It's a long & windy road (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 “coverage” in this free-wheelin’ conversation with our friend, Shaundai Person! We’re talking Netflix infra, we’re talking sales, we’re talking real-world AI usage, we’re talking career choices…. What’s a good next step? Listen in!

Leave us a comment

Changelog++ members get a bonus 6 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!

Sponsors:

• Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan.
• Tailscale – Adam loves Tailscale! Tailscale is programmable networking software that’s private and secure by default. It’s the easiest way to connect devices and services to each other, wherever they are. Secure, remote access to production, databases, servers, kubernetes, and more. Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users at changelog.com/tailscale, no credit card required. Also check out Remotely access Home Assistant via Tailscale for free!
• Neon – The fully managed serverless Postgres with a generous free tier. We separate storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.

Featuring:

• Shaundai Person – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

अध्यायों

1. New BMC Theme?! (00:00:00)

2. Let's talk! (00:01:27)

3. Sponsor: Sentry (00:02:32)

https://sentry.io/

4. Build & Friends (00:05:43)

5. The "No AI" challenge (00:06:37)

6. Netflix on Azure or AWS (00:08:44)

7. An API call away (00:10:31)

8. Is "hallucinate" bad? (00:12:55)

9. The AI rebellion (00:14:16)

10. Sponsor: Tailscale (00:17:23)

https://changelog.com/tailscale

11. How much are you using this? (00:20:25)

12. The "Sales" challenge (00:24:45)

13. Shaundai's pitch (00:26:24)

14. Adam's pitch (00:29:45)

15. Closing the deal (00:33:49)

16. Sponsor: Neon (00:41:12)

https://neon.tech

17. Long & windy road (00:43:12)

18. The next good step (00:47:40)

19. Selling inside tech teams (00:54:28)

20. We all win (01:04:41)

21. Bye friends! (01:05:11)

22. Coming up next (01:05:20)