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Listened to Podcast Infrastructure with Mikael Emtinger
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The technology underlying podcasts is simple–a podcaster publishes mp3 files to an RSS feed, and the listener subscribes to that feed, receiving mp3s whenever the feed is updated. Unfortunately, the simplicity of podcasts makes it difficult to build automated advertising infrastructure on top of that simple RSS model. This lack of rich automated advertising has

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Listened to Governing Open Source Usage with Brian Fox by Brian R. Jackson, Brian Demers 
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Brian Fox, CTO at Sonatype joins us to discuss how to secure and govern open source usage in your company; In the News: Evernote migrates to Google Cloud; Java 9's Jigsaw Auto Modules are a step down with designing dependency management properly; ThoughtWorks shuts down SnapCI

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Listened to Meetup Architecture with Yvette Pasqua
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Meetup is an online service that allows people to gather into groups and meet in person. Since 2002, the company has been growing and its technology stack has been changing. Today, they are in the process of migrating to the cloud, using both Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Platform. Yvette Pasqua is the CTO

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Listened to Exploring Code Smells in code written by Children with Dr. Felienne by Scott Hanselman 
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Felienne is always learning. In exploring her PhD dissertation and her public speaking experience it's clear that she has no intent on stopping! Most recently she's been exploring a large corpus of Scratch programs looking for Code Smells. How do children learn how to code, and when they do, does their code "smell?" Is there something we can do when teaching to promote cleaner, more maintainable code?

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Listened to Scalable Architecture with Lee Atchison
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Lee Atchison spent seven years at Amazon working in retail, software distribution, and Amazon Web Services. He then moved to New Relic, where he has spent four years scaling the company’s internal architecture. From his decade of experience at fast growing web technology companies, Lee has written the book Architecting for Scale, from O’Reilly. As

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Listened to Infrastructuralism with Truss by Scott Hanselman 
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What is Infrastructuralism and how can it help you think differently about software and large problems? Scott sits down with Everett Harper, CEO of Truss. They talk about how applying some old ideas in new ways helped them fix healthcare.gov.