In this episode we chat with Steve O'Hara, VP of Engineering at 8x8. Steve is a great story teller with a long history of working on everything from toilet algorithms on ships to flight control systems. He currently focuses on building enterprise Contact Center software for 8x8's global customers. 

In this episode I have the pleasure of chatting with Abby Mitchell who works as a Quantum Developer Advocate at IBM.

We discuss what is quantum computing, how to get into it, why it's important, what it can be used for, and shockingly what Abby likes on her pizza—you've wont believe it, but you might try it!

Links:

• https://qiskit.org
• https://qiskit.org/learn/
• https://www.youtube.com/@qiskit

Creators & Guests

• Readme
• YCombinator
• Superhuman
• Startup Escape (the escape room mentioned)

In this episode I'm joined by Martin Woodward, VP of Developer Relations at GitHub. We recorded this episode at GitHub Universe 2022 in San Francisco. We talk about the conference, DevRel, some of the new GitHub features, how people use GitHub, and more. Hope you enjoy!

Bookmarks:

• What is GitHub and what do you do? (1:34)
• When did DevRel start at GitHub? (7:38)
• Codespaces (11:42)
• James Bond (15:59)
• IntelliJ and Codespaces (21:33)
• Developer Productivity (25:37)

Mentions:

• Everything new from GitHub Universe 2022
• GitHub Actions Importer
• What’s new with Codespaces from GitHub Universe 2022
• Martin Woodward on Twitter
• Picture of the e-ink GitHub Universe Badge (in this post)

• How can you build an API that has a good developer experience?
• On solving problems for who's trying to use your api
• Documentation acting as an API's UI/UX
• What Greg and I remember about being rejected from Y Combinator
• How we learned how to program
• Favorite APIs
• Slack's API
• A short story about the hockey API that I glued together to flash lights when my team scored on TV.

1. ReadMe
2. YCombinator
3. Wat
4. Slack's API

Special thanks to Lance's son, Alex, for creating the new intro entirely on his own from scratch.

Show Notes:

1. ReadMe
2. YCombinator
3. Lyft's API
4. RESTful APIs - or check out REST ELI5
5. Shawn Fanning
6. Guy Kawasaki
7. National Youth Leadership Forum on Technology -- it looks like they've changed the name of the programs slightly.

Special thanks to Lance's son, Alex for creating the new intro entirely on his own from scratch.

Kubernetes is a Playground

Discussed:

• Kubernetes - The main topic and the container orchestration system originally built and open sourced at Google.
• Lens - a visual kubernetes tool
• Visual Studio Code - A Code Editor
• helm - The package manager for Kubernetes
• kind - Kubernetes in Docker
• Micro k8s - Simple lightweight production grade kubernetes by Canonical, the maintainers of Ubuntu.
• k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
• Reinvent - Amazon Web Services conference
• EKS - Amazon's managed kubernetes service
• GKE - Google's managed kubernetes service
• Preemptible Nodes - Short lived nodes on Google that are a fraction of the normal cost.
• DKS - Digital Ocean's managed kubernetes service 
• Kustomize - Kubernetes native config management

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