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Giant Robots

A weekly podcast about the design, development, and business of great software from thoughbot's CEO, Chad Pytel, and CMO, Lindsey Christensen.

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Code[ish] • March 4th, 2026

Heroku in the Wild: Saving Lives with Nonprofit Watch Duty

Hosted by Julián Duque, Dave Merrick
During the Los Angeles wildfires in 2025, more than 10 million people relied on Watch Duty for potentially life-saving information. On this episode of Code[ish], its Cofounder and CTO Dave Merrick talks Julián Duque through how the application works and the technologies like Heroku that make it possible.
Hosted By:
Julián Duque
Julián Duque
Principal Developer Advocate, Heroku
@julian_duque
with Guest:
Dave Merrick
Dave Merrick
Cofounder and CTO, Watch Duty

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  • Heroku in the Wild
  • autoscaling
  • caching
  • scaling

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Giant Robots • December 1st, 2013

A Beautiful Thing

Harold Giménez, Heroku postgres leader, talks about Postgres, data management, and beer brewing in this episode.
  • postgres
  • Data management

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