All Heroku Episodes
A collection of podcasts with Heroku engineers, developers, and product managers.
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Programmers are often expected to not only know complicated math equations, but to cherish them dearly; in reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Although mathematics forms the basis for a lot of software, most people are still put off by it. Paul Orland, a mathematician turned programmer, found this so perplexing that he wrote a book breaking down math concepts for programmers. He'll share his reasons for doing so, as well as why he believes maths is essential to every job.
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A "deep fake" is the derisive name given to the rise of manipulated pictures and videos. Will newer forms of computer generated media cause us doubt what we see and hear online? Dmytro Bielievtsov is the CTO and co-founder of Respeecher, a speech-to-speech platform that produces AI-generated audio samples. In this second half of a two-part episode, he'll explain how audio can be faked, why it can be advantageous, and more importantly, how faked audio can be detected.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many industries to rethink how they operate. Amidst those changes, businesses are looking for new ways to keep on top of rapidly changing health guidelines. Microshare is a provider of data-driven solutions for IoT devices. Tim Panagos, their CTO, talks about what they built and what they adapted in order to massively pivot their business to provide solutions that communities desperately need.
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The rise of manipulated pictures and videos have given a name to this notorious practice: deep fakes. But Alex Serdiuk, the CEO of Respeecher, suggests its how we use these tools that makes them bad, not the technology in and of itself. He'll explain how his platform, which produces AI-generated audio samples, is actually helping the entertainment industry deliver fresh content to its customers.
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Not every tech company gets to move fast and break things. For companies operating in heavily regulated spaces, like banking, efforts to modernize legacy systems must be made carefully. Yobota explains how they're able to deliver custom APIs and solutions to financial institutions with guaranteed uptime and functionality.
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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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