Scale Your Code Podcast

This episode covers principles to build SaaS apps that scale. We also talk about building strong teams with hiring, onboarding, and culture tips.

This episode explains: what developers should know to speed up their web apps, how to read the Chrome DevTools waterfall, and how HTTP/2 works.

Optimizing images can result in the largest byte savings and performance improvements for your websites. This interview answers the big question: "How do you optimize images?"

Streaming videos is difficult enough, but it gets even more complicated when you start collecting very detailed stats. See how Wistia's different layers handle intense processing. Max also gives us a sneak peek of new projects they're working on.

Dan knows a thing or two about scaling APIs. This episode teaches how to avoid outages and how Keen processes a lot of critical data using queues, stream processing, and scalable storage

From serving 2,000 reqs/second and thwarting DDoS attacks, to techniques used in making Basecamp insanely fast and adapting Rails to thicker JS clients, David drops knowledge you do not want to miss.

From a better onboarding process to making your life easier, automating is an investment that makes a big difference. Kate shares how she automates with one-click deploy and one-click test environment examples.

Simon explains how Shopify handles flash sales where thousands of people rush in at the same time. He talks about scaling databases, making apps resilient, and tips for companies looking to run Docker in production.

Push your infrastructure live and manage your nodes with a special guest from Chef's team. This is a sequel to the first popular Chef episode with Nathen Harvey. If you've ever watched Nathen's work, you already know this is a great episode.

Get a sneak peak into his upcoming book The Art of Monitoring and answers to what you should be monitoring (and how). We also talk about Docker in production and how Kickstarter monitors to give users a better experience.

Netflix accounts for over 36% of North America's downstream traffic during peak hours. Reddit has over 160M unique visitors a month and billions of page views. Jeremy teaches us how they've scaled to such heights.

Building great products requires great developers and community building skills. Jeff Atwood explains how he finds talent and how he builds massive communities like Coding Horror and Stack Exchange. He also talks about the stack powering Discourse.

CodePen's server master tells us everything about their stack and how they handle 12,000 requests per minute.

Whether you are new or experienced with JS, Eric explains how to make your apps more scalable. We talk about performance, what we can do with Node.js, and how Eric is working to end poverty with code.

Florian explains how they are able to quickly boot up containers to build, run, and deploy applications. We also talk about the company's experience at Techstars, what it's like to be CTO, and why CI is important for small as well as big teams.

How much time have you spent configuring your server just to forget all the details? Forget it all and let Chef manage your infrastructure. Nathen walks us through the first steps in getting started with a webserver example and testing workflow.

Have you ever built or used an API before? APIs either save you a lot of time or give you nightmares. Take your skills to the next level and learn how to build APIs the right way with Phil.

Chris shares his config files to secure and configure his servers, and he explains why Vagrant is useful to learn server configuration and to create development environments. He also explains how Nginx and PHP-FPM work, and deploying code to live servers.

Steve Corona explains how to scale from a few users to millions. He also shares his personal story and college advice. This is the interview I wish I could have watched 5 years ago.

Tired of messy jQuery code? Michael shows on screen how Backbone.js solves that issue, and how to speed up development with CakePHP and Vagrant. To wrap up, Michael easily deploys using Capistrano.