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Community, Building Remote-first Teams, and Web Performance Inclusivity (Interview) Sep 08, 2017

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Karolina Szczur joined the show to talk about community building, building remote-first teams, the hiring process in tech, product development, and the inclusivity factor of web performance.

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Featuring:

Karolina Szczur – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Houston Flood Relief Fund - JJ Watt’s fundraiser for Victims of Hurricane Harvey
Bayou City Relief - Helping Houston Get Home

About Karolina Szczur
Building remote-first teams
How to write a successful conference proposal
CSSConf and JSConf Australia Diversity Report
A guide to empathetic hiring processes
Your tech job posting is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
Lighthouse from Google
ElectronConf Seattle 2017
Calibre - Web performance monitoring

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves (Interview) Aug 11, 2017

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We talked with Tim Mecklem about building an artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves to help those with Type 1 Diabetes who want to “loop” — a process which involves monitoring glucose levels, predicting where a person’s glucose levels are heading, then delivering insulin based on that prediction. Tim is a Developer at Gaslight in Cincinnati where he builds software solutions with Ruby and Elixir, and he’s a member of the Nerves Core team.

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ElixirConf 2017 – September 5-8 in Bellevue, WA - Our listeners get an exclusive $40 discount! Get face time with core developers of Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, Nerves and more. Learn from over 40 speakers and keynotes about how top companies and developers are getting performance gains from Elixir and surpassing their competition. There is no better place to discuss, collaborate and socialize with other Elixir professionals and enthusiasts.
Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and get a free t-shirt!
Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value).

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Building an Artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves at ElixirConf 2017
Listen to why Karen Sandler can’t hack her heart
Gaslight - Ruby on Rails, iOS, and JavaScript Consultants out of Cincinnati, OH
OpenAPS.org - #WeAreNotWaiting to reduce the burden of Type 1 diabetes
OpenAPS Reference Design
OpenAPS on GitHub
The open reference implementation of the OpenAPS reference design
The Nerves Project
Nightscout - #WeAreNotWaiting
Tim’s Elixir Library

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You are not Google/Amazon/LinkedIn (Interview) Aug 04, 2017

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If you find yourself chasing shiny objects and squirrels all time, you should 💯 listen to this episode featuring Ozan Onay (President of Bradfield School of Computer Science) where we discuss his recent blog post entitled You Are Not Google which was the #1 link in Changelog Weekly - Issue #159. This show is full of wisdom and advice for every developer out there.

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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.
Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and get a free t-shirt!
Bugsnag – Mission control for software quality! Monitor website or mobile app errors that impact your customers. Our listeners can try all the features free for 60 days ($118 value).

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Before we get to the show note links, here are some notable quotes from this episode and Oz’s post.

Software engineers go crazy for the most ridiculous things. We like to think that we’re hyper-rational, but when we have to choose a technology, we end up in a kind of frenzy — bouncing from one person’s Hacker News comment to another’s blog post until, in a stupor, we float helplessly toward the brightest light and lay prone in front of it, oblivious to what we were looking for in the first place. This is not how rational people make decisions…

Writing code isn’t really about writing. Thinking is the thing that we do. Eventually that gets translated into running code.

This is a counter-force against the marketing machine of high opinion technologies.

As of 2016, Stack Exchange served 200 million requests per day, backed by just four SQL servers: a primary for Stack Overflow, a primary for everything else, and two replicas.

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10 years of RabbitMQ (Interview) Jul 21, 2017

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We are thrilled to produce this show to honor RabbitMQ’s 10th anniversary. Karl Nilsson and Michael Klishin joined the show to talk through 10 years of RabbitMQ — one of the most widely deployed open source message brokers with more than 35,000 production deployments worldwide.

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ElixirConf 2017 – September 5-8 in Bellevue, WA - Our listeners get an exclusive $40 discount! Get face time with core developers of Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, Nerves and more. Learn from over 40 speakers and keynotes about how top companies and developers are getting performance gains from Elixir and surpassing their competition. There is no better place to discuss, collaborate and socialize with other Elixir professionals and enthusiasts.
CircleCI – CircleCI is a continuous integration and delivery platform that helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Checkout the recently launched CircleCI 2.0!
Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa.

Featuring:

Karl Nilsson – GitHub, X
Michael Klishin – GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

The power of wikis, the problem with social networks, the promise of AI (Interview) Jul 14, 2017

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Evan Prodromou has been involved in open source since the mid ‘90s. His open source travel guide – Wikitravel – grew up alongside Wikipedia and the web itself. In this episode, we hear Evan’s history, try to solve open social networking once and for all, and learn how sprinkling a little artificial intelligence on to our products can yield big wins without having to shoot the moon.

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Toptal – Easily scale your team — hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction.
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.

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

The Power of Wikis

The Problem with Social Networks

The Promise of A.I.

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Ubuntu Snaps and Bash on Windows Server (Interview) Jul 07, 2017

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We talked with Dustin Kirkland (Head of Ubuntu Product and Strategy at Canonical) at OSCON about 12.04’s end of life, the death of the Ubuntu phone, Snaps and snapd, and Bash on Ubuntu on Windows Server. This is the second installment of our mini-series from the expo hall floor of OSCON 2017. Special thanks to our friends at O’Reilly for inviting us to OSCON.

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Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa.
Toptal – Easily scale your team — hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction.
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! When registration opens — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG20 when you register.

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Why is GraphQL so cool? (Interview) Jun 30, 2017

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Johannes Schickling (Founder of Graphcool) joined the show to talk about GraphQL — an application layer query language from Facebook. We talked about what it is, where it makes sense to use it, its role in serverless architectures, getting docs for free via Schemas and Types, and the community that’s rallying around this new way to think about APIs.

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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!
Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
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.
Microsoft Azure OpenDev – See what’s possible with open source in the cloud. Watch the recorded videos from this live event to see real-world demonstrations of Azure supporting open technologies. Hear from leaders in the open source community. Learn how you can build containerized microservices and improve your open source DevOps pipeline.

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Learn GraphQL How to GraphQL
Learn Apollo
Learn Relay
GraphQL Playground
GraphQL.org
Facebook’s announcement post for GraphQL
Graphcool - Serverless GraphQL Backend - Developer platform for building serverless graphql backends
Graphcool hit #1 on HackerNews when it launched
GraphQL Radio - a podcast covering all things GraphQL
GraphQL-Europe - Europe’s first GraphQL conference
Reinventing Authorization: GraphQL Permission Queries
Serverless GraphQL Backend architecture
Why GraphQL is the future
Facebook’s original draft RFC specification for GraphQL

From The GitHub GraphQL API post on the GitHub Engineering blog:

The REST API is responsible for over 60% of the requests made to our database tier. This is partly because, by its nature, hypermedia navigation requires a client to repeatedly communicate with a server so that it can get all the information it needs. Our responses were bloated and filled with all sorts of *_url hints in the JSON responses to help people continue to navigate through the API to get what they needed. Despite all the information we provided, we heard from integrators that our REST API also wasn’t very flexible. It sometimes required two or three separate calls to assemble a complete view of a resource. It seemed like our responses simultaneously sent too much data and didn’t include data that consumers needed.

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Deploying Changelog.com (Interview) Jun 23, 2017

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This week we take you behind the scenes of the new infrastructure for Changelog.com and talk with Gerhard Lazu. We relaunched the new brand and site for Changelog on Phoenix/Elixir in October of 2016 and we needed a better way to reliably host and deploy the site. That’s where Gerhard came in. We cover all the details and decisions in this show.

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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!
Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa.
Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600.
Microsoft Azure OpenDev – See what’s possible with open source in the cloud. Watch the recorded videos from this live event to see real-world demonstrations of Azure supporting open technologies. Hear from leaders in the open source community. Learn how you can build containerized microservices and improve your open source DevOps pipeline.

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Gerhard guest blogged for us about Ansible and Docker way back in the day (Feb 21, 2014)
Jerod found edeliver which was based on deliver a pure bash deployment tool with customisable strategies
Gerhard gave a talk about the process

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

The serverless revolution (Interview) Jun 16, 2017

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We talked with Pam Selle at OSCON about the serverless revolution happening for JavaScript developers. This episode kicks off our mini-series from the Expo Hall floor at OSCON 2017.

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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!
Toptal – Hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction.
Microsoft Azure OpenDev – a live one-day virtual conference (free) on June 21, 2017 focused on showcasing open source technologies on Azure. See what’s possible with open source in the cloud.
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! When registration opens — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG20 when you register.

Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Pam is the Software Engineering Lead at IOpipe, a high fidelity metrics and monitoring service which allows you to see inside Amazon Lambda functions for better insights into the daily operations and development of serverless applications.

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