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Frontend Feud: HalfStack Edition (JS Party #151)
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How Go helped save HealthCare.gov (Go Time #154)
Paul Smith (from “Obama’s Trauma Team”) tells us the tale of how Go played a big role in the rescuing and rebuilding of the HealthCare.gov website. Along the way we learn what the original team did wrong, how the rescue team kept it afloat during huge traffic spikes, and what they’ve done since to rebuild it to serve the people’s needs.
Maintaining the massive success of Envoy (The Changelog #418)
Today we welcome Matt Klein into our Maintainer Spotlight. Matt is the creator of Envoy, born inside of Lyft. It’s an edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. Envoy was unexpectedly popular, and completely changed the way Lyft considers what and how to open source. While Matt has had several opportunities to turn Envoy into a commercial open source company, he didn’t. In today’s conversation with Matt we learn why he choose a completely different path for the project.
An ode to jQuery (JS Party #150)
We take up a listener request this week and have an honest conversation about jQuery. Then, it’s time for something new! Our friends at Hot New Tech review tone.js for us. After that, it’s Pro Tip Time!
GitHub's Go-powered CLI (Go Time #153)
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The practice of being present (Brain Science #32)
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Reinforcement Learning for search (Practical AI #110)
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What's so exciting about Postgres? (The Changelog #417)
PostgreSQL aficionado Craig Kerstiens joins Jerod to talk about his (and our) favorite relational database. Craig details why Postgres is unique in the world of open source databases, which features are most exciting, the many things you can make Postgres do, and what the future might hold. Oh, and some awesome psql tips & tricks!
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#GoVirCon (Go Time #152)
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Podcasting platform Q&A (Backstage #15)
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