Transmission: Recent Episodes

Jesse Rosenberger, Ben Newman & Paul Dowman

Broadcasting the latest from the Meteor forums.

Also available in video on YouTube: https://goo.gl/6g74PM

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In this episode Jesse, Ben and Paul discuss the recent Meteor 1.6 release, Meteor's 1000 releases to date, what's coming in the next version of Meteor and a potential security vulnerability that was quickly fixed.

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Topics: Questions in the 1.5 announcement thread, Meteor performance and scaling, Galaxy improvements, a Reify explanation, what to expect in Meteor 1.6

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Topics: Meteor 1.5 release and what's coming in Meteor 1.6, more on Meteor APM, Source Maps open issue, Meteor Client Bundler now works

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Meteor acquiring Kadira APM, the new meteor-client-bundler tool, Vulcan's toolkit for building React/GraphQL/Meteor apps, Meteor 1.5

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Meteor 1.5, Code Splitting, Migrating Atmosphere Packages to NPM.

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Transmission is a podcast about the latest in the Meteor community, hosted by Paul Dowman from OK GROW! and Meteor's Sashko Stubailo.

Topics: Meteor team growing, Meteor deployment to Now, code splitting, Kadira shutting down, future of Mantra, Apollo update, service workers / progressive web apps, remote Meteor shell

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Topics: Redis Oplog, Vue.js in Blaze 2.0, meteor-desktop, Apollo + Meteor, Electrode.io, and impact of the loss of Arunoda/Kadira.

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Paul, Sashko and special guest Thea discuss topics on the Meteor Forums including Community Involvement, 1.4.2, GraphQL subscriptions, and Grapher.

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Paul and Sashko discuss topics on the Meteor Forums including Community Dev, and Meteor + Apollo.

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Today's episode features Transmission's new co-host, Paul Dowman from OK GROW!, and with Meteor's Sashko Stubailo.

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Today's episode features Transmission's new co-host, Paul Dowman from OK GROW!, along with Meteor's Sashko Stubailo, and Zol Olah.

In this episode, we dive into the upcoming Meteor 1.4 release, chat about opinions in the Meteor Guide, compare the React and Angular tutorials, and finally talk about the state of allow/deny.

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TRANSMISSION 11 is the first ever episode of the show to be recorded in person at Meteor headquarters in San Francisco!

We have two guests joining us:

  1. Paul Dowman from OK GROW! coming in as co-host
  2. Martijn Walraven from MDG, new member on the Apollo team

On this episode, we talk about how Apollo will work with React Native, and what this means for Meteor developers who want to expand into fully native or hybrid mobile apps.


Transmission is a podcast from @_benstr and @stubailo, broadcasting the latest from the Meteor forums.

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  • Meteor: https://www.meteor.com/
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On TRANSMISSION 10, we have two awesome special guests from MDG:

  1. Zoltan Olah, product manager of the Meteor platform
  2. Rohit Bakhshi, product manager of Galaxy

We dive into three important and exciting topics from the Meteor community:

  1. The launch of a single generally-available Galaxy plan for everyone
  2. The shut down of the free 'meteor deploy' hosting service
  3. Discussions about a proposed package for production users to give feedback to MDG

Discussion in the forum thread:

https://forums.meteor.com/t/satellite-transmission-10-galaxy-hosting-and-package-tracking/19594


Transmission is a podcast from @_benstr and @stubailo, broadcasting the latest from the Meteor forums.

Sponsored by:

  • Meteor: https://www.meteor.com/
  • OK GROW! https://www.okgrow.com/

Follow the podcast here:

  • Simplecast: https://transmission.simplecast.fm/
  • Search for TRANSMISSION on iTunes

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TRANSMISSION - EPISODE 9

This week we dive into the new "test mode" in Meteor 1.3 with Tom Coleman. We talk about what it is, what it is not, what is it's future and what MDG hopes the community does to support it. We also take a moment and dive into what happened with the Velocity project. Enjoy!

In this show we cover a lot! Check it out:

  • [ 01:20 ] - Why not provide a MDG test mode earlier?
  • [ 07:15 ] - How to re-brand Meteor as "professional grade"?
  • [ 16:30 ] - What happened with Velocity?
  • [ 24:24 ] - Thank you all test package maintainers!
  • [ 28:00 ] - Overview of Test Mode
  • [ 34:00 ] - Full-App mode
  • [ 41:50 ] - Difference between standard and full-app modes
  • [ 49:25 ] - Chimp will be in the guide for E2E
  • [ 49:56 ] - TinyTest R.I.P
  • [ 51:30 ] - What are Driver-Packages
  • [ 57:00 ] - What can the community do?
  • [ 61:55 ] - Was 1.3 too big of a release?
  • [ 64:35 ] - Conclusion

Please send us your feedback about this episode through this forum thread: TRANSMISSION #9

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TRANSMISSION - EPISODE 8

Last week Ben and Sashko hinted at a very special guest and here he is! Geoff Schmidt, Meteor's CEO and Co-Founder, joins Transmission in this special edition show. We spend 85 minutes talking about Meteor Development Group's business, funding, products & services, community, competition, plans and much more. Make sure to not miss the last section!

In this show we cover a lot! Check it out:

  • [ 02:45 ] - Meteor as a Business
  • [ 30:10 ] - The Meteor Community
  • [ 49:10 ] - Competition & Forks of Meteor, Apollo and Galaxy
  • [ 59:20 ] - Future Dreams and other fun talk
  • [ 85:27 ] - END

Please send us your feedback about this episode through this forum thread: TRANSMISSION #7

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TRANSMISSION - EPISODE 7

Wow, this show surprised us! We deep-dive into all the current details of Apollo (reactive GraphQL) which spun into an extended conversation about the new Meteor stack, Galaxy, Relay, Redux and what Apollo can be for NodeJS apps.

In this show we cover a lot! Check it out:

  • [ 04:00 ] - Reactive GraphQL new name ... Apollo
  • [ 05:25 ] - MDG's new community inclusive MVP approach
  • [ 07:18 ] - New Meteor stack after Apollo
  • [ 12:30 ] - Redux and Relay
  • [ 17:55 ] - GraphQL Query Basics
  • [ 19:08 ] - Apollo Architecture Overview
  • [ 22:28 ] - Apollo's Invalidation Server Intro
  • [ 25:08 ] - Reactivity control & better offline data
  • [ 28:20] - Apollo's Invalidation Server In-depth
  • [ 32:24] - Invalidation/Reactivity options
  • [ 33:58] - Mutations are the new "Meteor Methods"
  • [ 36:17] - Mutations and Reactivity
  • [ 40:42] - Optimistic UI now powered by Apollo (even non-meteor apps)
  • [ 41:32] - Business side of Apollo
  • [ 43:26] - Competitors
  • [ 46:23] - New Galaxy hosting options
  • [ 48:06] - Kadira, Galaxy and Reactive Performance Monitoring
  • [ 50:57] - Security with no Pub/Sub
  • [ 53:38] - Wrapping up and discussing Apollo GH Organization
  • [ 59:30] - END

Please send us your feedback about this episode through this forum thread: TRANSMISSION #7

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TRANSMISSION - EPISODE 6 SPECIAL EDITION

90 minutes of awesomeness! In this show Sashko and I are joined by Meteor Co-Founder Matt DeBergalis and Core Developer Ben Newman. It is long but I could not bear to cut any of it and I think you will agree, enjoy!

[ first 50 minutes ] Matt DeBergalis discusses Meteor the OSS project. Listen close as Matt shares why Meteor is blazing a new path for software developers and new plans to include the community more into the Meteor GitHub repo. << Big stuff !!

[ last 30 minutes ] Ben Newman discusses all things Meteor 1.3, including the JS Modules, Testing vs Velocity, Webpack 2.0, Hot-Module Reload, Code Splitting, and Rollup.js. Ben goes into amazing details explaining the how and why of it all, truly amazing (both the talk and his intellect).

Please send us your feedback about this episode through this forum thread: TRANSMISSION #6

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TRANSMISSION - EPISODE 5

We decided to change things up a bit. Our podcasts will stay full-length multi-subject shows lasting about 1 hour and YouTube videos will have 3-5 minute highlight clips. Let us know what you think of the changes.

In this show we cover a lot! Check it out:

  • [ 04:15 ] - Does Meteor Scale? (Meteor Forum)
  • [ 15:55 ] - Meteor vs Phoenix, Rails & Wordpress
  • [ 25:00 ] - Should I use Meteor if...
  • [ 32:45 ] - The 1.3 Beta upgrade experience (Meteor Forum)
  • [ 43:47 ] - What is happening to Meteor's React Mixin?
  • [ 45:55 ] - When will UnderscoreJS be upgraded? (GitHub Issue)
  • [ 48:20 ] - Mantra vs Meteor Guides (Meteor Forum)
  • [ 55:10 ] - Community to build official Meteor tutorials??
  • [ 57:00 ] - Sashko's vision of multiple stacks on top of Meteor

Please send us your feedback about this episode through this forum thread: TRANSMISSION #5

Forums // Sashko // Ben

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TRANSMISSION - EPISODE 2.3

Sashko and Ben discuss the Meteor build process included in Meteor 1.3 and why MDG decided not to use webpack. Discussion based on forum post Why is the Meteor.install(1.3) api better than webpack in meteor?

Please send us your feedback about this episode through this forum thread: TRANSMISSION #2

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TRANSMISSION - EPISODE 2.2

Sashko and Ben discuss the hard hitting forum post from long time contributor Mitar "How open source Meteor really is if pull requests are not getting in?" We compare Meteor to other OSS projects, analyze what went wrong, outline changes being or will be made and lastly we touch on community ownership and the culture around it.

Please send us your feedback about this episode through this forum thread: TRANSMISSION #2

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TRANSMISSION - EPISODE 2.1

Sashko and Ben discuss all things Reactive GraphQL. They cover what GraphQL is, how MDG Data Team will technically tackle this project, Facebook's part in it all, and how Reactive GraphQL will open massive doors for Meteor.

Please send us your feedback about this episode through this forum thread: TRANSMISSION #2

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TRANSMISSION - EPISODE 1

Sashko and Ben discuss Arunoda's "Top 5 predictions for Meteor in 2016" article. They cover community attitude, modules, tracker, NPM, Mantra, the view layer, etc. Enjoy!

Please send us your feedback about this episode through this forum thread: TRANSMISSION #001

Forums // Sashko // Ben

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