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Make it Work is hosted by Gerhard Lazu. The show is categorised under technology and has published 15 episodes.

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Make it Work

Hosted by Gerhard Lazu · technology · EN · 15 episodes

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About this Podcast:

We talk about it, then we share our screen and show the practical side of CDNs, homelabs, CI/CD, DevOps & everything in between.

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What is Make it Work?

Make it Work is a technology podcast hosted by Gerhard Lazu, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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Gerhard Lazu hosts Make it Work, a technology show with 15 episodes published.

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Episode #15
Pairing-up on a CDN PURGE with Elixir
Jun 29, 202556 minS0
Listen to the full pairing session for pull request #549. The focus is on replacing an existing Fastly implementation with Jerod's Pipedream, which is built on top of the open-source Varnish HTTP Cache. We cover the initial problem, the proposed solution, the implementation details, and the testing process.The process begins with a pull request that, for the sake of rapid feedback, is set up to automatically deploy to new production. This allows for real-time testing in a production setting without affecting the actual production traffic. The new production - changelog-2025-05-05 - serves as...
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Episode #14
I LOVE TLS
May 29, 20251h 3mS0
In the world of web infrastructure, what starts as a simple goal can often lead you down a fascinating rabbit hole of history, philosophy, and clever engineering. This is the story of our journey to build a simple, single-purpose, open-source CDN for changelog.com and the one major hurdle that stood in our way: Varnish, our HTTP caching layer of choice, doesn't support TLS backends.Enter Nabeel Sulieman, a shipit.show guest, who had previously introduced us to KCert, a simpler alternative to cert-manager. We knew if anyone could help us solve this TLS conundrum, it was...
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Episode #13
DevOps Sushi
Apr 29, 202559 minS0
In this episode, we sit down for a deep-dive conversation with Mischa van den Burg, a former nurse who made the leap into the world of DevOps. We explore the practical realities, technical challenges, and hard-won wisdom gained from building and managing modern infrastructure. This isn't your typical high-level overview; we get into the weeds on everything from homelab setups to the nuances of GitOps tooling.We start by exploring the journey from nursing to DevOps - the why behind the career change (00:54) - focusing on the transferable skills and the mindset required to succeed in a...
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Episode #12
Fast Infrastructure
Feb 28, 202545 minS0
Hugo Santos, founder & CEO of Namespace Labs joins us today to share his passion for fast infrastructure. From sharing childhood stories & dial-up modem phone line wiring experiences, we get to speed testing Hugo's current home internet connection: 25 gigabit FTTP. We shift focus to Namespace, and talk about how it evolved from software-defined storage to building an application platform that starts Kubernetes clusters in seconds. The underlying infrastructure is fast, custom built and is able to:Spin up thousands of isolated, virtual machine-based Kubernetes clustersRun millions of jobs concurrentlyControl everything from CPU/RAM allocation to networking...
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Episode #11
Keep Alert Chaos in Check
Jan 26, 202541 minS0
Today we talk with Matvey Kukuy and Tal Borenstein, co-founders of Keep, a startup focused on helping companies manage and make sense of their alert systems. The discussion comes three years after Matvey's previous appearance - https://shipit.show/36 - where he talked about Grafana Labs' acquisition of his previous startup Amixr (now Grafana OnCall).Keep tackles a significant challenge in modern tech infrastructure: managing the overwhelming volume of alerts that companies receive from their various monitoring systems. Some enterprises deal with up to 70,000 alerts daily, making it crucial to identify which ones represent actual incidents requiring...
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Make it Work

About this Podcast:

Pitch Analysis

What is Make it Work?

About the host

Recent episodes

Pairing-up on a CDN PURGE with Elixir

I LOVE TLS

DevOps Sushi

Fast Infrastructure

Keep Alert Chaos in Check

Guest Appearances

David Flanagan

Solomon Hykes

Hugo Santos

Matvey Kukuy

Advertisers on this show

Best industries to pitch Make it Work for

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Make it Work

About this Podcast:

Pitch Analysis

What is Make it Work?

About the host

Recent episodes

Pairing-up on a CDN PURGE with Elixir

I LOVE TLS

DevOps Sushi

Fast Infrastructure

Keep Alert Chaos in Check

Guest Appearances

David Flanagan

Solomon Hykes

Hugo Santos

Matvey Kukuy

Advertisers on this show

Best industries to pitch Make it Work for

Podcasts like Make it Work

Every question we get asked beforesomeone starts their trial.

Every question we get asked before
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Every question we get asked before
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