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Jul 31, 2025 · #26

Develop, deploy, operate: The three stages of delivering business value with Titus Winters from Adobe

In this episode, Rebecca talks with Titus Winters — a Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe — about his new research paper titled Develop, Deploy, Operate: A holistic model for understanding the costs and value of software development.
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Jul 22, 2025 · #25

How to hire normal engineers and help them do great work with Charity Majors from Honeycomb

In this episode, Rebecca talks with Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb, to explore engineering productivity myths and how to build systems for “normal” engineers.
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Jun 30, 2025 · #24

Growing engineering headcount in the world of AI

In this episode of Engineering Unblocked, Rebecca sits down with Allan Leinwand, Chief Technology Officer at Webflow and serial engineering leader who has scaled teams at Slack, ServiceNow, and Shopify.
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Jun 24, 2025 · #23

Navigating developer productivity at Netflix

In this episode of Engineering Unblocked, Rebecca sits down with Kathryn Koehler, Director of Developer Productivity at Netflix, to explore the unique challenges of scaling engineering at a 20-year-old company.
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Jun 11, 2025 · #22

Preserving culture and delivery speed through growth

Rebecca sits down with Julianna Lamb, co-founder and CTO of Stytch, to explore the challenges of building and scaling engineering culture at a fast-growing startup.
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Jun 4, 2025 · #21

Developer productivity drivers and detractors

In this episode, Rebecca sits down with Max Kanat-Alexander, Executive Distinguished Engineer for Developer Experience at Capital One, to explore the nuances of developer productivity and experience.
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Jan 3, 2025 · #20

The science of developer experience

In today’s episode, Rebecca chats with Kristen Foster-Marks, Head of Developer Experience at Depot. They discuss questionable “ghost engineer” research, why ethical, rigorous studies matter, and how developer experience makes a difference — even in a tough economy.
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Dec 16, 2024 · #19

The state of DORA and developer productivity

In today’s episode, Rebecca talks with Nathen Harvey who leads the DORA group at Google Cloud. Nathen shares insights from the 10th annual DORA report, covering topics like the relationship between AI adoption and software stability, the importance of transformational leadership, and the role of quality documentation.
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Sep 4, 2024 · #18

Mastering operational health at Vanta

In this episode, Rebecca talks with Iccha Sethi, the new VP of Engineering at Vanta. They discuss taking stock of an engineering organization as a new VP, how technical engineering managers need to be, and her work at Github, Atlassian, Invision, and now Vanta around operational health.