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The Sourcegraph PodcastSamuel Colvin, Founder and Lead Maintainer of PydanticPydantic is a Python library for typed validation of external data that has experienced exponential growth since 2020. We’ll hear the story of what motivated Samuel to create Pydantic, the most common ways people use it, and the success and growth of FastAPI with Pydantic. Also, Pydantic V2 has not been released yet, but we’ll learn what motivated Samuel to rewrite it in Rust, besides being faster and some other things happening with it. And if you’re interested, Samuel is always looking for contributors to Pydantic! Go ahead and download this episode now to hear more! High...2023-03-2039 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastDaniel Stenberg, Founder & Lead Developer of cURLIn 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 utility that grew into a robust library used in billions of applications worldwide. Daniel is a Swedish developer who has been involved in open source for decades. He is also the recipient of the Polhem Prize 2017 for his work on cURL. Join us as we talk to Daniel about his journey with cURL, his passion for open source, and everything in between.2023-02-1458 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastJason Warner, Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures2022-10-2554 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastJean Yang, Founder and CEO of Akita Software2022-08-2351 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastAdam Berry, Senior Staff Engineer at Amplitude2022-08-0355 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastJohn Kodumal, CTO and Co-founder of LaunchDarklyBeyang sits down with John Kodumal, CTO and co-founder of LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is a SaaS feature management platform for developers that allows them to iterate and get code into production quickly and safely by separating feature rollout and code deployment. John begins by talking about his first experiences with computers and programing in the 80s, including teaching himself to us a Dvorak keyboard in the first grade, experimenting with BBS in elementary school, and programming his TI-92 in BASIC to make a shell program so that he could use Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) on it in high s...2022-07-141h 02
The Sourcegraph PodcastRavi Parikh, Founder and CEO of AirplaneBeyang 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 be used by technical and non-technical users across the company.Ravi shares his journey as a programmer, how he got into computers at a young age, took a brief detour to become a professional musician, and then started his first software company, Heap Analytics, with his friend Matin Movassate. Beyang and Ravi discuss what took Heap from idea to billion dollar company. Ravi discusses founder-led support and the ways he and Matin managed...2022-06-031h 01
The Sourcegraph PodcastMax Howell, creator of Homebrew and founder of teaBeyang talks with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew, about his new package manager, Tea, which aims to solve the problem of open-source funding.Max shares his beginnings in programming and what led him to work on early music players in Linux, Last.fm, and eventually get into Mac development. Max discusses the frustrations he experienced in cross-platform development that were the impetus for the creation of Homebrew and explains how Homebrew became the de facto package manager for macOS.Max talks about his latest project, Tea, a successor to Homebrew that aims to solve the...2022-05-191h 11
The Sourcegraph PodcastCreating one CI to rule them all, with Fedor Korotkov, founder and CTO of Cirrus LabsWhy can’t one CI scale alongside a company–from startup to enterprise? In this episode, Fedor Korotkov, founder and CTO of CirrusLabs, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to talk about how, as a student back in 2009, he developed a photo app that earned him almost $2,000 a month, share the time he applied to be an intern at Twitter but ended up with a full-time job, and explain how six months of “funemployment” led to the building and founding of Cirrus CI–the one CI to rule them all. Along the way, Fedor explains how Cirrus CI, with K...2022-03-211h 08
The Sourcegraph PodcastChanging the web one tool at a time, with Kelly Norton, principal software engineer at Mailchimp and creator of HoundWhy is the software industry now willing and excited to buy developer tools instead of building them internally? In this episode, Kelly Norton, principal software engineer at Mailchimp and creator of open-source code search engine Hound, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to talk about his work on the controversial project that would become Google Web Toolkit, share his experience trying to build an ecosystem of tooling, which resulted in Google Dart, and explain how the company he founded, FullStory, pioneered user testing. Along the way, Kelly describes how and why he developed Hound at Etsy and...2022-03-011h 10
The Sourcegraph PodcastBuilding the code editor dreams are made of, with Max Brunsfeld, co-founder of ZedWhy should programmers treat programming like a craft? In this episode, Max Brunsfeld, co-founder of Zed, a collaborative code editor written in Rust, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to share the apprenticeship-like pair-programming experience that taught him to appreciate programming, explain how he learned the fundamentals of parsing on the weekends and tell the story of presenting an application he couldn’t explain to Paul Graham at Y Combinator. Along the way, Max describes how the Zed team passes off in-progress branches to teammates in other countries and keeps development moving across time zones.Sh...2022-02-151h 10
The Sourcegraph PodcastCreating the GitHub of databases, with Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScaleWhy is using PlanetScale a mind-altering experience? In this episode, Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScale, shares how one email got him a second job interview with Elon Musk, tells the story of how he became one of the elite engineers at Paypal by solving the company’s most painful process, and explains why database administrators are shifting from managing machines to managing fleets of machines. Along the way, Sougoumarane explains why so many developers have told him they’ve felt like they’ve waited their whole lives for self-serve schema deployment.Show notes & transcript: https://about...2022-01-181h 12
The Sourcegraph PodcastDisassembling and building developer tools, with Nelson Elhage, creator of open source code search engine LivegrepWhy is a systems engineering mindset essential for a scaling startup? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Nelson Elhage, creator of the open source code search engine Livegrep, co-creator of the Ruby type checker Sorbet, and Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to discuss how Rust is changing the security landscape, explain why Patrick McKenzie, better known as patio11, called his live code search tool “miraculous,” and dive deep into the weeds on the differences between trigram- and suffix-array-based search systems. Along the way, Elhage explains why developer productivity is nonl...2022-01-041h 19
The Sourcegraph PodcastBuilding technical communities, with Swyx, Head of Developer Experience at TemporalWhy is building a technical community the most effective moat out there for startups? In this episode, swyx, who runs DevRel at Temporal and co-founded the Svelte Society, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to discuss the stress-induced heart palpitations that led him to transition from finance to tech, show how you can harness a willingness to look stupid to become a standout member of your community, and explain why every book should come with a Discord. Along the way, swyx shares some of the ways learning in public has changed his life, including how one blog...2021-12-141h 15
The Sourcegraph PodcastArming the rebels of the metaverse, with Joseph Nelson, CEO and co-founder of RoboflowWhen, and how, will computer vision and machine learning revolutionize the world? In this episode of the Sourceraph Podcast, Joseph Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Roboflow, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to discuss how Joseph got started in programming (developing a joke generator for a graphing calculator), to share his experience working as a human Google alert for the United States Congress, and to explain why he finds building developer tools so empowering. Along the way, Joseph explains why he thinks machine learning and computer vision will have greater effects than the Internet and the mobile...2021-11-221h 26
The Sourcegraph PodcastPioneering the developer advocate role, with Cassidy Williams, Director of Developer Experience at NetlifyHow can you build a following, and a career, with memes? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Cassidy Williams, Director of Developer Experience at Netlify, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to discuss why we should consider communication a core skill instead of a soft skill, why you should be a developer advocate or a software engineer but not both, and why, when learning React, you should start with the fundamentals. Along the way, Cassidy shares stories about the job she held the longest (mascot for Iowa State), positive and negative experiences from the heyday of...2021-11-171h 10
The Sourcegraph PodcastBuilding the foundation of code search with Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of ZoektHow do Google developers create and popularize internal tools? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of the open-source code search engine Zoekt, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph, to discuss the agonizing experience with Perforce that drove Han-Wen to build his first dev tool, explain the value of coding on trains and planes, and share the story of how building code search nearly inspired a street named after him in Sweden. Along the way, Han-Wen offers an inside look at the history behind some of Google’s most famous dev tools, such as Bl...2021-11-091h 07
The Sourcegraph PodcastTaking the warts off C, with Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig Software FoundationHow do you improve on C? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig programming language and the founder and president of the Zig Software Foundation, joins Beyang Liu, co-founder and CTO of Sourcegraph and special guest Stephen Gutekanst, software engineer at Sourcegraph, to talk about what it takes to create a new programming language. Along the way, Andrew shares how programmers can get funding for their side projects and hobbies, why conditional compilation exposes philosophical differences between Zig and C, and explains why and how Zig can be faster than both C and...2021-10-191h 12
The Sourcegraph PodcastMaking security more accessible for developers, with Sam Scott, co-founder and CTO of OsoHow do you make security, a topic that often requires a PhD to understand, accessible to your average developer? In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Sam Scott, co-founder and CTO of Oso, a batteries-included library for building authorization into your application, comes on the podcast to explain to Beyang Liu, CTO at Sourcegraph, his vision for the future of security development. Along the way, Sam also shares how he got started in cryptography, explains why they pivoted Oso from infrastructure to application authorization, and shows Beyang how you can use Oso to build an authorization model with just 26...2021-10-121h 27
The Sourcegraph PodcastRedesigning the future of feature flags, with Ivar Østhus and Egil Østhus, co-founders of UnleashWhat’s the future of feature flags? On this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Brothers Ivar Østhus and Egil Østhus, co-founders of Unleash, join Sourcegraph co-founder and CTO Beyang Liu to discuss their open source project and open core company. In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Ivar and Egil talk about their histories in programming and open source, share the inspiration for turning a side project into a full-time job, and dissect the current state, as well as the future of, the feature flag market. Along the way, Ivar and Egil share an intimate look at their growing comp...2021-09-301h 11
The Sourcegraph PodcastDesigning delightful docs, with Orta Therox, TypeScript Compiler Engineer at MicrosoftHow do you design software docs and websites that both intrigue and educate? As a contributor to popular projects like React Native, Jest, Prettier, and TypeScript, Orta Therox has prioritized design for visual engagement, accessibility, and learning. In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Orta talks about the importance of engaging docs, how experimentation fuels learning and engineering in TypeScript, and how developers can write better code examples with Shiki Twoslash, a project he developed and designed. Along the way, Orta also shares his own story of getting into code and the odd way he was hired on Microsoft's...2021-09-141h 07
The Sourcegraph PodcastConnecting the right ideas with the right people, with Christopher Chedeau, creator of Excalidraw, co-creator of React NativeOn the eve of the pandemic, Christopher Chedeau was procrastinating performance reviews at Facebook and decided to hack together a simple drawing app. That weekend project became Excalidraw, an open-source virtual whiteboard so popular that its users have basically demanded a startup form around it so that they can bring it to work. In this episode of the Sourcegraph Podcast, Christopher tells the backstory of Excalidraw's meteoric rise, as well as his story of joining Facebook and coming to America, and tales from the early days of React and how React Native was born.Show notes & transcript...2021-08-311h 02
The Sourcegraph PodcastDecomposing a massive Rails monolith with Kirsten Westeinde, software development manager at ShopifyWhat’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? And why didn’t Shopify follow the standard path to microservices, but instead chose to modularize their monolith? In this episode, Kirsten Westeinde, software development manager at Shopify, describes how her team led the charge in refactoring and re-architecting Shopify's massive codebase, sharing the winding path they took to make this massive change and the way they tackled both the technical and human side of this challenge.Show notes & transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/refa...2021-08-1751 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastThe future of the code economy, with Devon Zuegel, creator of GitHub SponsorsDevon 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 GitHub turned into the most popular way to fund open source. She also shares her thoughts on different models of paying for software and where the future of the code economy is headed.Show notes & transcript: about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/devon-zuegel/Sourcegraph: about.sourcegraph.com2021-08-051h 12The Sourcegraph PodcastDeveloper Onboarding Part 3: Jean du Plessis, Director of Engineering, SourcegraphFor the final segment of our three-part series on developer onboarding, we chat with our very own Jean du Plessis, director of engineering at Sourcegraph. Jean talks about the role checklists can play in onboarding, why context is king for coders, how to facilitate context transfer, and how software engineering can seem like one part adventure, one part archeology. We also touch on the topic of continuous onboarding, and how it relates to general developer productivity. 2021-07-1423 minThe Sourcegraph PodcastDeveloper Onboarding Part 2: Limor Bergman, PowerToFly and Digital OceanIn this episode, we cover part two of our series on developer onboarding with Limor Bergman. Limor's career spans many storied companies: she's been an engineering manager at Sun Microsystems and VMware, director of engineering of Digital Ocean's cloud computing division, and is now the director of mentorship at PowerToFly where she helps women in technology uplevel and make big career moves. She shares with us her approach to ensuring knowledge transfer, how to onboard people into legacy code, and talks about what has changed over the past 20 years for software engineers. 2021-07-1424 minThe Sourcegraph PodcastDeveloper Onboarding Part 1: Ryan Djurovich, DevOps Manager, XeroWe're kicking off a new season of the Sourcegraph podcast with a three-part series discussing how engineering leaders onboard new teammates. First up is a guest from season one, Ryan Djurovich, DevOps Manager at Xero, one of the largest accounting software companies in the world. He talks about how to strike the right balance between autonomy and consistency, the importance of tools in the process, and how to foster a high-trust environment. Show notes and transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/onboarding-ryan-djurovich2021-06-3025 minThe Sourcegraph PodcastKelsey Hightower, Kubernetes and Google CloudAs an engineer at Puppet, CoreOS, and Google Cloud, Kelsey Hightower has been at the forefront of new deployment technologies over the past decade. Along the way, he has built tools like confd, created learning resources like Kubernetes The Hard Way, co-founded KubeCon, and taught multitudes of people about containers, infrastructure as code, service meshes, and the operating system of the cloud.In this conversation, Kelsey talks about how he learns new technologies, shares stories over the course of Kubernetes history, and explains how one might make sense of the varied ecosystem of infrastructure tools ("engineering organizations...2020-12-1659 minThe Sourcegraph PodcastPeter Pezaris, CEO of CodestreamPeter Pezaris is the CEO and founder of Codestream, an editor plugin that's bringing code discussions and communication into your IDE. Codestream is starting by bringing GitHub PRs into your editor, but it has a novel vision for knowledge sharing that goes well beyond that. We talk about that vision, the shortcomings of existing communication tools for developers, and the challenges of building a uniform user experience on top of multiple editor APIs.Show notes and transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/peter-pezaris2020-11-1656 min