ANTHOLOGY — The technical bits (Changelog Interviews #570)
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Heikki Linnakangas (Co-founder of Neon and Postgres hacker), Robert Aboukhalil (Bioinformatics software engineer) working on bringing desktop apps to the web with Wasm, and Scott Ford who loves taking a codebase from brown to green at Corgibytes.
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- 0:00 This week on The Changelog
- 1:34 Sponsor: Neon
- 5:06 Let's talk Postgres!
- 5:53 The darling DB for devs
- 6:19 There's been drama around MySQL
- 7:00 The aging Postgres community
- 8:44 How did you choose Postgres?
- 9:30 Proposing a significant change to Postgres
- 10:26 Multi-process vs multi-threaded
- 13:45 A case study of a large change to Postgres
- 16:16 Patches open sourced by Neon
- 17:43 That's your competitive advantage
- 18:37 Live and die with Postgres
- 20:24 Geo-distrubuted Postgres
- 21:36 What's the current architecture?
- 23:40 What else is exciting?
- 24:40 Sponsor: Sentry
- 28:37 We've allegedly talked before
- 30:43 What's interesting about WebAssembly
- 33:04 Bringing Bioinformatics tools to the web
- 33:56 What should we know about Bioinformatics?
- 34:57 What's it take to bring these apps to the web?
- 36:18 Is it WASM or WASM?
- 38:32 What apps make the most sense?
- 41:50 CLI tutorials in the browser
- 55:51 Ok, do it
- 56:31 Sponsor: Socket
- 59:55 It's M. Scott Ford
- 1:00:40 Jerod and Scott go way back
- 1:01:17 He runs Corgibytes
- 1:01:52 ilovebugs.com
- 1:02:33 From brown to green
- 1:04:12 It's about the challenge
- 1:05:47 Macro-economic downturn
- 1:08:40 Reconsidering almost everything
- 1:11:04 The business model needs to change
- 1:13:21 Fresh dependencies and security
- 1:16:48 Bubbling up freshness
- 1:19:57 Teams don't update often
- 1:21:44 Products to breath new life
- 1:24:31 It's a good plan
- 1:24:58 It's almost 2024...what's next?
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