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In this episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast, Schalk Neethling sits down with Daniel Beck, a documentation engineer writer based in Amsterdam.

In this episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast, Schalk Neethling sits down with Daniel Beck, a documentation engineer writer based in Amsterdam.
In this follow-up to episode #306, "How soon until AI takes my job?", the gang of (grumpy?) veteran software engineers candidly chat about how their day to day is changing in the midst of improving AI tooling & hype.
Making sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs that is impact all stages of our physical and digital worlds.
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Robert Hodges, CEO of Altinity. This is a great example of an open source company that is built on top of an open source project, ClickHouse, that they did not create and still do not have direct control over. Altinity has created and...
This is the first actual edition of the API Evangelist Conversation podcast with my friend Pat Patterson, the Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. Always enjoy learning from Pat as we dove into the meaning behind his title, as well as how Backblaze has standardized their API around the Amazon S3 storage API--essentially treating the API as the industry standard for storage.
We're joined by Alya Abbott from Zulip, the open source, organized, threaded, team chat for distributed teams of all sizes. We talk about Zulip's origins, how it's open source, the way it's led, no VC funding, what makes it different/better, how you can self-host it or use their cloud, moving to Zulip, contributing and...
In this episode, CRob chats with Omkhar Arasaratnam, who has served as the general manager of the OpenSSF and was co-host of What’s in the SOSS? As Omkhar moves on to the next chapter of his occupational journey, he reflects on his tenure with the...
David Flanagan created a successful YouTube channel but knew to take things to the next level he'd need to own more of the stack.
Proposals🗜️ Accepted: Add new compress/zstd packagePreviously discussed in Episode 31🧼 Accepted: runtime: add AddCleanup and deprecate SetFinalizerPreviously discussed in Episode 73🗜️ Accepted: refuse to generate and/or use RSA keys smaller than 1024 bits🇮🇱 GopherCon Israel 2024, thoughts byy...
Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger's blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do we produce podcasts?
John Britton & Mike McQuaid are Co-Founders of Workbrew, the company that provides additional features and support for companies using Homebrew. Homebrew's main project, brew, is a wildly popular open source project with 40K GitHub stars and provides the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux). In this episode, we dig into John & Mike's history with Homebrew and their time together at GitHub, how Homebrew has kept projects simple over time and avoided feature creep, how Homebrew has managed to get a lot of value from contributors, how their ICP has shifted from mac admins to dev and security teams & more!
Chad talks about sustaining open source, Sentry’s OSS Pledge, funding initiatives, and strategies to support open-source projects.
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Jesse Williams and Brad Micklea, co-founders of Jozu and each with a long history of experience in various open source companies behind them. Even though Jozu is young, there was a lot to learn from these two and their experience in both open...
<p>Ted Danson is thrilled to introduce Woody Harrelson to his dear friend Kristen Bell! Woody is curious about her anti-aging methods plus her fateful meet cute with hubby Dax Shepard. Kristen shares how she juggles a schedule filled with family, an acting career, and jiu-jitsu badassery. Bonus: Ted and Kristen trade tips on how to deal with difficult people, in a silent but deadly way. </p><p> </p><p>Like watching your podcasts? Visit <a href="http://youtube.com/teamcoco">http://youtube.com/teamcoco</a> to see full episodes.</p>
<p>Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson are reunited, and it feels so... nerve-wracking? For their first episode, the guys are joined by one of the funniest people they know, Will Arnett. Will gives them some podcasting tips from his gilded perch as co-host of the mega-hit podcast Smartless. They also get into Will's extreme Cheers fandom and his winding journey from getting kicked out of boarding school to starring in shows like Arrested Development and Murderville. Bonus: Woody's Gob Bluth impersonation.</p><p> </p><p>Like watching your podcasts? Visit <a href="http://youtube.com/teamcoco">http://youtube.com/teamcoco</a> to see full episodes.</p>
Emily Freeman joins the show alongside our Ship It co-host, Justin Garrison! We hear Emily's burnout story & learn how she and Forrest Brazeal are putting tech-focused influencers on tap. But first: area code turf wars, bad movie reboots & buying used DVDs... at Starbucks?!
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Jimmy Zelinskie, co-founder and CPO of Authzed, which is behind SpiceDB. We kicked off the discussion with a really interesting discussion about whether or not SpiceDB is a database and whether or not Authzed is a database company. At first...
Go 1.23.1 & 1.22.7 released🚫 Proposal accepted: encoding/json: add omitzero optionEpisode 34: Interview with Joe Tsai about encoding/json/v2✍️ script v0.23.0Episode 56: Interview wit xiaq, author of Elvish Episode 21: Interview with John ArundelGo blog: Telemetry in Go 1.23 and beyond by Robert...
Taylor Dolezal from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation discusses his role as the Head of Ecosystem, working closely with end-users implementing CNCF projects. He shares his open source origin story, tracing back to high school programming experiences. We touched on community dynamics, experiences with project forks, and the evolving landscape of AI and its intersection with open source. We also discuss the importance of sustainability in open source communities and the critical role of vendor neutrality. 00:00 Introduction01:45 Open Source Origin Story11:04 Project Forks and Community Dynamics17:20 HashiCorp and OpenTofu: A Fork in the Road19:46 Navigating the AI Frontier23:28 The Challenges of AI Standardization26:17 The Importance of Vendor Neutrality28:02 Balancing Priorities in Open Source29:51 Sustaining Open Source Communities Guest: Taylor Dolezal navigates the cloud native universe with a knack for puns and a keen eye for psychology. Living in the heart of LA, he blends tech innovation with mental insights, one punny cloud at a time. Avid reader, thinker, and cloud whisperer.
It takes more than great code to be a great engineer. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software developers about the non-technical stuff that goes into being a great software developer.
Katherine speaks with Demetris Cheatham, the Chief of Staff to the CEO of GitHub, about her unique perspective on the open source landscape. The discussion covers her experiences in various sectors and the impactful 'All In' project created to elevate developers from underrepresented backgrounds. They highlight the significance of community, the power of relationships, and the pivotal role of natural language and AI in making coding more accessible globally. The talk also addresses critical challenges like the digital divide, funding for diversity programs, and the importance of evolving diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in tech. 00:00 Introduction00:26 Connecting Through Open Source02:02 Role and Responsibilities at GitHub05:06 Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives09:16 Challenges in Computer Science Education12:51 Equity and Systemic Change16:21 The Journey to a Billion Developers24:07 Building Relationships in Open Source31:37 Final Thoughts and Takeaways Sitting on GitHub’s Executive Leadership team, Demetris Cheatham is currently the Chief of Staff for the CEO of GitHub, where she acts as the CEO’s trusted partner to move all of software development forward. Demetris is particularly passionate about the evolving nature of open source in the age of AI. Before her time as COS to the CEO, Demetris was Senior Director for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Strategy at GitHub, the Global Diversity and Inclusion at Lead at Red Hat, and was the first woman and youngest Executive Director to lead the National Bar Association, the United States’ oldest and largest international network of over 65,000 predominantly African-American attorneys and judges.
This week Jonathan chats with Lori Lorusso and Steve Hoffman, the Head of Community and SVP of engineering at Percona, the open source database experts. - You can join the conversation in , watch live or get the video version of the show on , as well as getting the full story and show links from . Oh, and follow ! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this episode, Omkhar chats with Mike Hanley, Chief Security Officer and SVP of Engineering at GitHub. Prior to GitHub, Mike was the Vice President of Security at Duo Security, where he built and led the security research, development, and opera...
and talk about Chrome unexpectedly going EOL on Ubuntu 18. Keeping old things alive is really hard to do, and in open source it's becoming more common to just run the latest version rather than trying to keep old versions alive for long periods of time. Show Notes
Justin Garrison, Director of Developer Relations at Sidero, joins Corey to discuss Justin's experience transitioning from large companies like AWS and Disney to a more agile company like Sidero, the benefits of using simplified Linux distributions like Talos OS for running Kubernetes, and the...
This week on The Business of Open Source I have an episode I recorded on site at AI-Dev in Paris with Justin Cormack, CTO of Docker. We finally get around to talking about AI at the very end of the episode, but otherwise we talked business and open source and how Docker manages both. Here’s some...
Sarah Christoff discusses her experiences and challenges as an open source maintainer with a focus on her work with the Porter and Zarf projects. Sarah shares insights into the frustrations and isolation often felt by maintainers, and emphasizes the importance of community and human connections in navigating these roles. We chatted about of Porter and its function in simplifying complex DevOps tool integrations. Additionally, Sarah talks about Zarf, a project recently donated to the OpenSSF aimed at facilitating air-gapped Kubernetes deployments. 00:00 Introduction 01:29 Challenges of Being an Open Source Maintainer 03:12 The Human Element in Software Development 05:45 Advice for Aspiring Maintainers 08:42 The Porter Project 11:10 The Zarf Project 13:09 The Importance of Community in Open Source 15:31 Women in Tech and Role Models 21:45 Animal Rescue and Community Building 26:10 Final Thoughts and Hot Takes on Open Source Guest: Sarah Christoff is a software engineer at Defense Unicorns who loves making complex code more digestible. She is the self-proclaimed founder of the Leslie Lamport fan club. When she's not bugbusting, she is running her animal rescue and competing in triathlons. She believes code should be like cats: intelligent, fluffy, and easy to take care of.
What if your infrastructure diagram was responsible for the actual infrastructure?! John Watson & Scott Prutton from System Initiative join Justin & Autumn to discuss.
GitLab has changed a lot over the past 8 years and so has Abubakar. Starting in the help desk he's seen a lot and takes us through GitLab's and his progression.
This week on the Business of Open Source I had Galeal Zino, CEO and founder of NetFoundry, which creates OpenZiti. One of the most interesting things about the this conversation was the conversation about how to balance whether you’re promoting the product or the project. I talk to a lot of...
Ryan Worl, Co-founder and CTO at WarpStream, joins us to talk about the world of Kafka and data streaming and how WarpStream redesigned the idea of Kafka to run in modern cloud environments directly on top of object storage. Last year they posted a blog titled, "Kafka is dead, long live Kafka" that hit the top of Hacke...
Brian explores open-source sustainability, his advocacy journey, and Open Sauced's goals, sharing insights from GitHub and Netlify.
On this episode, Angelica is joined by Go community leaders from around the world: meetup organizers from Guadalajara, St. Louis, New York & Go Bridge Atlanta. Together, they explore the ins & outs of organizing meetups, the benefits of attending, the Go Developer Network (GDN) & the current state of the Go Meetup comm...
Thanks to Jamie Tanna for joining as Co-host!Our gracious patrons support this show. Consider joining as a member, too!Conferences roundup🇮🇱 GopherCon Israel Sep 9th https://www.gophercon.org.il/🇩🇪 Fyne Conf 2024 Sep 20th https://conf.fyne.io/🌐 GoFunc Oct 3rd https://gofunc.ru/🇰🇪 GopherCon Africa...
To kick off season two of Grafana's Big Tent podcast, our host Mat Ryer is back and he's bringing along some heavy hitters! Get ready for a deep dive into the world of caching with Memcached mainta...
In this episode, Omkhar Arasaratnam visits with Aeva Black, who currently serves as the Section Chief for Open Source Security at CISA, and is an open source hacker and international public speaker with 25 years of experience building open source ...
This week Zach Michel from https://middleware.io/ and I discuss the state of OpenTelemetry and what it means to adopt it. We cover:🌩️ Achieving observability in a SaaS world🥫 Context propagation - the magic sauce of OTEL🚪 The telemetry gateway con...
Justin & Autumn are joined by Steven Wu from Scanner. Scanner built logging infrastructure focused on security teams and occasional querying. We dive deep into how architectural decisions affect your business.
Pretix founder and CEO Raphael Michel has a completely different philosophy about what he is building compared to the big players in the event / ticketing platform space. We had a great conversation this week about Pretix, how Pretix is positioned compared to big players, and who care about the...
and talk about a story that discusses a story from Black Hat that references supply chains. There's a ton of doom and gloom around our software supply chains and much of the advice isn't realistic. If we want to take this seriously we need to stop obsessing over the little problems and focus on some big problems. Show Notes
🎉 Go 1.23 is here!Blog: Range Over Function Types by Ian Lance TaylorA look at the spec: Tree walking with range-over-func by Jonathan HallConferences & CFPs🇦🇺 GopherCon AU, Nov 7-8 Sydney, AustraliaCFP closes Sept 15🇺🇸 GoWest, Oct 25, Lehi, Utah, USAStill accepting lightning talksLane...
This episode focuses on the art of delivering concise Lightning Talks, a popular format at conferences worldwide where speakers present in a short timeframe. Joined by some of this year's GopherCon Lightning Talkers, we'll discuss their experiences, challenges & tips for effective communication within a limited time.
<p>Actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black feels magnificent about being Conan O’Brien’s friend.</p><p> </p><p>Jack sits down with Conan to discuss the appropriate use of beard oil, his Covid-era dance TikToks, the fake sketch injury that turned real, and attempting to ride a water buffalo.</p><p> </p><p>For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit <a href="http://TeamCoco.com">TeamCoco.com</a>.</p><p>Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (669) 587-2847.</p>
Platform engineers might not be familiar with foundational software design principles, and this can lead to inefficiencies and technical debt.