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Chris House is our special guest and his job is to take care of all the things that you never think about. What happens when devs don't think about monitoring? What is "ops" like when people don't talk to each other? Spoiler alert: it can suck, but Chris knows how to fix it. If NT 4 is working out great for you then maybe isn't the episode for you.

Also: Jorge hates Lee's new bag. Jorge will do your out-of-office emails for 6 months if you win our new contest. What it takes to earn the right to work in your underwear.

Mentioned on the show:

Managed services
Accoutrement
Nagios
OpsView
Edge and Silverlight
Epic
NYSE suspends trading due to system failure
Docker
OutKast - So Fresh, So Clean
Netflix Chaos Monkey
Puppet
Chef
.NET 5.0 everywhere
East Kentwood's Amiga-based air conditioning system.  

Topo Designs  

Do you like horror movies? Wait, who cares? I'll tell you who cares: it's Alex Jantz and he has a specific set of skills. And by that I mean data analysis. Are you going to "visit a bedroom" tonight or will you be left "shopping for tires?" Alex will let you know. Also: Is "Time to Hadoop" part of your relationship game? And a Release Mode first as the guest turns the tables on game time by challenging Lee and Jorge!

Christian Rudder
OK Trends
Hadoop
Third-wave Ska

Picks of the week:


Alex: Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)
Silicon Valley
Jorge: New Job
Reel Big Fish
Lee: Cast of Thrones
Boars, Gore, and Sword

We’ve got developer, presenter, and conference organizer Jason Sich! He talks about writing software for a company that cares about … software? We get into language choices, the issues surrounding organizing conferences and speakers, and really a lot about the kind of things that developers decide to put up with (or not) when they choose their career path.

Mentioned in this episode:

Flask
Node Dev Meetup
GR Dev Day
GR Dev Night
ESLint
Babel
gofmt

Picks of the week:


Jorge: Jason Sich’s rules for looking for a job
Jason: Babel
Lee: You Look Nice Today

It's automated testing with Pete Richardson! The gang talks end-to-end testing nirvana to make smoother days and restful nights. Also: Plenty of tooling is discussed and we refrain from saying "boogers" until about minute 18. Lee gets in a jab at Eclipse. If you don't like Javascript maybe you should try VBScript ca. 2001. Jorge likes manually allocating data to processor registers.

 

Mentioned in this episode:


Brightstreet Group
Protractor
Cucumber
Selenium
Selenium Grid
"We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile."
Docker
Bamboo
MyHealth (Spectrum Health)
Javascript: the Good Parts
The Mythical Man Month

Picks of the week:


Pete: BOSS Loopstation
Jorge: Building Jorge's computer
Lee: Ed Finkler (@Funkatron)
Lee: Open Sourcing Mental Illness
Lee: So you want to give a talk on mental health
Lee: Take This (It's Dangerous to Go Alone.)

Big software projects are hard to estimate. Turns out, the same goes for buildings. Structural engineer Erica Flannery talks about estimates, budgets, and how buildings really get made. Hint: when a mommy and daddy building really love each other... If you think it's going to be a dry episode, it starts getting a "chippy" early, a little punchy at 30 minutes, and by 45 minutes it's an all out free-for-all. Also: Jorge says code coverage sucks. Metaphors are rarely perfect, especially when engineers are involved. Jorge: "I wasn't actually IN the dumpster" Erica: "Just your face?"

Picks of the week:
* Erica: Weber gas grills
* Jorge: Typerdrummer.com
* Lee: “The Failure of Agile” by Andy Hunt
“The Pragmatic Programmer” by Andy Hunt and David Thomas

What even is architecture? The gang talks distributed architecture (with a domain-driven design chaser) with developer and consultant Tim Wondergem in a special episode recorded live on-site at the Wondergem Compound. Also: Lee is allergic to WSDL. Tim doesn’t like otters. Lee and Jorge may owe basically everybody an apology. Sorry everybody.

Follow up:


Fish Smacker by Garrett Hoofman
Paper Cut by Larry Martin, Aaron VanProoyen, Matt Johnson
Ballad of Fury by Brett Pennings, Chad Pennings, Mike King

Mentioned in this episode:


Udi Dahan
Eric Evans
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Kung Fu
Onion Architecture (Jeffery Palermo)
Implementing Domain-Driven Design by Vaughn Vernon

Picks of the week:


Tim: The National Basketball Association Playoffs
Jorge: Slack
Lee: You Have to Hack This Massively Multiplayer Game to Beat It (Pwn Adventure 2)
Lee’s secret post-outro pick: Slate’s Political Gabfest