Episode 196: Developer Experience and Tools with Brian Holt
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Recording date: 7/14/2022

John Papa @John_Papa)

Ward Bell @WardBell)

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin)

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker)

Brian Holt @Holtbt)

Brought to you by

- AG Grid)

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- IdeaBlade)

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).