Bitly Tech Podcast
20 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 8 years ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsA weekly conversation about life as tech folk building product. Join us each week for conversations with the Bitly tech team and friends about topics ranging from the soft and fuzzy to the latest shiny new tech.
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Episodes
20 - Mark Josephson
February 17, 2016 15:07 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBMark Josephson, Bitly's CEO, and Sean talk about focus, management, and the nitty gritty aspects of running a company.
19 - Jean Louise Manalo
February 08, 2016 11:00 - 1 day - 36.7 MBThis week Jean Louise, a Director of Customer Success at Bitly, and Sean talk about the challenges of becoming a manager and what it's like to be the main interface between customers and engineering.
18 - Kyle Purdon
January 12, 2016 13:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBKyle and Sean talk about the path from academia to industry, life in Bitly Denver, and the strange new world of deep links.
17 - Movin' On Up
September 02, 2015 10:00 - 41 minutes - 19 MBKatie, Dan, and Sean talk about the shiny new Bitly HQ and the crazy adventure that lead us here.
16 - Empire State Of Mind
August 06, 2015 15:12 - 38 minutes - 17.5 MBSarah and Sean talk about PyGotham.
15 - Charts and Graphs
July 22, 2015 16:38 - 46 minutes - 21.9 MBTravis and Sean talk about the UX design process as well as the challenges of designing for data.
14 - New Kid (On The Block)
July 14, 2015 10:00 - 37 minutes - 17.5 MBBitly's summer engineering interns, Meina, Ben, and Nathaniel talk with Sean about their projects and overall internship experience.
13 - Everybody Wants You
July 07, 2015 10:00 - 35 minutes - 17 MBSam and Sean talk about what exactly product marketing is and what it's like to work in a position that touches many different teams across the company.
12 - All By Myself
June 30, 2015 23:00 - 36 minutes - 17.3 MBJustin of BetterDiff and Sean talk about the challenges and benefits of building a product on your own vs building as part of a larger team.
11 - Danger! High Voltage
June 23, 2015 10:00 - 55 minutes - 26 MBDave and Sean talk about working with Threat Exchange and life on-call.
10 - Patterns
June 16, 2015 10:00 - 46 minutes - 21.8 MBAdelle, Kim, and Sean talk about how changes in technology have effected working as a designer.
9 - Telephone
June 02, 2015 10:00 - 41 minutes - 19.4 MBMichael and Sean talk about remote work and how life is changing with the growth of Bitly's Denver presence.
8 - Rolling in the Deep
May 26, 2015 20:57 - 38 minutes - 18.3 MBChris and Sean talk about the wild new world that is deeplinking.
7 - Changing
May 19, 2015 10:00 - 54 minutes - 25.3 MBRussell and Sean talk about the transition from writing code all day to doing code + manager type things.
6 - Glamorous
May 12, 2015 10:00 - 38 minutes - 18.2 MBDan and Sean talk about product management and the relationship between product management and engineering.
5 - Here It Goes Again
May 05, 2015 13:59 - 38 minutes - 17.9 MBvia Giphy Erin and Sean talk about React, transitioning from design to development, and designing for the web. Here are the links for tools and topics discussed: React Backbone Marionette jQuery JSX Sassify Virtual DOM ES6 CoffeeScript Browserify Grunt Notepad HUGE Pattern Libraries HighCharts D3 Pattern Lab
4 - We Didn't Start The Fire
April 28, 2015 10:00 - 38 minutes - 18 MBvia Giphy Sarah and Sean talk about how do you become a data scientist, what is data science and Spark! Links for things we talked about this week: FarmLogs HDFS Map Reduce Spark CDH Spark SQL Spark Streaming Spark MLlib Spark GraphX Spark Stand Alone Mode PyCon US Impala Hive Redshift EMR S3 Spark on EMR EMR Pricing Spot Instances NYC Python PyGotham Code PaLOUsa Gluecon
3 - Jump in the Line
April 21, 2015 20:01 - 58 minutes - 27.3 MBPeter and Sean talk about taking different paths to becoming a professional developer and concurrency.
Episode 2 - Ch-Ch-Changes
March 17, 2015 14:00 - 37 minutes - 13.8 MBvia Giphy This week Georgi and Sean talk about transitions in careers and programming languages. Hacker School Elixir The Pragmatic Programmer Bittorrent Protocol Wireshark PyGotham Joining Bitly Engineering Go GothamGo Go Channels Go Concurrencey Patterns Tornado gevent elastigo Go Error Handling ElasticSearch Spark Scala Maven Go Code Organization json2csv Code PaLOUsa Gluecon
Episode 1 - Staying Alive
March 02, 2015 22:00 - 51 minutes - 18.9 MBvia Giphy This week Dan and Sean talk about ops things: One path through life to becoming an ops lead. The importance of teamwork and egolessness when fighting fires. The awesome old world of big iron. The fun but scary new world of Google/Facebook/AWS style systems. Automation fun.