Episode 196: Developer Experience and Tools with Brian Holt
Brian Holt talks with us about building developer tools and developer experience, convention over configuration, what the hardest part is to get right, and how to know what users really want?
Recording date: 7/14/2022
John Papa @John_Papa
Ward Bell @WardBell
Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin
Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker
Brian Holt @Holtbt
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Resources:
- Stripe API Documentation
- Payment Gateway
- Stripe Shell
- Brian Holt classes on Front End Masters
- Figma
- Rust programming language
- Go programming language
- Stripe Multi-Language Documentation/Examples
- Payment Methods API
- What does a software Product Manager Do?
- Azure App Service
- Sarah Drasner
- Azure Developer CLI
- Brian Holt’s AZ EZ
- Frontend Masters
Timejumps
- 00:59 Guest introduction
- 02:11 What is it about developer tools that you enjoy?
- 05:19 What problems are you seeing day to day at Stripe?
- 08:24 Sponsor: Ag Grid
- 09:31 How much of developer tooling do you connect with?
- 12:44 Convention over configuration?
- 14:35 What's the hardest part to get right?
- 18:40 How do you know what users really want?
- 22:35 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
- 23:28 What's been your journey to PM role?
- 32:03 In what ways did being an engineer help you as a PM?
- 37:31 Final thoughts
Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.