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Recorded: 2022-04-27.

enJune 09, 2022

Season 3 - Devtools Interviews

Starting with Vercel CEO, Guillermo Rauch on 9th June 2022, in season 3 of the Console DevTools Podcast we'll be speaking to 10 interesting people currently working in devtools about a specific technical topic. Upcoming guests:

Dev Infra, with Guillermo Rauch (Vercel)
BPF, with Liz Rice (Isovalent)
OSS & Investing, with Joseph Jacks (OSS Capital)
Privacy Engineering, with Cate Huston (DuckDuckGo)
Security & Software Supply Chain, with Feross Aboukhadijeh (Socket)
Data science, with Ines Montani (Explosion)
Containers & Tests, with Sergei Egorov (Atomic Jar)
VR, with Elena Kokkinara (Inflight VR)
WASM, with Connor Hicks (Suborbital)
Engineering Leadership, with Meri Williams (LabGenius, LeadDev & Kindred)

Join David for our first episode, on 9th June 2022. In the meantime, subscribe to the Console newsletter for weekly reviews of the best 2-3 devtools.

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enMay 25, 2022

engineering leadership

Developer experience, with Jean Yang (Akita) - S02E11

In this episode we speak with Jean Yang, CEO of Akita Software, an API observability startup, which she founded after leaving her role in academia as a computer science professor. We discussed the software heterogeneity problem, why it isn't better to rewrite in rust and how the language wars have actually been won. We also explore how the big fight today is about infrastructure and why microservices are the solution to the ever-growing complexity of software.

About Jean Yang

Jean Yang is the founder and CEO of Akita Software, a developer tools company that is bringing structure to observability. Previously, Jean was a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Jean has a PhD from MIT, holds software tools patents from work at Microsoft Research and Facebook, and was selected as one of the MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2016.

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Recorded: 2021-11-19

enMarch 17, 2022

Terminal tools, with Michelle Lim & Zach Lloyd (Warp) - S02E10

In this episode we speak to Michelle Lim and Zach Lloyd, both of Warp, a terminal designed to make developer workflows more productive. We discuss the historical significance of physical terminals, terminal emulators, pseudo-terminals and the shell. We also explore why Rust is a better technology choice than Electron for building a new terminal, why GPU acceleration matters, how it works with the macOS Metal APIs, and discuss the challenges garbage collection brings to high performance UIs.

Get early access to Warp with this special invite code: https://app.warp.dev/download/r/1CNSLE

About Michelle Lim & Zach Lloyd

Zach Lloyd is the founder and CEO of Warp, a Rust-based terminal for developers. Michelle is a software engineer who joined early on. Prior to Warp Zach co-founded SelfMade, was CTO at Time Inc., and ran the Google Sheets team at Google. Michelle graduated from Yale and previously worked at Robinhood, Slack, and Facebook.

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Recorded: 2021-11-02.

enMarch 10, 2022

Designing dev products, with Ellen Chisa (Boldstart) - S02E09

In this episode we speak to Ellen Chisa, who was previously CEO of Dark, a programming language startup that allowed you to focus on your backend code and forget about frameworks, deployments, and infrastructure. We discuss whether that is the right way to think about coding, where no code or low code fits into the modern development stack, how developers should think about open source and the challenges of building dev tools versus getting developers to actually use them.

About Ellen Chisa

Ellen Chisa is a founder, angel investor, and engineer. She created Dark, a programming language coupled to its editor and infrastructure. Previously, she was the first employee at Lola, combining the best of technology and people for travel planning. Ellen Chisa is currently a Founder in Residence at Boldstart Ventures.

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Recorded: 2021-10-12.

enMarch 03, 2022

Web standards & privacy, with Desigan (Dees) Chinniah (Tor / Ex-Mozilla) - S02E08

In this episode, we speak with Desigan Chinniah, previously at Mozilla, advisor to many web startups and now on the board of Tor. We discuss the evolution of web tech from websites to complex decentralized applications running on browser APIs, the competitiveness of the browser rendering engine versus the UX layer and how developers think about privacy. Does it live in browser settings, extensions or on the protocol core level?

About Dees Chinniah

Desigan Chinniah is a creative technologist. After two decades of dot-com checks in, Dees now has a portfolio of advisory roles (Ably, Coil, Replay, SEDNA, Zama) and board positions (Ushahidi, The Tor Project). He invests early into diverse and under-represented minority founders and is a mentor at Design Club, Mozilla and Seedcamp.

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enFebruary 24, 2022

decentralized applications

Dev communities, with Rosie Sherry (Orbit) - S02E07

In this episode we speak to Rosie Sherry, Community Lead at Orbit, a community management software company. We discuss why community is not marketing, how devrel and community are different, who owns community and what that might mean with web3 & decentralization, and what essential tools you need for managing communities.

About Rosie Sherry

Rosie Sherry is Community Lead at Orbit, a community management software company. Prior to Orbit, Rosie founded the world’s largest testing community - Ministry of Testing - and led community at Indie Hackers.

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Recorded: 2021-10-21.

enFebruary 17, 2022

developer communities

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Homomorphic encryption, with Rand Hindi (Zama) - S02E06

In this episode we speak to Rand Hindi, CEO of Zama, an open source framework for securing AI applications in the cloud. We discuss the principles behind encryption, homomorphic encryption, and programmable bootstrapping, how these technologies can ensure user data privacy, what is changing that is making them more relevant to today, and how developers should be thinking about building on new protocols from HTTP to HTTPS to HTTPZ.

About Rand Hindi

Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and deeptech investor. He is the CEO at Zama, an open source homomorphic encryption company, and an investor in 30+ companies. Prior to Zama he created Snips, the first edge-based, private by design voice solution for OEMs, which was acquired by Sonos in 2019.

He has received the TR35 away from the MIT Technology Review, selected as a "30 under 30" by Forbes, is a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris and is an advisor to multiple companies. He was previously a member of the French Digital Council where he focused on AI and Privacy issues.

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Recorded: 2021-10-27.

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enFebruary 10, 2022

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Devtools investing, with Ed Sim (Boldstart) - S02E05

In this episode we speak to Ed Sim, Founder and General Partner of Boldstart, a venture investor specializing in DevTools and software. Ed has invested in developer-focused companies like Snyk, Slim.ai, and Jit Security. We discuss what engineers should think about when working on side projects, when and if they should seek out investors, how to pick the good ones, whether raising money is even needed, and what the role of open source is.

About Ed Sim

Ed is the Founder of Boldstart Ventures, a day-one partner and true believer for developer first and SaaS founders. Boldstart is a lead investor and often partners with technical founders at company formation, helping accelerate their path to product market fit.

Ed is currently a board member/observer of Snyk, Kustomer, BigID, Blockdaemon, Env0, Dooly, and Cape Privacy. Other notable day-one investments include Superhuman, Security Scorecard, and Front. Ed previously co-founded Dawntreader Ventures where he led first round investments in LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN), GoToMeeting (acq. By Citrix), and Greenplum (acq. EMC/Pivotal). Ed has a BA in Economics from Harvard.

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Recorded: 2021-10-15.

enFebruary 03, 2022

Decentralization, with Brooklyn Zelenka (Fission) - S02E04

In this episode we speak to Brooklyn Zelenka, CTO at Fission, a decentralized app framework for the future of web apps at the edge. We discuss the relevance of blockchain to web3 and decentralized web apps, why developers should avoid managing backend servers, the challenges of doing authentication and identity with local clients, and why web browser APIs are the place to build, not the native operating system.

About Brooklyn Zelenka

Brooklyn is the Co-Founder and CTO at Fission, where her team is building the next generation of web dev tools for the future of computing on the edge - levelling the playing field for teams of all sizes.

She founded the Vancouver functional programming meetup, and is the author of several Elixir libraries including Witchcraft & Exceptional. She was previously an Ethereum Core Developer, and continues to push the broader web3 space forward with standards like UCAN auth and the Webnative File System.

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Recorded: 2021-10-26.

enJanuary 27, 2022

decentralized app frameworks

Observability, with Charity Majors (Honeycomb) - S02E03

In this episode we speak to Charity Majors, CTO at Honeycomb, an observability tool for distributed systems. We discuss why observability is based around events and not metrics, how developers should think about achieving appropriately observable systems, why Honeycomb implemented their own distributed columnar data store, and how you can delete most of your alerts by implementing service level objectives.

About Charity Majors

Charity Majors is an ops engineer and accidental startup founder at honeycomb.io. Prior to this she worked at Parse, Facebook, and Linden Labs. She is the co-author of O'Reilly's Database Reliability Engineering.

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Recorded: 2021-11-03.

enJanuary 20, 2022

Security, with Thomas Ptacek (Fly.io) - S02E02

In this episode we speak to Thomas Ptacek, currently a software engineer at Fly.io and previously a co-founder at security firms Latacora and Matasano Security. We discuss the state of software security in sectors like energy and healthcare, how software developers should think about supply chain risk, and what they should do about securing their dependencies. We also explore how security threats have changed over the years, and what developers working on open source should do to improve their own security.

About Thomas Ptacek

Thomas Ptacek is a leading security researcher. Best known as one of the co-founders of Matasano Security, which was prior to its acquisition by NCC Group one of the largest software security firms in the US. Working in software security since 1995, Thomas was a member of the industry’s first commercial vulnerability research lab - Secure Networks. Thomas is currently a software engineer at Fly.io

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Recorded: 2021-10-19.

enJanuary 13, 2022

Dev infrastructure, with John Graham-Cumming (Cloudflare) - S02E01

In this episode we speak with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, a global web platform built for security and performance. We discuss the philosophy behind the idea that the network is a computer, why developers should be able to ignore the low level details of where their code runs, and the challenges of deploying data centers on Mars.

About John Graham-Cumming

John Graham-Cumming is the CTO of Cloudflare and is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer, he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Lisbon, Germany, and France. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004.

He is the author of a travel book for scientists published in 2009 called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist, and other publications.

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Console is the place developers go to find the best tools. Our weekly newsletter picks out the most interesting tools and new releases. We keep track of everything - dev tools, devops, cloud, and APIs - so you don’t have to.

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We are always on the lookout for interesting tools to feature in the newsletter, so please say hello if you're working on something new or have recently used a tool you think we'd like.

We only include things that would be of interest to experienced developers and do not accept payment for product inclusion. Read our selection criteria.

Recorded: 2021-11-24

enJanuary 06, 2022

Season 2 - Devtools interviews

Starting with Cloudflare CTO, John Graham-Cumming on 6 Jan 2022, in season 2 of the Console DevTools Podcast we'll be speaking to 11 interesting people currently working in devtools about a specific technical topic. Upcoming guests:

Dev infrastructure, with John Graham-Cumming (Cloudflare)
Security, with Thomas Ptacek (Fly.io)
Observability, with Charity Majors (Honeycomb)
Decentralization, with Brooklyn Zelenka (Fission)
Devtools investing, with Ed Sim (Boldstart)
Homomorphic Encryption, with Rand Hindi (Zama)
Dev communities, with Rosie Sherry (Orbit)
Web standards & privacy, with Desigan (Dees) Chinniah (Tor / Ex-Mozilla)
Designing dev products, with Ellen Chisa (Boldstart)
Terminal tools, with Michelle Lim & Zach Lloyd (Warp)
Developer experience, with Jean Yang (Akita)

Join David for our first episode, on 6th January 2022. In the meantime, subscribe to the Console newsletter for weekly reviews of the best 2-3 devtools.

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enDecember 09, 2021

homomorphic encryption

How do developers pick tools? (Cue & Leapp) - S01E10

Episode 10 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software).

Tools discussed:

Cue - 0pen source data validation language)
Leapp (manage cloud access credentials)

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Recorded: 2021-08-19.

enSeptember 09, 2021

cloud access credentials

Can you rely on autofix? (Tyk & DeepSource) - S01E09

Episode 9 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software).

Tools discussed:

Tyk - API gateway
Deepsource - automated code reviews

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Recorded: 2021-08-18.

enSeptember 02, 2021

Decentralize your tech stack (Fission & AskGit) - S01E08

Episode 8 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software).

Tools discussed:

Fission - decentralized app backend for storage and identity.
AskGit - query git repos with SQL.

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Recorded: 2021-08-17.

enAugust 26, 2021

Code search, dev flow & testing: Sourcegraph & Hoppscotch - S01E07

Episode 7 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software).

Tools discussed:

Sourcegraph - code search engine.
Hoppscotch - test UI for API requests.

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Recorded: 2021-08-10.

enAugust 19, 2021

Open source vs commercial: Appsmith & Retool - S01E06

Episode 6 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software).

Tools discussed:

Appsmith - Open source internal tool UI builder
Retool - Internal tool UI builder

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Recorded: 2021-08-03.

enAugust 12, 2021

Snyk Open Source (dependency security monitoring) & Security Scorecard (security health metrics) - S01E05

Episode 5 of the Console DevTools Podcast, a devtools discussion with David Mytton (Co-founder, Console) and Jean Yang (CEO, Akita Software).

Tools discussed:

Snyk Open Source - Dependency security monitoring.
Security Scorecard - Security health metrics.

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