Supper Club × Messaging Queues and Workers with Armin Ronacher
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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Armin Ronacher about his contributions to open source, queues and messaging in apps, scaling up a queue, and how it all works at Sentry. Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 01:49 Who is Armin Ronacher? Armin Ronacher mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko) Armin Ronacher Armin Ronacher Apache Kafka 04:11 What are queues and what are they used for? 08:02 Do you listen or poll for updates in the queue? 12:49 Does this help when a provider goes down? 18:31 How do you architect a queue? 20:20 How does it scale up? 27:05 How does Sentry manage all the data flowing in from events? Redis Message Broker | Redis Enterprise Messaging that just works — RabbitMQ Using RabbitMQ — Celery 5.3.1 documentation 33:45 How do you visualize the data? 37:15 Edge case that Sentry had to fix 40:22 How are you using Rust? Rust Programming Language 43:32 Why is Python so popular in the AI space? 45:17 What do you think about JavaScript on the server? 48:02 Supper Club questions 50:44 How do you stay motivated with programming? ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Bilderbuch Bilderbuch on Spotify Shameless Plugs Rye - An Experimental Package Management Solution for Python Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky
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