The Sourcegraph Podcast

Samuel Colvin, Founder and Lead Maintainer of Pydantic

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pydantic is a Python library for typed validation of external data that has experienced exponential growth since 2020. We’ll hear the story of what ...

Daniel Stenberg, Founder & Lead Developer of cURL

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are honored to have Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of cURL, as our guest. cURL is a ubiquitous data transfer util...

Jason Warner, Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jean Yang, Founder and CEO of Akita Software

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Berry, Senior Staff Engineer at Amplitude

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

John Kodumal, CTO and Co-founder of LaunchDarkly

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Beyang sits down with John Kodumal, CTO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is a SaaS feature management platform for developers that allows ...

Ravi Parikh, Founder and CEO of Airplane

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Beyang talks with Ravi Parikh, founder and CEO of Airplane. Airplane is a developer tool for turning one-off scripts into internal mini-apps that can ...

Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and founder of tea

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Beyang talks with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew, about his new package manager, Tea, which aims to solve the problem of open-source funding.Max shar...

Creating one CI to rule them all, with Fedor Korotkov, founder and CTO of Cirrus Labs

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why can’t one CI scale alongside a company–from startup to enterprise? In this episode, Fedor Korotkov, founder and CTO of CirrusLabs, joins Beyan...

Changing the web one tool at a time, with Kelly Norton, principal software engineer at Mailchimp and creator of Hound

01 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why is the software industry now willing and excited to buy developer tools instead of building them internally? In this episode, Kelly Norton, princi...

Building the code editor dreams are made of, with Max Brunsfeld, co-founder of Zed

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why should programmers treat programming like a craft? In this episode, Max Brunsfeld, co-founder of Zed, a collaborative code editor written in Rust,...

Creating the GitHub of databases, with Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScale

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why is using PlanetScale a mind-altering experience? In this episode, Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScale, shares how one email got h...

Disassembling and building developer tools, with Nelson Elhage, creator of open source code search engine Livegrep

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why is a systems engineering mindset essential for a scaling startup? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Nelson Elhage, creator of the open s...

Building technical communities, with Swyx, Head of Developer Experience at Temporal

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why is building a technical community the most effective moat out there for startups? In this episode, swyx, who runs DevRel at Temporal and co-founde...

Arming the rebels of the metaverse, with Joseph Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Roboflow

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When, and how, will computer vision and machine learning revolutionize the world? In this episode of the Sourceraph Podcast, Joseph Nelson, CEO and co...

Pioneering the developer advocate role, with Cassidy Williams, Director of Developer Experience at Netlify

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How can you build a following, and a career, with memes? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Cassidy Williams, Director of Developer Experienc...

Building the foundation of code search with Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of Zoekt

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How do Google developers create and popularize internal tools? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of the open-sourc...

Taking the warts off C, with Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig Software Foundation

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How do you improve on C? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig programming language and the founder and presid...

Making security more accessible for developers, with Sam Scott, co-founder and CTO of Oso

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How do you make security, a topic that often requires a PhD to understand, accessible to your average developer? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Po...

Redesigning the future of feature flags, with Ivar Østhus and Egil Østhus, co-founders of Unleash

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the future of feature flags? On this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Brothers Ivar Østhus and Egil Østhus, co-founders of Unleash, join...

Designing delightful docs, with Orta Therox, TypeScript Compiler Engineer at Microsoft

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How do you design software docs and websites that both intrigue and educate? As a contributor to popular projects like React Native, Jest, Prettier, a...

Connecting the right ideas with the right people, with Christopher Chedeau, creator of Excalidraw, co-creator of React Native

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On the eve of the pandemic, Christopher Chedeau was procrastinating performance reviews at Facebook and decided to hack together a simple drawing app....

Decomposing a massive Rails monolith with Kirsten Westeinde, software development manager at Shopify

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What’s it like to deconstruct one of the largest Rails codebases (3 million lines of code, 500,000+ lifetime commits, 40,000 files) on the planet? A...

The future of the code economy, with Devon Zuegel, creator of GitHub Sponsors

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Devon Zuegel, the creator of GitHub Sponsors, tells the story of how an email rant to Nat Friedman on the eve of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHu...

Kelsey Hightower, Kubernetes and Google Cloud

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As an engineer at Puppet, CoreOS, and Google Cloud, Kelsey Hightower has been at the forefront of new deployment technologies over the past decade. Al...

Peter Pezaris, CEO of Codestream

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Pezaris is the CEO and founder of Codestream, an editor plugin that's bringing code discussions and communication into your IDE. Codestream...

Jonathan Carter (LostInTangent), GitHub Codespaces, Visual Studio Live Share, CodeTour

09 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Carter (a.k.a. LostInTangent) is the principal program manager at Microsoft for VS Code Liveshare, GitHub Codespaces, and IntelliCode. We tal...

Andrew Gallant, creator of ripgrep

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Gallant (a.k.a. BurntSushi) is the creator of ripgrep, a popular command-line search tool that powers the search box in VS Code. Andrew tells m...

Syrus Akbary, CEO of Wasmer

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Syrus Akbary is the founder and CEO of Wasmer, the startup behind the open-source web assembly runtime that's doing for WebAssembly what Docker d...

Michael Stapelberg, creator of i3, Debian Code Search, and distri

08 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Stapelberg shares with us a multitude of experiences and contributions across the Go and Linux open-source communities. Highlights include cre...

Matt Holt, creator of Caddy

01 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Holt is the author of many popular projects in the Go open-source world, among them the popular Caddy web server, which pioneered support for HTT...

Thorsten Klein, creator of k3d

25 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Thorsten Klein is the creator of k3d, a tool that lets you run a lightweight Kubernetes cluster (k3s) inside a single Docker container. This makes it ...

Rijnard van Tonder, creator of Comby

02 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rijnard van Tonder is the creator of Comby, a pattern-matching syntax and command-line tool that offers a more expressive and more user-friendly alter...

Dan Bentley, CEO and co-founder of Tilt

26 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Yves Junqueira and John Ewart

19 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Yves Junqeira and John Ewart are co-founders of YourBase, a build and test runner service that accelerates testing and CI by understanding the implici...

Luke Hoban, CTO of Pulumi, co-founder of TypeScript

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you write code on the modern web, it's almost certain that your life has been shaped significantly by Luke Hoban's work. Luke has worked ...

Evan Culver of Segment

05 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Evan Culver builds developer tools at Segment, a customer data platform that lets product managers and software teams understand their users through d...

Charity Majors, CTO and founder of Honeycomb

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Charity Majors is the founder and CTO of Honeycomb, an observability tool that combines logs, traces, metrics, and all the relevant data about the pro...

Ryan Djurovich of Xero and Cloudlfare

22 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Djurovich is a DevOps manager at Xero and former manager of the DevTools team at Cloudflare. He shares with Quinn how he has seen the landscape o...

David Cramer, CTO and founder of Sentry

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Cramer talks about creating Sentry as an open-source side project, maintaining it while working full-time at Dropbox, and ultimately growing it ...

Introducing the Sourcegraph Podcast

08 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Sourcegraph podcast, a new show about developer tools and their creators. Over the next couple of weeks, we'll be publishing conve...