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How does Google build Search? What about YouTube and Google Drive? We rely on Chrome's Lighthouse scores when optimizing our websites, but what does _Google_ prioritize? Recently the Angular and Wiz teams announced their intention to responsibly merge their internal frontend framework, Wiz, with Angular to bring some of Wiz's best ideas to Angular. We're chatting with Minko from Angular and Jatin...

Daniel & Chris delight in conversation with "the funniest guy in AI", Demetrios Brinkmann. Together they explore the results of the MLOps Community's latest survey. They also preview the upcoming AI Quality Conference.

Natalie is joined by Carlos Becker (a Brazil-based software developer who maintains GoReleaser and other OSS software) to discuss how `GOOS` and `GOARCH` spark joy.

HashiCorp sends OpenTofu a nasty-gram in the wake of Matt Asay's infringement claims, Polar is like Patreon but for software creators, a Common Corpus of LLM data is released on HuggingFace & Loki is an open source tool for fact verification.

Verónica López, Kubernetes SIG Release tech lead & distributed systems engineer, joins Justin & Autumn to share her experiences deploying services at scale.

This is our 14th Kaizen episode! Gerhard put some CDNs to the test, we've taken our next step with Postgres on Neon & Jerod pushed 55 commits (but 0 PRs)!

This week Adam is joined by Zeno Rocha — the creator of the beloved Dracula theme and Co-founder and CEO of Resend. They discuss his personal journey and the challenges of balancing work and family life, how becoming a parent has given him new perspectives and influenced his decision to start his own company, the role of citizenship and immigration in his journey, how he prepared for the Y Combina...

Felix Geisendörfer & Michael Knyszek join Natalie to discuss Go execution traces: why they're awesome, common use cases, how they've gotten better of late & more.

In this fully connected episode, Daniel & Chris discuss NVIDIA GTC keynote comments from CEO Jensen Huang about teaching kids to code. Then they dive into the notion of "community" in the AI world, before discussing challenges in the adoption of generative AI by non-technical people. They finish by addressing the evolving balance between generative AI interfaces and search engines.

The big story right now is the recently uncovered backdoor in _liblzma_ (aka _XZ_) – a relatively obscure compression library that happens to be a dependency of OpenSSH. This incident is noteworthy for so many reasons: the exploit itself, how it was deployed, how it was found, what it says about our industry & how the community reacted. Let's dig in!

Which is smarter: specializing in a particular tech or becoming more of a generalist? It depends! Which is why Jerod invited "undercover generalist" Adolfo Ochagavía on our "It Depends" series to weigh the pros & cons of each path.

Justin & Autumn take you with them to the 2024 SoCal Linux Expo where they asked six fellow attendees about their favorite open source projects and their least favorite commands.

Jerod, KBall & Nick discuss the latest news: Devin, Astro DB, The JavaScript Registry, Tailwind 4 & Angular merging with Wiz. Oh, and a surprise mini-game of HeadLIES!

Script flipped! Today we're sharing two interviews of us on Other People's Podcasts (OPP): Kathrine Druckman from the Open at Intel podcast invited us on the show at KubeCon NA in November and Den Delimarsky hosted Jerod on The Work Item podcast in February.

In this episode Matt, Bill & Jon discuss various debugging techniques for use in both production and development. Bill explains why he doesn't like his developers to use the debugger and how he prefers to only use techniques available in production. Matt expresses a few counterpoints based on his different experiences, and then the group goes over some techniques for debugging in production.

Daniel and Chris are out this week, so we're bringing you conversations all about AI's complicated relationship to software developers from other Changelog pods: JS Party, Go Time & The Changelog.

Redis' re-licensing prompts forks like Drew DeVault's Redict, Matthew Miller thinks we need more community built software, Paul Gross makes the case that DuckDB is the new jq, Anton Zhiyanov shares how he makes a living as a developer despite being "pretty dumb" & Baldur Bjarnason chimes in on the state of the web developer job market.

What's the difference between productivity engineering and platform engineering? How can you continue to re-platform with a moving target? On this episode, we're joined by Andy Glover, who spent ten years productivity engineering at Netflix, to discuss.

THE Cameron Seay joins us once again! This time we learn more about his life/history, hear all about the boot camps he runs, discuss recent advancements in AI / quantum computing and how they might affect the tech labor market & more!

This week Adam talks with Kris Moore, Senior Vice President of Engineering at iXsystems, about all things TrueNAS. They discuss the history of TrueNAS starting from its origins as a FreeBSD project, TrueNAS Core being in maintenance mode, the momentum and innovation happening in TrueNAS Scale, the evolution of the TrueNAS user interface, managing ZFS compatibility in TrueNAS, the business model of...

In this episode we answer any/all questions from a new Go developer. Features, best practices, quirks of the language... it's all on the table for discussion.

Daniel & Chris explore the state of the art in prompt engineering with Jared Zoneraich, the founder of PromptLayer. PromptLayer is the first platform built specifically for prompt engineering. It can visually manage prompts, evaluate models, log LLM requests, search usage history, and help your organization collaborate as a team. Jared provides expert guidance in how to be implement prompt enginee...

A new badge for open source projects that won't be getting any maintenance, everything Chip Huyen learned from looking at 900 open source AI tools, CNBC writes up tech's renewed layoff trend, Teable is a Postgres-Airtable fusion & Target announces an open source fund.

Kyle Quest joins the show to tell Autumn & Justin all about the evolution of DockerSlim & minimal container images. Why are small container images important? What are different strategies to make containers smaller? Let's find out!

Today you get Sorentwo for the price of one! We are joined by Shannon & Parker Selbert, both halves of the mom-and-pop software shop behind Oban, the robust job processing library that's been delivering our emails & processing our audio for years.