
Changelog Interviews
Conversations with the hackers, leaders, and innovators of the software world. Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo face their imposter syndrome so you don’t have to. Expect in-depth interviews with the best and brightest in software engineering, open source & leadership. This is a polyglot podcast. All programming languages, platforms & communities are welcome.
Latest episodes

Aug 15, 2015 • 1h 13min
Middleman and Static Site Generators
Thomas Reynolds, the creator of Middleman, joined the show to talk about the history of static site generators, how he got into open-source, his love for Go, and what’s to come in Middleman v4.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Middleman: Hand-crafted frontend development
staticmatic/staticmatic
My Weird Ruby « Thomas Reynolds
Middleman: Upgrading to v4
hamstergem/hamster
egonSchiele/contracts.ruby
bhollis (Ben Hollis)
karlfreeman (Karl Freeman)
Arcovion (Eliott Appleford)
People · Middleman
Pixi.js - 2D webGL renderer with canvas fallback
Reach any screen. API-first CMS for multi-device publishing - Contentful
Netlify: The premium hosting service for modern static websites
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Aug 7, 2015 • 1h 10min
Prometheus and service monitoring
Julius Volz from SoundCloud joined the show to talk about Prometheus, an open-source service monitoring system written in Go.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Julius Volz (@juliusvolz) on Twitter
Julius Volz (@juliusv) on GitHub
Prometheus Homepage
Prometheus on GitHub
Prometheus Community
Prometheus Google Group
What is Prometheus?
Monitoring at SoundCloud with Prometheus
Push vs Pull for Monitoring | Big Data for Travel – Boxever
Icinga | Open Source Monitoring
Nagios - The Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
The Changelog #167: Mesos and Mesosphere DCOS with Tobi Knaup
The Changelog #163: Go in the Modern Enterprise Using gokit with Peter Bourgon
Björn Rabenstein (@beorn7) on GitHub
John Carmack (Wikipedia)
Rob Pike (Wikipedia)
Dmitry Vyukov (@dvyukov) on Twitter
Changelog Community Membership (get access to our members only Slack room)
Changelog Weekly
Changelog Nightly
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 31, 2015 • 59min
Mesos and Mesosphere DCOS
Tobi Knaup, co-founder & CTO of Mesosphere joined the show to talk about the datacenter operating system, and all the open source around it.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Tobi Knaup (@superguenter) on Twitter
Tobi Knaup (@guenter) on GitHub
The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System
CoreOS is Linux for Massive Server Deployments
mesos/chronos
Kubernetes by Google
Mesosphere
Caffe | Deep Learning Framework
Marc Andreessen
Prometheus
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 25, 2015 • 1h 9min
JavaScript in the Wild at NEJS Conf
Jerod Santo took off his host hat this show and joined Zach Leatherman, and Nick Nisi, his co-organizers of NEJS Conf to talk about JavaScript in the wild in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Zach Leatherman (@zachleat) on Twitter
Nick Nisi (@nicknisi) on Twitter
Jerod Santo (@jerodsanto) on Twitter
NEJS Conf
Big Wheel Brigade
Making NEJS Conf Inclusive and Accessible
Hero: John Resig
The Superbytes
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 18, 2015 • 1h 4min
Betting the company on Elixir and Ember
Brian Cardarella joined the show to talk about the bet he’s placed on Elixir and Ember to be the focus of his company.
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Featuring:Brian Cardarella – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Brian Cardarella (@bcardarella) | Twitter
Brian Cardarella on GitHub
Elixir - A dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable application
DockYard - Web and Mobile User Experience Consultancy
The New DockYard.com
Ember.js - Ember.AutoLocation
Robert Jackson (@rwjblue) | Twitter
Ember.js - A framework for creating ambitious web applications.
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 11, 2015 • 1h 17min
Semantic UI Returns
Jack Lukic is back again to talk about what’s new with Semantic UI, the progress he, 104 contributors, and hundreds of translators have made towards a front-end standard only rivaled by Twitter’s Bootstrap numbers. We discuss the why and the how of him dedicating everything he has to Semantic UI and the potential it brings.
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HipChat – Great teams use HipChat. Group and private chat, file sharing, and integrations. Sign up for your free 90-day trial of HipChat Plus.
Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Semantic UI
Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI-Meteor
Translating Semantic UI Docs · Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI Wiki
Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI
The Changelog #106: Semantic UI with Jack Lukic
purifycss/purifycss
Introducing Incremental DOM
Bootstrap’s Homepage
Matt-Esch/virtual-dom
Semantic UI - Investors
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jul 4, 2015 • 1h 21min
Go in the Modern Enterprise and Go Kit
Peter Bourgon joined the show to talk about building microservices using Go in the modern enterprise and his microservices toolkit Go kit.
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Featuring:Peter Bourgon – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Register for Gopher Slack and talk to Peter and other Gophers in Gopher Slack. Check out the #gotimefm channel and our Go Time podcast too.
go-kit/kit
Go kit: Go in the modern enterprise
(21) Go kit - Google Groups
Go and the Modern Enterprise - Peter Bourgon - London Go Gathering 2015 - YouTube
Gophercon 2015
Weaveworks • Weave - All you need to connect, observe and control your containers
The Changelog #3: Google’s Go Programming Language
weaveworks
go-kit/kit
kit/log at master · go-kit/kit
kit/metrics at master · go-kit/kit
kit/circuitbreaker at master · go-kit/kit
kit/loadbalancer at master · go-kit/kit
kit/ratelimit at master · go-kit/kit
kit/tracing at master · go-kit/kit
Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure
Distributed Systems Tracing with Zipkin | Twitter Blogs
twitter/zipkin
Announcing Appdash, an open-source perf tracing suite - The Sourcegraph Blog
Incubation Status Template - Apache Incubator
kit/addsvc at master · go-kit/kit
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 26, 2015 • 1h 19min
Octopress 3.0
Brandon Mathis joined the show to tell us all about the much anticipated 3.0 release of Octopress - his Jekyll-based blogging framework for hackers. Octopress 3.0 is a complete rewrite and has been in the works for quite a while. We find out why Brandon decided to go for The Big Rewrite and what’s been taking so long (hint: it’s not because the dude’s been slackin’).
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Brandon Mathis :: Design Enthusiast :: Blog
Brandon Mathis on CodePen
Octopress 3.0 is coming
The Web 2.0 Show #45: GitHub
David Lanham
Octopress GitHub Org
octopress/octopress
octopress/genesis-theme
The Changelog #17: Open Source publishing with Geoffrey Grosenbach, Brandon Mathis, and Tim Caswell
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 19, 2015 • 1h 18min
The HTTP/2 Spec
Ilya Grigorik is back again — this time we’re talking about his true passion, internet plumbing, web performance, and the HTTP/2 spec. We cover everything around HTTP/2, the spec, HTTP/1 history, SPDY, binary framing layer, the semantics of HTTP/2, pipelining, multiplexing, header compression (HPACK), server push, TLS, “time to glass”, upgrading, adoption, support, and more.
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Featuring:Ilya Grigorik – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:
Ilya Grigorik (@igrigorik) on Twitter
Ilya Grigorik on GitHub
The Changelog #55: Goliath, Event Machine, and SPDY with Ilya Grigorik
The Changelog #144: GitHub Archive and Changelog Nightly with Ilya GrigorikChangelog
High Performance Browser Networking
Chapter 12. HTTP/2 - High Performance Browser Networking
HTTP/2 in one slide
Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Is TLS Fast Yet?
Implementations · http2/http2-spec Wiki
h2o/h2o
Nghttp2: HTTP/2 C Library - nghttp2.org
Jetty - Servlet Engine and Http Server
Website Performance Optimization Testing Course - Udacity
SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web - The Chromium Projects
Changelog Weekly - Issue #54
Changelog Weekly - Issue #55
Google’s Ilya Grigorik on HTTP 2.0
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jun 13, 2015 • 1h 15min
Ampersand.js, SPAs, WebRTC
Henrik Joreteg joined the show to talk about Single Page Apps (SPAs), Ampersand.js, WebRTC, JavaScript coding styles, and more.
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Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Henrik Joreteg is a JavaScript Developer, the author of Human JavaScript, and the creator of Ampersand.js.
Henrik Joreteg (@HenrikJoreteg) on Twitter
Henrik Joreteg on GitHub
&yet
Read Human JavaScript for free online!
Ampersand.js
Intro to npm, Browserify & Modules
Henrik’s “A Single Page Story” talk
RealtimeConf 2015
Subscribe to Changelog Weekly
Did You Pick the Wrong Web Framework?!
MonolithFirst
feross/standard
Backbone.js
HenrikJoreteg/SimpleWebRTC
WebRTC in the real world: STUN, TURN and signaling - HTML5 Rocks
ORTC (Object RTC) | Object API for RTC – Mobile, Server, Web
Otalk
Loren Brichter (@lorenb) on Twitter
Loren Brichter on GitHub
TJ Holowaychuk on GitHub
Feross Aboukhadijeh on GitHub
Guillermo Rauch on GitHub
React Native
Surge - Static Web Publishing for Front-End Developers
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!