In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Armin Ronacher about his contributions to open source, queues and messaging in apps, scaling up a queue, and how it all works at Sentry.

Show Notes

• 00:35 Welcome
• 01:49 Who is Armin Ronacher?
• Armin Ronacher

mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher)

Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko)

Armin Ronacher

Armin Ronacher

Apache Kafka

04:11 What are queues and what are they used for?

08:02 Do you listen or poll for updates in the queue?

12:49 Does this help when a provider goes down?

18:31 How do you architect a queue?

20:20 How does it scale up?

27:05 How does Sentry manage all the data flowing in from events?

Redis Message Broker | Redis Enterprise

Messaging that just works — RabbitMQ

Using RabbitMQ — Celery 5.3.1 documentation

33:45 How do you visualize the data?

37:15 Edge case that Sentry had to fix

40:22 How are you using Rust?

Rust Programming Language

43:32 Why is Python so popular in the AI space?

45:17 What do you think about JavaScript on the server?

48:02 Supper Club questions

50:44 How do you stay motivated with programming?

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