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The InfoQ Podcast

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The InfoQ Podcast

A podcast by InfoQ intended for architects and senior developers.

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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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The InfoQ Podcast • June 19th, 2020

Johnny Boursiquot on Serverless Go and Site Reliability Engineering at Heroku

In this podcast, Johnny Boursiquot, Site Reliability Engineer at Heroku, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed topics that included: why Go is a useful language for building Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) style applications; how Heroku implement the role of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE); and why the ability to teach is such a valuable skill.

  • go
  • golang

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