The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

This week we take you behind the scenes of the new infrastructure for Changelog.com and talk with Gerhard Lazu. We relaunched the new brand and site for Changelog on Phoenix/Elixir in October of 2016 and we needed a better way to reliably host and deploy the site. That’s where Gerhard came in. We cover all the details and decisions in this show. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. Microsoft Azure OpenDev – See what’s possible with open source in the cloud. Watch the recorded videos from this live event to see real-world demonstrations of Azure supporting open technologies. Hear from leaders in the open source community. Learn how you can build containerized microservices and improve your open source DevOps pipeline. Featuring:Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Gerhard guest blogged for us about Ansible and Docker way back in the day (Feb 21, 2014) Jerod found edeliver which was based on deliver a pure bash deployment tool with customisable strategies Gerhard gave a talk about the process ci.changelog.com thechangelog/changelog.com thechangelog/infrastructure Pivotal Tracker Concourse CI LastPass Ansible Docker Moby Project: Advancing the Containerization Movement Also ~> check out this tweet from Solomon Hykes Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We talked with Pam Selle at OSCON about the serverless revolution happening for JavaScript developers. This episode kicks off our mini-series from the Expo Hall floor at OSCON 2017. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Toptal – Hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Microsoft Azure OpenDev – a live one-day virtual conference (free) on June 21, 2017 focused on showcasing open source technologies on Azure. See what’s possible with open source in the cloud. 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 CHANGELOG20 when you register. Featuring:Pam Selle – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Pam is the Software Engineering Lead at IOpipe, a high fidelity metrics and monitoring service which allows you to see inside Amazon Lambda functions for better insights into the daily operations and development of serverless applications. The serverless revolution for JavaScript developers at OSCON 2017 by Pam Selle Serverless Framework Turing-incomplete The Changelog #173: CROSSOVER — Turing-Incomplete with Pam Selle, Jearvon Dharrie, and Justin Campbell Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

On Friday, June 2, 2017 – GitHub announced the details of their Open Source Survey – an open data set on the open source community for researchers and the curious. Frannie Zlotnick, Nadia Eghbal, and Mikeal Rogers joined the show to talk through the backstory and key insights of this open data project which sheds light on the broader open source community’s attitudes, experiences, and backgrounds of those who use, build, and maintain open source software. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Toptal – Hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. 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. Microsoft Azure OpenDev – a live one-day virtual conference on June 21, 2017 focused on showcasing open source technologies on Azure. See what’s possible with open source in the cloud. Learn how you can build containerized microservices and improve your open source DevOps pipeline. Participate in Q&A sessions, and get hands-on experience with open source technologies on Azure. Featuring:Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, XFrannie Zlotnick – GitHubAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XMikeal Rogers – GitHub, XShow Notes: opensourcesurvey.org github/open-source-survey GitHub Blog: Announcing an open data set on the open source community Spotlight #10: How China Does Node with Shiya Luo at Node.js Interactive 2016 Oh, and here’s that Wired article Mikeal mentioned Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Matt Biilman and Chris Bach joined the show to talk about JAMstack, Netlify CMS, how open source drives standards, and 10x-ing the speed of Smashing Magazine. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Toptal – Hire the top freelance software developers, designers, and finance experts with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. 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. Featuring:Matt Biilmann – Website, GitHub, XChris Bach – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup) is a new way of building websites and apps that delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience. Netlify CMS is an open-source CMS built with JAMstack principles designed around a fully Git workflow. Smashing Magazine just got 10x faster Meet The Next Smashing Magazine Why Static Site Generators Are The Next Big Thing next.smashingmagazine.com Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Tim Hockin and Aparna Sinha joined the show to talk about the backstory of Kubernetes inside Google, how Tim and others got it funded, the infrastructure of Kubernetes, and how they’ve been able to succeed by focusing on the community. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and get a free t-shirt! Featuring:Tim Hockin – Website, GitHub, XAparna Sinha – GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: kubernetes.io Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg Kubernetes The Hard Way Go Time #20: Kubernetes, Containers, and Go with Kelsey Hightower Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes on Wikipedia kubernetes/minikube Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Justin Dorfman joined us for a special BONUS episode of The Changelog to share some details about Sustain Conference with you. It’s a one day conversation for Open Source Software sustainers at GitHub HQ (SF) on June 19, 2017. No keynotes, expo halls or talks. Only discussions about how to get more resources to support digital infrastructure. Plus, we’ll be there. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Justin Dorfman – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Sustain Conference Sponsor Sustain Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Scott Hanselman joined today’s show produced in partnership with our friends at OSCON. Scott is a Program Chair of OSCON, host of the podcast Hanselminutes, and advocate for open source inside of Microsoft and the Azure Cloud team. We talked about the oldest software he wrote that’s still in production, the shift inside Microsoft to open source and why, as well as ways to make inclusion and diversity a priority in your communities. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Hired – Get hired. It’s free — in fact, they pay you to get hired. Our listeners get a double hiring bonus of $600. Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and get a free t-shirt! 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 CHANGELOG20 when you register. Featuring:Scott Hanselman – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Use our code changeloghallpass to get a FREE Expo Hall Pass to OSCON. This will get you access to the hallway track, the exhibitors, and a bunch of other fun stuff. Adam and Jerod will be there at booth 231, so make sure you stop by. We’ll have some tees and stickers to give away, but they are in limited supply and reserved for members of Changelog Community, which is free to join — so go sign up. Scott’s podcast ~> Hanselminutes keysleft.com Join the Changelog Community (it’s free) BabySmash Codeland Conference Related shows you should listen to: Spotlight #13: Node at Microsoft, ChakraCore, and VM Neutrality with Gaurav Seth and Arunesh Chandra The Changelog #134: Open Sourcing .NET Core with the Microsoft .NET team The Changelog #152: TypeScript and Open Source at Microsoft with Anders Hejlsberg and Jonathan Turner The Changelog #176: CROSSOVER — CodeNewbie and Community with Saron Yitbarek The Changelog #224: .NET Core and Microsoft’s Shift to Open Source with Bertrand Le Roy Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Zeno Rocha, Principal Developer Advocate at Liferay, joined the show to talk about DevRel, his open source work (clipboard.js, Dracula Theme, jQuery Boilerplate, Browser Diet, et al), and his passion for teaching and giving talks at conferences. Zeno also shared some really interesting stories about his first contributions to open source, how that played out, and the lessons learned along the way. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. Datadog – Cloud-Scale Monitoring — Monitoring that tracks your dynamic infrastructure and applications. Plus next-generation APM. Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance. Start your free trial, install the agent, and get a free t-shirt! 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. Featuring:Zeno Rocha – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Special thanks to Justin Dorfman for helping connect us to Zeno Rocha for this episode — BTW check out SustainOSS.org, a one day conversation on June 19, 2017 about sustaining open source. We’ll be there! DevRelSummit Liferay clipboard.js Issue #56: OT: How did the repo get 5000 stars in a few days? jQuery Boilerplate Issue #10: Everything is wrong, so deleted all of it, this way you can start over and do it right. Browser Diet - The definitive front-end performance guide. Dracula Theme DevSpace - Stay up to date with what’s happening now on GitHub The Changelog #246: First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance with Kent C. Dodds Reminder on how you spend your time Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Jason Laster joined the show to talk about Firefox Debugger and DevTools. We talked about the backstory of Firefox, Firebug, the new Debugger.html, why React and Redux made a good fit to develop Debugger as a standalone application, community efforts, and getting started. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice! Get one of the fastest, most efficient SSD cloud servers for only $5/mo. Use the code changelog2017 to get 4 months free! Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. 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. Featuring:Jason Laster – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: The Recurse Center A quick history of Firefox DevTools Firebug Web Developer (Add-on) 3D view Issue #544 - James Long and Jason Laster of the mozilla debugger.html project - thanks Bryan Clark Firefox Developer Tools WebIDE XUL Tutorial Firefox Debugger debugger.html Homepage and readme Firefox DevTools on GitHub GDB: The GNU Project Debugger Reactide - the first dedicated IDE for React web application development The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source with James Long Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Kent C. Dodds joined the show to talk about guiding and supporting first time contributors to open source. We talked about the many ways to be first-timer friendly, how to contribute to open source, the burden and balance of a maintainer, and a few of the projects Kent maintains, including his latest project at PayPal called Glamourous. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa. Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction. 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. Featuring:Kent C. Dodds – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: First Timers Only firsttimersonly.com + GitHub repo all-contributors - ✨ Recognize all contributors, not just the ones who push code ✨ all-contributors-cli [egghead.io] - How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub Changelog.com on GitHub Thanks to Marco Vito Moscaritolo for this PR Thanks to Christian Franco for this PR stack-overflow-copy-paste - Utility functions copy/pasted (and modified slightly) from Stack Overflow Managing an Open Source Project - a talk from Kent C. Dodds The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source with James Long Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source by James Long Healthy Open Source by Mikeal Rogers Learning to Quit Glamorous! Blog post + GitHub repo Make a Pull Request Adam Stacoviak in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a peacekeeping mission with the United States Army in 2000. Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!