Scale Your Code Podcast

Building great products requires great developers and community building skills. Jeff Atwood explains how he finds talent and how he builds massive communities like Coding Horror and Stack Exchange. He also talks about the stack powering Discourse.

CodePen's server master tells us everything about their stack and how they handle 12,000 requests per minute.

Whether you are new or experienced with JS, Eric explains how to make your apps more scalable. We talk about performance, what we can do with Node.js, and how Eric is working to end poverty with code.

Florian explains how they are able to quickly boot up containers to build, run, and deploy applications. We also talk about the company's experience at Techstars, what it's like to be CTO, and why CI is important for small as well as big teams.

How much time have you spent configuring your server just to forget all the details? Forget it all and let Chef manage your infrastructure. Nathen walks us through the first steps in getting started with a webserver example and testing workflow.

Have you ever built or used an API before? APIs either save you a lot of time or give you nightmares. Take your skills to the next level and learn how to build APIs the right way with Phil.

Chris shares his config files to secure and configure his servers, and he explains why Vagrant is useful to learn server configuration and to create development environments. He also explains how Nginx and PHP-FPM work, and deploying code to live servers.

Steve Corona explains how to scale from a few users to millions. He also shares his personal story and college advice. This is the interview I wish I could have watched 5 years ago.

Tired of messy jQuery code? Michael shows on screen how Backbone.js solves that issue, and how to speed up development with CakePHP and Vagrant. To wrap up, Michael easily deploys using Capistrano.

Thomas talks about challenges he faced writing plugins and how he overcame them. We also go over his WordPress core contributions. To wrap up, we go over his workflow (how he tackles big coding projects), and how to find the right business partner.