Contributor

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Ev Kontsevoy (@kontsevoy) talk about Teleport, the open-source tool for instant access to cloud resources. These include SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases and more. Teleport was inspired by the growing complexity of cloud environments, and aims to make engineers feel like all their cloud applications are in the same room together. In this episode we discuss: How Teleport grew from a side project to Gravity, the open-source toolkit for packaging and running applications autonomously Unifying and consolidating modern access methods and industry best practices Bringing identity to a protocol-level An early community use case for Teleport in the cattle industry Engaging with outside contributions while balancing security constraints Links: Teleport Gravity Mailgun

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Travis Nielsen (@STravisNielsen) talk about Rook, the open-source storage orchestrator for Kubernetes. Travis is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, and maintainer of Rook. Join us to dive deep into the story of Rook, from Microsoft, to Quantum, to Red Hat. In this episode we discuss: Ceph + Kubernetes = Rook The difficulty and importance of a stable storage solution for stateless applications How Rook leverages Kubernetes CRDs Why the Rook team decided to work with the CNCF Red Hat’s philosophy and approach to open-source Links: Rook Red Hat Upbound Quantum CNCF People mentioned: Bassam Tabbara (@bassamtabbara) Jared Watts (@jbw976)

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” Links: Apache Cassandra Datastax Datastax Astra People mentioned: Avinash Lakshman (@HedvigEng) Prashant Malik (@pmalik) Adrian Cawcroft (@adrianco) Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) Other episodes: Chef with Adam Jacob

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) interviews Nick Schrock (@schrockn) about Dagster, the open-source data orchestrator for machine learning, analytics, and ETL. Nick is the founder and CEO of Elementl, and is well-known for creating the Project Infrastructure group at Facebook, which spawned GraphQL and React. On today’s episode of Contributor, Nick explains how he set out to fix an inefficiency he identified amongst the complexity of the data infrastructure domain. In this episode we discuss: Dagster’s place in the industry shift towards thinking of data as a software engineering discipline Why Nick believes it’s time for the term “data cleaning” to be retired The empowerment of Dagster’s instantaneous spin-up process and local development experience How a partner integrated Dagster into workflow for ops workers on the warehouse floor One user’s testimony that, “what dbt did for our SQL, Dagster did for our Python” Links: Dagster Elementl GraphQL React dbt Snowflake Apache Airflow People mentioned: Lee Byron (@leeb) Dan Schafer (@dlschafer) Abe Gong (@AbeGong)

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Tanmai Gopal (@tanmaigo) dive into the open-source Hasura GraphQL Engine and the wider Hasura community. Hasura provides real-time GraphQL APIs for databases, so developers can focus on building applications without worrying about infrastructure. Tune in to hear the full story about how Tanmai and his team are helping engineers unlock the dream of self-serve data access. In this episode we discuss: How the early Hasura team created their own version of GraphQL in parallel Developing community with ease of onboarding and radical transparency Transitioning community events into the COVID world, and looking to a future beyond travel Hasura’s secret sauce: the authorization framework Links: Hasura Hasura Con’21 DigitalOcean People mentioned: Rajoshi Ghosh (@rajoshighosh)

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by the co-founders of MindsDB, Jorge Torres (@JorgeTorresAI) and Adam Carrigan (@AdamMCarrigan). MindsDB is an open-source AI layer that integrates with existing databases, from MySQL to Clickhouse. Tune in to learn how these two former college roommates are working to bring machine learning into the mainstream. In this episode we discuss: Why it makes sense to run machine learning models in the database Partnering with Kafka, Looker, and more MindsDB’s initial adoption by students at Berkeley Different applications for MindsDB and machine learning in ecommerce, finance, and more The moment Jorge knew he had to get into business with Adam Links: MindsDB RedisConf 2021 Looker Apache Kafka ClickHouse Other episodes ClickHouse with Alexey Milovidov and Ivan Blinkov

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) welcomes Peter Wang (@pwang) for a conversation about the Python ecosystem and the open-source communities that have built it. Peter is the creator of Anaconda, the near-essential Python distribution for scientific computing that makes managing packages a lot more manageable. In today’s episode, Peter offers a unique and powerful perspective on how to make the economics of open-source work for everyone. In this episode we discuss: The paradox of the PVM and Python’s packaging difficulties How Guido van Rossum implied permission for Anaconda and the open-source Python movement Python as the lingua franca of a new professional class Looking to Roblox for inspiration for a scientific computing creator community Giving back to open-source communities through the NumFOCUS Foundation Links: Anaconda NumFOCUS NumPy SciPy Enthought  Jupyter TensorFlow MicroPython scikit-learn pandas Quansight Red Hat Roblox People mentioned: Travis Oliphant (@teoliphant) Fernando Pérez (@fperez_org) Brian Granger (@ellisonbg) Min Ragan-Kelley (@minrk) Guido van Rossum (@gvanrossum) James Currier (@JamesCurrier) Other episodes: NumPy & SciPy with Travis Oliphant TensorFlow with Rajat Monga

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by Alexander Gallego (@emaxerrno) for an examination of Redpanda, the source available event streaming platform designed as a drop-in replacement for Kafka. Redpanda’s storage engine is attractive to developers for its performance and simplicity, removing the complexity of running Kafka to scale and deploying with a single binary. Listen to today’s episode to learn more about how Alexander and the team at Vectorized are looking to advance the conversation around streaming into the future. In this episode we discuss: What Alexander means when he says that hardware is the platform for data streaming The 3 things that turn a data stream into a data product Comparing Redpanda to Kafka and Pulsar A difference in product philosophy between selling to data teams vs app developers How Alexander approached the challenge of monetizing data infrastructure Links: Redpanda Vectorized Apache Kafka Apache Pulsar Apache Spark Apache Beam Apache Storm Apache Flink Elastic CockroachDB Other episodes: TensorFlow with Rajat Monga Scylla with Dor Laor

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Zoltan Olah (@zqzoltan) discuss Storybook, the open-source UI component development tool. Storybook supports all the most popular frontend frameworks and libraries such as React, Vue and Angular, but allows users to test and develop components in isolation. In today’s episode, learn more about the early days of the component-driven development methodology and how Storybook was saved by a passionate community of engineers. In this episode we discuss: Storybook as an integral part of UI design workflow How Zoltan and his team inherited Storybook and saved it from being “left out to dry” Solving a pain point for front-end engineers with Chromatic’s UI regression testing, built on top of Storybook Why Zoltan compares components to APIs, and Storybook to a service mesh What’s happening today in the world of open-source design systems Links: Storybook Chromatic Meteor GraphQL React Tailwind Selenium Cypress Material-UI Figma Learn Storybook People mentioned: Dominic Nguyen (@domyen) Tom Coleman (@tmeasday) Arunoda Susiripala (@arunoda) Norbert de Langen (@NorbertdeLangen) Michael Shilman (@mshilman)

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Sheng Wu (@wusheng1108) discuss Apache SkyWalking, an open-source APM tool focusing on cloud-native and distributed systems. SkyWalking was originally developed in 2012 as a training tool for developers new to distributed systems architecture, but it became Sheng’s pet project for several years until he brought it to the Apache Incubator program. Listen to today’s episode for the inside scoop of how this “hidden gem” fits into the Apache network of open-source software projects. In this episode we discuss: Why open-source APMs are not very common SkyWalking’s focus on attracting more contributors rather than users How a conflict of interest at Huawei led to a “bake-off” between Apache and CNCF The impact of Elastic changing their license on the open-source community The name “Skywalking,” its sources of inspiration, and an easter egg Links: Apache SkyWalking Kubernetes The Apache Incubator CNCF Tetrate Apache ShardingSphere Apache APISIX Envoy Proxy Apache Airflow Apache Beam Dynatrace New Relic Elastic Helm Zipkin Other episodes: Envoy Proxy with Matt Klein