Rodney Norris talks with Dave Rael about working on differing problems and with differing tech, constraints, priorities, solving the right problem, and walking up and down the levels of the tech stack
Rodney is a Frontend Software Engineer with Mesosphere. He is a full-stack developer with 15 years of experience in a variety of fields, such as manufacturing, defense, email marketing, and infrastructure software. He’s a dedicated husband and father of three. In his spare time he podcasts, blogs, and goes mountain biking.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Rodney Norris
- - Rodney's early experiences with programming
- - Moving from limited access to newer tech into modern development
- - Working in diverse technical environments and with diverse toolsets
- - Rodney on podcasting
- - Working in differing domains
- - How Rodney stays current with what he needs to know
- - Rodney's book recommendations
- - Rodney's story of failure - overarchitecting and building the wrong software right
- - Working on government projects
- - Working for differently sized organizations
- - The things that have Rodney most excited
- - The meaning of Microservices and distributed systems, and benefits and disadvantages
- - Rodney's sources of pain and suffering
- - The difficulty of getting good at testing
- - Rodney's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Rodney
Resources:
Rodney's book recommendation:
Rodney's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Cultivate empathy
- Write a journal
- Use mindfulness meditation