Description
We created Enginears as a place to share Engineering stories and to aid knowledge sharing and discovery into how companies build their products.
Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
Description
We created Enginears as a place to share Engineering stories and to aid knowledge sharing and discovery into how companies build their products.
Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
191 episodes
Season 1


A follow on from our podcast with Picnic in 2020 discussing robotizing a warehouse and how they have scaled up to 100k orders and 1M items to choose from since their release of their automated warehouse in 2022.- How Picnic have modernised their tech stack - the trade-offs with updating technology vs. sticking with what you’ve got?- Error Prone Support open-source project: https://error-prone.picnic.tech/ - It aims to improve code quality, focussing on maintainability, consistency and avoidance of common pitfalls.- €600M investment from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and how this supercharges Picnic’s growth.- Building and launching a technology academy and integrating people into team’s with mentorship.- Our open tech roles: https://picnic.app/careers/teams/technology-and-engineering- Engineering blog: https://blog.picnic.nl/- Error Prone Support open-source project: https://error-prone.picnic.tech/Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
36min | Published on March 15, 2023


- Kicking off with the intro into methods of taking software into production previously.- What is Platform Engineering and Developer Tooling?- Help us run through the evolution of CI/CD and Monzo’s adoption- Automated testing- Automated detection/tooling. 200+ engineers in Monzo constantly releasing software every single day – a very important part of the Banking ecosystem.- Run us through the change approval board and how it’s automated;- Objective vs Subjective- Choice of programming languages to help structure software and systems.- Tooling for micro-services Suhail LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhailpatel/Monzo blog: www.monzo.com/blogDev tooling: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/m... Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
46min | Published on December 14, 2022


- Ledger’s journey since 2014 securing crypto.- Introducing Ledger Nano in 2016- “Not your keys, not your coins” and self-custody- Security and Engineering challenges in Web3- Hiring across many product and services domainsPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
42min | Published on December 14, 2022


Introduction into Developer Advocate roleUnderstanding Elastic’s product line - Enterprise Search - Observability - SecurityJourney of Elastic into an Enterprise product - Elasticsearch / practical examples - Full-text search - Querying - Tokenisers - Search as you type - Reverse querying (percolators)Observability - Request tracing - Track usage volume, and integrate anomaly detection to find patterns and trends - Log browsing and searching - Error stack traces - RUM browser and user behaviour informationPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
35min | Published on November 23, 2022


Simon Perryman joins us as an Ex-Amazonian/Twitch head of Engineering.- Discussing the challenges of hiring in the US and what to look out for.- Hiring criteria for software engineers in Amazon / Twitch- Software Engineering culture in San Francisco- A seriously competitive counter-offer of up to $500kThe company Simon's advising:https://makalive.notion.site/Join-the-team-5fe35aa33ca344e3985070d680585628Simon's LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonperryman/Simon's coaching site:https://www.sgpadvisors.one/Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
43min | Published on November 16, 2022


- The journey of building Multiverse since 2016 with Elixir.- Why Elixir is so powerful and pragmatic.- WhatsApp scaling to billions of messages with 50 engineers using Elixir.- Moving from Elm to Liveview.Chris Gregori:Website & Blog: https://www.chriis.dev/Newsletter: https://chrisgregori.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/codestirring Multiverse links: Website: https://www.multiverse.io Multiverse Jobs: https://www.multiverse.io/en-GB/careers Blog: https://blog.multiverse.ioPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
34min | Published on September 28, 2022


- Guiding us through some of Kroo’s features and how you’re enabling social banking?- Basic steps and key achievements to gaining a UK banking licence- What are the challenges for Neobanks / Digital banks in gaining a license?- What are the key technical challenges to gaining a banking license?- Can you talk us through your technical stack and why Clojure?Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
34min | Published on September 20, 2022


“Shaping the future of travel”- Help us understand what that statement really means to Duffel and the mission?- Talk us through the bureaucracy, archaic travel systems and how Duffel creates technological value for its users?- “We’re really open about what we do” – Help us understand this?- We’ve started to rebuild the infrastructure that underpins the travel industry. Layer by layer, piece by piece“ - Help us understand some of Duffel’s engineering challenges?- Why Elixir and why does it work for you?- Talk to us about your recruitment process and what you’re hiring for at the moment?Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
40min | Published on September 20, 2022


Adyen are Europe’s largest FinTech processing millions of transactions daily for the worlds most recognisable brands; Uber, Spotify, McDonalds and others.Efe joined us from the POS & Dev Enablement team to share how Adyen are passionate about being pragmatic when it comes to Engineering.By building their own on-premise infrastructure with 12 data centres they’ve managed to stay 100% in control of their availability performance.Adyen Careers:https://careers.adyen.com/career-types/techEngineering Principles:- We solve live merchant problems, before working on future features.- We design for 20x.- Think like the merchant and go meet them.- Push early, pull often.- We build frameworks when we have at least three use cases.- We are all designers, architects, coders, testers, security officers and on-call engineers.- We all make mistakes, we seek help and share as soon as we find out.- Code and test beyond the happy flow, think about failure scenarios and security.- A product is only finished when it has a face and is validated with a live customer.- You own when, where, and how your code goes live.- Your code should be understandable at 4am under stress.- We embrace new technology when it has clear benefits.Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
39min | Published on August 31, 2022


LandTech are the UK’s fastest growing PropTech company, who help offer property developers insight through their products; LandInsight, LandEnhance and LandFund, we focused on Data Engineering challenges around configuring unstructured datasets, this included -- Modelling data- Scaling datasets and the importance of platform engineering within this- Ways to keep data formatting consistentWant to see more from LandTech? Check out their website: Land.TechPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
46min | Published on August 31, 2022
Description
We created Enginears as a place to share Engineering stories and to aid knowledge sharing and discovery into how companies build their products.
Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
191 episodes
Season 1


A follow on from our podcast with Picnic in 2020 discussing robotizing a warehouse and how they have scaled up to 100k orders and 1M items to choose from since their release of their automated warehouse in 2022.- How Picnic have modernised their tech stack - the trade-offs with updating technology vs. sticking with what you’ve got?- Error Prone Support open-source project: https://error-prone.picnic.tech/ - It aims to improve code quality, focussing on maintainability, consistency and avoidance of common pitfalls.- €600M investment from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and how this supercharges Picnic’s growth.- Building and launching a technology academy and integrating people into team’s with mentorship.- Our open tech roles: https://picnic.app/careers/teams/technology-and-engineering- Engineering blog: https://blog.picnic.nl/- Error Prone Support open-source project: https://error-prone.picnic.tech/Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
36min | Published on March 15, 2023


- Kicking off with the intro into methods of taking software into production previously.- What is Platform Engineering and Developer Tooling?- Help us run through the evolution of CI/CD and Monzo’s adoption- Automated testing- Automated detection/tooling. 200+ engineers in Monzo constantly releasing software every single day – a very important part of the Banking ecosystem.- Run us through the change approval board and how it’s automated;- Objective vs Subjective- Choice of programming languages to help structure software and systems.- Tooling for micro-services Suhail LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suhailpatel/Monzo blog: www.monzo.com/blogDev tooling: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/m... Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYr Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
46min | Published on December 14, 2022


- Ledger’s journey since 2014 securing crypto.- Introducing Ledger Nano in 2016- “Not your keys, not your coins” and self-custody- Security and Engineering challenges in Web3- Hiring across many product and services domainsPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
42min | Published on December 14, 2022


Introduction into Developer Advocate roleUnderstanding Elastic’s product line - Enterprise Search - Observability - SecurityJourney of Elastic into an Enterprise product - Elasticsearch / practical examples - Full-text search - Querying - Tokenisers - Search as you type - Reverse querying (percolators)Observability - Request tracing - Track usage volume, and integrate anomaly detection to find patterns and trends - Log browsing and searching - Error stack traces - RUM browser and user behaviour informationPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
35min | Published on November 23, 2022


Simon Perryman joins us as an Ex-Amazonian/Twitch head of Engineering.- Discussing the challenges of hiring in the US and what to look out for.- Hiring criteria for software engineers in Amazon / Twitch- Software Engineering culture in San Francisco- A seriously competitive counter-offer of up to $500kThe company Simon's advising:https://makalive.notion.site/Join-the-team-5fe35aa33ca344e3985070d680585628Simon's LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonperryman/Simon's coaching site:https://www.sgpadvisors.one/Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
43min | Published on November 16, 2022


- The journey of building Multiverse since 2016 with Elixir.- Why Elixir is so powerful and pragmatic.- WhatsApp scaling to billions of messages with 50 engineers using Elixir.- Moving from Elm to Liveview.Chris Gregori:Website & Blog: https://www.chriis.dev/Newsletter: https://chrisgregori.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/codestirring Multiverse links: Website: https://www.multiverse.io Multiverse Jobs: https://www.multiverse.io/en-GB/careers Blog: https://blog.multiverse.ioPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
34min | Published on September 28, 2022


- Guiding us through some of Kroo’s features and how you’re enabling social banking?- Basic steps and key achievements to gaining a UK banking licence- What are the challenges for Neobanks / Digital banks in gaining a license?- What are the key technical challenges to gaining a banking license?- Can you talk us through your technical stack and why Clojure?Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
34min | Published on September 20, 2022


“Shaping the future of travel”- Help us understand what that statement really means to Duffel and the mission?- Talk us through the bureaucracy, archaic travel systems and how Duffel creates technological value for its users?- “We’re really open about what we do” – Help us understand this?- We’ve started to rebuild the infrastructure that underpins the travel industry. Layer by layer, piece by piece“ - Help us understand some of Duffel’s engineering challenges?- Why Elixir and why does it work for you?- Talk to us about your recruitment process and what you’re hiring for at the moment?Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
40min | Published on September 20, 2022


Adyen are Europe’s largest FinTech processing millions of transactions daily for the worlds most recognisable brands; Uber, Spotify, McDonalds and others.Efe joined us from the POS & Dev Enablement team to share how Adyen are passionate about being pragmatic when it comes to Engineering.By building their own on-premise infrastructure with 12 data centres they’ve managed to stay 100% in control of their availability performance.Adyen Careers:https://careers.adyen.com/career-types/techEngineering Principles:- We solve live merchant problems, before working on future features.- We design for 20x.- Think like the merchant and go meet them.- Push early, pull often.- We build frameworks when we have at least three use cases.- We are all designers, architects, coders, testers, security officers and on-call engineers.- We all make mistakes, we seek help and share as soon as we find out.- Code and test beyond the happy flow, think about failure scenarios and security.- A product is only finished when it has a face and is validated with a live customer.- You own when, where, and how your code goes live.- Your code should be understandable at 4am under stress.- We embrace new technology when it has clear benefits.Prefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
39min | Published on August 31, 2022


LandTech are the UK’s fastest growing PropTech company, who help offer property developers insight through their products; LandInsight, LandEnhance and LandFund, we focused on Data Engineering challenges around configuring unstructured datasets, this included -- Modelling data- Scaling datasets and the importance of platform engineering within this- Ways to keep data formatting consistentWant to see more from LandTech? Check out their website: Land.TechPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dCMPRb You can also find us on Twitter at: http://bit.ly/36cTJYrPrefer to watch your podcasts? Check us out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EnginearsioEdited by: hunterdigital.co.uk Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
46min | Published on August 31, 2022