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Your downtime from uptime. A break from the pager, and chance to learn from expert’s successes and failures. We talk about state-of-the-art, legacy practices for building, running, and maintaining software and systems.
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April 25, 2025
MCPing in the Open with Angie Jones
Angie gives us a crash course on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how you can get started using it with goose. We also talk about other projects Angie's worked on at Block and what drives her to keep learning new things in te...
April 18, 2025
Motivated to Learn with Adriana Villela
After 25 years in tech it’s hard not to coast. Adriana has come from writing word docs for the ops team to deploy software, through Devops, and now has a focus on OTel and Kubernetes. How do we get more people from 100 to 400...
April 11, 2025
Recovering from Disaster with Seth Eliot
Disaster recovery is more than automation and infrastructure. There's a lot that goes into your services and some of those things can't be defined as code or automated. When was the last time you restored your database from a...
April 4, 2025
Building a Datacenter with Jake Cooper
Railway wanted to build a better cloud so they started on Google Cloud and ended up building datacenters. Through the burden of success, they figured out there was a lot of things they had to learn and build themselves if the...
March 28, 2025
Staying Curious with Scott Hanselman
You can't grow in technology without learning new things. But sometimes those new things are actually old things. We talk with Scott about a wide range of interests about software, video games, 3D printing, and food. If you w...
March 21, 2025
Vectorizing Your Databases with Steve Pousty
What exactly is an LLM doing and why do you need to learn so many new terms? Steve Pousty is here to explain that most of those new terms are things you already know. It’s not new technology, it’s new words to describe techno...
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