Open Source Startup Podcast

Developer Tooling

Episode 139: Taking on AWS with an Open Source Alternative

Umur Cubukcu is Co-Founder of Ubicloud , the open source and portable cloud that can reduce cloud spend by 3–10x. Their project, also called ubicloud , has...

June 27, 2024

Developer Tooling Data Tooling

Episode 138: The Database Pioneer Behind Ingres, Postgres & DBOS

Michael Stonebraker is a legendary database system pioneer as the founder of Ingres, Postgres, and now DBOS . His work while at Berkeley and then MIT has...

June 18, 2024

Developer Tooling Security Tooling

Episode 137: Monitoring Infrastructure with Chalk Marks

John Viega is Co-Founder & CEO of Crash Override , the open source monitoring platform based on the Chalk project which has 22K stars on GitHub. Crash...

June 14, 2024

Developer Tooling AI & ML Tooling

Episode 136: Creating the Vector Database for AI Application Developers

Jeff Huber is Co-Founder of Chroma , the open source vector database. Their open source project, also called chroma , has 13K stars on GitHub. Chroma has...

June 4, 2024

Developer Tooling

Episode 135: Riding the Homebrew Wave

John Britton & Mike McQuaid are Co-Founders of Workbrew , the company that provides additional features and support for companies using Homebrew. Homebrew's...

May 28, 2024

Data Tooling AI & ML Tooling

Episode 134: Making Complex Data RAG-Ready with Unstructured

Brian Raymond is Founder & CEO of Unstructured , the platform to extract and transform complex data for use with every major vector database and LLM...

May 20, 2024

Episode 133: Reinventing Authorization with Google's Zanzibar Paper

Jake Moshenko is Co-Founder & CEO of AuthZed , the scalable authorization platform based on Google's Zanzibar white paper. Their open source permissions...

May 13, 2024

Data Tooling

Episode 132: From General Purpose to Specialized Databases

Joran Dirk Greef is Founder & CEO of TigerBeetle , the open source financial transactions database. Their project, also called tigerbeetle , has over 7K...

May 10, 2024

Episode 131: Why the Next Generation of Time Series Databases Will Be Multimodal

Niko West is Co-Founder & CEO of Rerun , the open source visualization engine for streams of multimodal data. Rerun has raised over $3M from investors...

May 2, 2024

Episode 130: Orchestrating AI Workloads with Union AI

Ketan Umare is Co-Founder & CEO of Union AI , the scalable MLOps platform focused on AI orchestration based on the flyte open source project. Union AI has...

April 30, 2024