Human laziness is the ultimate security threat
Vercel is a developer-first, frontend-focused platform. Together with Google and Meta, Vercel built Next.js, an open-source React framework that helps developers build high-performance web experiences with ease.
PlanetScale is a MySQL-compatible serverless database platform that enables infinite SQL horizontal scale.
Tools like Webflow and Squarespace have made web development accessible for casual programmers, but what does this mean for professional developers?
This week’s Lifeboat badge goes to user Michael Thelin for their answer to How can I play a Spotify audio track with Python?.
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Find Sam on LinkedIn here.
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Zero to MVP without provisioning a database
PlanetScale is built on Vitess, the open-source database clustering system that runs at colossal scale hosting YouTube, Slack, and GitHub.
A familiar theme: Big cloud companies aren’t set up for independent developers. Sam and Ceora discuss how serverless can get projects—even businesses—up and running quickly.
Choosing the stack for a new business? Tools like Netlify can scale with your product, so you don’t have to change your architecture as you evolve.
Staging environments should be a thing of the past. That’s why PlanetScale enables database branching.
And finally, a question from Law Stack Exchange: Can satellite images be copyrighted?
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Part Two: Interview with Sam Lambert (@isamlambert)
In today's episode, I interview Sam Lambert, Director of Systems at GitHub.
Mentioned or relevant to today's episode
GitHub
@isamlambert
Hubot
Slack (chat)
Hubot plugins
ChatOps: How GitHub Manages MySQL
Hubot: The Hubber that never sleeps.
Whiteboard
GitHub Pull Request
"DBA" - DataBase Administrator
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Part One: Interview with Sam Lambert (@isamlambert)
In today's episode, I interview Sam Lambert, Director of Systems at GitHub.
Mentioned or relevant to today's episode
GitHub.com
Sam Lambert
Example of a Systems Engineer job at GitHub (they're hiring!)
Jonathan on GitHub
Git (not GitHub)
Subversion
Mercurial (another SCM)
git-svn
Telemetry
GitHub pull requests
GitHub issues
"Human Development" (Interview with Ernie Miller)
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