Tim McNamara is known as New Zealand’s Rust guy. He is the author of Rust in Action, and also a Senior Software Engineer at AWS, where he helps other builders with all things Rust. The main reason why Gerhard is intrigued by Rust is the incredible resource frugality. Fewer CPUs means less energy used, which is good for...

Sam Scott, cofounder and CTO of Oso, joins the home team to talk about what makes authorization a challenge, the difference between authentication and authorization, and what zombies taught him about web development.

This week we’re talking to Rachel Potvin, former VP of Engineering at GitHub about what it takes to scale engineering. Rachel says it’s a game-changer when engineering scales beyond 100 people. So we asked to her to share everything she has learned in her career of leading and scaling engineering.

Join Ty Franck (one half of James S.A. Corey) and Wes Chatham ('Amos Burton' on The Expanse) as we celebrate our 100th episode where our patrons got to ask the guys anything...

Reviving vintage tech is about more than just nostalgia, @janaboruta discusses open source community building for startups, and the value of collaborative maintainership now on The ReadME Project:

In Episode 80, Alex and James are joined by the incredible Hana Walker-Brown to discuss being diagnosed as adults with ADHD. Alongside Hana's story,  the usual bits of nonsense occur, including  'What has James lost, forgotten or mislaid this week...

Pre-release announcement for Go 1.20.1 & 1.19.6 to fix private security issuesPre-release announcement for golang.org/x/image/tiff & golang.org/x/image to fix private security issuesTransparent TelementryGitHub Discussion (now locked)Blog post explaining the problem and proposed solutionGopherCon...

This week we invited our friend Mat Ryer to join us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. You may know Mat from Go Time and also Grafana’s Big Tent, which we help to produce. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun.

A quick look at the history of building web apps, followed by a discussion of htmx and how it compares to both modern and traditional ways of building.

Mrs ADHD returns to join Alex and James for an episode on use/overuse/addiction to smartphones in ADHD.   As usual, the episode includes brain-numbingly dull psycho-education delivered by Alex,  personal reflections from all three ADHD adults abou...

Last September, at the 🇨🇭 Swiss Cloud Native Day, Florian Forster, co-founder & CEO of ZITADEL, talked about why they switched to serverless containers. ZITADEL has a really interesting workload that is both CPU intensive and latency sensitive. On top of this, their users are global, and traffic is bursty. Florian t...

In our ops & infra world, we learn to optimise for redundancy, for mean time to recovery and for graceful degradation. We instinctively recognise single points of failure, and try to mitigate the risks associated with them. For some years now, Daniel Vassallo has been doing the same, but in the context of life &amp...

It’s “Call For Papers” (CFP) season in Go land, so we gathered some seriously experienced conference organizers to help YOUR submission be the best ever.

Mike chats with Co-Founder of Stack Aid, Dudley Carr, about the importance of funding Open Source projects, and Stack Aid's approach to helping Open Source organizations get paid.

Ole Bulbuk & Sandor Szücs join Natalie to discuss the ins & outs of long-term code maintenance. What does it take to maintain a codebase for a decade or more? How do you plan for that? What about inheriting a codebase for the long term? Oh, and (how) can AI help?