Introducing The Artifact (Ep 1)

The Artifact

What is the Artifact? Setting aside the general meaning of the word artifact, in software world, an artifact is anything that's a byproduct produced during the development of software. A build or an executable is an artifact. A design document is an artifact. A packaged library is an artifact. All these are artifacts, but when you are developingf software for many years as many of us have, there's another important byproduct that's produced. That's experience. That's expertise. That's ideas and perspectives. Now based on the definition, those are artifacts too. And that's the kind of stuff that you don't learn in a coding bootcamp that churns out college grads with cookie cutter skills. It's mostly not taught in colleges. You either learn it from a good mentor if you are fortunate enough to have one. Or you do it the hard way - and learn from your own experience.

I want to try and fix that. The artifact is a podcast that brings to you perspectives and experiences from me and from the people who I talk to. Some are popular Youtubers that you might recognise. Some might be authors. Some might be neither of those and have a story to tell. I am going to learn from them, and I invite you to join me and learn with me. Also, a large part of being a software developer is keeoing yourself up to date with the news and updates to technology, and I plan to bring them to you and keep you updated as well.

The Artifact is available at theartifact.io. That's the podcast homepage where you can find all podcast episodes that have been published so far. All episodes are also available on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify, and most other podcast aggregation services.

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