Changelog Interviews

Wynn sat down with Andy Gross and Mark Phillips of Basho and John Nunemaker of Ordered List to talk about Riak, Riak Search, and moving an open source community to GitHub. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:John Nunemaker – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: NoSQL smackdown, live from SXSW 2010. Are you web scale? Drop us a ping@thechangelog.com and let us know who you want to get on The Changelog Andy Gross VP of Engineering at Basho, the company behind Riak. Mark Phillips Community Manager at Basho AKA * @pharkmillups John Nunemaker of Ordered List and MongoMapper fame Riak is now available as a binary download Bitcask, the new backend for Riak Riak key value store, decentralized datastore from Basho Technologies Riak Search, full-text search engine based on Riak Riak buckets, container and keyspace for data stored in Riak Riak KVS buckets can be automatically searchable by installing the Search pre-commit hook Riak supports an Apache SOLR interface Sean Cribbs made some waves with Ripple Ruby, Python, Node.js are the biggest adopters of Riak Riak aims to scale both up and down. Adding a node adds a linear increase in throughput and storage capacity. 50 nodes run easily on a laptop. Riak nodes are truly decentralized, no node is special Riak compares to Cassandra and Voldemort Riak has built-in JavaScript map reduce but unlike Couch, it’s more an ad hoc approach. Andy explains Riak’s link walking or bucket-key-tag relationships between objects. Riak now has two interfaces, the original REST HTTP interface, and a new protocol buffers interface, a faster binary interface Eric Brewer, a Basho board member, and his cap theorem Bitcask is an append-only file format where the keys are stored in memory for ultra fast lookups. InnoStore, the original Riak backend John Muellerleile, author of the popular NoSQL cartoon about distributed map reduce in Erlang Apache Lucene query syntax a growing standard for search The move from BitBucket to GitHub was ultimately about community, not about DVCS The THANKS file lists many Riak community contributors Harmony - the MongoDB-powered hosted CMS from Ordered List Mozilla runs several Riak clusters to log data from their Test Pilot project Francisco Treacy uses Riak in WideScript, “an innovative app that helps you focus and interact with your texts — on your desktop, your couch or on the go.” Inagist recently moved from Cassandra to Riak Riak has partnered with Joyent and Node creator Ryan Dahl to create Riak SmartMachines Mark also is a fan of Redis Scala and Clojure have Andy excited, too. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Thomas Fuchs to talk about script.aculo.us, Scripty2, Zepto.js and the future of Prototype. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: The Magic Roundabout is crazy Wynn got his UK badge on Gowalla script.aculo.us JavaScript effects framework built on top of Prototype Prototype - JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Thomas is one of many talented RoR core team alumni Scripty2 - completely rewritten version of script.aculo.us RaphaelJS - JavaScript vector graphics library featured in Episode 0.2.5 Johnson Page asks “What’s the future of Prototype.js?” Underscore.js utility library for jQuery, inspired by Prototype, featured in Episode 0.0.5 Zepto.js minimalist inlinable framework for mobile WebKit browsers, with a jQuery-like chaining syntax EveryTimeZone.com - handy tool to pick a time to meet across time zones. A promotional site for Freckle, chock full of JavaScript best practices. Thomas’ blog post on approaches taken with EveryTimeZone.com Gury Chainable syntax wrapper for the <canvas> element Vapor.js “The only JS framework compatible with every browser.” MadRobby gives mad props to @janl, @hblank, @cramforce and other JSConf.eu organizers. FabJS - modular async framework for Node.js Chris Williams’ talk on PromoteJS, an effort The Changelog supports. Eyeballs.js - A lightweight MVC framework for building fast, tidy JavaScript web apps CoffeeScript, featured in Episode 0.2.9 Amy Hoy, Thomas’ wife, product proponent, and usability diva. Freckle helps you manage your time JavaScript Performance Rocks - three books on ultimate web app performance Charm Desk - Thomas and Amy tackle customer support PeepCode’s Smashing into Vim with the soothing voice of Dan Benjamin Mensch and Meslo, the latest stops on Thomas’ journey to find the ultimate Terminal.app font Thomas likes to fly his AR.Drone around the office He’s also building the Lego Milennium Falcon SchnitzelConf a 1-day, full-contact conference in Vienna, Austria focusing on creating products, launching businesses, and charging real money. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn sat down with Corey Donohoe from GitHub and Seth Chisamore from Opscode to talk about DevOps, Chef, agile infrastructure and innovation in the datacenter. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: Corey Donahoe aka @atmos, DevOps dude at GitHub Seth Chisamore aka @schisamo, evangelist at Opscode, makers of Chef Chef, an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. DevOps is defined as a set of processes, methods and systems for communication, collaboration and integration between departments for Development (Applications/Software Engineering), Technology Operations and Quality Assurance (QA) Puppet, an open source data center automation and configuration management framework. Cfengine, continuous datacenter automation and repair Knife, the Chef command line interface Chef Hosted platform is an instant hosted, highly scalabe Chef Server Chef solo lets you run Chef without a Chef server Chef was architected to be multi-tenant The Opscode Team members have impressive resumes. Chef includes impressive role-based authorities Cookbooks are like Rubygems for Chef Cinderella née Cider = apple + homebrew + chef + rvm Homebrew as the most forked project is GitHub’s stress test. Be sure to catch Max on Episode 0.3.5 Wynn makes the case that the Swedish Chef be the face of the DevOps movement Silverline from Librato does complex systems management and monitoring EY or EngineYard, Corey’s former employer uses VMs in their architecture Simon Wardley’s OSCon keynote OpenStack is an effort to standardize the cloud DevOps version of the account that got Shatner back on TV DevOps Borat tweets from the datacenter Fog, Wesley Beary’s excellent Ruby abstraction layer for popular cloud providers Knife, donated by 37 Signals Wynn digs infinity_test to test against multiple versions of Ruby at the same time collectd, system statistics collection daemon Using Visage to graph collectd stats Sign up for the Opscode platform free beta Look up Seth as schisamo in #chef and #chef-hacking on IRC Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn chatted with Julien Genestoux (github/twitter) from Superfeedr about PubSubHubBub, XMPP, Websockets, and the real-time web. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: Superfeedr - pushes realtime data at scale using PubSubHubBub and XMPP. PubSubHubHub - simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS. XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an open technology for real-time communication and generalized routing of XML data. Discovery links in feeds Superfeeder has some big names among its publishers and subscribers Gowalla demo using websockets and Gowalla’s hub. Twitter’s streaming APIs Considerations for PubSubHubBub vs. XMPP Superfeedr’s GitHub profile EventMachine and Node.js are cool Julien loves Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB Superfeedr’s list of popular feeds, firehose of the blogosphere Redis’ as a pubsub store Chef from Opscode is serious cool for setting up servers Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Daniel, Christian, and Matt from Pragmatic Badger to talk about the Django Dash, Python, and Ruby. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: Daniel, Christian, and Matt from Pragmatic Badger host the Django Dash. Django Dash - you’ve got 48 hours to build a Django app. Go! Pyweek - Build a Python app in a week Rails Rumble - Ruby on Rails’ a own 48 hour web application development competition. The Dash rules Great Big Crane - 2010 Dash winner The Dash moved to distributed version control this year on GitHub & BitBucket Love for Pythons’ explicit imports and Python’s module system Twisted - an event-driven networking engine written in Python. Node.js - Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript. Eventlet - a concurrent networking library for Python that allows you to change how you run your code, not how you write it. EventMachine - fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs. Christian is using Compass and Sass in Django, but hates on Haml Forkinit - forkin’ brilliant! Share and fork your favorite recipes. Flask - Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions. Web.py - a web framework for python that is as simple as it is powerful. Google’s AppEngine Run your Python web apps on Google’s infrastructure. Pypy - implemenation of the Python language focusing on speed, memory usage, and sandboxing. Rubinius - an implementation of the Ruby programming language. The Rubinius bytecode virtual machine is written in C++. Manoria - an MMO city-building and resource management game [Source] Server tail - a service which lets you quickly and easily see real time output of log files on your servers, with just a web browser. [Source] Read the docs - a place to create, host, and browse docs. [Source] GitHub made covering the event live much more fun PhoneGap - open source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps using HTML and JavaScript. Leah Culver, who created Leafy Chat in last year’s Dash, talked about it in Episode 0.1.5 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew to talk about package managment on OSX, beer, and scrobbling. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Max Howell – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Homebrew The awesome OSX package manager from Max Howell Last.fm - The world’s largest online music catalogue, powered by your scrobbles. Max’s former employer. Tweet Deck Desktop and mobile Twitter client ImageMagick - fabulous software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images which can be a pain to install on OSX. Amarok - is a free software music player for Linux and other varieties of Unix GitHub - where all the cool people put code Homebrew terms in the Homebrew Cookbook No sudo for you and the dangers therein MacPorts - an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system Gentoo - highly optimized Linux distro Most forked projects on GitHub Max prefers British ales pengwynn is looking to get his hands on the Tatical Nuclear Penguin from Brewdog The Silicon roundabout gets its name due to the prominence of British web based companies Max created the Last.fm Scrobbler, proving open source can land you a job Transmission is beautiful on the Mac Glasses, This is the next generation of VLC for Mac also called Lunettes. brew install sl, then sl — enjoy the ride! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn caught up with Zed Shaw’s non-rockstar alter ego to talk about Mongrel2, high performance web sites, guitar, and software community ponzi schemes. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Zed Shaw – Website, GitHub, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: Mongrel2 - an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies. Original mongrel _why an anonymous and prolific writer, cartoonist, musician, artist, and computer programmer notable for his work with Ruby Unicorn - Eric Wong’s mostly pure-Ruby HTTP backend Thin A fast and very simple Ruby web server 0MQ Fastest. Messaging. Ever. Node.js Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript. Nginix is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev HAProxy The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer Twisted an event-driven networking engine written in Python libevent Asynchronous event notification library EventMachine fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs Websockets - technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channel, featured in Episode 0.3.1 SPDY - An experimental protocol for a faster web Fretwar The guitar competition and social time waster. LayerTennis from Coudal MP3 streaming demo in Mongrel2 Librelist a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects. Dethklok, Pantera, Slayer, Metallica Wynn asks if Rails is still a ghetto Joyent Ajax.im an open-source, extensible, theme-able instant messaging framework. Qt Cross platform UI framework Awesome window manager is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X Vimperator Vimperator is a Firefox browser extension with strong inspiration from the Vim text editor, with a mind towards faster and more efficient browsing. Screen screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation Reaper is a digital audio workstation: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Micheil and Wynn caught up with Gerad and Visnu from the Node Knockout to talk about the 48 hour Node.js development competition and its entries. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Show Notes: Lone Star Ruby Conference - Texas’ regional Ruby conference in Austin Mike Perham - The awesome Rubyist whose name gives Wynn fits Node Knockout - The 48 hour Node.js coding competition Rails Rumble - Ruby’s own 48 hour coding bash Gerad - of Gerad & Visnu, the “data-y” and “product-y” guy Visnu - the “developer-y” and “designer-y” guy Fortnight Labs - the proper name for Gerad & Visnu, Inc. List of great Node Knockout Judges Joyent & Heroku are great places to host your Node.js apps. Express High performance, high class web development for Node.js Connect - high performance middleware framework for node featuring robust middleware for serving static files, advanced routing, cookie and session implementations, error handling and much more. npm is a package manager for node. You can use it to install and publish your node programs. It manages dependencies and does other cool stuff. Node Inspector is a web inspector based Node.js debugger Socket.io - Websockets toolkit covered in 0.3.1 and used in so many contest entries Go vote for your favorite entries! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam and Wynn caught up with Nathan Smith from 960 Grid System to talk about web development and CSS grid frameworks. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Nathan Smith – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XWynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: 960 Grid System - Nathan’s awesome CSS grid framework 960’s awesome templates help you plan your layouts Wynn’s new monitor setup is just plain obscene 960’s fluid support from Stephen Bau Episode 0.2.8 where John Resig talks about mobile web dev Episode 18 of the yayQuery podcast Wynn asks why Google’s AJAX API library doesn’t include the CSS frameworks Nathan and Wynn are fans of Jason Santa Maria’s layout-per-post blog For the non-soccer fans, a little background for Nathan’s midfielder analogy. We don’t need to link to Sass do we? Taco Town from SNL jQuery Cookbook, to which Nathan contributed lucky Chapter 13 Nathan is a big Drupal fan Rebecca Murphey organizer of the awesome TXJS conference Textile vs. Markdown Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Wynn and Micheil sat down with Peter Griess from Yahoo Mail, Martyn Loughran from Pusher App, and Guillermo Rauch from Socket.IO to talk about Websockets. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Wynn Netherland – GitHub, XShow Notes: WebSocket is a technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket, designed to be implemented in web browsers and web servers. Socket.IO provides a really simple API to leverage Sockets on the client side. Socket.IO Node.JS server - sockets for the rest of us (in Node.js) Pusher App Hosted HTML5 web sockets service Websocket-js A Flash fallback for browsers that do not support Websockets Long polling Traditional approach to emulating push for web apps HAProxy reliable, high performance TCP/HTTP load balancer True Story A collaborative planning tool for agile teams HTML5 Event Source A one-way websocket with limited browser support Node Websocket Server Micheil’s websocket server written in low-level node.js, should be 90-100% spec compatible. Hummingbird demo - a real time traffic visualizer MongoDB Awesome NoSQL database featured on Episode 0.0.7 Redis an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, and ordered sets. EM-Websocket EventMachine based WebSocket server from Ilya Grigorik Node.js YUI3 bindings YUI3 on the server?! Telehash - a new wire protocol from Jeremie Miller, the guy behind XMPP, for exchanging JSON in a real-time and fully decentralized manner, enabling applications to connect directly and participate as servers on the edge of the network. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!