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Nick, and Kball are joined by Mike Hartington to talk about Ionic, the state of web components, developer tooling, and more! Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:AWS Amplify – AWS Amplify is a suite of tools and services that enable developers to build full-stack serverless and cloud-based web and mobile apps using their framework and technology of choice. Amplify gives you easy access to hosting, authentication, managed GraphQL, serverless functions, APIs, machine learning, chatbots, and storage for files like images, videos, and pdfs. Learn more and get started for free at awsamplify.info/JSParty Linode – Get $100 in free credit to get started on Linode – our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Head to linode.com/changelog 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:Mike Hartington – Website, GitHub, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Ionic Framework Bootstrap Web Components v0 Web Components v1 Stencil Svelte React Vue Cordova PhoneGap capacitor nvim-typescript Lua Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Monitoring and debugging distributed systems is hard. In this episode, we catch up with Kelsey Hightower, Stevenson Jean-Pierre, and Carlisia Thompson to get their insights on how to approach these challenges and talk about the tools and practices that make complex distributed systems more observable. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. Command Line Heroes - Season 6 – Command Line Heroes is a podcast that tells the epic true tales of developers, programmers, hackers, geeks, and open source rebels who are revolutionizing the technology landscape. Season 6 of Command Line Heroes is out right now and features stories of Black technologists who innovated and invented despite racism, unfair hiring practices, and unequal education opportunities. Listen, learn more, and subscribe. Equinix – Equinix Metal is built from the ground up to empower developers with low-latency, high performance infrastructure anywhere. Get $500 in free credit to play with plus a rad t-shirt at info.equinixmetal.com/changelog Featuring:Kelsey Hightower – GitHub, XCarlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XStevenson Jean-Pierre – GitHub, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Projects mentioned in this episode include Pixie and Velero. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

What’s it like to try and build your own deep learning workstation? Is it worth it in terms of money, effort, and maintenance? Then once built, what’s the best way to utilize it? Chris and Daniel dig into questions today as they talk about Daniel’s recent workstation build. He built a workstation for his NLP and Speech work with two GPUs, and it has been serving him well (minus a few things he would change if he did it again). Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 1 minute at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Get $100 in free credit to get started on Linode – our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Head to linode.com/changelog 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! 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:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Daniel’s workstation components: CPU - AMD YD292XA8AFWOF Ryzen Threadripper 2920X CPU cooler - Noctua NH-U12S TR4-SP3, Premium-Grade CPU Cooler for AMD sTRX4/TR4/SP3 Motherboard - GIGABYTE X399 AORUS PRO Memory - Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x 2 packs), total 64GB Storage 1 - Samsung (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB GPU 1 - RTX 2080 Ti GPU 2 - Titan RTX Case - Lian Li PC-O11AIR Power Supply - Rosewill Hercules Case fan(s) - Coolmaster 8mm Daniel’s NUC 9 Extreme machine References: How to build the perfect Deep Learning Computer and save thousands of dollars Curtis Northcut’s blog posts Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We’re joined by George Neville-Neil, aka Kode Vicious. Writing as Kode Vicious for ACMs Queue magazine, George Neville-Neil has spent the last 15+ years sharing incisive advice and fierce insights for everyone who codes, works with code, or works with coders. These columns have been among the most popular items published in ACMs Queue magazine and it was only a matter of time for a book to emerge from his work. His book, The Kollected Kode Vicious, is a compilation of the most popular items he’s published over the years, plus a few extras you can only find in the book. We cover all the details in this episode. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Get $100 in free credit to get started on Linode – our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Head to linode.com/changelog Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog Equinix – Equinix Metal is built from the ground up to empower developers with low-latency, high performance infrastructure anywhere. Get $500 in free credit to play with plus a rad t-shirt at info.equinixmetal.com/changelog LaunchDarkly – Power experimentation at any scale. Fast and reliable feature management for the modern enterprise. Featuring:George Neville-Neil – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Kode Vicious on ACM Queue (Book) The Kollected Kode Vicious Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

What the what is DivOps?! That’s the question Jonathan Creamer is here to answer. In so doing, we cover the past, present, and future of frontend tooling. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:AWS Amplify – AWS Amplify is a suite of tools and services that enable developers to build full-stack serverless and cloud-based web and mobile apps using their framework and technology of choice. Amplify gives you easy access to hosting, authentication, managed GraphQL, serverless functions, APIs, machine learning, chatbots, and storage for files like images, videos, and pdfs. Learn more and get started for free at awsamplify.info/JSParty 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. DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. Featuring:Jonathan Creamer – Website, GitHub, XAmal Hussein – GitHub, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XDivya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: Announcing DivOps Survey/discussion for divops naming? Bolt Rush Snowpack AST Explorer.net Github Codeowners Link to Ben’s show Kent C Dodds – avoid hasty abstractions David Neal Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

When we talk about improving a programming language, we often think about what features we would add. Things like generics in Go, async/away in JS, etc. In this episode we take a different approach and talk about what we would remove from Go to make it better. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Get $100 in free credit to get started on Linode – our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Head to linode.com/changelog Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog Equinix – Equinix Metal is built from the ground up to empower developers with low-latency, high performance infrastructure anywhere. Get $500 in free credit to play with plus a rad t-shirt at info.equinixmetal.com/changelog 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:Daniel Martí – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XJon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Things in Go I Never Use (Mat at Gotham Go) Label Breaks in Go Go tips and tricks: almost everything about imports When Should I Use One Liner if…else Statements in Go? The container/list package Understanding init in Go Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Weights & Biases is coming up with some awesome developer tools for AI practitioners! In this episode, Lukas Biewald describes how these tools were a direct result of pain points that he uncovered while working as an AI intern at OpenAI. He also shares his vision for the future of machine learning tooling and where he would like to see people level up tool-wise. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Lukas Biewald – Website, GitHub, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Weights & Biases Blueriver case study from W&B W&B gallery Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We’re talking with Gerhard Lazu, our resident SRE, ops, and infrastructure expert about the evolution of Changelog’s infrastructure, what’s new in 2020, and what we’re planning for in 2021. The most notable change? We’re now running on Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)! We even test the resilience of this new infrastructure by purposefully taking the site down. That’s near the end, so don’t miss it! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Get $100 in free credit to get started on Linode – our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Head to linode.com/changelog Teamistry – Teamistry is a podcast that tells the stories of teams who work together in new and unexpected ways to achieve remarkable things. Season 2 of Teamistry is out now. Search for Teamistry anywhere you listen to podcasts, or head here to subsribe. Equinix – Equinix Metal is built from the ground up to empower developers with low-latency, high performance infrastructure anywhere. Get $500 in free credit to play with plus a rad t-shirt at info.equinixmetal.com/changelog LaunchDarkly – Power experimentation at any scale. Fast and reliable feature management for the modern enterprise. 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:Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Read Gerhard’s post covering all the details for Changelog’s 2020 and beyond infrastructure. The Changelog #254: Deploying Changelog.com with Gerhard Lazu The new Changelog.com setup for 2019 Inside the 2019 infrastructure for Changelog.com grafana.changelog.com - Compute Resources / Workload in Grafana Join Linode Green Light to get early access and test new Linode products before they hit the market, provide valuable feedback to influence product direction, and become part of a community of developers helping us build the cloud that works for you. fluxcd/flux Introducing Flux Check out Fernand Galiana and K9s Bitwarden Grafana Labs Keel Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Frontend Feud returns! Emma heads up team Boooooleans 👻 and Nick captains the Whiteboard Interviews Millionaires. We played this game for our friends at HalfStack Conf and the full video of the session is on our YouTube channel too. Take the survey! Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 3 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:AWS Amplify – AWS Amplify is a suite of tools and services that enable developers to build full-stack serverless and cloud-based web and mobile apps using their framework and technology of choice. Amplify gives you easy access to hosting, authentication, managed GraphQL, serverless functions, APIs, machine learning, chatbots, and storage for files like images, videos, and pdfs. Learn more and get started for free at awsamplify.info/JSParty 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. DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. Featuring:Jem Young – Website, GitHub, XNeil Roberts – XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XEmma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, XAmal Hussein – GitHub, XDivya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Take the next Frontend Feud survey! Watch the video on our YouTube channel HalfStack Conf Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Paul Smith (from “Obama’s Trauma Team”) tells us the tale of how Go played a big role in the rescuing and rebuilding of the HealthCare.gov website. Along the way we learn what the original team did wrong, how the rescue team kept it afloat during huge traffic spikes, and what they’ve done since to rebuild it to serve the people’s needs. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Get $100 in free credit to get started on Linode – our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Head to linode.com/changelog Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog Equinix – Equinix Metal is built from the ground up to empower developers with low-latency, high performance infrastructure anywhere. Get $500 in free credit to play with plus a rad t-shirt at info.equinixmetal.com/changelog 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:Paul Smith – Website, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XJohnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: HealthCare.gov Paul’s company Ad Hoc is hiring Obama’s Trauma Team Paul on MSNBC talking about the rescue Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!