Nolan delves into burnout, open source challenges, reputation pressures, and his shift to sustainable practices like Pinafore.

This week’s full-length episode is with Bhaskar, founder of YottaDB. This episode was recorded on-site at All Things Open last week, and we covered a wide range of topics. Including:How the open source ecosystem, and the open source business ecosystem, has changed over the past 30+ years.Who can...

This special episode of The Business of Open Source with Tatiana Krupenya, CEO of DBeaver, was recorded on site at All Things Open 2024. It’s a short conversation, so we addressed one main question: What is the difference between running an open source company versus as proprietary software...

Writing a shell is rarely the kind of project you take on lightly. In this episode, Johnny is joined by Qi Xiao to explore how to go about such a feat in Go.

Gonto (Martin Gontovnikas) was the 6th employee at Auth0 and helped them grow fast and sell for $6.5billion to Okta.  Now he is the founder of Hypergrowth Partners and helps DevTools grow fast.We d...

In this episode, host Georg Link is joined by guests Courtney Robertson and Santiago (Santi) Dueñas to discuss the latest updates and future directions of GrimoireLab, an open-source tool designed to analyze community health metrics. They dive into how GrimoireLab originated, its current usage, and how organizations like WordPress and Bitergia are utilizing it for community contribution tracking. They explore the challenges of scaling the tool and the needs for further automation and data source integration. Courtney shares insights on how WordPress uses GrimoireLab to track contributors, improve sustainability, and automate reporting, while Santi explains the technical evolution of GrimoireLab, including moving to OpenSearch and improving database performance. Hit download now to hear more!

In this special episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Nithya Ruff, director of Amazon’s Open Source Program Office (often referred to as an OSPO). We started out talking a little about what exactly an OSPO is and what they do in companies — something I’m guess not everyone...

In this special episode recorded at All Things Open, I talk with Peter Farkas, CEO and co-founder of FerretDB. We talked about about MongoDB and the license change fiasco and why Peter wanted to build an open source company and never considered building a non-open source company. The biggest 🤯 in...

Adam & Jerod discuss the news! Our Merch sale, useful built-in macOS CLI utilities, the slow death of the hyperlink, systematically estimating a project's bus factor, The Browser Company abandoning Arc, the Dead Internet theory & more!

We're on the main stage at THAT Conference with Danny Thompson. He has an amazing story and journey into tech. Thanks to our friends at Cloudflare for helping us get to THAT Conference earlier this year to enable this conversation. Special thanks to Nick Nisi and Clark Sell for coming in clutch and getting us the audi...

🇩🇪 Hannover Go meetup, Nov 19🎂 Go Blog: Go Turns 15 📊 Video: The Business of Go by Cameron BalahanProposalsAccepted: End support for macOS 11 in go 1.25New discussion: Memory regions🗲 Lightning round🛞 Watermill 1.4: Event-Driven library for Go🛩️ Package singleflight provides a duplicate function...

Preston Doster joins the show to tell us what it takes to run a Mastodon server with 55,000 accounts and 11,000 monthly active users.

(Includes expletives) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, joined the show to discuss this Rails moment and renewed excitement for Rails. We discuss hard opinions, developers being cooked too long in the JavaScript soup, finding developer joy, the pros and cons of the BDFL...

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds static typing with optional type annotations. It was created at Microsoft and first released in 2012. TypeScript ESLint enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh Goldberg is a host for Software Engineering Daily, the author of Learning TypeScript by O’Reilly, and a Microsoft MVP.

With the number of libraries available to Go developers these days, you'd think building a CLI app was now a trivial matter. But like many things in software development, it depends. In this episode, we explore the challenges that arose during one team's journey towards a production-ready CLI.

Go 1.23.3 and 1.22.9 releasedProposalsAccepted: 📂 Safer file open methodsLikely accept: Drop macOS 11 support for Go 1.25🎆 The Go project recently passed the 70,000 issues on GitHub, with net/http: short writes with FileServer on macos🇮🇹 GoLab tickets still available, Florence Italy, Nov...

🪜 The Go Remote Meetup is looking for a new organizer. Step up!Interview with Wilken Rivera of the Go Developer Network, Episode 32ProposalsAccepted: add slog.DiscardHandlerPrevious discussion in Episode 80Accepted: enable GOCACHEPROG by defaultPrevious discussion in Episode 85📂 Likely accept:...

Maybe Jira for your kids' chores is a good idea... Probably not.

We take you one last time back to the All Things Open 2024 hallway track to talk with some friends, new & old. We speak with Alex Kretzchmar about self-hosting. We speak with Israa Taha about self-confidence. We speak with Avindra Fernando & Adhithi Ravichandran about self-employment.

No interview this week! Instead, Justin & Autumn sit down to talk about what they've been learning recently.

The hallway track at All Things Open 2024 — features Carl George, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat for a discussion on the state of open source enterprise linux and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and tea.xyz which offers rewards and recognition to open source maintainers, and Cha...

As modern platforms integrate an increasing array of tools, so too grows the complexity of software dependencies within your codebase. While mainstream dependencies like Docker images, Terraform and NPM packages are well-covered by existing solutions, what about the myriad obscure or custom tooling, perhaps even manually installed binaries lurking in your Dockerfiles? In this session, we'll unveil an Open Source solution designed to systematically extract data from diverse toolsets. Learn how to effectively catalog, track, and maintain these dependencies, eliminating blind spots and ensuring robustness in your development workflow.