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At Upbound, we have a large software development team. We wanted to be able to share with the community things we have learned about the development process. We'll share some tech specifics (we do Ruby, TypeScript/Javascript, Kotlin, Elixir, and more), but also talk a lot about mentoring, communication, hiring, planning, and the other things that make up a lot of the software development process but don't always get talked about enough. Upbound is a leading financial services company, with brands including Acima, Brigit, and Rent-a-Center.
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Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
48 minutes
English
United States
110 episodes
since Sept. 28, 2022
episodic
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Mike hosts this episode with Vivian Moore, Kyle Archer and Eddy Lopez, and Matt Hardy and Will Archer join partway through. Vivian suggested the topic: how developers keep their skills sharp when AI can write the code for them. Mike opens by asking why kids still learn long division when everyone h…
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This week on the Acima Development Podcast, Mike starts with the fall of the Roman Empire. Rome guarded its borders with largely autonomous armies. When attacks came from too many fronts at once, the empire couldn't hold them all off. Mike compares that to where software security stands today, now …
This time on the Acima Development Podcast, Mike opens with Nitinol, the nickel-titanium alloy developed at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory that can be bent far out of shape and spring back more or less indefinitely. NASA has prototyped woven Nitinol mesh wheels for future rovers, which would spare t…
On this episode of the Acima Development podcast, Mike hosts a conversation about software development life cycle methodologies, opening with the line usually attributed to Mike Tyson: everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. He illustrates it with a day from about 20 years ago in …
In this episode of the Acima Development Podcast, the team digs into what happens to engineers when the org chart shifts underneath them. The timing is deliberate: Acima recently consolidated teams and realigned around value streams, the structure recommended in Team Topologies. Mike opens with sle…
On this episode of the Acima Development Podcast, Mike opens with military surgeons as his model for triage, doctors who decide fast and accept ugly outcomes because the only goal that matters is getting the patient home. He uses that to introduce time management, and Will immediately splits the pr…
This episode of the Acima Development Podcast tackles how job seekers, especially new grads, should present themselves to employers. Mike opens with an analogy comparing modern hiring to online dating: both have shifted from relationship-based filtering to app-driven processes that strip away the c…
This episode of the Acima Development Podcast centers on organizational complexity, using NASA's root cause analysis as a jumping-off point. Mike opens by contrasting the military's rigid hierarchy with the failed free-form communes of the 1970s, arguing that both extremes reveal something about wh…
This episode of the Acima Developers Podcast continues a series on a NASA paper about engineering failures, focusing this time on decentralization of authority. The core question Dave poses is where breaking things down and simplifying goes wrong, and the group lands on a shared answer: complexity …
This Acima Development Podcast episode connects a NASA document on critical failures to the modern temptation to over-rely on AI. The hosts open with examples of reward-function failures: a reinforcement learning agent in the game Coast Runners that racked up points by endlessly circling a lagoon i…
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