The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Venture capital meets commercial OSS (Interview) Oct 25, 2018

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Joseph Jacks, the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital joined the show to share his plans for funding the future generation of commercial open source software based companies. This is a growing landscape of $100M+ revenue companies ~13 years in the making that’s just now getting serious early attention and institutional backing — and we talk through many of those details with Joseph.

We cover the whys and hows, why OSS now, deep details around licensing implications, and we speculate the types of open source software that makes sense for the types of investing Joseph and other plan to do.

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Keepin' up with Elm (Interview) Oct 17, 2018

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Jerod invites Richard Feldman back on the show to catch up on all things Elm. Did you hear? NoRedInk finally had a production runtime error, the community grew quite a bit (from ‘obscure’ to just ‘niche’), and Elm 0.19 added some killer new features around asset optimization.

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Richard Feldman – GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

The Changelog #218 was Elm’s first appearance
NoRedInk still employs Richard and Evan
The Python Paradox by Paul Graham
Small Assets without the Headache in Elm 0.19
Elm in Action
Elm courses on Frontend Masters

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BONUS – Sustain Summit 2018 (Interview) Oct 15, 2018

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In this special bonus call, Adam and Jerod talk with Allen “Gunner” Gunn about the Sustain Summit. They talk about what it is, the kind of conversations that happen there, issues the open source community are facing right now, and how Sustain stands out from traditional “unconferences.”

Sustain 2017 was a big hit, and this year’s event should be even better. Join us!

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Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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A call for kindness in open source (Interview) Oct 10, 2018

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Adam and Jerod talk to Brett Cannon, core contributor to Python and a fantastic representative of the Python community. They talked through various details surrounding a talk and blog post he wrote titled “Setting expectations for open source participation” and covered questions like: What is the the purpose of open source? How do you sustain open source? And what’s the goal?

They even talked through typical scenarios in open source and how kindness and recognizing that there’s a human on the other end of every action can really go a long way.

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Brett Cannon – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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#Hacktoberfest isn’t just about a free shirt (Interview) Oct 01, 2018

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#Hacktoberfest is a once per year event in the month of October celebrating open source. For many it’s an on ramp to open source, PRs galore for maintainers, and t-shirts for those who submit 5 or more pull requests. In the end, however, it’s about the awareness of open source and its significance to the greater good to humanity as we know it.

Adam and Jerod talk with Daniel Zaltsman, Dev Rel Manager at DigitalOcean and key leader of Hacktoberfest to cover the backstory, where this project began, its impact on open source, how it has had to scale each year by many orders of magnitude, and of course we cover how you can play your part in #Hacktoberfest and give back to open source.

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Featuring:

Daniel Zaltsman – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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For #Hacktoberfest, you could improve our transcripts or improve our show notes.

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REST easy, GraphQL is here (Interview) Sep 26, 2018

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In this special rebroadcast of JS Party, Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he’s using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John’s feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.

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John Resig – Website, GitHub, X
Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

John’s intro to the GraphQL Guide - Introduction by John Resig, author of GraphQL Guide
Get the GraphQL Guide (beta) - Link to the Ebook & Training information on GraphQL, with a free tshirt for full edition Ebook readers
The Changelog #255: Why is GraphQL so cool? - Link to the GraphQL Podcast
The Changelog #297: Prisma and the GraphQL data layer - Link to the Prisma and GraphQL Data Layer

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Join the federation?! Mastodon awaits... (Interview) Sep 19, 2018

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We talked with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon, about where Mastodon came from the problem it aimed to solve. How it’s not exactly Twitter alternative, although that’s its known claim to fame. Why it’s probably not going anywhere. The ins-and-outs of federation, getting started, running an instance, why you would want to — cool stuff you’ve never considered could be built on top of Mastodon. And finally, the story behind naming posted content a “toot”.

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Kubernetes brings all the Cloud Natives to the yard (Interview) Sep 12, 2018

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We talk with Dan Kohn, the Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to catch up with all things cloud native, the CNCF, and the world of Kubernetes.

Dan updated us on the growth KubeCon / CloudNativeCon, the state of Cloud Native and where innovation is happening, serverless being on the rise, and Kubernetes dominating the enterprise.

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DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days.
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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.

Featuring:

Dan Kohn – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Cloud Native Computing Foundation
CNCF Survey: Use of Cloud Native Technologies in Production Has Grown Over 200%
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Receives $9 Million Cloud Credit Grant from Google Cloud to Fund Kubernetes Development, Empower Community
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Welcomes 38 New Members at Open Source Summit North America
Software Conformance - Cloud Native Computing Foundation
GitHub - cncf/landscape - Static Cloud Native Landscapes and Interactive Landscape that filters and sorts hundreds of cloud native projects and products, and shows details including GitHub stars, funding or market cap, first and last commits, contributor counts, headquarters location, and recent tweets.
CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
K8s DevStats
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018

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The first cloud native programming language (Interview) Sep 05, 2018

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Jerod talked with Paul Fremantle, the CTO and Co-Founder of WSO2, about their new programming language, Ballerina — a cloud-native language which aims to make it easier to write microservices that integrate APIs. They talked about the creation of the language and how it was inspired by so many technologies, cloud native features like built-in container support, serverless-friendly, observability, and how it works with, or without, a service mesh — just to name a few.

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DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days.
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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.

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Paul Fremantle – X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Ballerina.io - Landing page of Ballerina.io : Cloud Native Programming Language
Ballerina’s philosophy - Ballerina.io design philosophy which incorporates fundamental concepts of distributed system integration into the language
Ballerina Central - Ballerina.io Central code repository of reusable code packages
Coverage on The New Stack - Article on Ballerina in The New Stack

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Segment's transition back to a monorepo (Interview) Aug 29, 2018

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Adam and Jerod talk with two members of Segment’s engineering team: Co-founder and CTO, Calvin French-Owen, as well as Software Engineer, Alex Noonan, about their journey from monorepo to microservices back to monorepo. 100s of problem children to 1 superstar child.

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Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog
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.
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.