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Contributor
By Eric Anderson
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September 25, 2024No PhD Required: Restate with Stephan Ewen Stephan Ewen (@StephanEwen) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durable execution. Before Restate, Stephan co-created Apache Flink, the open-source stream processing framework. Lessons learned from Flink have heavily influenced the development of Restate, although Stephan says they have exact opposite use cases.
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In this episode we discuss:
The history of Flink and the impact of the 2016 U.S. election
Why tooling for real-time transactional problems has historically had room for improvement
What constitutes “modern” workflow engines
Can you use Restate for any use case?
Moving from a large company to a small startup as an open-source developer
Links:
Restate
Apache Flink
People mentioned:
Kostas Tzoumas (@kostas_tzoumas)
Other episodes:
Temporal with Maxim Fateev
...more May 15, 2024Ground Control: Lunar with Eyal Solomon Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643) is the CEO and co-founder of Lunar, an open-source platform which bills itself as the “first reverse API gateway.” Lunar allows engineering teams to monitor, manage, and optimize API consumption. According to Eyal, it’s very easy to integrate with APIs, but difficult to keep them maintained, and there was a clear need for a generic solution to control and scale every API consumed in production.
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In this episode we discuss:
How most companies think their API maintenance is a unique problem
The importance of managing API consumption in the face of the AI revolution
Why Eyal and his team decided to open-source Lunar
Future plans for Lunar, including the development of autonomous optimization and pre-built flows
Eyal’s thoughts on how to start conversations with potential enterprise clients
Links:
Lunar
People mentioned:
- Roy Gabbay (LinkedIn)
...more April 24, 2024Metadata Management: DataHub with Shirshanka Das Shirshanka Das (@shirshanka) is the CTO of Acryl Data and founder of DataHub, which bills itself as the #1 open-source metadata platform. It enables data discovery, data observability and federated governance to help tame complex data ecosystems. Shirshanka first developed DataHub while at LinkedIn, but has grown it into an independent project with a thriving community.
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In this episode we discuss:
How DataHub differs from traditional data catalogs
Themes around why community members get involved and stick with the project
Partnering with Netflix to develop runtime metadata model extensibility
The influence of the pandemic on DataHub’s open-sourcing
Dealing with the future of a project with big community and unlimited scope
Links:
DataHub
The History of DataHub
...more April 10, 2024Take Your Own Advice: vlcn with Matt Wonlaw After his first child was born, Matt Wonlaw (@tantaman) imagined giving his son life advice. What kind of life did he want his kid to lead? At the time, he was working for Facebook, and he decided that his own life needed a change in direction. So Matt started vlcn, aka Vulcan Labs, a research company that develops open-source projects like CR-SQLite and Materialite. vlcn has an unusual business model – Matt receives donations and sponsorships from users and clients. It’s all part of his mission to rethink the modern data stack for writing rich and complex applications.
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In this episode we discuss:
One reason that software is still too hard to write: Object orientations
How CR-SQLite allows databases to be merged together and Materialite provides Incremental View Maintenance for JavaScript
Why coding directly to relations can provide a more flexible and efficient approach to building applications
Matt’s decision to build vlcn as a research lab rather than as a startup
Thoughts for the future on PGLite
Links:
vlcn (Vulcan Labs)
CR-SQLite
Materialite
fly.io
PGLite
People mentioned:
Johannes Schickling (@schickling)
...more March 27, 2024Secret Sauce: Amplication with Yuval Hazaz Amplication is an open-source development platform for scalable and secure Node.js applications. It allows engineers to skip writing boilerplate code and offers the flexibility to customize and add components. Amplification was created by Yuval Hazaz (@Yuvalhazaz1), a veteran developer who determined that low-code platforms save time but restrict freedom. Instead, Amplication uses code generation to reliably and consistently build robust production‑ready backend services.
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In this episode we discuss:
Yuval’s “secret sauce” for building an open-source community
How platform engineers can use Amplication for company-wide standardization
A baseline organic growth rate for open-source projects
The role of generative AI in code modernization
Links:
Amplication
...more March 13, 2024To the Moon: OpenBB with Didier Lopes OpenBB is an open-source investment research platform created by Didier Lopes (@didier_lopes). OpenBB grew out of a project called Gamestonk Terminal that Didier began working on shortly before the Gamestop short squeeze in January 2021. Today, OpenBB has evolved into an infrastructure platform that allows users to build extensions and access financial data with automation and customization.
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In this episode we discuss:
What Vice Media got wrong about OpenBB
Some major contributors to the project and the features or directions that they proposed
How a machine learning engineer from Bloomberg reached out about OpenBB
Different types of OpenBB users – students, retail investors, and other financial professionals
OpenBB’s exciting AI roadmap
Links:
OpenBB
People mentioned:
James Maslek (@jmaslek11
Artem Veremey (@artemvv)
...more February 28, 2024Robust Observability: OpenTelemetry with Austin Parker OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for collecting and managing telemetry data. OpenTelemetry has been more successful than expected, becoming the second fastest growing project in the CNCF. It allows for flexibility and avoids vendor lock-in, making it attractive to startups and large enterprises alike. On today’s show, Eric (@ericmander) sits down with Austin Parker (@austinlparker), director of open-source at Honeycomb.
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In this episode we discuss:
How Austin’s interest in complex systems led him to the observability field and developer relations
An X argument that contributed to the merger of OpenTelemetry and OpenCensus
Why foundations help maintainers to strike a balance with their contributors
Austin’s opinion on the secret to OpenTelemetry’s success
Links:
OpenTelemetry
Honeycomb
People mentioned:
Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy)
Christine Yen (@cyen)
...more February 15, 2024Never Build Permissions Again: OPAL with Or Weis OPAL is an open-source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPAL provides the necessary infrastructure to load policy and data into multiple policy engines, ensuring they have the information they need to make decisions. Today, we’re talking to Or Weis (@OrWeis), co-creator of OPAL and co-founder of Permit, the end-to-end authorization platform that envisions a world where developers never have to build permissions again.
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In this episode we discuss:
History of Permit and OPAL
The benefits of an open-foundation model rather than open-core
RBAC vs ABAC vs ReBAC
Why developers would prefer to not have to deal with authorization
Or’s own podcast, Command+Shift+Left
Links:
OPAL
Permit
Command+Shift+Left
Terraform
People mentioned:
Asaf Cohen (@asafchn)
Filip Grebowski (@developerfilip)
Other episodes:
Open Policy Agent with Torin Sandall
Community Driven IaC: OpenTofu with Kuba Martin
...more January 31, 2024Oxygen Deprivation: FerretDB with Peter Farkas FerretDB enables users to run MongoDB applications on existing Postgres infrastructure. Peter Farkas (@FarkasP), co-founder and CEO of FerretDB, explains the need for an open source interface for document databases. Peter also discusses the licensing change of MongoDB and the uncertainty it created for users. He emphasizes the importance of open standards and collaboration among MongoDB alternatives to provide users with choice and interoperability.
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In this episode we discuss:
The epic mountain adventure that inspired FerretDB
Why commercial open-source can be additive rather than extractive
How compatibility and open standards drives innovation and competition
PDFs as an example of corporation-supported standards
Three tenets for building a successful open source project
Links:
FerretDB
Percona
People:
Peter Zaitsev (@PeterZaitsev)
...more January 17, 2024The Duke of SQLite: Litestream with Ben Johnson Ben Johnson (@benbjohnson) is the creator of Litestream and LiteFS, two open-source disaster recovery solution for SQLite. Litestream is designed to provide continuous backups for SQLite databases by streaming incremental changes, allowing for easy data recovery in the event of a server crash. LiteFS, on the other hand, is built on LiteStream but uses transactional control to focus on replication and high availability. Join us as Ben discusses the challenges and trade-offs of open source contributions and the future of databases.
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In this episode we discuss:
The history of how Ben got involved in SQLite development out of “spite”
How Litestream “works on a fluke”
Different use cases for Litestream vs LiteFS
Why fully open contributions isn’t always Ben’s style
The greater server-side SQLite landscape
Links:
Litestream
LiteFS
Fly.io
BoltDB
People mentioned:
Philip O’Toole (@general_order24)
Other episodes:
The Social Miracle: rqlite with Philip O’Toole
The Big Fork: libSQL with Glauber Costa
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