2019
Scalable video capture and playback plus building an international team with Oliver Friedmann of Ziggeo
Oliver Friedmann is the CTO and Co-founder of Ziggeo, an API for video recording and playback, that’s essentially like Stripe or Twilio for video. The service abstracts all of the work for developers to allow apps and websites to take advantage of video streaming and capture. Ledge and Oliver chat about the engineering challenges he […]
From whimsical consumer product to critical B2B enterprise technology with Amir Rubin of Paracosm
Amir Rubin co-founded Paracosm in 2013 with a mission to “3Dify the world.” Since then he’s led the company through a total conversion from fun, visionary consumer product to critical B2B enterprise solution. What started as an idea to 3D map the world for experiential AR turned into a technology and approach that saves enterprise […]
Soft skills, communication, and programming as a thinking activity with Trisha Gee of JetBrains
“We need to be able to talk to people. Talking to the computer is the easy part.” That’s Java developer advocate Trisha Gee at JetBrains. Trisha speaks worldwide about career development for programmers, including soft skills, communication skills, and what it means to really progress your career as a developer. In this inspiring episode, Ledge […]
Celebrating Independence the Freelancer Way with Ledge
In this July 4th bonus episode, we at Gun.io would like to celebrate the spirit of independence shared by our professional freelancers with this short audio essay from our host, Ledge. Enjoy, and happy Independence Day to you and your loved ones.
Hardware is hard; you make it happen or you don’t with Keith Nothacker of BACtrack
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 the police could test anyone for their blood alcohol level, but consumers couldn’t test themselves. So he decided to […]
What really caused that bug? with Doug Suvalle of Glassbox Digital
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 actually seeing what the user did to trigger that bug? In this episode Ledge sits down with Doug Suvalle at Glassbox […]
How do you move 50TB per day to 15,000 global engineers? with Eric Klinker of BitTorrent
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 BitTorrent Sync – a completely P2P alternative to Dropbox. As computing at the cloud is beginning to migrate back to the […]
Understanding the full business impact of your technology with Cheada Lao of Allied Administrators
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 the project context to the overall business context. That’s been the experience of Cheada Lao, EVP of Operations at Allied […]
Megascale high-performance decision engines with George Corugedo of RedPoint
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. George Corugedo is the firm’s co-founder and CTO. In this episode George sits down with Ledge to discuss how his global engineering organization created […]
The software and hardware behind parking tickets with Jim Suttles of Republic Parking Systems
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 how they know where your car was parked and for how long? Ledge being a collector of parking tickets himself had to find […]
Engineering management tips for worldwide Ops, Dev, and Leadership with Alex Newman of Institution Machines
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 entirely different types of work. Now distribute those workers around the world and imagine the complexity. Ledge sits down with Alex Newman, serial founder, engineer, […]
8 ways to build remote team culture
The days of clocking in at 9 and leaving the office at 5 are long gone in the digital working age. Many teams are spread out in different offices or can even be entirely remote. Building culture on your team is difficult no matter the dynamic, but distributed teams have a greater hurdle to jump.