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Episode description
Mike McQuaid and John Britton are cofounders of Workbrew - a tool that gives you the missing features for enterprises running homebrew.
John has previously worked at GitHub and Twilio and is a contributor to Homebrew. Mike has also worked at GitHub as well as being the project lead and longest running maintainer at Homebrew.
We dig into:
- How Homebrew can trace its origins to a pub in London
- How Apple actually work with Homebrew
- How Homebrew managed to grow and scale up
- How Workbrew are avoiding misaligned incentives so common in open source
Links for Mike, John and Workbrew
- Mike McQuaid https://mikemcquaid.com/
- John Britton https://johndbritton.com/
- Workbrew https://workbrew.com/
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