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02/15/24 • 37 min
OPAL is an open-source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPAL provides the necessary infrastructure to load policy and data into multiple policy engines, ensuring they have the information they need to make decisions. Today, we’re talking to Or Weis (@OrWeis), co-creator of OPAL and co-founder of Permit, the end-to-end authorization platform that envisions a world where developers never have to build permissions again.
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In this episode we discuss:
- History of Permit and OPAL
- The benefits of an open-foundation model rather than open-core
- RBAC vs ABAC vs ReBAC
- Why developers would prefer to not have to deal with authorization
- Or’s own podcast, Command+Shift+Left
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People mentioned:
- Asaf Cohen ( @asafchn)
- Filip Grebowski ( @developerfilip)
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07/04/19 • 0 min
Learn about Contributor, a podcast about the best open source projects and the communities that build them.
10/17/23 • 33 min
Kuba Martin (@cube2222_2) is Software Engineering Team Lead at Spacelift and Interim Tech Lead of OpenTofu, the open-source fork of Terraform. Terraform is a declarative infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool that recently switched to a source-available license. Spacelift and other companies that heavily relied on Terraform came together to fork it into a community-driven project originally called OpenTF, which has now become OpenTofu and is governed by the Linux Foundation.
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In this episode we discuss:
- Two kinds of forks
- How OpenTofu handled the opportunity to rethink their licensing and copyright
- Finding hundreds of pledges to the OpenTF Manifesto
- The benefits of a technical steering committee
- Recreating the community registry
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09/13/23 • 32 min
Ry Walker (@rywalker) is the founder and CEO of Tembo, the Postgres developer platform for building any and every data service. To Ry, the full capabilities of Postgres appear underappreciated and underused for most users. Tembo is an attempt to harness the large ecosystem of Postgres extensions, and ultimately collapse the database sprawl of the modern data stack.
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In this episode we discuss:
- Taking the “red pill” of using Postgres for everything
- Providing universal support for Postgres extensions
- Why Ry dislikes the current state of the modern data stack
- How databases across the board have mostly changed into application platforms
- What makes Tembo “Startup Mt. Everest”
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People mentioned:
- Erik Bernhardsson ( @bernhardsson)
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Apache Cassandra with Patrick McFadin
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06/02/21 • 34 min
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Patrick McFadin (@PatrickMcFadin) delve into the history of Apache Cassandra, the open-source NoSQL database born and bred around cloud over a decade ago. Patrick is the VP of Developer Relations at DataStax, and a member of the Cassandra Project Management Committee. On today’s episode, Patrick shares his philosophy on developer advocacy and experience in open-source.
In this episode we discuss:
- Behind the NoSQL explosion that made Cassandra the darling of the valley
- Comparing different eras of commercializing open-source, then and now
- How Patrick became a pioneer in evangelizing and community-building
- The two kinds of people to recruit for developer relations
- Why Patrick says open-source is going to “start eating clouds”
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People mentioned:
- Avinash Lakshman (@HedvigEng)
- Prashant Malik (@pmalik)
- Adrian Cawcroft (@adrianco)
- Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower)
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Ground Control: Lunar with Eyal Solomon
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05/15/24 • 27 min
Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643) is the CEO and co-founder of Lunar, an open-source platform which bills itself as the “first reverse API gateway.” Lunar allows engineering teams to monitor, manage, and optimize API consumption. According to Eyal, it’s very easy to integrate with APIs, but difficult to keep them maintained, and there was a clear need for a generic solution to control and scale every API consumed in production.
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In this episode we discuss:
- How most companies think their API maintenance is a unique problem
- The importance of managing API consumption in the face of the AI revolution
- Why Eyal and his team decided to open-source Lunar
- Future plans for Lunar, including the development of autonomous optimization and pre-built flows
- Eyal’s thoughts on how to start conversations with potential enterprise clients
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People mentioned:
- Roy Gabbay (LinkedIn)
TensorFlow with Rajat Monga
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12/02/20 • 29 min
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by Rajat Monga (@rajatmonga), a co-creator of TensorFlow. Originally developed by the Google Brain team, TensorFlow is now one of the most popular open-source libraries for machine learning. The team at TensorFlow seek to “democratize” the world of AI as we know it, and by all accounts, they are succeeding. Listen to today’s episode to get inside one of the largest and most exciting open-source projects of the decade.
In this episode we discuss:
- How TensorFlow compares to other open-source projects at Google
- Taking bets on launch day numbers
- Balancing the demands of different kinds of TensorFlow users
- Lessons from Keras and PyTorch
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- TensorFlow
- Keras
- PyTorch
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
- Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
People mentioned:
- Jeff Dean (@JeffDean)
- Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg)
- François Chollet (@fchollet)
08/09/23 • 40 min
Jan Oberhauser (@JanOberhauser) is the founder and CEO of n8n, the free and source-available workflow automation tool for technical users. n8n's flexible architecture allows users to avoid the limitations of other automation tools, while also opening doors for complex automation scenarios. The project has garnered over 30,000 GitHub stars and a thriving community of 55,000+ members.
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In this episode we discuss:
- How Jan’s background in film effects laid the groundwork for n8n
- Why n8n uses a forum over Discord or Slack for a community platform
- Use cases from scheduling fitness classes to upgrading financial mainframes
- How n8n might stack up against the well-thought out Python script
- Why n8n uses a fair-code license rather than open-source
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To the Moon: OpenBB with Didier Lopes
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03/13/24 • 39 min
OpenBB is an open-source investment research platform created by Didier Lopes (@didier_lopes). OpenBB grew out of a project called Gamestonk Terminal that Didier began working on shortly before the Gamestop short squeeze in January 2021. Today, OpenBB has evolved into an infrastructure platform that allows users to build extensions and access financial data with automation and customization.
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In this episode we discuss:
- What Vice Media got wrong about OpenBB
- Some major contributors to the project and the features or directions that they proposed
- How a machine learning engineer from Bloomberg reached out about OpenBB
- Different types of OpenBB users – students, retail investors, and other financial professionals
- OpenBB’s exciting AI roadmap
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People mentioned:
- James Maslek ( @jmaslek11
- Artem Veremey ( @artemvv)
01/17/24 • 34 min
Ben Johnson (@benbjohnson) is the creator of Litestream and LiteFS, two open-source disaster recovery solution for SQLite. Litestream is designed to provide continuous backups for SQLite databases by streaming incremental changes, allowing for easy data recovery in the event of a server crash. LiteFS, on the other hand, is built on LiteStream but uses transactional control to focus on replication and high availability. Join us as Ben discusses the challenges and trade-offs of open source contributions and the future of databases.
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In this episode we discuss:
- The history of how Ben got involved in SQLite development out of “spite”
- How Litestream “works on a fluke”
- Different use cases for Litestream vs LiteFS
- Why fully open contributions isn’t always Ben’s style
- The greater server-side SQLite landscape
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People mentioned:
- Philip O’Toole ( @general_order24)
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How many episodes does Contributor have?
Contributor currently has 85 episodes available.
What topics does Contributor cover?
The podcast is about Podcasts and Technology.
What is the most popular episode on Contributor?
The episode title 'Haystack and Intelligent Search with Milos Rusic' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Contributor?
The average episode length on Contributor is 33 minutes.
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Episodes of Contributor are typically released every 14 days.
When was the first episode of Contributor?
The first episode of Contributor was released on Jul 4, 2019.
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