Molding a Passion for Open Source into a Company with Andrew Rynhard
03/02/22 • 32 min
Andrew Rynhard, Founder and CTO of Sidero Labs, joins the show today to discuss his work and Sidero Labs. Sidero is a Kubernetes lifecycle management reimagined from the operating system to entire stack. Andrew has origins steeped deeply in open source, and it has become a central focus to his entire ethos and drive.
Andrew breaks down his own trajectory that lead to Sidero and the passion he leveled for the endevour from the onset. Andrew’s passion for open source served as the impetus founding the company, and he shares his love for open source and the pathways that it created for him through his career. Andrew shares Sidero Lab’s successful initial funding, the shift to it being his full-time job, and their meteoric rise.
Highlights:
- An introduction to Andrew and Sidero Labs (00:00)
- The early days of Sidero Labs and their current position (03:10)
- The moment Sidero became Andrew’s primary focus and the companies journey (08:05)
- Sidero’s focus on distributed systems (17:48)
- The challenges of a project that is far down the stack (22:15)
- Some final thoughts from Andrew (31:35)
Links:
Andrew
Andrew Rynhard, Founder and CTO of Sidero Labs, joins the show today to discuss his work and Sidero Labs. Sidero is a Kubernetes lifecycle management reimagined from the operating system to entire stack. Andrew has origins steeped deeply in open source, and it has become a central focus to his entire ethos and drive.
Andrew breaks down his own trajectory that lead to Sidero and the passion he leveled for the endevour from the onset. Andrew’s passion for open source served as the impetus founding the company, and he shares his love for open source and the pathways that it created for him through his career. Andrew shares Sidero Lab’s successful initial funding, the shift to it being his full-time job, and their meteoric rise.
Highlights:
- An introduction to Andrew and Sidero Labs (00:00)
- The early days of Sidero Labs and their current position (03:10)
- The moment Sidero became Andrew’s primary focus and the companies journey (08:05)
- Sidero’s focus on distributed systems (17:48)
- The challenges of a project that is far down the stack (22:15)
- Some final thoughts from Andrew (31:35)
Links:
Andrew
Previous Episode
Collaboration and an Emphasis on Project Over Product with Open Telemetry
Today’s episode is a round table with Morgan McClean, Ben Sigelman, and Alolita Sharma, the maintainers of Open Telemetry. Open Telemetry is a high-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability with a mission to make telemetry as approachable and applicable as possible. Open Telemetry’s values center on compatibility, reliability, resilience, and performance. With these objectives in hand, our maintainers are making waves in open space.
In this episode Morgan, Ben, and Alolita breakdown their individaul involvement in Open Telemetry. They discuss the paths each of them took to end up there, and the varied skillsets the bring to the project. Open Telemetry’s vision and mission is unique in its clarity and precision, and they share some insight as to why. Open Telemetry’s collaboration allows the space for their mission statement to shine through, and as a project before a product, give to the open source community. Check out the conversation for Morgan, Ben and Alolita’s excellent perspectives!
Highlights:
- Introductions to our three maintainers and their invovlement in Open Telemetry (00:26)
- Why and how Open Telemetry has such an explicitly clear mission and vision (03:44)
- Making it clear what Open Telemetry is not (08:20)
- Thinking as a project, not product (10:45)
- The pros and cons of working with “frenemies” (17:55)
- Why Open Telemetry has been successful (27:22)
- Closing comments on Open Telemetry (32:35)
Links:
Open Telemetry
- Twitter: @opentelemetry, Ben (@el_bhs), Alolita (@alolita)
- Company: https://opentelemetry.io
Next Episode
Building a Kubernetes Operations Company with Haseeb Budhani
Haseeb Budhani, co-founder and CEO of Rafay Systems, a Kubernetes operations company joins the conversation. What a Kubernetes operation company is as companies use Kubernetes across their organizations they need the right automation, security, visibility and more. These are needs that come from multiple teams working across multiple applications, and it creates a lot of work. This is where Rafay Systems is looking to cover down.
Haseeb introduces us to the work at Rafay systems, and his own discovery of the problems they want to address. Haseeb discusses the history of Rafay’s establishment, and how they are striving to create a fluid and robust workflow engine. He reflects on how his previous experience has reinforced the lessons he brought to Rafay, how to connect to the customers, and more! Check out the conversation!
Highlights:
- An introduction to Haseeb and Rafay Systems (00:00)
- Lessons learned at other companies and staying the course (6:12)
- Successfully connecting with the customers needs (12:29)
- The lessons learned already at Rafay and some helpful advice (15:36)
- Where the Kubernete’s ecosystem is headed (25:22)
Links:
Haseeb
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