Author Archives: Richard Rodger

The Voxgig Podcast Chatbot: Triggering Ingestion, and some Debugging DX

Posted on March 22, 2024 by Richard Rodger

This is the third post in a series I’m writing about a new Minimal Viable Product we’ve released at Voxgig that turns your podcast into a chatbot. Your visitors can now ask your guests questions directly! The first post is … Continue reading →




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The Voxgig Podcast Chatbot: First, Subscribe!

Posted on February 28, 2024 by Richard Rodger

This is the third post in a series I’m writing about a new Minimal Viable Product we’ve released at Voxgig that turns your podcast into a chatbot. Your visitors can now ask your guests questions directly! The first post is … Continue reading →




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The Voxgig Podcast Chatbot is Production Code

Posted on February 23, 2024 by Richard Rodger

This post is part of a series. This is the second post in a series I’m writing about a new Minimal Viable Product we’ve released at Voxgig that turns your podcast into a chatbot. Your visitors can now ask your guests … Continue reading →




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Building a Podcast Chatbot for Voxgig

Posted on February 20, 2024 by Richard Rodger

This post is part of a series. At Voxgig we have now recorded 140 podcast episodes (as of Feb 2024). That’s a lot of chatting about developer relations. It’s great if you are a regular listener (thanks!), or have the time … Continue reading →




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Why you should be using a REPL all the way to production

Posted on September 4, 2023 by Richard Rodger

Let’s talk about one of the most productive tools a coder can use: the REPL! The first half of this article gives you a short introduction to the subject if you’re not a coder. If you are a coder, skip … Continue reading →




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@seneca/repl Version 6 Released!

Posted on August 2, 2023 by Richard Rodger

I’ve released a substantial update to the @seneca/repl plugin! The @seneca/repl plugin provides a REPL for the Seneca microservices framework. As one of the earliest plugins, it has proven to be incredibly useful. A REPL (Read-Execute-Print-Loop) offers an interactive space to write code and execute it … Continue reading →




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@seneca/repl version 2.x plan

Posted on July 26, 2023 by Richard Rodger

I’m updating the @seneca/repl plugin! Here is the basic plan. NOTE: There’s a @seneca/repl dev Github Project to track this work. The @seneca/repl plugin provides a REPL for the seneca microservices framework. It is one of the earliest plugins, and … Continue reading →




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The Tao of Microservices

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Richard Rodger

My book on the microservice architecture is in early release! This book is based on five years of building microservice systems, of all shapes and sizes. It is a comprehensive guide to using the architecture based on practical experience. I’ve … Continue reading →




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Seneca, A Microservices framework for Node.js

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Richard Rodger

The release of Seneca 1.0 represents 5 years of open source evolution, and not a little blood, sweat and tears. The thing I am most happy about is the fact that I did not do the release – Wyatt had … Continue reading →




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Monolithic Node.js

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Richard Rodger

Are large-scale Node.js systems possible? Empirically, the answer is yes. Walmart and Paypal have both shown that it can be done. The quick criticism is that you need 10X engineers. This a classic, and well-founded criticism. New ways of doing … Continue reading →




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