PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

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.

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.

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.

Stytch with Julianna Lamb

February 18th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  29 mins 14 secs

authentication

Authentication can be frustrating for users and developers alike. Julianna Lamb joins us to talk about how Stytch is working to change that.

Airplane.dev with Ravi Parikh

February 16th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  30 mins

frontend development, frontend web development, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

Ravi Parikh, Co-Founder of Airplane and Heap, joins us to talk about Airplane.dev -- a developer platform for quickly building internal tools and automating internal workflows and processes.

If you're an engineer and you find yourself constantly running the same SQL query over and over again, or the same script or on-call runbook, Airplane wants to make it really easy to take that one off script or SQL query or whatever eng only operation that you're bottlenecked on and turn that into a robust reusable internal app that anybody in your company can use.