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Open Source, Then and Now (Part 2) (Request For Commits #2) Aug 04, 2016

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Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers kick off Season 1 of Request For Commits with a two part conversation with Karl Fogel — a software developer who has been active in open source since its inception.

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Karl Fogel – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Karl served on the board of the Open Source Initiative, which coined the term “open source”, and helped write Subversion, a popular version control system that predates Git. Karl also wrote a popular book on managing open source projects called Producing Open Source Software. He’s currently a partner at Open Tech Strategies, a firm that helps major organizations use open source to achieve their goals.

Read Karl Fogel’s book — Producing Open Source Software
Make sure you start with part 1 with Karl Fogel where we kick off this conversation.

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Open Source, Then and Now (Part 1) (Request For Commits #1) Aug 04, 2016

Show notes

Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers kick off Season 1 of Request For Commits with a two part conversation with Karl Fogel — a software developer who has been active in open source since its inception.

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Karl Fogel – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Nadia Eghbal – Twitter, GitHub
Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Read Karl Fogel’s book — Producing Open Source Software
Listen to part 2 with Karl Fogel as we continue this conversation.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

State of Go Survey and Go at Heroku (Go Time #10) Aug 01, 2016

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Ed Muller from Heroku join us to discuss his State of Go survey, vendoring and versioning, the Heroku Go Buildpack, how they use Go at Heroku, and more.

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Featuring:

Ed Muller – Twitter, GitHub
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

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Interesting Go Projects and News

Free Software Friday

Brian - git-branches: prints the commit behind/ahead counts for branches
Carlisia - Pachyderm: store and analyze your data using containers
Ed - Visual Studio Code
Erik - Kafka (Kafka on Heroku)

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ZEIT, HyperTerm, now (Changelog Interviews #213) Jul 30, 2016

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Guillermo Rauch joined the show to talk with Adam about how he got into programming, how that lead him to what he’s doing now at ZEIT, the design of HyperTerm, and now.

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Elixir Conf 2016 – We’re betting big on Elixir and this is THE conference to be at in the Elixir world. Join José Valim, Chris McCord, Sonny Scroggin, James Edward Gray, Bruce Tate, Eric Meadows-Jönnson, and many more for a vacation-style conference, with world-class training!

Featuring:

Guillermo Rauch – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Scott Mansfield on Go at Netflix (Go Time #9) Jul 28, 2016

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Scott Mansfield joins us this week to talk about Go at Netflix, performance, latency and caching, Rend (their memcached proxy), chaos monkey, and more.

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

Show Notes:

Rend - A memcached proxy that manages data chunking and L1/L2 caches
Netlix chaos monkey Note: a new version in Go is imminent
Rob Pike’s Google I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency Patterns (video)
How to block Forever in Go

Interesting Go Projects and News

Free Software Friday

Brian - Jess Frazelle’s dotfiles:0 to Awesome in one clone
Carlisia - Network Programming with Go
Scott - Go
Erik - unix-like reverse engineering framework and commandline tools

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Asim Aslam on Micro, the Go Microservice Toolkit (Go Time #8) Jul 27, 2016

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Asim Aslam joined us to talk about Micro, a pluggable RPC based library which provides the fundamental building blocks for writing microservices in Go. We also discussed open source sustainability, microservices, and serverless architecture.

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Asim Aslam – GitHub, LinkedIn
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Micro
Blog post: “Writing microservices with Go Micro”
Micro Slack
What is Serverless Computing? (Quora)
Serverless Framework - Build web, mobile and IoT applications with serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google CloudFunctions & more!
Apex - Servless architecture
Source code behind IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk

Projects and News

Free Software Friday

Brian - CoreOS
Carlisia - State Management for Go, inspired by Redux by Luis Vinicius Pacheco
Asim: Postfix
Erik - VLC

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Raphaël Simon on goa, the Framework for Building Microservices (Go Time #7) Jul 26, 2016

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A deep dive into goa, a design-based microservice framework with a DSL that generates idiomatic Go code for your APIs, swagger documentation, and tests helpers.

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Raphaël Simon – Twitter, GitHub
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Raphael Simon Introduction

Discussion

Swagger
#goa on Gophers Slack
Abstractions conference - discount code ($50 off): gotime
Blog post: “goa: Untangling Microservices”

Interesting Go Projects and News

Free Software Friday

Brian - Bitly’s NSQ, A realtime distributed messaging platform and GopherCon 2014 Spray Some NSQ On It by Matt Reiferson (Video)
Carlisia iTerm2 v2.9beta or above
Raphael - rethinkdb - The open-source database
for the realtime web + All companies that let their employees develop open source projects.
Erik - RocksDB - embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage

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SiteSpeed.io and Performance (Changelog Interviews #212) Jul 23, 2016

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Peter Hedenskog joined the show to talk about SiteSpeed.io and web performance. We covered where it came from, where it’s going, and more importantly, simple ways you can focus on your web performance.

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Peter Hedenskog – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Open Source at Facebook (Changelog Interviews #211) Jul 15, 2016

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James Pearce, Head of Open Source at Facebook, joined the show to talk about that very subject — open source at Facebook, his path to software development, why he’s the person to lead open source at Facebook, their view on open source, their culture of open source, how they choose what to open source, and more importantly — how they focus on, support, and nurture the community.

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James Pearce – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

ngrok and Go (Changelog Interviews #210) Jul 09, 2016

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Alan Shreve, creator of the beloved ngrok, joined the show to talk about ngrok — what it is, why it exists, why he wrote it in Go, and ultimately why 1.0 is open source but 2.0 is not.

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