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Preparing for the Worst: Tabletop Exercises, Unit Tests, and Everything In Between

October 13, 2026

In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub discuss TaskRabbit's overnight AWS region migration from us-west-1 to us-west-2, describing the months of preparation, detailed runbook, large war-room call, minor cleanup issues, and why periodic region moves can serve as valuable "hygiene" to relearn and document complex systems while advancing disaster recovery and business continuity. They then explain tabletop exercises as structured incident-...

Understanding The Fear: Adaptive Leadership in the AI Age

October 06, 2026

In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, hosts Scott Porad and Brad Hefta-Gaub discuss growing fear about AI among engineers and managers, framing it as an "adaptive moment" requiring leaders to disrupt old stabilizing practices. They explore concerns that AI lowers the barrier for others to change systems, increasing accountability, on-call risk, and architectural drift—problems that existed pre-AI but are now intensified. Their proposed response is to strengthen the softwar...

Simplifying Tech Through Empathy and Understanding with Frank Bravo

September 29, 2026

In this episode of "How Many CTOs Does It Take?" podcast, host Brad Hefta-Gaub is joined by guest Frank Bravo, a Bay Area technologist who spent 30 years as CTO in local media, helping put a newspaper's full editorial content online in 1994, and now serves as CTO at ProLegal, a legal services startup. Frank describes modernizing an old Act! database into a custom CRM, launching ProLegal Suite, and building systems that integrate with Uber and Lyft to schedule client rides on a lien. He explai...

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How Many CTOs typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Current or former CTOs, senior engineering leaders, software architecture experts, AI engineering practitioners, and recognized authorities in software development or Agile methodology. Common among recent guests: Leadership of engineering organizations or technology companies; Authorship of influential software or technology books; Significant contributions to Agile, software engineering, or technology leadership. Recent guests include Robert C. Martin.

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