What The Stack?

Andy Croll

A podcast where Andy asks his guests about the hardware, software, tools and people they rely on to build our products.

13 Episodes

The Journey from Basic Rails to a Scalable Podcast Platform with Tom Rossi
9/28/2024
26:24
Curious how a simple tool for churches and nonprofits became one of the leading podcast hosting platforms? Tom from Buzzsprout (host, and Rails World sponsor of this very podcast) takes us through the platform’s journey from its Rails 2 roots to its current infrastructure — the critical decisions that helped Buzzsprout scale, why the team chose to stay close to vanilla Rails, and how advances in the framework delivered big benefits.
Maintaining Code Quality in Large Teams and Solo Projects with Miles Woodroffe
9/27/2024
12:56
With Miles Woodroffe, CTO of Mindful Chef. He takes us through his journey from a hands-on coder to a managerial role, sharing his passion for Rails 7 and the Turbo Native framework along the way.
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Talk about Talks
1/30/2023
30:51
Recorded in December 2022.Why the hell do we do conference talks as a hobby… what is wrong with us?Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.@andycroll@vaidehijoshi
Back into People Management
1/27/2023
32:31
Recorded in October 2022, and delayed in the publishing.Vaidehi returns to a people management role after swearing off it, due to previous experience.Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.@andycroll@vaidehijoshi
Rituals
1/25/2023
27:16
Recorded in September 2022, and delayed in the publishing. Apologies for the audio quality.How we use habits and rituals to determine our work and life.Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.@andycroll@vaidehijoshi
Conferences
4/1/2022
32:56
Meeting people. In real life. Who do what you do. Post-pandemic, what does that look like?Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.@andycroll@vaidehijoshi
Ethics
3/30/2022
29:15
How do you manage ethical concerns alongside your career?Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.@andycroll@vaidehijoshi
Community
3/25/2022
32:15
What is a technical community? Why do we need it?Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.@andycroll@vaidehijoshi
Seniority
3/23/2022
29:46
What are the traits of “senior” folks? What aren’t? Can our heroes boil it down to a sentence? (No.)Vaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.@andycroll@vaidehijoshi
Career Planning
12/17/2021
34:56
Last episode of “Season One”Andy talks about narrowing down his “work happy place” and Vaidehi & he meander around trying to work out what is “good advice” to early and later career developers. And even talking about retirement and the joy of putting forms on the Internet.Penelope’s chats about the internals of Stripe on Art of Product #180 Unpacking Stripe #190 Unpacking Stripe: ContinuedVaidehi in a cupboard in Portland, USA. Andy up past bedtime in Brighton, UK.@andycroll • @vaidehijoshi

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What The Stack?

Andy Croll

13 Episodes

The Journey from Basic Rails to a Scalable Podcast Platform with Tom Rossi

Maintaining Code Quality in Large Teams and Solo Projects with Miles Woodroffe

Talk about Talks

Back into People Management

Rituals

Conferences

Ethics

Community

Seniority

Career Planning