Optimize All The Things

By Bartłomiej Płotka & Ivan Valkov

Welcome to OAT!

Join us to discuss ideas and tools that make our software and development processes faster, more efficient, and healthy! We talk about performance improvemen

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The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.

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April 10, 2023Optimizing DevOps and Organizational Structure: Solving The Phoenix Project
In this episode Ivan asks Bartek to solve the problems presented in the book "The Phoenix Project". We talk about DevOps, organizational structures, the mythical 10x engineer, the value of mentors, and why Kubernetes does not just magically solve all of the above. No prior reading of "The Phoenix Project" required - we also try to keep spoilers to the minimum. As always, we also cover some of the news that got our attention this week. Show notes:
The Phoenix Project: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17255186
Twitter Open Sources their algorithm: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm & https://www.wired.com/story/twitters-open-source-algorithm-is-a-red-herring/
Duolingo's Love Island April Fools Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezI5izBvZbo
Obsidian's "Unhelper" AI assistant: https://twitter.com/obsdmd/status/1642228672923877381?s=20
Razer Razer April's Fool announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvSmM68xW5Q
ChatGPT: The Revolutionary Bullsh*t Parrot - https://www.reasonfieldlab.com/post/chatgpt-the-revolutionary-bullshit-parrot
How to be a -10x Engineer: https://taylor.town/-10x
As always, feedback and questions are welcomed! You can use this form - https://forms.gle/NmUGeqMtyP6H6mMP9
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1h 7min
April 02, 2023Optimizing Prometheus Efficiency with Bryan Boreham
Have you ever wondered how people find performance bottlenecks and improve them in complex systems? What tools and techniques work in real life applications? When should you stop optimizing? Well, this is the episode for you. Our first ever guest, Bryan Boreham from Grafana Labs, sits down with us and walks us over his experience of optimizing the popular open-source project Prometheus. Before the super insightful discussion on this topic, we cover the tech news from the week that got our attention. Show notes:
Bryan Boreham - follow at @bboreham
Prometheus - https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus
Docker puts a stop to sunsetting their free team plans - https://www.docker.com/blog/no-longer-sunsetting-the-free-team-plan/
ChatGPT announces plugins - https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins
Github Copilot X is announced - https://github.blog/2023-03-22-github-copilot-x-the-ai-powered-developer-experience/
As always, feedback and questions are welcomed! You can use this form - https://forms.gle/NmUGeqMtyP6H6mMP9
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1h 19min
March 23, 2023 Optimizing Cognitive Load with Middlewares and Tripperwares
episode{pod="oat"} 0 # Welcome to our first, number 0 (ofc, arrays always start from zero), episode! The first episode is about something very hands-down and actionable in the software--the middleware coding pattern! What is it? Is it under-hyped? What are the alternatives? Before the main topic, Ivan & Bartek discuss (20m) some exciting tech news from the last week. Want to ask a question or give feedback? Use this form: https://forms.gle/NmUGeqMtyP6H6mMP9
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1h 6min

FAQs about Optimize All The Things:

How many episodes does Optimize All The Things have?

The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.