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Go, Jocko, Kafka (Go Time #31) Jan 26, 2017

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Travis Jeffery joined the show to talk about Go, Jocko, Kafka, how Kafka’s storage internals work, and interesting Go projects and news.

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Travis Jeffery – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

JOCKO — a Kafka implemented in Golang
Building a Kafka that doesn’t depend on ZooKeeper
How Kafka’s Storage Internals Work
Kafka protocol guide
A really interesting post by Russ Cox ~> My Go Resolutions for 2017

Ponzu is a powerful and efficient open-source HTTP server framework and CMS. It provides automatic, free, and secure HTTP/2 over TLS (certificates obtained via Let’s Encrypt), a useful CMS and scaffolding to generate content editors, and a fast HTTP API on which to build modern applications.
“SHENZHEN GO” (working title) - Experimental visual Go environment
Ebiten - A simple SNES-style 2D game library in Go
Subgraph OS is a desktop computing and communications platform that is designed to be resistant to network-borne exploit and malware attacks. It is also meant to be familiar and easy to use. Even in alpha, Subgraph OS looks and feels like a modern desktop operating system.
Cherami: Uber Engineering’s Durable and Scalable Task Queue in Go

Rust vs. Go + comments on Hacker News
How to educate me about prejudice in the open-source community
A great discussion in golang-dev this week ~> Standardization around logging and related concerns

Free Software Friday!

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Brian - goa/gorma
Erik - OpenOCD
Carlisia - oklog - Prometheus for logs
Travis - Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka antirez) + Redis

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Focused on a Safe and Inclusive Node Community (Spotlight #7) Jan 24, 2017

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In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Tracy Hinds, the Education Community Manager for the Node.js Foundation about the efforts being made towards a safer, inclusive community and their events, open source documentation and tooling for conferences, and everything in-between.

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StrongLoop – StrongLoop’s LoopBack is a highly-extensible, open-source Node.js framework you can use to create dynamic end-to-end REST APIs with little or no coding.
Node.js Foundation – The Node.js Foundation’s mission is to enable widespread adoption and help accelerate development of Node.js and other related modules through an open governance model that encourages participation, technical contribution, and a framework for long term stewardship by an ecosystem invested in Node.js’ success.

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Tracy Hinds – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

This “The Future of Node” Spotlight series was produced in partnership with The Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and sponsored by IBM and StrongLoop. It was recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX.

EmpireJS
EmpireJS on GitHub
EmpireNode - a yearly 100% community-run conference of the people, by the people, and for the people
How to Conf
Columbia Dev
@colombia_dev on Twitter
Check out Juan Pablo Buritica on GitHub and Twitter
Working Toward a Safer, Inclusive Event: Node.js Interactive North America by Tracy Hinds, education community manager of the Node.js Foundation
Node.js Live - A series of global events from the Node.js Foundation bringing together local Node.js developers around the world. Each event is different and tailored to the local community, varying in length and in some cases in partnership with local Node.js groups and users.
NodeTogether was started by Ashley Williams as an initiative to improve the diversity of the Node community by bringing people of underrepresented groups together to learn Node.js.
Resources and ways to get involved with Node.js
Check out the 2016 Node.js User Survey for Q4 as well as the results of the previous 2016 Node.js User Survey, which also has an accompanying results PDF.
Listen to The Changelog #235 to hear from Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China.

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Discussing Imposter Syndrome (Go Time #30) Jan 19, 2017

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Johnny Boursiquot and Bill Kennedy joined the show with Erik and Carlisia to talk about a hard subject — Imposter Syndrome. Not often enough do we get to have open conversations about the eventual inadequacies we all face at some point in our career; some more often than others. You are !imposter.

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StackImpact – StackImpact is all about profiling and monitoring for Go. Laser focus on the performance of your Go applications.
Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.

Featuring:

Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Bill Kennedy – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

This episode is direct product of listening to our listeners
Erik faced his biggest fear and gave this talk at KubeCon
The Imposter’s Handbook by Rob Conery comes highly recommended
Check out #speaking in Gopher Slack

Free Software Friday

Erik - Polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
Carlisia - Play With Docker / play-with-docker.com gives you the experience of having a free Alpine Linux Virtual Machine in the cloud where you can build and run Docker containers and even create clusters with Docker features like Swarm Mode.)
Bill - Pachyderm lets you store and analyze your data using containers. All things gonum
Johnny - Spectacle allows you to organize your windows without using a mouse.

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ANTHOLOGY – Hacker Stories From OSCON, All Things Open, and Node Interactive (Changelog Interviews #235) Jan 13, 2017

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In this anthology episode we’re featuring three awesome hacker stories from OSCON, All Things Open, and Node Interactive — Giovanni Caligaris about how he brought LibreOffice to the people of Paraguay by translating it to their native tongue. Stu Keroff about the Linux user group he started for kids called The Asian Penguins. Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China.

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GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention combines the experience of the open source community with ideas and strategies for using open source tools and technologies. There’s no event quite like OSCON! Make plans now to be at OSCON May 8-11, 2017, in Austin, TX. Registration is now open — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG20 when you register.
All Things Open – Join 2,000+ technologists and decision makers in Raleigh, NC — The epicenter of innovation, technology and open source, and home to one of the most sophisticated audiences on Earth.
Node.js Interactive – Node.js Interactive is a conference for the Node community focused on education and community building. Use the code CNGJS16 to get 15% off registration.
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:

Giovanni Caligaris – Twitter
Stu Keroff – Twitter, Website
Shiya Luo – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

First, we talk with Giovanni Caligaris about how he brought LibreOffice to the people of Paraguay by translating it to their native tongue: Guaraní.

Second, we talk with Stu Keroff about the Linux user group he started for kids called The Asian Penguins in a school for Asian refugees where they learn to install, use, and configure Linux and open source software.

Last, we talk with Shiya Luo about how China does Node, translations of documentation and books from English to Chinese, and the Great Firewall of China (a censorship and surveillance project of the Chinese government) which makes it very difficult for the people of China to interact with the rest of the web.

LibreOffice
Asian Penguins
Stu Keroff’s talk at ATO 2016 - Middle Schoolers, Linux, and the Digital Divide and the talk’s details on the ATO site.
Shiya Luo’s talk at Node Interactive - How China Does Node
cnpm - npm client for China mirror of npm

Thanks Breakmaster Cylinder!

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Keeping Node Core Small (Spotlight #6) Jan 11, 2017

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In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Sam Roberts (Node Runtimes at IBM) and Thomas Watson (Node.js Lead at Opbeat) about “Small Core” and keeping Node Core small, what to put in, what to take out, how to deprecate and everything in-between.

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IBM – Use IBM API Connect to manage your entire API lifecycle from creation to management.
StrongLoop – StrongLoop’s LoopBack is a highly-extensible, open-source Node.js framework you can use to create dynamic end-to-end REST APIs with little or no coding.
Node.js Foundation – The Node.js Foundation’s mission is to enable widespread adoption and help accelerate development of Node.js and other related modules through an open governance model that encourages participation, technical contribution, and a framework for long term stewardship by an ecosystem invested in Node.js’ success.

Featuring:

Sam Roberts – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Thomas Watson – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Node.js JavaScript runtime (aka Node Core) on GitHub
Thanks to IBM and Dave Whiteley for having Sam to participate in this roundtable discussion
Thanks to Opbeat for sending Thomas to Node Interactive and for all the other ways they support the community.
If you’re interested in speaking or attending Node.js Interactive North America 2017 in in Vancouver, Canada this Fall, subscribe to the Node.js community newsletter

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Open Collective and funding open source (Changelog Interviews #234) Jan 09, 2017

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Pia Mancini joined the show to talk about Open Collective, her background and where she came from, her passion to upgrade democracy, funding and sustaining open source, what open collective is, how it works, how you can support your favorite open source communities, but more importably how you can take part and start your own collective.

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Toptal – Scale your team and hire the top 3% of developers and designers at Toptal. Email Adam at adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction to Toptal.
Rollbar – Put errors in their place! Full-stack error tracking for all apps in any language.

Featuring:

Pia Mancini – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Pia gave a talk at TEDGlobal 2014 on How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era (over a million views 😱)
DemocracyOS
Democracy Earth
OpenCollective.com
Open Collective — Open Source Collective
Webpack on Open Collective
2016 on Open Collective, and what’s in the works for 2017!
Open Collective Issues
Support for paid events - Issue #177
Together we crowdfunded a yearly budget of over $100,000 for Open Source
Check out Gratipay and our past episode with Chad Whitacre.

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Creating a programming language (Go Time #28) Dec 23, 2016

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Thorsten Ball joined the show to talk about creating a programming language, writing an interpreter, why he wrote the book “Writing An Interpreter in Go”, how writing a language/interpreter will help you better understand other programming languages, building a computer from Nand to Tetris, and his thoughts on imposter syndrome.

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Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free!
Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform.
Backtrace – Reduce your time to resolution. Go beyond stacktraces and logs. Get to the root cause quickly with deep application introspection at your fingertips.
StackImpact – StackImpact is all about profiling and monitoring for Go. Laser focus on the performance of your Go applications.

Featuring:

Thorsten Ball – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Writing An Interpreter In Go - In this book we will create a programming language together. We’ll start with 0 lines of code and end up with a fully working interpreter for the Monkey* programming language. Step by step. From tokens to output. All code shown and included. Fully tested.
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
From NAND to Tetris
Go Advent 2016 blog series
Damian Gryski is now a /r/golang moderator
Take the 2016 Go User Survey — the goal is to create the best language for developing simple, reliable, scalable software. We are asking you to help by participating in a survey and if applicable, a company questionnaire.
From Coursera — Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris (Project-Centered Course)
Ken Thompson - Reflections on Trusting Trust

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BONUS – Behind the Scenes of Season 1 and 2 (Request For Commits) Dec 22, 2016

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In this special episode of Request For Commits we close out the first season with a look behind the scenes of the show. We talked about how the show was formed, who’s involved and why, how we approach producing this show, our theme music, as well as our plans and timing for season 2.

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Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

We will begin production of season 2 in Q1 of 2017 and release in Q2. Subscribe to the master feed to get all Changelog podcasts and Changelog Weekly so you don’t skip a beat.

The theme music for RFC was created by Breakmaster Cylinder — Listen to it on Bandcamp
The Changelog #193: Funding and Sustaining Open Source with Nadia Eghbal
If you haven’t yet, read Karl Fogel’s book — Producing Open Source Software
Open Source, Then and Now with Karl Fogel (author of Producing Open Source Software) — Part 1 and Part 2
Grant Funding: What Happens When You Pay for Open Source Work? with Max Ogden, creator of Dat
Funding the Web with Brendan Eich

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GitHub Product & GraphQL (Spotlight #5) Dec 19, 2016

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In this episode of Spotlight recorded at OSCON London 2016, Jerod talked with Coby Chapple, a product designer at GitHub (since 2012), about projects, transactional code reviews, and GraphQL. Coby drops a lot of knowledge bombs in this interview. You don’t want to miss this episode.

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