Episode 421: The Not Kubernetes Podcast, with David Heinemeier Hansson

Co-owner and CTO of 37signals, David Heinemeier Hansson is more commonly known as “DHH”. Famous as the creator of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp and HEY, David has made a career of being provocative on, and on behalf of, the Internet.

Nonsense

• ARMO’s relevancy feature for prioritising CVE remediation in containers
  
  
  • If you’re still running Kubernetes, that is; there is no MRSKscape yet
  
  


• Glastonbury 2023
  
  
  • Guns N’ Roses
    
    
    • UK: the full set on iPlayer
    
    
    • Rest of the world: Paradise City (feat. Dave Grohl)
    
    
    • Appetite for Destruction
    
    
  
  
  • Rick Astley
    
    
    • UK: the full set on iPlayer
    
    
    • Rest of the world (Beware: that link is technically a rick-roll)
    
    
  
  

Interview links

• Basecamp


• HEY!


• Daily Rush
  
  
  • Quake III Arena
  
  


• PHP and Ruby


• 37signals and Jason Fried


• Martin Fowler and Dave Thomas
  
  
  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
  
  


• Ruby on Rails
  
  
  • “Groovy on Grails”
  
  


• 1000 true fans


• DHH on growth: “Exponential growth devours and corrupts”


• Backpack and Campfire


• Jeff Bezos invests in 37signals


• Marketing at 37signals was literally a dumpster fire
  
  
  • A podcast explaining it
  
  


• “The Building of Basecamp” (and review)


• David’s books:
  
  
  • Getting Real
  
  
  • Rework
  
  
  • Remote
  
  
  • It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
  
  


• The programming books that meant the most to David


• Fast inverse square root
  
  
  • David’s best tweet
  
  
  • AI can out-sorting-algorithm you anyway
  
  


• The Celeron 4


• David’s writing on leaving the cloud:
  
  
  • “Why we’re leaving the cloud”
  
  
  • "The only thing worse than cloud pricing is the enterprisey alternatives"
  
  
  • “Five values guiding our cloud exit”
  
  
  • “We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit”
  
  
  • "Cloud exit pays off in performance too”
  
  
  • “We have left the cloud”
  
  


• HEY vs the App Store


• Deft and Dell


• MRSK
  
  
  • Capistrano
  
  
  • GitHub contributor community
  
  
  • Maersk
  
  


• Harmony remotes discontinued


• The continuing demise of Reddit
  
  
  • Who has two thumbs and 60 million dollars?
  
  


• 24 Hours of Le Mans
  
  
  • 2023 writeup: “The Le Mans Centenary“
  
  
  • Result table
  
  

David Heinemeier Hansson

• https://dhh.dk/


• @dhh on Twitter


• LinkedIn


• David’s blog on HEY

Guest hosts

• Craig Box
  
  
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• Adam Glick

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Special Guests: Adan Glick, Craig Box, and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH).