Optimize All The Things

Optimize All The Things

By Bartłomiej Płotka & Ivan ValkovBusinessTechnologyCareers
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Optimize All The Things episodes

  • Optimizing 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
    1 hr 7 min
  • Optimizing 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

    1 hr 19 min
  • 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

    1 hr 6 min

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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…