Chris Love is the co-author of Core Kubernetes. Chris and his co-author Jay recognized that there's a general lack of knowledge of the internals of and what makes up Kubernetes. Other resources cover the concepts and basics of how to deploy on Kubernetes, but the problems people run into sometimes exist one layer down in Kubernetes. Chris leads the adventure along the ways that you can get to know the internals and control plane of Kubernetes.

Hilary Stohs-Krause addresses the things that we have strong emotional reactions to as developers that maybe we shouldn't worry about them. She also leads a discussion with the panel around when fear is a good thing.

Steve and AJ talk with Gareth Brown, author of the recently released Manning video course “Building Web Applications with Firebase”. They discuss what Firebase is, the services it offers, and how it is used in different types of applications, both large and small.

Adam Mokan joins the Mix to discuss crawling the web with Elixir. He starts out by explaining he rather unconventional path to Elixir. At ElixirConf he spoke about crawling the web. He admits that his talk was more about architecture of a highly parallelized app with a restrictive SLA. He talks about managing web crawls and not knowing what your clients will send in.

Jeff Smith's book is full of practical ways to implement good DevOps practices within our teams, especially in the case where one might not have the flexibility to make sweeping organizational changes. He shares his wisdom and experience regarding building DevOps organizations and instilling culture into our teams.

In this episode, Lindsay, Steve, and Raymond talk with Anjolaoluwa Adebayo-Oyetoro (Jola), lead front-end developer at RevelFinance and technical writer at LogRocket. We discuss how his team found itself making too many API calls, and decided to move to GraphQL. We talk about what GraphQL is, its strengths, and how to solve common problems like usage in Vue and authentication. Jola also gives his tips on learning GraphQL, and where to go to learn it.

Petra describes some of the failings she used to have with her proposals and how she turned it all around. Petra now uses several savvy sales techniques in her proposals, but you wouldn't know because the proposal process is very customer-centric. In this podcast episode she walks you through a successful proposal template that has won her hundreds of thousands of dollars in freelancer business.

On this episode we chatted with Ben Farrell, author of Web Components in Action, about all things web components. We talked about the status of web components, the best way to get started today, and a whole lot more.



This week Aaron Gustafson joins us to talk about progress enhancement and how it can make everyone's lives easier. It is becoming more and more important to make apps accessible and performant regardless of what browser, OS or network your end users have. Aaron provides several examples and suggestions on incorporating progress enhancement into your development. Join us and learn how we can make the web for everyone.

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Over the years, I've had dozens of developers tell me that they got into programming because they wanted to build video games. Today, it's easier and more approachable than ever. This episode dives into how to get started with game development.

Jason Weimann has built games for big studios and has been teaching others to build video games with the Unity game engine. Jason talks through his journey into game development and explains how others can get started with building all sorts of games using the Unity game engine.

You can get started prototyping a game by dragging a few elements in and writing a minimal amount of C#. Chuck and Jason compare front-end components to game components and then explain the ins and outs of building and designing a game.