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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

Developer Tooling

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

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Episode 160: Open Source Secrets Management with Infisical

Vlad Matsiiako is CEO & Co-Founder of Infisical , the open source secrets management platform. Their open source project, also called infisical , has 16K...

December 12, 2024

Data Tooling

Episode 159: Innovating on Distributed SQL Databases with Yugabyte

Karthik Ranganathan is Founder & CTO of Yugabyte , the PostgreSQL-compatible distributed database for cloud native applications. Their open source database,...

December 9, 2024

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Episode 158: Open Source Diagramming and Charting with Mermaid Chart

Andrew Firestone is CEO and Knut Sveidqvist is CTO of Mermaid Chart , the open source text-based diagraming software platform. The mermaid project has over...

December 5, 2024

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Episode 157: Build Your Own Production-Grade AI CoPilots With Copilotkit

Atai Barkai is Co-Founder & CEO of Copilotkit , the platform to build production-grade AI Copilots 10x faster. Their open source project, also called...

November 25, 2024

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Episode 156: Code-First Product Integrations with Ampersand

Lauren Long is Co-Founder & CTO of Ampersand , the developer platform for native product integrations. Ampersand has raised $5M from investors including...

November 22, 2024

Data Tooling

Episode 155: Taking on Elasticsearch - the ParadeDB Story

Philippe Noël is Co-Founder & CEO of ParadeDB , the modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres. They're purpose-built for heavy, real-time workloads...

November 12, 2024