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Brendan O'Brien - n0, Iroh and the Future of Peer to Peer Jul 07, 2025

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This week we're joined by Brendan O'Brien (b5), founder and CEO of n0, the company behind Iroh - a peer-to-peer networking library that prioritizes reliability and "just works." Iroh enables developers to establish direct, authenticated connections between any two devices using only their public keys, achieving near 100% connection success rates. We discuss the pragmatic approach to P2P networking, why they chose to focus solely on the transport layer, and how Iroh is already running in production on hundreds of thousands of devices.

Maxim Fateev - Temporal Jun 23, 2025

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This week we talk to Maxim Fateev, a co-founder of Temporal. Temporal started as a tool for Uber but quickly grew into a tool that makes distributed code exectution a breeze. Come hear what one of the poineers of Durable Exectution has to say!

https://temporal.io

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Dylan Piercey - Marko Jun 16, 2025

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This week we talk to Dylan Piercey, a core team member of Ebay's Marko team. Marko heralded many next gen frontend framework features that litter the landscape today, including streaming, islands architecture, and more. Marko v6 is a major release that brings many new features to the table, including a new language features, and a new compiler.

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Peter Pistorius - Redwood SDK Jun 02, 2025

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This week we talk to Peter Pistorius, the man currently at the helm of Redwood. Redwood has undergone a lot of changes since it was first announced, pivoting to a serverless framework that leans into React Server Components. Peter has a grand vision for Redwood and the advent of personal software, and we're excited to hear about it.

https://rwsdk.com/

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Greg Sadetsky, Antonie Leclair - Disco May 26, 2025

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This week we talk to Greg Sadetsky and Antoine Leclair, the creators of Disco. Disco make running you own infra a piece of cake.

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Stepan Parunashvili - InstantDB May 19, 2025

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This week we're joined by Stepan Parunashvili, co-creator of InstantDB, a new database that's designed to make it easier to build local-first apps. Instant is a replacement for Firebase, and it's designed to be a more modern, more flexible, and more powerful database for the modern web. Join us as we dive into the details of InstantDB, the challenges of building a new database, and the future of local-first development.This episode is sponsored by WorkOS (https://workos.com)https://www.linkedin.com/in/stepan-parunashvili-65698932/https://www.instantdb.com/https://github.com/instantdb/instanthttps://github.com/stopachka

James Garbutt - e18e May 12, 2025

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In this episode, we talk with James Garbutt about e18e, a community-driven initiative focused on improving the performance of JavaScript packages across the ecosystem.We discuss: • The goals and vision behind e18e • What’s slowing down the JS ecosystem • Why performance work is often invisible—and how to fix that • The importance of community coordination in open source • How developers can get involved in improving the packages they rely onIf you care about build times, bundle sizes, and the health of the JavaScript ecosystem, this episode is for you.This episode is sponsored by WorkOS (https://workos.com) and Mailtrap (https://l.rw.rw/devtools_4)🔗 Links • e18e Website: https://e18e.dev/ • GitHub: https://github.com/e18e • Discord: https://discord.gg/e18e • James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jgarbutt • Full episode + transcript: [link to your site if available]🎧 Subscribe to Devtools.fm for more conversations with the people behind the tools developers use every day.

Anirudh and Akshay from Tangled.sh and the Future of Decentralized Coding May 05, 2025

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This week we're joined by Anirudh and Akshay from Tangled.sh. Tangle.sh is a social coding platform built on the AT Protocol. We discuss the future of decentralized coding, the challenges of building a new platform, and how developers can leverage Tangled.sh's tools.

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Eli Mallon - Streamplace and the future of decentralized video streaming Apr 28, 2025

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This week we're joined by Eli Mallon, founder of Streamplace, a decentralized video streaming platform. In this episode we discuss the future of decentralized video streaming, the challenges of building a new platform, and how developers can leverage Streamplace's tools. We also go into Atproto, the decentralized social media network that stream place is built on.

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Zack Jackson - ByteDance, rspack, and the Future of Web Development Apr 21, 2025

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This week we're once again joined by Zach Jackson, creator of Module Federation, and now core team member of ByteDance's rspack project. In this episode we talk about the bundler landscape, the future of web development, and how rspack is changing the game.

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