Podcasts
Tune into the podcasts I've been a part of, discussing everything from remote work to the intricacies of open-source culture.
SquaredUp: From pipelines to patterns: Observability in the wild
• 🔗 Full interview • 📝 Blog post • 📝 Linkedin
Excerpt: I’ve been exploring observability means to engineering leaders. Vipul Gupta's response was a surprise. It wasn’t about observing applications, it was observing their CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions.
At balena, Vipul’s team manages hundred of thousands IoT devices running balenaOS. That creates a unique challenge. How do you test software that runs on physical devices? How do you ensure pipelines are reliable when they depend on hardware that can be flaky?
Every code change needs to be tested on real hardware using “hardware in the loop” pipelines. 🖨️
CI/CD at this scale is fragile. Pipelines fail constantly due to dependency changes, hardware flakiness, or transient network issues. But workflows are business critical – monitoring them is a priority.
📝 Clarisights Engineering - Lessons, Mistakes & Challenges: Building our in-house orchestrator for Big Data Pipelines
A detailed technical blog post documenting a year of learnings from developing Mozek, an in-house orchestrator for big data pipelines. Covers the challenges, mistakes, and lessons learned while building scalable data infrastructure at Clarisights.
🎙️ How to get a Remote Job as a fresher with RemoteIndian
• 🔗 Episode
Podcast with RemoteIndian having an amazing discussion discussing the importance of open-source, challenges of a junior dev and red flags in the application process. I hope this helps folks going forward.
🌱 Sustain Our Software Podcast with Vipul Gupta
• 🔗 Episode
Samson Goddy and Vipul Gupta join the panelists' Pia Mancini and Richard Littauer to talk about open source activities in Nigeria and India. Vipul is the Global Outreach Team Lead at Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs is an activity-focused open-source software learning platform for children. Both Samson and Vipul agree that a lot of developers they talk to are not very familiar with open source and the most common question they receive in meet-up groups is how one can start to contribute to open source.
💻 Decompiled: Google Summer of Code Edition
• 🔗 Episode
Was invited for a fun insightful episode with the host Ayan Pahwa and Prakhar Srivastava on Decompiled to talk about Sugar Labs, Open-Source, and Google Summer of Code. Episode out now, check it out here.
💰 CodeCast Zambia Open-Source, Freelancing, and Financial Independence by Vipul Gupta
• 🔗 Episode
Daniel talks to Vipul about alternative sources of income and the stigma behind freelance work as well as tips to freelancing effectively and using open source contributions to up-skill yourself.