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February 17, 2023What it takes to scale engineering
This week we’re talking to Rachel Potvin, former VP of Engineering at GitHub about what it takes to scale engineering. Rachel says it’s a game-changer when engineering scales beyond 100 people. So we asked to her to share everything she has learned in her career of leading and scaling engineering.
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Featuring:
Rachel Potvin – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Rachel adores EngFlow (investor and advisor)
Rachel’s 2016 paper on Google’s developer infrastructure
Harvard Business Review on Psychological Safety
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 28 min
February 10, 2023Git with your friends
This week we invited our friend Mat Ryer to join us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. You may know Mat from Go Time and also Grafana’s Big Tent, which we help to produce. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun.
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Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Featuring:
Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Git Heat Map
Git Sim
git-bug
GitUI
Git Branchless
Jerod’s pick - GitX
Mat’s pick - ReviewPad
How did Git get its name?
MacStadium
Beyond Code Season 1: Keep Ruby Weird 2014
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 41 min
January 27, 2023Mainframes are still a big thing
This week we’re talking about mainframes with Cameron Seay, Adjunct Professor at East Carolina University and a member of the Governing Board of the Open Mainframe Project. If you’ve been curious about mainframes, this show will be a great guide.
Cameron explains exactly what a mainframe is and how it’s different from the cloud. We talk COBOL and the state of education and opportunities around that language. We cover the state-of-the-art in mainframe land, System Z, Linux on mainframes, and more.
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Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Featuring:
Cameron Seay – LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Open Mainframe Project
IBM zSystems
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 5 min
January 20, 2023Just Postgres
This week we’re talking about by Postgres with Craig Kerstiens, Chief Product Officer at Crunchy Data, and a well known ambassador for Postgres. Just Postgres. That’s what this week’s show is about.
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Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Featuring:
Craig Kerstiens – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
webstack
The Art of PostgreSQL
Crunchy Data
Postgres Playground
The Changelog #510: Taking Postgres serverless with Nikita Shamgunov from Neon
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1 hr 12 min
January 14, 2023The principles of data-oriented programming
Jerod is joined by Yehonathan Sharvit, author of Data-Oriented Programming, to discuss the virtues of treating data as a first-class citizen in our applications and the four principles that make it possible.
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Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Featuring:
Yehonathan Sharvit – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
📘 Data-Oriented Programming
Principles of Data-Oriented Programming
The history of DOP
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
57 min
January 06, 2023Don't sleep on Ruby & Rails
Welcome to 2023 — we’re kicking off the year talking to Justin Searls about the state of web development and why he just might write a “You Might Not Need React” post. He’s been so productive using Turbo and Stimulus (and tailwind) in Rails 7 that we had to talk about the state of Rails development today and a bunch of other fun topics around building for the web in 2023.
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Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at changelog.com/square to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Featuring:
Justin Searls – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
SO PRODUCTIVE in Rails 7
Shaking my head big time at The Changelog #509
What excites you about Ruby on Rails in 2022?
The Changelog #509
Ship It #44
Debugging Ruby with VS Code
Searls says:
For liner notes purposes, @hsbt and @ko1 have indeed both contributed to ruby.debug but it was clearly Koichi’s baby.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 22 min
December 23, 2022State of the "log" 2022
Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Featuring:
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Listener favs:
Go Time #250: Mat’s GopherCon EU diary
Ship It! #44: Fundamentals with Kelsey Hightower
The Changelog #454: The return of Richard Hipp
Backstage #18: Tenet with heavy spoilers
Backstage #23: The Oban Pro with Parker Selbert
The Changelog #464: This insane tech hiring market with Gergely Orosz
The Changelog #516: This !insane tech hiring market with Gergely Orosz
The Changelog #480: Git your reset on with Annie Sexton
The Changelog #494: Lessons from 5 years of startup code audits with Ken Kantzer
Jerod’s favs:
The Changelog #474: Complex systems & second-order effects with Paul Orlando
The Changelog #477: Song Encoder: Forrest Brazeal
The Changelog #506: Stable Diffusion breaks the internet with Simon Willison
Adam’s favs:
The Changelog #486: Practical ways to solve hard problems with Frank Krueger
The Changelog #502: Fireside chat with Jack Dorsey from the main stage at Square Unboxed 2022
Both our favs:
The Changelog #513: The story of Heroku with Adam Wiggins
The Changelog #484: Wisdom from 50+ years in software with Brian Kernighan
Adam’s must-listens:
The Changelog #515: Advocating for and supporting open source at ATO ’22
The Changelog #508: A guided tour through ID3 esoterica with Lars Wikman
The Changelog #500: The legacy of CSS-Tricks with Chris Coyier
Jerod’s must-listens:
Ship It! #62: Operational simplicity is a gift to you with Gary Bernhardt
JS Party #244: The spicy React debate show 🌶️
Go Time #256: gRPC & protocol buffers with Akshay Shah
Most popular episodes of 2022:
ONE MORE thing every dev should know with Jessica Kerr
Wisdom from 50+ years in software with Brian Kernighan
Securing the open source supply chain with Feross from Socket
Principles for hiring engineers with Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Making the command line glamorous with Toby Padilla from Charm
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 29 min
December 16, 2022GPT has entered the chat
To wrap up the year we’re talking about what’s breaking the internet, again. Yes, we’re talking about ChatGPT and we’re joined by our good friend Shawn “swyx” Wang. Between his writings on L-Space Diaries and his AI notes repo on GitHub, we had a lot to cover around the world of AI and what might be coming in 2023.
Also, we have one more show coming out before the end of the year — our 5th annual “State of the log” episode where Adam and Jerod look back at the year and talk through their favorite episodes of the year and feature voices from the community. So, stay tuned for that next week.
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Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
InfluxData – With its data collectors and scripting languages, a common API across the entire platform, and highly performant time series engine and storage, InfluxDB makes it easy to build once and deploy across multiple products and environments. InfluxDB’s new storage engine allows developers to build real-time applications even faster and with less code. Sign up for the InfluxDB Beta program to give it a try.
Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Featuring:
Shawn Wang – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
AI Notes
Why “Prompt Engineering” and “Generative AI” are overhyped
Multiverse, not Metaverse
The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge
OpenRAIL: Towards open and responsible AI licensing frameworks
Open-ish from Luis Villa
ChatGPT for Google
The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase
ChatGPT examples in the wild
Debugging code
TypeScript answer is wrong
Fix code and explain fix
dynamic programming
Translating/refactoring Wasplang DSL
AWS IAM policies
Code that combines multiple cloud services
Solving a code problem
Explain computer networks homework
Rewriting code from elixir to PHP
Turning ChatGPT into an interpreter for a custom language, and then generating code and executing it, and solving Advent of Code correctly
Including getting #1 place
“I haven’t done a single google search or consulted any external documentation to do it and I was able to progress faster than I have ever did before when learning a new thing.”
Build holy grail website and followup with framework, copy, repsonsiveness
For ++ subscribers
Getting Senpai To Notice You
Moving to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 15 min
December 09, 2022Coming home to GitHub
This week we’re joined by Christina Warren, Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, and a true tech and pop culture connoisseur. From her days at Mashable covering the intersections of entertainment and technology, to Gizmodo, to Microsoft, and now her current role at GitHub we talk with Christina about her journey from journalist to developer, and the latest happenings coming out of GitHub Universe.
BTW, we’re planning to get Christina on Backstage in the new year to talk about Plex, MakeMKV, and all things that go into hosting your own media server. Drop a commment on this episode with a +1 if you want to see that happen.
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InfluxData – With its data collectors and scripting languages, a common API across the entire platform, and highly performant time series engine and storage, InfluxDB makes it easy to build once and deploy across multiple products and environments. InfluxDB’s new storage engine allows developers to build real-time applications even faster and with less code. Sign up for the InfluxDB Beta program to give it a try.
Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.com/
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Featuring:
Christina Warren – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Overtired
Rocket
Mona Sans & Hubot Sans
The Changelog #493: What even is a DevRel?
The Changelog #459: Coding in the cloud with Codespaces
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 18 min
December 02, 2022ANTHOLOGY - Wasm, efficient code review & the industrial metaverse
This week we’re back at All Things Open 2022 covering the hallway track. Up first is Shivay Lamba and he’s schooling us on all things server-side WASM. It’s the new hotness. After that, we talk with Yishai Beeri, CTO of LinearB about the world of code review, PR queues, AI developers, and making human developers more efficient, and happier. And last, we talk with Guy Martin from NVIDIA about what’s going on in the Industrial Metaverse. He shares details about an open source project developed by Pixar called Universal Scene Description (USD) and what they’re doing with NVIDIA Omniverse.
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Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Sourcegraph – Transform your code into a queryable database to create customizable visual dashboards in seconds. Sourcegraph recently launched Code Insights — now you can track what really matters to you and your team in your codebase. See how other teams are using this awesome feature at about.sourcegraph.com/code-insights
Honeycomb – Guess less, know more. When production is running slow, it’s hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? With Honeycomb you get a fast, unified, and clear understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. Join the swarm and try Honeycomb free today at honeycomb.io/changelog
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Featuring:
Shivay Lamba – GitHub, X
Yishai Beeri – LinkedIn, X
Guy Martin – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Part 1
WebAssembly
Bytecode Alliance
Cloud Native Computing Foundation on Slack
Part 2
LinearB
Part 3
Universal Scene Description
NVIDIA Omniverse
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
57 min

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