Dev Interrupted
The Dev Interrupted Podcast is the premier podcast for software engineering leaders. Hosts Dan Lines, Ben Lloyd Pearson, and Andrew Zigler invite expert guests from around the world to explore strategy and day-to-day topics ranging from dev team metrics to accelerating delivery. Join us weekly for new episodes.
Episodes
222 episodes
The Shift to Agent-Driven API Consumption | Speakeasy’s Sagar Batchu
Think building killer APIs like Stripe or Twilio is purely a technical feat? Think again.This week, we dive into why crafting successful APIs is fundamentally an organizational challenge, demanding internal excellence long befor...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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41:17
How Marketing Ruined Shift Left | Semgrep’s Tanya Janca
When it comes to securing software, most developers feel like they're playing catch-up instead of setting the rules.Tanya Janca (SheHacksPurple), author of "Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding," brings her 28 years of IT and security exper...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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48:52
How to Build AI Workflows You Can Trust | Infactory’s Brooke Hartley Moy
Is your company rushing headlong into AI, only to find it's a 'square peg in a round hole'?This week, Andrew tackles the critical issue of building trust in AI systems with Brooke Hartley Moy, CEO and co-founder of Infactory.Brook...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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43:42
Amazon Q and The Future of Autonomous Development | AWS' Adnan Ijaz
AI is evolving at a breakneck speed, leaving engineering leaders with a critical dilemma: innovate or fall behind. But how do you experiment with AI without risking your credibility? Andrew Zigler sits down with Adnan Ijaz, Director...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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42:38
Ditch the Ticket Factory Mentality | Cosmic Teacups’ Thanos Diacakis
Imagine a world where your engineering team ships features at lightning speed, and they're genuinely happy doing it. Sounds like a fantasy? It doesn't have to be. This week, we're diving into the secrets of building high-performing,...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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55:09
Will AI Finally Make TDD Practical? | Diffblue’s Animesh Mishra
The promise of Test Driven Development (or TDD) remains unfulfilled. Like many other forms of aspirational development, the practice has fallen victim to countless buzzword cycles. What if the answer is already in our toolbox?This week, ...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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46:04
Can You Buy Your Way to DevSecOps Success? | Arcjet’s David Mytton
If you're tired of hearing "shift left" in DevSecOps and seeing little real change, you're not alone.In this episode, David Mytton (CEO of ArcJet, founder of Console.dev) breaks down why traditional approaches to developer security often...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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48:40
Simplifying the AI Stack | IBM's Dr. Maryam Ashoori
This week, Andrew Zigler sits down with Dr. Maryam Ashoori, Senior Director of Product Management for watsonx at IBM. Together they discuss the evolving AI stack for enterprise and the growing skill gap challenging developers. Dr. Ashoori share...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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46:23
Why Are Teams Only Aligned During a Crisis? | CircleCI & MongoDB
This week, Ben and Andrew dive into the (surprisingly?) complex world of calculator apps, analyze how AI is revolutionizing the technical interview, and dissect the emerging “two-tier” economy around AI. What side of the curve does your org fal...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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1:19:49
Can Your AI Strategy Be Future-Proof? | Galileo’s Vikram Chatterji
Ben and Andrew open the show by dissecting why AI can't see gorillas, how big banks are stepping up to attract tech talent, and why focus is becoming the must-have resource for devs.Then, Vikram Chatterji, co-founder and CEO of Galileo, ...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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40:59
Why Teams Will Break This Year (and How to Fix Them) | Battery Venture’s Dharmesh Thakker
Live from San Francisco, Dev Interrupted explores the future of developer productivity with Ori Keren (CEO, LinearB) and Dharmesh Thakker (General Partner, Battery Ventures). The conversation, recorded before a live audience in San Francisco, e...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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1:06:25
Hunting for a Flywheel | Refactoring’s Luca Rossi
To open the show, Ben and Andrew dive into the latest headlines about DeepSeek from last week. We answer questions like “why did everyone search ‘Jevons paradox'?” and discuss strategic AI investments from financial giants like Goldman Sachs. T...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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51:38
Low-Code Won’t Replace You | Camunda’s Bernd Ruecker
Ben and Andrew open the show by discussing the emergence of the DeepSeek AI model, Google's shakeup of the SEO landscape, and speculate on whether or not we're seeing the death of free APIs.Then, Ben sits down with Bernd Ruecker, Co-Fou...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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45:30
The Need for Speed | 2025 Engineering Benchmarks
Want to ship better software? Get in the fast lane.This week, hosts Ben Lloyd Pearson and Andrew Ziegler open the episode with a discussion of some of the tech topics dominating the news cycle like Microsoft's restructuring to focus on ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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31:06
Managing Developer Feedback Effectively | Atlassian’s Andrew Boyagi
Is your company relying on surveys alone to bridge the gap between developers and managers? In this episode of Dev Interrupted, host Ben Lloyd Pearson and Dan Lines, COO of LinearB, dive into the perceived misalignment between eng...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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41:48
The Hero Culture Trap | Sowmya Subramanian
How do you build a culture that balances operational excellence with developer happiness? By shifting from firefighting to foresight.Kick off Season 5 of Dev Interrupted with hosts Ben Lloyd Pearson, Andrew Zigler, and Dan Lines as they ...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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53:58
Season 4 Finale: A Fond Farewell, What’s Next & Would You Rather
It's the end of an era on Dev Interrupted as we say farewell to host Conor Bronsdon and welcome a fresh voice, Andrew Zigler!Join us for a nostalgic trip down memory lane as Conor revisits his favorite interviews and moments from Season...
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Season 4
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Episode 50
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40:34
Developer Productivity Will Decline in 2025 | Predictions from LinearB’s Ori Keren
2025 will test every assumption about how engineering teams work.With the new year fast approaching Ori Keren, CEO of LinearB, has some bold predictions that might surprise you, like why developer productivity could actually go down in ...
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Season 4
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Episode 49
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38:26
From Rockets to Roadmaps: An Engineer's Guide to Product Success | Sift Stack’s Austin Spiegel
What’s the secret to building better products? Letting engineers drive the vision.This week, host Ben Lloyd Pearson interviews Austin Spiegel, co-founder and CTO of Sift Stack, who previously spent years leading engineering teams at Spa...
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Season 4
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Episode 48
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28:51
From Fear to Function: Rethinking Engineering Processes | Stytch’s Julianna Lamb
Most developers (ourselves included) want to run for the hills when they hear the words “engineering process.” But it turns out, the biggest danger to your team may not be having enough process.You don’t have to take our word f...
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Season 4
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Episode 47
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25:28
Are Only 20% of Devs Happy? | Stack Overflow’s Erin Yepis
This week, Dev Interrupted dives into the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, revealing a surprising statistic: only 1 in 5 developers are happy in their jobs. Stack Overflow's Senior Analyst of Market Research and Insights, Erin...
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Season 4
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Episode 46
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45:49
Making Sense of Agentic AI | ThoughtWorks Birgitta Boeckeler
There’s AI agents. There’s AI tooling. Do either drive business impact or are they just more things your dev team is supposed to stay on top of?Birgitta Boeckeler, Global Lead for AI Assisted Software Delivery at ThoughtWorks, joins the...
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Season 4
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Episode 45
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47:40
Open Source Meets AI | Red Hat's Scott McCarty
Open source has transformed software development, but can it do the same for AI?In this episode of Dev Interrupted, Conor Bronsdon talks with Scott McCarty, Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat, about the potential of open source ...
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Season 4
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Episode 44
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45:38
Back to First Principles | Productiv CTO Ashish Aggarwal
Everyone knows the era of growth at all costs is over, but where does that leave us? And specifically, where does that leave founders? The answer is straightforward: founders have to start thinking like business people. This week, ...
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Season 4
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Episode 43
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38:45
The Real Measure of Success in Platform Engineering | MassDriver CEO Cory O'Daniel
It’s time we recognize the idea of a ‘Golden Path’ is unrealistic.In this episode of Dev Interrupted, host Dan Lines is joined by Cory O'Daniel, CEO of MassDriver, to discuss Cory’s provocative article 'DevOps is Bullshit'. They cover th...
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Season 4
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Episode 42
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45:04