In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Armin Ronacher about his contributions to open source, queues and messaging in apps, scaling up a queue, and how it all works at Sentry.

Show Notes

• 00:35 Welcome
• 01:49 Who is Armin Ronacher?
• Armin Ronacher
• mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher)
• Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhiko)
• Armin Ronacher
• Armin Ronacher
• Apache Kafka
• 04:11 What are queues and what are they used for?
• 08:02 Do you listen or poll for updates in the queue?
• 12:49 Does this help when a provider goes down?
• 18:31 How do you architect a queue?
• 20:20 How does it scale up?
• 27:05 How does Sentry manage all the data flowing in from events?
• Redis Message Broker | Redis Enterprise
• Messaging that just works — RabbitMQ
• Using RabbitMQ — Celery 5.3.1 documentation
• 33:45 How do you visualize the data?
• 37:15 Edge case that Sentry had to fix
• 40:22 How are you using Rust?
• lang.org/">Rust Programming Language
• 43:32 Why is Python so popular in the AI space?
• 45:17 What do you think about JavaScript on the server?
• 48:02 Supper Club questions
• 50:44 How do you stay motivated with programming?

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