Building Rawkode Academy

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

David Flanagan created a successful YouTube channel but knew to take things to the next level he’d need to own more of the stack.

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Sponsors:

• Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jobs. Capture the status, metrics, and output from every cron job and background process. Name and organize each job, and ensure the right people are alerted when something goes wrong.
• Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes.
• Bitwarden – Secrets management for developers. Leverage trusted open source technology to securely store and manage infrastructure secrets. Bitwarden empowers developers to safely inject secrets into code and prevent costly data breaches with ease.

Featuring:

• David Flanagan – Website, GitHub, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

• Rawkode Adacemy
• Rawkode on YouTube
• grafbase
• Turso

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Capíttulos

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Cronitor (00:00:40)

https://cronitor.io

3. The opener (00:03:39)

4. What is Rawkode Academy? (00:05:07)

5. Weird stuff in the architecture (00:10:02)

6. Ops overhead (00:13:49)

7. Maybe this was a mistake (00:15:18)

8. Group any way you want (00:15:53)

9. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:16:45)

https://fly.io/

10. Why GrafBase? (00:19:59)

11. Cloudflare key value store (00:24:36)

12. Why not NoSQL? (00:25:21)

13. He's done it. (00:27:35)

14. Accounting for scale (00:30:24)

15. WebAssembly's no ops hype (00:31:33)

16. Why Rust? (00:37:09)

17. Advice for DevRel (00:41:08)

18. What's next? (00:46:20)

19. YouTube data analytics (00:50:50)

20. A good steward to open source (00:52:07)

21. David's links (00:53:33)

22. Sponsor: Bitwarden (00:54:29)

https://bitwarden.com/secrets

23. The closer (00:57:44)

24. Outro (01:09:20)