Best Alexander Lichter Podcasts (2024)

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Design Patterns in Vue.js 29:48

5h ago29:48

29:48

Michael is back from his paternity leave! And he brought three Design Patterns in Vue.js which he and Alex discuss in the 10th DejaVue Episode! Learn more about what Design Patterns are and what the three shown patterns do, when they should be used and which downsides they could bring. Enjoy the episode! Chapters (00:00) - Welcome Back Michael! (01…

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Vue.js in Large Applications (with Tim Benniks) 57:56

2h ago57:56

57:56

In DejaVue episode number nine, Tim Benniks joins Alex discussing how he used Vue in huge applications and how Tim and his team built 3000 websites for a single brand that most of you know - Louis Vuitton. In addition, Tim shares his journey from becoming a nurse to eventually learn web development. Learn which benefits Vue brought compared to the …

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Vue.js Amsterdam 27:18

6d ago27:18

27:18

Welcome to the eighth episode of DejaVue! In this episode, Alex and (past) Michael recap the highlights of Vue.js Amsterdam, one of the largest Vue.js conference. They discuss the amazing talks, including Evan You's keynote on the 10-year journey of Vue, exciting announcements like NuxtHub, and memorable moments from the conference. They also share…

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From Code to DevRel and Leadership (with Marc Backes) 1:04:32

19d ago1:04:32

1:04:32

In the seventh episode of DejaVue, Alex sits down with Team Lead Marc Backes as our guest. Our conversation takes us on a journey through his career with Programming and Vue.js. Marc shares the beginnings of his coding journey, from the development of Software for a Mexican University and lessons learned from founding a startup and eventually joini…

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Nuxt Server Components (with Julien Huang) 50:04

26d ago50:04

50:04

Welcome to the sixth episode of DejaVue! Alex is joined by another amazing guest - he is a Front-end Developer, Public Speaker and also part of the Nuxt.js core team - Julien Huang. While Michael is still off on paternity leave, Julien and Alex talk about how Julien started to code (during COVID 😲) and when he dabbled into open source, which culmin…

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From Side Hustle to Server Side Events 52:15

1M ago52:15

52:15

Welcome to the fifth episode of DejaVue! While Michael is on paternity leave after becoming a father, Alex is joined by a special guest, Patrick van Everdingen, Full Stack Developer, Speaker, Panel Host an Co-Founder of CareerDeck. In this episode, we talk about how Patrick started his Vue- and Nuxt-based side project, CareerDeck - and how it grew …

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Teleports and When to Use Them 30:26

28d ago30:26

30:26

Welcome to the fourth episode of DejaVue! From a Nuxt topic last week, Michael and Alex jump into a plain Vue.js topic again, or would you say... teleport? Yes, correct! The Teleports feature from Vue 3 will be explored - from its use cases to the native HTML dialog tag. The two hosts also cover how Teleports were created, even back in Vue 2, and t…

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Nitro: The Next Generation Server Toolkit 24:18

2M ago24:18

24:18

Welcome to the third episode of DejaVue! After talking about an open source SaaS the last time and hearing a lot about Nitro, Alex and Michael dive deeper into the server framework which powers not only Nuxt but also other frameworks like Analog or SolidStart. Learn more about what Nitro is, the difference between Nuxt and Nitro and amazing feature…

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Building a Nuxt.js SaaS in less than a week (with Harlan Wilton) 33:52

2M ago33:52

33:52

Welcome to the second episode of DejaVue - and the first one with a guest! Michael and Alex are joined by Harlan Wilton, an open-source developer from Sydney, Australia who is not only into backpacking and Nuxt.js but also builds amazing tools and applications. Harlan is discussing with Alex and Michael how he built his SaaS Request Indexing in les…

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The Need for Server-Side Rendering (SSR) 35:45

2M ago35:45

35:45

The very first episode of DejaVue is here! In this episode, Michael and Alex talk about Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and its benefits, use cases, and challenges. After understanding what SSR actually is and why it could be useful, rendering modes like Static Site Generation (SSG) and Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) are discussed, as well as co…

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Trailer 4:29

2M ago4:29

4:29

DejaVue - Your favorite Vue podcast - you just don't know it yet! Join Michael Thiessen and Alexander Lichter in this first trailer to find out who will guide you through the Vue and Nuxt journey in the upcoming weeks. Follow DejaVue on: * Web - https://dejavue.fm/ * Apple Podcast - COMING SOON ;) * YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@DejaVueFM * Sp…

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Building a Unified Hardware API at Intel with James Reinders 38:42

3M ago38:42

38:42

oneAPI is an open standard for a unified API to be used across different computing accelerator architectures. This including GPUs, AI accelerators, and FPGAs. The goal of oneAPI is to eliminate the need for developers to maintain separate code bases, multiple programming languages, tools, and workflows for each architecture. James Reinders is an en…

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Building a State Machine Backend with Adam Berger 47:41

6M ago47:41

47:41

When Adam Berger was at Uber, his team was responsible for ensuring that Uber Eats merchants correctly receive and fulfill orders. This required them to think hard about engineering workflows and state management systems. Six years of experience at Uber motivated Adam to create State Backed, which is an open-source backend system written in Typescr…

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Open Source Contributing with Brian Douglas 48:01

7M ago48:01

48:01

The open source coding philosophy has enormous appeal to many software engineers, and with good reason. Open source libraries, applications, and operating systems are now essential to the overall technology ecosystem. And the number of open source projects is only increasing. But many developers don’t know how to get involved in open source. Or, th…

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Temporal with Max Fateev 41:23

6M ago41:23

41:23

There are countless real world scenarios where a workflow or process has multiple steps, and some steps must be completed before others can be started. Think of something as simple as cooking dinner. First you look up a recipe, then you write down the ingredients you need, you go shopping, and then you cook. These steps must be run in a certain ord…

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Building Pieces.app and the Future of Developer Productivity with Tsavo Knott 37:49

6M ago37:49

37:49

Ongoing advances in generative AI are already having a huge impact on developer productivity. Tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are increasing the velocity of code development, and more advances are on the horizon. However, an ever-growing challenge for developers is how to manage their coding resources – things like code snippets, website link…

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Simplifying Documentation with Sébastien Lorber 49:52

10M ago49:52

49:52

In the realm of modern software development, clear and comprehensive documentation is essential for guiding users and contributors alike. Developers often struggle to create, manage, and maintain documentation that is both user-friendly and visually appealing. In this episode, we sit down with Sebastian Lorber, the lead maintainer of Docusaurus, a …

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Cloud-native Authorization with Tim Hinrichs 55:40

2y ago55:40

55:40

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Open-Source Cloud Asset Management with Yevgeny Pats 40:26

2y ago40:26

40:26

This episode is hosted by Alex DeBrie. Alex is the author of The DynamoDB Book, the comprehensive guide to data modeling with DynamoDB, as well as The DynamoDB Guide, a free guided introduction to DynamoDB. He runs a consulting company where he assists clients with DynamoDB data modeling, serverless architectures, and general AWS usage. You can fin…

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InfluxData with Zoe Steinkamp 34:56

2+ y ago34:56

34:56

InfluxDB is an open-source time-series database. It’s maintained by InfuxData who offers a suite of products that help organizations gain insights from time-series data. In this episode, I interview Zoe Steinkamp, Software Engineering and Developer Advocate at InfluxData. We explore some of the common use cases for time-series databases such as IoT…

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Nuxt.js with Alexander Lichter 44:20

2+ y ago44:20

44:20

When creating a website, there’s no shortage of choices for how to do it. Builders must make strategic decisions about the language or framework they want to adopt. An important first consideration for many is selecting a web application framework like React or Vue. Motivated by a low page response time and good user experience, many developers wan…

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Angular Dev Tools with Minko Gechev 47:07

2+ y ago47:07

47:07

Angular is a free and open-source web application framework. It’s maintained by the Angular team at Google. It’s used by millions of web applications and has a strong ecosystem of core contributors and library builders. In this episode, I interview Minko Gechev, Developer Relations Lead at Google. We explore several aspects of open-source software …

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Distributed Open Source Databases with Jonathan Ellis and Spencer Kimball 1:00:11

2+ y ago1:00:11

1:00:11

By most accounts, the first databases came on line in the 1960s. This class of software has continued to evolve alongside the technology it runs on and the applications it supports. In the early days, databases were typically closed source commercial products. Today, databases run in the cloud on distributed systems. Increasingly, the leading tools…

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Grouparoo Open Source Data Tools with Brian Leonard 50:55

2+ y ago50:55

50:55

ETL stands for “extract, transform, load” and refers to the process of integrating data from many different sources into one location, usually a data warehouse. This process has become especially important for companies as they use many different services to collect and manage data. The company Grouparoo provides an open source framework that helps…

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Publishing Open Source Code with William Morgan 1:00:33

2+ y ago1:00:33

1:00:33

In the late 1970s a printer at MIT kept jamming, resulting in regular pileups of print jobs in the printer’s queue. To solve this problem, some computer scientists wrote a software program that alerted every user in the backed up queue “The printer is jammed, please fix it.” When a man named Richard Stallmen was refused a copy of the program code, …

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Wasp-Lang: Boilerplate Code with Matija Sosic 57:37

3y ago57:37

57:37

The term “boilerplate code” refers to code sections that are repeated across many projects with little to no variation. Every developer is familiar with boilerplate code, whether it be pom.xml files in Java or setting up React.js applications, tweaking boilerplate code for every project is inevitable. Actually, the company Wasp believes writing boi…

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Developer Community Management with Patrick Woods and Josh Dzielak 42:01

3y ago42:01

42:01

Many startups today begin their life as an open-source project. Open source projects allow early adopters of a technology to experiment, to contribute code and feedback, and to shape the evolution of the project in its early stages. When a “community maintainer” company emerges to provide service offerings based on that project, its early customer …

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Airbyte: Open Source Data Integrations with Michel Tricot and John Lafleur 50:42

3y ago50:42

50:42

ELT, or “Extract, Load, and Transform,” is the process that modern data pipelines use to replicate data from a source and load it into a target system such as a cloud data warehouse. ELT is a more flexible evolution of the traditional “Extract, Load, Transform” workflow used in pre-cloud systems. The power of ELT relies on flexible integrations bet…

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Suborbital: WebAssembly Infrastructure with Connor Hicks 55:51

3y ago55:51

55:51

The complexity of building web applications seems to have grown exponentially in the last several years. This added complexity may bring power, but it can also make applications brittle, costly, and difficult to maintain. Suborbital is an open-source project with a goal of making web application development simple. Its flagship project is Atmo, a p…

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Opstrace: Open Source Observability with Sebastien Pahl 45:26

3y ago45:26

45:26

Observability is a key feature of a well-architected application. Because building an observability system for a cloud application can be challenging, especially at scale, many organizations elect to use third-party observability platforms rather than build internal tools. But these third-party provider contracts often charge by volume of data coll…

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Datahub: Open Source Data Lake with Pardhu Gunnam and Mars Lan 48:31

3y ago48:31

48:31

As the volume and scope of data collected by an organization grow, tasks such as data discovery and data management grow in complexity. Simply put, the more data there is, the harder it is for users such as data analysts to find what they’re looking for. A metadata hub helps manage Big Data by providing metadata search and discovery tools, and a ce…

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SPIFFE and SPIRE with Derek Edwards and Ryan Turner 54:44

3y ago54:44

54:44

The shift to microservices architectures and distributed systems has been a challenge for systems using conventional security practices, such filtering IP addresses using network policies. In addition, the increasing intersection of development and operations exemplified by the DevOps methodology has expanded the scope responsibilities in implement…

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Postgres Data Warehouse with Josh Drake and Thomas Richter 51:47

3y ago51:47

51:47

A data warehouse is a centralized repository that an enterprise may use to store selected data from production systems. Data is transformed into a structured form that makes it easily accessible for business intelligence or other operational users. SQL-compliant databases are frequently used for data warehouses due to the popularity of SQL as a too…

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Open Source Industrialization with Kevin Xu 54:34

3+ y ago54:34

54:34

Open source software is software distributed along with its source code, using a permissive license that allows anyone to view, use, or modify it. The term “open source” also refers more broadly to a philosophy of technology development which prioritizes transparency and community development of a project. Typically, development is managed by a gov…

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LinkedIn Kafka with Nacho Solis (Repeat) 57:01

3+ y ago57:01

57:01

Originally published October 18, 2019 Apache Kafka was created at LinkedIn. Kafka was open sourced in 2011, when the company was eight years old. By that time, LinkedIn had developed a social network with millions of users. LinkedIn’s engineering team was building a range of externally facing products and internal tools, and many of these tools req…

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Kafka Applications with Tim Berglund (Repeat) 52:49

3+ y ago52:49

52:49

Originally published September 17, 2019 Ever since Apache Kafka was open sourced from LinkedIn, it has been used to solve a wide variety of problems in distributed systems and data engineering. Kafka is a distributed messaging queue that is used by developers to publish messages and subscribe to topics with a certain message type. Kafka allows info…

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Facebook React with Dan Abramov (Repeat) 48:02

3+ y ago48:02

48:02

Originally published May 16, 2019 React is a set of open source tools for building user interfaces. React was open sourced by Facebook, and includes libraries for creating interfaces on the web (ReactJS) and on mobile devices (React Native). React was released during a time when there was not a dominant frontend JavaScript library. Backbone, Angula…

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CubeJS with Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov 47:39

3+ y ago47:39

47:39

Business intelligence is crucial for both internal and external applications at any company. There is a wide array of proprietary BI tools. Today, there is an increasing number of options for open source business intelligence, one of which is CubeJS. CubeJS is an open source analytical API platform for building BI. Artyom and Pavel from CubeJS join…

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Backstage: Spotify Developer Portals with Stefan Ålund 52:54

3+ y ago52:54

52:54

Infrastructure at Spotify runs at high speeds. Developers work autonomously, building and deploying services all the time. Backstage is an open source platform built at Spotify that allows developers to build portals for making sense of their infrastructure. Backstage developer portals are powered by a central service catalog, with centralized serv…

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Supabase: Open Source Firebase with Paul Copplestone 42:22

3+ y ago42:22

42:22

Firebase is well-known as a platform that makes it easy to build real-time applications quickly and easily. Firebase was acquired by Google, and has been turned into a large platform that runs on top of Google Cloud. Firebase is closed-source, which leads to a different ecosystem than open source platforms. Supabase is a new open source alternative…

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Metabase: Business Intelligence Open Source with Sameer Al-Sakran 53:46

4y ago53:46

53:46

Business intelligence tooling allows analysts to see large quantities of data presented to them in a flexible interface including charts, graphs, and other visualizations. BI tools have been around for decades, and as the world moves towards increased open source software, the business intelligence tools are following that trend. Metabase is an ope…

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DEV and Forem with Ben Halpern 54:27

4y ago54:27

54:27

Dev.to has become one of the most popular places for developers to write about engineering, programming languages, and everyday life. For those who have not seen it, DEV is like a cross between Twitter and Medium, but targeted at developers. The content on DEV ranges from serious to humorous to technically useful. DEV contains a set of features whi…

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Strapi: Headless CMS with Pierre Burgy 43:54

4y ago43:54

43:54

WordPress has been a dominant force in the world of online publishing for many years because of how battle-tested it is. WordPress is the definitive leader in CMS technology. But there have always been alternatives. Drupal, Ghost, and other open source CMSes. More recently, there has been an emergence of the headless CMS, such as Contentful, which …

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Envoy Mobile with Matt Klein (Summer Break Repeat) 55:20

4y ago55:20

55:20

Originally published July 25, 2019. We are taking a few weeks off. We’ll be back soon with new episodes. Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy that was originally developed at Lyft. Envoy is often deployed as a sidecar application that runs alongside a service and helps that service by providing features such as routing, rate limiting, tel…

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Facebook Open Source with Tom Occhino (Summer Break Repeat) 1:04:17

4y ago1:04:17

1:04:17

Originally published April 14, 2017. We are taking a few weeks off. We’ll be back soon with new episodes. Facebook’s open source projects include React, GraphQL, and Cassandra. These projects are key pieces of infrastructure used by thousands of developers–including engineers at Facebook itself. These projects are able to gain traction because Face…

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Grafana with Torkel Ödegaard 47:00

4y ago47:00

47:00

Grafana is an open source visualization and monitoring tool that is used for creating dashboards and charting time series data. Grafana is used by thousands of companies to monitor their infrastructure. It is a popular component in monitoring stacks, and is often used together with Prometheus, ElasticSearch, MySQL, and other data sources. The engin…

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Facebook OpenStreetMap Engineering with Saurav Mohapatra and Jacob Wasserman 54:21

4y ago54:21

54:21

Facebook applications use maps for showing users where to go. These maps can display businesses, roads, and event locations. Understanding the geographical world is also important for performing search queries that take into account a user’s location. For all of these different purposes, Facebook needs up-to-date, reliable mapping data. OpenStreetM…

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Godot Game Engine with Juan Linietsky 47:50

4y ago47:50

47:50

Building a game is not easy. The development team needs to figure out a unique design and gameplay mechanics that will attract players. There is a great deal of creative work that goes into making a game successful, and these games are often built with low budgets by people who are driven by the art and passion of game creation. A game engine is a …

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Changelog Podcasting with Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo 1:09:22

4+ y ago1:09:22

1:09:22

The Changelog is a podcast about the world of open source. As open source has become closely tied with the entire software development lifecycle, The Changelog has expanded its coverage to the broader software industry. Since starting the podcast ten years ago, Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo have become full-time podcasters, and they have started s…

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Kong API Platform with Marco Palladino Holiday Repeat 57:08

4+ y ago57:08

57:08

Originally published January 4, 2019 When a user makes a request to product like The New York Times, that request hits an API gateway. An API gateway is the entry point for an external request. An API gateway serves several purposes: authentication, security, routing, load balancing, and logging. API gateways have grown in popularity as application…

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