619: Inside Modern Software Engineering with Homebrew’s Mike McQuaid

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Aug 20, 202650:33Technology

Sami is back this week with Mike McQuaid, CTPO and Homebrew Project Leader, as they take a deep dive into the importance of open source maintainers in modern software engineering. With 18 years of experience reducing dev...

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