Rein Henrichs: The Real Work of Maintenance Happens Before You Touch the Code
Software maintenance is often framed as a technical problem. Refactoring code, fixing bugs, or upgrading dependencies. In this conversation,...
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Russ Olsen: The Hidden Cost of Forgetting Why the Code Looks Like That
Software doesn’t become hard to maintain only because the code is messy. It often becomes hard to maintain because the reasoning behind it d...
Joel Oliveira: Predictability Is a Maintainability Feature
Long-lived software systems rarely stay tidy. Over time they accumulate decisions, workarounds, and layers of history that can make even sim...
Lucas Roesler: The Fast Feedback Loop Advantage
Maintaining software over time rarely fails because of one bad decision. It fails because teams stop getting clear signals… and start guessi...
Brittany Ellich: Using AI to Maintain Software, Not Rewrite It
Rewrites are seductive. Clean slates promise clarity, speed, and “doing it right this time.” In practice, they’re often late, over budget, a...
Kent L Beck: You’re Ignoring Optionality… and Paying for It
Kent Beck: You’re Ignoring Optionality… and Paying for It In this episode of Maintainable , Robby speaks with Kent Beck , a foundational voi...
Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design
Episode Highlights [00:00:48] What Makes Software Maintainable Don explains why unnecessary complexity is the biggest barrier to maintainabi...
Chris Zetter: Building a Database to Better Understand Maintainability
Episode Summary In this conversation, Robby sits down with software engineer and author Chris Zetter to explore what building a relational d...
Denis Rechkunov: When Consistency Becomes a Culture
Maintaining consistency across a sprawling codebase is one of the hardest challenges in software engineering. Denis Rechkunov , a Principal...
Nathan Ladd: Relentless Improvement and the Cost of Neglect
Episode Notes The discussion moves into how standards evolve beyond tools, the trade-offs of monocultures vs. consensus-driven teams, and wh...
Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability
Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel and CEO of Laravel LLC, joins Robby to reflect on his 14-year journey building and maintaining one of the...
Sara Jackson: Why Resilience Is a Team Sport
Robby is joined by Sara Jackson , Senior Developer at thoughtbot , to explore the practical ways teams can foster resilience—not just in the...
Joel Chippindale: Why High-Quality Software Isn’t About Developer Skill Alone
CTO coach Joel Chippindale joins Robby to share what he's learned over two decades of building and leading software teams. Joel argues that...
Melanie Sumner: Why Continuous Accessibility Is a Strategic Advantage
Melanie Sumner: Why Continuous Accessibility Is a Strategic Advantage Melanie Sumner, Product Accessibility Lead for Design Systems at Hashi...
Joe Masilotti: Simplify Your Stack, Ship Mobile Sooner
In this episode of Maintainable , Robby speaks with Joe Masilotti , an independent consultant who helps Rails teams ship mobile apps using H...
Freedom Dumlao: What 70 Java Services Taught Me About Focus
Freedom Dumlao (CTO at Vestmark ) joins Robby to explore what it means to maintain software at scale—and why teams sometimes need to unlearn...
Mercedes Bernard: Friendly Code Welcomes Everyone In
Mercedes Bernard , Staff Software Engineer at Kit , joins Robby to talk about what it really means to write code that lasts—and who it shoul...
Evan Phoenix: The Why of the One Line
Evan Phoenix ( @evanphx ), CEO of Miren , joins Robby to explore the subtle but powerful difference between writing code that works and writ...
Chris Salvato: Building Developer Paradise by Sitting in the Problem Space
Software isn’t always about rapid iteration. Sometimes, the real challenge lies in carefully assessing the existing environment. Chris Salva...
Heimir Thor Sverrisson: Architecture First, Tech Debt Second
Heimir Thor Sverrisson joins Robby to discuss the importance of software architecture in long-term maintainability. With over four decades i...
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