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The Hangar DX podcast focuses on stories from software engineering teams about developer experience and how engineering leaders solve productivity challenges at scale.
AI Engineering is Just Systems Engineering
VP of Platform and Engineering at 1Password talks talks about what 85% AI adoption looks like in practice and how upfront planning and system design unlocked a four-hour monolith refactor.
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Wayne Duso
VP of Platform and Infrastructure
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Steve Pereira, ‘the Value Stream Guy’ discusses how value stream thinking applies to the age of AI-assisted engineering, and how to think about context switching and flow state when AI makes task-switching cheaper than ever.
AIMar 26, 202632 minWatchHow Honeycomb Is 2Xing Its Engineers with AI
Emily Nakashima shares why engineering managers should become technical, explains their internal mandate to 2x engineers with AI why productivity metrics are the wrong thing to measure, and why observability has never mattered more in a world of non-deterministic AI-generated code.
AIMar 12, 202641 minWatchScaling AI Adoption Across Engineering Teams with Ryan J. Salva
Google and GitHub dev tools veteran explains why most teams are stuck between stage 3 and 4 of autonomous engineering and what it takes in terms of culture and tech to get unstuck.
Engineering LeadershipFeb 26, 2026WatchHow Merge Queues Keep Main Green at Scale
Build engineer with 26 years of experience shares how merge queues prevent broken builds at scale, why engineers resist merge queues but shouldn't, and why adopting one is like wearing a seatbelt: a small inconvenience that protects everyone.
AIFeb 12, 202637 minWatchEngineering Discipline in the AI Era with Dave Farley
Author of Continuous Delivery and Modern Software Engineering shares why AI is a bigger shift than Agile or the internet, how it reshapes programming into specification and verification, and why engineering discipline matters more than ever.
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