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Episodes
Data Processing Evolved: OpenLineage with Willy Lulciuc
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Willy Lulciuc (@wslulciuc) is a pioneer in data engineering and one of the creators of OpenLineage, the open-source framework for data lineage collect...
Revolutionizing Computer Vision: OpenFilter with Andrew Smith
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Smith (Github: @asmith-plainsight) dives deep into OpenFilter, the open-source framework for building computer vision workflows. Andrew is the ...
Big Complexity Revisited: Dagster with Pete Hunt
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Hunt (@floydophone) joins Eric Anderson (@ericmander) to talk about Dagster, the open-source data orchestration platform built for productivity. ...
Simplifying Distributed Systems: Dapr with Mark Fussell
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Fussell (@mfussell) is the co-creator of Dapr, the open-source runtime system designed to support cloud native and serverless computing. Dapr pro...
Messages, Not Metadata: Session with Kee Jefferys
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kee Jefferys (@JefferysKee) is the technical co-founder of Session, the end-to-end encrypted messenger that emphasizes user confidentiality and anonym...
Moving Money: Formance with Clément Salaün
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Clément Salaün (@superzamp) is the co-founder and CTO of Formance, the open-source platform which is building an agnostic infrastructure for the fut...
LLM Evaluation: Opik with Gideon Mendels
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon Mendels (Github: @gidim) is the co-founder and CEO of Comet, the end-to-end model evaluation platform for AI developers. Among the tools in the...
Mobile Observability on OpenTelemetry: Embrace with Hanson Ho
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hanson Ho (@bidetofevil) is an Android Architect at Embrace, the mobile-first observability solution built on OpenTelemetry. Embrace began as a propri...
No PhD Required: Restate with Stephan Ewen
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stephan Ewen (@StephanEwen) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durabl...
Ground Control: Lunar with Eyal Solomon
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643) is the CEO and co-founder of Lunar, an open-source platform which bills itself as the “first reverse API gateway.”...
Metadata Management: DataHub with Shirshanka Das
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shirshanka Das (@shirshanka) is the CTO of Acryl Data and founder of DataHub, which bills itself as the #1 open-source metadata platform. It enables d...
Take Your Own Advice: vlcn with Matt Wonlaw
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After his first child was born, Matt Wonlaw (@tantaman) imagined giving his son life advice. What kind of life did he want his kid to lead? At the tim...
Secret Sauce: Amplication with Yuval Hazaz
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amplication is an open-source development platform for scalable and secure Node.js applications. It allows engineers to skip writing boilerplate code ...
To the Moon: OpenBB with Didier Lopes
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenBB is an open-source investment research platform created by Didier Lopes (@didier_lopes). OpenBB grew out of a project called Gamestonk Terminal ...
Robust Observability: OpenTelemetry with Austin Parker
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for collecting and managing telemetry data. OpenTelemetry has been more successful than expect...
Never Build Permissions Again: OPAL with Or Weis
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OPAL is an open-source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPAL provides the necessary infrastructure to load pol...
Oxygen Deprivation: FerretDB with Peter Farkas
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
FerretDB enables users to run MongoDB applications on existing Postgres infrastructure. Peter Farkas (@FarkasP), co-founder and CEO of FerretDB, expla...
The Duke of SQLite: Litestream with Ben Johnson
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Johnson (@benbjohnson) is the creator of Litestream and LiteFS, two open-source disaster recovery solution for SQLite. Litestream is designed to p...
Rust Never Sleeps: Tonic with Lucio Franco
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tonic is a native gRPC implementation in Rust that allows users to easily build gRPC servers and clients without extensive async experience. Tonic is ...
The Social Miracle: rqlite with Philip O’Toole
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
rqlite is a lightweight, distributed relational database built on Raft and SQLite. Founder Philip O’Toole (@general_order24) decided to combine thes...
Community Driven IaC: OpenTofu with Kuba Martin
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kuba Martin (@cube2222_2) is Software Engineering Team Lead at Spacelift and Interim Tech Lead of OpenTofu, the open-source fork of Terraform. Terra...
Postgres for Everything: Tembo with Ry Walker
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ry Walker (@rywalker) is the founder and CEO of Tembo, the Postgres developer platform for building any and every data service. To Ry, the full capabi...
Automation for Technical People: n8n with Jan Oberhauser
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jan Oberhauser (@JanOberhauser) is the founder and CEO of n8n, the free and source-available workflow automation tool for technical users. n8n's f...
The Big Fork: libSQL with Glauber Costa
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Glauber Costa (@glcst) is the founder of Turso and the co-creator of libSQL, an open source, open contribution fork of the database engine library, SQ...
Rethinking the Workflow Problem: Windmill with Ruben Fiszel
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ruben Fiszel (@rubenfiszel) is the creator of Windmill, the open-source developer platform that lets users easily turn scripts into workflows and inte...
Vector Search for Humans: Marqo with Jesse Clark
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Clark (@jn2clark) is a co-founder of Marqo, the end-to-end, multimodal vector search engine. Vector search has exploded along with the rise of g...
From Orchestration to Building Applications: Conductor with Jeu George
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jeu George (@jeugeorge) is the co-creator of Conductor, the open-source application building platform. Conductor began as a workflow orchestrator and ...
Opening Up Authentication: SuperTokens with Advait Ruia
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Advait Ruia (@Advait_Ruia) is the co-founder of SuperTokens, the open-source user authentication and authorization framework. SuperTokens integrates...
Open-Source Runtime Security: Falco with Loris Degioanni
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Loris Degioanni (@lorisdegio) joins Eric Anderson (@ericmander) to chat about Falco, the open-source runtime security tool for modern cloud infrastruc...
Decoupling Authorization: Cerbos with Emre Baran
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emre Baran (@emre) is the CEO and co-founder of Cerbos, the open-source authorization layer for implementing roles and permissions. Cerbos allows deve...
Cosmonic and WebAssembly with Liam Randall and Bailey Hayes
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) has a conversation with Liam Randall (@Hectaman) and Bailey Hayes (@baihay) of Cosmonic, the platform-as-a-service environ...
Haystack and Intelligent Search with Milos Rusic
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by Milos Rusic (@rusic_milos) to discuss Haystack, the open-source NLP framework for leveraging Transformer mode...
Cube and the Semantic Layer with Artyom Keydunov
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) talks with Artyom Keydunov (@keydunov) about Cube, the semantic layer for building data applications. Cube helps engineers...
Remembering Jeff Meyerson with Erika Hokanson
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Erika Hokanson (@erikawh0) remember the life of Jeff Meyerson, creator of the influential podcast Software Engineering...
Testcontainers and Confidence with Sergei Egorov and Eli Aleyner
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re kicking off the new year with a conversation between Eric Anderson (@ericmander), Sergei Egorov (@bsideup) and Eli Aleyner (@ealeyner). Sergei...
Mito and Smarter Spreadsheets with Nate Rush and Aaron Diamond-Reivich
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by Nate Rush (@naterush1997) and Aaron Diamond-Reivich (@_aaronDR) to talk about Mito, the open-source spreadshe...
Featureform and the Future of MLOps with Simba Khadder
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Simba Khadder (@simba_khadder) explore Featureform, the “virtual” feature store platform that aims to standardize ...
Directus with Ben Haynes
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) hosts Ben Haynes (@benhaynes), CEO and co-founder of Directus. Directus is an open-source data platform that layers on SQL...
Prowler with Toni de la Fuente
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) chats with Toni de la Fuente (@ToniBlyx) about how he created Prowler, an open source security tool for AWS. Toni talks ab...
tea with Max Howell
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) meets legendary open-source developer Max Howell (@mxcl) to talk about tea, a decentralized protocol for remunerating the ...
Suborbital with Connor Hicks
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Connor Hicks (@cohix) launch into detail on Suborbital, an open-source project that allows developers to create WebAss...
Milvus with Frank Liu
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Frank Liu (@frankzliu) talk about Milvus, the open-source vector database built for scalable similarity search. Vector...
Apache Beam with Kenn Knowles and Pablo Estrada
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) reunites with old colleagues Kenn Knowles (@KennKnowles) and Pablo Estrada (@polecitoem) for a conversation on Apache Beam...
Temporal (Part 2) with Maxim Fateev and Dominik Tornow
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) returns to Temporal with co-founder Maxim Fateev (@mfateev) and principal engineer Dominik Tornow (@DominikTornow). When M...
Scarf with Avi Press
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) interviews Avi Press (@avi_press) about Scarf, the distribution platform for open-source software that facilitates analyti...
Rasgo with Patrick Dougherty
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Patrick Dougherty (@cpdough) talk about Rasgo, the data transformation platform for MLOps that makes generating SQL ea...
Feast with Willem Pienaar
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Willem Pienaar (@willpienaar) talk about Feast, the open-source feature store for machine learning. Feature stores act...
Flyte with Ketan Umare
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Ketan Umare (@ketanumare) discuss Flyte, the open-source workflow automation platform for large-scale machine learning...
Activeloop with Davit Buniatyan
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) meets with Davit Buniatyan (@DBuniatyan) of Activeloop, the database for AI. Davit was inspired to found Activeloop while ...
Unikraft with Alexander Jung and Simon Kuenzer
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander), Alexander Jung (@nderjung) and Simon Kuenzer (Github: @skuenzer) get technical on Unikraft, the open-source unikernel dev...
EdgeDB with Yury Selivanov
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) has a conversation with Yury Selivanov (@1st1), the co-founder of EdgeDB. EdgeDB is the world’s first “graph-relationa...
Deephaven with Pete Goddard
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) sits down with Pete Goddard (@pete_paco) to talk about Deephaven, the open-core query engine built for real-time streams a...
Meltano with Douwe Maan
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Douwe Maan (@DouweM) chat about Meltano, the open-source DataOps operating system. Meltano provides the connective tis...
Penpot & Taiga with Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz (@diacritica) examine the intersection of open-source, agile development, and UI/UX design at the ...
DockerSlim with Kyle Quest
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Kyle Quest (@kcqon) discuss DockerSlim, the open-source optimization and security tool for Docker container images. Ky...
Unleash with Egil and Ivar Østhus
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by Egil (@EgilCo) and Ivar Østhus (@ivarconr), brothers and co-creators of the open-source feature management p...
Kubescape with Shauli Rozen
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) invites Shauli Rozen (@shaulir) to share about his work on Kubescape, the first open-source Kubernetes security testing to...
Blender with Dalai Felinto
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) connects with Dalai Felinto (@dfelinto), development coordinator at Blender. Blender is a free and open-source 3D graphics...
Great Expectations with Abe Gong and Kyle Eaton
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) interviews Abe Gong (@AbeGong) and Kyle Eaton (@SuperCoKyle) about Great Expectations, the open-source framework that aims...
Bolster with Abhishek Dubey
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) sits down with Abhishek Dubey (@abhishekdubey), co-creator of Bolster, the fraud prevention platform powered by deep-learn...
Sanity with Magnus Hillestad and Even Westvang
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) sits down with Magnus Hillestad (@MHillestad) and Even Westvang (@even), co-founders of the unified content platform Sanit...
Teleport with Ev Kontsevoy
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Ev Kontsevoy (@kontsevoy) talk about Teleport, the open-source tool for instant access to cloud resources. These inclu...
Rook with Travis Nielsen
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Travis Nielsen (@STravisNielsen) talk about Rook, the open-source storage orchestrator for Kubernetes. Travis is a Sen...
Apache Cassandra with Patrick McFadin
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Patrick McFadin (@PatrickMcFadin) delve into the history of Apache Cassandra, the open-source NoSQL database born and ...
Dagster with Nick Schrock
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) interviews Nick Schrock (@schrockn) about Dagster, the open-source data orchestrator for machine learning, analytics, and ...
Hasura with Tanmai Gopal
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Tanmai Gopal (@tanmaigo) dive into the open-source Hasura GraphQL Engine and the wider Hasura community. Hasura provid...
MindsDB with Jorge Torres and Adam Carrigan
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by the co-founders of MindsDB, Jorge Torres (@JorgeTorresAI) and Adam Carrigan (@AdamMCarrigan). MindsDB is an o...
Anaconda with Peter Wang
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) welcomes Peter Wang (@pwang) for a conversation about the Python ecosystem and the open-source communities that have built...
Redpanda with Alexander Gallego
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by Alexander Gallego (@emaxerrno) for an examination of Redpanda, the source available event streaming platform ...
Storybook with Zoltan Olah
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Zoltan Olah (@zqzoltan) discuss Storybook, the open-source UI component development tool. Storybook supports all the m...
SkyWalking with Sheng Wu
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Sheng Wu (@wusheng1108) discuss Apache SkyWalking, an open-source APM tool focusing on cloud-native and distributed sy...
Snowpack with Fred K. Schott
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Fred K. Schott (@FredKSchott) dive into the world of Snowpack, an open-source, frontend build tool for web developers....
NumPy & SciPy with Travis Oliphant
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Travis Oliphant (@teoliphant) take a far-reaching tour through the history of the Python data community. Travis has ha...
Scylla with Dor Laor
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Dor Laor (@DorLaor) go under the hood of Scylla, the open-source NoSQL database designed for low latency and high thro...
Gitpod with Sven Efftinge, Christian Weichel and Gero Posmyk-Leinemann
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) chats with Sven Efftinge (@svenefftinge), Christian Weichel (@csweichel) and Gero Posmyk-Leinemann (Github: @geropl) about...
oso with Graham Neray
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) interviews Graham Neray (@grahamneray) about oso, the open-source policy engine for authorization. oso was originally born...
TensorFlow with Rajat Monga
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by Rajat Monga (@rajatmonga), a co-creator of TensorFlow. Originally developed by the Google Brain team, TensorF...
Materialize with Frank McSherry
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Frank McSherry (@frankmcsherry) dive into Materialize, a source-available streaming database that lets engineers build...
Cilium with Thomas Graf
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) speaks with Thomas Graf (@tgraf__) about Cilium, the open-source networking, observability, and security software for clou...
Prefect with Jeremiah Lowin
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Jeremiah Lowin (@jlowin) discuss Prefect, a workflow management system and data orchestration tool under development a...
Open Policy Agent with Torin Sandall
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) catches up with Torin Sandall (@sometorin), co-creator of Open Policy Agent (OPA), the open-source, general-purpose policy...
Temporal with Maxim Fateev
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Maxim Fateev (@mfateev) trace the development of Temporal, an open-source workflow orchestration engine. At Uber, Maxi...
Dgraph with Manish Jain
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Manish Jain (@manishrjain) discuss the impact of Dgraph, an open-source database with a graph backend that Manish desc...
Presto with Martin Traverso, Dain Sundstrom and David Phillips
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) talks to Martin Traverso (@mtraverso), Dain Sundstrom (@daindumb) and David Phillips (@electrum32) about their collaborati...
Xanadu with Nathan Killoran
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Killoran (@co9olguy) guides Eric Anderson (@ericmander) through the cutting-edge world of quantum machine learning at Xanadu, a quantum computi...
Clickhouse with Alexey Milovidov and Ivan Blinkov
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) talks to Alexey Milovidov (@alexey-milovidov) and Ivan Blinkov (@blinkov) about their work on Clickhouse, an open source a...
LinkerD with William Morgan
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Anderson (@ericmander) chats with William Morgan (@wm), CEO of Buoyant and a creator of the open source service mesh, LinkerD. As a former infras...
Chef with Adam Jacob
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes and transcript. Eric Anderson (@ericmander) welcomes Chef co-founder Adam Jacob (@adamhjk) to talk about the popular open source se...
Istio with Sven Mawson
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes and transcript. Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Sven Mawson (@smawson) dive into the past, present and future of Istio, an open sou...
Envoy Proxy with Matt Klein
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes and transcript. Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Matt Klein (@mattklein123) discuss the beginnings of Envoy Proxy, an open source pro...
Alluxio with Haoyuan Li
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Full show notes and transcript. Eric Anderson (@ericmander) hosts Haoyuan Li (@haoyuan), also known as H.Y., creator of Spark Streaming as well as ...
Contributor Trailer
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn about Contributor, a podcast about the best open source projects and the communities that build them.