The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Corey Sanders and Steve Guggenheimer — two Microsoft veterans focused on artificial intelligence and cloud computing. We talked about the direction and convergence of AI, ethics, cloud computing, and how the day to day lives of developers will change because of the advancements in AI. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Airbrake – Airbrake is an exception reporting service, currently providing error monitoring for 50,000 applications with support for 18 programming languages. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Corey Sanders – GitHub, XSteve Guggenheimer – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:We’re releasing this AI focused show in conjunction with the launch of Practical AI — our newest podcast, hosted by Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack. This show is focused on making artificial intelligence practical, productive, and accessible to everyone. Learn more and subscribe at changelog.com/practicalai. Microsoft Build 2018 Microsoft AI Azure Compute The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its role in society Corey Sanders on the Azure blog OpenAI Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jerod Santo is riding solo talking with Kurt Mackey, co-founder of Fly. He talked to him about his work at Ars Technica, his prediction on tabs being a fad, and Kurt being a founding member of MongoHQ, which was later renamed to Compose and acquired by IBM. Jerod also talked to him about lighthouse scores, performance, and an interesting program Fly is instituting to compensate open source project maintainers. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Airbrake – Airbrake is an exception reporting service, currently providing error monitoring for 50,000 applications with support for 18 programming languages. DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days. GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Kurt Mackey – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Kurt’s author profile on Ars fly.io fly on GitHub flygit is like rawgit on fly JS Party #26 – 🎊 TS Party! 🎊 JS Party #29 – Node’s survey, Ry’s regrets, Microsoft’s GitHub Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo talk with Tim Bell, the founder and creator of CS Unplugged, a collection of free teaching material that teaches computer science through engaging games and puzzles. They talk to him about where this program came from him, the need for computer science in today’s K-12 education programs, how CS Unplugged fits in, and how you can get involved. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Airbrake – Airbrake is an exception reporting service, currently providing error monitoring for 50,000 applications with support for 18 programming languages. DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days. GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product. Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Featuring:Tim Bell – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: CS Unplugged University of Canterbury Computer Science Education Research Tim Bell - Academic Staff - People - Computer Science and Software Engineering - University of Canterbury - New Zealand Tim Bell (computer scientist) - Wikipedia Modems Unplugged - Computer Science Unplugged Data Representation - Computer Science Field Guide uccser/cs-unplugged: CS Unplugged is a collection of free teaching material that teaches Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. uccser/cs-field-guide: An online interactive resource/textbook for high school students learning about computer science. Three ways to get started with computer science and computational thinking Topics - CS Unplugged Computer Science Education Research Group | University of Canterbury Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We talked with Steve Dower and Dan Taylor at Microsoft Build 2018 about the history of Python at Microsoft, the origination of IronPython, Python Tools for Visual Studio, flying under the radar to add support Python, fighting from within to support open source, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days. OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention combines the experience of the open source community with ideas and strategies for using open source tools and technologies. There’s no event quite like OSCON! When registration opens — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG when you register. Featuring:Steve Dower – Website, GitHub, XDan Taylor – GitHub, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Topics 2:22 – The history of Python at Microsoft 3:15 – The origination of IronPython 4:05 – Python tools for Visual Studio 7:54 – What Microsoft is doing with Python 10:22 – Why Python is good for people new to programming 12:20 – Pythonic 13:52 – PEP 8 15:47 – Black 18:16 – Pylint 21:41 – CPython 26:01 – Opensource at Microsoft 28:29 – The future of Python 33:55 – The latest in Python Links IronPython Python Visual Studio Python Visual Studio Code extension Black – the uncompromising Python code formatter Pylint CPython Jupyter Notebooks Visual Studio Team Services Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Zed Shaw – creator of Mongrel, Learn Python the Hard Way, and more – joined the show to talk through a recent Twitter thread from Zed where he shared his thoughts on open source, making money in open source, corporate interests and involvement, developer culture, and more. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog OSCON – O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention combines the experience of the open source community with ideas and strategies for using open source tools and technologies. There’s no event quite like OSCON! When registration opens — save 20% on most passes by using the code CHANGELOG when you register. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Zed Shaw – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: PDF copy of Zed’s Twitter thread (because he’s testing his Twitter account as being private) The original Twitter thread The Changelog #34: Mongrel2 and High Performance Web Sites with Zed Shaw Learn Code the Hard Way Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Daniel Stenberg discusses 20 years of curl, HTTP/2 enhancements, and the backstory of QUIC. Topics include the significance of curl as internet infrastructure, benefits of HTTP/2 adoption, and advantages of QUIC in handling streams efficiently.

We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2018 talking with Julia White, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft — a 17 year Microsoft veteran. We talked with Julia about her take on this “new Microsoft”, Satya Nadella’s first appearance as CEO when they revealed the first glimpse of Microsoft’s cloud offering which started with Office, the beginnings of Microsoft Azure, Azure as the world’s computer, and how every company is becoming a software company. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Julia White – XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Microsoft Build 2018 Standing out from the crowd is an awesome profile of Julia on Microsoft Story Labs Microsoft has turned a spotlight onto one of its coolest execs, Office GM Julia White Microsoft Azure Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Johannes Schickling, co-founder and CEO of Prisma, joined the show to catch us up on all things GraphQL — the tech, the possibilities, the community, how Prisma turns your database into a GraphQL API, their new business direction, Prisma Cloud, open source vs enterprise, and the upcoming GraphQL Europe in Berlin on June 15th. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – We catch our errors before our users do because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes, and deploy your code with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean is simplicity at scale. Whether your business is running one virtual machine or ten thousand, DigitalOcean gets out of your way so your team can build, deploy, and scale faster and more efficiently. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days. GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Johannes Schickling – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: The Changelog #255: Why is GraphQL so cool? with Johannes Schickling Prisma raises $4.5M to build the GraphQL data layer for all databases Prisma | Open-Source GraphQL ORM for GraphQL Servers prismagraphql/prisma: ⚡️ Prisma turns your database into a realtime GraphQL API Quickstart | Prisma Docs GraphQL Radio GraphQL Europe 2018 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Adam is on location at ZEIT Day talking with Jessica Rose about burnout, Henry Zhu about his passions and pursuit of open source, and Simon Willison about data and his passion for interesting datasets in the world. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – Our error monitoring partner. Rollbar provides real-time error monitoring, alerting, and analytics to help us resolve production errors in minutes. To start resolving errors in minutes, and deploying with confidence - head to rollbar.com/changelog Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product. ZEIT – ZEIT is on a mission to make cloud computing as easy and accessible as mobile computing. Special thanks to the team at ZEIT for inviting us to work with them on ZEIT Day. We’re honored to be involved. Featuring:Jessica Rose – Website, GitHub, XHenry Zhu – Website, GitHub, XSimon Willison – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: ZEIT Day 2018 ZEIT Day 2018 - Keynote Jessica Rose Jessica Rose: Burnout and Balance at ZEIT Day 2018 Pursuit Podcast on Twitter Henry Zhu Henry Zhu: In Pursuit of Open Source at ZEIT Day 2018 Henry Zhu on Patreon Babel on Open Collective The React Podcast #4: Babel and open source sustainability RFC #18: Maintaining a Popular Project and Sponsored Time Simon Willison Simon Willison: Datasette and Datasette Publish at ZEIT Day 2018 Datasette on GitHub Posts tagged with Datasette on simonwillison.net Datasette: instantly create and publish an API for your SQLite databases Simon was super impressed and very interested in our open source podcast transcripts Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Julia Grace, Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Slack, talks about scaling challenges, building leadership teams, and managing quality of service. She discusses the role of product managers in influencing engineers and the importance of effective communication and credibility in team management. Julia also shares insights on building resilient software and the engineering challenges of handling network flakiness at Slack.