All Heroku Episodes
A collection of podcasts with Heroku engineers, developers, and product managers.
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The web couldn't exist without standards that define everything from presentation to metadata. For many millions of visually impaired users, the standards that support accessibility are just as important. Léonie Watson has been focused on accessibility for nearly twenty years. She joins us to talk about her long career in web accessibility, her involvement in the W3C, and where she believes the future of the technology is headed.
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Tech is a rapidly growing industry with a wealth of opportunities across a range of skill sets. If you don't come from a programming background, or you’re just starting out and are interested in learning more, tune in as designer and front end developer Charlie Gleason and Rails developer David Routen share their advice on creating a career in tech.
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After your presentation has been accepted for a conference, actually giving the talk can be an intimidating experience—but it doesn't have to be! Join several Herokai engineers as they open up about their techniques for combating nervousness, memorizing slides, and iterating on deliveries.
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As developers, we spend a lot of our time running commands in a terminal, whether for a local project or to manage a service in the cloud. Jeff Dickey of DropBox joins us to talk about his process for building oclif, an open-source framework for building command-line programs, used by Heroku, Netlify, Apollo, and many others.
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Relational databases such as Postgres are often used for critical workloads, such as user account data. To run a relational database service in the cloud requires a cloud provider to set up a highly durable, highly available system.
Jon Daniel is an infrastructure engineer at Heroku. Jon joins Software Engineering Daily to describe the engineering and operations required to build a managed relational database service.
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You might believe that meditation techniques are best practiced in silence and solitude. However, there are ways to bring that sense of calm into the office, too. Google launched a mindfulness program to improve the mental wellbeing of its employees. Francis Lacoste talks about how he adapted that program for Heroku's distributed workforce, and how mindfulness can also be a shared experience with your colleagues.
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It may be challenging to see the value in spending time on writing robust, detailed documentation. That is, until you try and implement software without it. Stephen Barlow, lead strategist for Heroku's Dev Center—the documentation behind the Heroku platform—dives into why spending time on documentation isn't just valuable—it's necessary.
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There's programming, and then there's computer science. As developers, we may understand how to code a solution to a problem, but we may not know some of the fundamentals of how software actually works. Unable to find direct answers herself, Vaidehi Joshi started BaseCS, a blog that explains (with pictures!) everything from counting in binary to analyzing algorithms and data structures in memory.
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Staying connected to your teammates is essential when you're working on a remote team. One team shares the tactics they use to keep in touch with one another, even as they're sitting in offices all across the country. All levels of their communication matters, from the way they name themselves, to the way they run face-to-face meetings, and even applying proper emoji usage in Slack.
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Heroku Dataclips has been around since 2012, and it's still a reliable part of the Heroku Postgres ecosystem. Dataclips lets you quickly, easily, and safely access your database, allowing you to share the results with others to see. Dataclips makes it easier for anyone in your organization to get the data that they need, without connecting to a production server and memorizing the correct SQL incantation.
Recently, Dataclips was updated with newer features and functionality. Join us as we talk about what's changed and what's reliably staying the same.
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When it comes to web performance, there are plenty of trade-offs to make to ensure a page renders as quickly as possible. Ryan Townsend joins us from Shift Commerce to talk about how milliseconds of delay can cause millions of dollars in lost revenue. He and his team have several frontend and backend strategies that make sure the site stays fast, even through massive traffic spikes.
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Heroku is a remote-first company, and for some employees, it's their first time working on a distributed team. Five different Herokai talk about what's worked (and what hasn't), ranging from their home office setup, the necessity in establishing a schedule, staying engaged with the rest of the company, and how to get a strong Internet connection atop the Rocky Mountains.
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