Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 227 | Robert Blumen - Content Creation Mentor
Guest:
Robert Blumen talks with Dave Rael about creating audio content, career transitions, and understanding the context of failures
Robert Blumen is a DevOps engineer at Salesforce Desk.com with over 25 years of experience in software development in programming, architecture, and media production. His interests include software architecture, scalability, high availability, persistence, big data, and devops. Robert is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of California Berkeley.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Robert Blumen
- - How Robert got involved with one of the longest-running software engineering podcasts in the world, Software Engineering Radio
- - The meaning of Robert's editor role with Software Engineering Radio
- - Comparing giving a presentation to being a podcast host
- - The fit of software developers as podcast hosts
- - Qualities of good podcast guests
- - Robert on career transitions
- - Roberts thoughts on the future of podcasting
- - Selection of content for Software Engineering Radio to ensure it maintains appeal over time
- - Becoming a podcaster - motivations and considerations
- - Robert's thoughts on moving from software engineering to DevOps
- - How Robert stays current with what he needs to know
- - Robert's book recommendation
- - Robert's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Robert
Resources:
- Software Engineering Radio
- Markus Voelter
- IEEE Computer Society
- IEEE Computer Society Software Magazine
- Glassdoor
- Hot Pod
- Mad Men
- Dynamic Cuts
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master - Andrew Hunt
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - Erich Gamma
- Jeff Meyerson on Developer On Fire
- Hindsight Bias
- Software Engineering Radio Hosts Manual
Robert's book recommendation:
Robert's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Develop your writing skills
- Get enough sleep
