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Listened to Webhooks at Scale with Alexandre Bouchard
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Webhooks are used in connecting two different online applications. Webhooks allow one program to send data to another as soon as a certain event takes place.And because they are event-driven, webhooks are ideal for things like real-time notifications and data updates. The company Hookdeck helps build webhook integrations at scale. In this episode, we talk

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Listened to Thoughtworks Technology Podcast: Serverless in 2023
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Serverless received significant attention when it first emerged in the middle of the 2010s. And although it has now entered the mainstream and is today used in a diverse range of scenarios and architectures, it nevertheless remains a topic that causes considerable confusion and debate: where should we use it? How should we use it? Sometimes, what even is it, exactly? In this episode of the Technology Podcast, Mike Mason and Prem Chandrasekaran are joined by former Thoughtworker Mike Roberts — author of "the canonical book on serverless,"  — to discuss the current state of serverless. They examine the ways that serverless is understood today and explore the impacts and challenges it has for both businesses and software developers. Read Mike Roberts' book Programming AWS Lambda:  Read Mike's long-read on serverless on martinfowler.com: https://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html

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Listened to The Tech Talks Daily Podcast: 2290: OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock On The Future For Open Source
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As businesses and individuals, we rely increasingly on digital services in our everyday lives. Our lives have become dependent on technology, from cloud services to mobile phones and streaming sites to the apps we use. And behind these technologies lies open source software. Open source software has become a vital part of building digital services. It has made it possible for developers to collaborate and share code, making it faster and more cost-effective to build software. But with this increase in use, the importance of security planning and governance has also grown. Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, is a leading open-source software and governance expert. She has been an advocate for open source software for over a decade and has seen its impact on the industry. Amanda shares where we are with open source and why we must care about how our software gets put together and where it comes from. Amanda discusses the importance of understanding the source of the code and the licenses used. With the rise of open source software, it is essential to be aware of potential legal issues and ensure compliance with licensing requirements. She also highlights the importance of building and maintaining trust with open source communities and contributing back to them. Amanda also emphasizes the role of governance in ensuring the security and reliability of open source software. She points out that open source projects must have a strong governance structure to ensure that contributors are held accountable and that the code is secure. As Amanda notes, open source software has become too important to ignore. We must ensure that we are not only using it but also contributing to it and supporting its continued growth.  By understanding where our software comes from and its governance structure, we can ensure the security and reliability of the technologies we rely on daily. As businesses and individuals, we must recognize the importance of open source software and take steps to ensure its continued growth and success. Sponsored VPN Offer

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Listened to How companies are sponsoring OSS with Alyssa Wright, Chad Whitacre & Duane O’Brien (Changelog Interviews #539)
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This week we’re celebrating Maintainer Month along with our friends at GitHub. Open source runs the world, but who runs open source? Maintainers. Open source maintainers are behind the software we use everyday, but they don’t always have the community or support they need. That’s why we’re celebrating open source maint...

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Listened to Hyperswitch, the future of programming, Thoughtworks' latest tech radar & your docs aren't "simple" (Changelog News #42)
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Hyperswitch is like the adapter pattern for payments, Austin Henley writes about the future of programming by summarizing recent research papers, Thoughtworks published their 28th volume of their Tech Radar, the team at General Products reminds devs to scan our technical writing for words such as “easy”, “painless”, “s...

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Listened to Cup o' Go | Go 1.21 development is full steam ahead: io/fs, loopvar, slog API vetting, context merging. And an interview with GoTek
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On the news this week:🇧🇷 GopherCon Brasil CFP open until May 3 🇮🇹 GoLab 2023 CFP open closes on May 21 💬 io/fs: writeable interface new discussion asking for use cases. If you have a project that uses a writeable abstraction interface, go there!✅ GOEXPERIMENT=loopvar is in! Will be included in...

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Listened to Examining capitalism's chokepoints with Cory Doctorow (Changelog Interviews #535)
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This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about cho...

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Listened to JSON vs XML - CoRecursive Podcast by Adam Gordon Bell 
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Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way to build software. Also, his battles against XML, against complexity, his battles to say that there's a better way to build software. This is foundational stuff for the web, and Doug is an iconoclast. […]

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Listened to Stuart Langridge (@sil) is a true wonder of the world, off-topic is default setting! by Tech: Off-topic
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Mike (⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ukmadlz⁠⁠ https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlz) and co-host Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej https://phpc.social/@SecondeJ) gather for the first time in a while and are joined by Stuart Langridge (https://twitter.com/sil https://mastodon.social/@sil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Langridge). The usual variety of social tech chat goes truly off the rails to the point where it's more teachable moments than tech discussion. But some of what we cover is: Elon is against Chat GPT 4+ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/pause-ai-development-open-letter-warning/ Don't deploy on Friday horseshit is BACK https://twitter.com/allenholub/status/1637111242610610182?t=EBkSZzQ6-zVpZ0I5lC4s4g&s=19 Dilbert Twitter outage two weeks ago was because they fired everyone with access to mint certs https://izzodlaw.com/@IzzoD/110001516908481048 You can't avoid politics in tech sometimes https://twitter.com/AlyssaM_InfoSec/status/1637383087020548096 The topics list was a lot longer, and this is all we got to. I think we hit a new level of off-topic with this episode, so enjoy.

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Listened to Turso: Globally Replicated SQLite with Glauber Costa
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Distributed databases are necessary for storing and managing data across multiple nodes in a network. They provide scalability, fault tolerance, improved performance, and cost savings. By distributing data across nodes, they allow for efficient processing of large amounts of data and redundancy against failures. They can also be used to store data across multiple locations

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Listened to Platform Engineering with Luca Galante
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The increasing complexity of modern cloud-native architectures has led to the emergence Platform Engineering. This practice involves the development and upkeep of an integrated product, known as an “Internal Developer Platform,” which serves as a flexible and supported abstraction layer between application developers and the underlying technologies. Luca Galante leads Product at Humanitec and he

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Listened to Being a Teenager in 2023 with Zenzo Hanselman by Scott Hanselman 
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This week it's Scott and Zenzo Hanselman: a father-son tech talk. He chats with his son Zenzo, a curious and creative teenager, about the latest trends and topics in technology. From AI to VR, from gaming to social media, from coding to culture, Scott and Zenzo will explore the world of tech from their different perspectives and experiences.

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Listened to Myself: It's not weird at all by Scott Hanselman 
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This episode wasn't supposed to be an episode! I was invited by Jeff Fritz of Twitch fame to talk to his community team of Live Coders on Discord. They recorded it, and mentioned several times that it was useful content! So, why not try something new and make this an episode! Let me know on Twitter if you find my views on community, productivity, and life useful to you!