{"podcast":{"title":"Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders","slug":"code-story","podcast_index_feed_id":735330,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/ac5e79a4-0405-49a3-af2c-02c37f0b3879","website_url":"https://codestory.co/","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/5/14/20/c82c3282-f0a8-4b37-b210-96f7da10be1e_4061-b148-29cd200c3504_full_1568830220-artwork.jpg","author":"Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO","episode_count":793,"summary":"Code Story is a startup podcast for technical founders building and scaling software products. Each episode features SaaS founders, engineers, and product leaders sharing how they built their product, found product-market fit, and navigated early-stage growth. We explore: Early engineering decisions and MVP development Landing the first customers Pricing and go-to-market experiments Scaling challenges and infrastructure bottlenecks Hiring the first team Lessons learned from growing a startup From first commit to first scale, Code Story focuses on the critical transition from building software to building a scalable business. If you’re a founder, engineer, or product leader interested in SaaS, startups, and scaling technology companies, this podcast breaks down how great products are built — and how they grow.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-story"},"episode":{"title":"Developer Chats - Oleksandr Piekhota","slug":"developer-chats-oleksandr-piekhota","published_at":"2026-03-04T11:00:42+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-story/developer-chats-oleksandr-piekhota","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-story","url":"https://codestory.co/podcast/developer-chats-oleksandr-piekhota/","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/76316d5f-bf45-4575-a525-9c9919f6e916/stream.mp3","summary":"Principal Software Engineer Oleksandr Piekhota discusses the transition from individual contributor to technical leader. He explores the necessity of platform engineering, the risks of emotional attachment to R&D, and how AI might shift architectural focus back to monoliths.","meta_description":"Learn when to adopt platform engineering, how to manage R&D experiments, and the future of software architecture in the age of AI agents.","key_points":["Main idea: Transitioning to principal engineering requires shifting focus from code elegance to business-level outcomes and technical leadership","Practical takeaway: Use internal clients as a testing ground for new APIs to gather high-quality feedback before a public launch","Failure mode: Avoid the 'sunk cost fallacy' in R&D by using manager feedback to decide when to kill an experiment","Main idea: AI-generated code may reduce the importance of manual code elegance while increasing the need for robust testing and contract enforcement","Practical takeaway: Future-proof deployment pipelines with automated canary releases and advanced security compliance checks"],"chapters":[{"start_ms":220000,"title":"Engineering Background","summary":"Oleksandr introduces his experience in production engineering, focusing on PHP and Go."},{"start_ms":370000,"title":"The Shift to Leadership","summary":"Discussing the responsibilities and mental shifts required when moving into principal engineering roles."},{"start_ms":530000,"title":"Managing R&D Experiments","summary":"How to recognize when an engineering experiment has lost its value and should be abandoned."},{"start_ms":690000,"title":"The Importance of API Design","summary":"The challenges of designing public-facing APIs and the overhead of managing endpoints."},{"start_ms":1000000,"title":"Using Internal Tools for Feedback","summary":"Leveraging internal clients to identify design flaws and optimize workflows before external release."},{"start_ms":1170000,"title":"Engineering Ownership","summary":"The evolution from writing code to owning business outcomes and long-term technical direction."},{"start_ms":1940000,"title":"The Future of Architecture and AI","summary":"Speculating on how AI agents might favor monolithic architectures and more automated deployment pipelines."}],"topics":["Platform Engineering","Software Architecture","Technical Leadership","API Design","CI/CD","AI Agents","Production Engineering","R&D Management"],"duration_seconds":1653,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/code-story/episodes/developer-chats-oleksandr-piekhota/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/code-story/developer-chats-oleksandr-piekhota.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}