150: Code Reviews with On Freund

Patrick and I are always stressing the importance of code reviews and collaboration when developing.  On Freund, co-founder & CEO at Wilco, is super familiar with how code review processes can go well, or become a hinderance. In today’s episode with us, he shares his unique perspective on code reviews and maintaining high code quality!

00:00:56 Introductions

00:01:38 On’s first exposure to tech
00:06:04 Game development adventures
00:11:12 The difference between university and real-world experiences
00:17:43 A context switch question
00:24:41 Points of frustration
00:30:53 Build versus Buy complications
00:32:06 Code reviews
00:39:58 Quality of code
00:45:12 Using callouts for the right reasons
00:49:57 Code reviews can be too late sometimes
00:52:11 Using social interaction as pre-review orientation
00:57:03 How not to use code reviews
01:01:35 Where Wilco helps programmers learn
01:09:11 Working in Wilco
01:11:49 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Links:

• On Freund:
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/onfreund
• Wilco:
• Website: https://www.trywilco.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/trywilco
  
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trywilco

 
References:

• Micro-Adventure:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Adventure

 
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149: Workflow Engines with Sanjay Siddhanti

At scale, anything we build is going to involve people. Many of us have personal schedules and to-do lists, but how can we scale that to hundreds or even thousands of people? When you file a help ticket at a massive company like Google or Facebook, ever wonder how that ticket is processed? Sanjay Siddhanti, Akasa’s Director of Engineering, is no slouch when it comes to navigating massive workflow engines – and in today’s episode, he shares his experiences in bioinformatics, workflows, and more with us.

00:00:39 Workflow engine definitions

00:01:40 Introductions

00:02:24 Sanjay’s 8th grade programming experience

00:05:28 Bioinformatics

00:10:29 The academics-vs-industry dilemma

00:16:52 Small company challenges

00:18:18 Correctly identifying when to scale

00:24:04 The solution Akasa provides

00:31:38 Workflow engines in detail

00:36:02 ETL frameworks

00:45:06 The intent of integration construction

00:47:13 Delivering a platform vs delivering a solution

00:50:04 Working within US medico-legal frameworks

00:53:28 Inadvertent uses of API calls

00:55:47 Working in Akasa

00:57:09 Interning in Akasa

00:58:35 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Sanjay:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/siddhantis
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjaysiddhanti/

Akasa:

• Website: https://www.akasa.com
• Sanjay’s Q&A https://akasa.com/blog/10-questions-for-sanjay-siddhanti-director-of-engineering-at-akasa/
• Careers: https://akasa.com/careers/
• Interning: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/research-intern-ai-spring-summer-2023-at-akasa-3206403183/

References:

• Episode 33: Design Patterns:

• https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2014/05/episode-33-design-patterns.html

• The Mythical Man-Month:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

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