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The Problem: A dropout, a CS graduate, and an MBA walk into a bar...While this sounds like a setup for a supremely cringe joke, it gives us three different perspectives on a big question: are Computer Science degrees important for success in t
The Problem: There are no silver bullets, but there is a cheat code.Today, let's talk about career progression, from the perspective of three engineering managers. What it means to advance when there are different tracks to explore, what it ta
The Problem: The pain of receiving a letter (in German).We often feel stressed, or hear others saying they feel stressed. But what is stress, really? And how could it ever possibly be a good thing? This episode we give some tips on dealing wi
The Problem: Forever wading through the thick, viscous soup of power differentials.Every company claims to want a strong feedback culture. But what does that even mean? What's so desirable about it, and what are you missing that's preventing y
The Problem: What is this product thing, anyway?Some battles are old as time itself. Godzilla vs. Kong. Man vs. Food. Tabs vs. Spaces.And Product vs. Tech, it seems as well. But why do we so often find a rift there? Surely we're working towar
The Problem: Your security is our highest priority. Well, one of them. After our next funding round, the next seven sprints' worth of features, the company summer party, and restocking the vending machine.You refresh the app for the hundredth
The Problem: Warnar's Hacky One-Liners. They're always the problem.Technical Debt. Every company has it, some more than others. But why is that - are some companies better at tackling it, do they not create it at first, or a combination of the
The Problem: The last 72% of your book may as well be blank pages.We're coming into 2022 swinging for the fences! This episode we talk about the paradox of authority. Does your job title of Big Fancy Bossman actually enable you to get your way
The problem: We broke Warnar.complexity/kəmˈplɛksət̮i/ nounthe state of being formed of many parts; the state of being difficult to understandIt seems to be commonly-held in some circles that tools like Kubernetes bring with them a lot of c
The Problem: Tempo is really good, you guys.https://i.imgur.com/yVtUMKb.png
The Problem: There were Legitimate Business Reasons, but we regret everything anyway.With a title like this one, how can we not make it to the top of Hacker News?This episode we discuss all the reasons you might not want to go down the Micros
The problem: Turns out drunk babies aren't funny.It's time for a break. We've focussed too hard, over the last dozen episodes, on bringing you top quality content related to engineering management, organisational culture, and whatever the thir
The problem: FAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG.The stars have been gone billions of years now. Black holes burnt out. All but one, where the last dregs of civilization fought over the last dregs of Hawking radiation, before that black hole too ran its course.
The Problem: It's never the API gateway (until it is).Your monitoring is on point, you have a symfony of alerts with appropriate priority levels, runbooks are written and up-to-date, and your services autoscale like an absolute mother hubbard.
The Problem: You may only know a single tcpdump command, but you're sure as hell going to use it.We're trying something new this week - it's a two-parter! We decided to live up to our name and talk about critical incident response procedures.
The Problem: You can't restart PHP if it's not installed.If you're the kind of person who can't stand the clackety-clack of mechanical keyboards, then we're probably not the colleagues for you.clackety-clackety-clackAfter making clicky noise
The Problem: You may be a fancy pants Junior Senior SRE Engineer, but Google Sheets is probably Skynet.Job titles probably aren't important, except that they are. This episode, we wrap our heads around exactly why that is, both from your own p
The Problem: It's 3AM, your Hue lights are going berzerk, and a shark has eaten your Youtube.This week, we get deep into knowledge silos. How do you know if you have - or are - one? Is information trapped in heads somewhere? Where's the duct-t
The Problem: The right tool for the wrong job.Tonight on the Critical Channel, we're joined by Warnar Boekkooi for the incredible Code Review Extravaganza! Ready to be amazed? Come one, come all, for an evening of wonder and fantasy, exotic s
The Problem: Co-ordinating huge migrations is painful. This week on the Critical Channel: Ítalo wants a tiny house. Kieran wants a $13 AliExpress screwdriver set and free conference t-shirts. Max wants more migrations. Pedro is not completely
The Problem: Instant gratification is the mind-killer.Getting burnt out is the worst. We get vulnerable, share our burnout war stories, as well as tips for how to recognise when you're approaching the point of no return, and how to protect you
The Problem: Podcasting is easy when you don't mean to do it.This time, we decide it's a good idea to be kind, rewind, and introduce the idea of the show, getting incredibly meta and podcasting about podcasting, before discussing security, com
The Problem: We have no idea how Formula 1 works (but it sure is fun to watch).We hit the ground running in this inaugural epsiode, discussing where the boundary in terms of responsibilities lies between developers and operations. How much sho
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