PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

About the show

PodRocket covers everything you need to know about frontend web development on a weekly basis. Join LogRocket cofounder Ben Edelstein, the LogRocket engineering team, and more, as they interview experienced developers about all the libraries, frameworks, and tech industry issues they deal with every day.

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Episodes

  • SPAs, island architecture, and the future of development with Ryan Carniato and Dylan Piercey

    March 29th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  51 mins
    island architecture, single-page applications, software engineering, tech, web development

    Ryan Carniato joined us back in September to talk about SolidJS, a declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces, and Dylan Piercey joined us in February to share about Marko, a declarative, HTML-based language that makes building web apps fun. Today, both Ryan and Dylan join us for a special episode where we cover trends in web development.

  • Solo.io with Brian Gracely

    March 25th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  31 mins 26 secs
    career, product management, product strategy

    Brian Gracely, VP of Product Strategy at Solo.io and co-host of The Cloudcast, joins us to talk about service mesh management, what it's like to host a podcast for twelve years, and what a career in Product Strategy looks like.

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    LogRocket Mobile with Pascal Kriete

    March 23rd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  24 mins 20 secs
    mobile development, startup, web development

    We have published over 100 episodes without talking about the company behind PodRocket. So we decided to bring LogRocket's VP of Engineering, Pascal Kriete, on the podcast to talk about how LogRocket works, LogRocket Mobile, and what it was like building a mobile product with a team of web developers.

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    Open-source supply chain security with Feross Aboukhadijeh

    March 22nd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  44 mins 8 secs
    open source, security, web development

    Feross Aboukhadijeh is the creator of WebTorrent, StandardJS, and Wormhole. We talked to Feross about Wormhole back in June and he joins us now to talk about Socket.dev, a new security company that can protect your most critical apps from supply chain attacks.

  • Polaris: The Shopify design system with Alex Page and Yuraima Estevez

    March 18th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  50 mins 51 secs
    accessibility, design, react, ui

    Polaris is Shopify's design system that helps Shopify build a great experience for all of its merchants. Alex Page and Yuraima Estevez join us to talk about their work on the Polaris design system, why we need design systems, React components, and more.

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    Final Form with Erik Rasmussen

    March 16th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  41 mins 32 secs
    frontend development, react, redux, web development

    Final Form is framework agnostic, high performance, subscription-based form state management. Erik Rasmussen creator of Final Form, joins us to talk about state management, why you should not use Redux Form, and more.

  • Kernel (with an E L) with Angela Gilhotra

    March 15th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  32 mins 37 secs
    bitcoin, blockchain, crypto, web3

    Kernel is a custom web3 educational community. Angela Gilhotra joins us to talk about Kernel, creator economies, Convo (a convivial tool that helps Kernel grow environments for dialogue by easing the coordination required), how to correctly spell Kernel, and more.

  • Accessibility with Ben Myers

    March 11th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  39 mins 20 secs
    a11y, accessibility, web development

    Ben Myers is an accessibility advocate, a Software Engineer at Microsoft, host of Some Antics (a weekly Twitch show), and a moderator on both the Lunch Dev Discord and the Frontend Horse Discord. Ben joins us on PodRocket to talk about all things accessibility, streaming, and more.

  • Developer Platform Experience at Slack with Mike Brevoort

    March 9th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  32 mins 19 secs
    career, developer experience, product management

    Mike Brevoort is the Head of Product, Developer Platform Experience at Slack. Mike joined Slack through the acquisition of a company he created called Missions, which was a mission-based workflow system. Mike has gone through different roles at Slack including IC roles as well as managing teams. We cover his journey, developer experience, and product management in this episode.

  • Composing layouts with Travis Waith-Mair

    March 8th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 35 secs
    css, design, open-source

    Travis Waith-Mair joins us to talk about Bedrock Layout Primitives -- foundational layout building blocks for your React app. We talk about design patterns, how Bedrock is "the Lodash of web layouts", and more.

  • Streaming blockchain data with Alexandre Bourget

    March 4th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  45 mins 34 secs
    blockchain, data, web3

    StreamingFast is a blockchain API company that makes it possible to stream real-time state updates, conduct fast searches, and provide irreversible transaction guarantees by using a simple API call. StreamingFast Co-Founder and CTO, Alexandre Bourget, joins us to talk about streaming blockchain data, the Graph, and more.

  • Hyperscaling and engineering management with Dave Hauenstein

    March 2nd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 19 secs
    engineering, management, startups

    Dave Hauenstein, VP of Engineering at Particle Health, joins us to talk about managing engineering teams, strategies around building an organization, what it's like scaling teams quickly, career ladders, and more.

  • NuxtJS with Alex Lichter

    March 1st, 2022  |  Season 2  |  45 mins 58 secs
    nuxt.js, open source, vue

    Nuxt is a meta-framework based on Vue.js that makes developers' lives easier and makes developing full-fledged applications a breeze. NuxtJS core maintainer, Alex Lichter, joins us to talk about Nuxt, Vue 3, and making the web snappy.

  • Fastify and Pino with Matteo Collina

    February 25th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  30 mins 5 secs
    fastify, node, nodejs

    Matteo Collina is Chief Software Architect at NearForm, a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, and the creator of Fastify and Pino. In this episode, we talk about making Node applications faster, Fastify v4, ORMs, npm downloads, and much more.

  • Slinkity with Ben Holmes

    February 23rd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  32 mins 59 secs
    11ty, tech, web development, webdev

    Ben Holmes joins us to talk about Slinkity -- the simplest way to handle styles and component frameworks on your 11ty site.

  • Git and monorepos with Derrick Stolee

    February 22nd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  41 mins 10 secs
    development, git, tech, web development

    We talk to Derrick Stolee, Principal Software Engineer at GitHub, about monorepos, finding pain points of Git, Git performance at scale, what Git will look like in the future, and more.