The Oban Pros (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Today you get Sorentwo for the price of one! We are joined by Shannon & Parker Selbert, both halves of the mom-and-pop software shop behind Oban, the robust job processing library that’s been delivering our emails & processing our audio for years.

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Featuring:

• Shannon Selbert – GitHub, Website
• Parker Selbert – Twitter, GitHub
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• The Oban Pro featuring Parker Selbert (Backstage #23)
• Robust Job Processing· Oban Pro
• Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord (Changelog Interviews #147)
• github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com
• Hatchet
• Have an Enemy | Getting Real
• Mojito island is a mirage – Signal v. Noise
• Attack of the Canaries! with Haroon Meer from Thinkst (Changelog Interviews #557)
• Cronitor
• Buzzsprout

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Capitole

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:00:38)

https://firehydrant.com/signals

3. Bogo & Friends (00:03:11)

https://sorentwo.com

4. The Oban Pro (00:04:24)

5. On freedom numbers (00:05:53)

6. Explaining what we do is hard (00:06:50)

7. "It's just background jobs" (00:09:10)

8. When incidents become "incidents" (00:10:55)

9. How Sorentwo got here (00:13:52)

10. Oban in Changelog code (00:17:41)

11. Sponsor: CrabNebula Cloud (00:25:08)

https://crabnebula.dev/cloud/

12. Elixir as mature niche (00:28:15)

13. A fork in the road (00:31:47)

14. The Hatchet path (00:34:59)

15. Naming servers on an island (00:38:34)

16. So what's the answer? (00:39:38)

17. Similar situations (00:44:15)

18. Almost an SV reference (00:46:47)

19. The business model (00:49:03)

20. Sponsor: Tailscale (00:50:17)

https://changelog.com/tailscale

21. Reaching the freedom number (00:53:21)

22. How we use Oban (00:57:01)

23. Jerod's bespoke Oban feature (01:00:26)

24. Parker's awesome PR (01:01:34)

25. Cron job feelings? (01:04:42)

26. Shout out to Cronitor (01:06:19)

https://cronitor.io/

27. Shout out to Buzzsprout (01:07:20)

https://buzzsprout.com

28. Indie / small shops (01:08:31)

29. The "Lifestyle Business" (01:11:59)

30. A theory on software biz growth (01:15:22)

31. No more worlds to conquer (01:18:20)

32. Alexander the Crybaby (01:20:59)

33. Adam's essential Calm Balm (01:21:34)

34. Business mantras (01:22:22)

35. Gaining perspective (01:24:23)

36. The house that wasn't (01:25:38)

37. Big change brings big change (01:29:00)

38. Retirement talk (01:31:34)

39. Bye friends (01:33:59)

40. Coming up next (join ++!) (01:34:43)

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