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Mar 15, 2024 1 hr 36 min

The Oban Pros (Friends)

from The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Today you get Sorentwo for the price of one! We are joined by Shannon & Parker Selbert, both halves of the mom-and-pop software shop behind Oban, the robust job processing library that's been delivering our emails & processing our audio for years.

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The Oban Pros (Friends)

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  1. 0:00 Let's talk!
  2. 0:38 Sponsor: FireHydrant
  3. 3:11 Bogo & Friends
  4. 4:24 The Oban Pro
  5. 5:53 On freedom numbers
  6. 6:50 Explaining what we do is hard
  7. 9:10 "It's just background jobs"
  8. 10:55 When incidents become "incidents"
  9. 13:52 How Sorentwo got here
  10. 17:41 Oban in Changelog code
  11. 25:08 Sponsor: CrabNebula Cloud
  12. 28:15 Elixir as mature niche
  13. 31:47 A fork in the road
  14. 34:59 The Hatchet path
  15. 38:34 Naming servers on an island
  16. 39:38 So what's the answer?
  17. 44:15 Similar situations
  18. 46:47 Almost an SV reference
  19. 49:03 The business model
  20. 50:17 Sponsor: Tailscale
  21. 53:21 Reaching the freedom number
  22. 57:01 How we use Oban
  23. 1:00:26 Jerod's bespoke Oban feature
  24. 1:01:34 Parker's awesome PR
  25. 1:04:42 Cron job feelings?
  26. 1:06:19 Shout out to Cronitor
  27. 1:07:20 Shout out to Buzzsprout
  28. 1:08:31 Indie / small shops
  29. 1:11:59 The "Lifestyle Business"
  30. 1:15:22 A theory on software biz growth
  31. 1:18:20 No more worlds to conquer
  32. 1:20:59 Alexander the Crybaby
  33. 1:21:34 Adam's essential Calm Balm
  34. 1:22:22 Business mantras
  35. 1:24:23 Gaining perspective
  36. 1:25:38 The house that wasn't
  37. 1:29:00 Big change brings big change
  38. 1:31:34 Retirement talk
  39. 1:33:59 Bye friends
  40. 1:34:43 Coming up next (join ++!)

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