TFIR: Open Source, Cloud Native & AI/ML

Scarf helps open-source developers distribute their software more effectively and with better observability. They believe that the open-source community as a whole should not only be sharing source code, but also data about that source code and how it is used. Scarf is creating a world where open-source maintainers can proactively make data-informed decisions, and are fairly compensated for their work by connecting with and supporting their commercial users. In this episode of TFiR INSIGHTS, we sat down with the co-founder and CEO of the company, Avi Press, to talk about the company and the challenges that exist for open source developers.

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Lin Sun recently joined Solo.io from IBM, where she focussed on Istio. When asked what attracted her towards Solo.io, a fairly new startup, Sun said, “I’m always impressed with Solo.io as a company as how fast they innovate. And they build those interesting solutions. On top of open source projects like Istio and Envoy, I would say Solo.io is really in the space of connecting services and API gateways to help our users transition from monolithic to microservices.”

Robin Schumacher, Vice President of Product at Netdata (https://www.netdata.cloud/), is an open-source veteran and in this episode of TFiR Insights, we discussed how open source is becoming a key piece of strategy for businesses of all sizes.

Register for PrestoCon Day: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/prestocon/

In this special episode of TFiR Insights for PrestoCon Day 2021, we talked to Vinoth Chandar, Creator of Apache Hudi. Apache Hudi came into existence when Chandar was working at Uber, designing its overall data architecture. His team ran into a lot of foundational gaps with the traditional data lake architectures of the time. Hudi was created as database abstraction, or data lake storage, with which you can then interact with the query from all your existing major league query engines. Chandar will be participating in a panel discussion at PrestoCon Day and this interview covers some of his work.

Topics of interest: Apache Hudi, PrestoCon, Vinoth Chandar, Ahana

Inspired by the success of PrestoCon 2020, the Linux Foundation is hosting a special half-day event for the PrestoDB community called PrestoCon Day on March 24.

We are covering the event remotely and hosting a series of interviews and panel discussions for the event in which we will talk to some of the core members of the PrestoDB community. In this interview, Dipti Borkar, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer at Ahana kick-starts the PrestoCon Day Coverage at TFiR.

Recommendation engines are quite popular in the consumer space, but they are even more effective and essential in the enterprise space. Robin Purohit, Co-founder and CEO of Peritus.ai (https://peritus.ai/) compares them with Grammarly that we all use in our work life to help write better, Peritus.ai recommendation engine does the same for DevOps engineers and Developers with technical content. “Millions of tech workers around the world are all trying to master the latest technology and do their job better, we are trying to provide them insights and how they can either support a customer or develop a new product faster by giving recommendations in the moment that they're doing their work,” said Purohit.

Further democratizing Apache Cassandra, DataStax (https://www.datastax.com) has announced a serverless option for Cassandra via DataStax Astra, its Cassandra-as-a-Service offering. “You can now deploy Cassandra without having to think about capacity,” said Patrick McFadin, VP, Developer Relations at DataStax. “It’s a huge shift for Cassandra as developers don’t have to worry about over-provisioning their capacity, which will have a direct impact on what they are going to pay for that capacity. Now in a pure serverless fashion, they can pay what they use.”

In this episode of TFiR Insights, we dug deeper into this announcement. Here are some of the topics we discussed:

• What is serverless Astra?

• Why did DataStax feel a need to offer this now?

• How is it more about giving developers greater control over what they pay?

• What are the direct benefits for developers?

• The evolution of DataStax Astra over time?

• Discussion on Apache Cassandra, the heart and soul of Astra.

Patrick McFadin is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax, where he leads a team devoted to making users of Apache Cassandra successful. He has also worked as Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra and consultant for DataStax, where he helped build some of the largest and exciting deployments in production. Previous to DataStax, he was Chief Architect at Hobsons and an Oracle DBA/Developer for over 15 years.

Codefresh (https://codefresh.io/) recently appointed Dan Garfield as Chief Open Source Officer. Garfield is a regular guest on TFiR Insights so we hosted him again to learn more about this new role and what it means to Codefresh and open source projects that the company is involved with. It does further prove the commitment the company has towards open source.

Learn more about Polyverse: https://polyverse.com/

In this episode of TFiR Secure IT, we discussed three major cybersecurity stories — Windows Exchange hack, Senate’s hearing on SolarWinds hack and NSA’s recommendations on zero trust. We were joined by Ron Nixon, Vice President at Polyverse, to deep dive into these stories and also discuss how Polyverse and polymorphing can offer proactive solutions to many such cybersecurity problems.

Airbyte (https://airbyte.io/) is a promising, cloud based open-source data integration alternative to sync data from any applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses, data lakes, and other destinations. Airbyte was co-founded by Michel Tricot (former director of engineering and head of integrations at Liveramp and RideOS) and John Lafleur (serial entrepreneur of dev tools and B2B). The company recently raised $5.2 Million in seed funding round. We hosted both co-founders of the company to learn more about the company and the current state of data integration challenges in the cloud.