No Fluff Just Stuff

Lyndsey Padget is a NoFluff speaker, Git Consultant and all-around Bad-ass. This week she joins us to share her expertise and journey with Git.  If you're like me, git is a tool we use but don't always understand. Lyndsey shines a light into the dark places, solves a few mysteries and shares some tips and tricks to grow our skillset.  Also mentioned - OhShitGit.com xkcd.com/1597 If you want to dive deeper into Git, don't miss Lyndsey's full-day, hands-on workshop "Master Git in a Day" an UberConfX

After a single interaction with VR, Eldon Alameda immediately recognized that this technology would be a seismic shift in our industry. He dove in head first and has been hands-on with the latest AR and VR technologies ever since. In this interview Eldon shares some exciting developments in this space and looks forward to the future and how human-computer interaction will evolve.

It seems like every time we solve one problem, it opens the door to a more complex problem. Tools like docker and Kubernetes have solved many problems, but at the cost of increased complexity and increased developer stress. To quote Mark Richards: "It used to take me four months to build, not it just takes four months to configure." Tour regular Jon Johnson weighs in about these problems, what's new in the community, and how open source tools are addressing that complexity, increasing developer productivity and decreasing developer stress. 

This week we're joined by Sean Hunter, author of Aurelia in Action. He gives us the history as well as the current state of the Aurelia framework.  Aurelia is a JavaScript client framework for web, mobile and desktop that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity. It is simple, lightweight, yet powerful.  Follow Sean on Twitter      

Kotlin is an exciting new language for the JVM from the folks at Jetbrains. Kotlin has been making waves for a couple years now in the Android space but, as a general purpose language, it is finding it's way into many projects and developers seem to love it!  For those of us who haven't been hands-on yet, Ken gives us an overview of the language, it's features, and why it's worth getting excited about! Follow Ken on Twitter Check out Ken's other publications Sign up for his newsletter And, of course, here is the "Party Keynote" from KotlinConf 2017. 

For better or worse, the industry has coalesced around the big three frameworks: Angular, React and Vue. Each framework has it's own strengths and weaknesses, and Vue has positioned itself nicely as a balance between the ultra-opinionated Angular and the laissez-faire React.  In this episode we discuss all three, why we're excited about Vue and why it won't replace Angular or React. More importantly, we discuss best practices, and how to evaluate and select the framework that's right for you. There's so much wisdom in this episode. If you're a web developer, don't miss this one!   

This week I'm joined by Esther Derby and we discuss how tech teams get so toxic and dysfunctional and what we can do about it. Esther will be speaking at a few shows this year including the Northern Virginia Software Symposium and our flagship event, Uberconf.  Esther is the co-author of Behind Closed Doors - Secrets of great management along with Johanna Rothman, Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great, and she is the author of 7 Rules for Positive Change

This week I sit with Ben Hall and Jon Johnson to discuss an incredible tool for software engineers to learn, teach, and polish their craft - Katacoda. It is interactive, hands-on learning at it's finest with zero friction. Jon has been increasingly using Katacoda to share knowledge at work, as part of his talks, and to pick up new skills in his career as a software architect.  Ben Hall is the creator and gives us insight on the history, the applications, and the future of this tool. Don't miss this week's episode!

This week developer, architect, and open source contributor David Sietz and I sit and discuss how enterprises can adopt the open source model, the challenges, the benefits, and some of the culture changes necessary. 

This week I'm joined by Rod Cope of Rogue Wave Software. The topic is multi-grain services. How to evaluate the tradeoffs and to chose the architecture that's best for you, your team, and the business goals. 

This week we look at the big shift happening in Big Data as it moves to the cloud. Dave Hendrickson shares his experience at Thomson Reuters moving to the cloud, how to evaluate cloud vendors, and what to watch out for. Don't miss this week's episode. Check out Dave's books on skills for architects here and catch all the great content for 2019 on the No Fluff Just Stuff Tour.    

This week I'm joined by Alexander Von Zietzewitz from Hello2Morrow whose stated mission is to empower software craftsmanship. We talk about how to measure code quality, and more importantly, how SonarGraph can quantify code maintainability.  Alexander brings decades of experience and wisdom and his insights can benefit any software engineer focused on building better software. 

The way we write software, our tools, and technologies have remained largely unchanged. This Week Tudor Girba demonstrates an entirely new set of tools that, in my opinion, will fundimentially change the way we read, write, and document our code. Don't miss this one!  

This week I'm joined once again by Steve Pousty (@theSteve0) and we're talking about the convergence of Big Data and Web architecture, how we're entering the golden age of distributed computing and why everyone should learn a little bit about data and analytics.  

This week we celebrate the holidays and roll into 2019 with the legendary Venkat Subramanium (@Venkat_S). In this episode Venkat shares his philosophy towards work and his approach to lifelong learning. There is no more inspiring way to ring in the new year than to spend 30 minutes with Venkat absorbing a few pearls of wisdom. Enjoy! Special thanks to hooksounds.com and Rodrigo Vicente for the special holiday music!

With the conclusion of ArchConf 2018 we've wrapped the 2018 tour. This week I sit with Neal Ford of ThoughtWorks. We talk about the trade-offs of software architecture, how to identify those, and the 19th edition of the ThoughtWorks Tech Radar. Neal co-authored "Building Evolutionary Architectures" along with Rebecca Parsons and Patrick Kua. You can learn more about some of the ideas in the book at evolutionaryarchitecture.com.

"Software Architecture is the stuff you can't google." There's no one answer.  In this episode, I interview hands-on architect, speaker and trainer,  Mark Richards. He shares some perspective on analyzing software architectures, and what it takes to continuously review and iterate on existing architectures. 

With the Thanksgiving holiday fast approaching in the United States, we've decided to change gears on the NFJS podcast, pulling back the curtain on what it's like to be a traveling speaker. In this episode, I sit with Steve Pousty, who shares his experience as a Developer Advocate. This episode is packed with advice for anyone who has ever considered speaking. Listen to the end for a special giveaway and, of course, reach out if you're interested in taking the next step and giving some tech talks yourself! Enjoy and happy holidays!

This week I get to sit with Jessica Kerr (aka jessitron) to discuss a topic developers love to hate – yak shaving. Jessica takes a different approach to Yak Shaving and sees it not as an inconvenience, but as an opportunity. Listen to learn more!   

This week I'm joined by Steve Pousty, author of Getting Started in OpenShift. In this episode he gives me some insight into what kubernetes is, why everyone is talking about it, and why we should give it a look even if we're outside of the traditional devops space.