Frontier Podcast by Gun.io
After over a decade of working with highly skilled developers and businesses of all sizes, we've discovered that there is some pretty good advice just waiting to be shared. We've also learned that learning is something we just can't get enough of. This season of the Frontier Podcast, we'll be talking to experts from every walk of the technical life, while also taking a peek into the tech history that has gotten the world to where it is today.
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- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 307
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2024
Hardware is hard; you make it happen or you don’t
Keith Nothacker, Founder and CEO of BACtrack, even in college knew that he wanted to be an entrepreneur. When he was looking for something -- anything -- to sell online, he decided it was crazy that …
What really caused that bug?
Software and DevOps engineers spend a great deal of time in logs, analyzing what's happened, and trying to surmise why it's happened. APM software gets us part of the way there, but what about actual…
How do you move 50TB per day to 15,000 global engineers?
How do you move 50TB per day to 15,000 global engineers? Eric Klinker knows.
He’s the Founder and CEO of Resilio, and former CEO of BitTorrent. Resilio is a vastly enhanced enterprise version of BitTo…
Understanding the full business impact of your technology
When you reach an executive position, you need to understand all of the functions of the business. That’s especially true when you grow out of a purely technical role. Your view needs to expand from …
Megascale high-performance decision engines
If you’re shopping online for pretty much anything, there’s a very good chance the pages you’re looking at are being dynamically generated based on A/B testing and automation powered by RedPoint.
Geor…
The software and hardware behind parking tickets
If we’ve learned anything at the Frontier, it’s that interesting technology stories can be found anywhere… even in that parking ticket you got last month that you’re still cursing over. Ever wonder h…
Engineering management tips for worldwide Ops, Dev, and Leadership
Scaling an engineering organization is challenging enough when you’re colocated, and when your whole team is developers. What happens when you also introduce data science and 24/7 SRE? That’s three e…
DevRel and community building for authentic relationships
Communities are people who not only share common principles, but who also develop and share practices that help individuals in the group thrive. DevRel means building communities for technical audien…
Adopting enterprise risk management to conserve capital
APIs, microservices, connections to external systems, integration with legacy systems… the list of software complexities gets longer and longer.
In this episode Ledge is joined by global enterprise IT…
How to manage hybrid remote/colocated teams
In this episode, Ledge sits down with Greg Starling, a full stack e-commerce and mobility expert with broad experience in the CTO seat. Ledge and Greg talk through his advice for staying on the right…
Scaling a team to support every stack
John Isdell is the Director of Platform Engineering at Red Ventures. You may not know of Red Ventures by name, but you’re virtually guaranteed to have been on one of their sites like BankRate.com, Re…
Strategic acquisitions to enhance your company’s value
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Author Interview)
There's a saying that people don't leave companies, they leave managers. Management is a key part of any organization, yet the discipline is often self-taught and unstructured. Management can make th…
Hiring a dev team when you're non-technical
AI for everyone, AI ethics, and problem solving
Yoav Rubin is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Azure AI. Previous to that he was a Research Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM Research. He’s a published author and self descri…
Fractals! And let the scientist have the DevOps
Oksana Shmaliy, scientist turned technologist, currently leads IT Strategy and Architecture at Grange Insurance, where she led the DevOps transformation company-wide.
In this episode, Oksana and Ledge…
Agile transformation and delivering “first value”
One of the most difficult transitions an organization can make is moving from “how much will that cost?” and “how long with that take?” to “how quickly can we deliver first value?”
That’s the essence …
Look-alike audiences for B2B success
Facebook and Google pioneered lookalike audience marketing for B2C. Serial entrepreneur, and engineer-turned AI marketer, Olin Hyde, started Leadcrunch to do the same for B2B marketers, a group of bu…
AI-powered superheroes, aka “the humans in the loop”
David “Gonzo” Gonzalez is the CEO and Co-founder of Ziff.ai, a deep learning as a service platform. Ziff’s goal: Reduce the complexity required to profit from AI in an enterprise setting.
In this epis…
Product management from zero to 120 million users
How do you make application changes when you have 120 million active monthly users? Ledge sat down for an amazingly useful chat with James Colgan, Microsoft’s Sr. Product Manager for Outlook Mobile t…