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The Bike Shed

The Bike Shed

Hosts Chris Toomey and Steph Viccari discuss their development experiences and challenges with Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript weekly on the Bike Shed podcast series.

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Code[ish] • April 29th, 2026
Austin Parker, Director of Open Source at Honeycomb and main contributor for the OpenTelemetry project, joins Julián Duque to discuss how observability is evolving in the age of generative AI. From OTel's origins to the development of new semantic conventions for LLMs, Austin explores how standardized telemetry provides the visibility needed to keep complex, AI-powered applications running smoothly.
Hosted By:
Julián Duque
Julián Duque
Principal Developer Advocate, Heroku
@julian_duque
with Guest:
Austin Parker
Austin Parker
Director of Open Source, Honeycomb

Transcript Available

  • Tools and Tips
  • AI
  • OpenTelemetry

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The Bike Shed • July 26th, 2017
In this episode, Caleb Thompson joins The Bike Shed to discuss lessons learned from past projects, and speaking at conferences.
  • Rails
  • code style
  • speaking at conferences

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The Bike Shed • July 21st, 2015
In this episode, Richard Schneeman joins The Bike Shed to discuss ruby memory use, horizontal scaling, and tackling open source issues.
  • Ruby
  • Horizontal scaling
  • Memory use

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The Bike Shed • June 8th, 2016
In this episode, Terence Lee of Heroku, Bundler, and mruby-cli fame talks about Apache Kafka and the future of mruby scripting.
  • Ruby
  • mruby scripting
  • Rails

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