Advice Line with Kenneth Cole
Today’s callers: Matt from New York City unpacks the stigma working against his line of foot wellness products. Then Emefa in Toronto seeks a direct relationship with customers of her fashion brand in the wake of a key retailer going out of business. Finally, Levi in Rhode Island explores new audiences and product lines for his commemorative golf sculpture business.
Plus, Kenneth and Guy discuss how to make social impact a real part of your business model.
Thank you to the founders of Pedestrian Project, ISRAELLA KOBLA, and Swing Sculpt for joining us on the show.
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And be sure to listen to Kenneth Cole’s founding story as told on the show in 2020.
This episode was produced by Alex Cheng with music by Ramtin Arablouei. It was edited by John Isabella. Our audio engineer was Jimmy Keeley.
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Advice Line with Ronnen Harary of Spin Master/PAW Patrol
Today’s callers: Ann from Nashville asks how to adapt her jewelry business in the face of rising gold prices. Then Felix in Martha’s Vineyard considers strategies for growing his family’s legacy honey and skincare company. Finally, Matt in Massachusetts seeks strategies for maintaining a healthy work-life balance at his grief-inspired brewing project.
Plus, Ronnen and Guy discuss why your 20s are the best time to start a business.
Thank you to the founders of Yearly Company, Island Bee Company and Wandering Soul Beer for joining us on the show.
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This episode was produced by Katherine Sypher with music by Ramtin Arablouei. It was edited by John Isabella. Our audio engineer was Cena Loffredo.
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If context is king, architecture is the castle
Recorded live at the AI Agent Conference, Ryan sits down with Apollo GraphQL CEO Matt DeBerglis to discuss how enterprises can leverage GraphQL and MCP as a structured semantic architecture to feed clean data to autonomous agents, safeguard internal microservices against unprecedented "east-west" data exfiltration risks, and rein in skyrocketing token spend by explicitly querying only the exact context required.
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Apollo GraphQL lets you orchestrate APIs with a composable, declarative, self-service model. Apollo's MCP Server is now available.
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Why call one API when you can use GraphQL to call them all?
Apollo GraphQL lets you orchestrate APIs with a composable, declarative, self-service model. Apollo's MCP Server is now available.
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The Future of Bitcoin Smart Contracts | Matt & Amine of Arch Network
In this episode, Matt and Amine, co-founders of Arch, discuss how the Taproot upgrade and Ordinals have enabled programmability and DeFi on the Bitcoin base layer. They explain Arch's novel approach to bringing smart contract functionality to Bitcoin without compromising on security by using a UTXO model, a ZKVM for parallel transaction execution, and a Proof-of-Stake verifier network. Stay tuned for all of this and much more!
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Monad is a fully EVM compatible Layer 1 blockchain that can support 10,000 real transactions per second. Monad aims to open up the design space for the EVM to support high fidelity defi, consumer facing applications, and more generally allow crypto to scale to the masses.
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Bridge to SKALE at portal.skale.space and stay up to date with the gasless blockchain at @skalenetwork
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(08:290 Building on Bitcoin Base Layer
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(23:13) L1 vs L2 BTC Approach
(32:21) Arbitrum Ad
(33:09) Monad Ad
(34:08) Skale Ad
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(39:38) 5 Year Vision
(46:21) Why Build on Bitcoin
(49:00) Key Trust Assumptions
(55:28) Developer Experience
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How to convince your CTO it's worth paying down tech debt
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Mastering Tech Transitions with Ceora Ford
Join us for a fascinating talk with Ceora Ford, a Developer Advocate at Okta, as she explores the changing world of tech. Ceora shares her unique journey through different tech roles and talks about the importance of keeping technical skills sharp, even when focusing on advocacy. She also gives us a sneak peek into the exciting AI developments happening at Okta. Tune in to this episode to get a better understanding of the fast-paced tech industry and what's coming next.
About Ceora
Ceora Ford is a Developer Advocate from Philadelphia, renowned for her expertise in making complex computer science concepts accessible to a broad audience. With a rich history of creating educational content, she has significantly contributed to the tech community, working with leading companies like CodeSandbox, DigitalOcean, egghead.io, and Apollo GraphQL. Ceora's career is marked by her unique ability to simplify technical topics, making them understandable for everyone, from students to professionals in tech-adjacent roles. Her non-traditional path into tech and her current role at Okta showcase her commitment to making the tech industry more inclusive and approachable for all.
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No one likes meetings. Let's reduce their blast radius.
Clockwise is a time orchestration platform that optimizes schedules to create more time in your day. Clockwise AI, their new GPT-powered scheduling assistant, is launching in beta. Join the waitlist here to get early access. (They’re also hiring!)
Ryan wrote a recent article about whether meetings are making developers less productive.
Cal Newport’s instant classic Deep Work is about learning to tune out distractions and focus on cognitively demanding tasks.
Speaking of classics, Paul Graham of Y Combinator wrote about maker’s vs. manager’s schedules back in 2009.
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Unlocking the Developer
Proper tooling is perhaps the primary key to unlocking developer productivity. With the right tools and frameworks, developers can be productive in minutes versus having to toil over boilerplate code. And as data-hungry use cases such as AI and machine learning emerge, data tooling is becoming paramount.
This was evident at the recent MongoDB World conference in New York City where TNS Founder and Publisher Alex Williams recorded this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast featuring Peggy Rayzis, senior director of developer experience at Apollo GraphQL; Lee Robinson, vice president of developer experience at Vercel; Ian Massingham, vice president of developer relations and community at MongoDB; and Søren Bramer Schmidt, co-founder and CEO of Prisma, discussing how their companies’ offerings help unlock developer productivity.
Apollo GraphQL and Supergraphs
Apollo GraphQL unlocks developers by helping them build supergraphs, Raysiz said. A supergraph is a unified network of a company's data services and capabilities that is accessible via a consistent and discoverable place that any developer can access with a GraphQL query. GraphQL is a query language for communicating about data.
“And what's really great about the supergraph is even though it's unified, it's very modular and incrementally adoptable. So you don't have to like rewrite all of your backend system and API's,” she said. “What's really great about the Super graph is you can connect like your legacy infrastructure, like your relational databases, and connect that to a more modern stack, like MongoDB Atlas, for example, or even connected to a mainframe as we've seen with some of our customers. And it brings that together in one place that can evolve over time. And we found that it just makes developers so much more productive, helps them shave, shave months off of their development time and create experiences that were impossible before.”
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Vercel: Strong Defaults
Meanwhile, Robinson touted the virtues of Next.js, Vercel’s popular React-based framework, which provides developers with the tools and the production defaults to make a fast web experience. The goal is to enable frontend developers to be able to move from an idea to a global application in seconds.
Robinson said he believes it’s important for a tool or framework to have good, strong defaults, but to also be extensible and available for developers to make changes such that they do not have necessarily eject fully out of the tool that they're using, but to be able to customize without having to leave the framework library tool of choice.
“If you can provide that great experience for the 90% use case by default, but still allow maybe the extra 10% power, you know, power developer who needs to modify something without having to just rewrite from scratch, you can get go pretty far,” he said.
Data Tooling
When it comes to data tooling, MongoDB is trying to help developers manipulate and work with data in a more productive and effective way, Massingham said.
One of the ways MongoDB does this is through the provision of first-party drivers, he said. The company offers 12 different programming language drivers for MongoDB, covering everything from Rust to Java, JavaScript, Python, etc.
“So, as a developer, you’re importing a library into your environment,” Massingham said. “And then rather than having to construct convoluted SQL statements -- essentially learning another language to interact with the data in your database or data store -- you're going to manipulate data idiomatically using objects or whatever other constructs that are normal within the programming language that you're using. It just makes it way simpler for developers to interact with the data that's stored in MongoDB versus interacting with data in a relational database.”
MongoDB and Prisma
Bramer Schmidt said while a truism in software engineering is that code moves fast and data moves slow, but now we are starting to see more innovation around the data tooling space.
“And Mongo is a great example of that,” he said. “Mongo is a database that is much nicer to use for developers, you can express more different data constructs, and Mongo can handle things under the hood.”
Moreover, Prisma also is innovating around the developer experience for working with data, making it easier for developers to build applications that rely on data and do that faster, Bramer Schmidt said.
“The way we do that in Prisma is we have the tooling introspect your database, it will go and assemble documents in MongoDB, and then generate a schema based on that, and then it will pull that information into your development environment, such that you can, when you write queries, you will get autocompletion, and the IDE will tell you if you're making a mistake,” he said. “You will have that confidence in your environment instead of having to look at the documentation, try to remember what fields are where or how to do things. So that is increasing the confidence of the developer enabling them to move faster.
McDonald’s is to Chipotle what REST APIs are to GraphQL
Danielle’s path to software engineering began when she was accepted into MIT’s Women’s Technology Program, an education and mentorship opportunity for high schoolers interested in engineering or computer science. She later earned her CS degree from MIT.
Danielle’s first role out of college was a junior developer working on Meteor, a full-stack JavaScript framework that was just starting a GraphQL project they called Apollo. She tells the team how Meteor started looking at GraphQL and how that became Apollo.
If McDonald’s is a REST API, then Chipotle is GraphQL. Think about it!
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S19:E5 - What are some common mistakes people make when learning to code (Ceora Ford)
In this episode, we talk about some very common relatable mistakes when you learn to code with Ceora Ford, developer advocate at Apollo GraphQL. Ceora talks about 5 major mistakes she learned in her first year learning to code, how to avoid them, and some new mistakes she’s encountered in her second year of coding.
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Ceora Ford
Ceora Ford is a developer advocate based in Philadelphia. Her career thus far has centered around creating educational content focused on making the tech industry more accessible to everyone. She specializes in making abstract computer science topics understandable for everyone, students, new developers, or people on engineering adjacent teams. She's worked with companies like CodeSandbox, DigitalOcean, egghead.io, and Apollo GraphQL, helping them craft great content and make their platforms and products better for all users.
Blasting off with Apollo 🚀
KBall, Amal, and Feross are joined by special guest Jenn Creighton to talk about all things Apollo. How does Apollo fit into the GraphQL ecosystem, what’s the next big thing, and when would you choose to use it?
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Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part Two
Geoff Schmidt joins me to discuss GraphQL, Apollo, and how the responsibilities are shifting and roles are changing to give more leverage and better separation of concerns between client side and service architectures.
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Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part One
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Connecting apps, data, and the cloud with Apollo GraphQL CEO Geoff Schmidt
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Learning Tech in Public with Ceora Ford
About Ceora Ford
Ceora Ford is a digital marketer turned software engineer based in Philadelphia. She is really into Python, AWS, education and diversifying tech. She's had the pleasure of teaching with Kode With Klossy, BSD Education, and more recently, egghead.io. When she is not coding, she's usually watching movies and pretending to be a film critic.
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