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Despite the hype surrounding virtual assistants like Alexa or Google Home, a fully digital home isn’t a reality quite yet. But can we prepare our homes for the future, to avoid tearing down walls later? How can we invest in home technology without worrying it will be obsolete in two years? Ben Wiliams, Technical Director […]

Software engineer or engineering leader? What’s the difference and where do you fit? Corey Nichols began his career in the tech industry as a software engineer. He anticipated working on “hands-on technical aspects of software engineering,” but instead, coordinated different teams and encouraged his developers to continue learning and improve the “quality of code” they […]

When Kent Dickson founded Yonomi just over five years ago, smart devices were still an obscure concept. But the likes of Alexa and Google Assistant helped change that, and now Yonomi is playing a major role in crafting cloud-based solutions for the smart homes of the future. Yonomi’s vision was to help make life in […]

As data science becomes increasingly important for business, hybrid science and engineering teams are a necessity, but managing these distinct types of experts for maximum collaboration is a compelling challenge. How can mixed teams maximize performance? In this episode Ledge sits down with Wickus Martin, Director of Machine Learning Engine ering and Data Science at Dstillery, […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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.

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 […]

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? 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 […]

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 […]