Semaphore Uncut

It’s not every day that you get to peek inside the inner workings of a major tech company like WeTransfer. But today, I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with Antoine van der Lee about his work as a lead iOS engineer at the file transfer company.Antoine van der Lee, who lives in Amsterdam, is also the founder of SwiftLee, a weekly blog jam-packed with useful Swift, iOS, and Xcode tips. During our chat, Antoine revealed:Why WeTransfer uses unit tests, not UI testsWhat the company’s continuous integration set-up looks likeHow WeTransfer structures its release trainAbout Semaphore UncutIn each episode of Semaphore Uncut, we invite software industry professionals to discuss the impact they are making and what excites them about the emerging technologies. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com

If you’re looking to level-up your Docker game or to get started using containers, you’re in for a treat. This week, I had the pleasure of chatting with Docker architect and author Elton Stoneman about:His upcoming book for beginners, Learn Docker in a Month of LunchesHow enterprises can modernize their code without complete re-writesWhat a typical Docker learning path looks like for beginnersElton is a Docker enthusiast and expert who has been a Microsoft MVP since 2010 and a Pluralsight author since 2013. When he’s not writing books about Docker or speaking at industry conferences, you’ll probably find him sharing insights about Docker and .NET on Twitter. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com

In this week’s episode of Semaphore Uncut, I had the honor of speaking with author, consultant, and continuous delivery thought leader Dave Farley. Dave, who has been in the industry for more than 30 years, was kind enough to share his experience as a strategic software development consultant, industry patterns (and anti-patterns) he has observed, best practices for setting up successful testing strategies, and more. You can also get Semaphore Uncut on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and more.Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review on your podcast player of choice and share it with your friends! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com

In today's Semaphore Uncut episode, host Darko Fabijan chats with Matt Klein, a software engineer at Lyft. Matt is the architect behind Envoy, one of the most popular open-source service proxies, which is shipping out a new mobile version soon.What prompted Matt to create Envoy, and what problems does it solve? What's the secret sauce that made it such a wild hit? Listen to the episode to learn the answers to these questions and more.You can also get Semaphore Uncut on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and more.Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review on your podcast player of choice and share it with your friends! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com

In today's episode, we are chatting with Jason van Brackel, director of community at Rancher, about:How Rancher is the "easy button" for KubernetesOvercoming the biggest challenges to Kubernetes adoptionRancher's new open-source lightweight Kubernetes distribution projectOn Semaphore Uncut, we invite software industry professionals to discuss the discuss the impact they are making and what excites them about the emerging technologies. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com

We’re chatting with Bret Fisher, about speeding up DevOps workflows with Docker. What are the biggest problems that Docker solves? What is the role of CI/CD in this containerized world? Are devs happy developing with Docker?On Semaphore Uncut we invite software industry professionals to discuss what problems they’re currently solving and what excites them about the emerging technologies. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com

We’re chatting with Honeycomb's CTO and coauthor of Database Reliability Engineering Charity Majors about observability and going beyond logs and dashboards to better understand the systems we build. On Semaphore Uncut we invite software industry professionals to discuss what problems they’re currently solving and what excites them about the emerging technologies.You can find all episodes of Semaphore Uncut at https://semaphoreci.com/podcast This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com

We’re chatting with Krzysztof Zalasa, Customer Engineer at Google Cloud. Krzysztof reveals how Google is solving business challenges with voice recognition technologies, machine learning, Kubernetes and SRE. On Semaphore Uncut we invite software industry professionals to discuss what problems they’re currently solving and what excites them about the emerging technologies.You can find all episodes of Semaphore Uncut at https://semaphoreci.com/podcast This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com

We’re chatting with Dave Verwer, the man behind iOS Dev Weekly and iOS Dev Jobs, about the recent Apple WWDC19 event which was fundamental for setting the directions for the next 10-15 years of iOS development. Dave also tells us about his new projects and gets really sentimental with our co-founder Darko on the topic of early beginnings of Ruby on Rails.On Semaphore Uncut we invite software industry professionals to discuss what problems they’re currently solving and what excites them about the emerging technologies.You can find all episodes of Semaphore Uncut at https://semaphoreci.com/podcast This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com

We’re chatting with Steve Peak, Founder and CEO at Storyscript, about his ambitious project which aims to be the new standard in developing software. Storyscript is a top-level programming language and platform that is specially designed for data flow between highly-reusable components (e.g. microservices), written in any other programming language.On Semaphore Uncut we invite software industry professionals to discuss what problems they’re currently solving and what excites them about the emerging technologies.You can find all episodes of Semaphore Uncut at https://semaphoreci.com/podcastFull transcript at https://semaphoreci.com/blog/steve-peak-storyscript-future-software-new-language This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com

We’re chatting with Peter Steinberger, Founder and CEO at PSPDFKit, about his startup journey, the complexity of PDF format and scaling business for success. We caught Peter just before his leave for WWDC19 so he's able to share some Apple development predictions with us as well.On Semaphore Uncut we invite software industry professionals to discuss what problems they’re currently solving and what excites them about the emerging technologies.You can find all episodes of Semaphore Uncut at https://semaphoreci.com/podcastFull transcript at https://semaphoreci.com/blog/peter-steinberger-startup-journey-pdf-quirks-and-wwdc19 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com

We’re chatting with Lee Skillen, Founder and CTO at Cloudsmith, about how his startup solves the complex issue of streamlined software packaging. We also discuss the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur and starting one's own business.On Semaphore Uncut we invite software industry professionals to discuss what problems they’re currently solving and what excites them about the emerging technologies.You can find all episodes of Semaphore Uncut at https://semaphoreci.com/podcastFull transcript at https://semaphoreci.com/blog/lee-skillen-from-cloudsmith-on-streamlined-software-packaging This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com

We’re chatting with Jacob Smith, CMO at Packet, about running a bare metal cloud & edge computing infrastructure business. Jacob gives a great insight into how the future of software infrastructure might look like and talks about the various hats one has to wear when running a successful company.On Semaphore Uncut we invite software industry professionals to discuss what problems they’re currently solving and what excites them about the emerging technologies.You can find all episodes of Semaphore Uncut at https://semaphoreci.com/podcastFull transcript at https://semaphoreci.com/blog/jacob-smith-packet-on-running-an-infrastructure-product-and-arm-wireless-and-hardware-as-a-part-of-developer-stack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com

We’re chatting with Eddie Zaneski, Developer Relations Manager, about how he got into DevRel and his work at Digital Ocean. We discuss the importance of Developer Relations, but also zoom in on how to deliver great developer experience with your product.On Semaphore Uncut we invite software industry professionals to discuss what problems they’re currently solving and what excites them about the emerging technologies.You can find all episodes of Semaphore Uncut at https://semaphoreci.com/podcastFull transcript at https://semaphoreci.com/blog/semaphore-uncut-with-eddie-zaneski-digitalocean This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit semaphoreio.substack.com