All Heroku Episodes
A collection of podcasts with Heroku engineers, developers, and product managers.
Episodes
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In this episode, Ian, Laura, and Wesley talk about the importance of communication skills, specifically writing, for people in technical roles. Ian calls writing the single most important meta skill you can have. And the good news is that you can get better at it, with deliberate practice!
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Jim Jagielski is the newest member of Salesforce’s Open Source Program Office, but he’s no newbie to open source. In this episode, he talks with Alyssa Arvin, Senior Program Manager for Open Source about his early explorations into open source software during his time as an actual rocket scientist at NASA, what he’s learned from open source over the years, and how you can get started in open source, from both a company and an individual contributor perspective.
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This episode of Codeish includes Greg Nokes, distinguished technical architect with Salesforce Heroku, and Lisa Marshall, Senior Vice President of TMP Innovation & Learning at Salesforce. Lisa manages a team within technology and product that focuses on overall employee success in attracting technical talent and creating a great onboarding experience.
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How do you know an application is performing well beyond the absence of crash reports? Innocent Bindura, a senior developer at Raygun, shares the company's tools and utilities, discusses the importance of monitoring P99 latency, and talks about why developers should use data to drive decision-making.
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How can developers learn from catastrophic errors such as airline disasters? Learn how understanding the root causes of failure in complex systems can prevent their recurrence.
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How can applying the right technology choices at the right time impact your coding and business choices? Karan Gupta explains how practicing “pragmatic engineering” can have an oversized impact on business and business efficiency.
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The episode focuses on managing a certificate authority (CA) within an enterprise. The internal CA is compared on many points to PKI on the public internet.
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How much can a day of coding help others? James Dong created a platform to help small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic sell gift cards online. Learn how this platform, built on Heroku, provided a way for residents to support local businesses by generating over $6000 in sales.
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Having a goofy meme project go viral can be an exhilarating feeling. It can also cause your heart to drop, as you've suddenly been saddled with new responsibilities around uptime and scaling resources. Nick Sawhney shares his experiences using Heroku when an afternoon project exploded into a worldwide phenomenon.
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Meditation can take many forms. While it may conjure up cliched images of people sitting on cushions and chanting, in actually, many different groups, from the Harvard Business Review to medical professionals, are exploring the ways in which various mindfulness practices can help us manage stress and improve our well-being. This episode will take a cursory look at mindfulness from the perspective of a practicing software developer.
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Growing your monthly active user count is the goal for every startup. But can your popularity actually work against you? In this installment of I Was There, Ifat Ribon and Christopher Ostrowski share their experiences tracking down production issues stemming from assumptions that didn't scale with their growth.
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Writing legible, functionable code is the aspiration for many programmers. Defining what that actually means is another matter altogether. Our guest, Marco Faella, has written a book on the subject. We'll explore the characteristics good software demonstrates. We're also going to give away a 40% discount code for Marco's new book!
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