How engineering teams at a large org can move at startup speed

How the Python team is adapting the language for an AI future (Ep. 593)

In part two of their conversation, Ben and Kyle chat with Python core developer and Steering Council member Pablo Galindo Salgado about balancing consistency and new features in language design, the importance of gathering community feedback on new iterations, and why he’s focused on making Python faster.

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How engineering teams at a large org can move at startup speed

What it’s like to be on the Python Steering Council (Ep. 592)

Ben and senior software engineer Kyle Mitofsky talk with Pablo Galindo Salgado, a Python core developer and Python Steering Council member, about how he infiltrated software development from the world of physics, the journey from fixing typos to updating core, and the time he broke GitHub (an important developer milestone!).

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How engineering teams at a large org can move at startup speed

How terrifying is giving a conference talk? (Ep. 589)

Connell, a UK-based .NET developer and senior software engineer at Stack Overflow, tells the home team about his path to software development via text-based RPGs, his work on Stack Overflow’s Community Enablement team, why Agile gets so much hate, and what he’s learned giving conference talks to developers.

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How engineering teams at a large org can move at startup speed

Jamstack is evolving toward a composable web (Ep. 588)

Dana Lawson, Senior VP of Engineering at Netlify, joins Ben and Ryan to talk about her path from the military to tech, how three years at GitHub continues to shape her perspective, and how composable architecture is turning web development into something resembling LEGOsⓇ (in a good way).

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