The Craft Of Open Source

Apache Cassandra paved the way for today's biggest digital platforms to scale into the much bigger global scene. Patrick McFadin of Datastax is one of the people involved in this open-source project and saw first-hand how it burst into the world. He joins Ben Rometsch to share how Cassandra was developed, the many challenges they faced in its optimization, its relationship with Datastax, and how it changed database engine creation and data modeling. Patrick also talks about the measures they are implementing to continuously improve Cassandra and limit open-source access to ensure quality.

Fleet is the most widely used open-source OSQuery manager. It allows you to get accurate data from every endpoint in your organization and allow organizations to have complete control over their data. Fleet has been instrumental in businesses, for it is a scalable and resilient platform that manages your workloads. In this episode, Mike McNeil, the CEO of Fleet, explains how Fleet and OSQuery can significantly help your organization. Listen to this episode and learn more from Mike as he shares more information about Fleet as an open-source OSQuery manager.

Join Ben Rometsch as he talks to Gabriel Engel, the founder and CEO of Rocket Chat.

Temporal's Co-Founder and CEO, Maxim Fateev, and Head of Product, Ryland Goldstein sit down with Ben to talk about open source and the origin of their project. Temporal is a microservice orchestration platform which enables developers to build scalable applications without sacrificing productivity or reliability. Temporal server executes units of application logic, Workflows, in a resilient manner that automatically handles intermittent failures, and retries failed operations.

Greg Hayes, Director of Engineering at Coiled joins Ben to talk about the Dask project. Dask makes it easy to scale the Python libraries that you know and love like NumPy, pandas and scikit-learn.

Rob Hirschfeld is the founder and CEO of RackN, providing secure workflows and modular life-cycle automation for bare metal, edge, and cloud. Rob is a proponent of collaboration in the open source software industry. In this episode, he joins Ben Rometsch to share his insight and ideas from an infrastructure perspective on what needs solving and the potential outcomes.

As a company grows, internal tools start to play a bigger role, and these tools become harder to maintain. This is why Appsmith was created. It's an open-source platform that lets you create these internal tools. Join Ben Rometsch as he talks to Nikhil Nandagopal about Appsmith.

Thomas Payet, Co-founder & COO of Meilisearch

Medusa is an open source headless e-commerce platform founded by Sebastian Rindom. The company provides software for sellers to develop a unique commerce experience.

Cal.com offers scheduling for everyone. Ben Rometsch and the CEO of Cal.com, Peer Richelsen, give us a look at the nuts and bolts of this open source project. Peer goes back to the founding of the company, getting funded and how they approach integration with other apps.