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Code[ish] • January 19th, 2021

I Was There: Stories of Production Incidents II

Hosted by Corey Martin, Ifat Ribon, Christopher Ostrowski

Growing your monthly active user count is the goal for every startup. But can your popularity actually work against you? In this installment of I Was There, Ifat Ribon and Christopher Ostrowski share their experiences tracking down production issues stemming from assumptions that didn't scale with their growth.

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Code[ish] • January 12th, 2021

107. How to Write Seriously Good Software

Hosted by Rick Newman, Marco Faella

Writing legible, functionable code is the aspiration for many programmers. Defining what that actually means is another matter altogether. Our guest, Marco Faella, has written a book on the subject. We'll explore the characteristics good software demonstrates. We're also going to give away a 40% discount code for Marco's new book!

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Code[ish] • January 26th, 2021

108. Building Community with the Wicked CoolKit

Hosted by Chris Castle, Julián Duque, Lynn Fisher

Back in the day, the web felt smaller and people used simpler ways to connect with others. Those with niche interests still found each other despite the absence of mega social platforms. Lynn Fisher, Chief Creative Officer at &yet, shares the story behind the Wicked CoolKit, a collection of retro web widgets designed to help today’s niche enthusiasts connect.

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Code[ish] • January 5th, 2021

106. Growing a Self-Funded Company

Hosted by Greg Nokes, Alli McGee, Lewis Buckley

Most companies talk about building for the customer—but when you’re a self-funded company like BiggerPockets, building a product that users pay for can be the difference between success and shutting down. Guests Alli McGee and Lewis Buckley from BiggerPockets talk about what it means to truly build a product that delights the customer. They discuss how they’ve structured their teams to collaboratively discover, build, and ship what the customer wants, and how instead of MVPs they build Minimum Loveable Products.

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Code[ish] • December 29th, 2020

105. Event Sourcing and CQRS

Hosted by Robert Blumen, Andrzej Ludwikowski

Organizing data into a sequence of CRUD operations have a long history in software. But with newer and never-ending data streams, different models are emerging. Guest Andrzej Ludwikowski, a software architect at SoftwareMill joins host Robert Blumen to discuss the architecture patterns of event sourcing and CQRS as alternatives.

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Code[ish] • December 22nd, 2020

104. The Evolution of Service Meshes

Hosted by Robert Blumen, Luke Kysow

As microservices and container orchestration have grown in popularity, reusable layers of logic, such as authentication and rate limiting, have been pulled out into separate entities known as a service mesh. Luke Kysow, a software engineer at HashiCorp, covers their history and evolution.

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Code[ish] • December 17th, 2020

103. Chaos Engineering

Hosted by Rick Newman, Mikolaj Pawlikowski

Chaos engineering is a way of testing your software predicated on the fact that something in your system, at some point, will break. By intentionally causing disruptions--for example, dropping network connections--and observing how your system responds, you'll better prepare yourself for when the unexpected happens. Mikolaj Pawlikowski, author of "Chaos Engineering: Crash test your applications" explains the philosophies and best practices behind these resiliency techniques.

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Code[ish] • December 10th, 2020

101. Cloud Native Applications

Hosted by Joe Kutner, Cornelia Davis

Too often, there's an assumption that putting one's application "in the cloud" simply means hosting your code on a server somewhere--but that's just the beginning. Guest Cornelia Davis, CTO of Weaveworks, talks with Joe Kutner about what it really means to be a cloud native application, discussing everything from resiliency patterns to deployment practices.

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Code[ish] • December 15th, 2020

102. Whether or Not to Repeat Yourself: DRY, DAMP, or WET

Hosted by Robert Blumen, Ev Haus

There are many different ways to architecturally structure a program, which has invariably led to debates on which system is "the best." We'll explore several of these strategies--nicknamed DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself), DAMP (Don't Abstract Methods Prematurely), and WET (Write Everything Twice)--with Ev Haus, the Head of Technology at ZenHub, including when each is best to use.

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Code[ish] • December 8th, 2020

100. Math for Programmers

Hosted by Hailey Walls, Paul Orland

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.