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EPISODE · Sep 26, 2023 · 49 MIN

Cameron Jacoby - Am I Learning From This?

from Maintainable · host Robby Russell, Cameron Jacoby

Robby has a chat with Cameron Jacoby (she/her/hers), a Senior Full-Stack Engineer at BetterUp, a platform that uses world-class coaching and science-backed solutions that help people grow personally and professionally. The one thing that Cameron says should stand out about code being maintainable is that it should be easy to read and understand. She explains why procedural code can often be easier to communicate with and highlights the importance of having helpful data metrics for most new features one works on.Robby and Cameron also discuss real-world approaches to tracking metrics for monitoring purposes, the benefits of using feature flags, especially within internal-facing software applications, the struggles engineering teams have with maintaining a staging environment, how being on-call is one of the fastest ways to ramp up one’s debugging skills and build intuition as a software engineer, and so much more. Stay tuned!Helpful Links:Personal Website - https://www.cameronjacoby.com/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronjacoby/Stitch Fix - https://www.stitchfix.com/BetterUp - https://www.betterup.com/Subscribe to Maintainable on:Apple PodcastsOvercastSpotifyOr search "Maintainable" wherever you stream your podcasts.Keep up to date with the Maintainable Podcast by joining the newsletter. Subscribe to Maintainable on:Apple PodcastsSpotifyOr search "Maintainable" wherever you stream your podcasts.Keep up to date with the Maintainable Podcast by joining the newsletter.

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Robby has a chat with Cameron Jacoby (she/her/hers), a Senior Full-Stack Engineer at BetterUp, about software engineering topics such as why procedural code can often be easier to communicate with, the importance of having helpful data metrics for most new features one works on, real-world approaches to tracking metrics for monitoring purposes, and the benefits of using feature flags, especially within internal-facing software applications.

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