Questions are for the Weak

In this episode, Caleb Thompson joins The Bike Shed to discuss lessons learned from past projects, and speaking at conferences.

You Look Good in a Lab Coat

In this episode, Richard Schneeman joins The Bike Shed to discuss ruby memory use, horizontal scaling, and tackling open source issues.

Make Ruby Scripting Great Again

In this episode, Terence Lee of Heroku, Bundler, and mruby-cli fame talks about Apache Kafka and the future of mruby scripting.

Autoscaling

Andrew Gwozdziewycz is an operational experience engineer with Heroku. He talks about how Heroku build Autoscaling in this episode, and how Heroku’s metrics pipeline – using Kafka and Cassandra – supports the high volume of health check data.

Kafka

Tom Crayford is an engineer at Heroku, where he helped engineer the recent Heroku Kafka product, which is a managed version of Apache Kafka. He talks about the use cases of Kafka and how to build Kafka as a cloud service at scale in this podcast.

Killing Products Gracefully

In Episode #10 of Practical Product, Craig and Rimas are joined by Suzie Prince from ThoughtWorks. Suzie explains how as a product manager she had to make the difficult decision to shut down her product, Snap CI.

Demystifying Growth Hacking

In the latest episode of Practical Product, Craig and Rimas are joined by Sean Ellis from GrowthHackers.

Launch Day Trifecta: Hacker News, Product Hunt & TechCrunch

In this episode of Practical Product Craig and Rimas are joined by Heavybit’s PR Manager Malia Powers to discuss how startups can get more publicity.

Digital Dev at Blue Bottle Coffee

In episode 7 of Practical Product, Craig and Rimas sit down with Scott Rocher, Director of Digital Product Development at Blue Bottle Coffee.

Product Manager as CEO

In the latest edition of Practical Product, Craig and Rimas ask if PMs are the “CEOs” of their area. Do they have a similar level of authority and responsibility, just on a smaller scale?