@zoofame: Unfortunately this isn't simply an issue of: There's a bug why won't you guys fix it instead of working on the hot new shit. For things like video encodes, podcast feed problems, things like that it's not always a "bug" video encodes fail because there was a glitch when they were recording the video and our encoder simply can't process it, or the video get's uploaded without an audio track for some reason, or something was put into the CMS incorrectly, or we lost network connection to our storage output folder in the middle of an upload, or our CDN is having an outage. But even when bugs do pop up or are introduced by a new feature we have to balance that with everything else we do.
Also, for our own sanity and for the sake of the site not becoming stagnant we do have to work on other projects, improve infinite, add new features.
We also have huge efforts behind the scenes to re-platform or move to a new livestream technology or a new CDN and we have to do all this for 4 sites with 12 people.
Look I'm not trying to make excuses, but we do our best to try and juggle all this stuff while still trying to maintain our love of our job.
Also, to address the episodes being really late, Dan is the one that handles all the production work for this show on top of his already insane workload. He does all the editing work for this podcast on his own time at home and I just really appreciate that he takes his own time to do this, and he's been taking some well deserved time off. To make up for it we'll have two episodes back to back, I think the next one comes out this weekend.
Again so sorry for the delay, we really enjoy doing this and want to just have an open discussion with y'all about how we build this site, warts and all.
Hey, could you guys talk about your deployment strategy? I think you recently talked about some features that were in your dev build and it got me interested to hear you go over how you manage the branches locally, cherry picking things from dev into production if you do that, and how the branches get deployed. Anything else CI/CD related too. Thanks for the show!
@wcarle: to echo the sentiments above, really appreciate the effort you guys go to to put this podcast together. when you mentioned in the podcast when it was being recorded, my first two reactions were, did i miss something; followed shortly by oh no, what happened to the guys (and general consternation).
as with anything, when you get into a semi constant rhythm and then you miss a beat, people speculate. since it is a best efforts endeavour, i'm glad there was no major dramas. o7
Cheers guys for the work on this one! Really enjoyed the Docker talk, and hope to hear more in the future. :)
Please don't burn yourselves out to rush these out, especially if they are taking your personal time to produce! I think we'd all rather 6 deep dive podcasts per year than 52 podcasts where Dan gets progressively more tired, and takes Brad's crown as Sleepy Duder!
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