The Craft Of Open Source

These days, video is everybody’s favorite mode of media consumption. But what really goes into video and the technology behind it? Today’s guest is video technology enthusiast, Steve Heffernan. Steve is the Co-Founder at Mux and Creator of Video.js, a web video player built from the ground up for an HTML5 world. Steve gets deep into the complexities of the space and where it’s headed as it scales. The future is video. Learn all about the space and what Steve’s company is up to next by tuning in!

Hoppscotch is an open-source API development ecosystem that gets you straight to the points and helps you create API requests faster. Join Ben Rometsch and his guest, Liyas Thomas, the Founder and CEO of Hoppscotch, as they dive into how Hoppscotch came to be. Discover how Liyas started it with a single post and how that post got viral. Learn how to find the right audience that knows what they want to do. Find out how Liyas created the clean and slick user interface of Hoppscotch and why it doesn't have a landing page. Finally, discover how he does business organically with his trusted team and outside developers across the world. Wait until you hear more about Hoppscotch. You’d want to start using it ASAP!

Co-Founder of Quora.com, early Facebook engineer and now CEO and Co-Founder of Expo, Charlie Cheever joins Ben Rometsch to talk about how Expo is helping engineers seamlessly release their products on all platforms instantly.

Data is bigger than ever. In this episode, Michael Driscoll shares just where big data is heading and how the industry is changing with it. Michael is the Founder and CEO of Rill Data and Co-founder of Metamarkets.

Ben sits down with the Browserless founder and CEO Joel Griffith. Joel shares how he turned a github issue into a profitable business that helps thousands of companies around the world.

Mitchell Hashimoto's company HashiCorp is the creator of Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul, Terraform, Vault, and Nomad. Together, these open source projects have over 100,000 stars on Github and exist to help engineers better with consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application.

What does it take to build a good open-source search engine? Ben Rometsch, CEO of Flagsmith, sits down for a lively discussion on Typesense's search engine technology with its co-creator, Jason Bosco. Jason discusses the origin of Typesense and their design choices, including the unusual choice of using C++ for its creation. We also hear about their decision to go open source and how the community is helping them refine their product. This is an episode you must not miss if you want to learn more about open source and search engine design.

Docusaurus lead developer Sebastien Lorber has some interesting insights to share. As a freelance contractor, Sebastien leads the development of the Docusaurus open-source project for Facebook. Docusaurus is a static site generator that generates a modern single-page application from Markdown files so that website creators can focus on creating their content.

Pablo Múzquiz, CEO & co-founder of Penpot. Penpot gives design freedom for teams. In this episode, Pablo takes Ben Rometsch behind the scenes on how they came up with Penpot. Join in the conversation and discover Penpot’s groundbreaking potential for designers.

MinIO is the #1 cloud-native open-source object store for enterprises. In this episode, Ben caught up with Harshavardhana, the co-founder of MinIO.