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Aug 9, 2024 • 1h 7min

Picking a database should be simple

Database aficionado, Ben Johnson, joins Jerod to answer the age ol’ question: which database should you use? Answering that isn’t always easy, which means it’s time to play the “It Depends” jingle & weigh (some of) the options. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. 1Password – Build securely with 1Password - 1Password simplifies how you securely use, manage, and integrate developer credentials. Manage SSH keys and sign Git commits. Access secrets stored in 1Password. Automate administrative tasks. Integrate with third-party tools. Also, check out our INFRASTRUCTURE.md file for more details on how we do secrets with 1Password. Intel Innovation 2024 – Early bird registration is now open for Intel Innovation 2024 in San Jose, CA! Learn more OR register Featuring:Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Jepsen - Consistency Models LiteFS litestream rqlite BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases with Ben Johnson (Changelog Interviews #170) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Aug 3, 2024 • 2h 19min

From Chef to System Initiative

Adam Jacob goes solo with Adam for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up. This is a different flavor of “Friends” for you. Enjoy. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 12 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Test Double – Great software is made by great teams. Test Double builds both. Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Intel Innovation 2024 – Early bird registration is now open for Intel Innovation 2024 in San Jose, CA! Learn more OR register Featuring:Adam Jacob – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: System Initiative Ximian Any Given Sunday speech I’ll Devour You! (I shall look forward to the fight) RIP Ezra Zygmuntowicz Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jul 26, 2024 • 1h 32min

The BSOD CrowdStrikes back

Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrike’s wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technology… and what it means for the future of the (software) world. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 9 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong. Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more Intel Innovation 2024 – Registration is now open for Intel Innovation 2024 in San Jose, CA! Featuring:Robert Ross – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Inside the 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines How the CrowdStrike outage unfolded — a timeline Nick Burns, Your Company’s Computer Guy Real men test in production… The truth about the CrowdStrike disaster No More Blue Fridays House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage CrowdStrike CEO called to testify to Congress over cybersecurity’s firm role in global tech outage Beyond the Headlines: The Unsung Art of Software Outage Management Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jul 19, 2024 • 1h 53min

There’s a TUI for that

Nick Janetakis is back and this time we’re talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we’ve tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison’s Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is “AI free.” Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 17 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong. Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. Paragon – Ship native integrations to production in days with more than 130 pre-built connectors, or configure your own custom integrations. Built for product and engineering. Learn more at useparagon.com/changelog Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring:Nick Janetakis – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Justin Garrison’s awesome-tuis repo aristocratos/bashtop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor aristocratos/btop - A monitor of resources “Getting started with tmux” on YouTube Changelog Interviews #511: The terminal as a platform (with Will McGugan) LazyDocker - manage everything Docker Superfile - fancy and modern terminal file manager Ranger - VIM-inspired filemanager Elia - TUI for interacting with large language models Atuin - Making your shell magical Warp - the terminal reimagined Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jul 12, 2024 • 1h 33min

Last DevRel standing

Shawn 'swyx' Wang discusses the state of DevRel, the impact of AI Engineering, speculation on AGI, and the mis-steps during Cognition's launch. They explore the future of AI innovations and the rise and fall of job openings in the tech industry.
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Jul 5, 2024 • 1h 30min

A different kind of rug pull

Adam & Jerod discuss the news! But first, we discuss how you can keep up with the software world (good question, Tyler Boyd!) On the docket: Developer job postings trend, the Ladybird Browser Initiative, the Polyfill.js supply chain attack & is the future self-hosted? Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 15 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. 1Password – Build securely with 1Password - 1Password simplifies how you securely use, manage, and integrate developer credentials. Manage SSH keys and sign Git commits. Access secrets stored in 1Password. Automate administrative tasks. Integrate with third-party tools. Also, check out our INFRASTRUCTURE.md file for more details on how we do secrets with 1Password. Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative Chris Wanstrath’s announcement Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites The future is self-hosted BONUS++ Doggo – CLI DNS client for humans Doggo on Socket Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 28, 2024 • 1h 39min

Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream

Welcome to Kaizen 15! We go deep on the big Changelog News redesign, give shout outs to folks who’ve helped us along the way & Gerhard takes us on his journey to turn Jerod’s pipe dream into a reality! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong. Retool – The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Featuring:Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Discussion #511: 🎧 Kaizen 15 - changelog.com/friends/50 Navel gazing on Wikipedia Omphaloskepsis on #define: game theory, dude Pull Request #510: News redesign Pull Request #517: 29 reasons to subscribe to Changelog News Pull Request #513: Remove # from episode numbers in commit messages Pull Request #516: Trace GitHub Actions Workflows Support for HTTPS tracing protocol corentinmusard/otel-cicd-action worldpagespeed.fly.dev pipedream.changelog.com 🎬 Let’s build a CDN Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 21, 2024 • 1h 41min

Where DOESN’T curl run

Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL’ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won’t be the next XZ & more! Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database. Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. Featuring:Daniel Stenberg – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: curl turns 26 today My BDFL guiding principles The I in LLM stands for intelligence tiny-curl Verified curl How to verify a curl release github.com/curl/trurl Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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Jun 14, 2024 • 2h 1min

Putting the Apple in AI

Tech enthusiast and AI expert Justin Searls shares insights on Apple's latest innovations at the 2024 WWDC keynote, discussing the future of Apple Intelligence and his vision for Apple devices. Topics range from math problem-solving on iPads, mobile CoPilot assistants, password management apps, Safari compatibility challenges, screen time restrictions, and humorous incidents with new Apple features. The conversation also explores the Apple Vision Pro device, virtual reality gestures, Apple's potential support for Linux on Mac devices, and optimism for the future of Apple technology.
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Jun 13, 2024 • 5min

1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐)

Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it between Microsoft Build interviews. Was 1999 the best year in film history? Was 2004 the worst? Have you heard the full story behind Blues Traveler’s “Hook”? Are you still reading this? Go listen! (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.) Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 43 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors: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 extended episodes, make the ads disappear & more. It’s better! Let’s do this Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Changelog++ (It’s better!) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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