The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source The Future of RethinkDB (Interview)
Oct 17, 2017
01:10:06
Mike Glukhovsky joined the show to talk about the future of RethinkDB. Mike was a co-founder of RethinkDB along-side Slava Akhmechet. RethinkDB shutdown a year ago officially on October 5, 2016 — and today we’re talking through all the details with Mike. The shutdown, getting purchased by the CNCF, relicensing, buying back their IP and source code, community and governance, and some specific features that Mike and the rest of the community are excited about.
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Featuring:
- Mike Glukhovsky – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- RethinkDB
- The Changelog #114 (with Slava Akhmechet)
- The Changelog #181 (with Slava Akhmechet)
- Proposal: Modifier functions · Issue #5813 · rethinkdb/rethinkdb
- The ReQL query language
- RethinkDB joins The Linux Foundation
- RethinkDB Documentation
- RethinkDB is shutting down
- Contribute to RethinkDB
- From Slava Akhmechet on why RethinkDB failed
- Announcing RethinkDB 2.3.6: the first release under community governance
- CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) Members
- The liberation of RethinkDB
- Apache License, Version 2.0
- AGPL
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!