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Do you feel like you're hitting a wall with your existing software projects? Are you curious to hear how other people are navigating this? You're not alone. On the Maintainable Software Podcast, Robby speaks with seasoned practitioners who have overcome the technical and cultural problems often associated with software development. Our guests will share stories in each episode and outline tangible, real-world approaches to software challenges. In turn, you'll uncover new ways of thinking about how to improve your software project's maintainability.

Russ Olsen: The Hidden Cost of Forgetting Why the Code Looks Like That

54 mins; March 31, 2026

Joel Oliveira: Predictability Is a Maintainability Feature

61 hours 4 mins; March 17, 2026

Lucas Roesler: The Fast Feedback Loop Advantage

54 mins; February 03, 2026

Brittany Ellich: Using AI to Maintain Software, Not Rewrite It

60 hours 36 mins; January 21, 2026

Kent L Beck: You’re Ignoring Optionality… and Paying for It

49 mins; December 09, 2025

Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design

50 mins; December 02, 2025

Chris Zetter: Building a Database to Better Understand Maintainability

49 mins; November 18, 2025

Denis Rechkunov: When Consistency Becomes a Culture

66 hours 58 mins; October 28, 2025

Nathan Ladd: Relentless Improvement and the Cost of Neglect

54 mins; October 14, 2025

Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability

55 mins; August 26, 2025

Sara Jackson: Why Resilience Is a Team Sport

53 mins; July 22, 2025

Joel Chippindale: Why High-Quality Software Isn’t About Developer Skill Alone

56 mins; July 01, 2025

Melanie Sumner: Why Continuous Accessibility Is a Strategic Advantage

49 mins; June 10, 2025

Joe Masilotti: Simplify Your Stack, Ship Mobile Sooner

55 mins; May 20, 2025

Freedom Dumlao: What 70 Java Services Taught Me About Focus

63 hours 19 mins; April 22, 2025

Mercedes Bernard: Friendly Code Welcomes Everyone In

49 mins; April 08, 2025

Evan Phoenix: The Why of the One Line

69 hours 13 mins; April 01, 2025

Chris Salvato: Building Developer Paradise by Sitting in the Problem Space

46 mins; March 25, 2025

Heimir Thor Sverrisson: Architecture First, Tech Debt Second

40 mins; March 18, 2025

Noémi Ványi: Only Fix Problems That Are Actually Problems

42 mins; March 11, 2025

Julia López: Code Tells a Story—Even the White Spaces

50 mins; February 25, 2025

Marty Haught: Rethinking Technical Debt—Is It Really Just Drift?

52 mins; February 18, 2025

Mike Bowers - From ISAM to JSON—Navigating 40+ Years of Database Evolution

44 mins; February 11, 2025

Lorna Mitchell: Writing Documentation Engineers Will Actually Read

43 mins; January 28, 2025

Carola Lilienthal: Tackling Technical Debt with Patterns and Domain Knowledge

43 mins; January 21, 2025

Joel Hawksley: The Hidden Costs of Frontend Complexity

46 mins; January 14, 2025

Austin Story: Making Software Easier to Change, Remove, and Evolve

47 mins; December 10, 2024

Dan Moore: Building Developer-Friendly Authentication Solutions

49 mins; December 03, 2024

Tom Johnson: From Auto-Documentation to Better Collaboration

43 mins; November 26, 2024

Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek: Maintaining Postgres for Modern Workloads

38 mins; November 19, 2024

Justine Gehring: Refactoring Software at Scale with AI

48 mins; November 12, 2024

Katerina Skroumpelou: Bridging Engineering and Advocacy for Scalable Software

36 mins; November 05, 2024

Moriel Schottlender: The Challenges of Modernizing MediaWiki's Monolith

46 mins; October 22, 2024

Kate Holterhoff: From Front-End Engineering to Developer Advocacy

51 mins; October 15, 2024

Alan Ridlehoover: Building Robust Systems Through Behavior-Centric Testing

48 mins; October 08, 2024

April Wensel: Navigating Legacy Code with Compassion

52 mins; October 01, 2024

Saron Yitbarek: The Balance Between Maintainable Code and Multiple Streams of Income

41 mins; September 24, 2024

Lutz Hühnken: Crafting Resilient Systems with Event-Driven Design

44 mins; September 10, 2024

Noel Rappin: Reviving the Pickaxe— A Journey through Ruby's Legacy

43 mins; September 03, 2024

Cassidy Williams: Navigating the Career Jungle Gym in Tech

43 mins; August 27, 2024

Obie Fernandez: Pioneering AI in Ruby on Rails Development

44 mins; August 20, 2024

Tekin Süleyman: Balancing Complexity and Team Size

42 mins; August 13, 2024

Ryosuke Iwanaga: The Benefits of Cell-Based Architecture

42 mins; August 08, 2024

Julia Ferraioli - Capturing Untold Open Source Stories

47 mins; July 30, 2024

Tanmai Gopal: Unlocking the Potential of Unified APIs

44 mins; July 23, 2024

James Socol: Building Social Capital in Engineering Teams

44 mins; July 16, 2024

Paola Ducolin: Building Trust and Communication in Engineering Teams

45 mins; July 10, 2024

Robin Heinze - React Native and the Art of Flexibility

40 mins; June 18, 2024

Scott Hanselman - The Fear Factor in Maintainable Software

36 mins; June 11, 2024

Stig Brautaset: Understanding Alien Artifacts in Legacy Code

46 mins; June 04, 2024

Brit Myers - Decoding Product vs. Technical Risk

42 mins; May 28, 2024

Andrea Guarino - Leveraging Static Analysis for Better Code

36 mins; May 21, 2024

Staffan Nöteberg - On the Power of Monotasking in Software Development

46 mins; May 07, 2024

Martin Emde - Ruby Central and the Art of Being Tolerant to Change

52 mins; April 23, 2024

Esther Olatunde - AI's Role in Evolving Software Engineering Practices

47 mins; April 16, 2024

Robbie Wagner - Whiskey, Front-End, and Whatnot

40 mins; March 26, 2024

Irina Nazarova - Investing in Innovation: The Consultancy's Guide to Growth

45 mins; March 12, 2024

Kyle Daigle - Scaling Up with AI: A New Era of Code Maintenance

47 mins; March 05, 2024

Jon Moniaci - Can We Draw A Boundary?

53 mins; February 27, 2024

Chad Fowler - How Small Can We Make This Problem

58 mins; February 20, 2024

John Nunemaker - How Scary Is This Change?

63 hours 10 mins; February 13, 2024

Jemma Issroff - Running the Parser in the Rain

39 mins; February 06, 2024

Jeanine Soterwood - Helping Clients Understand Maintenance Work

38 mins; January 30, 2024

Andrew Atkinson - Maintainable... Databases?

53 mins; January 23, 2024

Jimmy Koppel - Aspects of Good Code

44 mins; January 16, 2024

Hila Fish - Maintainable Infrastructure Code, Culture, and Documentation

62 hours 19 mins; January 09, 2024

Jacob Aronoff - At Least One Person Who Cares To See It Through

46 mins; November 21, 2023

Oliver Drotbohm - Modulithic Applications

41 mins; November 14, 2023

Colin Campbell - The Daily Habits of Effective Engineers

40 mins; November 07, 2023

Dave Bryant Copeland - Quantifying the Carrying Cost

42 mins; October 03, 2023

Cameron Jacoby - Am I Learning From This?

49 mins; September 26, 2023

Adriana Villela - On Being a Serial Refactorer

51 mins; August 22, 2023

Ahmed Wasfy - Thriving as an Engineering Manager

55 mins; August 08, 2023

Naomi Ceder - People-Centric Community Building

48 mins; July 04, 2023

Nadia Odunayo - Don't Try to Solve a Pain Point For a Problem You Aren't Experiencing

57 mins; June 19, 2023

Daniela Baron - About Those Docs

49 mins; June 12, 2023

Cory House - Finding Opportunities for Improvement

35 mins; June 05, 2023

Avery Quinn - Can You Quantify the Impact?

39 mins; May 22, 2023

Carlos Blé - Código Sostenible

50 mins; April 24, 2023

Lena Reinhard - How Will People Get Stuff Done?

56 mins; April 17, 2023

Eric Normand - Grokking Simplicity

47 mins; March 13, 2023

Henrik Warne - There is No Software Maintenance

42 mins; March 06, 2023

Andy Croll - Keep the Weird Stuff Weird

49 mins; February 06, 2023

Marianne Bellotti - Building Empathy by Asking, "How Would You Write This in 2007?"

61 hours 45 mins; January 16, 2023

Arpit Mohan - Aspiring To Be Boring As Possible

51 mins; December 26, 2022

Noah Clark - Maintainable Software is a Team Sport

59 mins; December 19, 2022

Ben Parisot - Documentation Just Needs To Be Used Once

61 hours 14 mins; November 07, 2022

Stefanni Brasil - When Is Tackling Tech Debt Possible?

40 mins; October 17, 2022

Andrea Goulet - Empathy-Driven Software Development

54 mins; October 10, 2022

John Ousterhout - It's Not You, It's the Codebase

49 mins; September 19, 2022

Courtney Wilburn - Maintainable Software Has Good Community Around It

47 mins; September 12, 2022

Nelida Velazquez - We Have to Express Our Opinions

38 mins; September 05, 2022

Casey Watts! - Culturesmithing

44 mins; August 08, 2022

Marc Cornellà - Maintaining Open Source Projects

29 mins; August 01, 2022

Shanea Leven - How To Bring Visibility To Your Codebase

42 mins; July 04, 2022

Greg Foster - A Pattern for Smaller, Faster, and Frequent Code Reviews

45 mins; June 27, 2022

Urban Hafner - Management Isn't For Everyone

39 mins; June 13, 2022

Amy Isikoff Newell - Code Shouldn't Drive Us To Drink

40 mins; May 30, 2022

Podcast Panel at RailsConf 2022

42 mins; May 27, 2022

Chelsea Troy - All Code Has Maintenance Load

51 mins; May 16, 2022

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