Authorization can be a time-consuming process, but you can never get away from it because it is just as essential to your product and business. What if there is a way to make this easy? With Cerbos , that is possible. Cerbos is the authorization layer for software applications to be able to quickly and securely implement roles and permissions. In this episode, its CEO and Founder Emre Baran joins us to help us get to know the work they are doing and how they have built and grown it. He talks abo...
Jun 13, 2023•46 min•Ep. 45
There is fragmentation in the field of AI that no one seems to be taking too seriously. Daniel Lenton , the CEO of Ivy , observed this, finding so many frameworks, models, infrastructures, and hardware that make it hard for collaboration. Helping solve this problem, Ivy was created to unify all Machine Learning (ML) frameworks. In this episode, he tells us how they made it possible to fit these pieces together. Daniel also takes us through his journey prior to Ivy, the walls they hit in the labs...
Jun 06, 2023•48 min•Ep. 44
Flagsmith's CEO, Ben Rometsch , is a true champion of open source. His software revolution is turning heads among developers, by unlocking the true potential of simplicity and sustainability in the digital world. In this special interview episode, Jason Bosco from Type Sense takes charge and conducts an exciting conversation with Ben Rometsch. Today’s episode unravels the story behind Flagsmith and the pivotal moments that drove its creation. Jason probes Ben with insightful questions, exploring...
May 30, 2023•48 min•Ep. 43
This whole idea of having an operating system that runs many different programs on one computer is completely outdated and doesn't reflect reality whatsoever. The question is, “What would an operating system look like for something in 2020 to serve up the software?” That's where NanoVMs come in with a unikernel concept. Today, its CEO, Ian Eyberg , takes us into a deep dive into unikernels and how they function. Tune in to discover how to efficiently manage virtual machines and create a truly ag...
May 16, 2023•45 min•Ep. 42
In this episode, we welcome Kasra Bigdeli , Engineering Manager at CapRover . He shares how he built an open-source version of Heroku that features one-click apps. He explains how he designed it to be newbie-friendly: easy to navigate and full of contextual help. Kasra also talks about using only organic techniques in marketing CapRover, and now its community is naturally growing with more than a hundred projects....
May 09, 2023•38 min•Ep. 41
When you create something you love, it feels good to give it away for people to tinker around and do great things with it. That is what is open-source is all about. But what happens when the cost of maintaining an open-source project becomes too high to sustain? Some people would abandon it, but not Francois Zaninotto , CEO of Marmelab . Realizing the untapped potential of React-Admin , he managed to build a sustainable business model from an open-source core. Find out how he did it in this conv...
May 02, 2023•41 min•Ep. 40
Ben Rometsch and Matt Althauser sit down with Shaun Campton, Principal Engineer at Tigera , who shares his experiences as a core developer on Project Calico . He talks about their origins of moving out of the era of doing forklift moves into OpenStack and down the development of network splitting, focusing more on a dynamic firewall approach. He opens up on his experiences writing their first 10,000 lines of code, their identity-based policy, and the value they are offering to clients. Shaun als...
Apr 25, 2023•38 min
As simple as they seem, feature flags cannot be underestimated. The more you dive into what it offers, the more you realize how much it can clean up your code base. Mike Beamer and Todd Baert saw the value it could further provide and founded OpenFeature . OpenFeature is an open standard for feature flag management, created to support a robust feature flag ecosystem using cloud-native technologies. In this episode, they share with us the work they are doing as well as the genesis of OpenFeature ...
Dec 08, 2022•46 min
When Guillermo Rauch started Vercel , people asked him, “what came first, the idea of simplifying global delivery or the idea of creating a framework?” He answered, “what about both?” Guillermo explored the conception of a system where it gets better. The more it gets global, the more resilient and dynamic it becomes that the operations go away. In this episode, he tells us how he took on these two problems, watched them co-evolve, and founded Vercel—a platform for frontend developers, providing...
Nov 25, 2022•47 min
Laravelis one of the most popular PHP web frameworks today and has gained much traction worldwide. However, one thing it doesn't have is a proper e-commerce system. Saurav Pathak took this gap between Laravel and the developer community as a business opportunity. He joins Ben Rometsch to share how he bootstrapped a company called Magisto, an open-source eCommerce ecosystem that provides reliable support to the merchant community. Saurav explains the community management strategies that spelled s...
Nov 10, 2022•42 min
Apache Cassandra paved the way for today's biggest digital platforms to scale into the much bigger global scene. Patrick McFadin of Datastax is one of the people involved in this open-source project and saw first-hand how it burst into the world. He joins Ben Rometsch to share how Cassandra was developed, the many challenges they faced in its optimization, its relationship with Datastax, and how it changed database engine creation and data modeling. Patrick also talks about the measures they are...
Oct 28, 2022•51 min
Fleet is the most widely used open-source OSQuery manager. It allows you to get accurate data from every endpoint in your organization and allow organizations to have complete control over their data. Fleet has been instrumental in businesses, for it is a scalable and resilient platform that manages your workloads. In this episode, Mike McNeil , the CEO of Fleet, explains how Fleet and OSQuery can significantly help your organization. Listen to this episode and learn more from Mike as he shares ...
Jul 26, 2022•32 min
Join Ben Rometsch as he talks to Gabriel Engel , the founder and CEO of Rocket Chat.
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Temporal's Co-Founder and CEO, Maxim Fateev , and Head of Product, Ryland Goldstein sit down with Ben to talk about open source and the origin of their project. Temporal is a microservice orchestration platform which enables developers to build scalable applications without sacrificing productivity or reliability. Temporal server executes units of application logic, Workflows, in a resilient manner that automatically handles intermittent failures, and retries failed operations....
Jun 20, 2022•50 min
Greg Hayes, Director of Engineering at Coiled joins Ben to talk about the Dask project. Dask makes it easy to scale the Python libraries that you know and love like NumPy, pandas and scikit-learn.
Jun 14, 2022•30 min
Rob Hirschfeld is the founder and CEO of RackN , providing secure workflows and modular life-cycle automation for bare metal, edge, and cloud. Rob is a proponent of collaboration in the open source software industry. In this episode, he joins Ben Rometsch to share his insight and ideas from an infrastructure perspective on what needs solving and the potential outcomes.
Jun 07, 2022•46 min
As a company grows, internal tools start to play a bigger role, and these tools become harder to maintain. This is why Appsmith was created. It's an open-source platform that lets you create these internal tools. Join Ben Rometsch as he talks to Nikhil Nandagopal about Appsmith.
May 31, 2022•49 min
Thomas Payet , Co-founder & COO of Meilisearch
May 17, 2022•49 min
Medusa is an open source headless e-commerce platform founded by Sebastian Rindom . The company provides software for sellers to develop a unique commerce experience.
Mar 15, 2022•43 min
Cal.com offers scheduling for everyone. Ben Rometsch and the CEO of Cal.com , Peer Richelsen , give us a look at the nuts and bolts of this open source project. Peer goes back to the founding of the company, getting funded and how they approach integration with other apps.
Mar 01, 2022•50 min
These days, video is everybody’s favorite mode of media consumption. But what really goes into video and the technology behind it? Today’s guest is video technology enthusiast, Steve Heffernan . Steve is the Co-Founder at Mux and Creator of Video.js , a web video player built from the ground up for an HTML5 world. Steve gets deep into the complexities of the space and where it’s headed as it scales. The future is video. Learn all about the space and what Steve’s company is up to next by tuning i...
Feb 02, 2022•37 min
Hoppscotch is an open-source API development ecosystem that gets you straight to the points and helps you create API requests faster. Join Ben Rometsch and his guest, Liyas Thomas , the Founder and CEO of Hoppscotch, as they dive into how Hoppscotch came to be. Discover how Liyas started it with a single post and how that post got viral. Learn how to find the right audience that knows what they want to do. Find out how Liyas created the clean and slick user interface of Hoppscotch and why it doe...
Dec 21, 2021•44 min
Co-Founder of Quora.com, early Facebook engineer and now CEO and Co-Founder of Expo, Charlie Cheever joins Ben Rometsch to talk about how Expo is helping engineers seamlessly release their products on all platforms instantly.
Dec 14, 2021•53 min
Data is bigger than ever. In this episode, Michael Driscoll shares just where big data is heading and how the industry is changing with it. Michael is the Founder and CEO of Rill Data and Co-founder of Metamarkets .
Nov 30, 2021•39 min
Ben sits down with the Browserless founder and CEO Joel Griffith . Joel shares how he turned a github issue into a profitable business that helps thousands of companies around the world.
Nov 23, 2021•48 min
Mitchell Hashimoto's company HashiCorp is the creator of Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul, Terraform, Vault, and Nomad. Together, these open source projects have over 100,000 stars on Github and exist to help engineers better with consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application.
Nov 02, 2021•47 min•Ep. 12
What does it take to build a good open-source search engine? Ben Rometsch, CEO of Flagsmith, sits down for a lively discussion on Typesense 's search engine technology with its co-creator, Jason Bosco . Jason discusses the origin of Typesense and their design choices, including the unusual choice of using C++ for its creation. We also hear about their decision to go open source and how the community is helping them refine their product. This is an episode you must not miss if you want to learn m...
Aug 31, 2021•52 min•Ep. 22
Docusaurus lead developer Sebastien Lorber has some interesting insights to share. As a freelance contractor, Sebastien leads the development of the Docusaurus open-source project for Facebook. Docusaurus is a static site generator that generates a modern single-page application from Markdown files so that website creators can focus on creating their content.
Aug 17, 2021•45 min•Ep. 21
Pablo Múzquiz , CEO & co-founder of Penpot . Penpot gives design freedom for teams. In this episode, Pablo takes Ben Rometsch behind the scenes on how they came up with Penpot. Join in the conversation and discover Penpot’s groundbreaking potential for designers.
Aug 03, 2021•46 min•Ep. 20
MinIO is the #1 cloud-native open-source object store for enterprises. In this episode, Ben caught up with Harshavardhana , the co-founder of MinIO .
Jul 13, 2021•35 min•Ep. 19
