Moving beyond velocity: Measuring real business impact
In this episode of Leaders of Code, Dan Lines, cofounder and COO of LinearB; Ben Matthews, Senior Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow; and host Ben Popper talk about why velocity should be a diagnostic tool, not the primary goal of engineering teams. They also touch on the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration to align engineering with business objectives. They also discuss:AI's potential to automate repetitive tasks, allowing engineers to focus on more complex work.The challenges of scaling organizations and the importance of centralized developer experience teams to improve productivity.How non-technical staff can contribute to engineering tasks through the democratization of technology, enabling more innovation.Episode notes:Connect with Dan Lines on LinkedIn.If you're looking to improve productivity for your engineering organization, check out LinearB.
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Mastering microservices with a former Uber and Netflix architect
Orkes is a developer-first enterprise workflow orchestration platform. Explore the developer edition or dive into the docs.Before cofounding Orkes, Jeu was an architect at Uber and Netflix. Find him on LinkedIn.Shoutout to Stack Overflow user Alex Stiff, whose answer to Bash - Sort a list of strings earned them a Lifeboat badge.
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Improving on a 30-year-old hardware architecture
SambaNova makes a full-stack AI platform and an “intelligent chip” capable of running models of up to five trillion parameters, allowing developers to run state-of-the-art open source models without the time-consuming work of tuning and modeling. See what developers are building with the tech.Find Rodrigo on LinkedIn.This episode was recorded at HumanX in March. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today!
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“We’re not replacing you; we’re with you”: Where AI meets infrastructure
The Geminus platform is built to automatically integrate data, physics, and computation for autonomous control of complex systems. Explore the platform or get in touch.Find Greg on LinkedIn.
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Grab bag! On the floor at HumanX
Paul Dhaliwal is the founder and CEO of CodeConductor.Priya Joseph is the AI field CEO at DDN.Lizzie Siegle is a developer advocate at Cloudflare.Erin Mikail Staples is a developer experience engineer at Galileo. This episode was recorded at HumanX last month. Next year’s event will be April 6-9, 2026 in San Francisco. Register today!
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