Software at Scale
Discussions on running software systems, teams, and products.
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Software at Scale 52 - Building Build Systems with Benjy WeinbergerListen now (63 min) | Benjy Weinberger is the co-founder of Toolchain, a build tool platform. He is one of the creators of the original Pants, an in-house Twitter build system focused on Scala, and was the VP of Infrastructure at Foursquare. Toolchain now focuses on Pants 2
Software at Scale 51 - Usage based Pricing with Puneet GuptaListen now (65 min) | Puneet Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Amberflo, a cloud metering and usage based pricing platform. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts In this episode, we discuss Puneet’s fascinating background early at AWS as a GM and his early experience at…
Software at Scale 53 - Testing Culture with Mike BlandListen now (67 min) | Mike Bland is a software instigator - he helped drive adoption of automated testing at Google, and the Quality Culture Initiative at Apple. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts Mike’s blog was instrumental towards my decision to pick a job in developer…
Thoughts on API ReliabilityBuilding and maintaining a public API is a unique software engineering challenge. We have to consider (roughly prioritized): Security - exposing a service on the public internet has a variety of security implications - we want authentication/authorization as airtight as possible.
