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Fresh voices! (JS Party #73) Apr 30, 2019

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Jerod welcomes new panelists Emma Wedekind and Divya Sasidharan to the party! We get to know these two amazing ladies and then open up the conversation to talk about what’s on their mind. Divya broaches the nuanced topics of keeping up with the fast pace of the developer world while maintaining balance and Emma wants to talk books.

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Emma Bostian – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Listen to this episode of The Changelog for more on Emma’s writing and mentoring efforts
The Heroines of JavaScript Trading Cards feature 3 of our panelists 🙌

Books!

Atomic Habits by James Clear
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers
Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger
Blinkist is not a sponsor… yet! 😜
Or you can just learn How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
The Mythical Man-Month is a classic
As is The Pragmatic Programmer
The You Don’t Know JS book series
Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Nicholas Zakas
Here’s Code Complete in PDF format
Learning JavaScript Design Patterns by Addy Osmani

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Running functions anywhere with OpenFaaS (Changelog Interviews #343) Apr 25, 2019

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We’re talking with Alex Ellis, the founder of OpenFaaS — serverless functions made simple for Docker and Kubernetes. We talked about the backstory and details of OpenFaaS, “the curious case of serverless on Kubernetes,” the landscape of open source serverless platforms, how Alex is leading and building this community, getting involved, and maintainership vs leadership.

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Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.

Featuring:

Alex Ellis – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

OpenFaaS — serverless functions made simple for Docker and Kubernetes
You can donate to support the ongoing development and independence of OpenFaaS
Announcing the OpenFaaS function store
OpenFaaS #TeamServerless on LinkedIn
The Changelog #253: The serverless revolution with Pam Selle
JS Party #49: Serverless? We don’t need no stinkin’ SERVERS with special guest Jeremy Daly
The curious case of serverless on Kubernetes
The Changelog #329: Perspectives on Kubernetes and successful cloud platforms with Brendan Burns
(BOOK) - Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
Inlets – expose your local endpoints to the internet

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Hiring and job interviews (Go Time #82) Apr 23, 2019

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Panelists Mat Ryer, Ashley McNamara, Johnny Boursiquot, and Carmen Andoh discuss the process of getting hired, hiring, and job interviews. If people are the most important part of a team, how do we pick who we work with? What’s the process like? How can it better?

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Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Ashley Willis – Twitter, GitHub
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Carmen Andoh – Twitter, GitHub

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Deep Reinforcement Learning (Practical AI #40) Apr 23, 2019

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While attending the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley, Chris met up with Adam Stooke, a speaker and PhD student at UC Berkeley who is doing groundbreaking work in large-scale deep reinforcement learning and robotics. Adam took Chris on a tour of deep reinforcement learning - explaining what it is, how it works, and why it’s one of the hottest technologies in artificial intelligence!

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O'Reilly Open Source Software Conference – OSCON has been ground zero for the open source community for 20 years. This year they’ve expanded to become a “software development conference” — because in 2019, software development IS open source. The program covers everything from open source, AI, infrastructure, blockchain, edge computing, architecture, and emerging languages. Use the code CHANGELOG20 to get 20% off Bronze, Silver, and Gold passes.
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GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.

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Adam Stooke – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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LIVE from React Amsterdam (JS Party #72) Apr 19, 2019

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KBall MC’d a live show at React Amsterdam with a panel of 5 amazing React experts — Kitze, Michel Weststrate, Mike Grabowski, Vladimir Novick, and Andrey Okonetchnikov. It was a great discussion of state management solutions and the future of state management in the front-end.

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Manifold – Manifold is the easiest way for you to discover, buy, and manage the best developer services for your application, regardless of your cloud. Discover the best cloud services for your projects at manifold.co
GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.

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Kitze – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Michel Weststrate – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mike Grabowski – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Vladimir Novick – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Andrey Okonetchnikov – Twitter, GitHub
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Special thanks to React Amsterdam — the biggest React conference worldwide!
MobX
Hooks
GraphQL
Talk: State Management in the GraphQL Era
Observables in MobX
The Curious Case of MobX State Tree
Aven Cloud Framework
Logux
Xamarin
Flutter
Hasura.io
React Native Community
Vladimir’s YouTube channel with bootcamps

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Zero up-front costs for a CS education (Founders Talk #63) Apr 19, 2019

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What would be the impact on the world if a Computer Science education was available to you completely free of charge until you get a job in that field paying $50,000 or more? That’s the question that drives Austen Allred and the team behind Lambda School. Lambda School is a revolutionary new school that invests in its students and they completely align their interests with their students. Seems like a novel idea, right? But Austen’s path to Silicon Valley was where things began for him, so that’s where we’ll start today’s conversation.

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Austen Allred – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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From zero to thought leader in 6 months (Changelog Interviews #342) Apr 18, 2019

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We’re talking with Emma Bostian about going from zero to thought leader in 6 months. We talk about the nuances of UX including the differences between an UX Designer and a UX Engineer, we touch on “the great divide”, and we talk about Coding Coach — the open source project and community that Emma and others are building to connect software developers and mentors all over the world.

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GoCD + Kubernetes – With GoCD running on Kubernetes, you define your build workflow and let GoCD provision and scale build infrastructure on the fly. GoCD installs as a Kubernetes native application. Scale your build infrastructure elastically. Learn more at gocd.org/kubernetes
Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
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:

Emma Bostian – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

emmawedekind.com
Emma Wedekind on dev.to
How I Gained 27,000 Twitter Followers In 6 Months
My Journey Into Software Engineering
5 Books Which Will Improve Your Career
Book —The Culture Map
Coding Coach — a free, open-source platform which aims to connect software developers and mentors all over the world.
mentors.codingcoach.io
Coding Coach on Patreon
Coding-Coach/coding-coach
Coding-Coach/find-a-mentor
LogMeIn
The Changelog #333: Tactical design advice for developers featuring Erik Kennedy
Lara Hogan on mentorship and sponsorship
JS Party #61: How great the (front end) divide with Nick, Suz, and KBall
JS Party #67: The great divide reprise featuring Chris Coyier

Questions from the community and Twitter

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All about APIs! (Go Time #81) Apr 16, 2019

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Panelists Mat Ryer, Johnny Boursiquot, Jaana B. Dogan, and Mark Bates discuss how humans build machine to machine integrations via APIs — the good, the bad, and the ugly — and how to give yourself the best chance of success.

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Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.
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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Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jaana Dogan – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mark Bates – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Making the world a better place at the AI for Good Foundation (Practical AI #39) Apr 15, 2019

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Longtime listeners know that we’re always advocating for ‘AI for good’, but this week we have taken it to a whole new level. We had the privilege of chatting with James Hodson, Director of the AI for Good Foundation, about ways they have used artificial intelligence to positively-impact the world - from food production to climate change. James inspired us to find our own ways to use AI for good, and we challenge our listeners to get out there and do some good!

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DigitalOcean – Check out DigitalOcean’s dedicated vCPU Droplets with dedicated vCPU threads. Get started for free with a $100 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog.
O'Reilly Open Source Software Conference – OSCON has been ground zero for the open source community for 20 years. This year they’ve expanded to become a “software development conference” — because in 2019, software development IS open source. The program covers everything from open source, AI, infrastructure, blockchain, edge computing, architecture, and emerging languages. Use the code CHANGELOG20 to get 20% off Bronze, Silver, and Gold passes.
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.
Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog.

Featuring:

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

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Wow, Gatsby is a mashup on steroids (JS Party #71) Apr 12, 2019

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KBall and Jason geek out on the ins and outs of Gatsby. They talked through the fundamentals of working with Gatsby, the development process, and look into the future of Gatsby.

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Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Less code, less maintenance, more acceptance testing. Gauge is a free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Gauge tests are in Markdown which makes writing and maintaining tests easier.
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.