We chat with Valentina Servile about her upcoming book on Continuous Deployment and reducing the risks to keeping HEAD not just always deployable, but automatically deployed to production.

Book for preorder on Amazon: Continuous Deployment: Enable Faster Feedback, Safer Releases, and More Reliable Software

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We chat with Philip Hölzenspies, one of the maintainers of the new Pkl configuration language (pkl-lang.org).

Resources:

• James' Pkl for GitHub Actions: github.com/jamesward/pklgha

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We chat with April Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, about helping programmers bring more compassion to themselves and others.

Resources:

• Confessions of a Recovering Jerk Programmer
• Marshall Rosenberg - Nonviolent Communication
• Kristin Neff - Self-Compassion
• Karen Armstrong - Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
• UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center definition of compassion
• Oren Jay Sofer's Needs & Feelings Lists

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We chat with Gwen Shapira, co-founder of Nile, about her journey to creating a virtualized, serverless Postgres database service. We also dive into the challenges with traditional data architectures and approaches like ORMs.

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We chat with Trisha Gee about Test Driven Development (TDD), flaky tests, ops & observability for builds, and developer productivity.

Mentioned TDD Article:

The beautiful theory of TDD and the reality check of practice

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When Gunnar Morling announced the 1 Billion Row Challenge a few weeks ago, he had no idea it'd go crazy viral.

Resources:

• Challenge details: www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge
• Rust 1BRC Blog: aminediro.com/posts/billion_row/
• Cliff Click's implementation walkthrough: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJNIbgV6j-Y
• James' very slow Scala ZIO implementation: github.com/jamesward/1brc-zio/blob/main/src/main/scala/Main.scala

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We chat with Adam Warski about Loom, Virtual Threads, and his Loom-based Scala library, Ox, for structured concurrency & Go-Like Channels.

Referenced articles & code:

• Ox EasyRacer Client
• Go statement considered harmful
• Go-like selects using jox channels in Java
• Limits of Loom's performance
• Fast and Scalable Channels in Kotlin Coroutines

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Announcing Graboo, a collection of experiments to reduce friction with Gradle. Repo:

https://github.com/jamesward/graboo

Buy your Happy Path Programming Shirt:

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