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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.

See why organizational awareness is an incident superpower with incident.io Product Engineer Lawrence Jones. Lawrence discusses the importance of leveraging organizational context during incident response. He emphasizes using structured data and service catalogs to enhance incident management by bringing valuable organizational knowledge directly to responders.

Using an uncommon blend of storytelling & coaching, The Look & Sound of Leadership is a unique & influential podcast. Get practical tools you can apply the minute the episode ends.

The APIs You Won't Hate team gets together to talk shop, career, climate change and working in big tech

We join the Whiskey Web and Whatnot podcast live from the hallway track at All Things Open 2024. Topics include: Chianti, content creation, open source, fake jobs, cancel culture, Silicon Valley (ding), frontend frustrations, the Roman empire & more.

Hacker Public Radio is a podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that is of interest to hackers and hobbyists.

Hacker Public Radio is a podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that is of interest to hackers and hobbyists.

Hacker Public Radio is a podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that is of interest to hackers and hobbyists.

Hacker Public Radio is a podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that is of interest to hackers and hobbyists.

Hacker Public Radio is a podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that is of interest to hackers and hobbyists.

This week we're going back in time to one of our top performing shows of all time where we talk with Matt Rickard about his blog post Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming. These reflections are about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours. Most don't apply to beginners. He was clear to mention that these refl...

This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Anais Concepcion and Paul Fitzpatrick , the co-CEO of Grist Labs and CTO of Grist Labs. We talked about managing growth of users versus growth of revenue, moving to an open source approach for technical, not technical, reasons, and...

In this episode, CRob talks to Stephanie Domas, CISO at Canonical, the creators of the popular operating system Ubuntu. Having started her career with over 10 years of ethical hacking, reverse engineering and advanced vulnerability analysis, Steph...

From switching ISPs to migrating Amazon off Oracle, Pete Naylor knows which database to use.

At the tail end of 2019, we got together with Quincy Larson to celebrate ten years of Changelog & five years of freeCodeCamp by recording back-to-back episodes on each other's pods. Can you believe it's now five years later and we're all still here doing our thing?! Let's learn what Quincy and the amazing community at ...

Zac Smith left his role leading Equinix Metal in June of 2023. Since then, he's been thinking deeply about the present and potential future of data centers, OEMs, chip makers & more.

IRL Go meetings🇫🇮 Helsinki Go meetup, Nov 6🇦🇺 GopherConAU, Nov 6-8ProposalsLikely accept: enable GOCACHEPROG by defaultBlog postsTwo common Go interface misuses by Konrad ReicheMocks Aren't Stubs by Martin Fowler🌩️ Lightning RoundReddit FAQ: GUI Solutions for GomiQT, MIT-licensed Qt bindings for...

In this episode, Viktor dives into the world of cybersecurity with Allan Friedman from CISA, exploring the crucial role of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) in securing software supply chains. From the evolution and importance of SBOMs to their technical nuances, and international policy impacts, Allan shares expert insights that are a must-listen for anyone involved in software development, cybersecurity, or IT management.

Shay Banon, the creator of Elasticsearch, joins us to discuss pulling off a reverse rug pull. Yes, Elasticsearch is open source, again! We discuss the complexities surrounding open source licensing and what made Elastic change their license, the implications of trademark law, the personal and business impact of moving ...

Joining Viktor Petersson this week is Chris Swan from Atsign, where they dive into the crucial world of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) and OpenSSF Scorecards. Chris sheds light on the essential role these tools play in bolstering open source security, sharing expert insights on dependency management, secure coding practices, and the importance of transparency and trust within the tech industry.

Join Viktor Petersson on this episode of Nerding Out with Viktor as he dives into the world of software security and compliance with special guest Steve Springett! They geek out over the latest developments in SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials), exploring how Project Koala is shaping the future of cybersecurity. From breach fatigue to the importance of standardization, Steve shares his expert insights on the challenges and opportunities facing organizations today. Get ready for a thought-provoking conversation that will leave you with a deeper understanding of the complex relationships between software security, compliance, and industry standards.

Adam Jacob remains optimistic about the future for infrastructure and is building new ideas to make it better.

In this episode, we will be talking to Russ Cox, who joined the Go team at Google in 2008 and has been the Go project tech lead since 2012, about stepping back & handing over the reins to Austin Clements, who will also join us! We also have Cherry Mui, who is stepping into Austin's previous role as tech lead of the “Go...

Happy Sukkot 🏕️! Find John & Shay at cupogo.dev, where you can find links to our Slack channel, Swag store, Patreon community, and the entire Cup o' Go episode archive.MeetupsGoUAE meetup, Oct 26Go LiepzigProposalsproposal: net/http: customize limit on number of 1xx responses (FInal Comment...

This week on the Business of Open Source, I spoke with David Höck, co-founder of Vendure. We talked about switching licenses from MIT to GPL, the ways that Vendure is different from it’s competitors and how architectural decisions can be a powerful differentiator for an open source...

Originally aired in December 2023: In this episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast, host Schalk Neethling speaks with guest Jordan Harband in a deep dive into the open-source world.

In this episode, CRob discusses the finer points of developer relations (DevRel) with Katherine Druckman, Open Source Evangelist at Intel and co-chair of the OpenSSF Marketing Advisory Council and DevRel Community. Katherine enjoys sharing her pas...

This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Eric Holscher, co-founder of Read the Docs. We had a really far-ranging conversation that included talking about why documentation is often so bad, why documentation should be a priority, but also Eric’s experience building Read the Docs and...