Changelog Interviews

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Changelog Interviews episodes

May 02, 2018Scaling all the things at Slack
Julia Grace joined the show to talk bout about scaling all the things at Slack. Julia is currently the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Slack, and has been their since 2015 — so she’s seen Slack during its hyper-growth. We talked about Slack’s growth and scale challenges, scaling engineering teams, the responsibilities and challenges of being a manager, communicating up and communicating down, quality of service and reliability, and what it takes to build high performing leadership teams.
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DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days.
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
O'Reilly Velocity Conference – Future-proof your systems and yourself. Learn about performance, monitoring and observability, scalability, serverless, security, and leadership. Use the discount code CHANGELOG to get 20% off Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes. Location and dates: San Jose, California, June 11-14. Learn more - oreil.ly/2J3gCBP
Featuring:
Julia Grace – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
The Changelog #129: The PHP language specification with Sara Golemon
Julia’s upcoming talk at Velocity - Scaling yourself during hyper-growth
Use the discount code CHANGELOG to save 20% off Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 10 min
April 25, 2018Code Cartoons, Rust, WebAssembly
Lin Clark joined the show to talk about Code Cartoons, her work at Mozilla in the emerging technologies group, Rust, Servo, and WebAssembly (aka Wasm), the Rust community’s big goal in 2018 for Rust to become a web language (thanks in part to Wasm), passing objects between Rust and JavaScript, Rust libraries depending on JavaScript packages and vice versa, Wasm ES Modules, and Lin’s upcoming keynote at Fluent on the parallel future of the browser.
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Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
O'Reilly Fluent Conference – Learn the latest JavaScript tools and methods. Build a better web. Deliver the best user experiences. Use the discount code CHANGELOG to get 20% off Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes. Location and dates: San Jose, California, June 11-14. Learn more - oreil.ly/2J4z8da
Featuring:
Lin Clark – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Code Cartoons
A cartoon guide to Flux
Lin Clark – Mozilla Hacks
Code Cartoons – Mozilla Hacks
Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
WebAssembly
Making WebAssembly better for Rust & for all languages
Come Join the Rust and WebAssembly Working Group!
WebAssembly Studio
Hello wasm-pack!
Fluent
Lin’s talk at Fluent — The parallel future of the browser
Agenda for the 64th meeting of Ecma TC39
The Changelog #228: Servo and Rust with Jack Moffitt
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
59 min
April 18, 2018Ember four years later
Chad Hietala joined the show to talk with us about the long history of Ember.js, how he first got involved, his work at LinkedIn and his work as an Ember Core team member, how the Ember team communicates expectations from release to release, their well documented RFC process, ES Classes in Ember, Glimmer, and where Ember is being used today.
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Airbrake – Airbrake is an exception reporting service, currently providing error monitoring for 50,000 applications with support for 18 programming languages.
DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days.
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
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:
Chad Hietala – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Status Board
Decorators
RFC Process
ES Classes in Ember - Glimmer VM Architecture Part 1
Glimmer VM Architecture Part 2
Compiling to Binary
JavaScript Modules API
The Project I mentioned that I worked on
Ember Packages RFC
EmberConf 2018 Keynote - Talks about Ember 3.0 roadmap
Glimmer
The Changelog #131 — The Road to Ember 2.0 with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz
The Changelog #165 — Betting the Company on Elixir and Ember with Brian Cardarella
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 14 min
April 11, 2018Elasticsearch and doubling down on "open"
Philipp Krenn joined the show to talk with us about Elasticsearch, the problem it solves, where it came from, and where it’s at today. We discussed the query language, what it can be compared to, whether or not it’s a database replacement or a database complement, Elasticsearch vs Elastic the company.
We also talked about the details behind Elastic’s plan of “doubling down on open” to open up X-Pack, which is open code paid add-on features to Elasticsearch. We discussed the implications of this on their business model, and what changes will take place at the code and license level on GitHub.
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Rollbar – Our error monitoring partner. Rollbar provides real-time error monitoring, alerting, and analytics to help us resolve production errors in minutes. To start resolving errors in minutes, and deploying with confidence - head to rollbar.com/changelog
DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days.
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
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:
Philipp Krenn – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Podcast topic: Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch - RESTful, Distributed Search & Analytics
Elasticsearch on GitHub
Doubling down on open
Elastic License
We’re opening X-Pack
Doubling Down on Open: Shay Banon on Opening the Code of X-Pack
Go Time #48: Restic and backups (done right)
Handling Relationships - Elasticsearch docs
Theory Behind Relevance Scoring - Elasticsearch docs
Papertrail
Google Summer of Code
Third party CSS is not safe
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 5 min
April 06, 2018Winamp2 JS
Jordan Eldredge joined the show to talk with us about Winamp2-js — a reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript. For many of our listeners, talking about Winamp may bring to mind some extreme nostalgia about the internet of the past … and it’s certainly that way for Jerod and I. Jordan started this project in 2014 and it’s what ultimately got the attention of some folks at Facebook, where he now works on Nuclide.
We shared stories about Winamp back in the day, actually listening to music as an mp3, the technical hurdles and learning Jordan has experienced, skinning it, playlists, making it a frontend for Spotify – which is so ironic to actually say. Also, Jerod has been hacking it via livestream on Twitch to add it as an alternate audio player on Changelog.com.
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Rollbar – Our error monitoring partner. Rollbar provides real-time error monitoring, alerting, and analytics to help us resolve production errors in minutes. To start resolving errors in minutes, and deploying with confidence - head to rollbar.com/changelog
Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
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:
Jordan Eldredge – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Follow us on Twitch
Winamp2-js
A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript
Winamp hardware device mockup
Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself
Butterchurn visualizer
Nuclide - A single package on top of Atom to provide hackability and the support of an active community.
UrlMe.me - Make memes anywhere you can type a URL
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 21 min
March 30, 2018That's it. This is the finale!
We’re rebroadcasting the finale episode of the beloved Request For Commits. But don’t worry, The Changelog will be back with new episodes next week. In this finale episode of Request For Commits, we regroup to discuss the podcast from its start to its finish, lessons learned, community impact, and where the conversations around open source sustainability are taking place, now and in the future. It’s the end of Request For Commits, but the conversations we’ve had will continue on The Changelog. We also have some guest-host appearances for Nadia and Mikeal planned in the near future on this podcast. So, stay tuned.
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Rollbar – Our error monitoring partner. Rollbar provides real-time error monitoring, alerting, and analytics to help us resolve production errors in minutes. To start resolving errors in minutes, and deploying with confidence - head to rollbar.com/changelog
DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days.
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:
Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X
Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Request For Commits has been respectfully retired
Listen and subscribe to The Changelog
The Changelog #193: Funding and Sustaining Open Source with Nadia Eghbal
The Changelog #252 GitHub’s Open Source Survey (2017) with Frannie Zlotnick & Nadia Eghbal
Subscribe to Nadia’s infrequent newsletter
How I Stumbled Upon The Internet’s Biggest Blind Spot
Open source was worth at least $143M of Instagram’s $1B acquisition
Open source infrastructure Q&A
What if Facebook were a nonprofit?
Sustain - a one day conversation for open source software sustainers
Maintainerati
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
46 min
March 23, 2018Automated dependency updates
Rhys Arkins joined the show to talk about automating dependency updates using Renovate. Renovate is an open source tool to keep source code dependencies up-to-date using automated Pull Requests. We talked about who’s using it, the languages and environments that are supported, self-hosted vs SaaS and how that plays into supporting this open source, auto-merging, being a GitHub App and in the GitHub Marketplace, and building this as a business on someone else’s platform.
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GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
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:
Rhys Arkins – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
renovateapp.com - Automated dependency updates. Flexible, so you don’t need to be.
renovateapp/renovate
Install Renovate on GitHub
Renovate on GitHub Marketplace
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 25 min
March 16, 2018Live coding open source on Twitch
Suz Hinton joined the show to talk about live coding open source on Twitch. We talk about how she got interested in Twitch, her goals and aspirations for live streaming, the work she’s doing in open source, Twitch for open source, how you and others can get started — and maybe some other fun stuff we have in the works at Changelog.
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DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean has new, highly competitive droplet pricing! A flexible $15 plan where you can mix and match RAM and CPUs resources. Updates to CPU-optimized Droplets. Per-second billing (coming soon). New accounts get $100 in hosting credit to use in your first 60 days.
Gliffy – Get 25% off 1 year of Gliffy in Confluence or Jira. Transform how your team communicates, share and collaborate with anyone, integrated directly in Atlassian’s Confluence and Jira. Head to gliffy.com/changelog
GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
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:
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch
A guide to streaming and finding success on Twitch
Suz’s hardware list
Suz on Twitch (noopkat)
Changelog on Twitch
Open Broadcaster Software
Awesome developer streams
NOP on Wikipedia
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 21 min
March 13, 2018Truffle framework and decentralized Ethereum apps
Tim Coulter joined the show to talk about Truffle — a development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline for Ethereum. We talked with Tim about how he got into Ethereum and dapp development, Solidity vs JavaScript, smart contract testing, EthPM which is like npm but for Ethereum, Why decentralization? Why dapps? Basically, why rebuild the internet? And last but not least - who’s using Truffle and what have they built with it?
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Rollbar – Our error monitoring partner. Rollbar provides real-time error monitoring, alerting, and analytics to help us resolve production errors in minutes. To start deploying with confidence - head to rollbar.com/changelog
Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog
Gliffy – Get 25% off 1 year of Gliffy in Confluence or Jira. Transform how your team communicates, share and collaborate with anyone, integrated directly in Atlassian’s Confluence and Jira. Head to gliffy.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:
Tim Coulter – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
ConsenSys Labs
Truffle Suite - Your Ethereum Swiss Army Knife
Docs: Choosing an Ethereum client
Truffle Boxes - helpful boilerplates that allow you to focus on what makes your dapp unique
Truffle tutorials
Truffle stats dashboard
Ganache - Quickly fire up a personal Ethereum blockchain which you can use to run tests, execute commands, and inspect state while controlling how the chain operates.
ethpm (Ethereum Package Management)
Drizzle: Reactive Ethereum data for front-ends
ConsenSys on Gitter
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 14 min
March 06, 2018JavaScript sprinkles in Basecamp turned Stimulus
David Heinemeier Hansson joined the show to share the story of how JavaScript sprinkles in Basecamp evolved into a full-fledged framework called Stimulus. We talked about ins and outs of Basecamp as it is today, Ruby, JavaScript and David’s somewhat new found love for that language. How they open source because they can. And David’s new YouTube series called “On Writing Software Well”.
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Rollbar – Our error monitoring partner. Rollbar provides real-time error monitoring, alerting, and analytics to help us resolve production errors in minutes. To start deploying with confidence - head to rollbar.com/changelog
Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient native SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2018 to get 4 months free!
Gliffy – Transform how your team communicates, share and collaborate with anyone, integrated directly in Atlassian’s Confluence and Jira. To start diagraming with ease - head to gliffy.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:
David Heinemeier Hansson – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Stimulus homepage and the source on GitHub
Stimulus 1.0
Turbolinks
Watch the proposition of Turbolinks if you haven’t yet
David’s thoughts on the majestic monolith
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
1 hr 29 min

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