Flavors of Ship It! (Interview)

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Flavors of Ship It on The Changelog — if you’re not subscribed to Ship It yet, do so at shipit.show or by searching for “Ship it” wherever you listen to podcasts. Every week Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash explore everything that happens after git push — and today’s flavors include running infrastructure in space, managing millions of machines at Meta, and what it takes to control your 3D printer with OctoPrint.

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Featuring:

• Andrew Guenther – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Anita Zhang – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Gina Häußge – Mastodon, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

This episode is from these original episodes of Ship it:

• Ship It! #92: Shipping in SPAAAACCEEE with Andrew Guenther from Orbital Sidekick
• Ship It! #102: Managing Meta’s millions of machines with Anita Zhang from Meta
• Ship It! #107: 3D printed infrastructure with Gina Häußge from OctoPrint

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章

1. Let's Ship it! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Speakeasy (00:01:08)

https://speakeasy.com/

3. Going to space with Andrew Guenther (00:02:59)

4. Software and design in-house (00:05:57)

5. Lots of redundancy (00:07:41)

6. Prep'ing for a new launch (00:10:29)

7. How to "patch" in space (00:13:30)

8. Speed vs durability (00:15:16)

9. Going the hard way (00:16:37)

10. Debuging in space (00:18:52)

11. Unexpected challenges (00:20:11)

12. Modern space culture vs the 60's (00:22:12)

13. Space license (00:24:28)

14. Lifespan of satelites (00:27:14)

15. Satelite to satelite comms (00:29:38)

16. Jerks in space (00:30:43)

17. Near misses (00:32:07)

18. Beefing with the Vatican (00:33:47)

19. Coolest career day dad (00:36:09)

20. Craziest fix in space (00:37:24)

21. Where to reach out (00:41:42)

22. Sponsor: Supabase (00:42:39)

https://supabase.com/launchweek

23. Meta machines with Anita Zhan (00:45:52)

24. Meta's infrastructure (00:46:46)

25. Provisioning the OS (00:48:02)

26. Fedora ELN & CentOS stream (00:49:28)

27. In-house automation (00:50:41)

28. What Twshared? (00:52:21)

29. journald inside a container (00:54:12)

30. Host profiles (00:55:15)

31. Coolest sweatshirt ever (00:56:51)

32. Meta and open source (00:57:29)

33. Frequent releases and 1M hosts?!? (00:59:03)

34. Meta's AI fleet (01:00:16)

35. Production engineer vs Production engineer (01:01:11)

36. Other internal services (01:02:02)

37. OS challenges (01:04:33)

38. One size fits all? (01:05:35)

39. Meta's AI adoption (01:06:48)

40. Cost optimization (01:07:37)

41. Lots of abstraction (01:09:35)

42. Upcoming projects (01:11:07)

43. Immutable file system (01:13:22)

44. It's been fun! (01:15:04)

45. Sponsor: Test Double (01:17:48)

https://link.testdouble.com/hnh

46. Sponsor: Unblocked (01:20:41)

https://getunblocked.com

47. OctoPrint with Gina Häußge (01:22:42)

48. Support list (01:26:21)

49. Release process (01:30:51)

50. Software before OctoPrint (01:39:10)

51. Crowd funded decision (01:40:45)

52. Number of installs (01:44:35)

53. Enterprise Java (01:47:11)

54. Next big thing (01:49:16)

55. Pushing to the next version (01:51:55)

56. 10 years of decisions (01:54:31)

57. Favorite 3D printer? (02:01:35)

58. Closing thoughts and thanks (02:06:53)