Innovate @Open

Jim Zemlin carved some time out of his busy schedule to sit down with me at the Open Source Leadership Summit in early March 2018. In this podcast, Jim reflects back on how Linux and open source have evolved, the lessons he and the Linux Foundation (where he is the executive director) have learned, and why open source has become so pervasive.

Chris Aniszczyk is the Executive Director of the Open Container Initiative. In this podcast, recorded at the Open Source Leadership Summit in 2018, Chris speaks to me about the role of container standardization, what's coming next with the OCI, and how open source collaboration changes at scale.

Diane Mueller is the community manager for OpenShift Origin, a Caas and PaaS platform for cloud-native application development, deployment, and operations. In this podcast, she discusses how communities like the OpenShift Commons are evolving from groups that were singularly focused on code contributions to ones that focus increasingly on users and contributors in other areas.

A big reason for Kubernetes' success is its community. In this podcast, community leaders Paris Pittman of Google, Jorge Castro, of Heptio and Jaice Singer DuMars of Microsoft talk about mentorship, participating without coding, inclusion, and more.

Jaeger is an OpenTracing compatible open source distributed tracing system that came out of Uber. In this podcast, I sat down with Yuri Shkuro of Uber and Pavo Loffay of Red Hat to discuss the state of Jaeger, what problems it solves, where it fits with the broader cloud-native ecosystem, the Jaeger community, and where it's headed.

HashiCorp co-founder Armon Dadgar and I recorded this podcast at CloudNativeCon in Austin. In this podcast, we talk about the problem of secrets management, the changing nature of threats, the need to be secure by default, HashiCorp's Vault project, and their partnership with Red Hat.

Heptio's CTO, Joe Beda, made the first public commit to Kubernetes. In this podcast he talks about ark (an open source project for Kubernetes disaster recovery), what made Kubernetes take off, why companies are moving so quickly on cloud-native, and where Kubernetes is headed.

At CloudNativeCon in Austin, the Executive Director of the JS Foundation, Kris Borchers, sat down with me to talk about a variety of JS Foundation projects such as architect, jQuery, and JerryScript. We also discussed the success of Javascript and the nature of its community.

Kasten recently emerged from stealth and has released kanister, an extensible open-source framework for application-level data management on Kubernetes--as well as a commercial offering that builds on it. In this podcast, CEO Niraj Tolia discusses the increased need to manage storage used with Kubernetes at scale, the challenges of complex distributed apps, and the need for app-centric approaches that make infrastructure "boring" (to use my colleague Clayton Coleman's term).

Ben Sigelman worked on Dapper and Monarch at Google. He's now the co-founder of LightStep. At CloudNativeCon in Austin, we took the opportunity to cover a wide range of issues including the key challenges of distributed systems, the sometimes confusing monitoring/logging/tracing/etc. landscape, how monoliths evolve to microservices, Conway's Law, OpenTracing, and more.