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This episode is a panel discussion from the microservices track QCon Plus, held in May 2021. Track host Nicki Watt asks "What have we learned over the last decade of microservices." The panelists included Chris Richardson, James Lewis, and Katie Gamanji. The discussion started with looking at how the meaning of "microservices architecture" has evolved over the past ten years. There were some great insights about how successfully developing, deploying, and maintaining software depends as much or more on cultural and environmental factors, than simply adopting microservices and all the tools and technology that now exist.

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What Have We Learned Over the Last Decade of Microservices?

Greylock Talent Partner Dan Portillo sits down with Twitter Head of Revenue Engineering Wade Chambers to discuss the art and science of managing technical teams. Wade shares personal insight into his development as a leader, and shares frameworks for structuring productive meetings, providing feedback, and optimizing for a high functioning organization.

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Demand for designers is higher than ever. Great products — the outcome of thoughtful design — are a result of stellar user experience. As design becomes a higher priority for startups, we are seeing a fundamental shift in how designers work. In this episode of Greymatter, John Lilly of Greylock catches up with Figma CEO and co-founder Dylan Field to talk about how he got started as a entrepreneur, the Figma product, and the shift they’re seeing in the design space.

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In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Alex Qin following on from her QCon London talk “Shaving My Head Made Me A Better Programmer”.

Why listen to this podcast:

- Casual discrimination and unconscious bias is rife in society, and very prevalent in tech
 - The need to have many more people in the field who don’t fit the preconceived mould of a programmer
 - The complexity of the overall system means we need to tackle discrimination at many levels in many different aspects
 - One person can make a difference
 - Call things out when you see things that are wrong – speak up, show up and shield those who can’t shield themselves

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Alex Qin on Leveraging Technology to Create Positive Social Change

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Patrick Kua from ThoughtWorks on growing technical leadership and evolutionary architecture

Why listen to this podcast:

 - There is a significant gap in technical leadership capability in teams and across the industry as a whole
 - Your experience as a developer doesn’t prepare you for a tech lead roleRecognize that the skills and responsibilities are very different and find ways to build the new skills – training, mentoring and support
 - Software will continue to be changed so it is important to build it for changeability from the beginning
 - Many of the big decisions which are made at the beginning of a product’s life will change over time, build the ability to change into the core architectural design

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Patrick Kua on Growing Technical Leadership and Evolutionary Architecture

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Rebecca Parsons, CTO of ThoughtWorks, about their recent report on the need for Courageous Leadership and her forthcoming book on Evolutionary Architecture.

Why listen to this podcast:
- Courageous leadership enables organisations to solve enterprise-scale problems while still allowing empowered development teams to produce software in an agile fashion
- The importance of making the link between technology advances and what they could mean for a business organisation, rather than seeing them in isolation
- If your metric is how many experiments succeed then you will not take enough risks – turn this around and celebrate the learning from failed experiments
- The need to truly put the customer at the centre our focus, understand the kind of relationship we want with customers and how we want to interact with them
- Create an environment where people are recognised and valued for their varied perspectives and recognise that good ideas can come from many different places
- Evolutionary architecture is based on the idea that things are changing so rapidly now that you can’t predict what changes will be needed in the future
- Innovations around databases, architecture and continuous delivery enable evolutionary architecture to be a real thing today

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ThoughtWorks' CTO Rebecca Parsons on Courageous Leadership and Evolutionary Architecture

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