Ilya Grigorik is back again — this time we’re talking about his true passion, internet plumbing, web performance, and the HTTP/2 spec. We cover everything around HTTP/2, the spec, HTTP/1 history, SPDY, binary framing layer, the semantics of HTTP/2, pipelining, multiplexing, header compression (HPACK), server push, TLS, “time to glass”, upgrading, adoption, support, and more.
Ilya Grigorik joined the show to talk about GitHub Archive, logging and archiving GitHub’s public event data, and how he uses Google BigQuery to make querying that data accessible to everyone.
Today we’re joined by Ilya Grigorik to talk about Shopify’s developer preview release of Hydrogen and the preview release of Oxygen which is in early access preview with select merchants on Shopify. Hydrogen is their React framework for dynamic, contextual, and personalized e-commerce. And Oxygen is Shopify’s hosted V8 JavaScript worker runtime that leverages all of their platform with the hope of scaling millions of storefronts. We cover what developers can expect from the Hydrogen framework, Shopify’s big bet on React Server Components, the future of Shopify at scale with Hydrogen powered by Oxygen, and a world where merchants never have to think about the complexities of scaling infrastructure.
Wynn caught up with Ilya Grigorik, Founder and CTO of PostRank to talk about Goliath, async Ruby web development, and Google’s SPDY.
You folks create a lot of events on GitHub. Trying to mine and report on that data is definitely a big data problem. Ilya Grigorik wants to help the community get a handle on the GitHub firehose with GitHub Archive. With an API call you can get a range of GitHub’s public timeline data for all seventeen event types:
require 'open-uri'
require 'zlib'
require 'yajl'
gz = open('http://data.githubarchive.org/2012-03-11-12.json.gz')
js = Zlib::GzipReader.new(gz).read
Yajl::Parser.parse(js) do |event|
print event
end
The source is on GitHub. Be sure and listen to Ilya on episode #55 talking about Goliah, EventMachine, and SPDY.
Vim geeks take pride in solving problems in the fewest possible keystrokes, regardless of how cryptic the solution might be. With VimGolf from Ilya Grigorik, they can now compete for bragging rights in a golf-like game where the fewest strokes wins.
Wanna play? Just sign up at Vimgolf.com and install the CLI client:
$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]
The rules are simple. Challenges include a start file and end file and it’s up to you to submit the shortest solution possible. Currently solutions are scored on simple file byte size, but future enhancements may add bonus points for use of key shortcuts and other advanced Vim features.
Our 4th annual year-end wrap-up episode! We don’t naval gaze often, but when we do… we make sure you get your money’s worth. Reflections, most popular episodes, our favs, and new this year: listener voice mails. Thanks for listening! 💚
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Adam Stacoviak: So I think that these are all my favorites, not necessarily – I didn’t choose what was a must-listen this year though… But the next on the list is “Leading a non-profit unicorn”, with our good friend, Quincy Larson, “Let’s mint some NFTs” with Mikeal Rogers, long-time friend of the show, “Every commit is a gift”, in line of Maintainer Week, and with our good friend Brett Cannon. “Shopify’s vision for the future of commerce”, and that was with Ilya Grigorik, long-time friend as well… Gosh, a lot of long-time friends here. And “Oh my! Zsh, with Robby Russell.” Again, long-time friend, and Oh My Zsh is a must-install; I do not stand up a new Mac instance without installing – actually, I should say anything Linux, really, without doing Oh My Zsh. Life is just not okay unless it’s got Oh My Zsh in place. I’m sorry.
So with that being said, a lot of be-backs in there, a lot of long-time friends in there… Which of those stand up most to you?
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Senior Staff Technologist at the EFF and the lead developer of Let’s Encrypt, joined the show to talk about the history of SSL, the start of Let’s Encrypt, why it’s important to encrypt the web and what happens if we don’t, Certbot, and the impact Let’s Encrypt has had on securing the web.
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Jerod Santo: That was a very nice summary, by the way. We do have a show - Adam, I didn’t get a chance to pull it up… Ilya Grigorik has talked to us in a show about HTTP/2. For those interested, who wanna go deep into that, Ilya knows tons about HTTP/2. I don’t have a show number… We do have a search function now on our website, which people have been asking for; just go there and search that, and you’ll find that episode. It’s very good.
Arfon Smith from GitHub, and Felipe Hoffa & Will Curran from Google joined the show to talk about BigQuery — the big picture behind Google Cloud’s push to host public datasets, the collaboration between the two companies to expand GitHub’s public dataset, adding query capabilities that have never been possible before, example queries, and more!
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Adam Stacoviak: Alright, we are back. We’ve got a fun show here… I mean Jerod, we’ve got some back story to tell, a little bit to kind of tee this up. Back in episode 144 we talked to Ilya Grigorik, a huge friend of the show; we’ve had Ilya on the show I think three times now, is that right?
Since airing this show, Pieter passed away due to his battle with a metastasis of bile duct cancer in both lungs. But rather than listen to this show with sadness, listen with a happy heart and let’s celebrate Pieter’s life, and what he has accomplished. Thank you Pieter from the bottom of our hearts for your time on this show and for all that you are. You are loved by us my friend. This show will forever be a very special show for us.
Pieter Hintjens is the creator of ZeroMQ and The Collective Code Construction Contract (C4), a writer of many books and protocols, as well as a developer with decades of building software and communities – he’s someone who’s given so much, and continues to give - even up until the time he is planning for his death.
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Adam Stacoviak: So take us through what systems are out there using them, and based on that, it sounds like this is like the - which makes total sense to have Ilya on the learning page (Ilya Grigorik, who’s been on this show before; ‘Internet plumber’, so to speak, that’s his self-professed title). It sounds like that whether we may know it or not, that ZeroMQ is the foundation for which a lot of the stuff we might do day to day on the internet is built upon.
Ben Johnson joined the show to talk about BoltDB, InfluxDB, and several other key-value store databases out there and why he’s so passionate about developing open source software.
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Ben Johnson: [52:01] I would have to say Ilya Grigorik. I just learned so much from that guy from his blog… And I would totally just be his groupie, totally; if he was at a conference, I’d just follow him around the whole time.
Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about curl and libcurl and how he has spent at least 2 hours every day for the past 17 years working on and maintaining curl. That’s over 13k hours! We covered the origins of curl, how he chooses projects to work on, why he has remained so dedicated to curl all these years, the various version control systems curl has used, licensing, and more.
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Adam Stacoviak: So when Ilya Grigorik was on the show - Iliya works at Google, and he works… Where does he work at? Does he work on Chrome directly, Jerod? Is that what Ilya works on?
This week Amal and Nick are joined by Dan Shappir, a Performance Tech Lead at Next Insurance, to learn about enabling a performance-first mindset within your engineering org.
Dan recently left his 7+ year tenure leading performance at Wix where he and his team improved, and monitored the speed of millions of websites around the world.
Join us to learn how he lead a cultural transformation that propelled Wix sites to be faster than most other React apps in the wild - including ones built with frameworks like Next.js.
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Amal Hussein: It really is. It really is. And so my advice to folks who are looking to dig in is actually, I would say, start at the browser level. Understand just how browsers work and how networking works, right? That’s a really good place to start.
A book that I would recommend is High Performance Networking by Iliya Grigorik. He spent time at Google and achieved that name… He colloquially was called the internet plumber while he was at Google. He’s since moved on to Shopify, but spending a lot of time helping teams at Google optimize their performance, and really doing that performance work at the scale and breadth of at Google was just fascinating. So a fascinating experience to learn from. So I would highly recommend that book. Start with networking, and then work your way up to Flame Charts and all the other stuff, but just know that this stuff is hard, and don’t beat yourself up for not mastering it right away. Right, Nick?
