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alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders

Tobias Schlottke - alphalist CTO Podcast

This podcast features interviews of CTOs and other technical leadership figures and topics range from technology (AI, blockchain, cyber, DevOps, Web Architecture, etc.) to management (e.g. scaling, structuring teams, mentoring, technical recruiting, product etc.). Guests from leading tech companies share their best practices and knowledge. The goal is to support other CTOs on their journey through tech and engineering, inspire and allow a sneak-peek into other successful companies to understand

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48:51

#32 - Charity Majors // CTO HoneyComb

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2021/08/12

I spoke with Charity Majors, CTO of HoneyComb, a prolific Twitter user, and blogger. WHO TESTS IN PRODUCTION. 😱 And is proud of it. She also shares her insight into socio-technical leadership, observability, and databases. Learn: The importance of a tight feedback loop 🔁 Why the maximum deploy time should be 15 minutes. 🕒🚀 How microservices make engineers job harder😓 Why she wants to do away with hierarchies to increase job satisfaction 😀

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#31 - Alex Solomon // CTO PagerDuty

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2021/07/29

Alex Solomon of PagerDuty is working on making the DevOps world more efficient with on-call-management, AIOps, and automating routine debugging tasks. He shares with us about: - On-Call Management: The only notifications that provide a better Work/Life Balance - How AIOps and Runbook Automation are the future of DevOps (+other trends) - Partner vs Compete: Why they became an ecosystem - How he grew his B2B Saas Startup

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#30 - Cheryl Hung //VP Ecosystem of CNCF [Cloud...

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2021/07/15

We spoke with Cheryl Hung of Cloud Native. She runs the ecosystem of over 600 members contributing to over a hundred open source projects. She also started the Cloud Native London meetup where she promotes developer advocacy and diversity. As an early adopter of kubernetes, she has a lot to share! Cheryl shared with us: - The importance of Developer Advocacy 👩‍💻 - How Edge Computing is the next frontier in Cloud Native ☁️ - Why kubernetes is not for everyone 📦and has to become easier - Why

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#29 - Matthias Jugel // Co-Founder of UBIRCH

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2021/07/01

We spoke to Matthias Jugel, the co-founder of ubirch, the company behind the 🇩🇪 German digital vaccination passes 💉His technology has generated over 30 million vaccine passes giving German their summer holidays back! And they launched in a matter of weeks! We discussed what was involved in creating digital vaccine passports that worked OFFLINE and allow movement around the EU 🇪🇺; Blockchain verification ✔️ and its applications in pharmaceuticals⚕️, car insurance 🚘and manufacturing 🏭 and

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#28 - ‪Rasmus Rothe // founder of Merantix

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2021/06/17

We spoke to Rasmus Rothe, leader in AI space- he has 5 products just based on machine learning. - What is involved in productising and commercialising a machine learning-based service 📈➡️💰 - The need for ML ops 👨‍💻 - Google Cloud vs AWS vs Azure and why he doesn’t stick to one ☁️ - AI and its applications in medical field ⚕️, autonomous driving 🚘and BI 📊 + His go-to resources for libraries, ML ops and conferences BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Fastly(http://www.fastly.com/alphalist) and Sastrify

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#27 - Eric Johnson // CTO GitLab

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2021/06/03

I had the chance to talk to Eric Johnson, the CTO of GitLab about - How to manage remote teams: async, stand-ups, onboarding, burn out, internships, compensation, and more - How Gitlab uses git for everything from Marketing to Policy - The difference between servant-leadership and situational leadership and when to use what + A message to those who think parenthood :children_crossing:might take away from their career If you loved his straight-talking ReadMe about himself, you will also

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#26 - John Romero // CEO Romero Games

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2021/05/20

This Podcast episode is DOOMed 🔥🌋😈🧟🕯👿☠👹🦹 I had the chance to talk to John Romero, the inventor of DOOM, Wolfenstein and Commander Keen and founder of id Software about * Developing games in the early 90s and how they developed DOOM in a crazy small team * Developing games in 2021 and how it’s still possible to develop games with only a single person team * The crazy amounts of money they made with DOOM 🤑💶🤑 * The crazy amounts of energy drinks they consumed * Why not he would not start

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#25 - Tim O'Reilly // Founder & CEO O'Reilly Media

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2021/05/06

Today with me in the Podcast is Tim O'Reilly, the Founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media and boy, his 1,5 million twitter followers are there for a reason! People call him "the Oracle of the Silicon Valley", he came up with the term "Web 2.0" - This man is crazy a wizard! We spoke about: * Writing as superpower! How it helps you to structure your thoughts. * How he started OSCON and great nerdy 90s * The big tectonic "Platform changes" and how the giants use "Algorithmic Rents" to silently put more

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#24 - Peter Grosskopf // Ex CTO Börse Stuttgart &...

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2021/04/29

In this episode we dive deep into the principles of Blockchain together with Peter Grosskopf who is our guest for the 2nd time. Peter recently quit his job as CTO @ Börse Stuttgart to fully focus on building a decentralized bank in the DeFi (Decentralize finance) space. We spoke about: * How does a blockchain work * Why to use blockchains * Concrete use-cases and applications * How ether works and how to get started

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#23 - Olivier Bonnet // CTO BlaBlaCar

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2021/04/08

This time I had Olivier Bonnet, the CTO of BlaBlaCar in the podcast. BlaBlaCar is the carpooling company: They own the market. They are active in 22 Countries, have 100M+ Users and acquired 12 other carpooling companies. Olivier, the CTO, joined me to talk about: * How his time at  Apple taught him to think long term * 100 million users, 12 acquisitions: The strategy behind BlaCar * The complexity of route planning 🌐 * How writing 🖊️ helps people at Bla to structure their thoughts: They are

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#22 - Frank Karlitschek // CEO NextCloud

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2021/03/25

How to make a living from Open Source? My guest Frank Karlitschek, the CEO of ☁️☁️ NextCloud ☁️☁️ the open alternative to Google Cloud and Microsofts Office 365 (!) does it for years and tells us where to start. He knows the game! **Other topics we touch?** - The 3 Ultimate tipps for open source developers/publishers How he leads his team of 50+ FTE almost fully remote - How GDPR can be seen as a chance for European entrepreneurs - How he built his company without any VC money Thanks a lot Frank

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#21 - Jason Warner // CTO GitHub

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2021/03/11

In this episode I talk to Jason Warner, Github CTO aka "the PaaS Guru". He used to work for Heroku before and explained what he's planning and executing at Github and how Github uses it's massive amount of data to go away from pure repo-hosting. Topics that stand out: * How microsoft is working out quite well for them (Careful: contains Steve Balmer rants) * How Github will revolutionize the Platform as a Service world (PaaS) * His thoughts about developer productivity and the broken idea of

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#20 - John Graham Cumming // CTO Cloudflare

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2021/02/25

This time I spoke to John Graham-Cumming, the CTO of 🌩 Cloudflare🌩, a publicly listed CDN and Edge Computing platform. Topics we touched: * His GNU Make book ;-) * How they grew to 25 BN marketcap 📈 * What he thinks about edge computing and concrete usecases for it * How COVID changed the 🥷 security world 🥷 * How they operate and maintain a global network with millions of servers Thanks a lot John for the Chat. Looking forward to see what Cloudflare comes up with next.

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#19 - Mitchell Hashimoto // CTO HashiCorp

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2021/02/11

This time I'm talking to an absolute legend: Mitchell Hashimoto, the CTO of HashiCorp the company behind a series of brilliant open source products (Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Vagrant) that are highly successfully both business wise and community wise. I would even argue that HashiCorp is the only company that manages to do that. We talk about: * The path from 7 to 1000+ employees in the last 10 years 📈📈📈 * How Mitch is still able to be a very active github user and contribute a lot of code while

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#18 - Jean-Denis Greze // Head of Engineering at Plaid

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2021/01/28

Podcast time! In this episode I'm chatting with Jean-Denis Greze, the Head of Engineering @ Plaid and former Director of Engineering at Dropbox. Plaid is a fintech Unicorn from the US that just turned down an acquisition by Visa. We spoke about: * The upcoming topic 🔒 Privacy Engineering 🔒 and how it will change our thinking * How plaid handles 1000s of connections to banks and integrates with a lot of legacy APIs just fine * His thoughts around Defi and Blockchain * How they do good business in

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#17 - Eric Bowman // SVP Engineering TomTom

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2021/01/14

This time in the podcast I have a very bright guest I admire for years: Eric Bowman, SVP Engineering at TomTom, Former VP Engineering at Zalando AND one of the developers behind the game "The Sims" 🧍‍♂️ He is a brilliant mind when it comes to tech leadership and has strong opinions on autonomy and empowerment. Topics we touched: * How 90s gaming development compares to 20s large scale tech teams * What TomTom does these days and the technical challenges in location based services & mapping these

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#16 - Tyler McMullen // CTO Fastly

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2020/12/17

This time, I have a very technical podcast on Webassembly and the new kid on the block: the Edge Cloud with Fastly's CTO Tyler McMullen, one of the leading CDNs and edge cloud companies out there. * The future of distributed computation: From Serverless to ☁️ Cloudless ☁️ * Webassembly as the new industry standard intermediate representation/micro container. And guess what? Your browser most likely already supports it! * How a CDN works internally and the challenges of building it * How he

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77:29

#15 - Jean Michel Lemieux // CTO Shopify

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2020/12/03

This time I had Jean Michel Lemieux or short JML, the CTO of 🛒 Shopify 🛒 in the podcast. Craziest fact: He took the time two days before black Friday 💥. In the podcast he also told me why. We spoke about: * His fight against crazy 👟 sneaker - sniping - bots and how Shopify keeps people in line happy with games * What it takes to run the largest Ruby on Rails (majestic ;-)) monolith on the planet * Why he does not believe in microservice architecture but still runs some services * How he keeps

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#14 - David Heinemeier Hansson // CTO Basecamp,...

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2020/11/19

In this episode I am thrilled to welcome David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of Basecamp, inventor of Ruby on Rails, founder of Hey.com, book author of books like "Remote" or "It does not have to be crazy at work". Some topics we touched: * How David Discovered the magic of Ruby 💎 * How he finds moments of deep flow in programming and racing * Why Smartwatches are a gift from hell⌚ * Why the 60 hour work week is a stupid lie * Why he would immediately quit if he was hired as CTO of Zalando 👚 * How they

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#13 Matthias Laug // CTO & Co-Founder at TIER mobility

alphalist.CTO Podcast - For CTOs and Technical Leaders ·

2020/11/05

Podcast time! This time I have the chance to talk to the judo brown belt owning CTO of the scooter& mobility startup TIER mobility Matthias Laug. Before TIER he co-founded Lieferando and boy, he's a nice guest to talk to. We spoke about: * Why he puts people over tech * What they use to run their large IoT stack * His vision of Scooters talking to each other in a huge mesh * Why he after founding Lieferando and having a large exit still started at Thoughtworks * When to not do backflips even if you

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