Key Insights: Importance of Code Reviews: Code reviews are essential for error detection, understanding new features, adhering to coding standards, and ensuring only reviewed code is deployed. Emotional Impact: Emotional dynamics play a significant role, with 30% of developers reviewing code from less favored colleagues, which can lead to biased judgments and negative feelings. Striving for Objectivity: Despite personal feelings, approximately 76% of developers strive for objectivity to maintain professionalism. Impact of Developer Experience: The experience level of a developer also influenc ..read more

Make code reviews your superpower at awesomecodereviews.com! Episode Resources: Paper on improving developer experience Abi's thoughts on the DX paper Abi Noda's LinkedIn Abi's podcast for Engineering Enablement leaders About Abi Noda Abi Noda is the CEO and founder of DX, a company that helps measure and improve developer experience ..read more

Earn additional income by sharing your opinion on userinterviews.com! Episode Resources: What is platform engineering? What is an internal developer platform? What is Dynamic Configuration Management? Salesman tricks for the Platform Engineer Platform Engineering community PlatformCon 2023 Luca’s LinkedIn and Twitter About Luca Galante Luca is leading product at Humanitec, saw hundreds of DevOps and platform setups, and shares his learnings in his weekly newsletter PlatformWeekly (with 10k subscribers). He is also the core contributor to the Platform Engineering community, with 10k+ meetup mem ..read more

Earn additional income by sharing your opinion on userinterviews.com! Episode Resources: Nadia's Book Nadia's website Nadia's Twitter About Nadia Zhuk Nadia is a software engineer at Intercom, and was previously working at Zendesk. Before, Nadia was an English teacher, and journalist, until she decided to learn programming and enter the tech world. Make code reviews your superpower at awesomecodereviews.com!   Other episodes you'll enjoy Do code reviews frustrate developers? The Secret To High-Quality Code Vulnerability disclosure with Katie Moussouris ..read more

Earn additional income by sharing your opinion on userinterviews.com! Episode Resources: Alexander's Twitter Alexander's Research Awesome Code Reviews Papers: An exploratory study on confusion in code reviews Emotions and Perceived Productivity of Software Developers at the Workplace Recognizing developers' emotions while programming Gendered Experiences of Software Engineers During the COVID-19 Crisis Developer experience research paper   About Alexander Serebrenik Alexander is a Full Professor of Social Software Engineering at the Software Engineering and Technology cluster of Eindhoven ..read more

Earn additional income by sharing your opinion on userinterviews.com! Episode Resources: Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity Alpha-Omega Projects Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) Tools to create SBOM   About Barak Brudo Barak Brudo helps organizations secure their software supply chain. He works as a Developer Relations Advocate at Scribe Security. Other episodes you'll enjoy What developers should know about security The Secret To High-Quality Code Vulnerability disclosure with Katie Moussouris   ..read more

Earn additional income by sharing your opinion on userinterviews.com! Episode Resources: Heather's Twitter Heather's job search blog post Heather's Blog About Heather Reid Heather Reid is a Test Engineer at Glofox. Before that she was the community boss for Ministry of Testing, making sure that the testing community had everything to be successful. Before that, she was a software tester at Exploristics and at Moola. Episode Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:00 What does a test community boss do? 06:28 Can we forget our skills? 08:00 Attending workshops 09:00 4-hour interview experience 10:00 Hur ..read more

This episode samples: Alvaro Trigo, who once was a web developer but could quit his day job to work on his open source software Fullpage.js. Daniel Vassallo tells us why he left his cushy job at Amazon to start many small businesses. Dagna Bieda explains how you can fast-track your engineering career and what mindset has to do with professional growth. Mauricio Aniche explains how to write tests that find bugs and what domain-driven testing is. Nuchals Dular shares why the engineering manager position he worked hard toward to wasn’t meant for him. YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/XKKFCmvK7_M ..read more

Make code reviews your superpower at awesomecodereviews.com! About Michael Lynch Michael is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He has launched several businesses after leaving Google in 2018. His hardware/software business, called TinyPilot, lets you control any computer remotely and has brought him the most success so far. Episode Resources: Michael's Twitter How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human Tiny Pilot ..read more

Book your awesomecodereviews.com workshop! Episode Resources: Multitudes Lauren's Twitter Developer experience research paper DORA metrics SPACE developer productivity framework About Lauren Peate Lauren is the CEO and founder of Multitudes. Her goal is to empower engineering teams to be high-performing through a people-first way to software performance metrics. Lauren’s worked with tech teams around the world, from Silicon Valley to the Middle East and now New Zealand ..read more