The Stack Overflow Podcast   /     WBIT #2: Memories of persistence and the state of state

Summary

On the second episode of We’ll Be In Touch, Kyle interviews his former co-worker Jon Miller, Staff Software Engineer at Polly. Jon helped plant the seed for this podcast series, and now he gets his turn in the interview chair. They cover a wide range of topics, from Jon’s entry to software engineering from user interface design, the troubles you run into by not encapsulating your business logic, and the benefits of planning asynchronously before scheduling a meeting.

Subtitle
On the second episode of We’ll Be In Touch, Kyle interviews his former co-worker Jon Miller, Staff Software Engineer at Polly. Jon helped plant the seed for this podcast series, and now he gets his turn in the interview chair. They cover a wide range
Duration
00:30:00
Publishing date
2025-01-07 05:20
Link
https://stackoverflow.blog/podcast/
Contributors
  Stack Overflow
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Enclosures
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Shownotes

Polly is an embedded insurance company, which means you buy the insurance for a car or house at the same time as you buy the car or house itself. 

 Redux is a state management library for JavaScript. 

We’ve talked about the productivity drains that meetings can have previously on the blog. 

Connect with Jon on LinkedIn