Cloudy Chat

John Shegerian is the co-founder and executive chairman of recycling firm ERI. In this podcast, we talk about both the sustainability aspects of electronic waste and the increasing issue of the security risk associated with sensitive data stored on products that are no longer in use.

There's a lot of complexity, both necessary and unnecessary, in the environments where we deploy our software. The open source development model has proven to be a powerful tool for software development. How can we help people collaborate in the open more around operations?

In this podcast, I sat down with Mark Himelstein, the CTO of RISC-V International, to talk about all things RISC-V including its adoption and how to think about extensibility and compatibility.

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is a fairly new organization under the Linux Foundation focusing on open source software security with an initial primary focus on software supply chain security.

Richard North, former chief engineer at Deloitte Digital, is now one of the co-founders of AtomicJar, an upcoming SaaS which will complement the Testcontainers project.

Mux helps developers build online video. In this podcast, tthe co-founders discuss why video is so hard and why it helps if there's a community working on the hard problems.

Long-time IBMer (and since retiring associated with MIT) Irving Wladawsky-Berger and I discuss artificial intelligence. We cover some of the great gains made with machine learning and the gains still to come. But we also talk about the other notions of intelligence, such as those from the cognitive science field and elsewhere.

Martin Mao is co-founder and CEO of Chronosphere. In this podcast he discusses the observability landscape, the rise of Prometheus, and the role of open source.

Anurag Goel, an early Stripe employee, co-founded Render which puts a PaaS layer on top of Kubernetes. In this interview, we talk about how PaaS in different from its v1 days, how he thinks about PaaSs being opinionated, and where open source fits in.

Although public cloud costs often get cited as an issue, cloud closts are mostly treated as an operational concern that developers don't have visibility into. Env0 works with the open source Ansible and Terraform projects to provide better cross-cloud cost visibility.

The grid has meant many things over the years but its role has changed yet again in the container and container orchestration era. WIs container orchestration the new grid?

This final episode of the Was open source inevitable miniseries considers the commercialization of open souce, including the role of the IBM investment. It finishes with considering open source's challenges and what we can learn from the past.

In this penultimate episode of the series, we play out the great Linux vs. Windows rivalry of the 1990s and 2000s.

In this four-part podcast miniseries we explore the alternative histories of open source software through the voices of many of the people who lived through its rise.

In this four-part podcast miniseries we explore the alternative histories of open source software through the voices of many of the people who lived through its rise.

Did Linux specifically lead to the software world as we know it today, or would something similar have filled the void in its absence?

Arnaud Le Hors is the Chair of the Hyperledger distributed ledger project's technical steeing committee. In this podcast he discusses what's worked (and what hasn't) in running this blockchain project.

In 2018, Project OWL was the global winner in the inaugural Call for Code Global Challenge. In this podcast, we talk about why open source firmware and discuss building communities.

Frank founded the ownCloud project in 2010 to put home users and enterprises back in control of their data. To bring file sync and share technology to the next level and better align to the needs of users and customers he founded Nextcloud in 2016.

One can look at sustainability through a number of different but related lenses. What incentives (and education) needs to be in place for manufacturers to maintain their devices and, in the process, engage more with upstream communities?