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Aaron Blohowiak: The Myth of the Sufficiently Smart Engineer

Aaron Blohowiak: The Myth of the Sufficiently Smart Engineer

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Aaron Blohowiak: The Myth of the Sufficiently Smart Engineer

FromMaintainable

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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Sep 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Robby speaks with Aaron Blohowiak, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. They discuss mistakes teams make when refactoring too much before finding a product-market-fit and how Netflix deals with technical debt. Aaron also shares some early era Ruby on Rails stories, along with reasons why developers might be intimidated to apply at top-tier organizations like Netflix.Helpful LinksAaron on TwitterAaron on LinkedIn[Book] Radical Candor[Book] Thinking in SystemsSubscribe to Maintainable on:Apple PodcastsOvercastSpotifyOr search "Maintainable" wherever you stream your podcasts.
Released:
Sep 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Feel like you’re hitting a wall with your existing software projects? You're not alone. On the Maintainable software podcast, we speak with seasoned practitioners who have worked past the problems often associated with technical debt and legacy code. In each episode, our guests will share stories and outline tangible, real-world approaches to software challenges. In turn, you'll uncover new ways of thinking about how to improve your software project's maintainability. We're in this together. Enjoy the show!