In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss Staff Engineer by Will Larson! Join them as they discuss what it means to have staff-level impact, how being a staff engineer differs from being a senior engineer, and more!
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Staff Engineer by Will Larson
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00:00 Intro
01:08 About the Book and Author
03:34 Thoughts on Staff Engineer
09:29 Staff Engineer Archetypes and Organizational Dynamics
23:17 What Staff Engineers Actually Do
38:57 Soft Power and Cross-Team Impact
52:42 The Reality of Staff Engineering Work
1:03:16 Hot Takes - Silicon Valley and Career Paths
1:12:50 Final Thoughts
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan are joined by Jason Fried, CEO of 37Signals and author of ReWork! Join them as Jason reflects on how to make great products, sticking to your guns, and having the courage to blaze new trails!
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ReWork by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
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00:00 Intro
01:27 Welcome to Jason Fried
01:32 About Rework and the Industry in 2010
07:43 Remote Work
16:16 What Still Resonates
31:39 Making a Dent in the Universe
40:00 Culture is a Moving Average
49:43 Business Media and Startup Culture
53:48 Book Recommendations
59:54 Resources and Closing
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the second half Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath! Join them as they discuss how to make an idea credible, the power of stories, and how to "spot" sticky ideas in the wild!
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Made To Stick
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00:00 Intro
02:30 About the Book and Authors
03:34 Initial Thoughts on Made to Stick Part 2
14:00 Credible - Building Trust Without Authority
24:26 Emotional - Making People Care
37:37 Stories - The Power of Narrative
51:45 Hot Takes and the Jared Story
56:30 Final Thoughts
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath! Join them as they discuss what it means for an idea to be "sticky," what patterns sticky ideas follow, and how this all applies to software engineering!
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Made To Stick
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00:00 Intro02:09 About the Book and Authors04:53 Initial Thoughts on Made to Stick10:22 The SUCCESS Framework17:06 Simple - Commander's Intent31:26 Unexpected - Breaking Patterns45:31 Concrete - Making Ideas Tangible1:00:18 Hot Takes, AI and the Future of Software Engineering1:15:11 Final Thoughts and Recommendations
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz, Katrina Owen, & TJ Stankus. Join them as they critique the coding philosophy, discuss the merits of OOP, and ponder how AI is shaping coding standards!
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99 Bottles of OOP
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0:00 Intro
00:53 About the Book and Authors
02:10 Initial Thoughts on 99 Bottles of OOP
10:03 Diving into the book
11:29 Shameless Green Solution
16:07 SOLID Principles Overview
21:15 Abstraction vs Simplicity Debate
38:10 Testing Philosophy and Abstractions
45:42 Object-Oriented Programming Critique
50:03 Does Any of This Matter Anymore?
1:05:43 Final Thoughts
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond. Join them as they discuss the origins of Linux, Linus's life philosophy, and Linus's legacy!
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00:00 Intro
02:08 About the Book and Author
05:06 Initial Thoughts on Just for Fun
10:33 Linus's Theory of Life: Survival, Social Order, Entertainment
17:01 Rejecting Money and Power
24:53 Humble Beginnings
42:29 Linux's Success and Predictions
55:33 Mindful vs Mindless Entertainment
01:01:54 Final Thoughts
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan finish their discussion of the DevOps Handbook with parts 5 and 6! Join them as they discuss how security practices relate to DevOps, managing security without sacrificing speed, and more!
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan are joined by Kirill Bobrov, author of Grokking Concurrency! Join them as Kirill reflects on what it was like writing a book for the first time, why concurrency interests him so much, and more!
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Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss parts 3 and 4 of The DevOps Handbook! Join them as they discuss CICD, on-call rotations, telemetry, and more!
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The DevOps Handbook
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00:00 Intro
02:01 About the Book and Authors
03:43 Initial Thoughts on The DevOps Handbook Parts 3 & 4
07:38 Deployment Pipelines
16:55 When to Implement DevOps Practices
24:40 Low-Risk Releases and Feature Flags
35:06 Telemetry and Observability
46:04 Open Telemetry and Tool Recommendations
51:57 On-Call Rotations
1:01:00 Launch Readiness Reviews
1:07:01 Final Thoughts
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan are joined by Manuel Pais, author of Team Topologies! Join them as Manuel reflects on what surprised him the most while writing the book, how the popularity of remote work has changed team organization strategies, and insights from the new second edition!
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Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
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The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss The DevOps Handbook! Join them as they discuss the origins of DevOps, how it can transform developer organizations, and whether or not it's the silver bullet the authors paint it as!
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan celebrate one year of the podcast! Join them as they reflect on what's suprised them, share some stats, and discuss which of the authors they'd most like to pair program with!
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss Thinking Like a Large Language Model by Mukund Sundararajan. Join them as they discuss the different mental models for working with AI, the art of prompt engineering, and some exciting developments in Carter's career!
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Thinking Like a Large Language Model by Mukund Sundararajan
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the final third of In The Plex by Steven Levy! Join them as they discuss Google's decision to withdraw from China, their war with book publishers, and their struggles to compete in social media!
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In The Plex by Steven Levy
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00:00 Intro
05:10 About the Book and Author
06:10 Initial Thoughts on the Book
11:27 The Real Story Behind Google Leaving China
20:44 Google's Moral Dilemmas Part 1 - DoubleClick & Lobbying
23:55 Riff: "Corporate Values" and Founder Mode
29:22 Google's Moral Dilemmas Part 2 - DoubleClick & Lobbying
37:59 Google's Book scanning project
42:56 Google vs Amazon's Different Approaches to Book Scanning
43:20 Innocent Arrogance - Street View and Privacy
46:40 Pirvacy and Surveillance Concerns
49:57 Epilogue: Chasing Taillights
55:53 Final Thoughts
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the second third of In The Plex by Steven Levy. Join them as they discuss how Google popularized the concept of cloud computing, the invention of Gmail, and more!
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In The Plex by Steven Levy
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the first third of In The Plex by Steven Levy. Join them as they discuss Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's Stanford origins, and its impact on the world at large!
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In The Plex by Steven Levy
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss ReWork by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. Join them as they each share their five favorite "proverbs" the book has to offer!
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ReWork by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
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Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrovhttps://amzn.to/4mwuAzP (paid link)
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newporthttps://amzn.to/43bW06q (paid link)
Thinking in System by Donella H. Meadowshttps://amzn.to/43xYATl (paid link)
Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhouthttps://amzn.to/43xYCdV (paid link)
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker (https://amzn.to/3F94ZfD (paid link)
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00:00 Intro
01:50 About the Book and Authors
05:00 Initial Thoughts on the Book
14:20 Top 5 Favorite Chapters Discussion
15:00 Tone is in Your Fingers - Tools vs Skills
19:00 Anti-Workaholism Philosophy
22:32 Focus on What Won't Change
27:14 Make a Dent in the Universe
33:24 Interruption is the Enemy of Productivity
39:59 Go to Sleep - The Importance of Rest
46:58 Say No by Default
51:35 Welcome Obscurity - Private Launches
56:12 Scratch Your Own Itch - Build What You Need
1:01:04 How to Say You're Sorry - Proper Apologies
1:04:42 Final Thoughts
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the second half of Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov! Join them as they discuss the mutexes, semaphores, the reactor pattern, and more!
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Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the first half of Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov! Join them as they discuss the basic building blocks of concurrency, how concurrency has evolved over time, and how building concurrent applications can increase performance!
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Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov
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Web Scalability for Startup Engineers by Artur Ejsmonthttps://amzn.to/3F1VWwF (paid link)----------------
00:00 Intro
02:07 About the Book and Author
03:35 Initial Thoughts on the Book
09:12 What is Concurrency vs Parallelism
12:35 CPUs and Moore's Law
22:19 IO Performance, Embarrassingly Parallel and Conway's Law
28:25 Building Blocks of Concurrency: Processes and Threads
33:05 Memory Sharing vs Communicating
39:13 Multitasking and Context Switching
45:24 Task Decomposition and Data Pipelines
52:35 Final Thoughts
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan take some time to debrief Georgia Tech's famously difficult Graduate Algorithms course, which Carter just passed! As alumni of the OMSCS program, Carter and Nathan discuss why they chose to pursue the degree, how the course has changed over time due to the improvements in LLMs, and how algorithmic thinking can benefit you as a software engineer!
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Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers dedicated to improving our craft by reading the best technical books in the world. Join Carter Morgan and Nathan Toups as they read and discuss a new technical book each week!
The full book schedule and links to every major podcast player can be found at https://www.bookoverflow.io
