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With a plethora of technology surrounding us, we sometimes neglect the importance of unplugging in order to recharge ourselves. Getaway is a startup that offers short-term cabin rentals, with a twist: their locations offer no WiFi service or cell connectivity. Zach Feldman, their VP of Technology, joins us to talk about the technical challenges ensuring cabins are unlockable and guests are satisfied when their devices are unable to communicate.
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In the past, the ambitions of web developers in building feature-rich applications has run up against the limitations of an Internet that wasn't designed with heavy UI elements in mind. That's all changing with web components, a standardized way to encapsulate and distribute functionality across every browser, regardless of an application framework. René Winkelmeyer from Salesforce is our guest on this episode to talk about the history of web components, as well as the open source tooling which Salesforce is building with enterprise-level applications in mind.
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Heroku’s Charlie Gleason and Stephen Barlow dive into their experiences working on side projects—small, silly, funny, and emotive vignettes on the web—that span interactive music videos, browser-based mini games, collaborative art projects, and everything in between. Learn how to get involved with your own community of makers, why it’s more important to have fun than it is to try and get internet famous, and some things to look out for when working with others.
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Opportunities for women and underrepresented people interested in running their own start-ups are greater than ever before. In this second half of a two-part episode, Claire Lee, the head of the early stage group at Silicon Valley Bank, talks about the work she's involved in to improve access to capital and mentorship for individuals that have been traditionally left out. She explains why diversity in your company's make-up is essential to its success, and concludes with tips on how to get your startup's legal, payroll, and staffing affairs in order.
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From founder demographics to the problems a startup faces, Silicon Valley -- and the world -- are changing. In this first half of a two-part episode, Claire Lee, the head of the early stage group at Silicon Valley Bank, talks about how startups and established companies across various sectors are evolving. The challenge for acquiring seed capital has been usurped by larger problems, including finding talent and running your business in morally appropriate ways.
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We often think of an integration as communicating with just a single API, but it's not uncommon for some applications to pass data between several platforms. Sentry does just that, acting as a conduit between different services, so that changes in one system are reflected in another. Being able to do this efficiently—and correctly—requires a careful approach to not only your own platform's APIs, but your partners as well. Matte Noble is a Senior Software Engineer at Sentry, and he's here to talk about how they've built a robust platform that handles error cases and massive data processing with an approachable developer experience.
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Transitioning into a career in tech can be intimidating and challenging, but everyone starts somewhere. On this episode, Chris Castle chats with Shirley Xiaolin Xu and Eric Chen about their experiences as Junior Developers at Heroku. After the initial barrier of learning how to program, they faced many new challenges in the workplace, like engaging with mentors and managers, gaining confidence to ask more questions, and trying to learn the latest tech lingo.
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Let's Encrypt is a certificate authority with a humble goal: to make HTTPS encryption ubiquitous across the web. Co-founder Josh Aas is on this episode to tell us about how TLS/SSL works, the challenges Let's Encrypt has faced, and potential threats still facing the security of the Internet. Heroku is proud to be a Silver sponsor of Let's Encrypt.
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Trailhead is an e-learning platform that teaches a wide range of topics, from Git and Swift, to Marketing and Analytics. It was also built and launched in just six short weeks. Tyler Montgomery and Shaun Russell join us from Salesforce to talk about the genesis of the project and the scaling issues they've faced over the last few years.
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Provisioning your infrastructure through code has gained popularity as more app services have moved into the cloud. One of the options, Terraform, is an open source project, with plugins available to spin up resources for several platforms. Mars Hall joins us on this episode to talk about the advantages of using Terraform, some best practices of using it with Heroku, and what's coming up on the roadmap for the next release.
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