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Gerhard, Alan, Saul & Wycliffe — **A monorepo of serverless microservices (Ship It! #13)** Aug 04, 2021
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In this episode, Gerhard talks to his Skyhook Adventure friends: Alan Cooney, Saul Cullen & Wycliffe Maina. They are the ones that introduced Gerhard to the world of serverless in the context of Amazon Web Services. Gerhard shared his experience with remote work, how to ship software with confidence and consistency, and what to look for in infrastructure as code.

At the heart of Skyhook Adventure are adventure trips, and 2020 was not a good one for this business. As you can already tell, code and infrastructure was not the biggest challenge for this team. Having said that, serverless, microservices, a monorepo and the event-based architecture played a big part in successfully navigating the challenges.

This is a story about what happens when a good team allows itself to be guided by solid experience and keeps doing the right thing, long-term. It’s fun, real, and it applies to many.

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LaunchDarkly – **Ship fast. Rest easy.** Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.

Sentry – **Working code means happy customers.** That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code `SHIPIT` and get the team plan free for three months.

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Featuring:
Alan Cooney – GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Saul Cullen – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Wycliffe Maina – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Show Notes:

Skyhook Adventure - the end-result that this team ships many times per day

📚Welcome to the Experience Economy (the book that @saulgcullen mentioned)

**The skyhookadventure.com 2021 setup:**

AWS Lambda - serverless functions

AWS Event Bridge - serverless events

AWS DynamoDB - serverless document based database

AWS CDK - infrastructure as code

Vercel - server-side rendered frontend hosting

GitHub - version control

GitHub Actions - continuous delivery

Split - feature flags

Drip - email marketing

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AI is creating never before heard sounds! 🎵 (Practical AI #143) Aug 03, 2021

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AI is being used to transform the most personal instrument we have, our voice, into something that can be “played.” This is fascinating in and of itself, but Yotam Mann from Never Before Heard Sounds is doing so much more! In this episode, he describes how he is using neural nets to process audio in real time for musicians and how AI is poised to change the music industry forever.

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Yotam Mann – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Modern Unix tools (Changelog Interviews #451) Jul 31, 2021

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This week we’re talking with Nick Janetakis about modern unix tools, and the various commands, tooling, and ways we use the commmand line. Do you Bash or Zsh? Do you use cat or bat? What about man vs tldr? Today’s show is a deep dive into unix tools you know and love, or should know and maybe love.

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LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
Sentry – Sentry shipped their SDK for Next.js. Now in your Next.js apps, you can capture errors, measure performance, manage releases, configure suspect commits, and automatically upload sourcemaps to view unminified JavaScript and TypeScript with zero(-ish) configuration. Use the code THECHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
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Featuring:

Nick Janetakis – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Modern alternatives to Unix commands
Modern Unix
bat
fzf
mcfly
envsubst from GNU gettext; envsubst in Go
- Nick’s blog post on envsubst
https://uses.tech
NanoVMs let you run your apps faster and safer with Unikernels

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**Grafana’s "Big Tent" idea (Ship It! #12)** Jul 30, 2021
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Gerhard talks to Tom Wilkie, VP of Product for Grafana Labs. They talk about Loki, Tempo, and how can Grafana Cloud offer such a generous free tier. The solution is in the Cortex architecture, which was used in Loki and in Tempo too. Yes, Tom is the Cortex co-author. We recommend that you listen to this episode in combination with episodes 3 and 11. That’s the best way to get a more complete picture of the topics that we discuss today.

Lastly, would you like to watch Gerhard & Tom pair-up and build Grafana dashboards like pros? Tom has this really interesting approach that Gerhard would like to learn too. We can either have a live YouTube stream, or record and then publish the video. Let us know your preference via our Changelog Slack, or just plain Twitter.

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LaunchDarkly – **Ship fast. Rest easy.** Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.

Cockroach Labs – Scale fast, survive anything, thrive everywhere! CockroachDB is most highly evolved database on the planet. Build and scale fast with CockroachCloud (CockroachDB hosted as a service) where a team of world-class SREs maintains and manages your database infrastructure, so you can focus less on ops and more on code. Get started for free their 30-day trial or try their forever-free tier. Learn more at cockroachlabs.com/changelog.

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Featuring:
Tom Wilkie – Twitter, GitHub
Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Show Notes:

Cortex

Loki

Tempo

grafana-agent

Grafana Cloud

Grafana & Prometheus unified alerting

What Does the Future Hold for Observability? Kubecon EU 2019 Keynote

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Getting hooked on React (JS Party #186) Jul 30, 2021

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This week we talk with Kent C. Dodds, one of the greatest React teachers in the industry, all about React! Why choose React over another framework? What are the hardest parts about learning React? You’ll find out this week!

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Micro – Micro is reimagining the cloud for the next generation of developers. It’s a developer friendly platform to explore, search, and use simpler APIs for everyday consumption all in one place. They’re in early development building out the first set of APIs, and they’re looking for feedback from developers. Signup and get $5 in free credits.
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Kent C. Dodds – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Emma Bostian – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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How to make mistakes in Go (Go Time #190) Jul 29, 2021

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The panel are joined by Teiva Harsanyi, author of 100 Go Mistakes, to talk about how best to make mistakes when writing Go.

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Featuring:

Teiva Harsanyi – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Mark Bates – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Shout at: Lagos Gophers in Nigeria!
Get the book: 100 Go Mistakes - How to avoid them
35% discount code (good for all our products in all formats) for your listeners: use code podgotime21

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Building a data team (Practical AI #142) Jul 27, 2021

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Inspired by a recent article from Erik Bernhardsson titled “Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story”, Chris and Daniel discuss all things AI/data team building. They share some stories from their experiences kick starting AI efforts at various organizations and weight the pro and cons of things like centralized data management, prototype development, and a focus on engineering skills.

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Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.

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Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

“Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story” by Erik Bernhardsson

Books

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Into the Wormhole (JS Party #185) Jul 23, 2021

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Feross is back with a brand new web app for us to pick apart! Wormhole is the fastest way to send files on the internet and we want to know why he built it, how it works, and what crazy hacks he invented along the way.

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Micro – Micro is reimagining the cloud for the next generation of developers. It’s a developer friendly platform to explore, search, and use simpler APIs for everyday consumption all in one place. They’re in early development building out the first set of APIs, and they’re looking for feedback from developers. Signup and get $5 in free credits.
Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust! Use API Explorer to interact with, test, or play with your applications in Square. You can build, view, and send HTTP requests that call Square APIs with API Explorer. Get started with Square, check out the API Explorer, or the API Explorer docs.

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Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Gerhard & Charity — **Honeycomb's secret to high-performing teams (Ship It! #11)** Jul 22, 2021
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Gerhard talks with Charity Majors, ops engineer and accidental startup founder at honeycomb.io about high-performing teams, why “15 minutes or bust,” and how we should start using Honeycomb in our own monolithic Phoenix app that runs changelog.com. There is just one step, and it’s actually really simple!

They also talk about how Honeycomb uses Honeycomb to learn about Honeycomb, which is one of Gerhard’s favorite questions. As for key take-aways, deploying straight into production is really important, but not as important as optimising for humans - which are not replaceable cogs, that learn and share their learnings continuously. That is the secret to making things easy and happy for everyone.

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Armory – Empower your development teams to deploy code with increased safety, resilience, velocity, and compliance – to any production target on prem or in the cloud using Armory’s enterprise-grade distribution of Spinnaker. Learn more at armory.io/shipit

LaunchDarkly – **Ship fast. Rest easy.** Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.

Fastly – **Our bandwidth partner.** Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com.

Featuring:
Charity Majors – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Show Notes:

📚 Observability Engineering (Early Release) - Free download

🎬 The State of Observability 2021: Mature Teams Ship Better Code Faster and You Can Too

What is Observability?

Define SLOs

Kubernetes is complicated

rubygems.org Fastly logs in Honeycomb

RDS Performance Degradation – Postmortem 2018

o11ycon 2021 videos

hnycon 2021 keynote

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Do devs need a product manager? (Go Time #189) Jul 22, 2021

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What is a Product Manager, and do Engineers need them? In this episode, we will be discussing what a Product Manager does, what makes a good Product Manager, and debating if engineering teams truly need them, with some tech companies going without them. We are joined by Gaëlle Sharma, Senior Technical Product Manager, at the New York Times, leading the Identity group.

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Cockroach Labs – Scale fast, survive anything, thrive everywhere! CockroachDB is most highly evolved database on the planet. Build and scale fast with CockroachCloud (CockroachDB hosted as a service) where a team of world-class SREs maintains and manages your database infrastructure, so you can focus less on ops and more on code. Get started for free their 30-day trial or try their forever-free tier. Learn more at cockroachlabs.com/changelog.
Sourcegraph – Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started.
GitLab – You are invited to attend GitLab Commit 2021 (it’s free) — GitLab’s upcoming user community event, August 3rd & 4th. Learn more about modern DevOps, and how it transforms companies of all sizes and pushes teams to drive innovation to market. Get ready to Innovate Together during this free event designed to help you commit to better DevOps. Register and learn more at gitlabcommitvirtual2021.com.

Featuring:

Gaëlle Sharma – LinkedIn
Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

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