Heavybit Podcasts

In episode 62 of o11ycast, Jessica Kerr and Martin Thwaites speak with Doug Ramirez of Uplight. This conversation covers many aspects of adopting OpenTelemetry including integration concerns, social challenges, building trust, and running it at scale. Listen in to find out why after 35 years of diverse experiences across several industries, Doug’s excited about observability.

In episode 8 of How It's Tested, Eden Full Goh speaks with Dani Grant, Co-Founder & CEO of Jam. This discussion examines AI and how it can be used to spot bug patterns, the evolving role of QA, and insights on how Jam can be embedded into the developer workflow to improve debugging.

In episode 132 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Pranay Prateek of SigNoz. This talk explores application performance monitoring, insights on utilizing OpenTelemetry, and reasons to consider open source observability solutions instead of those from SaaS vendors.

In episode 7 of How It’s Tested, Eden Full Goh speaks with Michael Le Bail of Homa Games. This talk explores game testing at Homa, how the lifecycle of a game is managed, the move from manual to automated testing, and how AI is changing the testing space.

In episode 131 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Christian Stuff and James Hush of Daily. This talk explores virtual meetings, WebRTC, and video technology. Christian and James share insights on building a video call experience in the browser and rising to the demand in recent years for world wide virtual events.

In episode 6 of How It’s Tested, Eden Full Goh speaks with Adam Oxner and Nick Newell of MySwimPro. This talk explores the challenges of testing a wearable device in water. Together they unpack MySwimPro’s platform evolution, day-to-day engineering process, team structure, and toughest challenges. Lastly, they discuss the importance of the human perspective when it comes to product testing.

In episode 130 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Jamie Barton of Grafbase about backend as a service (BaaS). Together they share insights on elevating the local development experience and integrating projects with edge databases. They also explore solutions for authentication, edge caching, and getting started in development.

In episode 129 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Surya Oruganti of Argonaut. This talk explores the complexities faced when addressing application and infrastructure deployments, insights on managing multiple environments and getting full visibility into cloud costs, and Argonaut’s mission to make software orchestration accessible to smaller teams.

In episode 37 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with Solomon Hykes about his new project, Dagger. This talk explores CI/CD in depth and examines the difficulties teams face when implementing it. Finally, Solomon looks back on the lessons he learned while building Docker and how they ultimately influenced the creation and trajectory of Dagger.

In episode 5 of How It’s Tested, Eden Full Goh speaks with Filip Grebowski. This conversation explores Filip’s career journey, metrics for gauging the health of a product, insights on parsing vanity metrics from useful metrics, AI and content creation, and the future of developer advocacy.