In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Armin Ronacher about his contributions to open source, queues and messaging in apps, scaling up a queue, and how it all works at Sentry.

Show Notes

00:35 Welcome
01:49 Who is Armin Ronacher?
Armin Ronacher
mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher)
Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko)
Armin Ronacher
Armin Ronacher
Apache Kafka
04:11 What are queues and what are they used for?
08:02 Do you listen or poll for updates in the queue?
12:49 Does this help when a provider goes down?
18:31 How do you architect a queue?
20:20 How does it scale up?
27:05 How does Sentry manage all the data flowing in from events?
Redis Message Broker | Redis Enterprise
Messaging that just works — RabbitMQ
Using RabbitMQ — Celery 5.3.1 documentation
33:45 How do you visualize the data?
37:15 Edge case that Sentry had to fix
40:22 How are you using Rust?
Rust Programming Language
43:32 Why is Python so popular in the AI space?
45:17 What do you think about JavaScript on the server?
48:02 Supper Club questions
50:44 How do you stay motivated with programming?

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