Code Monkey Talks

Code Monkey Talks

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Code Monkey Talks episodes

  • Episode 7: Robots for your Mobile Device Testing with Jason Huggins

    Jason Huggins, founder of Tapster, cofounder of SauceLabs and Selenium, joins us to discuss testing automation in both the virtual and physical realms.

    Correction: Jason meant "Montezuma's Revenge" when he referenced "Pitfall" in this week's show.

    In the News
    • Google launches 1.0 of its AI platform TensorFlow
    • Microsoft's Informatics and Robotics Platform for simulating the real world
    • Netflix releases HubCommander
      • Something to Do
      • Six Wakes
      • Visit Tapster’s new office neighbor, Happy Apple Pie Shop. They just had their Grand Opening yesterday (February 14, 2017).
      • A Tour of Go
        • Credits

        Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

        Special Guest: Jason Huggins.

        57 min
      • Episode 6: Governing Open Source Usage with Brian Fox

        Brian Fox, CTO at Sonatype joins us to discuss how to secure and govern open source usage in your company

        In the News:
        • Evernote migrates to Google Cloud
        • Java 9's Jigsaw Auto Modules are a step down with designing dependency management properly
        • ThoughtWorks shuts down SnapCI
          • Links
          • The Expanse (TV, book series)
          • http://www.alldaydevops.com/
          • https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/continuous-deployment-with-google-container-engine-and-kubernetes
            • Credits

            Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

            Special Guest: Brian Fox.

            48 min
          • Episode 5: ROBLOX, the popular game platform, with Brenton Bartel

            Brenton Bartel joins us to discuss the architecture that enables the run-away growth of ROBLOX, a popular game creation and consumption platform. In the news we discuss Gitlab's database incident this week, Libratus the poker AI from Carnegie Mellon University and Screwdriver the recently open-sourced continuous integration server from Yahoo.

            Links
            • The Way of Kings - http://a.co/dHujPmG
            • Sea Fall - Amazon, BoardGameGeek
            • ROBLOX - https://www.roblox.com
              • Credits

              Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

              Special Guest: Brenton Bartel.

              56 min
            • Episode 4: Flynn, a Docker-compatible PaaS, with Jonathan Rudenberg

              On this episode, Jonathan Rudenberg joins us to discuss his company's open source platform-as-a-service, Flynn that allows you to git push as your deployment step!

              In the news this week, we discuss Google's Cloud Security whitepaper, Chrome and Firefox are now highlighting insecure password forms and AWS CodeDeploy adds blue/green deployments.

              Links
              • Flynn - https://flynn.io
              • 12 Factor - https://12factor.net/
              • Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story by John Bloom - http://a.co/fG2UTU3
              • Iridium Flares - http://www.heavens-above.com/IridiumFlares.aspx
              • BioShock Remastered PS4, Xbox One, PC
              • Operation Rapture - http://operationrapture.tumblr.com/
                • Credits

                Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

                Special Guest: Jonathan Rudenberg.

                42 min
              • Episode 3: Zapier Automates Tasks with Adam DuVander

                In this week's episode, Adam DuVander joins us from Zapier to talk about automating your development workflow tasks. In the news we discuss the Nintendo Switch is available for preorder, motivate yourself with GitHub Streaks, Google buys Fabric and with it Fastlane, the mobile development pipeline as a service.

                Links
                • Nintendo Switch
                • GitHub Streaks
                • Crap4j
                • Google buys Fabric from Twitter
                • Fastlane
                • Zapier Engineering Blog
                • Scaling Zapier to Automate Billions of Tasks
                • Try Github
                • Smitten Ice Cream
                • Jing
                • Codenames
                • Horsepaste.com
                • Boston Java Meetup Feb 7th - Apache Shiro
                • Critters 4
                  • Credits

                  Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

                  Special Guest: Adam DuVander.

                  49 min
                • Episode 2: WalmartLabs with Tim O'Brien

                  In this week's episode we chat with Tim O'Brien from WalmartLabs about how they are reinventing development at the largest company in the world with OneOps. We also discuss the LEGO Boost, Adobe Acrobat Reader silently installs Chrome extension; Atlassian buys Trello and the religion of JIRA.

                  Links
                  • LEGO Boost
                  • Adobe Acrobat Reader silently installs Chrome extension
                  • Atlassian buys Trello
                  • WalmartLabs Engineering Blog
                  • Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble
                  • Gyroscope App
                  • RescueTime
                    • Credits

                    Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

                    Special Guest: Tim O'Brien.

                    46 min
                  • Episode 1: Dog Brains in the Cloud with Chris Baglieri

                    A new tech podcast hosted by Brian Jackson and Brian Demers. This week we discuss a police request for Amazon Alexa recordings; AWS adds more GPU support; our guest Chris Baglieri talks about Blackfynn's infrastructure using AWS, Scala, Kubernetes and Docker.

                    Links:

                    • AWS EC2 Elastic GPU Instances
                    • Police seek Amazon Echo recordings
                    • Getting Started with Heroku
                    • Pandemic: Legacy

                      • Credits:

                      Opening Music: Another beek beep beer please by Rolemusic

                      Special Guest: Chris Baglieri.

                      53 min

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