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Things go wrong all the time. We all make mistakes. And that is okay. What is not okay, is to think that it won’t happen, or that there will be someone else around when it does. In that moment, it doesn’t matter who wrote that module, package or microservice. But there is a better way to think about this, and there is an approach that makes people actually look forward to incidents.

It all starts with thinking of incidents as opportunities to learn, and then share those learnings with everyone, so that you can all improve. In this episode, Gerhard is joined by Stephen Whitworth and Chris Evans, incident.io co-founders, and former Staff Engineers at Monzo.

They get it, we get it, and now you can get it too.

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Featuring:

• Chris Evans – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Stephen Whitworth – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Linear - The issue tracking tool you’ll enjoy using
• Loom - Record quick videos of your screen and cam
• incident.io - Product Roadmap
• CircleCI - Continuous Integration and Delivery
• Heroku - Cloud Application Platfrom
• Incidents are for everyone - Stephen’s favourite blog post
• Learning from incidents - Formula 1 - Chris’ favourite blog post
• Why more incidents is no bad thing - Gerhard’s favourite blog post

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This week Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase joined us to catch us up on the next big thing happening in the world of Postgres. Supabase might be best known as “the open source Firebase alternative,” a tagline they might be reluctant to maintain. But from Adam’s perspective, he’s never been more excited about what they’re bringing to market for Postgres fans. In the last year, Supabase has gone from 0 to more than 80,000 databases on their platform — and they’re still in beta...and it’s open source. Hopefully today’s show sheds some light on why everyone is talking about Supabase.

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• FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Try FireHydrant free for 14 days at firehydrant.io
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Featuring:

• Paul Copplestone – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Supabase
• Supabase docs
• supabase/supabase
• Supabase Realtime
• Tweet: Total databases on the Supabase platform
• Tweet: In 2021 Supabase grew...
• The Changelog #461: Fauna is rethinking the database with Evan Weaver
• postgresql.org
• Firebase

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Feross Aboukhadijeh joined the show this week to talk with us about his backstory, passive income, WebTorrent, WebRTC, Electron and the ins and outs of packaging apps for all platforms.

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Featuring:

• Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• JavaScript Standard Style Guide
• Study Notes is Feross’s passive income maker that enables him to work on open source and other stuff he’s interested in
• FreeTheFlash - Hilarious media entertainment brought to you by FreeTheFlash Entertainment
• Webmaster World
• WebTorrent - A streaming torrent client for the web browser and the desktop
• WebTorrent Desktop is the desktop Torrent client built with Electron
• WebTorrent Desktop on GitHub
• Instant.io
• The Changelog #216 - Electron and Cross Platform Desktop Apps with Zeke Sikelianos
• Mojibar - Emoji searcher but as a menubar app built with Electron

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Matt Biilman and Chris Bach joined the show to talk about JAMstack, Netlify CMS, how open source drives standards, and 10x-ing the speed of Smashing Magazine.

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• GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.

Featuring:

• Matt Biilmann – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Chris Bach – Twitter, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup) is a new way of building websites and apps that delivers better performance, higher security, lower cost of scaling, and a better developer experience.
• Netlify CMS is an open-source CMS built with JAMstack principles designed around a fully Git workflow.
• Smashing Magazine just got 10x faster
• Meet The Next Smashing Magazine
• Why Static Site Generators Are The Next Big Thing
• next.smashingmagazine.com

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It can be frustrating to get an AI application working amazingly well 80% of the time and failing miserably the other 20%. How can you close the gap and create something that you rely on? Chris and Daniel talk through this process, behavior testing, and the flow from prototype to production in this episode. They also talk a bit about the apparent slow down in the release of frontier models.

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Featuring:

• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• MLOps Community “Agents in Production” event

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