The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

In this lively discussion, Carin Meier, author of Living Clojure and a math and physics enthusiast, shares her journey from ballet to coding. She dives into the vibrant Clojure community, discussing its interoperability with Java and applications in large organizations. Carin introduces the fascinating concept of chemical programming, blending computer science with biology. The conversation wraps up with insights on mastering Clojure, reflecting on the importance of patience and practice, and exploring the playful side of coding.

Ben Johnson joined the show to talk about BoltDB, InfluxDB, and several other key-value store databases out there and why he’s so passionate about developing open source software. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet. imgix – Real-time Image Processing. Resize, crop, and process images on the fly, simply by changing their URLs. Casper – Casper mattresses are awesome! Use code CHANGELOG at checkout to get $50 towards your mattress. Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO. Featuring:Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Ben Johnson on Twitter Ben Johnson on GitHub BoltDB - Embedded key/value store LMDB - Key/value store BoltDB is based on LevelDB - Popular embedded key/value store from Google InfluxDB - Timeseries database written in Go that Ben works on Parquet - Columnar storage format that Ben is porting to Go The Secret Lives of Data [Hero] Ilya Grigorik on GitHub Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO. 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!

Julius Volz from SoundCloud joined the show to talk about Prometheus, an open-source service monitoring system written in Go. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO. 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!

Tobi Knaup, co-founder & CTO of Mesosphere joined the show to talk about the datacenter operating system, and all the open source around it. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet. Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account 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!

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet. Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO. 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: 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!

Brian Cardarella joined the show to talk about the bet he’s placed on Elixir and Ember to be the focus of his company. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet. Code School – Learn to program by doing with hands-on courses. Sign up for Code School at only $19/month. That’s $10 off per month! 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: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!

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. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet. Code School – Learn to program by doing with hands-on courses. Sign up for Code School at only $19/month. That’s $10 off per month! 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!

Peter Bourgon joined the show to talk about building microservices using Go in the modern enterprise and his microservices toolkit Go kit. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet. DigitalOcean – Use the code CHANGELOG to get a $10 hosting credit when you create a new DigitalOcean account Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO. 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!

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’). Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet. Toptal – Join Toptal and work with awesome people from anywhere in the world. Freelance with companies like Airbnb, Artsy & IDEO. 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!