Developer Productivity with Utsav Shah

By most accounts, demand for software engineers exceeds supply.  Not just anyone can develop this skill set to the level required to deliver enterprise-grade production code.  For those that can, companies are incentivized to take extra measures to ensure software engineers are as productive as possible.  The pace of business is often throttled by the pace of software releases.

In today’s episode, we speak with Utsav Shah about developer productivity in the context of the monolith, CI/CD, and best practices for growing teams.

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