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 indepe...
10 Dec 202122min
Feeling insecure about your code's security?
This “Trojan source” bug (get it?) could threaten the security of all code.In its annual report on its user community, GitHub found that developers appreciate automation, reusing code, and remote work...
7 Dec 202116min
Is crypto the key to a democratizing the metaverse?
Ethan's book, Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West, is available now.The metaverse isn’t just inevitable; it’s already here (and it has a booming real estate marke...
3 Dec 202125min
Does modern parenting have to rely on spyware?
The conversation was inspired by Epic's decision to make it's Kid's Web Service's parent verification free to all developers.Ben has been grappling with these questions since 2013, when he wrote about...
30 Nov 202119min
Who is building clouds for the independent developer?
We kick things off by weighing the merits of two gender-neutral regional pronouns: the familiar y’all and the under appreciated yinz. Now that’s covered...The global population of developers will hit ...
23 Nov 202124min
Who owns this outage? Building intelligent, automated escalation chains
Maxwell, a solution architect at xMatters, took a winding road to get to where he is. After a computer engineering education, he held jobs as field support engineer, product manager, SRE, and finally ...
22 Nov 202122min
What if the value of software platforms ACTUALLY flowed to the users?
You can learn more about Roll, which describes itself as blockchain infrastructure for social money, here.If you want to follow them on social, check out @tryrollhq as well as their personal socials: ...
19 Nov 202130min
250 words per minute on a chorded keyboard? Only if you can think that fast.
GitHub's CEO, Nat Friedman, stepped down recently to focus on his startup roots. Chief product officer, Thomas Dohmke, will be moving to CEO. The Verge reviewed our no-longer-a-joke April Fool's keybo...
16 Nov 202124min
