, and LinkedIn incorporating it into their stack - it's the web’s next transition which you don’t want to miss out on. Listen to discover: - The Evolution ⏩of the Web Architecture: From Multi-Page Apps to Single Page Apps and everything in between - How older companies are injecting 💉SPA into their legacy MPA(Called PEMPA) - How to better the UI of error messages and validation - How can one achieve an 📵offline-first web app? - Remix vs. Nuxt vs. Flux Kent's skills as a seasoned software educator and Javascript influencer make this technical discussion a breeze to digest. ⚠️ CAUTION: LISTENING TO THIS PODCAST MIGHT LEAD TO SOME SERIOUS CODING BREAKTHROUGHS Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/72-kent-c-dodds-co-founder-remix

Learn about the future of front-end with Malte Ubl (CTO at Vercel). Malte is the creator of JSConf.eu and has extensive experience in engineering teams on projects like Wiz (the front-end framework Google still uses in most of their consumer apps) and Google Search (Desktop). Now he is at Vercel - mainstreaming the tools and techniques common in BigTech - to other tech companies. Listen to find out: >> The CTO Role: how he balances ⚖️ Product 💡 and Engineering 🔧 >> How to decide on a front-end stack - from frameworks to languages 👀 >> Where most Engineering A/B🧪 tests fail + The tech stack at Vercel Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/71-malte-ubl-cto-vercel

Learn out to run your remote 🌎 company effectively with tips from Dominik Angerer, co-founder, and CEO of Storyblok. He shares tips and insights on everything from remote recruiting to onboarding and engagement. Plus, he shares the story behind the Storyblok tech stack, and why, after years of being bootstrapped, they decided to seek funding. Listen to find out: - Remote Compensation 💸: How he uses data to adjust salaries - How to handle IT procurement 🖥️ and device management for a global team - How to source, recruit, and onboard a fully distributed team - How they split meetings into async and sync segments + What the ideal annual retreat 🏖️ looks like Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/70-dominik-angerer-cofounder-and-ceo-at-storyblok P.S. Storyblok buys their compensation datasets from here: https://www.erieri.com/

Find out how to optimize your cloud ☁️costs in this CTO podcast featuring David Linthicum (Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte, Author of Insider’s Guide to Cloud Computing, and #1 Cloud Influencer). This is your opportunity to hear about the efficient use of cloud computing from someone whose 35-year 🫡 career includes serving as CTO at five companies, writing 15 books, publishing 7000 articles, presenting at 1000 conferences and 2000 webinars, and teaching popular courses on computing at Louisiana State University and LinkedIn Learning. Listen to find out: - What are the biggest mistakes 🫣 people make with their cloud setups? - How can you use FinOps 💸to cut your cloud costs? - How to get Cloud Repatriation (cloud + on-prem) and MultiCloud to work for you?🫶 - Why the MetaCloud/SuperCloud is the next big thing 🔥 Will cloud costs will drop soon?📉 Listen here: www.alphalist.com/podcast/69-david-linthicum-chief-cloud-strategy-office-deloitte-consulting

Find out how to price your SaaS product effectively 💸 in this podcast featuring Patrick Campbell of ProfitWell (a SaaS for subscription analytics, retention, and pricing solutions). He shares pricing insights he has learned by looking over 🧐 the data of 73 000 SaaS companies over the past decade! Listen to find out: You - How to get the right 🎯price for your SaaS Product - Freemium 🆓 or free trial? -Should you have a legacy 👴🏻 tier? - Usage-based 📈 or tier-based 📊 pricing? 🤔 - Why and how to change your price? 🔼 - Insight into the current ‘recession’ 📉 - Why it’s hard to sell an analytics product 🔍 Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/68-patrick-campbell-founder-ceo-profitwell

Find out how to bootstrap and scale fast in this CTO podcast featuring Renaud Visage - Co-Founder & ex-CTO at Eventbrite🎟. He shares what he would do differently if he would bootstrap Eventbrite again, his approach to the evolving role of the founding CTO, and climate-friendly tech. Listen to find out: - Bootstrapping: Why you should hire senior devs 👨‍💻 as soon as possible - Cloud☁️ vs. On-Prem⚙️ - How recession📉 will change the start-up ecosystem - Climate + Tech: How to factor in climate♻️ to our tech - How to embrace your evolving role as CTO Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/67-renaud-visage-co-founder-ex-cto-eventbrite

Get insight into product analytics from Dr. Thanasis Noulas, VP Engineering at TradeRepublic - whose 15+ year data career has spanned industries as diverse as trading, accommodation (Booking.com & AirBnB), Mobility (Uber) and Content (Netflix). Listen to find out: - How to be data-informed when you can’t be data-driven (e.g. in a regulated industry ​​⚠️) - How to A/B test correctly (sample size, old users/new users, tools) - Build vs.Buy 🛒 and the data tech stack. - Why you should spend more time with your overperformers 🏆​​ than underperformers - What the recent tech layoffs teach us about transparency🔮 + his quarterly calendar ​​🗓️ defragmentation hack Listen here: www.alphalist.com/podcast/66-dr-thanasis-noulas-vp-engineering-trade-republic

Find out how to ship meaningful products 👍 on time ⌛ with proper product shaping in this CTO podcast with Ryan Singer, the creator of the Shape Up Method 💪. The Shape Up Method aims to better define and prioritise 🤔 projects before they are sent to be built and shipped. Listen to find out: - How to timebox effectively 📅 (SPOILER: Its not 2 or 6 weeks) - Why tickets don’t work 🎫 - What is the ideal team composition 🎨 for each phase of the project. + Why he doesn’t give specific instructions for the build phase 🏗️ (because everyone does their own thing anyway 🙃) Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/65-ryan-singer-creator-of-the-shape-up-method

Find out how to build a profitable mobile app or game 📱in this CTO podcast featuring Carlo Szelinsky, Co-CEO & Founder @ applike group. The applike group brings in $100M+ ARR through their apps and games and now also offers tech solutions for app creators. Listen to this podcast for a step by-step-guide to mobile apps: from performance marketing attribution to in-app analytics technology and everything you need to know about monetizing your app. Listen to find out: - How to do attribution 🧐 well in 2023 (and how to deal with click🖱️ fraud) - The pros and cons of ad network mediation platforms 🧑‍⚖️ - The different ways to monetize a mobile game 🎮 - What tech stack he recommends for each app type. Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/64-carlo-szelinsky-co-ceo-founder-applike-group

Discover the technology behind a service that delivers groceries within two hours ⏳ in this CTO podcast featuring Aron Spohr, CTO @ Flaschenpost - a grocery delivery service. 🍏🍞🥚🥫 Listen to find out: - Why boring 🥱 is good in a tech stack (SPOILER: They run their ecommerce 🛒 site in .NET and C# ) - Why they went with a hybrid approach (web container + native SPA) to apps - Why they now buy before they build 🛠️ + How he hacked Deutsche Telekom 📶 at age 16

Get insight into the world of reinforcement learning in this CTO podcast with Maria Meier CTO @ Phantasma Labs (a Simulation-a-a-Service). Maria shares with us how the simulation industry🔮 is developing - particularly in the autonomous vehicle context. Listen to find out: - Why reinforcement learning 🍭 is about to catch up to the other 2 ML paradigms - Why we need to model diversity in AI 👩‍🦽👴🧒🌍 - especially when simulating urban pedestrian traffic. - How much progress the autonomous vehicle industry 🚘 has made towards Level 5. - How standardisation 📜 is unfolding in ML Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/62-maria-meier-cto-phantasma-labs

Come to a new appreciation of the code that powers most of the hardware you interact with in this CTO podcast featuring Bjarne Stroustrup - Creator of C++. Join us as we discuss the past, present, and future of C++ - a language used in everything from ATMs 🏧 to rocketships 🚀. Listen to find out: - Why we need to differentiate between coding 👨‍💻 and programming ⚒️ - Why he doesn’t want to start C++ from scratch ❇️ - The challenges of maintaining 🏗️ a language used by millions of people - How C++ 💪 trumps other languages in efficiency Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/61-bjarne-stroustrup-creator-of-c-plus-plus

Discover new ways to think about ethical engineering 😇 and technical architecture 🏗️in this CTO podcast featuring Yonatan Zunger, Creator of WXZ Layers of System Approach and Distinguished Engineer at Twitter. This is your opportunity to hear from someone whose architectural philosophy is inspiring companies like Github. Listen to find out: >> How to build a multi-layer 🍰 architecture (WXZ) that gives a reliable way to test ideas out. >> Why we need to consider ethics and privacy in everything from UI 🖱️ to AI 🤖 >> What the IC track 🧑‍💻looks like (titles and roles) >> What 4 skills 🧠 every project needs Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/60-yonatan-zunger-creator-of-the-wxz-layers-of-the-system-approach

Find out how to be more efficient by using a mix of no-code, low-code and hard-code in your tech stack in this practical CTO podcast episode featuring Andreas Wixler, the CTO of FINN 🚙. Listen to find out: >> When, why and how to migrate ➡️ your core business code from no-code to hard-code >> How to test and document an API-first set up >> How to get the entire company automating ⚙️ processes in no-code >> How to navigate no-code and low-code limits ⚠️ Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/59-andreas-wixler-cto-finn

Get clarity on how to build great software in 2022 in a world exploding with methodologies and languages with the legendary software craftsman Uncle Bob Martin. The Clean Coder ✨is known for Test Driven Development ✅ and his contribution to SOLID 🧰 and the Agile Manifesto 📜 and he is here to share how to incorporate it into a professional setup. Listen to find out: - How to do Technical Debt ⚖️ the right way. - Why your hiring 📜 should be language-agnostic 💬 - Why pair programming 🤼🏻 is better than code reviews - How Agile 🎛️ came about + the 🔮 Future of Software With over 60 years of experience and many books and courses under his belt - this is the technical architecture overview you have been waiting for. With over 60 years of experience and many books and courses under his belt - this is the architecture overview you have been waiting for. Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/58-uncle-bob-martin-the-clean-coder-behind-test-driven-development-solid-principles-and-the-agile-manifesto

Find out what it takes to enable developer productivity in a highly autonomous environment 💪 like Netflix where there are no rules ✌️- only trust and accountability 🫵. Kathryn Koehler, Director of Developer Productivity Engineering @ Netflix shares insight into lean teams, internal tooling, and yes, developer productivity. Listen to find out: - How to decide between Build 🛠vs Buy 🛒 in internal tooling - How to measure 📏developer productivity (SPACE vs NPS vs DORA) - How to support developer’s choice in language 💬(context vs. control) - Why the ideal team 👥 size is n-1 - + Why she never says she is ‘busy’ 🤹 Netflix is known for its unconventional fast-paced culture - so get ready for a wild ride.

Learn how to be the CTO that everyone wants to work for by listening to this talk by Ken Coleman. Known as America’s Career Coach, this Ramsey Personality is also the bestselling author of books like ‘From Paycheck to Purpose’, ‘Proximity Principle’, and more. Discover the winning recipe you need to attract and retain talent in today’s market from someone who has spoken to over 5000 people live-on-air who are looking to leave or join leaders. Plus, find out how to hone your servant-leadership skills by asking your team the right questions, balancing patience and progress, and choosing the right mentor. Listen to find out: - What are the 6 Rules of Engagement that will help you retain 🧲(and attract) talent in today’s market - The difference between Purpose 🧭, Vision 🔭 and Mission and how to use them to create a future-proof company. - What is the secret to leading successful autonomous and remote teams? - How to attract the right talent with a winning job description. This is a golden talk for technical leaders looking to up their game. Listen Here - https://alphalist.com/podcast/56-ken-coleman-americas-career-coach

Find out how to maintain developer productivity 🧑‍💻 in a fast scaling team in this CTO podcast featuring Rachel Potvin, VP Engineering at GitHub (formerly of Google and Ubisoft). She shares how GitHub uses things like fan-out processes, design reviews, and DevSat surveys to stay on track even as the team 3Xed💥. Listen to find out: - Why you should focus on team 👥 productivity metrics (+which ones) - How they are using the ‘Layers of the System’ 🍔 approach to work out GitHub’s future architecture 🏛️ (SPOILER: It might not be entirely monolithic forever) - How they prioritised build 🏗️ queues to minimise context switching Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/55-rachel-potvin-vp-engineering-at-github

Cal Henderson, CTO of Slack, creator of Flickr, and author of ‘Building Scalable Websites’ (O'Reilly Media, 2006) shares how Slack was built from both a tech and product perspective and what you should be doing to reclaim your focus time ⏱️. You don’t want to miss out on hearing about the Slack tech stack from someone who is a pioneer in the use of web APIs and created the basis for OAuth and oEmbed. Listen to find out: >> How Slack does focus time >> What tech stack👩‍💻 powers Slack across platforms >> Why Twitter 🐦 has allowed for better products to be created + why you need to disconnect to produce Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/54-cal-henderson-cto-slack

Find out what is new in the world of cybersecurity in this CTO podcast featuring cybersecurity expert Mikko Hypponen, the originator of Hypponen's Law (if it's smart📲, it's vulnerable😨) and Europol 🇪🇺 board member. Tune in to hear what he has to say as an expert with more than 30 years of experience in protecting users’ cyber security and privacy. Listen to find out: - Why you should see open source vulnerabilities as a supply chain problem (and why it's your job to contribute an audit 🧐). - How Bitcoin makes a great quantum-proof encryption 🔏 solution. - Should we be scared of AI-aided cyberattacks? 🏴󠁢󠁯󠁴󠁿🤖 + Cybersecurity and the Russian🇷🇺/Ukrainian🇺🇦 conflict Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/53-mikko-hypponen-chief-research-officer-withsecure

I spoke with Oren Etzioni - CEO of Allen Institute for AI (a leading AI research institute). Get an insight into what's new in the world of AI from the person whose company's incubated startups worth $300 million+ and released a number of AI tools and technologies. Listen to find out: >> How to get the scientists 🧪 and engineers 🔧on your team to work together>> >> What opportunities await you 🦸 in the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence? >> What is going to be the next big thing in the world of AI🧠, computer vision👁️ and NLP👄? + Is AI good or bad? 🤔 Listen here - https://alphalist.com/podcast/52-oren-etzioni-ceo-of-allen-institute-for-ai

Eben Upton, Co-founder & CEO of Raspberry Pi Ltd (which produces low-cost, high-performance Raspberry Pi single-board computers and microcontrollers for kids - and adults) shares what it’s like to build hardware that makes computing accessible to more people (Did you know that some components are camera shy 📸??). In the past decade, they have made 45 million Raspberry Pis while improving on the original’s performance 40X!!! Learn top tips about building great hardware (it is called hard for a reason) and why you need 10 domain experts, $1 million dollars, and a risk appetite to ⚙️ power the creations of millions of people. Listen to find out: - Why technical leaders with multiple demands on their time should stay away from the code 👩‍💻 - Why do they no longer manufacture hardware in the Far East 🌏 - What will outdated semi-conductor manufacturing facilities 🏭 be used for? - How they are handling the supply chain disruptions 🚢 and the conflict in Eastern Europe (e.g. bot scalping, rerouting, prioritization). P.S. If you like gambling - try the semi-conductor industry.

Niilo Säämänen, CTO of Wolt (best known for their delivery platform) ⚡, shares how he leads an engineering organisation of 40+ autonomous product teams through hyper-growth to serve millions of customers across 23 countries 🚀. Learn how to structure your team and product across domains, platforms, and countries while putting employee satisfaction at the forefront of your work ⭐. You’re bound to learn a thing or two from his unique approach to building impact-driven tech organisations built on autonomy, ownership and accountability 💪. Listen to find out: - How to build & maintain a company culture 🤗 in a hyper-growth company - Why autonomous teams allow you to attract and retain the most talented 🏆 engineers - How to measure engineering performance (hint: engineer satisfaction is more important than you think) - Why they use semi-annual tiered team-owned roadmaps at Wolt (and their process ⚙️ for creating them) Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/50-niilo-saamanen-cto-at-wolt

Mike Perham, the creator of Sidekiq 🦵🏼 (a background job managers for Ruby) shares how he commercialised the open-source as a solopreneur doing what he loves 💙 without the costs & management headaches 🤦 of a team or the pressures of a VC investment. Discover tips for building sustainable software (e.g. minimise dependencies) and choosing the right business model that enables you to support and maintain your software for years to come. Listen to find out:: -How to get to $4M ARR with 20% YoY growth by creating a helpful add-on ➕ to a popular open-source framework (i.e. Rails). -Why you should avoid dependencies originating from a 💸VC-backed company or non-commercialized OS project -Why you activate a ticking time-bomb 💣 when you get VC funding (better to bootstrap and get the revenue without the pressure) Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/49-mike-perham-creator-of-sidekiq-faktory

Michael Kagan, the CTO of computing giant Nvidia and co-founder of Mellanox shares insight into the world of hardware, software, AI, and of course computing. Listen to find out: - Why you should ditch deep hierarchy and allow those close to the product to make the decisions. 🧑‍⚖️ - The benefits of working with inexperienced engineers 🐤 - How to retain employees by hiring them every day 😃. + Why instead of fighting for a bigger slice of pie 🍰 - we should just bake a bigger pie Listen Here- https://alphalist.com/podcast/48-michael-kagan-cto-at-nvidia

I spoke with Daniel Krauss, the Chief Organisational Plumber at FlixBus - a leading Mobility-as-a-Service 🚍🚆. Learn how to grow a company from a ‘fastest-shippable-product monolith’🙃 to a neat ‘independent service’ architecture 😀 with ‘Team Self Design’ events, empowered teams & domain-orientated org structure. Listen to find out: - How to push technological innovation in a highly-regulated industry⛔ (and its limits). - How to adapt your tech architecture and organizational structure of your product as you scale ⇗ - Why you should never compromise on hiring the best 💪 engineers. + How he chose FlixBus tech stack

Taylor Otwell, CEO, and Creator of Laravel (a popular PHP framework) - gives tips on how to commercialize an open-source by sharing his winning recipe of a lean team, great UX/UI, time management, product management, and of course, commercial products. He also gives insight into the use of the various frameworks for full-stack engineering (SPOILER ALERT: Full-stack bootcamps should be teaching more than Javascript). Listen to find out:: - How to get to 6M$ ARR starting with an open-source project (HINT: It’s not through sponsored repositories) - Why to build a SaaS with a single full-stack engineer 🦸 you need to abandon Javascript - Why it's better to follow product vision 🧭 and ROI when building features rather than detractors' requests. - What goes on behind the scenes 🛠️ at Laravel (product management, team structure, async etc.) + A day in the life ⏰ of Taylor Otwell

David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of Basecamp and Hey and creator of Ruby-on-Rails💎 blows us away yet again in this thought-provoking podcast about bootstrapping, scaling, remote work, and of course Ruby on Rails. Learn insights into technical leadership from someone who has been leading a remote team since 2004 (hint: You are doing Slack and Zoom wrong), believes in async work, and loves the fact that his company doesn’t have an office 🏢. Plus, after 20 years of creating multi-million dollar SaaS products - he just made his first middle management hire!! 🤯 Listen to find out: - Product discovery: Why he rather ships a product instead of doing discovery with Figma prototypes. There is no stronger confirmation than a user that pays for your product - Why they capped Basecamps size to 60 for a long time 🧑‍💼and discontinued a lot of products to fully focus - How he would bootstrap a startup in 2022 🚀 (e.g. SaaS, remote, small team, nodecode vs. handcrafted software). - Why he doesn’t work on Ruby on Rails👨‍💻 full time and why he thinks it’s good for the framework that it’s not commercial at all - How Rails 7 brings back developer productivity + pushes UX to the next level WITHOUT a lot of Javascript (No SPA inside!) with Hotwire + His favorite productivity tip? He cut down Twitter by 97% Listen here - https://alphalist.com/podcast/45-david-heinemeier-hansson-ruby-on-rails-creator-and-cto-at-basecamp-and-hey

Laura Major - CTO at motional (an autonomous vehicle company 🚗) and author of the book ‘What To Expect When You Are Expecting Robots’🤖 - talks about what it takes to build a commercially-viable SAE Level 4 self-driving vehicle 🚘. The motional team has been working with Hyundai and Lyft to get robotaxis on the streets of Las Vegas by 2023. You don't want to miss this inside scoop on the AV industry from a robotics expert with a background in the aerospace industry🚀. Listen to find out: -What goes into making AVs: sensing, data processing, testing, maintenance and more. -Why they released their NuPlan dataset as a virtual driving test for AVs -What its like competing in the autonomous vehicle industry. -How to manage your time ⌚ as a CTO + How she deals with the (unfortunate) challenges inherent in being a #WomenInTech 👩‍💻

Our next guest has a serious need for ⚡ speed ⚡! I spoke with Ilya Grigorik, Principal Engineer at Shopify, founder and former CTO of PostRank (acquired by Google), former co-chair of W3C Web Performance working group. Learn how to optimize your website for speed 💨 with tips from the web performance engineer who worked on Google’s ‘Make Web Faster’ team (y’know, the one that brought you Core Web Vitals and Page Speed Insights). Listen to find out: - Why every CTO needs how mobile networks operate 📲 before building anything mobile. - How to use perceptual latency 👁️ to your advantage - What features you should be using to #MakeTheWebFaster ⏩ - How Shopify is pivoting to serve developers with its new Hydrogen and Oxygen frameworks. + Why headless eCommerce isn’t actually head-less - it's got many heads (omnichannel). Listen here - https://alphalist.com/podcast/43-ilya-grigorik-principal-engineer-at-shopify

I spoke with Frédéric Rivain, CTO at Dashlane, a password management 🔐 solution. Learn about the future of passwords, why they are focussing on browsers instead of platforms, and how ‘half-baked agile’ works at Dashlane. Listen to find out: -Why they are moving towards browser-centric delivery (away from OS 🖥️) The impact of ManifestV3 on the extensions 🧩 community. -Why the future🔮 won’t be entirely passwordless -How they minimize the impact of breaches with their zero-knowledge📦 approach to engineering + How they structure their teams👥�, processes📕 and OKRs ✔️ at Dashlane. Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/42-frederic-rivain-cto-of-dashlane

I spoke with Snir Yarom, CTO at Codility,🧑‍💻 - a leading technical assessment platform - about data-driven technical recruiting 💼, the typical hiring process and how to attract talent in a competitive market. Listen to find out: - How to use data 📊 to optimise each stage of your technical recruiting pipeline (e.g. sourcing, screening, interviews, assessment etc.) - How to lead different tech teams across cultural divides 🇹🇭 🇮🇱 🇩🇪 (e.g. confrontational vs. non-confrontational culture). - Why ‘Meeting the Team’ 🤝 is a key step in the hiring process. + The best sources of engineers (by conversion rate). Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/41-snir-yarom-cto-codility

I spoke with Marco Palladino, Co-Founder & CTO at Kong 🐒, the market-leading API Manageent Gateway Solution. Learn deep insight into APIs, the future of the API Economy, and what it takes to build a great API from someone who has been involved in the API industry since its infancy. Listen to find out: - How to build an API for each use case (external, microservice & mobile). - Why it's only the beginning of the API economy 💹 - Why the best infrastructure software has its roots in the open-source ☸️. - How he managed to commercialise💸 an open-source project without alienating its community 👥 Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/40-marco-palladino-cto-kong

Chad Fowler - an engineer, musician, and author - transformed Wunderlist 📋 from a messy monolith to a neat multi-language microservice. Be inspired by his unique view on technology stemming from his background as a musician 🎵 and RPG player 🎮. Open your mind 🤯and prepare to reevaluate 🤔after you hear from this creative thinker who -in the course of his 25-year career - has worked as both a coder and manager at both startups and enterprise companies in the US 🇺🇸, EU 🇪🇺 and India 🇮🇳. Listen to find out: - Why we should rethink how computer science is taught 🎓 to get better coders 🧑‍💻 - Why and how he used multiple languages in his microservice architecture 🖇️ - Why startups 🚀should wait before adopting a named methodology (e.g. Agile, scrum, kanban, OKR) - Unique applications of concepts touted in the decentralized Web 3️.0 🔮 Listen here - https://alphalist.com/podcast/39-chad-fowler-cto-musician-author-and-vc

I spoke with Sagnik Nandy, CTO & President of Technology at Okta, the market leading IAM Solution 🔐. Discover deep insight into the world of identity management🆔, user feedback 👥, and why the best products provide a simplified interface to a complex solution (with customizability ⚙️ for advanced users). Don’t miss out on this opportunity to hear how to build scalable products ♾️ from someone who scaled and led Google Analytics 📊 and Google Ad 💸 products/ Listen to find out: -Why you need to build for both expansion 📈 and deprecation 📉 -The need for a passwordless future 🔏 -The challenges of integrations ☮️ (Okta integrates with 7000+ services) -How to Scale Excellence 👍 + the importance of mentorship 🧑‍🏫 Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/38-sagnik-nandy-cto-okta

I spoke with Fabian Wesner, Founder at ROQ, a FaaS (Feature-as-a-Service) for web applications. Learn deep insight into the world of web applications and frameworks from someone who had to launch an eCommerce shop each week (in different countries 🇧🇷 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 and industries!👗🛏️🧸). Fabian, as former Rocket Internet CTO and Spryker Co-Founder and CTO is the hidden gem of the German CTO scene. Listen to find out: - How working in the “Samwer sweatshop” felt - Node vs Ruby vs PHP for a modern web app - Why “keeping your stack lean” is important and how he approaches architecture - What it takes to build a eCommerce shop system 🛒 (he built 3!) - The science 🧬 behind building a new FaaS (Feature-as-a-Service) - Tips into the 👁️ Lost Art of Database Schema Visualisation Listen here: https://alphalist.com/podcast/37-fabian-wesner-founder-roq

I spoke with Kore Nordemann, CTO at Frontastic, a Frontend-as-a-Service for headless CMS and commerce systems. Learn deep insight into what it takes to build a web app today: from choosing a stack to hiring frontend/backend/full-stack developers. Listen to find out: - Which ECommerce 🛒 features are Amazon’s Achilles Heel - Why Pair Programming 🧑‍ 💻‍🧑 works better than Pull Request Reviews - The pros and cons of Stateful/Stateless, Docker, PHP, CouchDB 🛋️ and more - Why microservices are probably not for you (yet integrated services are). + Plus the design features 🗺️ of the Frontastic Virtual Office that you might want to implement for your remote office.

I spoke with Alesia Braga, CTO at SmartRecruiters, an end-to-end recruiting solution. She shares with us insights into the recruiting world, how to improve diversity and what she does to shorten the recruiting cycle time to avoid losing top candidates She also shares with us: - Why she uses a literal scorecard 💯 for each candidate she interviews - How she juggles 🤹 product and tech in the CTO role - The challenges of balancing enterprise use 🏭 with superior end user experience

I spoke with Mark Porter, CTO at MongoDB. His 40-year career spans time working at companies like Oracle, AWS, and Grab. He shares with us insights into technical leadership, company culture, and the open-source world, Listen to find out -Where DEI initiatives fail〽️ -Why they don’t use OKRs 📏 at MongoDB -How to Build A product around the Open Source 👥 +How being a parent makes him a better manager

I spoke with Andreas Schranzhofer, CTO of Scalable Capital about the best ways to secure an app. Scalable Capital is a Neo-Broker and robo-advisor based in Munich with over 250 million in funding. Learn about app security from someone highly experienced in running an app in the highly regulated FinTech 💰 industry. Learn: - Why you need both security and obfuscation 🛡️ - How to prevent Supply Chain and Ransomware attacks 🦹‍🤑 - What external tools he uses in the Software Development Cycle 🛠️

I spoke with Charity Majors, CTO of HoneyComb, a prolific Twitter user, and blogger. WHO TESTS IN PRODUCTION. 😱 And is proud of it. She also shares her insight into socio-technical leadership, observability, and databases. Learn: The importance of a tight feedback loop 🔁 Why the maximum deploy time should be 15 minutes. 🕒🚀 How microservices make engineers job harder😓 Why she wants to do away with hierarchies to increase job satisfaction 😀

Alex Solomon of PagerDuty is working on making the DevOps world more efficient with on-call-management, AIOps, and automating routine debugging tasks. He shares with us about: - On-Call Management: The only notifications that provide a better Work/Life Balance - How AIOps and Runbook Automation are the future of DevOps (+other trends) - Partner vs Compete: Why they became an ecosystem - How he grew his B2B Saas Startup

We spoke with Cheryl Hung of Cloud Native. She runs the ecosystem of over 600 members contributing to over a hundred open source projects. She also started the Cloud Native London meetup where she promotes developer advocacy and diversity. As an early adopter of kubernetes, she has a lot to share! Cheryl shared with us: - The importance of Developer Advocacy 👩‍💻 - How Edge Computing is the next frontier in Cloud Native ☁️ - Why kubernetes is not for everyone 📦and has to become easier - Why End-User companies should contribute to the Open Source 🆓 + Her childhood dream of becoming a Google Engineer and where she is holding with it! Join us in welcoming our First Female Guest.. and send us more because we are missing out!