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Malia Powers

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Malia Powers

Malia leads communications for Heavybit, a 9-month program for developer startups.

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The State of the Kotlin Programming Language in 2018

Pusher, the communications and collaboration API provider, recently released the findings of its “State of Kotlin 2018” research report. Over the past 24 months, adoption and use of the Kotlin programming language among developers has seen tremendous growth. Pusher has seen this growth firsthand, with more developers using Kotlin while building applications with the company’s […]

Jul 10, 2018 · 3 min

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Developer Trend Chat: Microservices, Node.js, Kubernetes

The role of software developers has never been more important. Developers touch almost every corner of our lives, from health care and retail to education. It’s an extremely rewarding career—so much so that software development is now ranked the Best Job in the United States. The nature of software development demands that developers be fast-moving. […]

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SlashData Report: Developers Influence Tool Selection

SlashData has just released its “State of The Developer Nation Report for Q3 2017.” Here at Heavybit, a program that helps developer and infrastructure startups take their product to market, we look forward to SlashData’s reports that allow us to keep up to date on the shifts in the developer landscape. In 2013, Stephen O’Grady […]

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JAMstack Radio Podcast: Benefits of an API-First CMS

Welcome to JAMstack Radio, a podcast that discusses the JAMstack, a new way to build fast and secure apps or websites. JAMstack Radio is hosted by Brian Douglas, Developer & Advocate at Netlify. In this episode, Brian is joined by Stefan Judis and Rouven Wessling to discuss Contentful, a developer friendly API-first CMS. They explain the benefits of […]

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5 Common Misconceptions of Serverless Technology

The rapid growth in serverless technology affords companies opportunities to save money on server costs and allows developers to save time and focus on coding rather than back-end operations. A challenge with such swift adoption is the difficulty in maintaining a standard understanding. In anticipation of the Serverless Conference, which was held last week in […]

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The Secure Developer Podcast: Continuous Security at Chef

Welcome to The Secure Developer, a podcast about security for developers, covering security tools and practices you can and should adopt into your development workflow. The Secure Developer is hosted by Guy Podjarny, CEO and co-founder of Snyk. In this episode of The Secure Developer, Guy talks with Chef CTO Adam Jacob about the role security […]

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To Be Continuous Podcast: Category Creation featuring Martin Casado

In this episode of “To Be Continuous,” Paul and Edith are joined by Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He previously was co-founder and chief technology officer at Nicira, which was acquired by VMware in 2012. While at VMware, Martin served as senior vice president and general manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit. […]

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Don’t Make Me Code: Environment Protection

Thanks for listening to “Don’t Make Me Code,” a Heavybit podcast that discusses developer experience design and the unique challenges of building developer-facing products. “Don’t Make Me Code” is hosted by Steve Boak, co-founder and CPO at Opsee, and David Dollar, co-founder and CEO at Convox. In this episode, Steve and David are joined by Sean Li, lead product […]

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To Be Continuous Podcast: Have We Forgotten How To Code?

Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about continuous delivery and software development, hosted by Heavybit members Paul Biggar, founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode, Paul and Edith discuss the fallout after the widely covered “left-pad” incident, and while they agree that these sorts of moments move the entire open source community forward, they […]

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To Be Continuous Podcast: Open Source Economics

Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about continuous delivery and software development, hosted by Heavybit members Paul Biggar, founder of CircleCI and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode of To Be Continuous, Edith and Paul are joined by Sean Byrnes, CEO of Outlier.ai, and Nadia Eghbal. The group discusses open-source economics and […]

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‘Don’t Make Me Code’: Affordances for Developers

Thanks for listening to “Don’t Make Me Code,” a Heavybit podcast that discusses developer experience design and the unique challenges of building developer-facing products. Don’t Make Me Code is hosted by Steve Boak, co-founder and CPO at Opsee, and David Dollar, co-founder and CEO at Convox. In this episode David and Steve are joined by Dustin Larimer from Keen IO. They […]

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To Be Continuous Podcast: Staging Servers Must Die

Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about continuous delivery and software development hosted by Paul Biggar, founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode, Edith and Paul discuss a blog post by Edith, in which she asserts that you should kill your staging servers so that continuous delivery can live. This podcast is brought […]

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Don’t Make Me Code Podcast: Onboarding Developers

Thanks for listening to Don’t Make Me Code, a podcast that discusses developer experience design and the unique challenges of building developer-facing products. Don’t Make Me Code is hosted by Steve Boak, co-founder and CPO at Opsee, and David Dollar, co-founder and CEO at Convox. In this episode of Don’t Make Me Code, Steve and David talk about some of the […]

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To Be Continuous Podcast: The Clash in Open Source

Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about Continuous Delivery and software development hosted by Paul Biggar, Founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this episode, Edith and Paul talk about the clash in OSS between developers looking to get paid and software companies looking for things for free. This podcast is brought to […]

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Don’t Make Me Code Podcast: A New Heavybit Series on Developer Experience

Welcome to Don’t Make Me Code, a new podcast that discusses developer experience design and the unique challenges you face when building developer facing products. Don’t Make Me Code is hosted by Steve Boak, co-founder and CPO at Opsee, and David Dollar, co-founder and CEO at Convox. This podcast is brought to you by Heavybit, a […]

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To Be Continuous Podcast: How Do You Deal with Your Data?

Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about Continuous Delivery and software development hosted by Paul Biggar, Founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk with Peter van Hardenberg about about continuous delivery in the context of organizational structure, databases and pricing. Peter is a co-founder of the Heroku Postgres product team. For more than […]

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To Be Continuous: Empathy in Software Development

Thanks for listening to To Be Continuous, a show about Continuous Delivery and software development hosted by Paul Biggar, Founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk with Sam Stokes about empathy in software development, how mini-services are the new microservices, and constantly updating software in […]

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A Year in Review: Top Developer Tools Trends in 2015

The ability to ship software quickly is now a competitive advantage for every business. As a result, continuous delivery, distributed microservices, containers and asynchronous computing have become the norm. With these changes, come new complexities, markets and dev tool players. It’s clear that the biggest levers for business success rely on developer productivity. Great developer […]

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To Be Continuous: Continuous Delivery and Mobile Development

In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk with Kevin Henrikson about about succeeding with Continuous Delivery and mobile development. This podcast is brought to you by Heavybit, a 9-month program for developer startups. Kevin is partner director of engineering at Microsoft where he manages the Outlook teams. Edith is CEO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly, […]

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To Be Continuous w/Special Guest Kris Gale: Effective Team Structure for Continuous Delivery

In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk with Kris Gale about effective team structure for continuous delivery. This podcast is brought to you by Heavybit, a 9-month program for developer startups. Kris is co-founder and CTO of Clover Health, a unique health insurance plan focused on driving down costs and producing improved […]

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To Be Continuous: Does your company have to be all in to do Continuous Delivery?

In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk about the spectrum of continuous delivery and where continuous delivery will and will not work. Edith is CEO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly, a continuous delivery tool of “feature flags as a service.” LaunchDarkly powers software teams to quickly launch, measure and control their features. […]

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To Be Continuous: The Fear of Shipping

In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk about the fear of shipping and if code is an asset. Edith is CEO and cofounder of LaunchDarkly, a continuous delivery tool of “feature flags as a service.” LaunchDarkly powers software teams to quickly launch, measure and control their features. Paul is the CEO […]

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To Be Continuous: Shipping Velocity and Team Structure

In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk about shipping velocity and it’s affect on team structure. Edith is CEO and cofounder of LaunchDarkly, a continuous delivery tool of “feature flags as a service.” LaunchDarkly powers software teams to quickly launch, measure and control their features. Paul is the CEO […]

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To Be Continuous: Evolution of Continuous Delivery

In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar discuss the evolution of continuous delivery. This podcast is brought to you by Heavybit, a 9-month program for developer startups. Edith is CEO and cofounder of LaunchDarkly, a continuous delivery tool of “feature flags as a service.” LaunchDarkly powers software teams to quickly […]

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