Dev infrastructure, with Guillermo Rauch (Vercel) - S03E01

06/09/22 • 37 min

In this episode we speak to Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, a platform for globally distributed applications. We discuss the meaning of “developer experience”, how complexity is managed to help developers get started quickly but still be able to scale multiple systems, the role of monorepos and monolithic application architectures, and how to think about globally deployed serverless databases.

About Guillermo Rauch

Guillermo Rauch is CEO of Vercel. Before starting Vercel in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He is the creator of several popular Node.js open source libraries like Socket.io, Mongoose and Slackin. Prior to Node.js, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit. Passionate about open source as an education medium, he is a former mentor of an Open Source Engineering class organized and pioneered by Stanford, with students from Harvard, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, UPenn, Columbia and others.

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Season 3 - Devtools Interviews

Starting with Vercel CEO, Guillermo Rauch on 9th June 2022, in season 3 of the Console DevTools Podcast we'll be speaking to 10 interesting people currently working in devtools about a specific technical topic. Upcoming guests:

Dev Infra, with Guillermo Rauch (Vercel)
BPF, with Liz Rice (Isovalent)
OSS & Investing, with Joseph Jacks (OSS Capital)
Privacy Engineering, with Cate Huston (DuckDuckGo)
Security & Software Supply Chain, with Feross Aboukhadijeh (Socket)
Data science, with Ines Montani (Explosion)
Containers & Tests, with Sergei Egorov (Atomic Jar)
VR, with Elena Kokkinara (Inflight VR)
WASM, with Connor Hicks (Suborbital)
Engineering Leadership, with Meri Williams (LabGenius, LeadDev & Kindred)

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eBPF, with Liz Rice (Isovalent) - S03E02

In this episode we speak to Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, the company behind the open source eBPF product Cilium. We discuss why it’s such a revolutionary approach to developing low-level kernel applications, how BPF can be used for observability, networking and security, how developers should think about application security, and why all of these technologies are open source.

About Liz Rice

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer at eBPF pioneers Isovalent, creators of the Cilium project, which provides cloud native networking, observability and security. Prior to Isovalent she was VP Open Source Engineering with security specialists Aqua Security. She is also Chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee, has co-chaired the KubeCon / CloudNativeCon and is an Ambassador for Open UK.

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Recorded: 2022-05-05.