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Today we’re joined by Shawn “swyx” Wang, also known as just “swyx” — and we’re talking about his interesting path to becoming a software developer, what it means to “learn in public” and how he’s been able to leverage that process to not only level up his skills and knowlege, but to also rapidly advance his career. We cover Swyx’s recent writing on the light and dark side of the API economy — something he calls “living above or below the API,” his thoughts on Cloudflare eating the cloud by playing Go instead of Chess, and we also talk about the work he’s doing at Temporal and how’s taking his frontend skills to the backend. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 13 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. 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. 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 Featuring:Shawn Wang – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Learn in Public The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy Eating the Cloud from Outside In The Coding Career Handboox (this link includes an embedded coupon code for 30% off) Cloud Operating Systems and Reconstituting the Monolith No Zero Days: My Path from Javascript Newbie to Full Stack Developer at Age 30 freeCodeCamp.org #Doccies (we’re planning to do something around this soon, stay tuned in 2022) Cloud Distros and the Deployment Age of the Cloud Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

JS Party listeners and panelists celebrate our favorite moments from the past 100 episodes! You’ll hear from over 20 of your favorite voices across 14 episodes. We also share some behind-the-scenes and read/hear from listeners! Here’s to the last 200 episodes, and the next 200 as well. 🥂 Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 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 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. 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:Eric Normand – GitHub, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XEmma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, XChristopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XJake Dohm – GitHub, XScott Tolinski – GitHub, LinkedIn, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XKent C. Dodds – Website, GitHub, XSuz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XAmal Hussein – GitHub, XDivya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XBen Ilegbodu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAhmad Nassri – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XChris Coyier – Website, GitHub, XGeoff Graham – Website, XMiriam Suzanne – Website, XSarah Drasner – Website, GitHub, XAmelia Wattenberger – Website, GitHub, XFeross Aboukhadijeh – Website, GitHub, XAdam Wathan – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: JS is an occasionally functional language Do you want JavaScript again or more JavaScript? JS “Danger” Party Monad’s Hook Getting Hooked on React What I’m gonna share here is really mediocre WFH?! We really needed new jingles Amal joins the party 🎉 Bringing it back to TypeScript Let’s replace your kidney with React JS Danger: CSS-Tricks Edition When (and how) to say NO The Tailwind beneath my wings Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Each year a group of user researchers and the Go team get together and create a survey for the Go community. The results of the survey are analyzed and turned into a report made available to everyone in the Go community. In this episode we sit down with Alice Merrick and Todd Kulesza to discuss the survey, how it’s made, and some of the interesting results from this year’s survey. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors: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 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. 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 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:Todd Kulesza – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAlice Merrick – LinkedIn, XKris Brandow – GitHub, XNatalie Pistunovich – GitHub, XShow Notes: 2021 Go Developer Survey Dark Matter Developers Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In the second set of interviews from KubeCon North America 2021, Gerhard and Liz Rice talk about eBPF superpowers - Cilium + Hubble - and what’s it like to work with Duffie Cooley. Jared Watts shares the story behind Crossplane reaching incubating status, and Dan Mangum tells us what it was like to be at this KubeCon in person. Dan’s new COO role (read Click Ops Officer) comes up. David Ansari from VMware speaks about his first KubeCon experience both as an attendee and as a speaker. The RabbitMQ Deep Dive talk that he gave will be a nice surprise if you watch it - link in the show notes. Dan Lorenc brings his unique perspective on supply chain security, and tells us about the new company that he co-founded, Chainguard. How to secure container images gets covered, as well as one of the easter eggs that Scott Nichols put in chainguard.dev. 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. 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:Liz Rice – Website, GitHub, XJared Watts – GitHub, XDan Mangum – Website, GitHub, XDavid Ansari – GitHub, LinkedIn, XDan Lorenc – Website, GitHub, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: Liz Rice, Cilium 🎬 Cloud Native Superpowers with eBPF - Liz Rice, Isovalent - KCNA 2021 The Beginner’s Guide to eBPF Programming for Networking CNI Benchmark: Understanding Cilium Network Performance - May 2021 🎙 GoTime #201 - eBPF and Go ebpf.io Cilium joins CNCF as an incubating project Jared Watts & Dan Mangum, Crossplane 🎬 Registries After Dark - Daniel Mangum, Upbound & Jon Johnson, Google - KCNA 2021 Upbound at KubeCon NA 2021 SIG-Running met at 6:30AM at KubeCon Crossplane is now a CNCF Incubating project David Ansari, first KubeCon talk 🎬 RabbitMQ on Kubernetes Deep Dive - David Ansari, VMware - KCNA 2021 Dan Lorenc, Chainguard 🎬 Sigstore: How We Started, Where We Are, Where We are Headed - Bob Callaway & Dan Lorenc - KCNA 2021 sigstore - A new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software Chainguard - Applying Zero-Trust principles to supply chain security Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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 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 Harris – Website, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Lightmatter Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

KBall catches up with Chris Ferdinandi about the trends in modern web development towards smaller libraries, pre-compilation, and applications at the edge. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors: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 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. Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with no ads, extended episodes, outtakes, bonus content, a deep discount in our merch store (soon), and more to come. Let’s do this! 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!

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 $STDOUT and contains explicit language. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring:$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!

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. 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: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!

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sourcegraph – Move fast, even in big codebases. Sourcegraph is universal code search for every developer and team. Easily search across all the code that matters to you and your organization: find example code, explore and read code, debug issues, and more. Head to info.sourcegraph.com/changelog and click the button “Try Sourcegraph now” to get started. 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!

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 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!