The Business of Open Source

This week on The Business of Cloud Native I spoke with Travis Nielsen and Sebastien Han about how Rook has evolved over the years, beginning as a way to build a cloud native storage platform but before anyone was talking about cloud native or Kubernetes.  Links:  Travis on LinkedIn Sebastien on LinkedIn The Rook project page

This week on The Business of Cloud Native, I talked with former Gartner Analyst, current VP of Solutions at Securonix Augusto Barros. We talked about how Securonix’s positioning has evolved over the years as it has move between market categories as well as how to evaluate and test cloud native security solutions.  Links: Augusto on Twitter Augusto on LinkedIn Securonix

In this episode with Evan Reiser, CEO of Abnormal Security, we explored how positioning and an understanding of who your ideal customers are and what their needs are can influence technology choices, including which cloud provider you build on.  Highlights How a seemingly pure technology choice like cloud provider can have serious implications for customer experience.  The difference between havin...

This week on The Business of Cloud Native I talked with Yong Tang, one of the maintainers of CoreDNS, about how the project started, how it’s evolved over the years and how the team decided to integrate it with Kubernetes.  Links:  CoreDNS Yong Tang on LinkedIn

This week on The Business of Cloud Native, I talked with Brian Gracely about using Kubernetes for edge workloads as well as the difference between “cloud” and “edge.”  Highlights Is edge part of the cloud, is cloud a part of edge or are they completely separate but slightly related environments?  What makes something a data center vs what makes something an edge device?  How enterprises think of e...

In today’s episode of The Business of Cloud Native, I talked with Julien Pivotto and Richard Hartmann, two of the maintainers of Prometheus, about how the project started, how it’s evolved over the years (and how it’s stayed the same) as well as some novel ways Prometheus is used in the real world.  Highlights Why both Julien and Richard got started with Prometheus Some surprising ways that Promet...

In this episode of The Business of Cloud Native, Chris Holmes talks about bootstrapping Decipher Technology Studies and their core product, intelligent service mesh Greymatter.io. He also talks about why it's so important for brownfield and greenfield apps to talk to one another and the many similarities between public sector and private sector organizations.  Highlights:  How Greymatter combines...

This week on The Business of Cloud Native I spoke with Chris Psaltis, CEO and co-founder of mist.io . We spoke about why multicloud is necessary (and scenarios where multicloud is not necessary), where multicloud is headed in the future and the journey Chris and his co-founders have been on with Mist.  Highlights The difference between using multicloud for legal / regulatory reasons or because of...

This week on The Business of Cloud Native, I talked to Tzury Bar Yochay, founder and CTO of Reblaze, about building a cloud native security company before twelve thousand people were going to KubeCon.  Highlights: Why your security measures have to keep up with hackers’ sophistication. The moment when Tzury decided to go from being a contractor for the defense industry to founding a company. Why t...

This week, I talked with Karthik Ranganathan about the challenges going from employee of a large company to startup frounder and why he founded Yugabyte because he wanted a database that both was transactional and still could be highly available. Highlights:  Why the ability to scale is important for any cloud native application, including for a cloud native database. Why Yugabyte is still open so...

This week, I talked to Natalie Ledbetter, Head of People and Platform at Boldstart Ventures. We talked about how startups can approach team and culture building, including: How to prioritize your hires Common mistakes founders make when building a team Why you should always avoid brilliant jerks, even if they are very brilliant How to divide responsibilities between founders Anticipating growth an...

In this episode of The Business of Cloud Native, we talk about the hard business goals behind words like "freedom" as well as what it's like to go from engineer to CEO. My guest, Sirish Raghuram, is the CEO and co-founder of Platform9. Links:  https://platform9.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sirishraghuram/

In this episode of The Business of Cloud Native, Shawn Lankton talks about how Microsoft 365 and related applications fit into an organization's move to the cloud and why organizations need to pay attention to security for all their SaaS applications.    Links: https://www.coreview.com Shawn on Twitter

Thomas Markey talks about how to remove some of the barriers to running an open source project with free hosting services.    Links:  https://fosshost.org Thomas on LinkedIn FOSSHOST on Twitter Discord

Ranjan Parthasarathy talks about why separating compute and storage makes it easier to operate at hyper scale and why he decided to found Logiq.ai to make it easier for companies to do so. Links: LinkedIn Logiq.ai

Have you thought about how your OSS license could impact your ability to grow your community and monetize your OSS in the future? Attorney McCoy Smith talks about what to be aware of at the beginning to avoid messy legal issues down the road. Links: McCoy on LinkedIn Lex Pan Law Opsequ.io

As an analyst at CCS insight, Bola Rotibi gets a birds-eye view of trends in how industries use software to advance their business goals. We had an incredible conversation about how companies use cloud native technology to meet business goals and how vendors in the cloud native space should pay more attention to the needs of specific industries.  Links:  https://www.ccsinsight.com/blog/author/bola...

SaaS companies that handle customers' sensitive data need to worry about how they manage data locality. In this podcast, Canopy CTO and founder talks about how their business would not be possible without the flexibility and ability to easily spin up resources in regions across the world that a cloud native architecture offers.  Links:  https://www.canopyco.io https://www.linkedin.com/in/oransears

Here's what I covered in this episode:  What positioning and market segmentation is and is not The specific positioning challenges facing companies in the cloud native ecosystem Why it's important to identify and talk about the types of application your product benefits the most Thanks for listening, and happy new year!

Jim Bugwadia, CEO and co-founder of Nirmata, talks about what has changed (and what has stayed the same) since the company started in 2013.  Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbugwadia/ https://nirmata.com https://kyverno.io

In episode 29 of The Business of Cloud Native, I talked to Krishnan Subramanian of Rishidot Research about trends he sees in how end users use cloud native technologies and how startups in the space can meet end users where they are.    Links:  https://rishidot.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnansubramanian/ https://twitter.com/krishnan

This conversation covers: Idit’s role at Solo.io, and what she typically does on a daily basis. Idit also talks about how her job duties have changed over the last two years, and the impact that COVID-19 had on the company. The common business reasons why customers come to Solo.io — and where they typically are in terms of cloud-native maturity.  Some things that Idit has learned about customers o...

This conversation covers: Mirage’s role as an API mocking library, the value that it offers for developers, and who can benefit from using it. How Mirage empowers front end developers to create production-ready UIs as quickly as possible. How Mirage evolved into an API mocking library  How Mirage differs from JSON Server  Sam’s relationship to Mirage, and how it fits in with his business. Sam also...

This conversation covers: How Bloomberg is demystifying bond trading and pricing, and bringing transparency to financial markets through their various digital offerings. Andrey’s role as CTO of compute architecture at Bloomberg, where he oversees research implementation of new compute related technologies to support kind of our business and engineering objectives. Why factors like speed and reliab...

This conversation covers: An average workday for Thomas as senior systems engineer at Systematic. How Systematic uses cross-functional collaboration to solve problems and produce high quality software. How security and data privacy relate to cloud-native technologies, and the challenges they present.  Systematic’s journey to cloud native, and why the company decided it was a good idea.  Why it’s i...