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Mastering Tech GrowthTurning Frustration into Inspiration to Create Tech Success with Tanmai GopalThis episode is all about finding opportunity in frustration and turning it into a platform trusted by 1 million+ users including tech giants like Airbus and Wal Mart. Mike speaks to Tanmai Gopal the CEO and co-founder of Hasura that enables users to easily build, run, govern and evolve high-quality APIs for all types of data. Reliably providing them with accurate real time data that can then be used in numerous ways to serve customers effectively and drive growth. Tanmai shares the story of Hasura’s development, how to scale effectively and how to use PromptQL to turn AI...2025-01-221h 18
Coffee and Open SourceTanmai GopalTanmai is the CEO of Hasura.io, a company he co-founded to develop software to simplify and accelerate application development. Before Hasura, he co-founded 34 Cross, a software development and consulting company focused on web and mobile development and helping Fortune 500 companies transition from monolithic to microservices architectures. While at 34 Cross, he also incubated two companies developing browser extensions, food delivery and food-finding apps for cities in India. Tanmai holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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Ardan Labs PodcastHasura, Data, and Business with Tanmai GopalIn this episode, Bill Kennedy interviews Tanmai Gopal, co-founder and CEO of Hasura, discussing the evolution of San Francisco post-pandemic, the innovative approach of Hasura, and the importance of data security and access. Tanmai shares insights from his academic journey, including his experiences with internships and his master's degree in computer vision, culminating in a fascinating project involving drones. In this conversation, Tanmai Gopal discusses his journey from academia to entrepreneurship, focusing on his experiences in building a consulting business and transitioning to product development. He shares insights on the evolution of GraphQL, the challenges of navigating business...2024-12-041h 24
MaintainableTanmai Gopal: Unlocking the Potential of Unified APIsIn this episode of Maintainable, Robby Russell sits down with Tanmai Gopal, the CEO and co-founder of Hasura. Tanmai shares his insights into the characteristics of well-maintained software and the importance of a codebase that no team member fears. He emphasizes the need for accessibility and understandability in code, making it easier for developers to work with and iterate upon.Tanmai dives deep into the metaphor of technical debt, urging teams to prioritize product outcomes over best practices. He highlights the value of addressing technical debt contextually and in a way that aligns with product goals.2024-07-2344 min
The Developers' BakeryHasura with Tanmai GopalHi everyone, today is time to talk about GraphQL! We have on stage Tanmai Gopal, CEO and co-founder of Hasura.
Hasura is an open-source GraphQL engine that helps you build and scale your GraphQL APIs, basically ‘without’ limits! We’ll talk about the history of Hasura, how it works, and what’s next for this project. Join us in this episode as Tanmai will tell us his story founding Hasura and how they’re building a vibrant ecosystem around this project.
Enjoy the show 👨🍳
Show Notes
00.00 Intro
00.46 Episode Start
01.09 Tanmai’s Introduction
02.04 What is a Hasura?
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The Business of Open SourceOpen Source Internal Startups with Saurav PathakThis week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Saurav Pathak, chief product officier at Bagisto, about a very different kind of business relationship with open source — and open source software incubated in a larger company. There were tons of interesting nuggets in this episode, but some things I wanted to call out are:For open source projects, the tech stack that the project is built with can in fact be a differentiating feature. This is unique to open source (and has come up before, both in my consulting work an...2024-06-0538 minThe Business of Open SourceImproving Your Value Prop Exponentially with Tanmai GopalThis week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Tanmai Gopal, co-founder of Hasura. We talked about how Hasura grew out of Tanmai’s previous company, which was a consulting company. I like to call out examples of really novel open source businesses, but in fact the thing that stuck with me from the conversation with Tanmai was that Hasura is going the ‘classic’ route… and it’s working. What does the ‘classic’ route look like to me? It’s an open source project that targets individual developers and a commercial product that targets team...2024-05-2945 min
DevOps ParadoxAutomating API Development With Hasura#231: We never thought that exposing our databases to the public internet was a good thing. However, when we started creating middleware API services that sat in front of those databases, we probably ended up doing almost the exact same type work that we did when we created the database schemas themselves. Somehow or another, we thought this was good, but in reality, it was not the right solution. In this episode, we speak with Tanmai Gopal, CEO and co-founder at Hasura, about how modern web APIs are developed and the role of modern databases in making development...2023-10-0439 min
Programming Throwdown159: GraphQL with Tanmai GopalGraphQL is one of the biggest API enablers in software development, but just how complicated can things be? Tanmai Gopal – Hasura’s CEO extraordinaire – talks with Jason and Patrick about how the secret sauce gets made. They dive deeply from how APIs function to having them managed in practice – among several other topic, making this a must-listen episode. 00:01:19 Introductions00:01:48 Tanmai’s late start in programming00:05:48 Plinko00:13:06 Coursera00:23:28 The question of API development00:30:30 API layer functionality00:34:58 How Hasura leverages JSON00:39:08 GraphQL00:42:49 W...2023-06-121h 23
ContributorOpening Up Authentication: SuperTokens with Advait Ruia
Advait Ruia (@Advait_Ruia) is the co-founder of SuperTokens, the open-source user authentication and authorization framework. SuperTokens integrates natively into both your front-end client and your backend endpoint. This approach gives developers more control over the user experience and allows for custom workflows. Tune in to find out why SuperTokens aims to be the best of both the build and the buy argument for authentication solutions.
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In this episode we discuss:
How SuperTokens evolved from a blog post...2023-05-3129 min
ContributorOpening Up Authentication: SuperTokens with Advait Ruia
Advait Ruia (@Advait_Ruia) is the co-founder of SuperTokens, the open-source user authentication and authorization framework. SuperTokens integrates natively into both your front-end client and your backend endpoint. This approach gives developers more control over the user experience and allows for custom workflows. Tune in to find out why SuperTokens aims to be the best of both the build and the buy argument for authentication solutions.
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In this episode we discuss:
How SuperTokens evolved from a blog post...2023-05-3129 min
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech LeadersS7 E20: Tanmai Gopal, HasuraTanmai Gopal studied computer science, and specialize in computer vision and machine learning. He found himself frustrated with the pace at which his research work was getting exposure, so he expedited his jump into industry, which help solidify the foundation for his current venture. Outside of tech, he reads a lot, hikes and travels. For the readers, he highly recommends N.K. Jemisin, Charlie Jane-Anders and Namoi Novak.Tanmai and his colleagues became outright frustrated with building API's just to build products. He began wondering what it would take to not do that work anymore, and after...2023-01-2427 min
Open Source Startup PodcastE56: Add GraphQL APIs to Your Data with HasuraRajoshi Ghosh & Tanmai Gopal are the Co-founders of Hasura, the platform to create GraphQL APIs with your data. Hasura's open source graph-QL engine has over 28K stars.
Hasura has raised $140M from investors including Lightspeed, Vertex, and Greenoaks Capital.
In this episode, we discuss how open source builds trust, the difference between project-market fit and product-market fit, hiring for values, and much more!2022-10-0642 min
Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software DevelopersEpisode 530: Tanmai Gopal on GraphQLTanmai Gopal, CEO of Hasura.io, joined SE Radio host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about GraphQL. They discussed the history and rationale behind the original conception of GraphQL, as well as some of the use cases it is best suited for...2022-09-211h 00Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersEpisode 530: Tanmai Gopal on GraphQLTanmai Gopal, CEO of Hasura.io, joined SE Radio host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about GraphQL. They discussed the history and rationale behind the original conception of GraphQL, as well as some of the use cases it is best suited for...2022-09-211h 00
Dev InterruptedWe Solved Dev Infrastructure, So Why Does it Suck to Build Stuff? w/ Hasura's Tanmai GopalIn the last decade there have been enormous advances in infrastructure and ops, so why does it suck to build stuff? That’s the question Tanmai Gopal kept asking himself before founding his company, Hasura. Now, as Hasura’s CEO he’s channeling his chaotic energy in order to solve this problem. This week’s episode of Dev Interrupted implores listeners to forget about pivoting (it’s just the story other people impose on your journey), shames backend devs for their elitist tendencies and asks why, if Netflix won the battle for infrastructure, are they losing the s...2022-09-1342 min
ContributorEdgeDB with Yury SelivanovEric Anderson (@ericmander) has a conversation with Yury Selivanov (@1st1), the co-founder of EdgeDB. EdgeDB is the world’s first “graph-relational database.” It’s a term coined specifically for this new type of database, designed to ease the pain of dealing with the usual relational and NoSQL models. And no, EdgeDB is NOT a graph database!
In this episode we discuss:
A glitch at EdgeDB’s Matrix-inspired launch event
Origin of the term and design philosophy, “graph-relational”
What to know about becoming a Python core developer
How EdgeDB’s next-gen query language compares to GraphQL and SQL
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ContributorEdgeDB with Yury SelivanovEric Anderson (@ericmander) has a conversation with Yury Selivanov (@1st1), the co-founder of EdgeDB. EdgeDB is the world’s first “graph-relational database.” It’s a term coined specifically for this new type of database, designed to ease the pain of dealing with the usual relational and NoSQL models. And no, EdgeDB is NOT a graph database!
In this episode we discuss:
A glitch at EdgeDB’s Matrix-inspired launch event
Origin of the term and design philosophy, “graph-relational”
What to know about becoming a Python core developer
How EdgeDB’s next-gen query language compares to GraphQL and SQL
Links:2022-03-1645 min
Forbes India - Tech ConversationsTanmai Gopal, CEO at Hasura, on the unicorn’s business plans while staying true to open source rootsOur guest today is Tanmai Gopal, co-founder and CEO of Hasura, a Silicon Valley company that is pioneering an open-source and cloud platform that makes it easy for developers to pull together data from multiple sources. Backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Greenoaks, Hasura has just become a unicorn. In this conversation, Gopal talks about plans to make Hasura much more widely available and capable of talking to many more databases, while staying true to its open-source ethos.
Notes:
(00:40) Intro to The Daily Tech Conversation
(00:55) Our guest today — Tanmai Gopal, co-founder and CEO of...2022-03-0234 min
Software at ScaleSoftware at Scale 38 - Hasura with Tanmai GopalTanmai Gopal is the founder of Hasura, an API as a service platform. Hasura lets you skip writing API layers and exposes automatic GraphQL APIs that talk to your database, trigger external actions, and much more.We talk about the implementation of a “compiler as a service”, the implications of primarily having a Haskell production codebase, their experience with GraphQL, hiring product managers technical enough to build useful features, some new and upcoming Hasura features, and riff about the current state of front-end development and `npm` hell.Highlights00:20 - What does the...2021-12-021h 09
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedJAMstack Radio - Ep. #87, Multiple Databases with Tanmai Gopal of HasuraIn episode 87 of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Tanmai Gopal of Hasura. They explore the variables that come with running multiple databases including new security risks, authorization considerations, and problems around caching.2021-09-2331 min
Jamstack RadioEp. #87, Multiple Databases with Tanmai Gopal of HasuraIn episode 87 of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Tanmai Gopal of Hasura. They explore the variables that come with running multiple databases including new security risks, authorization considerations, and problems around caching.The post appeared first on Heavybit.2021-09-2300 min
The Neon ShowHasura Founder on Building For Developers ft. Tanmai GopalData access for App development for startups and enterprise is very complex and has a lot of security concerns. It gets even worse when you plan to scale the product.This has vastly changed since Hasura came into existence. Founded by the guest of our today’s episode, Tanmai Gopal, Hasura provides an open-source engine for developers to streamline data access in a secure and scalable way to make app developments easier.Started in 2018, it has seen adoption from thousands of developers across fast-growing st...2021-08-2354 min
ContributorHasura with Tanmai GopalEric Anderson (@ericmander) and Tanmai Gopal (@tanmaigo) dive into the open-source Hasura GraphQL Engine and the wider Hasura community. Hasura provides real-time GraphQL APIs for databases, so developers can focus on building applications without worrying about infrastructure. Tune in to hear the full story about how Tanmai and his team are helping engineers unlock the dream of self-serve data access.
In this episode we discuss:
How the early Hasura team created their own version of GraphQL in parallel
Developing community with ease of onboarding and radical transparency
Transitioning community events into the COVID world, and looking...2021-05-0536 min
ContributorHasura with Tanmai GopalEric Anderson (@ericmander) and Tanmai Gopal (@tanmaigo) dive into the open-source Hasura GraphQL Engine and the wider Hasura community. Hasura provides real-time GraphQL APIs for databases, so developers can focus on building applications without worrying about infrastructure. Tune in to hear the full story about how Tanmai and his team are helping engineers unlock the dream of self-serve data access.
In this episode we discuss:
How the early Hasura team created their own version of GraphQL in parallel
Developing community with ease of onboarding and radical transparency
Transitioning community events into the COVID world, and looking...2021-05-0536 min
Podcast proConf#94 GraphQL GalaxyДоклады по порядку:
GraphQL 2021 Wishlist: The top GraphQL Opportunities & Challenges for 2021 - Tanmai Gopal (https://youtu.be/PEE2O86avYw)
The Diminishing API Layer - Tejas Dinkar (https://youtu.be/k3ILkP3ZapA)
GraphQL for Everyone - Danielle Man (https://youtu.be/ua_8cECclT4)
GraphQL Anywhere - Our Journey With GraphQL Mesh and Schema Stitching - Uri Goldshtein (https://youtu.be/mfg6ZJ2GGRc)
Using GraphQL on WordPress - Sid Chatterjee (https://youtu.be/zE2Fbz0iOpE)
Let's Talk GraphQL With Your Services - Roy Derks (https://youtu.be/DszRpn5dQq0)
But Can Your GraphQL Client Do This? — A Deep-Dive Into urql - Kadi Kraman (https...2021-05-021h 21
SaaSBoomiWhat makes Hasura the next big thing in Indian SaaSIt’s refreshing to track a new breed of India SaaS companies focused on building tools for software developers and programmers globally. While BrowserStack is on track to achieve $100 million ARR soon, there’s Postman, and then, there’s Hasura.This is what makes tracking India SaaS so fulfilling and thrilling for storytellers like me. Unlike the past waves of IT outsourcing and the rise of India’s e-commerce startups, the country’s SaaS ecosystem offers variety and there are so many potential winners.Hasura’s founders Tanmai Gopal and Rajoshi Ghosh combine their passion...2020-12-1640 min
Tech LoungeTanmai Gopal of Hasura - Instant GraphQL APIs for your dataI speak with Tanmai Gopal about Hasura, an open source and hosted platform that brings instant GraphQL APIs to your data.Also features my weekly round up of geeky news including the best game consoles ever, GPT-3, and more. https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts https://hasura.io--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
For show...2020-08-1249 min
The CloudcastIntroduction to GraphQLTanmai Gopal (@tanmaigo, CEO Hasura) and Rajoshi Ghosh (@rajoshighosh, COO Hasura) talk about the evolution of GraphQL as an efficient way to engage with APIs and data models, and how Hasura Cloud helps simplify GraphQL for developers.SHOW: 462SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:Datadog Security Monitoring Homepage - Modern Monitoring and AnalyticsTry Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirtDivvyCloud - Achieve continuous security & compliance. Request a free trial today!DivvyCloud - The best mistakes are the ones that don’t...2020-08-1240 min
DiscoPosse PodcastEp 129 -Unlocking the Power of All Your Data with GraphQL by HasuraRajoshi Ghosh and Tanmai Gopal are the co-founders of Hasura. Their aim is to instantly make your data accessible over GraphQL and are doing so with a very interesting platform, and approach.
We explore how to build and nurture a strong open source community, the power of "we" in technology, and how to both create commercial value and open communities successfully.
What will really make this fun for you is how diverse their backgrounds are and what lessons they share in this dynamic and fun discussion.
Enjoy the conversation and make sure to conn...2020-08-081h 09
Changelog Master FeedGraphQL's benefits and costs (JS Party)We teamed up with some friends of ours at Heroku to promote the Code-ish podcast so we’re sharing a full-length episode right here in the JS Party feed. This episode features Owen Ou, who is joined by Tanmai Gopal (CEO of Hasura) talking about the pros and cons of using GraphQL in your application. Learn more and subscribe at heroku.com/podcasts/codeish.2020-02-1100 min
JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web DevelopmentGraphQL's benefits and costsWe teamed up with some friends of ours at Heroku to promote the Code-ish podcast so we’re sharing a full-length episode right here in the JS Party feed. This episode features Owen Ou, who is joined by Tanmai Gopal (CEO of Hasura) talking about the pros and cons of using GraphQL in your application. Learn more and subscribe at heroku.com/podcasts/codeish.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Code-ish by Heroku – A podcast from the...2020-02-1130 min
All JavaScript Podcasts by Devchat.tvJSJ 416: GraphQL Developer Tools with Sean GroveIn this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panel interviews Sean Grove from OneGraph; asking him questions about GraphQL tooling and common complaints about GraphQL. Sean starts by explaining what GraphQL is and how it benefits frontend developers. GraphiQL is a frontend open sourced tool produced by OneGraph, Sean explains how this handy tool simplifies GraphQL.
Authentication and authorization are one of the biggest criticisms of GraphQL. Sean walks the panel through the solution, getting a schema definition language and adding directives to build a simple authentication and authorization. The panel defines authentication and...2020-01-141h 20
All JavaScript Podcasts by Devchat.tvJSJ 416: GraphQL Developer Tools with Sean GroveIn this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panel interviews Sean Grove from OneGraph; asking him questions about GraphQL tooling and common complaints about GraphQL. Sean starts by explaining what GraphQL is and how it benefits frontend developers. GraphiQL is a frontend open sourced tool produced by OneGraph, Sean explains how this handy tool simplifies GraphQL.
Authentication and authorization are one of the biggest criticisms of GraphQL. Sean walks the panel through the solution, getting a schema definition language and adding directives to build a simple authentication and authorization. The panel defines authentication and...2020-01-141h 20
JavaScript JabberJSJ 416: GraphQL Developer Tools with Sean GroveIn this episode of JavaScript Jabber the panel interviews Sean Grove from OneGraph; asking him questions about GraphQL tooling and common complaints about GraphQL. Sean starts by explaining what GraphQL is and how it benefits frontend developers. GraphiQL is a frontend open sourced tool produced by OneGraph, Sean explains how this handy tool simplifies GraphQL. Authentication and authorization are one of the biggest criticisms of GraphQL. Sean walks the panel through the solution, getting a schema definition language and adding directives to build a simple authentication and authorization. The panel defines authentication and authorization and explains the difference. The next issu...2020-01-141h 20![Code[ish]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/heroku-www-files/podcasts/codeish/codeish-logo.png){kind=logo}
Code[ish]44. GraphQL's Benefits and CostsOwen Ou, an engineer at Heroku, is joined by Tanmai Gopal, the CEO of Hasura. They start their conversation by describing what GraphQL is, and what problems it set out to solve. GraphQL focuses on making data fetching easier, whether that client is a web browser or an API call. GraphQL provides one endpoint that can query all your application's domain logic. If your primary consumer of data is a front end application, then GraphQL is likely a good choice to use.
The conversation continues with help on how to get started using GraphQL, and situations...2019-11-1927 minAll JavaScript Podcasts by Devchat.tvJSJ 401: Hasura with Tanmai GopalTanmai is one of the founders at Hasura. Hasura gives you instant graphQL APIs on top of a Postgres database. The eventual idea is to make data access secure and easy. Tanmai explains the challenges of doing this in the cloud. He talks about some of the difficulties with the tooling around using GraphQL and its bias towards working well with a monolith. Since GraphQL is basically a shared type system that describes your API, that means all your types need to be in the same code base. This is at odds with the folks who want to do...2019-10-171h 10All JavaScript Podcasts by Devchat.tvJSJ 401: Hasura with Tanmai GopalTanmai is one of the founders at Hasura. Hasura gives you instant graphQL APIs on top of a Postgres database. The eventual idea is to make data access secure and easy. Tanmai explains the challenges of doing this in the cloud. He talks about some of the difficulties with the tooling around using GraphQL and its bias towards working well with a monolith. Since GraphQL is basically a shared type system that describes your API, that means all your types need to be in the same code base. This is at odds with the folks who want to do...2019-10-171h 10JavaScript JabberJSJ 401: Hasura with Tanmai GopalTanmai is one of the founders at Hasura. Hasura gives you instant graphQL APIs on top of a Postgres database. The eventual idea is to make data access secure and easy. Tanmai explains the challenges of doing this in the cloud. He talks about some of the difficulties with the tooling around using GraphQL and its bias towards working well with a monolith. Since GraphQL is basically a shared type system that describes your API, that means all your types need to be in the same code base. This is at odds with the folks who want to do microservices...2019-10-171h 10
Software Engineering DailyServerless GraphQL with Tanmai GopalUpcoming events: A Conversation with Haseeb Qureshi at Cloudflare on April 3, 2019FindCollabs Hackathon at App Academy on April 6, 2019Modern web development tools have given frontend developers more power.On the frontend, JavaScript frameworks like React and Vue have become easier to work with. For deployment, tools like Netlify and Zeit give developers a workflow that is tightly integrated with GitHub. At the database layer, autoscaling document storage systems like Firebase and hosted Mongo solutions make it easier to work with objects.There are also a multitude of APIs that...2019-03-1955 min
Heavybit Podcast Network Master FeedJAMstack Radio - Ep. #35, GraphQL Querying with Hasura's Tanmai GopalIn episode 35 of JAMstack Radio, Brian talks to Tanmai Gopal, CEO and Co-Founder of Hasura, about what makes GraphQL popular and how you can start using it instantly with Hasura.2019-01-0826 minJamstack RadioEp. #35, GraphQL Querying with Hasura’s Tanmai GopalIn episode 35 of JAMstack Radio, Brian talks to Tanmai Gopal, CEO and Co-Founder of Hasura, about what makes GraphQL popular and how you can start using it instantly with Hasura.The post appeared first on Heavybit.2019-01-0826 min
React Native Radio112 - Hasura feat. Tanmai Gopal and Rishichandra WawhalThe team from Hasura join us to talk about building GraphQL APIs for React Native applications using Hasura & why you may want to use GraphQL for a mobile application.
2018-12-1731 min
React Round UpRRU 023: High-Performance GraphQL on Postgres with Hasura Tanmai GopalPanel: Nader DabitSia Karamalegos Special Guests: Tanmai Gopal In this episode, the React Round Up panelists talk to Tanmai Gopal. Tanmai is the founder at Hasura, where they have been building a GraphQL tooling that helps accelerate being able to use GraphQL for app developers. They talk about what Hasura is and what inspired him to build it, what Haskell does to Postgres, and query variables in GraphQL. They also touch on the importance of being aware of the database, how authorization works, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Tanmai introFounder of HasuraHas been building applications for...2018-08-0742 min