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Wes recounts how the Taliban taking over Afghanistan resulted in his bos.af domain being revoked, and discusses the intricacies and risks of getting clever country code top-level domains.

🛡️ Security updates coming on TuesdayGo 1.22.1 & 1.21.8google.golang.org/protobuf and github.com/google/protobuf🧀 Open proposal: use SwissTable to improve hash map performanceRelated releasesGopherJS 1.19 beta1 with Go 1.19 support (w/o generics)TinyGo 0.31.0 with Go 1.22 supportAround the...

This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Zach Wasserman, co-founder and CTO of Fleet. This was a fabulous episode for many reasons, but then again I never do crappy episodes, right? The first thing I wanted to call your attention to is that Zach talked about how he’s building an...

Emily is a former journalist and content writer. Through a tragic event, she understood and used her professional and personal experiences and skills to reposition herself, identifying a niche in t...

Slightly different The Business of Open Source episode today! I spoke with Patrick McFadin and Mick Semb Wever about the relationship between Apache Cassandra and DataStax — how it was at the beginning and how the relationship has evolved over the years. We talked about:— How there was a dynamic...

This is on-call as it should be. The secret's out. The world can finally know. incident.io On-call is here. Naturally, a lot of you may be wondering: why and why now. So to help answer those questions, we sat down with Chris and Pete, two of our co-founders here at incident.io to get a bit of background on this project: What exactly went into it? What were we hoping to solve for? How are we addressing the pain points around being on call? And most importantly, how are we stacking up against the incumbents in our space? This episode will not only get you excited about this huge week, it'll get you pumped for what's ahead for on-call. Learn more about on-call here: https://incident.io/oncall

In this episode Abi Noda is joined by Crystal Hirschorn, who leads Platform Infrastructure, SRE, and Developer Experience at Snyk. In their conversation, Crystal shares the story behind the recently founded Developer experience group, including why they named the team Developer Experience, how...

In this episode, Abi has a fascinating conversation with Rebecca Parsons, ThoughtWorks's CTO, Camilla Crispim, and Erik Dörnenburg on the ThoughtWorks Tech Radar. The trio begins with an overview of Tech Radar and its history before delving into the intricate process of creating each report...

Liz Saling, Director of Engineering at GitHub, shares the story of how the Developer Experience group was founded and why GitHub paused features for a quarter to focus on making developer experience improvements.

In this episode we’re joined by Adam Rogal, who leads Developer Productivity and Platform at DoorDash. Adam describes DoorDash’s journey with their internal developer portal, and gives advice for  other teams looking to follow a similar path. Adam also describes how his team delivered value...

Nathan dives into his latest creation, ”Governable Spaces”, exploring historical developments and challenges, and unveils insights into global democracy's potential impact.

Phil has a chat with Quobix about his tools for API linting, testing, and compliance. We hear the story behind Open Source tools Vacuum and Wiretap, and Quobix's journey building highly performant devtools with golang.

The Zed text editor has come a long way since Nathan Sobo came on the show last year to tell us about this follow-up to Atom. Zed is open source now, has the underpinnings of collaboration built in, is beginning its journey toward full extensibility, is coming to Linux soon & shows serious promise if Nathan’s team ...

Wanny Morellato & Deepak Mohandas from Kong join Justin & Autumn to discuss building, testing & running a load balancer that can run anywhere.

I chatted with Matt Boyle about debugging Go code. Matt is creating a course about this topic and discussing debugging as a tool you may add to your toolbelt.LinksThe Ultimate Guide to Debugging With GoDomain-Driven Design with GolangMatt on Twitter aka XGoland Insiders (Go Twitter community)As...

On this episode, Mike and Matt are joined by Aden Forshaw, CEO of That API Company. Aden shares the story of how a personal hack project turned into an API product that is now used by countless indivi

Meet the hostsMeet Shay: 🇮🇱 Go Israel Meetup, March 12 @ OrcaMeet Jonathan: 🇳🇱 Go Amsterdam Meetup, Feb 27 @ Creative FabricaProposalsDeclined: 🤐 archive/zip: support for encrypted archivesAccepted: 🔁 iter: new package for iteratorsAccepted: 🗺️ maps: add iterator-related functionsLikely accept: 🍕...

Malvika explores _The Turing Way_, a resource on how to build open source together in the sciences. She talks about the significance of acknowledging contributions, rewarding contributors, and the enduring spirit of volunteerism in open source.

Mike McQuaid, maintainer of Homebrew, and now CTO at Workbrew joins us to discuss open tabs, social media spam and distractions, TikTok’s addictive nature, Apple Vision Pro and its potential future, the maintenance of software, the swing back to old school web development, the value of telemetry in open source projects...

What do you do when your infrastructure runs 1000 miles away and you only have access every 90 minutes? Find out from Andrew Guenther from Orbital Sidekick.

Today we speak with Ellie Huxtable, the creator of a magical open source tool for syncing, searching & backing up your shell history. Along the way we learn all about the sync service, why she likes Rust, the branding / marketing of the project, how she quit her job to work on it full time, the business model &...

Garima Kapoor, COO and co-founder of MinIO, joins me to share her journey from investor and advisor to co-founder of MinIO and the wealth of knowledge she’s amassed along the way. In this episode, Garima explains how her experience in finance and belief in the power of open source helped MinIO to...

In this episode of the Open Source Founders Podcast, I talked with Frank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud. Frank is going to be talking specifically about lead generation at Open Source Founders Summit, but in this episode we took a slightly wider view and talked about go to market, for...

This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Percona CEO Ann Schlemmer. This episode was recorded on site at State of Open Con in London, outside in a van! There’s a ton of great info in this episode, too. First of all, Ann talked about being a ‘suit’ in a geek’s world and her career...

Delve into the dynamic world of API gateways and the ongoing process of reinvention. Explore the latest trends, challenges, and innovations shaping the API landscape. From security concerns to performance optimizations, Josh shares his insights on how businesses can stay ahead by embracing the evolving role of API gateways in today's tech-driven ecosystem and how his experience building large scale systems like this informed the architecture at Zuplo.

In this collaboration between the CHAOSScast and Mechanical Ink podcasts, hosts Dawn Foster and Schalk Neethling are joined by guests Daniel Izquierdo and Sean Goggins to discuss open-source community health metrics. The episode brings together two fascinating open-source projects - GrimoireLab and Augur - that aim to provide insights into the health of open-source software communities. By gathering data from various platforms and channels, and analyzing contributor activity, issues, pull requests, and conversations, these projects shine a light on the inner workings of open-source projects.

In this collaboration between the CHAOSS Cast and Mechanical Ink podcasts, hosts Dawn Foster and Schalk Neethling are joined by guests Daniel Izquierdo and Sean Goggins to discuss open source community health metrics. The focus is on providing an overview of two projects under the CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics for Open Source Software) umbrella - GrimoireLab and Augur. These open source tools gather data from diverse sources and analyze it to provide insights into open-source community health.

Apple kills EU web apps, Amazon launches a JS runtime optimized for serverless workloads & we play a game of 20 (15) questions to welcome Jessica Sachs to the party!

Portal is a 2007 game developed by Valve, where the player encounters puzzles that must be solved using the “portal gun”, a device that can create inter-spatial portals between surfaces. Portal 64 is an open-source re-write of Portal that can be run on original Nintendo 64 hardware. The game was developed by James Lambert and

In the first of a multi-part series, Ian & Johnny are joined by Miriah Peterson & Bryan Boreham to peel back the first layer of the things that matter when it comes to the performance of your Go programs.

This week we’re joined by Stefano Maffulli, the Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). They are responsible for representing the idea and the definition of open source globally. Stefano shares the challenges they face as a US-based non-profit with a global impact. We discuss the work Stefano and the OS...

Angie of Aiven, overseeing 11 open-source projects, emphasizes managed services & security updates for data projects, highlighting the importance of prioritizing by impact.

We’re back! Jason Hall joins the show to tell Justin & Autumn all about how Chainguard builds hundreds of containers without a single Dockerfile.

Jamie Tanna (who has a website) joins us to discuss the indie web, living with ADHD, sharing his salary history with the world & building DMD – a dynamite open source tool to help you better understand the use of dependencies across your org.

Proposals:new: add slices.Repeat functionaccepted: deprecate runtime.GOROOTFrom the Go blog: Routing Enhancements for Go 1.22How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years by Mat RyerWeaveworks shutting downOn Reddit: Go 1.22 yielding a 18% regression in single-threading performanceOn YouTube:...

Robby has a conversation with John Nunemaker, the Owner at “Box Out Sports” and “Fewer & Faster”, about the crucial importance of keeping dependencies and versions up to date when maintaining software projects, the benefits of using tools like Dependabot to help with dependency management, how dangerous a change is from a dependency, how John enjoys seeking out the dark corners of a codebase to improve those areas, and much more. Stay tuned!

In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I talked with four-time entrepreneur Mike Schwartz, CEO and founder of Gluu as well as the host of Open Source Underdogs podcast, about his long career in entrepreneurship. Here’s some particularly interesting things to take out of this...

As part of the preparation for Open Source Founders Summit, I’m interviewing both our speakers and our attendees for a special podcast that’s hyper focused on one thing. In this episode I spoke with Peter Zaitsev, founder of Percona, about sales. We talked about the specifics of sales as a...

Scott Chacon's FOSDEM 2024 talk on Git Tips and Tricks.Scott talks about:00:00 - Introduction01:06 - About Me (well, Scott Chacon)02:36 - How Well Do You Kno...

Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Athens 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say!

Imagine an AI assistant that could automatically surface a whole host of useful incident response data points with just a prompt. Well, you won't need to imagine for much longer. That's exactly what we built in Assistant, one of our newest features powered by AI. In this episode, you'll hear from Charlie, the project lead for Assistant, to get a peek behind this game-changing product. You'll hear him chat about: What went into building Assistant What the project timelines were What were some of the challenges the team faced What was it like learning the ropes of prompt engineering while building out Assistant ...and a lot more You can listen to our ⁠AI announcement episode here⁠ and our previous ⁠episode on Suggested Summaries here⁠. Read our blog about Assistant.

Changelog Beats drops a new Dance Party album, Will McGugan’s new Toolong (tl) terminal app, Mitchell Baker is out as Mozilla CEO, Microsoft’s Jordi Adoumie announces sudo for Windows, Tatu Ylonen tells the tale of how they got SSH to be port 22 & Jack Lindamood gives an “Endorse” or “Regret” rating for ~50 differe...

The open-source ecosystem experienced a monumental shift in 2023, as detailed by Martin Woodward, VP of Developer Relations at GitHub, on the Mechanical Ink Podcast. The Octoverse report highlighted that more first-time contributors joined the open-source community than ever before. But why?

Bolaji spotlights OSCA's Sustain conference, emphasizing its diverse workshops, notable attendance, and new mental health and data science working groups. He addresses self-care and workload management in the open-source community, offering strategies for maintaining physical health in demanding roles.

New releases♬ Go 1.21.7 and 1.20.14 released🧹 golangci-lint 1.56.1 released, including support for `--show-stats` and John's bugfixConferences and Meetups🇮🇱 Go Israel March 2024 hosted by Orca SecurityGo 1.22 Feature RundownOfficial announcement, release notes, and download linkCool interactive...

We’re taking you back to the hallway track at THAT Conference where we have 3 MORE fun conversations: one with Samuel Goff about the future of energy, one with YouTuber Jess Chan about the future of content creation & one with Vanessa Villa / Noah Jenkins about ag tech & the future of food.

This week on The Changelog we’re talking with Nadia Odunayo, founder of StoryGraph. Nadia started out as a one woman dev and product team — she’s had to adjust and maneuver along way to becoming the Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads. We talk about the importance of customer research, the iterative nature of customer...

Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent, Carlana Johnson, joins Johnny & Ian to discuss what’s new with the latest iteration of Go in version 1.22.