March 26, 2021

Open source, not open contribution (Interview)

1 hour 22 minutes

This week we’re talking with Ben Johnson. Ben is known for his work on BoltDB, his work in open source, and as a freelance Go developer. Late January when Ben open sourced his newest project Litestream in the readme he shared how the project was open source, but not open for contribution. His reason was to protect his mental health and the long term viability of the project. On this episode we talk with Ben about what that means, his thoughts on mental health and burnout in open source, choosing a license, and the details behind Litestream - a standalone streaming replication tool for SQLite.

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Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Go Beyond

Open source, but closed to contributions

Litestream.io & benbjohnson/litestream

Litestream getting started

The Changelog #201: Why SQLite succeeded as a database with Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite

SQLite copyright

SQLite - Professional Support & Extension Products

boltdb/bolt

Kubernetes Failure Stories

The Changelog #170: BoltDB, InfluxDB, Key-Value Databases with Ben Johnson

Cockroach Labs

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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