Amy Tom talks to Yoz Grahame, a Solutions Architect at LaunchDarkly about feature flags. π΄ Yoz has worn many hats in his tech career - from programming to movie production to developer advocacy - he seems like he's done it all! Yoz talks about his career...
Amy Tom talks to Yoz Grahame, a Solutions Architect at LaunchDarkly about feature flags. π΄ Yoz has worn many hats in his tech career - from programming to movie production to developer advocacy - he seems like he's done it all! Yoz talks about his career and how he ended up at LaunchDarkly. Amy gets curious about feature flags and how they work. π€
In this episode of The Hacker Noon Podcast:
- Yoz says that as you become a more experienced engineer, you realize that it is your ability to communicate with others that is important π£ (5:40)
- Yoz took an interest in tech at 5 or 6 years old and learned basic programming on a Sinclair ZX80 (09:15)
- Yoz talks about how he worked on The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy in the late '90s π (12:39)
- Amy asks if Yoz has suffered from switching projects too many times and gets his thoughts on corporate loyalty (16:20)
- Sooooo Amy wants to know Yoz's process for evaluating project opportunities π€ (21:14)
- What's tech scene like in London? (27:30)
- Amy attempts to explain feature flags - it actually goes pretty well π (30:30)
- Yoz talks about the idea of testing in production (36:28)
- Is there a situation where feature flags don't make sense? β³οΈ (41:10)
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