Kaizen! Tip of the Pipely (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Kaizen 19 has arrived! Gerhard has been laser-focused on making Jerod’s pipe dream a reality by putting all of his efforts into Pipely. Has it been a big waste of time or has this epic side quest morphed into a main quest?!

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Featuring:

• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Discussion #544: 🎧 Kaizen 19
• httpstat: curl statistics made simple
• Making DNSimple with Anthony Eden
• Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip!
• flyradar: Manage your Fly.io resources in style
• oha: HTTP load generator, inspired by rakyll/hey
• Testing Varnish with varnishtest
• Hurl - Run and Test HTTP Requests
• Varnish Software Enterprise

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. Let's Kaizen! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Depot (00:00:38)

https://depot.dev

3. Outages & Friends (00:02:52)

4. Doubling down on Pipely (00:04:46)

5. Clicking around changelog.com (00:06:24)

6. How many GETs are HITs? (00:12:09)

7. Clicking around pipedream.changelog.com (00:15:10)

8. Are we holding it right? (00:22:03)

9. Jerod finds bug #1 (00:24:05)

10. Jerod finds bug #2 (00:26:13)

11. Jerod finds bug #3 (00:26:43)

12. Jerod finds bug #4 (00:27:37)

13. Gerhard broke it! (00:28:12)

14. Sponsor: Heroku (00:28:28)

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15. Fixing it (00:32:07)

16. Pipely all over the world (00:34:30)

17. Most requested URL? (00:39:37)

18. Benchmarking the new CDN (00:40:50)

19. Scaling Fly machines (00:43:48)

20. Not benchmarking Bunny (00:47:09)

21. Benchmarking local (00:48:00)

22. Just the tip (00:50:46)

23. VTC (thanks, Pontus!) (00:51:09)

24. We want acceptance tests (00:53:12)

25. Tests for switching CDNs (00:59:34)

26. Sponsor: Retool (01:04:35)

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27. Progressive rollout possibilities (01:07:36)

28. Enterprise Varnish (01:12:50)

29. Pipely process tree (01:15:55)

30. Where Dagger fits in (01:17:11)

31. What else is left? (01:18:37)

32. We need content purge (01:22:50)

33. How big of a list is it? (01:29:39)

34. By the next Kaizen?! (01:33:40)

35. What changes after launch? (01:35:18)

36. Kaizen counter (01:37:28)

37. Pipely launch party?! (01:39:27)

38. Bye, friends (01:40:33)

39. Coming up next (01:40:50)