Ship It!

A podcast about everything that happens after `git push`
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Shipped It!
Justin & Autumn get together one last time for a retro: favorite episodes, lessons learned, biggest surprises & what’s next.
AI IRL at Honeycomb
Phillip Carter, Principal PM at Honeycomb, joins Justin & Autumn to discuss his work at Microsoft & Honeycomb, building AI infrastructure & more.
CI/CDagger
Gerhard Lazu joins the show to discuss how Ship It! started and why you might want a general purpose language for your CI/CD.
Public safety Kubernetes
Marc Boorshtein from Tremolo Security joins Justin & Autumn to talk all about running Kubernetes in the public sector.
Abstractions and implementations
Hazel Weakly joins Justin and Autumn to talk about when to build abstractions and how to implement them. They also share experiences from tech conferences, and delve into the importance of building community and psychological safety in tech environments.
Hosting Hachyderm
Preston Doster joins the show to tell us what it takes to run a Mastodon server with 55,000 accounts and 11,000 monthly active users.
News & whitepapers
No interview this week! Instead, Justin & Autumn sit down to talk about what they’ve been learning recently.
Infosec & OpenTelemetry
Maybe Jira for your kids’ chores is a good idea… Probably not.
Your customer is Amazon.com
From switching ISPs to migrating Amazon off Oracle, Pete Naylor knows which database to use.
Kubernetes is an anti-platform
Adam Jacob remains optimistic about the future for infrastructure and is building new ideas to make it better.
TIME to get SERIESous about databases
Lili Cosic’s experience at different companies & communities has given her insights into what’s important & when to adapt to learn new (or old) things.
You suck at programming
Dave Eddy has learned systems programming the traditional way with books and man pages. Now he’s sharing what he’s learned, starting with bash.
A learning mindset, starting with COBOL
The ability to learn on the job has been a critical skill for David Beale throughout his career. Is the job market not allowing that anymore?
Linux distros
uBlue is trying to build the world’s best Linux experience for developers and gamers. Jorge Castro joins Justin & Autumn to tell us how it’s going.
Building Rawkode Academy
David Flanagan created a successful YouTube channel but knew to take things to the next level he’d need to own more of the stack.
Learning & teaching networking & AI
Du’An Lightfoot, dev advocate at AWS, joins Justin & Autumn to discuss networking, a knowledge gap people many people have. You can ignore the things you don’t understand or you can invest time to learn it.
The diagram IS the code
What if your infrastructure diagram was responsible for the actual infrastructure?! John Watson & Scott Prutton from System Initiative join Justin & Autumn to discuss.
MySQL performance
Silvia Botros joins Justin & Autumn for a phenomenal conversation about databases, her career path & the ins/outs of writingHigh Performance MySQL.
Cloud-centric security logging
Justin & Autumn are joined by Steven Wu from Scanner. Scanner built logging infrastructure focused on security teams and occasional querying. We dive deep into how architectural decisions affect your business.
The Zookeeper of jujutsu
Tim Banks joins Justin and Autumn — there’s nothing quite like being punched in the face by Zookeeper or being taken down by a “hot” shard.
5000 Walmart stores in 2 months
Deploying new applications can be tough. Deploying configuration management safely at scale with stores around the world is different. Martin Jackson joins us to discuss.
Deploying on a Friday
Michael Gat joins us for a look back on mainframes & why sometimes deploying on a Friday IS the right thing to do.
GitLab's infrastructure
GitLab has changed a lot over the past 8 years and so has Abubakar. Starting in the help desk he’s seen a lot and takes us through GitLab’s and his progression.
Spilling the git tea
Git was designed to be distributed but there is a lot of gravity around GitHub. What does the model look like for a business that encourages you to run your own git server and what does the backend for gitea.com look like?
What happened to open source
Gareth Greenaway from theSalt project joins us for a trip down memory lane with configuration management and why open source projects have changed over the past decade.
The Kubernetes of Lambda
Bailey Hayes & Taylor Thomas from Cosmonic join the show for a look at WebAssembly Standard Interfaces (WASI) and trade-offs for portable interfaces.
How to build a Nushell
Devyn Cairns & Jakub Žádník join Justin & Autumn to talk about building a new kind of cross-platform shell that provides easy extensions with traditional command compatibility. That’s no easy feat!
The infrastructure behind a PaaS
Render founder/CEO Anurag Goel joins us for a look behind their platform. An application native hosting option that hides the lower levels still requires a LOT of infrastructure.
3D printed infrastructure
Gina Häußge is here to tell us about the infra behind the OctoPrint project, which tests and releases new versions that work on multiple different printers and gets deployed hundreds of thousands of times.
Is Wasm the new Java?
Danielle Lancashire is here to tell us how Fermyon cloud is built on top of nomad and EC2 and how they put it in a box with Kubernetes and WebAssembly.