Make it Work

Jan 26 2025 11 ep. 36 mins 3
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We talk about software that gets us excited, then share our screens and show what that means in practice. Video links in show notes.

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Keep Alert Chaos in Check

Jan 26 2025 41 mins  
Today we talk with Matvey Kukuy and Tal Borenstein, co-founders of Keep, a startup focused on helping companies manage and make sense of their alert systems. The discussion comes three years after Matvey's previous appearance - https://shipit.show/36 - where he talked about Grafana Labs' acquisition of his previous startup Amixr (now Grafana OnCall).Keep tackles a significant chall

Let's build a CDN - Part 2

Dec 16 2024 24 mins  
This is a follow-up to Let's build a CDN - Part 1A new friend joins us. We talk about the high-level, including why Varnish and why we are doing this in the first place. We go through the plan for this session, and then just make it happen. The video in the show notes captures most of this pairing session.If you enjoyed this podcast and the YouTube video, you can now watch the full

Move fast & break nothing

Oct 26 2024 30 mins  
This is the audio version of 🎬 Ninjastructure - Move fast & break nothingMatias Pan, a professional maté drinker & Senior Software Engineer at Dagger, is showing us an approach to Infrastructure as Code built with Pulumi.We look at Go code, discuss procedural (imperative) vs. declarative, spend some time on state management & introduce the concept of Ninjas in the c

TalosCon 2024

Sep 28 2024 71 mins  
We have 3 conversations from TalosCon 2024:1. Vincent Behar & Louis Fradin from Ubisoft tell us how how they are building the next generation of game servers on Kubernetes. Recorded in a coffee shop.2. We catch up with David Flanagan on the AI stack that he had success with in the context of rawkode.academy. David also tells us the full story behind his office burning down earl

Access your Kubernetes pods anywhere

Aug 12 2024 33 mins  
How does Michal Kuratczyk, Staff Software Engineer at RabbitMQ, access Kubernetes workloads securely, from anywhere? Regardless whether it's a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster or Kubernetes in Docker (KiND), Tailscale is a simple solution for this particular use case. This also makes it easy to share private services with all devices on a tailnet, including with friends that

Modern CI/CD - Part 1

Jul 07 2024 24 mins  
What does it look like to build a modern CI/CD pipeline from scratch in 2024? While many of you would pick GitHub Actions and be done with it, how do you run it locally? And what do you need to do to get caching to work?Tom Chauveau joins us to help Alex Sims build a modern CI/CD pipeline from scratch. We start with a Remix app, write the CI/CD pipeline in TypeScript and get it wor

Let's build a CDN - Part 1

May 26 2024 24 mins  
This started as a conversation between James A Rosen & Gerhard in August 2023. Several months later, it evolved into a few epic pairing sessions captured in these GitHub threads:thechangelog#480 (reply in thread)thechangelog#486The last pairing session eventually lead to 🎧 Kaizen! Should we build a CDN? This is the follow-up to that. How far did we get in 1 hour?LINKSThe 5-h

KubeCon EU 2024

Apr 30 2024 52 mins  
For our 4th episode, we have four conversations from KubeCon EU 2024.We talk to Jesse Suen about Argo CD & Kargo, Solomon Hykes shares the next evolution of Dagger, and Justin Cormack dives into Docker & AI. We also catch up with Frederic Branczyk & Thor Hansen on the latest Parca & Polar Signals Cloud updates since our last conversation.Each conversation has a vide

80ms response SLO

Feb 29 2024 37 mins  
Alex Sims, Solutions Architect & Sr. Software Engineer at James and James Fulfilment, talks about their journey to 80ms response SLO with PHP & React.Alex shares how they optimised API performance, specifically highlighting improvements made by altering interactions with Amazon S3 and Redis. Key points include the transition from synchronous to asynchronous S3 processes, th

Automation Engine

Feb 29 2024 24 mins  
Today we delve into BuildKit and Dagger, focusing on their significance in the development and deployment of containerized applications, as well as Kubernetes integration.BuildKit's Role: Essential for anyone using Docker Build, facilitating efficient, dependency-aware container builds with advanced caching mechanisms. It's not just for Docker but serves as a versatile execution en