Open Source Startup Podcast

Developer Tooling

Episode 147: The Over-complication of API Management - What Went Wrong?

James Perkins is Co-Founder & CEO of Unkey , the open source API management platform that helps developers secure, manage, and scale their APIs. Their...

August 27, 2024

Episode 146: Inventing Virtual Kubernetes Clusters

Lukas Gentele is Co-Founder & CEO of Loft , the platform engineering company behind "kubernetes virtualization" to reduce costs and create efficiencies for...

August 21, 2024

Developer Tooling

Episode 145: Bootstrapping an Open Source Monitoring Platform

Aliaksandr Valialkin and Roman Khavronenko are Co-Founders of VictoriaMetrics , the open source time series database and monitoring platform built alongside...

August 15, 2024

Developer Tooling Security Tooling

Episode 144: How to Straddle Developers and Security Engineers

Lars Kamp is Co-Founder & CEO of Fix , the continuous cloud security platform to help detect, prioritize, and remediate critical cloud risks using open...

July 29, 2024

Data Tooling

Episode 143: Bringing Software Engineering Best Practices to Data

Tim Delisle and Nico Joseph are Co-Founders of FiveOneFour , the company attempting to bring a software developer-like experience to data and analytics...

July 22, 2024

Data Tooling

Episode 142: Redefining Self-Serve Analytics with Dremio

Tomer Shiran is Founder of Dremio , the data lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI based on open source frameworks Apache Arrow , which the...

July 16, 2024

Developer Tooling AI & ML Tooling

Episode 141: Building Companies on Open Source Standards - from Hortonworks to Mydecisive.ai

Ari Zilka is CEO of mydecisive.ai , the general-purpose observability engine built on OpenTelemetry. Ari was previously the CTO of Hortonworks which built...

July 10, 2024

AI & ML Tooling

Episode 140: Accelerating Enterprise AI Adoption with Better Agentic Workflows

Mark Huang is Co-Founder of Gradient , the platform for enterprise agentic automation. Gradient recently open sourced their 4M context window finetune of...

July 1, 2024

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