The Changelog

Evan Prodromou has been involved in open source since the mid '90s. His open source travel guide – Wikitravel – grew up alongside Wikipedia and the web itself. In this episode, we hear Evan's history, try to solve open social networking once and for all, and learn how sprinkling a little artificial intelligence on to our products can yield big wins without having to shoot the moon.

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• 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

• Evan Prodromou – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

• Wikitravel
• MediaWiki
• Wikivoyage
• Wikihow
• Wikimedia Foundation

• Social Web Working Group
• Pump.io
• Identica
• GNU Social
• Tent.io
• Micro.blog
• JSON Feed

• Fuzzy.ai
• AlphaGo

We talked with Dustin Kirkland (Head of Ubuntu Product and Strategy at Canonical) at OSCON about 12.04's end of life, the death of the Ubuntu phone, Snaps and snapd, and Bash on Ubuntu on Windows Server. This is the second installment of our mini-series from the expo hall floor of OSCON 2017. Special thanks to our friends at O'Reilly for inviting us to OSCON.

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 –  Easily scale your team — 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.
• 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

• Dustin Kirkland – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

• Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) reaches End of Life on April 28 2017
• Snaps - universal Linux packages
• Growing Ubuntu for cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence
• Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year
• The Changelog #207: Ubuntu Everywhere with Dustin Kirkland

Johannes Schickling (Founder of Graphcool) joined the show to talk about GraphQL — an application layer query language from Facebook. We talked about what it is, where it makes sense to use it, its role in serverless architectures, getting docs for free via Schemas and Types, and the community that's rallying around this new way to think about APIs.

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.
• 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 –  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

• Johannes Schickling – Twitter, GitHub
• Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

• Learn GraphQL How to GraphQL
• Learn Apollo
• Learn Relay
• GraphQL Playground
• GraphQL.org
• Facebook's announcement post for GraphQL
• Graphcool - Serverless GraphQL Backend - Developer platform for building serverless graphql backends
• Graphcool hit #1 on HackerNews when it launched
• GraphQL Radio - a podcast covering all things GraphQL
• GraphQL-Europe - Europe’s first GraphQL conference
• Reinventing Authorization: GraphQL Permission Queries
• Serverless GraphQL Backend architecture
• Why GraphQL is the future
• Facebook's original draft RFC specification for GraphQL

From The GitHub GraphQL API post on the GitHub Engineering blog:

The REST API is responsible for over 60% of the requests made to our database tier. This is partly because, by its nature, hypermedia navigation requires a client to repeatedly communicate with a server so that it can get all the information it needs. Our responses were bloated and filled with all sorts of *_url hints in the JSON responses to help people continue to navigate through the API to get what they needed. Despite all the information we provided, we heard from integrators that our REST API also wasn’t very flexible. It sometimes required two or three separate calls to assemble a complete view of a resource. It seemed like our responses simultaneously sent too much data and didn’t include data that consumers needed.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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!

Featuring

• Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

• 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

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.

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 – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

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

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.

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 – Twitter, GitHub
• Frannie Zlotnick – GitHub
• Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

Notes and Links

• 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

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.

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 – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Chris Bach – Twitter, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

• 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

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.

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 – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Aparna Sinha – Twitter, GitHub
• Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

• 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

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.

Sponsors

• Toptal –  Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email adam@changelog.com for a personal introduction.

Featuring

• Justin Dorfman – Twitter, GitHub
• Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

• Sustain Conference
• Sponsor Sustain

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.

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!

Featuring

• Scott Hanselman – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

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

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• 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