Unruly Software

Insights and laughs from the world of software engineering

About the show

Join hosts James and Frank for a humorous and informative podcast about the world of software and development. In each episode, we discuss the latest trends and challenges in the tech industry, sharing our own experiences and insights as software engineers. We cover a wide range of topics, including testing, best practices, microservices, monorepos, cloud computing, devops, infrastructure as code, and more. Tune in to "Unruly Software" for a fresh perspective on the world of software engineering.

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Episodes

  • Episode 134: S.O.L.I.D Snake

    December 18th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  22 mins 54 secs
    aws, clean code, code, engineering, gcp, graphql, javascript, serverless, software, solid, testing, typescript

    We're gonna fumble through our horrible memories about what is a SOLID and whether people do SOLIDs anymore.

  • Episode 133: Domain Driven Design and Other D-Words

    November 6th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  39 mins 46 secs
    aws, ddd, engineering, gcp, graphql, ioc, java, javascript, serverless, software, testing, typescript

    Frank has started learning about DDD this week. We discuss resources for learning, our experiences, and how the DDD principles we've applied have benefitted our app tremendously.

  • Episode 132: The Status of the Startup

    September 22nd, 2021  |  Season 1  |  30 mins 38 secs
    aws, engineering, gcp, graphql, javascript, serverless, software, testing, typescript
  • Episode 131: A Deep Dive Into Logging

    September 21st, 2021  |  Season 1  |  27 mins 4 secs
    aws, cloudwatch, elastic, elasticsearch, engineering, gcp, graphql, javascript, logging, monitoring, operations, serverless, software, stackdriver, testing, typescript
  • Episode 130: TEST YOUR CODE

    September 14th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  19 mins 27 secs
    aws, engineering, gcp, graphql, javascript, serverless, software, testing, typescript
  • Episode 129: Friendship with Eric Elliott OVER. Now TYPESCRIPT is my friend.

    September 2nd, 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 2 mins
    aws, azure, engineering, functional programming, gcp, graphql, javascript, serverless, software, testing, typescript

    Listen to two idiots talking crap about some 3 year old articles about
    Typescript because we're incredibly biased. Stay tuned for our official celebrity boxing match with Eric later this year.

  • Episode 128: Github Copilot Took My Job

    September 1st, 2021  |  Season 1  |  55 mins
    copilot, engineering, github, graphql, hibernate, java, javascript, orm, redux, serverless, software, tabnine, typeorm, typescript, zapatos

    No bloated ORM is safe this episode. Zapatos, react-query and other libraries are incredible and have replaced many of our old disgusting tools like Typeorm, Hibernate and Redux. We're interested in everything DX so we've given Github Copilot and Tabnine a shot and discuss how much we absolutely hate AI pair programming.

  • Episode 127: Make Serverless BORING Please

    August 20th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  58 mins 33 secs
    engineering, graphql, javascript, serverless, software, typescript

    Lockdown Special! We've made our infrastructure and deployment processes as boring and vanilla as possible. Dumping serverless/CloudFormation, adopting Yarn v2 and using vanilla typescript for our pipelines have saved us many headaches.

  • Episode 126: Pulumi Considered Harmful

    June 16th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  53 mins 46 secs
    engineering, graphql, javascript, serverless, software, typescript
  • Episode 125: Dang Cloudformation to Heck

    June 13th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  47 mins 57 secs
    engineering, graphql, javascript, serverless, software, typescript
  • Episode 124: Just Another Disappointing Junior

    June 4th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  54 mins 55 secs
    bug, code, css, engineering, graphql, javascript, junior, react, senior, senior developer, senior engineer, serverless, software, system, typescript
  • Episode 123: AWS has RUINED OUR LIVES

    May 26th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  45 mins 44 secs
    aws, engineering, gcp, graphql, javascript, serverless, software, typescript

    Lets talk about how AWS almost destroyed our company, how much we hate dealing with support and being rate limited by "intelligent" automated security systems that nobody flipping knows about ffs asdfahsfd;iahg

  • Episode 122: CSS is Pretty Good I Guess

    May 19th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  52 mins 51 secs
    engineering, graphql, javascript, serverless, software, typescript
  • Episode 121: 10x Developers Review Upwork Code

    May 12th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  50 mins 6 secs
    engineering, graphql, javascript, serverless, software, typescript
  • Episode 120: I'm Sick of Frontend

    May 5th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  33 mins 29 secs
    engineering, graphql, javascript, nodejs, serverless, software, typescript

    Today we'll discuss my distaste for frontend, the sharp nodejs library, how we've implemented our new file handling services and more before an abrupt close.

  • Episode 119: Friendship with Serverless over. Now Terraform is my friend.

    April 28th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 6 mins
    engineering, graphql, javascript, serverless, software, typescript

    This week we'll discuss our user questions from Discord, how to prioritize security issues and what makes cloudformation the greatest sin humanity has ever. Terraform, guard duty and other such things will also be discussed.

    Questions? Comments? Find out more on our site podcast.unrulysoftware.com.

    You can join our discord to chat about tech anytime directly with the hosts.