All Heroku Episodes
A collection of podcasts with Heroku engineers, developers, and product managers.
Episodes
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Corrupted rows in a database? Escalating API response times? These aren't just tall tales, but nightmares that could come true for anyone--including you! Hear perplexing stories of mysterious production incidents from developers Meg Viar and Brendan Hennessy, including how they diagnosed and ultimately solved the problems with their applications.
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Startups incubators are a way for established companies to establish new businesses with reduced risk. Essentially, a team of developers, designers, and product managers within an existing company will launch a new idea before fully committing more resources to it. ElectricSMS is one such startup, incubated within AE Studios. Wesley Magness, AE Studio's Entrepreneur in Residence, joins Melanie Plaza, its Head of Technology, to talk about this unique arrangement.
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Jennifer Hooper, the former Producer at Code[ish] and Senior Director, Technical Product Marketing, Content, and Brand at Heroku, joins Utsav Jaiswal to share her insights to building a tech podcast. Code[ish] focuses on code, technology and the life of the developer.
They talk about the place for growth-hacks in technology podcasts, how to add value to the listeners', and the importance of naming your podcast in an SEO-friendly manner. Jennifer, shares her process of sticking to schedules despite millions of moving pieces involved, the challenges of recording from remote locations, and the role of the community in podcasting.
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Adam & Joe discuss the proposed additions in the 12.1 factor app, the challenge with dev-prod parity, and the missing security factor.
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We often think of logs as a place to report on errors or technical information. But what if we considered log data as another form of time-series data that's simply generated from your application? That's a perspective that Ariel Assaraf, the CEO of Coralogix, believes in, and he'll explain how logs are uniquely position to provide you with business insights no other metric can provide.
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Moving forward in your career as an engineer can seem like an impossible feat. For many individual contributors, the belief that hard work will lead to recognition and promotions is a misguided one. Two engineering managers, Anand Gurumurthi and Marcus Blankenship, offer career advice on how to ask for feedback and get your contributions noticed.
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COVID-19 has rendered many in-person events impossible. Like so many others, organizers of developers conferences have had to adjust to providing online sessions. Carter Rabasa, who runs CascadiaJS, talks about the changes he made in moving the conference to the visual space, while longtime conference organizer Julián Duque adds his thoughts as an attendee with developer advocate Chris Castle.
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Depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues are not permanent states of being. There are techniques you can employ to rewire your thinking and begin the process of healing. Dr. Mireille Reece, a practicing clinical psychologist, and Adam Stacoviak, founder and editor-in-chief of the Changelog, introduce listeners to the process of forming new and healthy habits.
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Conversations around mental health are still difficult to have for many people. We are simultaneously afraid of admitting our weakness and scared that no one will be there when we do call for help. In this first half of a two-part episode, Dr. Mireille Reece, a practicing clinical psychologist, and Adam Stacoviak, founder and editor-in-chief of the Changelog, discuss why this is such a problem, and how to begin looking for help.
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The COVID pandemic has forever changed the way businesses operate; many shops have had to shut down, due to the lack of foot traffic. For the others who were fortunate enough to shift online, questions around distribution and logistics increased as visitor traffic spiked. Ryan Townsend, the CTO of SHIFT Commerce, discusses the ways in which his PaaS has helped online retailers manage higher order volumes efficiently.
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Access to proper medical care is an impossibility in many parts of the world. In this second half of a two-part episode, we continue the conversation with THINKMD, an online platform working to improve healthcare access. Alex Broussard, the CTO of THINKMD, explains how they built a mobile application that needs to run not only on low bandwidth environments, but also on older hardware, with localization support for over a dozen languages.
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Access to proper medical care is an impossibility in many parts of the world. In this first half of a two-part episode, Meg McLaughlin, Director of Research and Implementation at THINKMD, discusses her work with partners to build the next generation of clinical access for patients and doctors across a variety of languages, cultures, and regions.
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