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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Make it Work is hosted by Gerhard Lazu. The show has published 15 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Pairing-up on a CDN PURGE with Elixir" (29 June 2025, 56 minutes), "I LOVE TLS" (29 May 2025, 63 minutes), and "DevOps Sushi" (29 April 2025, 59 minutes).
Make it Work publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 42 minutes across 15 episodes.
Booking probability for Make it Work is 19%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Make it Work requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Make it Work's contact route on record: verified email.
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Gerhard Lazu hosts Make it Work, a technology show with 15 episodes published.
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Episode #15
<p>Listen to the full pairing session for pull request #549.<br> <br>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...
Episode #14
<p>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...
Episode #13
<p>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...
Episode #12
<p>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...
Episode #11
<p>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...
Episode #10
<p>This is a follow-up to Let's build a CDN - Part 1</p><p>A new friend joins us. We talk about the high-level, including why Varnish and why we are doing this in the first place. We go through the plan for this...
Episode #9
<p>This is the audio version of 🎬 Ninjastructure - Move fast & break nothing</p><p>Matias Pan, a professional maté drinker & Senior Software Engineer at Dagger, is showing us an approach to Infrastructure as Code built...
Episode #8
<p>We have 3 conversations from TalosCon 2024:</p><p>1. Vincent Behar & Louis Fradin from Ubisoft tell us how how they are building the next generation of game servers on Kubernetes. Recorded in a coffee shop.</p><p>2...
Episode #7
<p>How does Michal Kuratczyk, Staff Software Engineer at RabbitMQ, access Kubernetes workloads securely, from anywhere? Regardless whether it's a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster or Kubernetes in Docker (KiND)...
Episode #6
<p>What does it look like to build a modern CI/CD pipeline from scratch in 2024? While many of you would pick GitHub Actions and be done with it, how do you run it locally? And what do you need to do to get caching to...
Episode #5
<p>This started as a conversation between James A Rosen & Gerhard in August 2023. Several months later, it evolved into a few epic pairing sessions captured in these GitHub threads:</p>thechangelog#480 (reply in...
Episode #4
<p>For our 4th episode, we have four conversations from KubeCon EU 2024.</p><p>We talk to Jesse Suen about Argo CD & Kargo, Solomon Hykes shares the next evolution of Dagger, and Justin Cormack dives into Docker & AI...
Episode #3
<p>Alex Sims, Solutions Architect & Sr. Software Engineer at James and James Fulfilment, talks about their journey to 80ms response SLO with PHP & React.</p><p>Alex shares how they optimised API performance...
Episode #2
<p><br>Today we delve into BuildKit and Dagger, focusing on their significance in the development and deployment of containerized applications, as well as Kubernetes integration.</p>BuildKit's Role: Essential for anyone...
Episode #1
<p>This episode looks into the observability tool Parca & Polar Signals Cloud with Frederic Branczyk and Thor Hansen. We discuss experiences and discoveries using Parca for detailed system-wide performance analysis...
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