Kaizen! There goes my PgHero (Changelog & Friends #38)

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Thisis our 14th Kaizen episode! Gerhard put some CDNs to the test, we’ve taken our next step with Postgres on Neon & Jerod pushed 55 commits (but 0 PRs)!

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Featuring:

• Gerhard Lazu – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Discussion #499: 🎧 Kaizen 14 - changelog.com/friends/38
• bunny.net - The Content Delivery platform that truly Hops!
• bunny.changelog.com
• Hyperping | Uptime monitoring with public status pages
• Issue #486: CDN cache misses increased 7x after Oct. 8, 2023
• Pull Request #492: Migrate Postgres to Neon.tech
• ankane/pghero: A performance dashboard for Postgres
• Pull Request #507: Deploy PgHero & connect to Neon.tech Postgres
• Pull Request #508: Enable changelog.com devs to create prod db forks with a single command
• Tigris | Globally Distributed S3-Compatible Object Storage
• video.gerhard.io
• pod.gerhard.io

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Cloudflare (00:00:38)

https://www.cloudflare.com/developerweek

3. Born to Kaizen (00:03:42)

4. Did we build a CDN? (00:04:31)

5. We have a Bunny (00:07:53)

https://bunny.net/

6. Hyperping (Leo!) (00:08:43)

https://hyperping.io/

7. Comparing CDNs (00:10:00)

8. Can this be right?! (00:17:28)

9. Hits and MISSes (00:17:56)

10. Where Cloudflare fits in (00:19:54)

11. CDN NERDS!! (00:22:31)

12. In a holding pattern (00:24:16)

13. Next steps (00:24:57)

14. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:27:37)

https://firehydrant.com/signals

15. Neon Postgres follow-up (00:30:12)

https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/pull/492

16. PgHero (00:32:02)

https://github.com/ankane/pghero

17. Prod db fork command (00:38:18)

https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/pull/508

18. Gerhard rocks Jerod's world (00:39:22)

19. Generalizing this (00:49:13)

20. Ops <> Dev (00:51:22)

21. Neon costs (00:54:03)

22. Sponsor: Synadia (00:59:34)

https://www.synadia.com/changelog

23. 55 commits, 0 PRs (01:03:04)

24. Tigris Object Storage (01:08:08)

25. Make it Work (01:11:47)

https://video.gerhard.io

26. Gerhard's favorite KubeCon (01:18:39)

27. Gerhard on Top Gear (01:19:30)

28. Ending on a bombshell (01:20:43)

29. Coming up next (01:21:33)