The Relationship Between the Community and the Product
Traffic is like an experience and it has so many components. You need to work on that every day, as i said, if you want to sustain the connection. One thing did was creating a group of most active contributors where we would have a specific connection with those. We try to be as fast as possible to encourage people or at least do not discourage them. And it requires a lot of work.
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This week Emile Vauge, founder & CEO of Traefik, joins Gerhard to share a story that started as a solution to a 2000 microservices challenge, the real-world implications of shipping many times a day for years, and the difficulties of sustaining an inclusive and healthy open-source community while building a product company.
Working every day on keeping the open-source community in sync with the core team was an important lesson. The second learning was around big changes between major versions.
The journey from Travis CI to Circle CI, then to Semaphore CI and eventually GitHub Actions is an interesting one. The automation tools inspired by the Mymirca ant colony is a fascinating idea, executed well. There is more to discover in the episode.
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