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Automating Application Lifecycles For Developer Happiness At Wayfair - Episode 357

March 20, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Automating Application Lifecycles For Developer Happiness At Wayfair - Episode 357

A common piece of advice when starting anything new is to "begin with the end in mind". In order to help the engineers at Wayfair manage the complete lifecycle of their applications Joshua Woodward runs a team that provides tooling and assistance along every step of the journey. In this episode he shares some of the lessons and tactics that they have developed while assisting other engineering teams with starting, deploying, and sunsetting projects. This is an interesting look at the inner workings of large organizations and how they...

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Run Your Applications Reliably On Kubernetes Without Losing Sleep With Robusta - Episode 356

March 14, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Run Your Applications Reliably On Kubernetes Without Losing Sleep With Robusta - Episode 356

Kubernetes is a framework that aims to simplify the work of running applications in production, but it forces you to adopt new patterns for debugging and resolving issues in your systems. Robusta is aimed at making that a more pleasant experience for developers and operators through pre-built automations, easy debugging, and a simple means of creating your own event-based workflows to find, fix, and alert on errors in production. In this episode Natan Yellin explains how the project got started, how it is architected and tested, and how you...

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Accelerate The Development And Delivery Of Your Machine Learning Applications Using Ray And Deploy It At Anyscale - Episode 355

March 6, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Accelerate The Development And Delivery Of Your Machine Learning Applications Using Ray And Deploy It At Anyscale - Episode 355

Building a machine learning application is inherently complex. Once it becomes necessary to scale the operation or training of the model, or introduce online re-training the process becomes even more challenging. In order to reduce the operational burden of AI developers Robert Nishihara helped to create the Ray framework that handles the distributed computing aspects of machine learning operations. To support the ongoing development and simplify adoption of Ray he co-founded Anyscale. In this episode he re-joins the show to share how the project, its community, and the ecosystem...

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See The Structure Of Your Software At A Glance With Call Graphs From Code2Flow - Episode 354

February 28, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on See The Structure Of Your Software At A Glance With Call Graphs From Code2Flow - Episode 354

As software projects grow and change it can become difficult to keep track of all of the logical flows. By visualizing the interconnections of function definitions, classes, and their invocations you can speed up the time to comprehension for newcomers to a project, or help yourself remember what you worked on last month. In this episode Scott Rogowski shares his work on Code2Flow as a way to generate a call graph of your programs. He explains how it got started, how it works, and how you can start using...

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Scaling Knowledge Management For Technical Teams With Knowledge Repo - Episode 353

February 21, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Scaling Knowledge Management For Technical Teams With Knowledge Repo - Episode 353

One of the most persistent challenges faced by organizations of all sizes is the recording and distribution of institutional knowledge. In technical teams this is exacerbated by the need to incorporate technical review feedback and manage access to data before publishing. When faced with this problem as an early data scientist at AirBnB, Chetan Sharma helped create the Knowledge Repo project as a solution. In this episode he shares the story behind its creation and growth, how and why it was released as open source, and the features that...

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Simplify And Scale Your Software Development Cycles By Putting On Pants (Build Tool) - Episode 352

February 14, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Simplify And Scale Your Software Development Cycles By Putting On Pants (Build Tool) - Episode 352

Software development is a complex undertaking due to the number of options available and choices to be made in every stage of the lifecycle. In order to make it more scaleable it is necessary to establish common practices and patterns and introduce strong opinions. One area that can have a huge impact on the productivity of the engineers engaged with a project is the tooling used for building, validating, and deploying changes introduced to the software. In this episode maintainers of the Pants build tool Eric Arellano, Stu Hood,...

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Achieve Repeatable Builds Of Your Software On Any Machine With Earthly - Episode 351

February 6, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Achieve Repeatable Builds Of Your Software On Any Machine With Earthly - Episode 351

It doesn't matter how amazing your application is if you are unable to deliver it to your users. Frustrated with the rampant complexity involved in building and deploying software Vlad A. Ionescu created the Earthly tool to reduce the toil involved in creating repeatable software builds. In this episode he explains the complexities that are inherent to building software projects and how he designed the syntax and structure of Earthly to make it easy to adopt for developers across all language environments. By adopting Earthly you can use the...

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Building A Detailed View Of Your Software Delivery Process With The Eiffel Protocol - Episode 350

January 31, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Building A Detailed View Of Your Software Delivery Process With The Eiffel Protocol - Episode 350

The process of getting software delivered to an environment where users can interact with it requires many steps along the way. In some cases the journey can require a large number of interdependent workflows that need to be orchestrated across technical and organizational boundaries, making it difficult to know what the current status is. Faced with such a complex delivery workflow the engineers at Ericsson created a message based protocol and accompanying tooling to let the various actors in the process provide information about the events that happened across...

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Improve Your Productivity By Investing In Developer Experience Design For Your Projects - Episode 349

January 24, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Improve Your Productivity By Investing In Developer Experience Design For Your Projects - Episode 349

When we are creating applications we spend a significant amount of effort on optimizing the experience of our end users to ensure that they are able to complete the tasks that the system is intended for. A similar effort that we should all consider is optimizing the developer experience for ourselves and other engineers who contribute to the projects that we work on. Adam Johnson recently wrote a book on how to improve the developer experience for Django projects and in this episode he shares some of the insights...

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An Exploration Of Effective Pandas Practices With Matt Harrison - Episode 348

January 15, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on An Exploration Of Effective Pandas Practices With Matt Harrison - Episode 348

Pandas has grown to be a ubiquitous tool for working with data at every stage. It has become so well known that many people learn Python solely for the purpose of using Pandas. With all of this activity and the long history of the project it can be easy to find misleading or outdated information about how to use it. In this episode Matt Harrison shares his work on the book "Effective Pandas" and some of the best practices and potential pitfalls that you should know for applying Pandas...

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