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Episode 170: From Idea to Working Web App Using Only Python with Reflex

Nikhil Rao is Co-Founder of Reflex , the open source framework to build and deploy web apps in python. Their project, also called reflex, has over 22K stars...

March 25, 2025

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Episode 169: Building New Standards for Observability - Lightstep & OpenTelemetry

Ben Sigelman is the Co-Founder & CEO of observability platform Lightstep as well as Co-Creator of open source observability frameworks OpenTracing and...

March 19, 2025

Episode 168: One (Multi-Model) Database to Rule Them All - SurrealDB

Tobie Morgan Hitchcock is the Co-Founder & CEO of SurrealDB , the next generation serverless cloud database for modern applications. Their open source...

March 4, 2025

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Episode 167: Taking on Network Security with a Zero Trust Approach with NetBird

Misha Bragin is the Founder & CEO of NetBird , the open source zero trust networking platform that allows companies and individuals to create secure private...

February 24, 2025

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Episode 166: Making Open Source Reliable & Secure with Fossa

Kevin Wang is Founder & CEO of Fossa , the product security platform that automates compliance & security across open source third party code, suppliers, and...

February 19, 2025

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Episode 165: Can DevTools Get to $1B ARR?

Max Stoiber is Co-Founder & CEO of Stellate , the GraphQL edge platform recently acquired by Shopify. In this episode, we discuss: Full episode here

February 10, 2025

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Episode 164: Taking on Auth0 with Open Source Zitadel

Florian Forster is Co-Founder & CEO of Zitadel , the cloud security platform aiming to build the future of identity and access management. Their open source...

February 3, 2025

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Episode 163: Using Feedback Loops to Optimize LLM-Based Applications

Viraj Mehta is the Co-Founder & CTO of TensorZero which is an open-source infrastructure platform that creates a feedback loop for optimizing LLM...

January 27, 2025

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Episode 162: The AI Code Editor War with Zed

⁠Nathan Sobo⁠ is the Founder of ⁠Zed⁠ , the next-gen code editor that enables high-performance collaboration - powered by AI. Open source ⁠zed⁠ has 53K Stars...

January 7, 2025

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Episode 161: Reimagining Python Notebooks with Marimo

Akshay Agrawal is the Founder & CEO of Marimo , the next generation Python notebook. Their open source reactive notebook for Python, also called marimo , has...

December 16, 2024