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Nov 2, 2021 • 44min
Photonic computing for AI acceleration (Practical AI #156)
There are a lot of people trying to innovate in the area of specialized AI hardware, but most of them are doing it with traditional transistors. Lightmatter is doing something totally different. They’re building photonic computers that are more power efficient and faster for AI inference. Nick Harris joins us in this episode to bring us up to speed on all the details.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors: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
LaunchDarkly / TrajectoryConf – Software powers the world. LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to deliver and control their software. DevOps and feature management are reimagining how we build and release new products. On November 9th and 10th, LaunchDarkly is hosting Trajectory Conference 2021 — a two-day event for software innovators who want to break orbit, not systems. Trajectory is a fully-virtual conference that focuses on the technology, people, and processes that continuously deliver better user experiences and more powerful software. Register for free at trajectoryconf.com
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Featuring:Nicholas Harris – Website, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Lightmatter
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 29, 2021 • 57min
Ship less JavaScript, closer to the user (JS Party #199)
KBall catches up with Chris Ferdinandi about the trends in modern web development towards smaller libraries, pre-compilation, and applications at the edge.
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Raygun – With Raygun Error and Performance Monitoring you have all the information you need at your fingertips to quickly find and fix errors and performance issues across your tech stack down to the line of code. Get started with a free 14-day trial, head to raygun.com and join thousands of customer-centric software teams who use Raygun every day.
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Featuring:Chris Ferdinandi – Website, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
Help us make episode #200 awesome!
JSParty 80: JavaScript is the CO2 of the web
Preact
petite-vue
SolidJS
Svelte
Hugo
Eleventy
Rich Harris on transitional apps
JSParty 55: The future of the web is npm, but maybe not JavaScript
Astro
Jason Lengstorff on Astro and Next
Native Interactive Components
HTML Sanitizer API
Details and summary elements
JSParty 183: JS on Wasm
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 29, 2021 • 37min
Song Encoder: $STDOUT (Changelog Interviews #466)
Welcome to Song Encoder, a special series of The Changelog podcast featuring people who create at the intersection of software and music. This episode features $STDOUT and contains explicit language.
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Featuring:$STDOUT – Website, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Listen to $STDOUT
on YouTube
on Spotify
on Apple Music
on Patreon
Track list (in order of appearance)
Pair Programming
Hell.js
Language Flamewars
Meetings
Tech Lead
Over Engineering
Opinions
Interviews
Estimates
3AM in San Fransisco
Remote Life
Integrations
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 28, 2021 • 51min
Just about managing (Go Time #203)
Ashley Willis and Ela Krief join Natalie to discuss the ins and outs of management. They discuss what makes a good manager, common mistakes managers make, how to communicate effectively, dealing with conflict, and much more.
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Honeycomb – Guess less, know more. When production is running slow, it’s hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? With Honeycomb you get a fast, unified, and clear understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. Join the swarm and try Honeycomb free today at honeycomb.io/changelog
Incident.io – Create, manage, and resolve incidents directly in Slack. Use the /incident command to create and manage incidents. This command lets you share updates, assign roles, set important links and more – all without ever leaving the incident channel. Each incident gets their own Slack channel plus a high-res dashboard at incident.io with the entire timeline from report to resolution. Learn more and sign up for free at incident.io — no credit card required.
Featuring:Ashley Willis – GitHub, XEla Krief – LinkedInNatalie Pistunovich – GitHub, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 28, 2021 • 1h 15min
Journey to CEO, again (Founders Talk #82)
Today Adam is joined by Evan Kaplan, CEO of InfluxData. Evan’s journey to become the CEO was not by way of founder, in this company. Evan has founded several companies in the past, and he’s been in a CEO position for more than 22 years. But InfluxData was founded by Paul Dix, and Paul knew years ago that his role (best role?) was to lead the technical and product direction of the company, which lead him to Evan. Today we share that story as well as a glimpse into operating the business that built the defacto platform for building time series applications with deep roots in open source.
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Auth0 – The for developers, by developers identity platform built for the cloud era that secures billions of logins every year. Security, compliance, and industry standards are always up-to-date, plus devs are free to provide the login options their users want with the security their application demands. Make login Auth0’s problem. Not yours. Learn more at Auth0.com
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Featuring:Evan Kaplan – LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
My Journey to InfluxData
The Changelog #429: Community perspectives on Elastic vs AWS - a deep dive on the business of open source
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 28, 2021 • 46sec
Help make episode 200 extra special! (JS Party)
We’re putting together a special highlight reel for our 200th episode! Share your favorite moments, guests, topics, and/or episodes from the past 100 shows. Every listener who gets their voice or text message included in the episode gets a free JS Party t-shirt!
The details for submission are at jsparty.fm/200
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Submit here
T-shirt here
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Oct 27, 2021 • 1h 35min
Gerhard at KubeCon NA 2021: Part 1 (Ship It! #25)
This is Gerhard’s first set of interviews from KubeCon North America 2021.
William Morgan shares with us some of the finer Linkerd details, such as the underlying security theme, why native Kubernetes objects are preferable to more CRDs, and the joy of meeting team members in person.
Frederic Branczyk speaks about Parca, a new continuous system profiling tool that uses eBPF to help you understand what is happening on your hosts.
Andrew Rynhard gives us a great Talos OS and Kubespan perspective, and shares some really good follow-up videos on these topics.
The last conversation is with David Flanagan - you know him as Rawkode - about new beginnings. It’s only been less than two months since we’ve had him in episode 18, and he kept really busy. Caleb, his 3 weeks old baby boy, was the youngest attendee at this conference, and some talks made him sleepy, so good job everyone.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
LaunchDarkly / TrajectoryConf – Software powers the world. LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to deliver and control their software. DevOps and feature management are reimagining how we build and release new products. On November 9th and 10th, LaunchDarkly is hosting Trajectory Conference 2021 — a two-day event for software innovators who want to break orbit, not systems. Trajectory is a fully-virtual conference that focuses on the technology, people, and processes that continuously deliver better user experiences and more powerful software. Register for free at trajectoryconf.com
Incident.io – Create, manage, and resolve incidents directly in Slack. Use the /incident command to create and manage incidents. This command lets you share updates, assign roles, set important links and more – all without ever leaving the incident channel. Each incident gets their own Slack channel plus a high-res dashboard at incident.io with the entire timeline from report to resolution. Learn more and sign up for free at incident.io — no credit card required.
Raygun – With Raygun Error and Performance Monitoring you have all the information you need at your fingertips to quickly find and fix errors and performance issues across your tech stack down to the line of code. Get started with a free 14-day trial, head to raygun.com and join thousands of customer-centric software teams who use Raygun every day.
Featuring:William Morgan – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XFrederic Branczyk – Website, GitHub, XAndrew Rynhard – GitHub, LinkedIn, XDavid Flanagan – Website, GitHub, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
William Morgan, Linkerd
Overview and State of Linkerd - KubeCon EU 2021
Announcing Linkerd 2.11: Policy, gRPC retries, performance improvements, and more!
A Kubernetes engineer’s guide to mTLS - Mutual authentication for fun and profit
Linkerd production runbook
Linkerd Community Guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021
Frederic Branczyk, Parca
What Does the Future Hold for Observability? - Tom Wilkie & Frederic Branczyk - KubeCon EU 2019
parca.dev - start profiling in seconds - Introducing Parca
Frederic’s new coffee machine, one of his secrets for shipping new Parca features quickly
Polar Signals Careers - a careers page to use for inspiration
On Building Company Culture
Andrew Rynhard, Talos OS
Talos is a modern OS for Kubernetes
🎬 COSI: The Common Operating System Interface - Steven Borrelli & Andrew Rynhard - KubeCon EU 2021
🎬 Playing with KubeSpan at home - Andrey Smirnov - Setting up KubeSpan on Talos 0.13 for a hybrid home cluster: QEMU VMs, Raspberry Pi 4 and AWS Graviton instances
🎬 Managing bare-metal Kubernetes with Sidero
David Flanagan, new beginnings
Pulumi - Modern Infrastructure as Code
Caleb - Youngest KubeCon NA 2021 attendee
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 26, 2021 • 37min
Eureka moments with natural language processing (Practical AI #155)
When is the last time you had a eureka moment? Chris had a chat with Nicholas Mohnacky, CEO and Cofounder of bundleIQ, where they use natural language processing algorithms like GPT-3 to connect your Google GSuite with other personal data sources to find deeper connections, go beyond the obvious, and create eureka moments.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors: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
LaunchDarkly / TrajectoryConf – Software powers the world. LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to deliver and control their software. DevOps and feature management are reimagining how we build and release new products. On November 9th and 10th, LaunchDarkly is hosting Trajectory Conference 2021 — a two-day event for software innovators who want to break orbit, not systems. Trajectory is a fully-virtual conference that focuses on the technology, people, and processes that continuously deliver better user experiences and more powerful software. Register for free at trajectoryconf.com
Linode – Get $100 in free credit to get started on Linode – Linode is our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Head to linode.com/changelog OR text CHANGELOG to 474747 to get instant access to that $100 in free credit.
Featuring:Nicholas Mohnacky – GitHub, LinkedIn, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
bundleIQ
bundleIQ | LinkedIn
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 25, 2021 • 1h 12min
Oh my! Zsh. (Changelog Interviews #465)
Robby Russell is back on The Changelog after more than 10 years to catch us up on all things Oh My Zsh — a delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zshell configuration. It comes bundled with plugins, themes, and can be easily customized and contributed to, because hey, that’s how open source works. In this episode Robby gives us a glimpse into the passion and the struggle of being an open source software maintainer.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 10 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
LaunchDarkly / TrajectoryConf – Software powers the world. LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to deliver and control their software. DevOps and feature management are reimagining how we build and release new products. On November 9th and 10th, LaunchDarkly is hosting Trajectory Conference 2021 — a two-day event for software innovators who want to break orbit, not systems. Trajectory is a fully-virtual conference that focuses on the technology, people, and processes that continuously deliver better user experiences and more powerful software. Register for free at trajectoryconf.com
Teleport – Securely access any computing resource anywhere. Engineers and security teams can unify access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, web applications, and databases across all environments. Try Teleport today in the cloud, self-hosted, or open source at goteleport.com
Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you.
Featuring:Robby Russell – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
The Changelog #61: Oh My Zsh with Robby Russell
Oh My Zsh
ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/pulls on GitHub
d’Oh My Zsh
colorize plugin
Planet Argon
maintainable.fm
Oh My Zsh merch
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Oct 22, 2021 • 1h 15min
The decentralized future (JS Party #198)
Nader Dabit shares his motivation and experience on recently transitioning to focus on technologies and communities that support the decentralized internet. In this hot topics discussion, we cover all the buzz words you’ve likely heard over the past year. We have honest and nuanced conversations about the world of Ethereum, Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, and Web3. Hype or hit? You’ll have to tune in to find out.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Retool – Retool is a low-code platform built specifically for developers that makes it fast and easy to build internal tools. Instead of building internal tools from scratch, the world’s best teams, from startups to Fortune 500s, are using Retool to power their internal apps. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Raygun – With Raygun Error and Performance Monitoring you have all the information you need at your fingertips to quickly find and fix errors and performance issues across your tech stack down to the line of code. Get started with a free 14-day trial, head to raygun.com and join thousands of customer-centric software teams who use Raygun every day.
Auth0 – The for developers, by developers identity platform built for the cloud era that secures billions of logins every year. Security, compliance, and industry standards are always up-to-date, plus devs are free to provide the login options their users want with the security their application demands. Make login Auth0’s problem. Not yours. Learn more at Auth0.com
Featuring:Nader Dabit – GitHub, XAmal Hussein – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Nader on The Changelog in 2018
The Complete Guide to Fullstack Ethereum Development (Blog post)
The Complete Guide to Fullstack Ethereum Development (YouTube Tutorial)
What is Web3
The New Creator Economy – DAOs, Community Ownership, and Cryptoeconomics
Nader Dabit’s Twitter Thread on Drawbacks (Link Coming Soon!)
How to Get into Ethereum | Crypto | Web3 As A Developer
OpenSea - the world’s first and largest NFT marketplace
Friends with Benefits DAO
Developer DAO
How to join Developer DAO
RxJS. Please don’t
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!