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Date Title & Description Contributors
2019-03-31

  14: TIL database connections aren't cheap

A background job should be a function. So, putting more things in it is always a good idea! Sean announced that he shipped background jobs for crates.io. It's been in production for more than two weeks, and no issues have been reported. It's made life ...
  Sean Griffin/Sam Phippen author
2019-03-24

  13: "As much time as I can without reading C" with James Coglan

Do you use Git practically every day, but have no idea how to implement it? Need a more accessible and easier way than reading original source code to understand how it works? Want to know how to rebuild Git in a high-level language to learn the concep...
  Sean Griffin/Sam Phippen author
2019-03-17

  12: A new cat named Merb!

Sean and Sam talk about debugging a memory leak with Crates.io when upgrading to Rust 1.32 that could only be reproduced in production.
  Sean Griffin/Sam Phippen author
2019-02-25

  The Parse.y Hole

Derek Prior, engineering manager at GitHub, joins Sam to talk about what they’ve been working on these days. Derek’s doing GitHub projects that can’t talk about. But, he did mention that GitHub recently shipped small-scope changes to its issue template...
  Sean Griffin/Sam Phippen author
2019-02-17

  10: Deleting all of a user's comments is probably a bug

Ruby's language development is off the charts. Also: we talk about programming. Sam and Sean discuss Ruby, auto-formatting, and whether Hash Rockets are good. They bring other languages, such as Go, Rust, and Elixir, into their formatting discussion. A...
  Sean Griffin/Sam Phippen author
2019-02-10

  9: Tools That are Well Built Will do it for us!

We’re still time travelling, Sam has since left DigitalOcean, but in this episode, he talks about his experiences there. Sean talks about his experiences managing the crates.io team, and incidents on an open source project with volunteer time. Sam tal...
  Sean Griffin/Sam Phippen author
2019-02-03

  8: Vulnerability

This episode was recorded on October 21st 2018. We thought it best to get this to you, even though it's a little stale :) Remember that dark, scary time in October 2018 when GitHub went down? Sean is joined by Derek once again to discuss what they've ...
  Sean Griffin/Derek Prior author
2018-12-03

  It's not a Pyramid, it's a Diamond

Sean and Sam talk all about testing. Sam created an ideal testing pyramid based on personal experience and from talking with test thought leaders, such as Justin Searls.
  Sean Griffin/Sam Phippen author
2018-10-23

  6: The Podcast After the Last Podcast

This week Sean is joined by former cohost Derek Prior. After a brief reflection on the end of The Bike Shed, we discuss WebAssembly and what it means for the future of the web as well as native sandboxing. Finally, we catch up on what Derek has been do...
  Sean Griffin/Sam Phippen author
2018-10-11

  5: A Series of Anecdotes

In this episode, Sean and Sam discuss the challenges of feedback cycles in organizations, how we could benefit from more feedback in open source, and some idiosyncrasies regarding libcurl and the HTTP/1.1 specification.
  Sean Griffin/Sam Phippen author