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Chariot TechCast

The Chariot TechCast is an interview show that covers emerging and important tends in the world of software development.

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We talk to our own Drew Rogers about some of the nuanced aspects of SRE and DevOps within the rapidly evolving domain of sports betting.

Producer note: This episode took place on August 15th, 2023. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with all our new tech content.

The post TechChat Tuesdays #66: The DevOps of Sports Betting with Drew Rogers appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

In this week’s TechChat, we welcome Keith Gregory, our Cloud & Data Engineering Practice Lead here at Chariot. Keith is a prolific writer both on the Chariot blog as well as on his own, and is a wealth of knowledge on all things AWS. We touch on Redshift execution plans, how to appropriately size Redshift instances, a performance comparison between Amazon Redshift and Athena, and the value of AWS certificates. And if you’re going to the AWS Summit in NYC on Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 – we’ll be there too! Come say hi.

 

 

Show Notes

Producer note: This episode took place on July 18th, 2023. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with all our new tech content.

The post TechChat Tuesdays #65: Redshift Execution Plans with Keith Gregory appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

We’re excited to have Michael Hulet back to the show. Michael is an iOS expert here at Chariot, and we talk candidly about some of the major announcements that came out of WWDC 2023: SwiftUI, SwiftData, the Apple Vision Pro, iPadOS, and more.

 

 

Show Notes

  • Enjoyed Michael’s insights? Don’t miss his last episode about developing accessibly for mobile.
  • What’s new in Swift 5.9? Variadic generics, macros, observability, interoperability with C++, static linking via mergeable libraries, and more.
  • SwiftData, a modern, macro-based replacement for Core Data (well, it technically wraps Core Data). Makes it easy to persist data using declarative code, can query and filter data using regular Swift code, and integrates seamlessly with SwiftUI.
  • Apple Vision Pro: a $3800 pair of ski goggles, or “AirPods for the eyes.” We kid, kind of, but we’re excited to see where this gadget goes.
  • What’s new in iOS 17? Voicemail for FaceTime, Assistive Access, NameDrop, SharePlay in CarPlay, NameDrop for sharing contacts, and more.
  • Want to run OS X Sonoma, but can’t dedicate a computer to it? Here’s how to run Apple OS X Sonoma Developer Beta on UTM from OS X Ventura, written by host Ken Rimple.

Producer note: This episode took place on July 11th, 2023. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with all our new tech content.

The post TechChat Tuesdays #64: SwiftUI, SwiftData, and iOS 17 with Michael Hulet appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

We’re excited to welcome Avdi Grimm to the show. Avdi has been a professional developer for over twenty years, working on everything from aerospace embedded systems to enterprise web applications. He’s the founder of Graceful.Dev, where he invests his time helping other developers grow their programming practice, as well as a consultant, evolving graceful systems and confident developers.

Avdi is a Ruby Hero and was a speaker at this year’s Philly ETE. In this livestream, we’ll go deeper into his recent talk about concentric feedback loops that he delivered with Jessica Kerr at Philly ETE 2023, REPLs All The Way Up: A Rubric for Virtuous Feedback Loops. This video – and all videos – from Philly Emerging Tech 2023 will be available to the public on August 1st, 2023: be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to be the first to know when they’re ready.

Onwards to the episode!

 

 

Producer note: This episode took place on June 20th, 2023. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with all our new tech content.

The post TechChat Tuesdays #63: Feedback Loops with Avdi Grimm appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

Hosts Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia welcome the effervescent DaShaun Carter to the show! DaShaun is a Spring Developer Advocate at VMware Tanzu, and we’ll talk with him about Spring Boot 3.1.0, scaling to zero, cloud native buildpacks, and more.

 

 

Show Notes

Producer note: This episode took place on March 27th, 2023. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with all our new tech content.

The post TechChat Tuesdays #62: Spring Boot 3.1.0 with DaShaun Carter appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

Today we welcome two speakers from our upcoming Philly Emerging Tech conference: Yehuda Katz and Russ Danner! Yehuda Katz is the founder of creator of the Starbeam.js and EmberJS framework, among many others. He is also a Philly ETE veteran, having spoken at many of our conferences in the past. Russ Danner is the VP of Product at CrafterCMS, an enterprise-grade headless CMS. He’ll be speaking about how to build and deploy omni-channel solutions, and how to deal with the “tyranny of more.”

Host Notes

  • Philly Emerging Tech is back for 2023! We’re back in-person, with a livestream ticket option as well. In-person seating is limited, so take advantage of our early bird pricing now. Check out the website for lineup, tickets, and more details.
  • We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers: it’s got over 20 years of tech reviews, tutorials, and more. In fact, here’s the latest from our Director of Training & Mentoring, Ken Rimple: Enabling RDS Migrations with Flyway in CodeBuild.

Show Notes: Yehuda Katz

  • Yehuda’s upcoming talk at Philly ETE 2023 — Starbeam: Universal Reactivity and What It Means For You
  • Learn more about Starbeam.js, “a new kind of reactive library that makes reactive programming simple and fun, and works with your existing JavaScript framework”
  • More about Ember.js, a JavaScript framework for building modern web applications that Yehuda co-created
  • The Extensible Web Manifesto, a manifesto that advocates a change to the approach that web standards committees use to create and prioritize new features. Yehuda co-signed this along with others
  • Some of Yehuda’s talks from past Philly Emerging Tech conferences:
    2017 – Ember and the state of Web Frameworks
    2016 – Stability Without Stagnation: Lessons Learned Shipping Ember.js
    2015 – What is Rust?

Show Notes: Russ Danner

 

 

Producer note: This episode took place on March 27th, 2023. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with all our new tech content.

The post TechChat Tuesdays #61: Yehuda Katz & Russ Danner appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

Today we welcome Michael Hulet to the show, an iOS expert here at Chariot. We cover accessibility in the context of iOS development to help you build more accessible, easy-to-maintain solutions leaning on available tools and frameworks.

Host Notes

  • Philly Emerging Tech is back for 2023! We’re back in-person, with a livestream ticket option as well. In-person seating is limited, so take advantage of our early bird pricing now. Check out the website for lineup, tickets, and more details.
  • We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers: it’s got over 20 years of tech reviews, tutorials, and more. In fact, here’s the latest from our AWS Practice Lead, Keith Gregory: Analyzing Glue Jobs with AWS X-Ray.

Show Notes

  • Current Web Content Accessibility Guides (WCAG). Note: these are only a starting point, not a be-all-end-all. A great accessibility experience is one that’s tailored to each individual app – but the guidelines do a good job of describing what kinds of things great accessibility experiences think about.
  • WCAG Levels: A, AA, AAA – what do they mean? What’s the difference?
  • How to test for accessibility on OS X
  • Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines – best practices that can help you design a great experience for any Apple platform
  • Some reading: iOS Access for All

 

 

Producer note: This episode took place on March 8th, 2023. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with all our new tech content.

The post TechChat Tuesdays #60: Accessibility on iOS with Michael Hulet appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

Hosts Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia riff on the latest in the dev sphere with a look inside Valhalla, Sandpack 2.0, findings from the latest JS survey, and developing cross-platform apps.

Host Notes

  • Philly Emerging Tech is back for 2023! We’re back in-person, with a livestream ticket option as well. In-person seating is limited, so take advantage of our early bird pricing now. Check out the website for lineup, tickets, and more details.
  • We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers: it’s got over 20 years of tech reviews, tutorials, and more.

Show Notes

  • Modern microcontrollers have become inexpensive and reliable. But after finding online tutorials to be cumbersome, Chariot consultant Al Iacovella wrote his own guide – complete with a bootstrap repo – for devs getting started with AWS’ IoT Core.
  • A look inside Project Valhalla, Java’s epic refactor. We also highlight three blog posts by Brian Goetz: the Road to Valhalla, the Language Model, and the JVM Model.
  • The new React docs website is in beta.
  • Introducing Sandpack 2.0 (Node.js on the browser?)
  • Results are in from the annual State of Javascript survey.
  • We love Google Lighthouse, an open-source, automated tool for improving the performance, quality, and correctness of your web apps…
  • And caniuse.com, an up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers

 

 

Producer note: This episode took place on February 21st, 2023. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with all our new tech content.

The post TechChat Tuesdays #59: Project Valhalla, Sandpack 2.0, and Developing Cross-Platform Apps appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

Host Ken Rimple welcomes Chariot consultant and resident front-end expert Drew DeCarme to the show. The two talk TypeScript 5.0, specifying Javascript with the TC39, Qwik, and more.

Host Notes

  • Philly Emerging Tech is back for 2023! We’re back in-person, with a livestream ticket option as well. In-person seating is limited, so take advantage of our early bird pricing now. Check out the website for lineup, tickets, and more details.
  • In fact, our guest Drew DeCarme is speaking at Philly ETE 2023. Get more info about his talk, Your Browser is Pooped: A Real-World Application of Using Web Workers to Create a 100% Browser-Based Barcode Scanner
  • We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers: it’s got over 20 years of tech reviews, tutorials, and more.

Show Notes

  • Avro offers compact storage and a schema in every file that tells you what data it holds. But how do you create these files in your data lake? Our AWS Practice Lead shares three ways
  • Also by Keith: learn how to keep JSON from polluting your data lakes in his post
  • You want modules, not microservices
  • Announcing TypeScript 5.0, now in beta
  • The TC39, responsible for specifying Javascript
  • The TC39 Process, and the committee responsible for evolving the ECMAScript programming language and authoring the specification
  • Our podcast interview with the head of the TC-39 committee in 2015, Dr. Allen Wirfs-Brock
  • Qwik, a new kind of web framework that can deliver instant loading web applications at any size or complexity
  • Our podcast interview from 2014 with the founder of Qwik, Misko Hevery, of Angular fame
  • Our podcast interview with Mike Hartington from Ionic a year later

 

 

Producer note: This episode took place on January 31, 2023. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with all our new tech content.

The post TechChat Tuesdays #58: A “Qwik” Front-End Episode with Drew DeCarme appeared first on Chariot Solutions.

Today we welcome Keith Gregory to the show! Keith is our AWS Practice Lead here at Chariot, and is a prolific writer both on the Chariot blog, as well as on his own blog. We cover some announcements from AWS re:Invent, and do a deep dive into CodeCatalyst, OpenSearch Serverless, Lambda Snapstart, Redshift streaming ingestion from Kafka/Kinesis, and EventBridge Pipes.

Host Notes

  • Philly Emerging Tech is back for 2023! We’re back in-person, with a livestream ticket option as well. In-person seating is limited, so take advantage of our early bird pricing now. Check out the website for lineup, tickets, and more details.
  • We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers: it’s got over 20 years of tech reviews, tutorials, and more.
  • We’re hiring! If you’re a senior software engineer that’s interested in content like this, consider becoming a consultant for Chariot. Work with bright, curious colleagues who love to share what they learn, and enjoy a culture that places a high value on work-life balance and flexibility. Open positions, benefits, and interview process can be found here.

Show Notes

 

 

Producer note: This episode took place on January 17, 2023. This is a recording. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with all our new tech content.

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