Managing Meta's millions of machines
Anita Zhang is here to tell us how Meta manages millions of bare metal Linux hosts and containers. We also discuss the Twine white paper and how AI is changing their requirements.
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Anita Zhang is here to tell us how Meta manages millions of bare metal Linux hosts and containers. We also discuss the Twine white paper and how AI is changing their requirements.
Our friend Ron Evans is a technologist for hire, an open source developer, an author, a speaker, an iconoclast, and one of our favorite people in tech. This conversation with Ron goes everywhere: from high-altitude weather balloons, to life on Mars, to Zenoâs paradox applied to ML, to what open source devs should learn from the Wu-Tang Clan & more.
Brian LeRoux joins Jerod to share how the Enhance team are bringing server side rendered web components to everyone. With Enhance WASM, you author components in friendly, standards based syntax and reuse them across multiple languages, frameworks & servers.
This week weâre joined by Dustin Bluck to discuss his acquisition of the well known (and beloved) Castro podcast app to take it indie-focused once again. As previous users of Castro, we were excited to dig into the details behind this popular podcast client to see whatâs next, how the deal was done, a peek into the code, and where exactly this indie and creator focused podcast app can go.
What makes a good, bad, and truly great workshop? How do you put together a Go workshop that works, and how do you get the most out of workshops you attend?
We recently gathered some Practical AI listeners for a live webinar with Danny from LibreChat to discuss the future of private, open source chat UIs. During the discussion we hear about the motivations behind LibreChat, why enterprise users are hosting their own chat UIs, and how Danny (and the LibreChat community) is creating amazing features (like RAG and plugins).
Daniel Hooper lists out all the good ideas in computer science, Jeff Geerling declares 2024 the year corporate open source dies, Jared Turner says all kinds of works-in-progress are waste, Daroc Alden covers the leadership crisis in the Nix community & John Hawthorn explains why Ruby may be faster than you think.
In this episode Justin and Autumn are joined by Mandi Walls to take you back to a time before the cloud. Before Kubernetes. When a/s/l was common and servers were made of metal. Back to the days of AOL to discuss how chat rooms worked.
Frequent guest (and almost real-life-friend) Adam Jacob returns to share his spicy takes on all the recent âopen source meets businessâ drama. We also take some time to catch up on the state of his open source-based business, System Initiative.
First there was Mamba⌠now there is Jamba from AI21. This is a model that combines the best non-transformer goodness of Mamba with good âol attention layers. This results in a highly performant and efficient model that AI21 has open sourced! We hear all about it (along with a variety of other LLM things) from AI21âs co-founder Yoav.
This week weâre joined by Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam programming language. For the uninitiated, Gleam is a functional programming language for building type-safe systems that compiles to Erlang and JavaScript and itâs written in Rust. We discuss the inspiration and development of Gleam, how it compares to other languages, where it shines, the overwhelming amount of support Louis is getting through GitHub sponsors, whatâs next for Gleam and their near-term plans for a language server.
Forrest Brazeal is concerned about the open source threat from within, Vicki Boykis explains why Redis is forked, John OâNolan and the Ghost team plan to federate over ActivityPub, Llama 3 is now available for âbusinesses of all sizesâ & nolen writes up questions to ask when you donât want to work.
If Changelog News had an extended edition, this might be it! Jerod & Adam discuss Hashicorpâs Cease and Desist letter, Redis getting forked, Boston Dymanicsâ scary cool new robot, Justin Searlsâ extensive use of the Apple Vision Pro, Thorston Ball moving from Vim to Zed, Firefox becoming hard to use, Beeper joining Automattic & more.
Paul Frazee joins the show to tell us all about how Bluesky builds, tests, and deploys mobile and web applications from the same code base.
Kelvin Omereshone is here to get you excited about boring, reliable tech. He believes a combination of Sails, Inertia, Tailwind & your frontend rendering library of choice are a great combo for building web apps. Tune in to find out why.
In this episode, Ben Burkert & Chris Stolt join Johhny to explore the ups & downs of trying to get secure local development environments set up, why itâs hard & what you can do about it.
This week Adam is joined by Thomas Paul Mann, Co-founder and CEO of Raycast, to discuss being productive on a Mac, going beyond their free tier, the extensions built by the community, the Raycast Store, how theyâre executing on Raycast AI chat which aims to be a single interface to many LLMs. Raycast has gone beyond being an extendable launcher â theyâve gone full-on productivity mode with access to AI paving the way of their future.
2024 promises to be the year of multi-modal AI, and we are already seeing some amazing things. In this âfully connectedâ episode, Chris and Daniel explore the new Udio product/service for generating music. Then they dig into the differences between recent multi-modal efforts and more âtraditionalâ ways of combining data modalities.
YouTuber âInternet of Bugsâ breaks down why AI âsoftware engineerâ Devin is no Upwork hero, Redka is Anton Zhiyanovâs attempt to reimplement Redis with SQLite, OpenTofu issues its response to Hashicorpâs Cease and Desist letter, Brian LeRoux introduces Enhance WASM & PumpkinOS is not your average PalmOS emulator.
Our beat freak in residence returns, this time to discuss the shiny new Dance Party album! We deconstruct its nostalgic mix, break down some of our favorite tracks & even learn that BMC is writing a mysterious bookâŚ
Why would you want to switch your developer environments from containers to nix? ĂdĂĄm from LastPass has a few reasons.
This week weâre talking to Scott Chacon, one of the co-founders of GitHub, to discuss the history and future of Git and Scottâs new project Git Butler, a branch manager tool thatâs aiming to improve the developer experience of Git using Git. We also touch on the contentious topic of open source licensing and the challenges of defining âOpen Sourceâ, FSL vs GPL, and more.
How does Google build Search? What about YouTube and Google Drive? We rely on Chromeâs Lighthouse scores when optimizing our websites, but what does Google prioritize? Recently the Angular and Wiz teams announced their intention to responsibly merge their internal frontend framework, Wiz, with Angular to bring some of Wizâs best ideas to Angular. Weâre chatting with Minko from Angular and Jatin from the Wiz team to learn about how Wiz has been used in Google historically, what itâs good at, and why itâs worth bringing some of its ideas to Angular.
Daniel & Chris delight in conversation with âthe funniest guy in AIâ, Demetrios Brinkmann. Together they explore the results of the MLOps Communityâs latest survey. They also preview the upcoming AI Quality Conference.
Natalie is joined by Carlos Becker (a Brazil-based software developer who maintains GoReleaser and other OSS software) to discuss how GOOS
and GOARCH
spark joy.
HashiCorp sends OpenTofu a nasty-gram in the wake of Matt Asayâs infringement claims, Polar is like Patreon but for software creators, a Common Corpus of LLM data is released on HuggingFace & Loki is an open source tool for fact verification.
VerĂłnica LĂłpez, Kubernetes SIG Release tech lead & distributed systems engineer, joins Justin & Autumn to share her experiences deploying services at scale.
Thisis our 14th Kaizen episode! Gerhard put some CDNs to the test, weâve taken our next step with Postgres on Neon & Jerod pushed 55 commits (but 0 PRs)!