Reversim Podcast

At last year's Reversim, Iftach Bar gave a beautiful talk called “Lets talk about your salary”. He taught engineers how to negotiate their salaries when getting hired. But while salary negotiation is hard for candidates, it's practically a nightmare for employers. When we hire we're faced with the impossible task of evaluating the potential value of a perfect stranger to our company, knowing that the cost of being wrong could be extremely high (especially for startups). In this presentation I will share how at BigPanda we try to minimize that risk so that eventually both sides are happy. It'll also give candidates a chance to better understand how managers think when making offers.MP3

Our product wasn't complete without this one feature, so we went ahead and built it. Soon enough we came to realize users didn't use it, and even worse, they were still feeling the pain we planned to solve. We ended up finding ourselves in a situation where we had to rebuild a fresh feature from scratch. This experience thought us some good lessons that would should be heard by anyone building anything.MP3

The graphdb world hasn't changed much for the past couple of years, the same major players applying the same old know techniques, when I started creating my own version of a graph database, I followed the same path, but to make a difference and really standout in the crowd something had to be done differently. This talk will introduce you to and guide you through what I've learnt in the past two years creating the fastest graphdb today using basic mathematics, I hope your linear-algebra is polished! MP3

This is a lightweight, (hopefully) entertaining talk, in which I will present insights and anecdotes from my studies in a laboratory that combines artificial intelligence with human-computer collaborations, and how I got to intentionally stumble into people. This talk will include a call for innovations in the border between humans and computers.MP3

As product managers, our biggest fear is creating a product that nobody needs. So, how to make sure your users will want your product?In the B2C world, you have to be both data-driven and customer-centric. To make your product better, you need to:Collect input from usersUnderstand why users churn or stayApply that data using MVP and fast iterationsWe tried at Soluto different ways to collect data in the right time and context. I would like to share with you what we did and learned in the process, show methods to collect user input, what worked and what didn’t. I will also showcase examples of how to use the data and create a product your users will actually use - and love.MP3

It still amazes me to see the basic security flaws over and over again on every site that I check, All of those security breaches can be prevented and closed quite easily. In this talk, I will explain and show basic security flaws in web applications - how to detect those and how to make sure that your application or web site will not have those.MP3

We all use cloud object storage extensively, like Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage and others. However, not many utilize its unique capabilities and advanced features, such as versioning, security, life cycle... Throughout my work developing Ceph object storage and supporting large customers, I’ve seen a lot of incorrect and sub-optimal usage. This session will briefly discuss object storage design, highlight valuable features and review practical dos and don’ts.MP3

I've shared more than 2000 posts on SoftwareLeadWeekly.com in the past 5+ years. To share these posts, I had to read almost 14000 posts during that time, which includes blog posts, videos, books and interviews (podcasts).I want to share some of my lessons learned about:Which kind of "Growth Material" you should focus on?Where and how to find great content (good value vs. noise ratio)?How to set time for learning? (I'm a father of 2, I know how hard it can be)How to consume knowledge X2 faster?Are you seeking ways to up your game? If so, you'll enjoy this talk.MP3

Progressive Web Apps are changing the way we think about websites and blurring the lines between Native apps and websites. PWAs enable websites to add features we previously could only use in mobile such as:* Push notifications* Full Screen* Offline working* Splash screen, to give an app like feel* App Icon on the home screenIn this talk, we'll walk through all the game-changing features PWA offers by building our own PWA.The goal is to walk away with an understanding of the powerful features PWA's offer. Additionally, we will see firsthand how to convert a site into a PWA that’s just like a native app, but without the excessive file size or the lengthy install process!MP3

In 2008 the market collapsed worldwide and our one-year-old infant startup was close to joining the sad statistics. We almost run out of our seed funding and our product results were poor. After cutting down salaries we were able to get some additional funding to run the company for few more months. We understood that things need to change in how we build our product and how we validate our offering. 6 years later, we sold Check to Intuit for $360M. We are now running Next Insurance on the same concepts with exceptional results. In this talk I’ll explore how we put lean startup concepts hard at work and how we’ve been able to take our product into massive acceptance by millions of users.MP3