• Relationships Ruin Your Code Reviews
    May 10 2024

    Key Insights:

    • Importance of Code Reviews: Code reviews are essential for error detection, understanding new features, adhering to coding standards, and ensuring only reviewed code is deployed.
    • Emotional Impact: Emotional dynamics play a significant role, with 30% of developers reviewing code from less favored colleagues, which can lead to biased judgments and negative feelings.
    • Striving for Objectivity: Despite personal feelings, approximately 76% of developers strive for objectivity to maintain professionalism.
    • Impact of Developer Experience: The experience level of a developer also influences the depth of code reviews and the manner in which feedback is provided.
    • Perceptions Formed: Reviewers' perceptions of code quality can affect their views on the author's skills or character.

    Strategies to Mitigate Bias: The episode outlines multiple strategies to reduce bias in code reviews, such as involving multiple reviewers, standardizing review criteria, and implementing anonymous reviews.

    Additional Resources:

    • Read the full paper called "How social interactions can affect Modern Code Review"
    • Visit awesomecodereviews.com to discover Dr. McKayla’s latest article on the top 10 code review techniques and methodologies, including systematic approaches like using checklists and change-impact analysis.

    Conclusion: The podcast sheds light on both the positive and negative impacts of human factors in code reviews and emphasizes the need for strategies to minimize bias, enhancing both code quality and team dynamics.

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    15 mins
  • Measuring and improving developer experience
    Jun 23 2023
    Make code reviews your superpower at awesomecodereviews.com!

    Episode Resources:
    Paper on improving developer experience
    Abi's thoughts on the DX paper
    Abi Noda's LinkedIn
    Abi's podcast for Engineering Enablement leaders

    About Abi Noda
    Abi Noda is the CEO and founder of DX, a company that helps measure and improve developer experience.

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    45 mins
  • From DevOps to Platform Engineering
    Mar 22 2023
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    Episode Resources:
    What is platform engineering?
    What is an internal developer platform?
    What is Dynamic Configuration Management?
    Salesman tricks for the Platform Engineer
    Platform Engineering community
    PlatformCon 2023
    Luca’s LinkedIn and Twitter

    About Luca Galante
    Luca is leading product at Humanitec, saw hundreds of DevOps and platform setups, and shares his learnings in his weekly newsletter PlatformWeekly (with 10k subscribers). He is also the core contributor to the Platform Engineering community, with 10k+ meetup members, and 8k+ Slack members.

    Make code reviews your superpower at awesomecodereviews.com!Other episodes you'll enjoy

    Can Engineering metrics be ethical?

    Measure developer productivity using the SPACE framework

    High-performing engineering teams through DX

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    49 mins
  • From English teacher to dev in 9 month: A self-taught developer journey
    Mar 8 2023
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    Episode Resources:
    Nadia's Book
    Nadia's website
    Nadia's Twitter

    About Nadia Zhuk
    Nadia is a software engineer at Intercom, and was previously working at Zendesk. Before, Nadia was an English teacher, and journalist, until she decided to learn programming and enter the tech world.

    Make code reviews your superpower at awesomecodereviews.com!

     

    Other episodes you'll enjoy

    Do code reviews frustrate developers?

    The Secret To High-Quality Code

    Vulnerability disclosure with Katie Moussouris

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    45 mins
  • Do code reviews frustrate developers?
    Feb 22 2023
    Earn additional income by sharing your opinion on userinterviews.com!

    Episode Resources:
    Alexander's Twitter
    Alexander's Research
    Awesome Code Reviews
    Papers:
    An exploratory study on confusion in code reviews
    Emotions and Perceived Productivity of Software Developers at the Workplace
    Recognizing developers' emotions while programming
    Gendered Experiences of Software Engineers During the COVID-19 Crisis
    Developer experience research paper  

    About Alexander Serebrenik
    Alexander is a Full Professor of Social Software Engineering at the Software Engineering and Technology cluster of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Alexander’s research goal is to facilitate evolution of software by taking into account social aspects of software development.

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    39 mins
  • Fighting software vulnerabilities with software bill of materials
    Feb 8 2023
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    Episode Resources:
    Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity
    Alpha-Omega Projects
    Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa)
    Tools to create SBOM  

    About Barak Brudo
    Barak Brudo helps organizations secure their software supply chain. He works as a Developer Relations Advocate at Scribe Security.

    Other episodes you'll enjoy
    • What developers should know about security
    • The Secret To High-Quality Code
    • Vulnerability disclosure with Katie Moussouris
       
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    39 mins
  • A soul-crushing job search
    Jan 18 2023
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    Episode Resources:
    Heather's Twitter
    Heather's job search blog post
    Heather's Blog

    About Heather Reid
    Heather Reid is a Test Engineer at Glofox. Before that she was the community boss for Ministry of Testing, making sure that the testing community had everything to be successful. Before that, she was a software tester at Exploristics and at Moola.

    Episode Chapters:
    00:00 Introduction
    02:00 What does a test community boss do?
    06:28 Can we forget our skills?
    08:00 Attending workshops
    09:00 4-hour interview experience
    10:00 Hurtful rejections pile up
    12:10 Can't ask questions in an interview
    14:00 A good interview experience
    19:00 A technical test
    23:00 Different backgrounds and perspectives
    26:10 Arguing during an interview
    30:50 Improving the state of testing 33:50 Adding accessibility 40:00 Career advice for job seekers

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    45 mins
  • Entrepreneurship, Career Growth and Testing: Top 5 Episodes of 2022
    Jan 4 2023

    This episode samples:

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

      YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/XKKFCmvK7_M
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    58 mins