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Sep 10, 2021 • 54min
Frontend Feud: ShopTalk vs Syntax (JS Party #192)
Your favorite web dev podcasts join forces for a super collab that’ll knock you frontend off! Amelia joins Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert from ShopTalk Show while Divya teams up with Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski from Syntax. Let the FEUDing begin!
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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
Micro – Micro is reimagining the cloud for the next generation of developers. It’s a developer friendly platform to explore, search, and use simpler APIs for everyday consumption all in one place. They’re in early development building out the first set of APIs, and they’re looking for feedback from developers. Signup and get $5 in free credits.
Featuring:Chris Coyier – Website, GitHub, XDave Rupert – Website, GitHub, XWes Bos – Website, GitHub, XScott Tolinski – GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAmelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, XDivya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
The Feud At The Seventh Mountain
Amelia’s repo visualizer
CSS-Tricks
freeCodeCamp
Wes Bos’ courses
Changelog Merch
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 9, 2021 • 1h 8min
Bare metal meets Kubernetes (Ship It! #18)
In this episode, Gerhard talks to David and Marques from Equinix Metal about the importance of bare metal for steady workloads. Terraform, Kubernetes and Tinkerbell come up, as does Crossplane - this conversation is a partial follow-up to episode 15.
David Flanagan, a.k.a. Rawkode, needs no introduction. Some of you may remember Marques Johansson from The new changelog.com setup for 2019. Marques was behind the Linode Terraforming that we used at the time, and our infrastructure was simpler because of it!
This is not just a great conversation about bare metal and Kubernetes, there is also a Rawkode Live following up: Live Debugging Changelog’s Production Kubernetes 🙌🏻
Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Render – The Zero DevOps cloud that empowers you to ship faster than your competitors. Render is built for modern applications and offers everything you need out-of-the-box. Learn more at render.com/changelog or email changelog@render.com for a personal introduction and to ask questions about the Render platform.
Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code THECHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Equinix Metal – If you want the choice and control of hardware…with low overhead…and the developer experience of the cloud – you need to check out Equinix Metal. Deploy in minutes across 18 global locations, from Silicon Valley to Sydney. Visit metal.equinix.com/justaddmetal and receive $100 credit to play.
Grafana Cloud – Our dashboard of choice Grafana is the open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Featuring:David Flanagan – Website, GitHub, XMarques Johansson – GitHub, LinkedIn, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
David’s tweet that made this episode happen
This is how Gerhard met Marques
Oops, We Forgot to Build a Managed Kubernetes Service!
Tinkerbell - Provision and manage bare metal, anywhere
Equinix Metal Crossplane provider and Terraform provider
Kubernetes Cluster API
Fly.io: The 5-hour CDN
🎬 Firecracker VMs on Metal, Oh My! - Kurt Mackey, March 2021
🎬 Klustered #11 - Kris Nova & Thomas Strömberg
#7 Why Kubernetes? was mentioned, as well as the follow-up YouTube stream with Lars Wikman.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 9, 2021 • 1h 12min
Building actually maintainable software (Go Time #196)
Sam Boyer, Principal Engineer at Grafana Labs, dives into the nuances of creating maintainable software. He discusses the crucial balance between innovation and ongoing upkeep, exploring how the Go programming language fosters code quality. Sam emphasizes the importance of addressing technical debt and highlights strategies for maintaining clarity in documentation. The conversation also touches on unique takes within the developer community about code practices and the necessity for specialized maintenance efforts, making for a compelling dialogue on the realities of software evolution.

Sep 8, 2021 • 59min
We ask a lawyer about GitHub Copilot (Changelog Interviews #458)
This week we’re bringing JS Party to The Changelog — Nick Nisi and Christopher Hiller had an awesome conversation with Luis Villa, co-founder and General Counsel at Tidelift. They discuss GitHub Copilot and the implications of an AI pair programmer and fair use from a legal perspective.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Gitpod – Spin up fresh, ephemeral automated dev environments, in the cloud, in seconds. Their free tier is open to every developer with a GitLab, GitHub, and/or Bitbucket account. Learn more at gitpod.io
Retool For Startups – More and more startups are using Retool to focus their time on their core product. That’s exactly why Retool launched “Retool For Startups” — it’s a program that gives early-stage founders free access to a lot of the software needed for great internal tooling. Retool has bundled together a year of free access to Retool with over $160,000 in partner discounts to save you money while building Retools apps with common integrations. Learn more, apply, join lightening demos and much more at retool.com/startups
Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code THECHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months.
Grafana Cloud – Our dashboard of choice Grafana is the open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Featuring:Luis Villa – Website, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XChristopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
GitHub Copilot
OpenAI
Google v. Oracle
GNU General Public License
Fair use
Lotus v. Borland
Transformative Use
Authors Guild v. Google
Ethical Open Source Movement
Eleuther AI
W3C Web Machine Learning Working Group
Does free software benefit from ML models being derived works of training data?
Cassidy Plays with GitHub Copilot
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 7, 2021 • 42min
Stellar inference speed via AutoNAS (Practical AI #148)
Yonatan Geifman of Deci makes Daniel and Chris buckle up, and takes them on a tour of the ideas behind his amazing new inference platform. It enables AI developers to build, optimize, and deploy blazing-fast deep learning models on any hardware. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it!
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:RudderStack – Smart customer data pipeline made for developers. RudderStack is the smart customer data pipeline. Connect your whole customer data stack. Warehouse-first, open source Segment alternative.
SignalWire – Build what’s next in communications with video, voice, and messaging APIs powered by elastic cloud infrastructure. Try it today at signalwire.com and use code SHIPIT for $25 in developer credit.
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
Featuring:Yonatan Geifman – Website, GitHub, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:
Deci
An Introduction to the Inference Stack and Inference Acceleration Techniques
Deci and Intel Collaborate to Optimize Deep Learning Inference on Intel’s CPUs
DeciNets: A New Efficient Frontier for Computer Vision Models
White paper
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 3, 2021 • 1h 45min
Iterating to globally distributed apps and databases (Founders Talk #80)
Today Adam is joined by Kurt Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Fly.io — a platform for running full stack apps and databases close to users. This conversation with Kurt talks through his journey as a developer and entrepreneur, fundraising, getting into Y Combinator (twice), and how they’ve iterated on the Fly platform since 2017 to get to where they are right now.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Render – The Zero DevOps cloud that empowers you to ship faster than your competitors. Render is built for modern applications and offers everything you need out-of-the-box. Learn more at render.com/changelog or email changelog@render.com for a personal introduction and to ask questions about the Render platform.
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
Snowplow Analytics – The behavioral data management platform powering your data journey. Capture and process high-quality behavioral data from all your platforms and products and deliver that data to your cloud destination of choice. Get started and experience Snowplow data for yourself at snowplowanalytics.com
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
Featuring:Kurt Mackey – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Introducing the Fly global application platform
fly.io/blog
Globally distributed Postgres
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 3, 2021 • 1h 6min
X gon' State it to ya (JS Party #191)
Amal, KBall, and Nick welcome David Khourshid to the show to talk about his project, XState. XState brings state management to a new level using finite state machines and is compatible with your stack. We talk about how the idea came to fruition, its practical uses, and where it’s going.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Retool For Startups – More and more startups are using Retool to focus their time on their core product. That’s exactly why Retool launched “Retool For Startups” — it’s a program that gives early-stage founders free access to a lot of the software needed for great internal tooling. Retool has bundled together a year of free access to Retool with over $160,000 in partner discounts to save you money while building Retools apps with common integrations. Learn more, apply, join lightening demos and much more at retool.com/startups
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
Micro – Micro is reimagining the cloud for the next generation of developers. It’s a developer friendly platform to explore, search, and use simpler APIs for everyday consumption all in one place. They’re in early development building out the first set of APIs, and they’re looking for feedback from developers. Signup and get $5 in free credits.
Featuring:David Khourshid – Website, GitHub, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAmal Hussein – GitHub, XShow Notes:
XState
Actors
XState Visualizer
xstate-inspect
xstate-fsm
XState Discord
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 3, 2021 • 2min
Let's Ship It! (Ship It!)
I’m Gerhard Lazu, host of Ship It! A show with weekly episodes about getting your best ideas into the world and seeing what happens. We talk about code, ops, infrastructure, and the people that make it happen.
Like Charity Majors from Honeycomb… clip from episode #11
And Dave Farley, one of the founders of Continuous Delivery… clip from episode #5
We even experiment on our own open source podcasting platform so that you can see how we implement specific tools and services within changelog.com.
What works and what fails… clip from episode #10
Listen to an episode that seems interesting or helpful and if you like it, subscribe today. We’d love to have you with us.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 2, 2021 • 1h 9min
To build, or to buy, that is the question (Go Time #195)
To build or to buy, that’s a constant question we ask ourselves as software engineers. In this episode we dig into the nuance of these options and the space between them with an eye toward both the building of software and its eventual maintenance.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Teleport – Teleport Access Plane lets you 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
LaunchDarkly – Ship fast. Rest easy. Deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn’t ready to be released to your users. Wrap code in feature flags to get the safety to test new features and infrastructure in prod without impacting the wrong end users.
Equinix Metal – If you want the choice and control of hardware…with low overhead…and the developer experience of the cloud – you need to check out Equinix Metal. Deploy in minutes across 18 global locations, from Silicon Valley to Sydney. Visit metal.equinix.com/justaddmetal and receive $100 credit to play.
Featuring:Kris Brandow – GitHub, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XAngelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sep 1, 2021 • 59min
Docs are not optional (Ship It! #17)
On this week’s episode, Gerhard is joined by Kathy Korevec, former Senior Director of Product at GitHub, and now Vercel’s Head of Product. Docs play an essential role in GitHub Actions, and Gerhard’s experience has proven that. Building, testing, and shipping code with GitHub Actions works better because of their excellent docs. However, the docs that Kathy pictures are not what you are imagining. She explains it best in her post, Maybe it’s time we re-think docs, which is what started this whole conversation.
The bottom line is, just as you wouldn’t ship untested code, shipping code without documentation is not optional. Today’s conversation with Kathy explains why.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Render – The Zero DevOps cloud that empowers you to ship faster than your competitors. Render is built for modern applications and offers everything you need out-of-the-box. Learn more at render.com/changelog or email changelog@render.com for a personal introduction and to ask questions about the Render platform.
Teleport – Teleport Access Plane lets you 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
Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code SHIPIT and get the team plan free for three months.
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
Featuring:Kathy Korevec – Website, GitHub, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:
Maybe it’s time we re-think docs
Kathy’s Philosophy
Chasing challenges to ship developer solutions
Reading list for product people
Leadership CI
GitHub Docs repository
GitHub Repo Sync
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!