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.
Gun.io is a global talent agency that specializes in pairing the world's best software professionals with world-class companies. Interested in getting in touch? Come check us out at Gun.io.
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- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 307
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2024
The three pillars of engineering team productivity
“How does your software development team measure performance?” -- that’s the question Dan Lines and Ori Keren set out to answer with Linear B. Ledge sits down to talk with the duo, each veteran softw…
Ethical engineering on the path to excellent systems
Liz Fong-Jones is a 15-year Site Reliability Engineer. She’s a former Google and current SRE and observability advocate for Honeycomb.io.
Liz evangelizes “Building Excellent Systems” that both look o…
Best practices from distributed team management across 30 countries
Chris Overton is the VP of Cloud Engineering at open source leader, Elastic, a globally distributed company with engineers in more than 30 countries.
Chris and Ledge discuss how supporting remote work…
How customer empathy drives better engineering performance
Ravi Sahu is the founder and CEO of Strayos, a VC-backed computer vision and deep learning company that’s improving the mining industry by using 3D aerial intelligence to reduce costs, and to improve…
Building a Recruiting Pipeline for Engineers Who Want to Win
“Engineers want to win.” says Steve Prosser, VP of Software Development at Guaranteed Rate, one of the largest retail mortgage lenders in the US, responsible for more than $20B in annual loan volume.
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AI could be your new legal assistant
Ever had to parse through an absolutely awful contract? How about a 60-page MSA from one of those big company procurement departments? One of the promises of AI is that the happy robots will start ta…
China, Huawei and the future of global technology
How will Chinese companies like Huawei affect the future of cyber security? How does our relationship with China affect the open source community and the future of AI? These are big questions for big…
Winning in a new industry with best practices from another sector
How can best practices from one industry change another industry? 25-year Technology Executive, Dave Ugan joins Ledge in the episode to deep dive into a real example: how he spent 6 years bringing UX…
Killing off unplanned work for Frictionless Development
Unplanned work blows up estimates, kills team morale, and drives down productivity, which makes it no surprise that the best agile engineering leaders target operations improvements as a core value. …
Put your DevOps through P90X
You’re one of the largest exercise brands in the world. How do you get your DevOps in shape? Ledge sits down with Bob Chen, Senior Director of Technical Operations at Beachbody to chat DevOps, deploy…
Integrity and quality in engineering, and leadership as an art
Software quality is like integrity - it’s doing the right thing even if no one is watching. That’s according to Merlin Quintin, Director QA Engineering at Redbox.
Merlin joins Ledge in this episode to…
Making yourself an indispensable engineering hire
Is recruiting engineering talent similar to courting professional athletes? That’s been our experience at Gun.io, and Steve Bayette agrees.
After traveling the world as a digital nomad, and successful…
Using a F.A.I.L. Mindset in Scaling Organizations
No stranger to screens big (very big) and small, David Shapendonk was the Direct of Technical Ops for IMAX before flexing his entrepreneurial muscles.
He's now the CTO of Maestro Games, a startup help…
We've been acquired; we're laying off your entire team
You'll hear a lot of stories on The Frontier about starting, growing, and enhancing engineering teams. In this episode, Philipp Svehla, helps us explore the other side of the coin: bringing a team to…
Separating The Noise to Simplify Multi Cloud Strategy
As companies move more and more workloads to the cloud, sometimes the number of new questions can seem to grow more quickly than the number of answers. In this episode Ledge talks to Leon Thomas, CEO…
Technical Evangelism as The Voice of Building Better Software
What exactly is "technical evangelism?" At Gitlab, it's sharing opinions on what's going on in the community as technologists -- helping each other to collectively move forward to build better, ship …
Managing Teams with The Iron Triangle of Engineering Leadership
You might have heard of the "Iron Triangle" of software development: Cost, Quality, and Speed. You can only choose two. How about the "Iron Triangle" of engineering leadership?
No, it's not a new Game…
The Engineering Magic Behind Low Code Platforms
What if digital and marketing teams could really launch amazing web apps without needing developers? That's the promise of low-code and no-code platforms. The interesting paradox is the extensive eng…
Technology for good and people-first FTW
Embracing technology to make the world a better place; that's a common theme with this podcast. Kevon Saber’s story continues to weave that fabric.
Kevon started his tech career developing mobile game…