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Software is expensive to build, expensive to change, and expensive to keep alive. Yet organizations routinely make plans as though adding another feature or hitting an arbitrary deadline won't affect anything else. Mark...
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Maintainable
Hosted by Robby Russell · technology · EN-US
About this Podcast:
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.
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What is Maintainable about?
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.
Who hosts Maintainable?
Maintainable is hosted by Robby Russell. The show has published 235 episodes to date.
What has Maintainable covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Mark Stringer: Software Costs More Than We Want to Admit" (27 October 2026, 68 minutes), "Gabriela Moreira: When 800 Tests Aren’t Enough" (13 October 2026, 53 minutes), and "José Valim: Designing a Language You Can Maintain for Decades" (29 September 2026, 54 minutes).
How often does Maintainable publish?
Maintainable publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 57 minutes across 235 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Maintainable?
Booking probability for Maintainable is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Maintainable requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Maintainable's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch Maintainable?
The strongest fits for Maintainable are IT Services & Software Development. Maintainable has a technology audience.
About the host
Robby Russell hosts Maintainable, a technology podcast with 235 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Episode #230
Gabriela Moreira: When 800 Tests Aren’t Enough
Oct 13, 202653 minA large test suite should make developers feel safer changing software. Gabriela Moreira, CEO of Quint , has recently experienced something quite different: a new codebase grew from roughly 200 tests to 800 with the...
Sep 29, 202654 minWhat does maintainability look like when the software you’re responsible for is a programming language? José Valim creator of Elixir and founder of Dashbit , joins Robby to talk about software that can “fit in your...
Sep 8, 20261h 22mSoftware maintainability is often discussed through the codebase, but users experience years of accumulated decisions through the interface. John Athayde of Meticulous joins Robby to examine maintainability from the...
Sep 1, 202654 minTechnical debt rarely arrives in a support ticket labeled “technical debt.” Customers experience something simpler: the product is slow, unreliable, or the same problem keeps coming back. Kristin Isaac, Co-Founder and...
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Aug 4, 202649 minMachine learning systems can degrade even when the underlying code has not changed. Diana Pfeil of Sunbeam Consulting joins Robby Russell on Maintainable to explain how changing data, model behavior, and...
Jun 16, 202654 minWhat does it take to keep a product healthy after more than 15 years of continuous evolution? In this episode, Robby Russell talks with Chris Coyier, co-founder of CodePen, about the long game of maintaining software...
Episode #222
Sally Lait: Confidence Is the Real Metric
May 5, 202656 minSally Lait joins Robby Russell on Maintainable to explore software maintainability through a different lens… not just code quality, but how teams work together over time. Sally is a fractional technology leader and...
Apr 14, 202655 minSoftware maintenance is often framed as a technical problem. Refactoring code, fixing bugs, or upgrading dependencies. In this conversation, Robby Russell talks with Rein Henrichs about a different lens, one centered on...
Mar 31, 202655 minSoftware doesn’t become hard to maintain only because the code is messy. It often becomes hard to maintain because the reasoning behind it disappears. In this episode of Maintainable , Robby Russell talks with Russ...
Mar 17, 20261h 1mLong-lived software systems rarely stay tidy. Over time they accumulate decisions, workarounds, and layers of history that can make even simple changes feel risky. For engineers responsible for maintaining those...
Episode #218
Lucas Roesler: The Fast Feedback Loop Advantage
Feb 3, 202654 minMaintaining software over time rarely fails because of one bad decision. It fails because teams stop getting clear signals… and start guessing. In this episode, Robby talks with Lucas Roesler , Managing Partner and CTO...
Jan 21, 20261h 1mRewrites are seductive. Clean slates promise clarity, speed, and “doing it right this time.” In practice, they’re often late, over budget, and quietly demoralizing. In this episode of Maintainable , Robby sits down with...
Dec 9, 202550 minKent Beck: You’re Ignoring Optionality… and Paying for It In this episode of Maintainable , Robby speaks with Kent Beck , a foundational voice in modern software development and author of Tidy First? . Kent joins from...
Dec 2, 202551 minEpisode Highlights [00:00:48] What Makes Software Maintainable Don explains why unnecessary complexity is the biggest barrier to maintainability, drawing on themes from A Philosophy of Software Design . [00:03:14] The...
Nov 18, 202550 minEpisode Summary In this conversation, Robby sits down with software engineer and author Chris Zetter to explore what building a relational database from scratch can teach us about maintainability, architectural...
Oct 28, 20251h 7mMaintaining consistency across a sprawling codebase is one of the hardest challenges in software engineering. Denis Rechkunov , a Principal Software Engineer at Elastic , joins Robby to share how his team turned...
Oct 14, 202555 minEpisode Notes The discussion moves into how standards evolve beyond tools, the trade-offs of monocultures vs. consensus-driven teams, and why ownership matters when the original authors move on. Nathan also unpacks the...
Aug 26, 202556 minTaylor Otwell, creator of Laravel and CEO of Laravel LLC, joins Robby to reflect on his 14-year journey building and maintaining one of the most popular web frameworks in the world. From its PHP 5.3 origins to a...
Episode #210
Sara Jackson: Why Resilience Is a Team Sport
Jul 22, 202553 minRobby is joined by Sara Jackson , Senior Developer at thoughtbot , to explore the practical ways teams can foster resilience—not just in their infrastructure, but in their everyday habits. They talk about why...
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Kent Beck
Chief Scientist, Mechanical Orchard
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Mike Bowers
Acting Deputy Under Secretary for VA's National Cemetery Administration, FairCom Corporation
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Tom Johnson
former aide to LBJ, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, president of CNN, Shasta County Veterans Affiliated Council
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Cassidy Williams
Senior Director of Developer Advocacy, GitHub
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