Changelog Master Feed Kaizen! Pipely is LIVE (Changelog & Friends #105)
Aug 8, 2025
Delve into the launch of Pipely, where the team celebrates community-driven achievements. Discover how Kaizen principles guided their development journey over 18 months. Learn about innovations in podcast data management and the challenges of optimizing delivery infrastructure with Varnish. The conversation highlights rapid CI improvements with Depot and insights on DNS transitions. Engage with live metrics from their new website launch and appreciate the collective support that fuels their tech community.
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How Kaizen Began Together
- Gerhard Lazu started Kaizen to make small, consistent public improvements every 10 Ship It episodes.
- He framed it as a shared experiment in improving the platform with friends and transparent discussion.
Pipely Began As A Pipe Dream
- Gerhard Lazu says Pipely began about 18 months ago as a pipe dream they decided to try and iterate publicly.
- The team leaned on friends and iterative public work to learn, validate, and improve the project.
The 20‑Line Varnish Dream
- Jerod Santo proposed a simple 20-line Varnish config deployed globally to replace bulky Fastly-driven configs.
- That idea crystallized the team's motivation to build a tailored CDN with only the features they needed.