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Cursor wants to write all the world's code (Changelog News #110) Sep 03, 2024

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The Cursor AI code editor raises $60 million, RedMonk’s Rachel Stephens tries to determine if rug pulls are worth it, Caleb Porzio details how he made $1 million on GitHub Sponsors, Elastic founder Shay Banon announces that Elasticsearch is open source (again) & Tomas Stropus writes about the art of finishing.

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The diagram IS the code (Ship It! #119) Aug 30, 2024

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What if your infrastructure diagram was responsible for the actual infrastructure?! John Watson & Scott Prutton from System Initiative join Justin & Autumn to discuss.

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John Watson – GitHub, LinkedIn
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Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Interview

System Initiative

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#define: piggyback (Changelog & Friends #59) Aug 30, 2024

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What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! There’s only one way to find out…

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Carol Lee – Mastodon, GitHub, LinkedIn
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Metrics Driven Development (Practical AI #284) Aug 29, 2024

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How do you systematically measure, optimize, and improve the performance of LLM applications (like those powered by RAG or tool use)? Ragas is an open source effort that has been trying to answer this question comprehensively, and they are promoting a “Metrics Driven Development” approach. Shahul from Ragas joins us to discuss Ragas in this episode, and we dig into specific metrics, the difference between benchmarking models and evaluating LLM apps, generating synthetic test data and more.

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Shahul Es – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Ragas

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Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Changelog Interviews #606) Aug 29, 2024

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Ryan Worl, Co-founder and CTO at WarpStream, joins us to talk about the world of Kafka and data streaming and how WarpStream redesigned the idea of Kafka to run in modern cloud environments directly on top of object storage. Last year they posted a blog titled, “Kafka is dead, long live Kafka” that hit the top of Hacker News to put WarpStream on the map. We get the backstory on Kafka and why it’s so widely used, who created it and for what purpose, and the behind the scenes on all things WarpStream.

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Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
Apache Kafka - open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
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When 3rd party JavaScript attacks (JS Party #336) Aug 29, 2024

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Simon Wijckmans from c/side joins Jerod & Nick to discuss the Pollyfill attack in detail. What does it mean for web developers & client-side security going forward?

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
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The Polyfill attack explained

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The community of gophers (Go Time #329) Aug 28, 2024

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On this episode, Angelica is joined by Go community leaders from around the world: meetup organizers from Guadalajara, St. Louis, New York & Go Bridge Atlanta. Together, they explore the ins & outs of organizing meetups, the benefits of attending, the Go Developer Network (GDN) & the current state of the Go Meetup community.

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Matthew Sanabria – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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What good programmers worry about (Changelog News #109) Aug 26, 2024

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Waymo cars make bad neighbors, Leonardo Creed pulls together wisdom from Linus Torvalds & the Art of Unix Programming to conclude what good programmers worry about, Max Schmitt makes the argument that toast notifications create a bad user experience, ChartDB is a web-based database diagramming editor, Simon Tatham makes a list of code review anti-patterns & scientists confirm that ‘flow state’ is very much a thing.

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The great escape room (Changelog & Friends #58) Aug 23, 2024

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Adam & Jerod catch up with our ol’ friend, Suz Hinton! It’s been a couple years since Suz was a regular on JS Party. Since then, she moved back to Australia, earned a degree in cyber security & won a fidget spinner from the NSA… but that’s not all!

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MySQL performance (Ship It! #118) Aug 23, 2024

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Silvia Botros joins Justin & Autumn for a phenomenal conversation about databases, her career path & the ins/outs of writing High Performance MySQL.

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