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Austin Parker, Director of Open Source at Honeycomb and main contributor for the OpenTelemetry project, joins Julián Duque to discuss how observability is evolving in the age of generative AI. From OTel's origins to the development of new semantic conventions for LLMs, Austin explores how standardized telemetry provides the visibility needed to keep complex, AI-powered applications running smoothl...

Bart Farrell from KubeFM and LearnKube joins Julian and Yadin to discuss Kubernetes World: Finding Your Path in the Cloud Native Ecosystem, a new free ebook and career guide that helps new community members navigate the complex Kubernetes landscape. From the importance of a welcoming community to a behind-the-scenes look at how the ebook was created, this episode will interest all cloud-native pro...

During the Los Angeles wildfires in 2025, more than  10 million people  relied on Watch Duty for potentially life-saving information. On this episode of Code[ ish ], its Cofounder and CTO Dave  Merritt   talks   Julián Duque  through how the application works and the technologies like Heroku that make it possible.  

Robbie Birbeck, VP of Digital Enterprise Technology at Salesforce , joins  Julián Duque  to  talk about how Salesforce leverages Heroku .   F ilmed at the  Palace Hotel  in  d owntown San Francisco,  the big star of this episode is  Agentforce , which helps Salesforce employees with  IT and HR questions, among others .  

Vestmark manages more than  1.7 trillion in assets ,  and its CTO,  Freedom Dumlao , joins  Julián Duque  to discuss how  AI is helping  its  advisors  in their  day - to - day  work . F ilmed at the  Palace Hotel  in  d owntown San Francisco, the  pair discuss  the role of  AI in development  and why  all   its  new products are being built using Rub y.  

In our second video special from the Palace Hotel, Julián Duque is joined by Shiva Nimmagadda, Vice President of Excellence, True AI and Analytics at Salesforce. Together, the pair discuss the various ways his team is using AI to improve developer efficiency, productivity, and output.

Filmed at the Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco, this week's episode of Code[ish] is the first in a short series of video specials!  To kick things off, Julián Duque is joined by Keegan Bakker, CEO of audience engagement platform Audata, to explore how Heroku helped the app grow from a hobby idea to a powerful tool for major organizations across the globe.

This week on Code[ ish ], host Julián Duque connects with Rizel Scarlett from Block, Inc., to discuss how a gentic AI is changing the FinTech landscape . Block, Inc. is the parent company behind popular services like Square, Cash App, and many more .  

On this week's episode of Code[ish], Vish Abrams joins Jon Dodson to talk about the role of AI, the ways Twelve-Factor aids developers, and how science fiction shaped a little of their own history.

This week's episode is an excit ing one because we're talking about our brand-new release, Heroku Vibes! Mauricio Gomes joins Jon Dodson to go over what Heroku Vibes is, what it's capable of, and how it could be a game-changer for developers and non-developers alike .   Join the pilot by visiting https://vibes.heroku.com

Jon Dodson has an 11-year Heroku veteran with him on the podcast this week, Principal Member of Technical Staff Alex Arnell . Together t hey talk through the native integration of OpenTelemetry in Heroku Fir , the benefits of traces over traditional logs, how they assist debugging, and what's next for observability in modern development .

You won't find too many developers with more experience in the Salesforce ecosystem than our guest this week! Not only is Gaurav Kheterpal a Salesforce MVP and Trailblazer, he also still uses his original Salesforce org from 2007. He joined Julián Duque to discuss how Vanshiv Technologies delivers client work with Heroku, the importance of embracing AI, and why it's vital for developers to keep an...

This week we're taking a deeply technical dive into our newest feature: Heroku AppLink ! Jon Dodson is joined by Chris Wall, Salesforce Architect and creator of AppLink , to explore what AppLink offers developers and how it brings Heroku and Salesforce closer together.  

Salesforce Principal Developer Advocate Mohith Shrivastava joins us on Code[ ish ] this week to share a few tips and tricks for using Agentforce ! Speaking with Julián Duque , the pair cover a range of insightful dev topics including working with agents, vibe coding, programmatic deployment, and more.  

At the bleeding edge of computer vision is Plainsight Technologies, a company that's modernizing infrastructure to handle future agentic AI workloads. Join us as we speak with CEO Kit Merker on Plainsight's vision for the future, technological goals, and the leading case studies for computer vision. Hear from host Julián Duque and Kit Merker in this new, insightful episode of the Code[ish] podcast...

We love hearing from developers who are building amazing things with Heroku , and this episode of Code[ ish ] is a perfect example ! CEO of Australian firm reinteractive , Errol Schmidt , is here to speak with Julián about what his team has achieved and what they're working on next.   Together , they discuss why Heroku is the best tool for Ruby on Rails development, how organizations can safely in...

This week , Julián is joined by the first Spring Developer Advocate and Java champion, Josh Long! Tune in as t he pair discusses Spring Boot and tools like Spring AI, Spring Modulith , Spring Cloud , and Spring Shell that build upon it.   If you're a Java veteran like Josh, or returning to it after years away like Julián , this Tips & Tricks episode of Code[ ish ] will bring you up to speed .

Slack can be so much more than a way to chat with your colleague s . I n this episode of Code [ ish ] , we're joined by Maria José Hernández to find out how Slack Apps and Slack AI can elevate the app into a n organization-wide, personalized Work OS .   In conversation with Julián Duque , Maria shares insights into the tools available for developers , and what's included in t he Slack Developer Pr...

The Code [ ish ] Podcast is back! Join Heroku superfan Jon Dodson and Hillary Sanders from the Heroku AI T eam for the latest entry in our "Deeply Technical" series. In this episode, the pair discuss Heroku Managed Inference and Agents—what it is, what it does, and why developers should be using it.   Hillary also shares tips for new developers entering the job market, and Jon pits 10 principal de...

A brand-new season of The Code[ish] Podcast is on the way!  Loads of insightful episodes are on the way, featuring special guests from all corners of the Heroku community. 

In this episode, Ian, Laura, and Wesley talk about the importance of communication skills, specifically writing, for people in technical roles. Ian calls writing the single most important meta skill you can have. And the good news is that you can get better at it, with deliberate practice! Ian and Wesley both come from engineering backgrounds but have moved into more writing-intensive roles as the...

This episode is hosted by Alyssa Arvin, Senior Program Manager for Open Source at Salesforce, with guest Jim Jagielski, the newest member of Salesforce's Open Source Program Office (OSPO). They talk about Jim's early explorations into open source software during his time as an actual rocket scientist at NASA and his role in the formation of the Apache Software Foundation. Next, they discuss gettin...

This episode of Codeish includes Greg Nokes, distinguished technical architect with Salesforce Heroku, and Lisa Marshall, Senior Vice President of TMP Innovation & Learning at Salesforce. Lisa manages a team within technology and product that focuses on overall employee success in attracting technical talent and creating a great onboarding experience. The impact of remote work Salesforce is lookin...

In this episode of Codeish, Greg Nokes, distinguished technical architect with Salesforce Heroku, talks with Innocent Bindura, a senior developer at Raygun about performance monitoring. Raygun provides tools and utilities for developers to improve software quality through crash reporting and browser and application performance monitoring. According to Innocent, the absence of crash reports does no...

In this episode of Codeish, Marcus Blankenship, a Senior Engineering Manager at Salesforce, is joined by Robert Blumen, a Lead DevOps Engineer at Salesforce. During their discussion, they take a deep dive into the theories that underpin human error and complex system failures and offer fresh perspectives on improving complex systems. Root cause analysis is the method of analyzing a failure after i...