The number of ways that applications can fail is numerous. Disks fail all the time. Servers overheat. Network connections get flaky. You assume that you are prepared for such a scenario because you have replicated your servers. You have the database backed up. Your core application is spread across multiple availability zones. But are you
Dogecoin was started in 2013 as a joke. Jackson Palmer forked Bitcoin and created his cryptocurrency as a play-off of the “doge” meme. The currency became popular as a means of Reddit users “tipping” each other. If I made a comment on Reddit that you liked, you might send me some Dogecoin. This use case
Bill Kennedy joined the show and talked with Carlisia about learning Go, teaching Go (which is something we’ll do at some point or another), making good presentations, and other interesting projects and news.
Rico Sta. Cruz joined us to talk about his project Devhints (cheatsheets for developers). There are more than 365 cheatsheets you can contribute to and it’s open source. We talked about the design, technical implementation, community, alternate interfaces like the command line. We also talked about RSJS, RSCSS, and Doc...
Due to Coté feeling weird (and being diagnosed with the flu), this week you get a curated selection of our new podcast, Software Defined Interviews. There are two artisanal selected clips. First, a discussion with Jon Collins about GDPR - will it actually work, or just be another regulation eye-roller? Then, there’s a rapid fire questions session with Nancy Gohring of 451 Research - we talk about Cisco’s AppDynamics acquisition, ServiceNow, and Honeycomb. Both of these are just a tiny bit of the full interviews, which you should totally check out by subscribing to Software Defined Interviews: [http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/](http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/)
Resources
Creating a Vue.js Serverless Checkout Form
Stdlib
Build a “Serverless” Stripe Store in 5 Minutes with Node.js and StdLib
Serverless
Microsoft Azure Functions
IBM Cloud Functions
Amazon Lambda
Sponsors
Datadog
Datadog is a SaaS-based monitoring platform that provides dev and ops teams with a unified view of all their systems, apps, and services.
Check them out today at Datadog.com/toolsday to start your 14 day free trial and don't forget your T-shirt!
Resources
Creating a Vue.js Serverless Checkout Form
Stdlib
Build a “Serverless” Stripe Store in 5 Minutes with Node.js and StdLib
Serverless
Microsoft Azure Functions
IBM Cloud Functions
Amazon Lambda
Sponsors
Datadog
Datadog is a SaaS-based monitoring platform that provides dev and ops teams with a unified view of all their systems, apps, and services.
Check them out today at Datadog.com/toolsday to start your 14 day free trial and don't forget your T-shirt!
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It’s Ikey’s last show and Jesse’s last show for a while, and Félim is off sick. Graham Morrison joins us to discuss 2 factor authentication, …
As a humanist, Leo Igwe doesn't believe in divine intervention -- but he does believe in the power of human beings to alleviate suffering, cure disease, preserve the planet and turn situations of poverty into prosperity. In this bold talk, Igwe shares how humanism can free Africans from damaging superstitions and give them the power to rebuild the continent.
Want to connect with a depressed friend but not sure how to relate to them? Comedian and storyteller Bill Bernat has a few suggestions. Learn some dos and don'ts for talking to people living with depression -- and handle your next conversation with grace and maybe a bit of humor.
Sarah Squire is a Senior Technical Architect at Ping Identity. So much has happened since "Identity 2.0" so Sarah catches Scott up to date. OpenID, OAuth and beyond, what's new and what direction is the web heading?
BookClubPod is a new podcast featuring 4 Nottingham tech community people from operations, development, design & management backgrounds to talk about books.
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A new GNOME release, a new Raspberry Pi, more distros on the Windows Subsystem, and more apps are Snapped. Plus why rms refused to come on the …
To kick off the Remote Work Podcast, Carla joins me to discuss what remote work is, and especially answer why remote working is something to discuss at all. It's terrifying to publish a first of something. There are a million things I want to have done differently or better, but a first s
Learning a new skill can be a daunting task, with programming being especially tricky. But what can you do when most learning materials and tools aren't accessible to you? Blind backend developer Parham Doustdar joins us to talk about how he taught himself to program, the challenges he faced and his advice for other visually impaired developers. We also look at the ways educational resources and programming as a whole can be made more accessible, opening up technology to eager new learners and makers.
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It’s a mobile-heavy news section this week with Sailfish, Linux on Samsung phones, Lineage and Purism, followed by a look at the upcoming …
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We speak to the CEO of Purism about their totally free software phone and laptops but before that, a new Plasma desktop is out, and Ubuntu and …
Scott teams up with Pursuit Podcast's Jessica Rose for a collaboration. Jessica asked her audience "What's the worst advice you've ever received?" We took their audio clips and turned it into a two-part discussion! You can check out Part 2 at The Pursuit Podcast https://twitter.com/pursuitpod http://hyperurl.co/zukdmh
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