ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Do you feel like you're hitting a wall with your existing software projects? Are you curious to hear how other people are navigating this? You're not alone.
On the Maintainable Software Podcast, Robby speaks with seasoned practitioners who have overcome the technical and cultural problems often associated with software development.
Our guests will share stories in each episode and outline tangible, real-world approaches to software challenges. In turn, you'll uncover new ways of thinking about how to improve your software project's maintainability.
On the Maintainable Software Podcast, Robby speaks with seasoned practitioners who have overcome the technical and cultural problems often associated with software development.
Our guests will share stories in each episode and outline tangible, real-world approaches to software challenges. In turn, you'll uncover new ways of thinking about how to improve your software project's maintainability.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 17 days
Average audio length:
46 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
236 episodes
since April 15, 2019
episodic
explicit content
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~90.45% of listeners are from United States.
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Software is expensive to build, expensive to change, and expensive to keep alive. Yet organizations routinely make plans as though adding another feature or hitting an arbitrary deadline won't affect anything else. Mark Stringer joins Robby to explore why making those trade-offs visible is an essen…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
A large test suite should make developers feel safer changing software. Gabriela Moreira, CEO of Quint, has recently experienced something quite different: a new codebase grew from roughly 200 tests to 800 with the help of AI, yet she found herself trusting the suite less and manually verifying beh…
What makes software maintainable might have less to do with how clean the code looks and more to do with how well it serves the people responsible for it. Matija Šošić, co-founder and CEO of Wasp, joins Robby to talk about boring and predictable code, resisting unnecessary abstractions, and why und…
What does maintainability look like when the software you’re responsible for is a programming language? José Valim creator of Elixir and founder of Dashbit, joins Robby to talk about software that can “fit in your head,” the importance of clear boundaries, and why maintaining a language requires a …
Software maintainability is often discussed through the codebase, but users experience years of accumulated decisions through the interface. John Athayde of Meticulous joins Robby to examine maintainability from the front-end and product-design side, starting with documentation and the context it p…
Technical debt rarely arrives in a support ticket labeled “technical debt.” Customers experience something simpler: the product is slow, unreliable, or the same problem keeps coming back. Kristin Isaac, Co-Founder and CEO of Strudel, joins Robby to look at software maintainability from the customer…
Drawing from his experience at PagerDuty, Sentry, and now FusionAuth, he joins Robby to explore what happens when software becomes trusted infrastructure. Their conversation touches on API design, naming things, product management, self-hosted software, and why customers rarely upgrade as quickly a…
Machine learning systems can degrade even when the underlying code has not changed. Diana Pfeil of Sunbeam Consulting joins Robby Russell on Maintainable to explain how changing data, model behavior, and non-deterministic outputs create a different kind of maintenance challenge.
Rather than asking…
What does it take to keep a product healthy after more than 15 years of continuous evolution?
In this episode, Robby Russell talks with Chris Coyier, co-founder of CodePen, about the long game of maintaining software. Chris shares how CodePen has evolved over time, the trade-offs involved in migra…
Sally Lait joins Robby Russell on Maintainable to explore software maintainability through a different lens… not just code quality, but how teams work together over time.
Sally is a fractional technology leader and advisor with more than two decades in the industry. You can follow her on LinkedIn …
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