The FOSSA Engineering Podcast: Recent Episodes
FOSSA Engineering Team
The engineering minds behind FOSSA's open source management platform discuss the latest news, trends, and learnings in software development.
- Introductions
- How engineering figures out what to build when there’s no product manager: 2:00
- Product management at smaller companies vs. larger companies: 4:35
- Product management - engineering collaboration (and areas of friction) for midsize companies: 15:50
- Growth vs. customer retention during the start-up phase: 20:50
- How engineering-product management collaboration evolves during company growth: 26:30
- Ticketing and why (and when) it’s necessary and valuable: 28:40
- How accountability changes as companies grow: 33:05
- Product management tools (and how needs change depending on company stage): 39:30
- Whether startups should focus on agile methodologies: 47:19
Introductions
Evolution of project management at FOSSA: 1:16
Project management in the pre-agile era: 9:54
Scaling and managing multiple teams: 14:08
Gauging engineering organization success: 24:21
Delegating and planning work: 30:29
Scaling teams and roles: 38:15
- Introductions
- Problems customers are trying to solve with SCA tools like FOSSA: 2:21
- Considerations for evaluating SBOM tools: 7:58
- Seasoned SCA users vs first-time SCA users: 14:10
- How organizations can ensure smooth integration/rollout of SCA: 22:38
- What companies should expect during an evaluation/POC of an SCA tool: 26:33
- Best practices when transitioning from POC to a full rollout:33:19
- SCA tooling trends to know: 37:42
- Final thoughts and takeaways: 45:50
- Introductions
- Building the first customer success team: 1:34
- Structuring your customer success team: 5:24
- FOSSA’s approach to customer success: 7:47
- Reflecting on early-stage customer success decisions: 10:18
- Setting customer expectations: 13:09
- Measuring success: 14:08
- Developing processes: 16:26
- Defining success: 19:23
- NPS scores: 22:13
- Gauging customer happiness with your product: 24:25
- Increasing collaboration: 28:27
- Final thoughts and takeaways: 31:39
- Introductions
- Single-page applications vs. multi-page applications: 3:40
- Language choices and diversity: 8:59
- Picking databases: 11:54
- Whether (and how) to use ORMs: 13:38
- How to think about rewrites: 17:45
- Preparing for on-prem environments: 21:06
- Linting in types: 26:12
- Approaches to creating documentation: 31:11
- Considerations for refactoring: 36:35
- The sprint process: 42:34
- Final thoughts and takeaways: 49:45
Visit our website for more information about FOSSA and how we help organizations manage open source license compliance and security.
- Introductions
- Why FOSSA adopted Haskell (and why we switched from Golang): 2:30
- Why Haskell isn’t hard to learn — with caveats: 10:15
- The many positives of Haskell’s type system: 19:40
- Effect tracking in Haskell — what it is and why we love it: 23:15
- Pros and cons of Haskell for developers: 29:55
- Bigger-picture pros and cons of Haskell for less technical decision-makers (like the ability to hire Haskell-savvy developers): 34:00
Visit our website for more information about FOSSA and how we help organizations manage open source license compliance and security.