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

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Swarmia and codecentric

About Melanie Rieback:

Dr. Melanie Rieback is CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security (the world's first not-for-profit computer security company), and "Post Growth" startup incubator Nonprofit Ventures. She is also a former Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Free University of Amsterdam. She was named "Most Innovative IT Leader of the Netherlands" by CIO Magazine (TIM Award) in 2017, and one of the "9 Most Innovative Women in the European Union" (EU Women Innovators Prize) in 2019. She is also one of the 400 most successful women in the Netherlands by Viva Magazine (Viva400) in 2010 and 2017, and one of the fifty most inspiring women in tech (Inspiring Fifty Netherlands) in 2016, 2017, and 2019. Her company, Radically Open Security was named the 50th Most Innovative SME by the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (MKB Innovatie Top 100) in 2016.

TIMESTAMPS (approx) (00:00) Introduction to the Alphalist Podcast (02:13) What we will discuss today (03:12) What is the Business Model behind Radically Open Security (05:03) The Impact of Radically Open Security's Charitable Contributions (05:43) Where many cyber firms fail us. (09:13) How a Social Enterprise Works (10:15) Giving away 90% of profits? The Bookkeeping and cashflow behind it (13:27) Melanie's Nerd Journey: From human genome to RFD (17:18) Going viral with her RFD Thesis: Is your cat infected with a computer virus? (26:25) The Current State of Cybersecurity and Attack Vectors (26:55) Cybersecurity Challenges at Large Companies (29:18) Cyber Challenges at Smaller Organisations (30:54) Challenges of keeping software up to date at even multinational companies (31:10) Internal Politics and Cyber Policies (31:43) What challenges are fun to PenTest (35:39) Making the best of suboptimal stacks like Wordpress (37:12) Don't forget to back up (39:44) Getting Started: Securing a small team (41:25) Best Practices for Password Policy (42:39) The Future of Cybersecurity: New Approaches and Standards (44:15) 2FA on same device? (45:13) The Importance of Understanding Your Company's Attack Surface (45:35) External vs Internal Cyber Teams (48:52) Finding the right cyber company

Quotes:###

You don't know how to defend your company until you understand how to attack your company’” - Melanie Rieback, CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security,alphalist CTO podcast #94

About our sponsors

Swarmia

Swarmia is an engineering effectiveness platform for modern software organizations. Hundreds of data-driven companies from small startups to large enterprises use Swarmia to continuously improve across three key areas: business outcomes, developer productivity, and developer experience.

Swarmia connects with the tools your teams are already using: from source code hosting to your issue tracker and chat. With it, you'll stay on top of strategic initiatives, measure key engineering metrics (including DORA and SPACE), and drive continuous improvement in teams.

Learn more and start your free 14-day trial at link.alphalist.com/swarmia224.

codecentric

The codecentric Culture and Career Podcast is unique for a company podcast. It is just employees talking freely about their daily life - from IT consulting projects they are working to imposter syndrome. We support this because we think it's pretty cool that codecentric simply lets the colleagues talk about everything, no matter what it's about - project business, Imposter sydrome, further education or parental leave in the consulting business. For us it is definitely worth a recommendation. Listen in - the codecentric Culture and Career Podcast. Note - its in German. Just go to: www.link.alphalist.com/cc

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 chann Listen here

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: WorkGenius and codecentric

About Allan Leinwand:

Allan Leinwand is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Webflow, where he leads the engineering team. He joined Webflow from Shopify, where he also served as CTO. Prior to that, Leinwand was SVP of Engineering at Slack and the CTO at ServiceNow, where he grew engineering from 100 to thousands and led the team through an IPO. Before ServiceNow, he was the Infrastructure CTO of Zynga, a Venture Partner at Panorama Capital, an Operating Partner at JP Morgan Partners, and spent 7 years at Cisco Systems (among many other roles). Allan is the author of two books ("Cisco Router Configuration" and "Network Management: A Practical Perspective"), an investor, a board member at Compass and a trustee at Harvey Mudd College. He is based in San Francisco.

TIMESTAMPS (approx)

(00:00) Intro (02:10) Creating A Frontend For Front-End Webdesigners At Webflow (04:31) Allan’s Nerd Journey (08:38) Allan's Experience In Venture Capital (09:16) Allan's Transition To Social Gaming (09:28) ServiceNow And Slack (09:43) Shopify And Webflow (11:04) How Technical Knowledge Creates Technical Excellence (12:41) 2 Types Of CTOs: Thought Leaders And Builders (13:34) Diverse Domains Need Diverse Stacks - Choosing New Challenges (16:22) Webflow's Tech Stack (19:25) Webflow's Secret Sauce (24:05) Staying Technical As A Builder CTO (25:58) The Importance Of Understanding Developer Workflow (26:25) The Role Of A CTO In Understanding And Improving The Tech Infrastructure (26:38) Solving Ux Paper Cuts: Why He Ships Small Changes (28:04) How To Stay Technical As CTO With Community And Coding (30:26) Why Webflow is Monolith (30:52) The Importance Of Code Ownership In A Monolith Structure (31:33) The Debate: Monolith Vs Microservices (31:59) Fast Deployment In A Monolith (Kubernetes And Docker) (33:10) The Role Of A CTO In Code Quality And Team Management (34:03) The CTO In A Pre-IPO Company (34:45) How To Make A Company IPO Ready As CTO (35:09) The Importance Of Aligning Engineering Needs With Business Needs (37:13) The Challenge Of Tech Debt And Its Impact On Innovation (40:36) Attracting Talent With Conservative Stack (43:19) The Role Of Innovation Labs In A Tech Company (46:40) The Importance Of Specialization In Engineering (48:09) Choosing The Right Company: The Role Of Passion And Leadership (51:46) The Importance Of Patience And Persistence In A Tech Career

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VC is not for everyone. It is hard to be that hands off when you're a technologist at heart

’” - Allan Leinwand, CTO of Webflow,alphalist CTO podcast #93

Look for companies where you passionately believe in the product, you passionately believe you can bring something to it, and they're led by folks that really understand the market they're tracking and they really are passionate about it because those things combined are just an amazing place to” - Allan Leinwand, CTO of Webflow,alphalist CTO podcast

About our sponsors

WorkGenius

Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

codecentric

The codecentric Culture and Career Podcast is unique for a company podcast. It is just employees talking freely about their daily life - from IT consulting projects they are working to imposter syndrome. We support this because we think it's pretty cool that codecentric simply lets the colleagues talk about everything, no matter what it's about - project business, Imposter sydrome, further education or parental leave in the consulting business. For us it is definitely worth a recommendation. Listen in - the codecentric Culture and Career Podcast. Note - its in German. Just go to: www.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

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: WorkGenius and codecentric

About Johanna Rothman:

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your thorny problems. She helps leaders and teams learn to see simple and reasonable options that might work. Those practical alternatives can help them be more effective with others at work. With those choices, they can choose what—and how—to adapt their product development. With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 19 books, hundreds of articles, and blog posts about many aspects of product development. Her most recent books are the Modern Management Made Easy series. Find her monthly newsletter and blogs at jrothman.com & createadaptablelife.com.

TIMESTAMPS (approx) (00:00:00) Introduction to the Alphalist Podcast (00:02:05) Who is Johanna Rothman (00:02:46) Why she is still active at 68 (00:03:14) The Evolution of Product Development Since the 70s (00:03:36) Her Nerd Journey: RPG, Fortran, and Assembly (00:05:10) The Role of Women in the Tech Industry in the 70s (00:06:18) The Power of Tech Career (00:08:20) How the intro of PCs exacerbated the gender imbalance in STEM (00:09:37) How tech has evolved since the 70s (00:13:26) Joanna's Journey into Management and Coaching (00:15:04) How her first book was written unintentionally (00:17:40) The Importance of Self-Management (00:18:02) The Impact of Micromanagement on WIP (00:21:44) The Importance of Collaboration in Management (00:23:06) 7 Management Principles (00:23:25) Clarify your purpose (00:23:49) Develop Empathy with the People that Do The Work (00:24:20) Build a Safe Environment (00:24:35) Catch People Succeeding (00:26:04) How to micromanage less as a manager (particularly a middle manager) (00:29:32) As a manager - does that mean I am always context-switching?(00:30:12) Tracking your time as a manager (00:31:06) The Challenge of Managing a Project Portfolio (00:31:32) The Futility of Yearly Planning (00:31:45) Portfolio Management: Depth vs. Traffic Light Status (00:32:30) Why she never uses Gantt Charts. - only PERT charts (00:32:54) The Power of Rolling Wave Planning (00:33:18) Why Gantt Charts are useless (00:34:03) Flow Efficiency and Flow Metrics (00:34:11) How Cycle Time is Measured Wrong (00:34:57) What she measures (00:35:18) The Shift from Developer Productivity to Developer Experience (00:35:54) Getting Team Feedback on Delivery Dates (00:36:20) The Balance of Immediate and Future Planning (00:37:57) The Evolution of the CTO Role (00:41:25) A CTO needs to be business-minded. Otherwise, they can't have a C-Suite title (00:42:46) When do to do custom features? (00:43:59) The company with 25 C-Suite Execs whose title inflation held them back (00:51:03) The Power of Collaboration. (00:51:54) Reduce Feedback Loops (00:53:55) Collaborate with Peer Manager (00:54:30) Message to Younger Self: Be kinder (00:58:07) Her next book: Fake Agility - when you find yourself in waterfall

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When we reduce the pressure at the team level for more and more work, we have higher throughput and more results. ’” - Johanna Rothman,alphalist CTO podcast #92

Managers, a Gantt chart is actually the worst possible chart for a manager to see. It's the most optimistic and it's always a lie, right? It's the first date you cannot prove you cannot finish this work by. So why would you look at a Gantt chart? ” - Johanna Rothman,alphalist CTO podcast #92

About our sponsors

WorkGenius

Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

codecentric

The codecentric Culture and Career Podcast is unique for a company podcast. It is just employees talking freely about their daily life - from IT consulting projects they are working to imposter syndrome. We support this because we think it's pretty cool that codecentric simply lets the colleagues talk about everything, no matter what it's about - project business, Imposter sydrome, further education or parental leave in the consulting business. For us it is definitely worth a recommendation. Listen in - the codecentric Culture and Career Podcast. Note - its in German. Just go to: www.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

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: WorkGenius and codecentric

About Andy Walker:

Andy has over 30 years experience as a software engineer, leader and coach. A ten year veteran of Google where he worked on Maps, Search and Ads and previously at Netscape and Sony. Recently he’s been focused on how to create an environment for teams to do their best work and coaching leaders to enable this. He’s currently writing about the lessons he has learned about working with people and doing ad hoc coaching and the occasional conference talk.

TIMESTAMPS (approx) (00:00) Introduction to the Alphalist Podcast (02:06) Introducing Guest: Andy Walker (02:38) Andy's Current Daily Life (03:27) What is Autonomy (04:37) The Balance of Autonomy (04:47) Autonomy in Parenting (06:28) The Importance of Autonomy in Companies (07:24) Communicate to Discover the Right Amount of Autonomy (08:15) Overview of Autonomy Across the Company (10:05) How to Align in Autonomous Teams (10:31) Progression of Autonomy from Junior to Senior (12:01) How to do Autonomy (12:51) Role of Leadership Skills in Autonomy (13:20) The Importance of Communication in Autonomy (14:01) Good Leaders Know How To Apply Leadership Best Practices (15:56) 3-Question Smell Test for Leaders (18:08) Why the best leaders make the least decisions (20:00) Who makes decisions in Multi-Disciplinary Teams (22:28) Bad Managers and Micromanagement (27:20) Effective Teams (30:26) What motivates people (inspired by Dan Pink) (31:03) How Autonomy Motivates (31:19) How Purpose Motivates (33:35) How Mastery Motivates (35:52) Ideal Size for Autonomous Teams (38:38) Ideal Team Size Varies (40:20) Work-Life Balance (41:16) Rapid Fire Questions (42:18) Biggest Mistake Leaders Make With Autonomy (42:32) Why Daily Active Users Could Be a Bad Metric (44:10) Best Prompt to Improve Work-Life Balance (48:00) Advice for New Leaders (48:18) Advice to Younger Self

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And when we're talking about autonomy within companies, you should understand that you're trying to give every person the most autonomy they can handle at a given point in time ….. And so what you're looking at saying is how much autonomy can you handle right now? And how do we put you in a situation where the bits where you don't have autonomy over what you're learning from so that your ability to tackle larger and more difficult things grows over time? And what tends to happen with autonomy as we don't have that conversation? So when somebody feels that they don't have appropriate decision-making power, they turn around and say, ‘You're not giving me autonomy ‘like it's necessarily a bad thing rather than the better conversation of ‘what level autonomy should you have at this point and how can we help you grow that level of autonomy’” - Andy Walker,alphalist CTO podcast #91

One of my rules of thumb as to whether I'm functioning as a leader was,” How many decisions do I have to make?” And my goal is to never have to make a single decision. This is a futile goal, because that's never going to happen. But it makes me think about how do I push the decision to the lowest part of the hierarchy as possible, so that the people closest to the work are able to have agency over what they're doing. And this should be business as usual. And in fact, if you're working on something, and you're responsible for getting it done, you should have decision-making power over 99 percent of the things in front of you. The interesting case is the edge case for that 1 percent where what you're working on may be mutually exclusive to another team. ” - Andy Walker,alphalist CTO podcast #91

About our sponsors

WorkGenius

Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

codecentric

The codecentric Culture and Career Podcast is unique for a company podcast. It is just employees talking freely about their daily life - from IT consulting projects they are working to imposter syndrome. We support this because we think it's pretty cool that codecentric simply lets the colleagues talk about everything, no matter what it's about - project business, Imposter sydrome, further education or parental leave in the consulting business. For us it is definitely worth a recommendation. Listen in - the codecentric Culture and Career Podcast. Note - its in German. Just go to: www.link.alphalist.com/cc

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, who has developed and launched over 3500 products.
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 trade offs). 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
• Hypothesis Building Research vs Hypothesis Proving Research
• Why tradeoffs should be influenced by the opinions of those who already bought 🫠 (and not engineers who ran out of time)

Listen here

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Pentalog, WorkGenius and Sipgate

About Bob Moesta: BOB MOESTA is a teacher, builder, entrepreneur, and co-founder at The Re-Wired Group, a design firm in Detroit, Michigan. Bob has developed & launched over 3,500 products and sold everything from design services, software, and houses to consumer electronics, and investment services. He’s an adjunct lecturer at Kellogg School at Northwestern University and the author of Choosing College, Demand Side Sales 101, and Learning to Build.

QUOTES: "Well, if you think about it, 70% of our life cycle costs are fixed in the first 10% of how we develop and set up a new platform. And yet we spend all the money usually on the backend. And we don't spend that time upfront thinking. And so the more we can spend that time upfront thinking about the right things in the boundaries and understanding kind of the limitations, we then will actually have a better understanding of what to build and what to know."

##Timestamps## (Approx) (00:00) Introduction (05:18) Who is Bob Moesta (07:09) Bob Moesta's Journey in Learning How to Build (08:23) Understanding the Customer's Perspective (08:55) 'Build it and They Will Come' Myth (09:20) Specific Problems People Have (09:54) Limits of Personas in Product Design (10:31) Understanding the Buying Process (11:10) Struggling Moment Insights (11:36) Interrogation Methods in Customer Understanding (13:12) Impulse Buying Discussion (13:31) Context and Outcome in Purchases (15:59) Trade-offs Customers Make (16:11) Espresso Machine Case Study (17:27) Forces in Purchase Decisions (21:19) Total Addressable Market's Role (21:48) Serviceable Addressable Market Importance (24:34) Hypothesis-Building Research (25:34) 4 Forces Helping Change (26:26) Speaking to Past Buyers (27:03) AIDA's Place in Sales (28:03) Jobs to be Done Building Blocks (29:14) Applying Jobs to be Done (29:46) Mormon Church Case Study (30:05) CrossFit as Religion's 'Competitor' (31:09) Getting Started with JTBD (31:16) Top Innovators' Skills (31:51) How People Buy (32:15) Questions for Recent Customers (32:44) Cross Functional Interviews (33:26) Understanding Requirements (33:45) Quantitative vs Qualitative Data (33:57) Choosing the Right Variables (34:44) Prototyping with Qualitative Data (35:12) Iterative Framework Application (36:26) Cross-Functional Collaboration (36:34) Interview Conductors (37:07) Aligning Language and Understanding (37:37) Engineer’s Blindspot (41:20) Innovation Process (42:30) Personas vs. Jobs (43:15) Bitchin' or Switching? Struggle and Workarounds (44:00) Progress Customers Try to Make (44:32) Identifying What Doesn't Matter (45:55) Observation Muscle (46:38) Time Machine (49:32) Advice to Younger Self

About our sponsors

Pentalog

Your project deserves an exceptional team, and your teams deserve the best support! Pentalog is a software company part of Globant, global leader in digital transformation and AI. As a key partner in digital innovation for major international brands such as Google, Disney, Fifa, Adidas, Tripadvisor, Santander or Nissan, the company brings over 20 years of technology expertise into industry transformation and customer experience reinvention through 40 specialized studios, 52 production centers, and 29,000 carefully evaluated experts. Pentalog also invests heavily in continuous education for tech leaders by building tools such as the CTO assessment, decision-making matrices and maturity models, and various resources exploring a tech leader’s role and challenges. To learn more, visit the Resources for Tech Leaders page on the Pentalog website.

Sipgate

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From sales to customer support - having a good connection with your customers has never been easier.

The NEW Sipgate App comes with AI-powered features, noise-canceling, and a seamless integration with other business tools like all major CRMs - Your sales team will love it.

Their intuitive user interface makes business calling even more efficient and is available on any device or operating system. Great for hybrid teams.

Plus, as a German company - they know all your GDPR needs.

Sounds good? Well, keep listening as it gets better:

As an alphalist CTO podcast listener, you get € 500 worth of free credits when you sign up at https://link.alphalist.com/sipgate and use the code: sipgatealpha in the form there.

WorkGenius

Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

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, Sipgate and WorkGenius.

Quote:

> I think product management is this careful combination of always balancing the qualitative with the quantitative. It's about synthesizing a ton of data and trying to figure out which direction do we go in.” - Melissa Perri,alphalist CTO podcast #89

Timestamps (approx): (00:00) Intro (02:22) About Melissa (03:35) Melissa Perry's Education (06:13) Her First Exposure to Product Management (07:03) Her Stint as a Software Developer (08:25) How People-Centric Agile Transformed Their Team Culture (10:00) When Expectation Did Not Match Actual Usage Analytics (10:54) Lean Project Management (11:21) How Her Product Thought Leadership Took Off (12:36) Product Management: Balancing Qualitative and Quantitative Data (13:40) The Build Trap (15:09) How to Ground an Executive's AMAZING Idea into Product Management (20:50) How Organisational Structure Could Be a Blocker for Product Management (24:33) How to Get Out of the Build Trap (27:31) Overhiring? Role Consolidation (29:40) How to Avoid Overscaling / Overhiring (34:00) What is the Ideal Product Strategy (36:26) The Importance of Strategic Intent in Company Strategy (36:50) Examples of Top 3 Strategic Priorities (37:23) Aligning the Whole Company with Strategic Intent (38:04) Example of Adapting Products to Achieve a Strategic Intent (38:41) Product Strategy Prompts (39:19) How to Build a Product Strategy (39:51) How to Clarify Your Company Vision (40:11) Defining Strategic Intent (40:33) The Importance of Product in Strategic Decision Making (41:08) Being Realistic (42:08) Understanding Your Current Customers and Their Needs (42:22) Portfolio Strategy (43:03) The Role of Product and Tech in Achieving Company Goals (43:26) The Importance of Integrating Products for Customer Value (44:22) Creating Initiatives for Strategic Pushes (46:54) The Role of Product Operations in Product Management (47:50) The Importance of Data and Insights in Product Operations (50:19) Understanding Your Customers through Market Research (52:27) The Role of Process and Governance in Product Operations (53:53) Ideal Product Strategy Meetings (55:46) Getting Started with ProductOps - First Hires (58:30) How to Align Tech and Product Goals (01:01:36) Ask the Right Questions (01:04:10) One Roadmap includes Tech + Product (01:06:52) Be part of the team- both C-Suite and your own tech team

About our sponsors

codecentric

The codecentric Culture and Career Podcast is unique for a company podcast. It is just employees talking freely about their daily life - from IT consulting projects they are working to imposter syndrome. We support this because we think it's pretty cool that codecentric simply lets the colleagues talk about everything, no matter what it's about - project business, Imposter sydrome, further education or parental leave in the consulting business. For us it is definitely worth a recommendation. Listen in - the codecentric Culture and Career Podcast. Note - its in German. Just go to: www.link.alphalist.com/cc

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Sipgate

Sipgate is a cloud-based all-in-one telephony solution that will satisfy your company's pretty much every use case.

From sales to customer support - having a good connection with your customers has never been easier.

The NEW Sipgate App comes with AI-powered features, noise-canceling, and a seamless integration with other business tools like all major CRMs - Your sales team will love it.

Their intuitive user interface makes business calling even more efficient and is available on any device or operating system. Great for hybrid teams.

Plus, as a German company - they know all your GDPR needs.

Sounds good? Well, keep listening as it gets better:

As an alphalist CTO podcast listener, you get € 500 worth of free credits when you sign up at https://link.alphalist.com/sipgate and use the code: sipgatealpha in the form there.

WorkGenius

Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

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

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: codecentric, instaffo and WorkGenius

Timestamps (approx..) (00:00:00) What is the alphalist CTO podcasts? (00:02:23) Who is Luca? (00:03:40) - (00:06:23) Luca's Journey to Full-Time Writing (00:06:24) The Growth of the Refactoring Newsletter (00:07:05) Staying in-the-know when no longer an active CTO (00:09:27) How Luca got into Computing (00:11:11) Wanderio as a Italian Startup (hyperlocal) (00:13:39) New CTO Job? Don't refactor everything (00:18:09) The Rise of the Generalist CTO (00:21:09) How Luca Stays Up to Date on Tech Trends (00:22:19) Why Luca Prefers Newsletters (00:23:26) How to organise ideas from content (00:24:50) Structuring His Day (00:26:41) Finding Your Unique Angle and Voice (00:29:01) Productivity Techniques for Solo Work (00:31:21) Overriding Time Boxes (00:31:41) Flaw in the 'State of Flow' (00:30:27) Time Management Tools (00:31:48) Can CTOs Timebox? (00:33:42) Recurring Meetings (00:35:27) Too Many 1-on-1s? (00:36:39) Curriculum of a CTO School (00:39:57) 3 Tips for CTOs (00:40:44) Which Engineering Metrics (00:45:31) A CTO is a Maker (00:46:35) Share your Thoughts Online (00:47:56) Advice To Younger Self

About our sponsors

codecentric

The codecentric Culture and Career Podcast is unique for a company podcast. It is just employees talking freely about their daily life - from IT consulting projects they are working to imposter syndrome. We support this because we think it's pretty cool that codecentric simply lets the colleagues talk about everything, no matter what it's about - project business, Imposter sydrome, further education or parental leave in the consulting business. For us it is definitely worth a recommendation. Listen in - the codecentric Culture and Career Podcast. Note - its in German. Just go to: www.link.alphalist.com/cc

instaffo

Instaffo is a recruiting platform that allows you to hire tech talent in less than 25 days. It is loved by over 600 companies - including HelloFresh, Amazon, and MyPoster.

By leveraging sophisticated matchmaking and allowing you to chat directly with pre-qualified tech talent right on the platform they’ve made the hiring process 3X more effective. From ‘Matched’ to ‘Chat’ in one go.

While classic job portals, in-house active sourcing and headhunters give you the headache of paying upfront, having high setup efforts and dealing with 30% hiring fees, with Instaffo this now history for you.

As an alphalist listener, you get to enjoy the Instaffo recruiting platform absolutely free until you find that perfect hire.

Already over 2.000 tech talents and companies are connected weekly on instaffo, so what are you waiting for? Go to https://instaffo.com/cto to get started.

WorkGenius

Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

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 (VCS) 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.

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: codecentric and WorkGenius

TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) - Intro (02:51) - T180 calculator hacks (05:12) - How Ruby and Git made GitHub (07:00) - Bootstrapping GitHub (07:37) - Monetizing GitHub (08:29) - GitHub’s early days (11:55) - Move to Berlin (13:17) - Scott's passion for teaching (14:46) - How he got back into version control (15:30) - Rethinking the fundamentals of Git (18:19) - Enhancing peer review processes (19:13) - Methods to improve commit (22:16) - The Git Protocol: Revamp or introduce a better client? (24:50) - Why did Pull Request not become part of Git? (26:06) - Innovating Git's virtual branching mechanism (27:52) - The integration branch (29:07) - Challenges of Introducing previews to the workflow (31:38) - How a better Git desktop client will improve things (32:32) - The potential of streaming code (33:35) - Decentralized vs. Centralized VCS: The central point of contact (38:51) - Shifting left - aligning earlier - before you commit (42:29) - Changing lives with a DevTool (43:30) - AI-driven insights in a VCS (45:45) - Rebase vs. Merge vs. ? (47:10) Productivity Hack (52:00) - Advice for Younger Self

codecentric

The codecentric Culture and Career Podcast is unique for a company podcast. It is just employees talking freely about their daily life - from IT consulting projects they are working to imposter syndrome. We support this because we think it's pretty cool that codecentric simply lets the colleagues talk about everything, no matter what it's about - project business, Imposter sydrome, further education or parental leave in the consulting business. For us it is definitely worth a recommendation. Listen in - the codecentric Culture and Career Podcast. Note - its in German. Just go to: www.link.alphalist.com/cc

WorkGenius

Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

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 ☁️ Listen here BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Storyblok and WorkGenius

TIMESTAMPS:

(0:00:00) - Intro (0:02:43) - West Point to General Electric to Etsy (0:08:11) - Downsizing's Impact on Employee Morale (0:09:11) - Knowledge Transfer (0:10:13) - Post Layoff Attrition (0:11:40) - How Being a Monolith Helped (0:13:30) - Cloud Migration (0:15:28) - Lift and Shift vs. Kubernetes (0:18:33) - How a new project helped heal (0:19:30) - The Time Costs of LayOffs (0:22:05) - You can't expect to cut costs and grow (0:24:35) - Impact of where the team was cut (0:26:30) - Advice for CTOs about to lay off (0:27:02) - Transparency During Downsizing (0:28:00) - NB: Watch out for Availability (0:31:12) - Layoffs and Stock Prices (0:33:00) - Short Term and Long Term Planning (0:33:40) - 3X Framework and Product Lifecycle Phases (0:35:00) - Laying Off R & D: Specialists vs. Generalists (0:36:24) - The Dedicated FinOps Team (40:02:58) - Keeping up your Knowledge Network

Storyblok

Does your current CMS hinder agile development and deployment?

Storyblok is a cloud-native API-first CMS that minimizes technical dependencies, enables your development team to create frontends with whatever technology they already know, and your business users to create content only once and publish on multiple platforms. There are numbers to back this up: Storyblok cuts down development time by 50% and provides 582%ROI over 3 years, a study by Forrester found.

Go get a free demo of Storyblok and learn how it can improve your speed to market.Just go to: https://link.alphalist.com/cms

WorkGenius

Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

git checkout the future of software development with Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub. This broad podcast discusses 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 (but AI will help)
• What was it like being integrated ☂️ into Microsoft post-M&A
• What are GitHub’s current challenges 👷

Listen here BROUGHT TO YOU BY: WorkGenius and Storyblok

TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 03:18 from East Germany to Silivon Valley 04:36 Ruby 06:29 From Software Developer to Founder 07:35 What happens after Microsoft aquires a company 10:45 Microsoft’s DevTools Ecosystem 12:18 Power of the Open Source 15:36 What has changed in the last 20 years 18:09 GitHub’s vision 18:51 Refactoring Legacy Code with Generative AI 25:42 DevOps and Deploying GenAI code 29:31 The Futility of Focussing on a Scalability in Earlydays Startup 32:59 What Challenges Are Being Worked art GitHub right now? 34:2o SrategyL Ideas and challefs 34:43 The Role of GitHub CEO 38:42 The generalist role of a CTO 41:57 Being a Tech Leader of DevTool 45:26 Mentorship and Inspiration (Steve Jobs) 48:09 ChatGPT

51:51 Advice to Younger Self as German Techie

OUR SPONSORS WorkGenius Tired of sifting through countless resumes and struggling to find the right tech talent? Look no further! WorkGenius has just acquired Expertlead, known for its innovation in matching tech freelancers with top-tier companies and offering peer-to-peer live coding assessments. Now, they bring even more efficiency to your hiring process. Whether you're a startup or an established enterprise, WorkGenius is now here to turbocharge your hiring process. Say goodbye to the guesswork and endless interviews. WorkGenius matches your candidates experienced senior developers and puts them through tailored, enjoyable, and fair technical interviews. Your company will get the cream of the crop - the most sought-after talents in the industry- while saving your hardworking Tech and HR teams valuable time. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to https://link.alphalist.com/work connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

Storyblok Does your current CMS hinder agile development and deployment?

Storyblok is a cloud-native API-first CMS that minimizes technical dependencies, enables your development team to create frontends with whatever technology they already know, and your business users to create content only once and publish on multiple platforms. There are numbers to back this up: Storyblok cuts down development time by 50% and provides 582%ROI over 3 years, a study by Forrester found.

Go get a free demo of Storyblok and learn how it can improve your speed to market.Just go to: https://link.alphalist.com/cms

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 do companies 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 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

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Storyblok and WorkGenius

Storyblok Does your current CMS hinder agile development and deployment?

Storyblok is a cloud-native API-first CMS that minimizes technical dependencies, enables your development team to create frontends with whatever technology they already know, and your business users to create content only once and publish on multiple platforms. There are numbers to back this up: Storyblok cuts down development time by 50% and provides 582%ROI over 3 years, a study by Forrester found.

Go get a free demo of Storyblok and learn how it can improve your speed to market.Just go to: https://link.alphalist.com/cms

WorkGenius WorkGenius provides a unique freelance hiring and management solution that covers the entire process from start to finish. We use advanced technology to make it easier and faster for businesses to find skilled freelancers who have been thoroughly vetted. With WorkGenius, you get a comprehensive solution for managing freelancers throughout their engagement. We simplify the hiring process, project management, payroll, and reporting, allowing organizations to make the most of their freelance talent pool and effortlessly manage their existing freelancers. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to www.workgenius.com/alphalist connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

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

- Timestamps 2:10 Aviran’s Personal Journey 9:43 Wix secret sauce 12:26 Cost effective serverless environments for millions of customers. 14:58 The Wix Tech Stack 16:00 The mission to iimprove developer experience 17:00 How people do microservices wrong
21:50 Platform as a Runtime 32:00 The Wi Guild model 35:37 Aligning decisions across internal ‘companies’ 38:40 The Operational Guild Model 54:49 Improving the Guilds through Feedback + KPI of Guilds 1:00:24 Mentorship in the Org 1:06:15 Working on his networking skills

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Storyblok, Zoho and codecentric

Storyblok Does your current CMS hinder agile development and deployment?

Storyblok is a cloud-native API-first CMS that minimizes technical dependencies, enables your development team to create frontends with whatever technology they already know, and your business users to create content only once and publish on multiple platforms. There are numbers to back this up: Storyblok cuts down development time by 50% and provides 582%ROI over 3 years, a study by Forrester found.

Go get a free demo of Storyblok and learn how it can improve your speed to market.Just go to: https://link.alphalist.com/cms

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

codecentric

The codecentric Culture and Career Podcast is unique for a company podcast. It is just employees talking freely about their daily life - from IT consulting projects they are working to imposter syndrome. We support this because we think it's pretty cool that codecentric simply lets the colleagues talk about everything, no matter what it's about - project business, Imposter sydrome, further education or parental leave in the consulting business. For us it is definitely worth a recommendation. Listen in - the codecentric Culture and Career Podcast. Note - its in German. Just go to: www.link.alphalist.com/cc

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

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY: 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

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

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

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY: WorkGenius

WorkGenius provides a unique freelance hiring and management solution that covers the entire process from start to finish. We use advanced technology to make it easier and faster for businesses to find skilled freelancers who have been thoroughly vetted. With WorkGenius, you get a comprehensive solution for managing freelancers throughout their engagement. We simplify the hiring process, project management, payroll, and reporting, allowing organizations to make the most of their freelance talent pool and effortlessly manage their existing freelancers. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to www.workgenius.com/alphalist connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

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

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY: WorkGenius

WorkGenius provides a unique freelance hiring and management solution that covers the entire process from start to finish. We use advanced technology to make it easier and faster for businesses to find skilled freelancers who have been thoroughly vetted. With WorkGenius, you get a comprehensive solution for managing freelancers throughout their engagement. We simplify the hiring process, project management, payroll, and reporting, allowing organizations to make the most of their freelance talent pool and effortlessly manage their existing freelancers. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to www.workgenius.com/alphalist connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

Chapters: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:00:50 - From Opera Singer to Secret Management to Scaling Infrastructure 0:03:27 - Coding and Music 0:04:40 - Nerding out about Secrets Management 0:07:36 - MomHack: Automating Childcare Notifications on WhatsApp with Twillio and Terraform 0:09:24 - Why we need Platform Engineering 0:10:00 - Why we need to attrition-proof DevOps with Platform Engineering 0:12:34 - Untangling Platform from Application: Teams, Tech Stack and Strategy 0:17:11 - People and Processes before Tech 0:19:07 - Goal of Platform Engineering by Industry 0:20:37 - Is DevOps Dead? How will DevOps roles evolve? 0:23:58 - Tech Strategy X Platform +Application Teams 0:27:13 - Getting Started with Platform Engineering 0:30:21 - Scaling Audits 0:37:50 - Do we over index on tech?

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

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY: WorkGenius

WorkGenius provides a unique freelance hiring and management solution that covers the entire process from start to finish. We use advanced technology to make it easier and faster for businesses to find skilled freelancers who have been thoroughly vetted. With WorkGenius, you get a comprehensive solution for managing freelancers throughout their engagement. We simplify the hiring process, project management, payroll, and reporting, allowing organizations to make the most of their freelance talent pool and effortlessly manage their existing freelancers. Start your journey with WorkGenius - head over to www.workgenius.com/alphalist connect with an expert, and find the perfect match for your engineering needs.

Chapter Marks

• (0:00:00) - Introduction
• (0:04:23) - What is Organisational Pyschology
• (0:08:00) - The Importance of One-on-One Meetings
• (0:09:55) - Common Mistakes to Avoid in One-on-One Meetings
• (0:10:09) - Who should own the 1:1?
• (0:11:07) - Ideal Frequency for One-on-One meetings
• (0:12:29) - The Ideal Agenda of a 1:1
• (0:14:00) - How to run a 1:1 as a leader? How do you solve problems in a 1:1?
• (0:16:00) - How to optimise your time with multiple direct reports? Can you delegate?
• (0:18:52) - Leveraging asynchronous tools for meetings
• (0:20:45) - Why do people need 1:1s?
• (0:21:34) - How 1:1s save you time
• (0:22:08) - Evaluating the Quality of a One-on-One
• (0:26:15) - What surprised him the most about 1:1s
• (0:27:00) - How to open a 1:1 meeting
• (0:28:00) - Do senior employees need 1:1 meetings?
• (0:29:02) - How to build trust

_ 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

Chapters

0:00:00 - Why Computational Language Trumps Programming Languages 0:12:30 - Livestreaming software design meetings 0:13:07 - Live Streaming and Infrastructure Technologies 0:19:19- Software Development in a Chat-Based World (LUIs) 0:31:49 - The Intersection of Technology and Judgment 0:45:53 - The CTO Role in an AI-aided World 0:59:13 - LLM Technology and Language Building 1:06:29 - Computational Invention and Exploration

Chapter by Chapter Summaries:

(0:00:00) - The Power of Computational Thinking

I'm joined today by Stephen Wolfram, the founder of Wolfram Alpha, a physicist, mathematician and IT expert. We discuss Stephen's life-long passion of understanding the world computationally and how that has led to the development of Wolfram Language, a language intended for both humans to think in and for computers to read. We explore the practical uses of Wolfram Language and the impact it has had on enterprise systems and consumer transactions. (0:12:30) - Live Streaming Software Design Reviews

(0:13:07) - Live Streaming and Infrastructure Technologies

Stephen Wolfram and I discuss the challenges of streaming live events, the emergence of Grafana and Kubernetes, and the benefits of running own infrastructure. We explore the option of running the system in AWS or other virtualization platforms, and the difficulties in containerizing the system. We look at the diurnal rhythm of traffic and discuss the advantages of running our own operation. Finally, we discuss Wolfram Alpha and the ChatGPT's Wolfram Plug-in, and the new Chat Notebook feature.

(0:19:19) - Software Development in a Chat-Based World

Stephen Wolfram and I explore how to do software development in a world where chat is not reproducible. We examine how to extract useful information from chat conversations, how to version individual steps, and how writing specs in natural language may not be precise enough. We also discuss the unique advantages of Wolfram Language, which was designed to be read as it is written by humans, and how the LLM (Large Language Model) can summarize what is happening with the code beyond what a human could see. This is a novel concept in modern workflow and we consider the implications of this.

(0:31:49) - The Intersection of Technology and Judgment

We examine the implications of the emergence of language models for the future of AI and the impact they may have on the industry. We discuss how the advancements in language models may not be as revolutionary as initially thought, and that the real value for language models may come from the tooling and use cases that develop from them. We also explore the concept of 'technology meeting judgement', and how this has been seen before in the history of the technology industry.

(0:45:53) - The AI-aided CTO role

Stephen Wolfram and I explore the potential of language models and their impact on AI. We discuss how language models can help automate certain tasks and offer guidance to humans. We examine how these models can be used to teach humans to solve well-defined problems and what skills are necessary for a CTO to manage the combination of mission, automation, and people. Finally, we discuss the importance of strategy in the success of any effort.

(0:59:13) - Leveraging all types of Langauge Models (Not just LLMs)

Stephen Wolfram and I discuss how language models can be used to bridge the gap between a company's individual data and public data. We explore the potential of language models, and how they can be used to answer natural language queries and automate certain tasks. We also look at the concept of making companies computable by using language models to read documentation and build an ERP system from existing data.

(1:06:29) - Computational Invention and Exploration

We explore how language models can be used for prototyping and how they allow us to explore the alien minds of generative AIs. We also discuss how technology is largely about taking what already exists in the universe and finding ways to apply it for human purposes. We consider the question of whether there will ever be an end to invention and Stephen introduces the concept of computational irreducibility, which explains that even when you know the rules of a system you can't necessarily know what it will do without just following the rules and seeing what happens. We examine how machine learning is a way of finding a program that will satisfy a technological use case and discuss the challenge of defining use cases.

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

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Timestamps

(0:00:00) - Digitizing the Food Supply Chain

Vikas Gupta, the CTO of Choco, is focused on bringing the fragmented hospitality industry to the digital space, connecting suppliers with restaurants and institutions to place orders. Vikas explains the current order process of SMS, WhatsApp, voicemail, and email and how Choco is using data to automate the process for chefs so they can focus on cooking. He also touches on how front-of-the-house processes are already digitized, but back-of-the-house processes still need to be further developed to reduce food waste and create sustainability in the food supply chain.

(0:09:13) - From Programming to Food Sustainability

Vikas Gupta shares his journey in tech from his early days learning to code in Pascal, his experience in Silicon Valley, and the journey that ultimately led his to joining . He recounts his experience programming games and designing board games, as well as the challenges of programming in mobile environments. Vikas also shares why he left Silicon Valley to join Dropbox and eventually , and the drive to make a positive change in the world with the food sustainability space.

(0:18:19) - Tech Stack and Decision-Making Process

We explore the stack and decisions behind Choco. We discuss why they chose their tech stack (AWS serverless architecture with NodeJS, React) And why he regrets not using cross platform development earlier. (They are migrating to Flutter now). We also discuss the pros and cons of monoliths versus microservices and why Flutter was the right decision for them. Vikas shares the importance of collaboration between web engineers and native engineers in order to create a platform that allows teams to move quickly and build effectively.

(0:27:32) - Balancing Product and Platform Initiatives

We discuss how to balance the needs of the user, the time available, and the people available when making technology decisions. We explore how leaders can create an environment conducive to having conversations around technology decisions, and how to define a timeline for a transition to a new technology. We also discuss the idea of creating Excellence Days and using 80-20 to allow engineers to focus on technical topics and platform improvements. Finally, we talk about using coloured flags - so you know when the house is on fire and you need to drop everything and fix it.

(0:36:18) - Balancing Technology and Product Leadership

We explore the importance of quantifying the value of legacy code and how to present that data to leadership. We approach the challenge of overhauling an entire architecture and how to align leadership on delivering business value. We discuss the process of creating a roadmap and coordinating between product, sales, and engineering teams - plus how to be flexible while maintaining focus. Finally, we look at the importance of eye-level collaboration to challenge each other in order to achieve the best outcome.

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 🔄?
• Will we still need programmers?
• 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.

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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.

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• 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 🛠️

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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.

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• 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

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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

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• How to better the UI of error messages and validation
• How can one achieve an 📵offline-first web app?
• Remix vs. Nuxt vs. Flux

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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

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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.

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• 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

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• 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?📉

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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!

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• Insight into the current ‘recession’ 📉
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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🔮
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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.

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• 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 🙃)

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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:

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• 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.

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Discover how Flaschenpost uses tech to deliver groceries within two hours ⏳ in this CTO podcast featuring Aron Spohr, CTO @ Flaschenpost - a grocery delivery service. 🍏🍞🥚🥫

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• 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

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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

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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

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There is no vendor lock-in as it is open source and available via Github and runs on your own laptop within minutes thanks to Docker.

Built by web app experts Fabian Wesner (former Spryker CTO and alphalist podcast guest) and Tim Niemeier (Ex-CTO Rocket) - ROQ is a headless Feature-as-a-Service (FaaS) that is designed to scale.

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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

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ROQ Technology Getting your unique web application off the ground is now faster and cheaper than ever.

Focus on what makes your business really stand out in your next application without wasting time developing the same common components.

With ROQ you get a powerful and flexible customizable Kickstarter application on day 1. All important features such as login, user management, notifications, mailing, chat, and many more are already integrated.

There is no vendor lock-in as it is open source and available via Github and runs on your own laptop within minutes thanks to Docker.

Built by web app experts Fabian Wesner (former Spryker CTO and alphalist podcast guest) and Tim Niemeier (Ex-CTO Rocket) - ROQ is a headless Feature-as-a-Service (FaaS) that is designed to scale.

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NordVPN NordVPN is more than just a VPN - it is a cyber-security tool that reduces the risk of data breaches, malware, and ransomware so you can safely share information between employees - no matter where they are working. Now your whole team can securely access company resources remotely, connect to any public Wi-Fi, and explore region-specific content.

NordVPN's new Threat protection features a built-in antivirus; blocks malicious ads, and stops hackers from stealing your data.

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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 ⚠️

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ROQ Technology Getting your unique web application off the ground is now faster and cheaper than ever.

Focus on what makes your business really stand out in your next application without wasting time developing the same common components.

With ROQ you get a powerful and flexible customizable Kickstarter application on day 1. All important features such as login, user management, notifications, mailing, chat, and many more are already integrated.

There is no vendor lock-in as it is open source and available via Github and runs on your own laptop within minutes thanks to Docker.

Built by web app experts Fabian Wesner (former Spryker CTO and alphalist podcast guest) and Tim Niemeier (Ex-CTO Rocket) - ROQ is a headless Feature-as-a-Service (FaaS) that is designed to scale.

Learn more about ROQ Technology

NordVPN NordVPN is more than just a VPN - it is a cyber-security tool that reduces the risk of data breaches, malware, and ransomware so you can safely share information between employees - no matter where they are working. Now your whole team can securely access company resources remotely, connect to any public Wi-Fi, and explore region-specific content.

NordVPN's new Threat protection features a built-in antivirus; blocks malicious ads, and stops hackers from stealing your data.

Enjoy the ease of a dedicated business VPN that integrates with your company’s existing platforms and protects every endpoint — computers, laptops, tablets, and phones.

Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal today by going to nordvpn.com/alphalist to get a huge discount off your NordVPN Plan + a bonus gift! It’s completely risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee!

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MOIA is on a mission to partner with public and private mobility partners to make urban mobility so demand-oriented, flexible and convenient that - together - the mobility revolution can succeed.

Join MOIA on a mission to reduce our carbon footprint, obliterate traffic jams, and make better use of our transportation infrastructure. Learn more about MOIA

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.

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ROQ Technology Getting your unique web application off the ground is now faster and cheaper than ever.

Focus on what makes your business really stand out in your next application without wasting time developing the same common components.

With ROQ you get a powerful and flexible customizable Kickstarter application on day 1. All important features such as login, user management, notifications, mailing, chat, and many more are already integrated.

There is no vendor lock-in as it is open source and available via Github and runs on your own laptop within minutes thanks to Docker.

Built by web app experts Fabian Wesner (former Spryker CTO and alphalist podcast guest) and Tim Niemeier (Ex-CTO Rocket) - ROQ is a headless Feature-as-a-Service (FaaS) that is designed to scale.

Learn more about ROQ Technology

MOIA Make cities better, safer, and more beautiful places to live in by partnering with MOIA.

MOIA is on a mission to partner with public and private mobility partners to make urban mobility so demand-oriented, flexible and convenient that - together - the mobility revolution can succeed.

Join MOIA on a mission to reduce our carbon footprint, obliterate traffic jams, and make better use of our transportation infrastructure. Learn more about MOIA

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.

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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.

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• 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.

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Haufe HR Chatbot Haufe HR Chatbots allows employees to get answers fast for all queries relating to HR without disturbing the HR team each time. Your HR team can focus on other things while the bot automatically answers all questions based on 300 pre-formulated answers (continuously updated to be legally compliant) and your own legal content. Very little IT time is required to set up this tool which allows employees access to the HR information they need 24/7. Plus the Haufe HR Chatbot can also act as a mood barometer - giving you regular insights on which topics are frequently requested in the company. There are so many integrations and it works 'out-of-the-box' plus you get a FREE setup when you use the coupon code alphalist.

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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

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Haufe HR Chatbots allows employees to get answers fast for all queries relating to HR without disturbing the HR team each time. Your HR team can focus on other things while the bot automatically answers all questions based on 300 pre-formulated answers (continuously updated to be legally compliant) and your own legal content. Very little IT time is required to set up this tool which allows employees access to the HR information they need 24/7. Plus the Haufe HR Chatbot can also act as a mood barometer - giving you regular insights on which topics are frequently requested in the company. There are so many integrations and it works 'out-of-the-box' plus you get a FREE setup when you use the coupon code alphalist.

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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 ⏱️.

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

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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

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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? 🤔

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Sastrify helps companies to optimize the cost of software procurement by negotiating with suppliers of each software.

They saved OMR around €20.000 a year. A lot for a company of 150 people using tools like GSuite, Adobe Creative Cloud, NewRelic, and more.

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Eben Upton, Co-founder & CEO of Raspberry 🍓 Pi Ltd Foundation (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.

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Sastrify

Sastrify helps companies to optimize the cost of software procurement by negotiating with suppliers of each software.

They saved OMR around €20.000 a year. A lot for a company of 150 people using tools like GSuite, Adobe Creative Cloud, NewRelic, and more.

It is a simple and hassle-free process.

They promise to save more money than they cost. And as an alphalist.CTO podcast listener, you get a 50% discount for the first 3 months!

So give them a try.

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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)

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Sastrify

Sastrify helps companies to optimize the cost of software procurement by negotiating with suppliers of each software.

They saved OMR around €20.000 a year. A lot for a company of 150 people using tools like GSuite, Adobe Creative Cloud, NewRelic, and more.

It is a simple and hassle-free process.

They promise to save more money than they cost. And as an alphalist.CTO podcast listener, you get a 50% discount for the first 3 months!

So give them a try.

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Dell Dell Technologies offer IT-Technology solutions for companies of any size, tailored to their needs. The experts that guide you are equipped with both the know-how and a huge product portfolio of possible solutions. Their end-to-end IT Solutions range from laptops, PCs and workstations to server, storage, cloud and IoT solutions.

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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)

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Now you can deliver your vision with ease with nearshore devs who work well with your in-house core team. Kick off your next project in as little as 2 weeks with Deazy's streamlined hiring. Plus , you can get a10% discount on your first 3 hires with the code EasyDev2022 Try it out and see why many European scale-ups trust Deazy with their nearshoring needs.

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Sastrify

Sastrify helps companies to optimize the cost of software procurement by negotiating with suppliers of each software.

They saved OMR around €20.000 a year. A lot for a company of 150 people using tools like GSuite, Adobe Creative Cloud, NewRelic, and more.

It is a simple and hassle-free process.

They promise to save more money than they cost. And as an alphalist.CTO podcast listener, you get a 50% discount for the first 3 months!

So give them a try.

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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

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Sastrify

Sastrify helps companies to optimize the cost of software procurement by negotiating with suppliers of each software.

They saved OMR around €20.000 a year. A lot for a company of 150 people using tools like GSuite, Adobe Creative Cloud, NewRelic, and more.

It is a simple and hassle-free process.

They promise to save more money than they cost. And as an alphalist.CTO podcast listener, you get a 50% discount for the first 3 months!

So give them a try.

Learn more about Sastrify

Deazy Scaling? Not enough devs around? Thinking of nearshoring but not sure how to make it work? Deazy makes nearshoring work for you with their global ecosystem of vetted developers to flexibly augment your team. Even after their platform matches you with the right developers for your tech and cultural needs, their experienced UK-based team remains at your side proving oversight and support.
Now you can deliver your vision with ease with nearshore devs who work well with your in-house core team. Kick off your next project in as little as 2 weeks with Deazy's streamlined hiring. Plus , you can get a10% discount on your first 3 hires with the code EasyDev2022 Try it out and see why many European scale-ups trust Deazy with their nearshoring needs.

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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

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Sastrify, Deazy and Google Cloud

Sastrify

Sastrify helps companies to optimize the cost of software procurement by negotiating with suppliers of each software.

They saved OMR around €20.000 a year. A lot for a company of 150 people using tools like GSuite, Adobe Creative Cloud, NewRelic, and more.

It is a simple and hassle-free process.

They promise to save more money than they cost. And as an alphalist.CTO podcast listener, you get a 50% discount for the first 3 months!

So give them a try.

Learn more about Sastrify

Deazy Scaling? Not enough devs around? Thinking of nearshoring but not sure how to make it work? Deazy makes nearshoring work for you with their global ecosystem of vetted developers to flexibly augment your team. Even after their platform matches you with the right developers for your tech and cultural needs, their experienced UK-based team remains at your side proving oversight and support.
Now you can deliver your vision with ease with nearshore devs who work well with your in-house core team. Kick off your next project in as little as 2 weeks with Deazy's streamlined hiring. Plus , you can get a10% discount on your first 3 hires with the code EasyDev2022 Try it out and see why many European scale-ups trust Deazy with their nearshoring needs.

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Google Cloud Take advantage of the booming app industry by using the cloud that saves you time, money and also scales well. Power up your app or serverless function fast using Google Cloud. You also get to keep your cloud costs down by leveraging their many native tools to keep your product lean as you develop, deploy, or integrate it into your ongoing operations.

Now you can save on management costs, reduce downtime and protect your data with Google Cloud’s many maintenances and security features.

And as you scale and your business requirements change - Google Cloud will adapt with you. If you out-scale their App Engine Platform, the managed Kubernetes will help you reach the next level.

What to know more about the best way to deploy an App using the cloud? There will be a FREE webinar about “Modern Application Delivery on Google Cloud” on March 3rd 2022 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Central European time. Register to watch it live or on-demand at g.co/appwebinar.

P.S. Google Cloud is the best cloud platform for Data Analysis. Try it out and tell us if you agree.

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Taylor Otwell, Creator and CEO 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

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Dell

Dell Technologies offer IT-Technology solutions for companies of any size, tailored to their needs. The experts that guide you are equipped with both the know-how and a huge product portfolio of possible solutions. Their end-to-end IT Solutions range from laptops, PCs and workstations to server, storage, cloud and IoT solutions.

Learn more about Dell

Google Cloud Take advantage of the booming app industry by using the cloud that saves you time, money and also scales well. Power up your app or serverless function fast using Google Cloud. You also get to keep your cloud costs down by leveraging their many native tools to keep your product lean as you develop, deploy, or integrate it into your ongoing operations.

Now you can save on management costs, reduce downtime and protect your data with Google Cloud’s many maintenances and security features.

And as you scale and your business requirements change - Google Cloud will adapt with you. If you out-scale their App Engine Platform, the managed Kubernetes will help you reach the next level.

What to know more about the best way to deploy an App using the cloud? There will be a FREE webinar about “Modern Application Delivery on Google Cloud” on March 3rd 2022 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Central European time. Register to watch it live or on-demand at g.co/appwebinar.

P.S. Google Cloud is the best cloud platform for Data Analysis. Try it out and tell us if you agree.

Find out more about Modern Application Delivery on Google Cloud

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 Basecamp's 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, no-code 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%

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Dell

Dell Technologies offer IT-Technology solutions for companies of any size, tailored to their needs. The experts that guide you are equipped with both the know-how and a huge product portfolio of possible solutions. Their end-to-end IT Solutions range from laptops, PCs and workstations to server, storage, cloud and IoT solutions.

Learn more about Dell

Google Cloud Take advantage of the booming app industry by using the cloud that saves you time, money and also scales well. Power up your app or serverless function fast using Google Cloud. You also get to keep your cloud costs down by leveraging their many native tools to keep your product lean as you develop, deploy, or integrate it into your ongoing operations.

Now you can save on management costs, reduce downtime and protect your data with Google Cloud’s many maintenances and security features.

And as you scale and your business requirements change - Google Cloud will adapt with you. If you out-scale their App Engine Platform, the managed Kubernetes will help you reach the next level.

What to know more about the best way to deploy an App using the cloud? There will be a FREE webinar about “Modern Application Delivery on Google Cloud” on March 3rd 2022 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Central European time. Register to watch it live or on-demand at g.co/appwebinar.

P.S. Google Cloud is the best cloud platform for Data Analysis. Try it out and tell us if you agree.

Find out more about Modern Application Delivery on Google Cloud

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 👩‍💻

Listen here

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: viadee IT Consulting and Moss

viadee IT Consulting Love variety? Speak German? Want to help a mix of companies in different sectors with their IT needs? If you have a background in business informatics, computer science, mathematics, physics, etc. and want to help clients navigate IT challenges as a consultant and freelancer - listen up.

viadee IT Consulting is looking for someone with your expertise to join their team. In addition to technical know-how, the ideal candidate will possess a strong team spirit. analytical mindset, openness, and a good dose of curiosity.

They offer a growth-oriented and flexible environment (ranked Top 3 for the ‘ Beste Arbeitgeber in der ITK 2020’), warm colleagues (who also grew up with the internet and share many nerdy memories), and a people-centric company culture in which people deal constructively, openly and honestly with one another.

As the core of their clients is from the North Rhine-Westphalia, working knowledge of German is essential.

Let's work together to transform the digital future of companies in the North Rhine-Westphalia region

viadee IT Consulting

Moss Save time and money with Moss - an all-in-one solution for company expenses. With Moss companies manage all expenses in one place from anywhere.

Moss allows you to automate your accounting by digitizing incoming invoices, pre-accounting receipts, and easy data export. With Moss, your monthly reports can be ready within minutes!

Plus, you can tackle high cloud costs with the powerful Moss credit card which allows you to optimize your cash flow. Moss offers card limits of up to half a million Euros and payment terms of up to 60 days. Plus you also get 0.4% cashback on every payment.

Find out what it's like to stay on top of all your expenses when you try Moss free of charge for 2 months using the coupon code: ALPHA.

Moss

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

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Valantic

Valantic Deciding on the right eCommerce software for your company is tough. There are so many options available out there -each with its own implementation complexities.

Valantic is a technology-agnostic service provider for the eCommerce industry that helps you to find the right solution for the job. They are experts in over 70% of the available technologies so you can be assured they will find the ideal product for your needs. They then implement it for you in accordance with your commercial, organizational and technical specifications.

Read more: Valantic

I spoke with Frédéric Rivain, CTO at Dashlane, the market-leading 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

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Moss* and viadee IT Consulting

Moss Save time and money with Moss - an all-in-one solution for company expenses. With Moss companies manage all expenses in one place from anywhere.

Moss allows you to automate your accounting by digitizing incoming invoices, pre-accounting receipts, and easy data export. With Moss, your monthly reports can be ready within minutes!

Plus, you can tackle high cloud costs with the powerful Moss credit card which allows you to optimize your cash flow. Moss offers card limits of up to half a million Euros and payment terms of up to 60 days. Plus you also get 0.4% cashback on every payment.

Find out what it's like to stay on top of all your expenses when you try Moss free of charge for 2 months using the coupon code: ALPHA.

Moss

viadee IT Consulting Love variety? Speak German? Want to help a mix of companies in different sectors with their IT needs? If you have a background in business informatics, computer science, mathematics, physics, etc. and want to help clients navigate IT challenges as a consultant and freelancer - listen up.

viadee IT Consulting is looking for someone with your expertise to join their team. In addition to technical know-how, the ideal candidate will possess a strong team spirit. analytical mindset, openness, and a good dose of curiosity.

They offer a growth-oriented and flexible environment (ranked Top 3 for the ‘ Beste Arbeitgeber in der ITK 2020’), warm colleagues (who also grew up with the internet and share many nerdy memories), and a people-centric company culture in which people deal constructively, openly and honestly with one another.

As the core of their clients is from the North Rhine-Westphalia, working knowledge of German is essential.

Let's work together to transform the digital future of companies in the North Rhine-Westphalia region

viadee IT Consulting

I spoke with Snir Yarom, CTO at Codility,🧑‍💻 - a leading technical assessment platform about the world of 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

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Dell* and Storyblok

Dell Dell Technologies offer IT-Technology solutions for companies of any size, tailored to their needs. The experts that guide you are equipped with both the know-how and a huge product portfolio of possible. Their end-to-end IT Solutions range from laptops, PCs and workstations to server, storage, cloud and IoT solutions.

Dell

Storyblok Finally, a headless CMS that works for both developers and business users.

Storyblok offers a combination of visual editing tools and highly customizable content blocks. This is built on a modern headless architecture that gives developers the flexibility to build fast and reliable digital platforms.

The big benefit of headless CMS is that content can be streamed to any platform via API without having to manage the content multiple times. For example, customers use Storyblok for their websites, online stores, apps, or send the same content to Twitter, WeChat or Alexa skills.

Find out why Storyblok is used by over 50,000 developers, product owners and managers in over 80,000 projects in 130 countries. Customers include Adidas, Marley Spoon, Deliveroo and more. Storyblok

I spoke with Marco Palladino, Co-Founder & CTO at Kong 🐒, the market-leading API management 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

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: **Sastrify ** and Storyblok

Sastrify Sastrify helps companies to optimize the cost of software procurement by negotiating with suppliers of each software.

They saved OMR around €20.000 a year. A lot for a company of 150 people using tools like GSuite, Adobe Creative Cloud, NewRelic and more.

It is a simple and hassle-free process.

They promise to save more money than they cost. And as an alphalist.CTO podcast listener, you get a 50% discount for the first 3 months!

So give them a try. Sastrify

Storyblok Finally, a headless CMS that works for both developers and business users.

Storyblok offers a combination of visual editing tools and highly customizable content blocks. This is built on a modern headless architecture that gives developers the flexibility to build fast and reliable digital platforms.

The big benefit of headless CMS is that content can be streamed to any platform via API without having to manage the content multiple times. For example, customers use Storyblok for their websites, online stores, apps, or send the same content to Twitter, WeChat or Alexa skills.

Find out why Storyblok is used by over 50,000 developers, product owners and managers in over 80,000 projects in 130 countries. Customers include Adidas, Marley Spoon, Deliveroo and more. Storyblok

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

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: **Sastrify ** and Storyblok

Sastrify Sastrify helps companies to optimize the cost of software procurement by negotiating with suppliers of each software.

They saved OMR around €20.000 a year. A lot for a company of 150 people using tools like GSuite, Adobe Creative Cloud, NewRelic and more.

It is a simple and hassle-free process.

They promise to save more money than they cost. And as an alphalist.CTO podcast listener, you get a 50% discount for the first 3 months!

So give them a try. Sastrify

Storyblok Finally, a headless CMS that works for both developers and business users.

Storyblok offers a combination of visual editing tools and highly customizable content blocks. This is built on a modern headless architecture that gives developers the flexibility to build fast and reliable digital platforms.

The big benefit of headless CMS is that content can be streamed to any platform via API without having to manage the content multiple times. For example, customers use Storyblok for their websites, online stores, apps, or send the same content to Twitter, WeChat or Alexa skills.

Find out why Storyblok is used by over 50,000 developers, product owners and managers in over 80,000 projects in 130 countries. Customers include Adidas, Marley Spoon, Deliveroo and more. Storyblok

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:

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Bechtle and Storyblok

Bechtle Looking for an IT solution for your SMB?

Save time by trusting Bechtle with all your IT needs.

From IT consultancy to procurement and implementation. B2Bs have trusted Bechtle with their IT needs for the past 30 years.

SMBs and self-employed individuals now also enjoy the Bechtle experience by conveniently buying all their IT needs online. Bechle is not only the largest IT company in Germany, they are also located in 14 countries across Europe. They offer online shopping with great prices and fast delivery.

Get €10 off your first order with coupon code alphalist Bechtle Storyblok Finally, a headless CMS that works for both developers and business users.

Storyblok offers a combination of visual editing tools and highly customizable content blocks. This is built on a modern headless architecture that gives developers the flexibility to build fast and reliable digital platforms.

The big benefit of headless CMS is that content can be streamed to any platform via API without having to manage the content multiple times. For example, customers use Storyblok for their websites, online stores, apps, or send the same content to Twitter, WeChat or Alexa skills.

Find out why Storyblok is used by over 50,000 developers, product owners and managers in over 80,000 projects in 130 countries. Customers include Adidas, Marley Spoon, Deliveroo and more. Storyblok

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

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: **Sastrify ** and Bechtle

Sastrify Sastrify helps companies to optimize the cost of software procurement by negotiating with suppliers of each software.

They saved OMR around €20.000 a year. A lot for a company of 150 people using tools like GSuite, Adobe Creative Cloud, NewRelic and more.

It is a simple and hassle-free process.

They promise to save more money than they cost. And as an alphalist.CTO podcast listener, you get a 50% discount for the first 3 months!

So give them a try. Sastrify

Bechtle Looking for an IT solution for your SMB?

Save time by trusting Bechtle with all your IT needs.

From IT consultancy to procurement and implementation. B2Bs have trusted Bechtle with their IT needs for the past 30 years.

SMBs and self-employed individuals now also enjoy the Bechtle experience by conveniently buying all their IT needs online. Bechle is not only the largest IT company in Germany, they are also located in 14 countries across Europe. They offer online shopping with great prices and fast delivery.

Get €10 off your first order with coupon code alphalist Bechtle

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.

Listen here:

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Dell and Okta*

Dell Dell Technologies offer IT-Technology solutions for companies of any size, tailored to their needs. The experts that guide you are equipped with both the know-how and a huge product portfolio of possible. Their end-to-end IT Solutions range from laptops, PCs and workstations to server, storage, cloud and IoT solutions.

Dell

Okta Facing identity management challenges as you digitize?

Okta offers THE market-leading solution to help you make identity & access management work as a service.

Okta Customer Identity Management is a platform that offers endless ways to connect with your employees and customers.Get support for your most important customer-facing initiatives: Integrate identity & access into every app and create secure and engaging experiences in no time by outsourcing workforce or customer identity management to Okta.

Get started in 15 minutes and test IAM or CIAM as a service. Create a frictionless registration and login experience for your applications and make identity the foundation for your Zero Trust strategy and enable access for all users—regardless of their location, device, or network.

okta

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

Hear Online or read the related blog post about Recruiting Tips to Increase Diversity while Saving Time

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Okta and Dell*

Okta Facing identity management challenges as you digitize?

Okta offers THE market-leading solution to help you make identity & access management work as a service.

Okta Customer Identity Management is a platform that offers endless ways to connect with your employees and customers.Get support for your most important customer-facing initiatives: Integrate identity & access into every app and create secure and engaging experiences in no time by outsourcing workforce or customer identity management to Okta.

Get started in 15 minutes and test IAM or CIAM as a service. Create a frictionless registration and login experience for your applications and make identity the foundation for your Zero Trust strategy and enable access for all users—regardless of their location, device, or network.

okta

Dell Dell Technologies offer IT-Technology solutions for companies of any size, tailored to their needs. The experts that guide you are equipped with both the know-how and a huge product portfolio of possible. Their end-to-end IT Solutions range from laptops, PCs and workstations to server, storage, cloud and IoT solutions.

Dell

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

Listen here or read related blog post about how to build an internal culture. BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Fastly and Okta

Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend".

Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more.

If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist

Okta This episode is kindly sponsored by Okta Customer Identity Management.

If you're transforming into a digital platform and facing identity management challenges, listen closely now, because Okta offers THE market-leading solutions to help you make identity & access management work as a service.

A platform that offers endless ways to connect with your employees and customers.Get support for your most important customer-facing initiatives: Integrate identity & access into every app and create secure and engaging experiences in no time by outsourcing workforce or customer identity management to Okta.

Get started in 15 minutes and test IAM or CIAM as a service. Create a frictionless registration and login experience for your applications and make identity the foundation for your Zero Trust strategy and enable access for all users—regardless of their location, device, or network.

okta

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 🛠️

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Okta and Fastly

Okta This episode is kindly sponsored by Okta Customer Identity Management.

If you're transforming into a digital platform and facing identity management challenges, listen closely now, because Okta offers THE market-leading solutions to help you make identity & access management work as a service.

A platform that offers endless ways to connect with your employees and customers.Get support for your most important customer-facing initiatives: Integrate identity & access into every app and create secure and engaging experiences in no time by outsourcing workforce or customer identity management to Okta.

Get started in 15 minutes and test IAM or CIAM as a service. Create a frictionless registration and login experience for your applications and make identity the foundation for your Zero Trust strategy and enable access for all users—regardless of their location, device, or network.

okta

Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend".

Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more.

If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist

I spoke with Charity Majors, CTO of HoneyComb, 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 jobs harder😓
• Why she wants to do away with hierarchies to increase job satisfaction 😀

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Fastly and Okta

Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend".

Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more.

If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist

Okta This episode is kindly sponsored by Okta Customer Identity Management.

If you're transforming into a digital platform and facing identity management challenges, listen closely now, because Okta offers THE market-leading solutions to help you make identity & access management work as a service.

A platform that offers endless ways to connect with your employees and customers.Get support for your most important customer-facing initiatives: Integrate identity & access into every app and create secure and engaging experiences in no time by outsourcing workforce or customer identity management to Okta.

Get started in 15 minutes and test IAM or CIAM as a service. Create a frictionless registration and login experience for your applications and make identity the foundation for your Zero Trust strategy and enable access for all users—regardless of their location, device, or network.

[okta ](https://www.okta.com/free-trial/customer-identity/

‘PagerDuty raises 90 million to wake up more engineers in the middle of the night.’ read a recent headline. Highlighting both the recent funding and also its unpopular but necessary job. However, 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 🚀

BROUGHT TO YOU BY:

Dell

This episode is proudly presented by Dell Technologies. Dell has a team of experts that helps you solve all of your IT-related challenges and IT needs in your daily business. They also are available to guide you in choosing the right end-to-end IT-solutions or products. They offer IT-technology solutions for companies of any size, tailored to their needs and have a huge product portfolio with it-solutions and know-how.

They can help CTOs through providing end2end it solutions… be it laptops, pcs, workstations or server, storage, cloud, IoT solutions or financing If you want to know more, please check the show notes to get a link.

Dell and Fastly

Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend".

Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more.

If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist

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!

Listen here: https://alphalist.podigee.io/30-cheryl-hung-cloud-native-computing-foundation

Join us in welcoming our First Female Guest.. and send us more because we are missing out!

Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1512227295 || Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/08QvFNH32V1yRiwfNQhTYx || Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/show/1202312

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Fastly and Dell

Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend".

Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more.

If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist

Dell

This episode is proudly presented by Dell Technologies. Dell has a team of experts that helps you solve all of your IT-related challenges and IT needs in your daily business. They also are available to guide you in choosing the right end-to-end IT-solutions or products. They offer IT-technology solutions for companies of any size, tailored to their needs and have a huge product portfolio with it-solutions and know-how.

They can help CTOs through providing end2end it solutions… be it laptops, pcs, workstations or server, storage, cloud, IoT solutions or financing If you want to know more, please check the show notes to get a link.

We spoke to Matthias Jugel, the co-founder of ubirch, the company behind the 🇩🇪 German digital vaccination passes 💉His technology has generated over 30 million vaccine passes giving Germans their summer holidays back! And they launched in a matter of weeks! We discussed

• What was involved in creating digital vaccine passports that worked OFFLINE and allow movement around the EU 🇪🇺
• Blockchain verification ✔️ and its applications in pharmaceuticals⚕️, car insurance 🚘 and manufacturing 🏭
• what he learnt from launching a national program in less than a month! 📆

Listen on Apple: || Spotify: || Deezer

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Sastrify and Fastly

Sastrify Thanks a lot to my friends at Sastrify for sponsoring this episode. A lot of CTOs I know are responsible for procurement of software as a service tools by accident and never have the time and energy to work on optimizing their costs. For example: at my company OMR, we have a lot of tools… Gsuite, Adobe creative cloud, Newrelic and many more. Sastrify helps companies like ours to optimize those costs & negotiate with suppliers of such software. In our case they helped us to save around 20.000€ per year, which is a lot if you look at our company size of around 150 people. It is a simple and hassle-free process we went through and I can just recommend anyone listening to do the same. They actually promise to save more money than they cost.

They are already working with a lot of alphalist members such as Runstatic, Westwing and Emma.

They are giving a 50% discount for the first 3 months to all podcast listeners so go to www.sastrify.com/alphalist to get started today

Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend".

Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more.

If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist

We spoke to Rasmus Roth, leader in AI space- he has 5 products just based on machine learning.

• What is involved in productising and commercialising a machine learning-based service 📈➡️💰
• The need for ML ops 👨‍💻
• Google Cloud vs AWS vs Azure and why he doesn’t stick to one ☁️
• AI and its applications in medical field ⚕️, autonomous driving 🚘and BI 📊
• His go-to resources for libraries, ML ops and conferences

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Fastly and Sastrify

Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend".

Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more.

If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist

Sastrify Thanks a lot to my friends at Sastrify for sponsoring this episode. A lot of CTOs I know are responsible for procurement of software as a service tools by accident and never have the time and energy to work on optimizing their costs. For example: at my company OMR, we have a lot of tools… Gsuite, Adobe creative cloud, Newrelic and many more. Sastrify helps companies like ours to optimize those costs & negotiate with suppliers of such software. In our case they helped us to save around 20.000€ per year, which is a lot if you look at our company size of around 150 people. It is a simple and hassle-free process we went through and I can just recommend anyone listening to do the same. They actually promise to save more money than they cost.

They are already working with a lot of alphalist members such as Runstatic, Westwing and Emma.

They are giving a 50% discount for the first 3 months to all podcast listeners so go to www.sastrify.com/alphalist to get started today

I had the chance to talk to Eric Johnson, the CTO of GitLab about

• How to manage remote teams: async, stand-ups, onboarding, burn out, internships, compensation, and more
• How Gitlab uses git for everything from Marketing to Policy
• The difference between servant-leadership and situational leadership and when to use what
  • A message to those who think parenthood might take away from their career

If you loved his straight-talking ReadMe about himself, you will also like this thought-provoking episode on leadership, management, and of course remote work from someone who manages a completely remote team of 560, in a company of 1300+

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Sastrify and Fastly

Sastrify Thanks a lot to my friends at Sastrify for sponsoring this episode. A lot of CTOs I know are responsible for procurement of software as a service tools by accident and never have the time and energy to work on optimizing their costs. For example: at my company OMR, we have a lot of tools… Gsuite, Adobe creative cloud, Newrelic and many more. Sastrify helps companies like ours to optimize those costs & negotiate with suppliers of such software. In our case they helped us to save around 20.000€ per year, which is a lot if you look at our company size of around 150 people. It is a simple and hassle-free process we went through and I can just recommend anyone listening to do the same. They actually promise to save more money than they cost.

They are already working with a lot of alphalist members such as Runstatic, Westwing and Emma.

They are giving a 50% discount for the first 3 months to all podcast listeners so go to www.sastrify.com/alphalist to get started today

Fastly This episode is again kindly supported by Fastly, the biggest challenger in the CDN market and a solution I personally use. Fastly is pushing ahead the technical boundaries and is from my personal perspective the best solution on the market. Fastly is one of the key drivers of the "edge cloud trend".

Well-known customers of Fastly are Shopify, The New York Times, Reddit, Github and many many more.

If you want to try it all with first class support, just go to fastly.com/alphalist

This Podcast episode is DOOMed 🔥🌋😈🧟🕯👿☠👹🦹 I had the chance to talk to John Romero, the inventor of DOOM, Wolfenstein and Commander Keen and founder of id Software about

• Developing games in the early 90s and how they developed DOOM in a crazy small team
• Developing games in 2021 and how it’s still possible to develop games with only a single person team
• The crazy amounts of money they made with DOOM 🤑💶🤑
• The crazy amounts of energy drinks they consumed
• Why not he would not start developing a game engine again

Thanks a lot John! Was really fun talking to you.

Today with me in the Podcast is Tim O'Reilly, the Founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media and boy, his 1,5 million twitter followers are there for a reason!

People call him "the Oracle of the Silicon Valley", he came up with the term "Web 2.0" - This man is crazy a wizard!

We spoke about:

• Writing as superpower! How it helps you to structure your thoughts.
• How he started OSCON and great nerdy 90s
• The big tectonic "Platform changes" and how the giants use "Algorithmic Rents" to silently put more money into their pockets
• The wrong incentives and optimization functions of our economy and how to change it
• How we are part of "the machine" and "the machine" needs us to decide what is good ("ham") and what is bad ("spam")

Brilliant thoughts! Thank you so much Tim!

In this episode we dive deep into the principles of Blockchain together with Peter Grosskopf who is our guest for the 2nd time.

Peter recently quit his job as CTO @ Börse Stuttgart to fully focus on building a decentralized bank in the DeFi (Decentralize finance) space.

We spoke about:

• How does a blockchain work
• Why to use blockchains
• Concrete use-cases and applications
• How ether works and how to get started

This time I had Olivier Bonnet, the CTO of BlaBlaCar in the podcast. BlaBlaCar is the carpooling company: They own the market. They are active in 22 Countries, have 100M+ Users and acquired 12 other carpooling companies. Olivier, the CTO, joined me to talk about:

• How his time at  Apple taught him to think long term
• 100 million users, 12 acquisitions: The strategy behind BlaCar
• The complexity of route planning 🌐
• How writing 🖊️ helps people at Bla to structure their thoughts: They are writing press releases for new features, Amazon style.
• You build it, you run it! How technology decision discipline works at BlaCar

Was a great ride with you, Olivier! We both turned out to be a bit more Bla ;-) in this episode than we initially thought.

How to make a living from Open Source? My guest Frank Karlitschek, the CEO of ☁️☁️ NextCloud ☁️☁️ the open alternative to Google Cloud and Microsofts Office 365 (!) does it for years and tells us where to start. He knows the game!

Other topics we touch?

• The 3 Ultimate tipps for open source developers/publishers How he leads his team of 50+ FTE almost fully remote
• How GDPR can be seen as a chance for European entrepreneurs
• How he built his company without any VC money

Thanks a lot Frank for being my guest!

In this episode I talk to Jason Warner, Github CTO aka "the PaaS Guru". He used to work for Heroku before and explained what he's planning and executing at Github and how Github uses it's massive amount of data to go away from pure repo-hosting.

Topics that stand out:

• How Microsoft is working out quite well for them (Careful: contains Steve Balmer rants)
• How Github will revolutionize the Platform as a Service world (PaaS)
• His thoughts about developer productivity and the broken idea of measuring an individual engineers performance 📈📈📈
• How he breaks down the organization strategy into mission, vision, priorities, goals, and tasks to get everyone aligned

He also reveals his past as 🏋️ Fitness Guru, having written multiple fitness books and what happened when a colleague found that out…

This time I spoke to John Graham-Cumming, the CTO of 🌩 Cloudflare🌩, a publicly listed CDN and Edge Computing platform.

Topics we touched:

• His GNU Make book ;-)
• How they grew to 25 BN marketcap 📈
• What he thinks about edge computing and concrete usecases for it
• How COVID changed the security world
• How they operate and maintain a global network with millions of servers

Thanks a lot John for the Chat. Looking forward to see what Cloudflare comes up with next.

This time I'm talking to an absolute legend: Mitchell Hashimoto, the CTO of HashiCorp the company behind a series of brilliant open source products (Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Vagrant) that are highly successfully both business wise and community wise. I would even argue that HashiCorp is the only company that manages to do that.

We talk about:

• The path from 7 to 1000+ employees in the last 10 years 📈📈📈
• How Mitch is still able to be a very active github user and contribute a lot of code while growing a big enterprise company to IPO
• How to build successful open source projects
• Where to draw the line in open core businesses
• How to be able to prevent cloud providers from sucking your blood 🧛

Podcast time! In this episode I'm chatting with Jean-Denis Greze, the Head of Engineering @ Plaid and former Director of Engineering at Dropbox. Plaid is a fintech Unicorn from the US that just turned down an acquisition by Visa.

We spoke about:

• The upcoming topic 🔒 Privacy Engineering 🔒 and how it will change our thinking
• How plaid handles 1000s of connections to banks and integrates with a lot of legacy APIs just fine
• His thoughts around Defi and Blockchain
• How they do good business in fintech without touching any money 💰

It was great having you, Jean-Denis!

This time in the podcast I have a very bright guest I admire for years: Eric Bowman, SVP Engineering at TomTom, Former VP Engineering at Zalando AND one of the developers behind the game "The Sims" 🧍‍♂️ He is a brilliant mind when it comes to tech leadership and has strong opinions on autonomy and empowerment.

Topics we touched:

• How 90s gaming development compares to 20s large scale tech teams
• What TomTom does these days and the technical challenges in location based services & mapping these days
• How to establish tech culture and open source in a large enterprise
• The challenges of the automotive industry in a software world 🚗
• 📈 The importances of the accelerate KPIs in modern engineering orgs and how to move fast 📈

It was a pleasure talking to you, Eric!

This time, I have a very technical podcast on Webassembly and the new kid on the block: the Edge Cloud with Fastly's CTO Tyler McMullen, one of the leading CDNs and edge cloud companies out there.

• The future of distributed computation: From Serverless to ☁️ Cloudless ☁️
• Webassembly as the new industry standard intermediate representation/micro container. And guess what? Your browser most likely already supports it!
• How a CDN works internally and the challenges of building it
• How he manages to still be a coding geek in 💰💰💰 10BN company

This podcast was actually recorded shortly before Covid - if you wonder how we could meet up in Berlin ;-)

This time I had Jean Michel Lemieux or short JML, the CTO of 🛒 Shopify 🛒 in the podcast. Craziest fact: He took the time two days before black Friday 💥. In the podcast he also told me why.

We spoke about:

• His fight against crazy 👟 sneaker - sniping - bots and how Shopify keeps people in line happy with games
• What it takes to run the largest Ruby on Rails (majestic ;-)) monolith on the planet
• Why he does not believe in microservice architecture but still runs some services
• How he keeps his 2000 engineer army aligned
• Why he still sells stuff for kids online through his own platform

It was crazy fun, even if I missed the swearing after David Heinemeier Hansson took that route.

In this episode I am thrilled to welcome David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of Basecamp, inventor of Ruby on Rails, founder of Hey.com, book author of books like "Remote" or "It does not have to be crazy at work".

Some topics we touched:

• * How David Discovered the magic of Ruby 💎
• * How he finds moments of deep flow in programming and racing
• * Why Smartwatches are a gift from hell⌚
• * Why the 60 hour work week is a stupid lie
• * Why he would immediately quit if he was hired as CTO of Zalando 👚
• * How they successfully manage Basecamp, and why "the Spotify Model" is a myth

☠️ Strong language, be careful ☠️ And: You might notice that I had to laugh at least 60% of the time. Thanks David for your time and this great episode.

In this podcast, it's all about complicated things and my guest masters them all: IoT, Robotics, AI and customer acquisition. Ahti Heinla is former founding engineer of Skype and now runs Starship Technologies as Founder and CTO. In this podcast we talk about

• Robotics as the coolest thing to build as an engineer
• How I stopped one of his Robots in Hamburg
• The hard things about robots 🤖
• The hard things about bringing ML models to production

Thanks again Ahti for being my guest and looking forward to see more and more of your robots in the wild. Great to see so much innovation coming from Estonia. Looking forward to feedback and guest proposals.

I spoke to Christian Hardenberg, CTO of Delivery Hero 🍔 and formerly Rocket Internet 🚀 on how to scale an engineering org from 200 to 2000 people. Delivery Hero just entered the DAX a week ago and is worth almost 20 BN as of today. He shared his perspective and thoughts on:

• How to measure software developers at scale
• How they keep up the pace / velocity
• What he thinks about OKRs
• How they manage to integrate all the acquired entities and teams
• Their secret sauce and why he thinks it is better than Google

This time, I have the honor to talk to Peter Grosskopf, CTO of Börse Stuttgart digital exchange and former CTO of Solarisbank. He's an amazing guy for philosophical discussions around finance, tech and we share one love that is no longer as cool as it was in the 00's: Ruby on rails!

This time we discuss:1

• How he made regulations his hobby 👓 and wants developers to feel like working for Spotify or Soundcloud even with regulations in place
• The do's and don'ts in Fintech
• Why he rather picks mature stacks (aka Postgres and Ruby on rails) against the "new kids on the block"
• How he thinks about new things tech like Apache Kafka

I had the chance to interview Sergei Anikin about how to scale a SaaS product. Sergei Anikin comes with vast experience in “large scale tech” as he was with Skype when it was sold 3 times (eBay, Private Equity, Microsoft) and is CTO at 90-million funded Pipedrive (CRM SaaS) now.

• Laser-sharp focus on the essential features
• “Scaling problems are good problems to have”
• Microservices vs. Monoliths
• Team structure at scale: Missions and Tribes
• How they do M&A and post merger integration

I had to deal with cybersecurity topics recently; I've even been in touch with the FBI 👮. On this occasion I invited a brilliant guest for the alphalist Podcast: It’s Mikko Hyppönen, a computer security specialist and scientific director at the security company F-Secure.

He spent half of his life hacking and chasing hackers and he knows how to talk about it: I saw at least 3 TED Talks by him and yes, they are very entertaining and helpful.

Key topics in the Podcast are:

• The recent Twitter hack and the stupidness of the hackers
• How cybersecurity evolved and became a required skill for companies and countries
• His recommendations for modern mid sized companies around Cybersecurity (Where to start with processes, recruiting, tools, budgets)
• What to do if you’ve been compromised

He is a Stanford professor, founder of Google X, built the first self driving car, won the Darpa-Award for it, started the online-academy Udacity and is now building autonomous planes at Kitty Hawk. Wow.

Can you tell why I highly admire him and how excited I was when I won him for my podcast?

We talked about the car nation in Germany, how competitive we are in the AI and software world, Stanford vs. TU-Munich, why Sebastian is striving for a brain-computer interface, why he has built the leading online university Udacity and how to tackle machine learning as a modern CTO.

He also explains why he eventually comes up with a Bluetooth-connected Smart-Bra next.

Tobias talks to Daniel Gebler, the CTO of the “Dutch supermarket unicorn” Picnic about his story from the 4k Demo Scene to operating and growing Picnic to a billion Euros marketcap and 5000+ employees.

Topics we touch in this episode:

• How Picnic works
• Why they chose to build an app-only platform
• Picnics secret sauce in data science, supply chain and fulfillment
• How their business and tech literally exploded with Corona
• His thoughts on Microservices And many more!

Thanks a lot to Daniel, we had a great time!

In dieser Ausgabe begrüssen wir Jan Ramm, den CTO der FreeNow Gruppe (ehem. MyTaxi). Wir sprechen unter anderem - von seinem Werdegang vom Schulschwimmer zum CTO - wie und wo FreeNow seine Entwickler sucht & findet - wie sich der Mobility Markt entwickelt hat und noch entwickelt - was sein Blick auf Mobile-Frameworks ala Flutter ist.

Tech in Project A Startups (Frameworks, Tools, Sprachen, Trends & Prozesse), seinen Einfluss als VC auf die Technologie in Project A Startups und natürlich über mein Lieblingsthema, die technical due diligence. Also den Qualitätscheck den er als VC bei allen Startups durchführt.

In der heutigen Folge spreche ich mit Sebastian Betz, dem CO-CEO und CTO von About You über technologische Trends, Frameworks und aktuelle Hypes sowie seinen Job als CTO und wie der Tech Stack von about you unter der Motorhaube aussieht.