Best Jesse Knowles Podcasts (2024)

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Jack Knowles 44:29

16h ago44:29

44:29

In this episode, we sit down with Jack Knowles, the brilliant lighting designer behind some of the most stunning stage productions in recent years. Jack takes us behind the scenes of his award-winning work on *Sunset Boulevard*, which earned him a coveted Olivier Award. But it's not all about the accolades—Jack also shares some of the more unexpect…

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Chris Bush and Roni Neale 1:00:27

4h ago1:00:27

1:00:27

In this episode, I sit down with a dynamic, beautiful and hilarious couple of the theatre world—Chris Bush and Roni Neale, both accomplished playwrights with a passion for storytelling. Chris, known for the critically acclaimed 'Standing at the Sky’s Edge', shares insights into their creative process (all nighters and avoiding Zip Zap Boing), while…

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Rebecca Trehearn 45:50

7d ago45:50

45:50

For this episode I had a chat with the radiant, warm and incredibly candid Rebecca Trehearn. Rebecca is an Olivier Award winning musical theatre actress, and also a regular in the long running Welsh soap 'Pobol y Cwm'. During our conversation we covered a huge variety of topics including The Power of No, her own experience of 'Bad Cinderella', the …

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Gareth Fry 1:06:41

22d ago1:06:41

1:06:41

This week I chatted to Olivier and Tony award winning sound designer, Gareth Fry. I met Gareth on a production in 2012, shortly after he had done the sound design for the opening ceremony of the Olympics, and he was the obvious choice when thinking of a soundie to chat with! Gareth has productions such as 'Harry Potter' on in the West End, but also…

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Tabby Lamb and Amber Chapell 52:53

30d ago52:53

52:53

For this episode I once again brought on a creative AND a backstage practitioner to chat together about all things theatre, stage management and being prompt. Tabby is a playwright, most well known for her autobiographical piece 'Since U Been Gone' and more recently 'Happy Meal', and Amber is a phenomenal stage manager who I was lucky enough to wor…

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Sophie Isaacs 48:29

1M ago48:29

48:29

After my episode with Gemma Knight Jones, the overwhelming feedback I got was how much people LOVED hearing theatre parents chat about their experiences. So I started to cast around for other West End mamas to chat to, and Sophie Isaacs was an obvious choice. She was in the original West End cast of 'Heathers' and also 'Six', 'Made In Dagenham' and…

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Dan Buckley 1:02:23

1M ago1:02:23

1:02:23

Dan Buckley is an actor with a huge number of musical theatre productions under his belt including 'The Book of Mormon', 'Loserville' and 'Fisherman's Friends'. However it was his brilliant social media content which made me aware of him. Dan makes funny, well observed and painfully true videos which completely encapsulate the highs, lows and all-c…

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Mark Ravenhill 1:03:17

2M ago1:03:17

1:03:17

I couldn't quite believe that one of our most prolific living playwright's agreed to be on my podcast. But one of the most incredible things about Mark Ravenhill is how generous he is with his knowledge and expertise. This was a lengthy chat which covered the French word for prompter, his sometimes- good-sometimes-bad relationships with stage manag…

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Gemma Knight Jones 48:22

2M ago48:22

48:22

Gemma Knight Jones is the ultimate West End queen; A talented mama who is always grafting and endlessly optimistic. Gemma and I were pregnant together on a fast-paced West End show, an experience that truly bonded us, and then we came together again shortly before I left stage management permanently. I really wanted to chat to her about motherhood …

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Rob Madge and Rosie Morgan 52:03

3M ago52:03

52:03

I saw Rob Madge's production of 'My Son's A Queer But What Can You Do' when it was in the West End and just thought it was a fabulous, moving and beautiful piece. On social media I saw that they and their stage manager had a really gorgeous friendship and shared the unique bond that can click into place when working as stage manager and performer o…

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Les Dennis 51:06

2M ago51:06

51:06

Les Dennis is one of the country's most experienced and popular entertainers. With a career spanning several decades and a CV which boasts gameshow host, stand up comic, straight actor, reality tv star and musical theatre legend, it was not hard for Jess to find topics to chat about. In fact editing their lengthy conversation down to 45 minutes was…

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Ground Control: Lunar with Eyal Solomon 27:17

3M ago27:17

27:17

Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643) is the CEO and co-founder of Lunar, an open-source platform which bills itself as the “first reverse API gateway.” Lunar allows engineering teams to monitor, manage, and optimize API consumption. According to Eyal, it’s very easy to integrate with APIs, but difficult to keep them maintained, and there was a clear nee…

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Metadata Management: DataHub with Shirshanka Das 36:56

4M ago36:56

36:56

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 data discovery, data observability and federated governance to help tame complex data ecosystems. Shirshanka first developed DataHub while at LinkedIn, but has grown it into an independent project with…

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Take Your Own Advice: vlcn with Matt Wonlaw 31:58

4M ago31:58

31:58

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 time, he was working for Facebook, and he decided that his own life needed a change in direction. So Matt started vlcn, aka Vulcan Labs, a research company that develops open-source projects like CR-SQLi…

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Secret Sauce: Amplication with Yuval Hazaz 31:22

5M ago31:22

31:22

Amplication is an open-source development platform for scalable and secure Node.js applications. It allows engineers to skip writing boilerplate code and offers the flexibility to customize and add components. Amplification was created by Yuval Hazaz (@Yuvalhazaz1), a veteran developer who determined that low-code platforms save time but restrict f…

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To the Moon: OpenBB with Didier Lopes 39:41

5M ago39:41

39:41

OpenBB is an open-source investment research platform created by Didier Lopes (@didier_lopes). OpenBB grew out of a project called Gamestonk Terminal that Didier began working on shortly before the Gamestop short squeeze in January 2021. Today, OpenBB has evolved into an infrastructure platform that allows users to build extensions and access finan…

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Robust Observability: OpenTelemetry with Austin Parker 35:01

6M ago35:01

35:01

OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for collecting and managing telemetry data. OpenTelemetry has been more successful than expected, becoming the second fastest growing project in the CNCF. It allows for flexibility and avoids vendor lock-in, making it attractive to startups and large enterprises alike. On today’s show, Eric (@…

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Never Build Permissions Again: OPAL with Or Weis 37:15

6M ago37:15

37:15

OPAL is an open-source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPAL provides the necessary infrastructure to load policy and data into multiple policy engines, ensuring they have the information they need to make decisions. Today, we’re talking to Or Weis (@OrWeis), co-creator of OPAL and co-founder of Permit, the e…

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Oxygen Deprivation: FerretDB with Peter Farkas 33:55

7M ago33:55

33:55

FerretDB enables users to run MongoDB applications on existing Postgres infrastructure. Peter Farkas (@FarkasP), co-founder and CEO of FerretDB, explains the need for an open source interface for document databases. Peter also discusses the licensing change of MongoDB and the uncertainty it created for users. He emphasizes the importance of open st…

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The Duke of SQLite: Litestream with Ben Johnson 34:14

7M ago34:14

34:14

Ben Johnson (@benbjohnson) is the creator of Litestream and LiteFS, two open-source disaster recovery solution for SQLite. Litestream is designed to provide continuous backups for SQLite databases by streaming incremental changes, allowing for easy data recovery in the event of a server crash. LiteFS, on the other hand, is built on LiteStream but u…

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Rust Never Sleeps: Tonic with Lucio Franco 36:24

8M ago36:24

36:24

Tonic is a native gRPC implementation in Rust that allows users to easily build gRPC servers and clients without extensive async experience. Tonic is part of the Tokio stack, which is a library that provides an asynchronous runtime for Rust and more tools to write async applications. Today, Lucio Franco (@lucio_d_franco) of Turso joins the podcast …

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The Social Miracle: rqlite with Philip O’Toole 43:02

8M ago43:02

43:02

rqlite is a lightweight, distributed relational database built on Raft and SQLite. Founder Philip O’Toole (@general_order24) decided to combine these technologies while working at a startup years ago. The startup no longer exists, but rqlite is going strong. Today, Philip is an engineering manager at Google, while he continues to be the driving for…

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Community Driven IaC: OpenTofu with Kuba Martin 33:11

10M ago33:11

33:11

Kuba Martin (@cube2222_2) is Software Engineering Team Lead at Spacelift and Interim Tech Lead of OpenTofu, the open-source fork of Terraform. Terraform is a declarative infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool that recently switched to a source-available license. Spacelift and other companies that heavily relied on Terraform came together to fork it into…

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Postgres for Everything: Tembo with Ry Walker 32:03

12M ago32:03

32:03

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 capabilities of Postgres appear underappreciated and underused for most users. Tembo is an attempt to harness the large ecosystem of Postgres extensions, and ultimately collapse the database sprawl of the m…

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Automation for Technical People: n8n with Jan Oberhauser 40:04

1y ago40:04

40:04

Jan Oberhauser (@JanOberhauser) is the founder and CEO of n8n, the free and source-available workflow automation tool for technical users. n8n's flexible architecture allows users to avoid the limitations of other automation tools, while also opening doors for complex automation scenarios. The project has garnered over 30,000 GitHub stars and a thr…

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The Big Fork: libSQL with Glauber Costa 32:20

1y ago32:20

32:20

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, SQLite. Most people believe that SQLite is open-source software, but it actually exists in the public domain and doesn’t accept external contributions. With their big fork, Glauber and his team have set…

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Rethinking the Workflow Problem: Windmill with Ruben Fiszel 26:49

1y ago26:49

26:49

Ruben Fiszel (@rubenfiszel) is the creator of Windmill, the open-source developer platform that lets users easily turn scripts into workflows and internal apps with auto-generated UIs. Windmill doesn’t force engineers to change their coding style or adopt a convoluted API, and its low-code design makes it accessible to non-technical users. Tune in …

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Vector Search for Humans: Marqo with Jesse Clark 34:17

1y ago34:17

34:17

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 generative AI models, so Marqo’s arrival has had excellent timing. The project has quickly grown to almost 3000 GitHub stars, despite being less than a year old. Jesse and his team weren’t exactly expe…

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From Orchestration to Building Applications: Conductor with Jeu George 33:48

1y ago33:48

33:48

Jeu George (@jeugeorge) is the co-creator of Conductor, the open-source application building platform. Conductor began as a workflow orchestrator and was originally developed at Netflix. Jeu also co-founded Orkes, a company which offers a cloud product based on Conductor. Tune in to find out how Conductor has evolved into an open-source, battle-tes…

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Opening Up Authentication: SuperTokens with Advait Ruia 29:35

1y ago29:35

29:35

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 SuperTo…

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The Werewolves!!! 26:54

1+ y ago26:54

26:54

This episode, Jess talks about the werewolf origins, and shares a few scary stories about The Beast of Brey Road! Come join us for some more spooks. :)By Steffani and Jessica

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The Son of Sam 1:04:24

1+ y ago1:04:24

1:04:24

Steff takes us back to the seventies, when New York was terrorized by a serial killer who called himself The Son of Sam, who shot his victims at what seems to be random. Join us as we delve into his history and discuss what may have caused him to become the monster he is today.By Steffani and Jessica

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The Winchester Mystery House 32:16

1+ y ago32:16

32:16

In this episode Steff dives into the Spooks of the Winchester Mansion. We also discuss the history and the sad life of Sarah Winchester.By Steffani and Jessica

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Open-Source Runtime Security: Falco with Loris Degioanni 33:36

1+ y ago33:36

33:36

Loris Degioanni (@lorisdegio) joins Eric Anderson (@ericmander) to chat about Falco, the open-source runtime security tool for modern cloud infrastructures. Loris is the founder and CTO of Sysdig, and co-creator of Wireshark, the legendary open-source packet analysis tool. Today, Loris talks about all these projects and more - tune in to learn abou…

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The case of Paul John Knowles 34:23

1+ y ago34:23

34:23

Heeyy!!! This episode, we dive into the very sudden and terrible killing spree of Paul John Knowles or the Cassanova Killer.By Steffani and Jessica

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Some Spooky Scary Shit 1:14:12

1+ y ago1:14:12

1:14:12

In this episode Jess is trying to see what you guys like best, so she's reading two scary stories. Give us some feedback if you like stories or us just focusing on spooky things in depth more. Thanks for listening!By Steffani and Jessica

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Decoupling Authorization: Cerbos with Emre Baran 29:02

1+ y ago29:02

29:02

Emre Baran (@emre) is the CEO and co-founder of Cerbos, the open-source authorization layer for implementing roles and permissions. Cerbos allows developers to decouple authorization logic from core code into its own centrally distributed component. Easier said than done, perhaps - but Cerbos is secure, intentionally simple to implement, and develo…

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The Broomstick Killer 55:28

1+ y ago55:28

55:28

Steff talks about Kenneth McDuff, a spoiled child turned killer. There's a twist though, so you'll just have to listen and find out.By Steffani and Jessica

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Cosmonic and WebAssembly with Liam Randall and Bailey Hayes 37:17

1+ y ago37:17

37:17

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) has a conversation with Liam Randall (@Hectaman) and Bailey Hayes (@baihay) of Cosmonic, the platform-as-a-service environment for building cloud-native applications using WebAssembly. Bailey is also on the steering committee for the Bytecode Alliance, which stewards WebAssembly. In 2021, Cosmonic donated their WebAssemb…

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Bachelors Grove Cemetery 1:21:55

1+ y ago1:21:55

1:21:55

Come join us as Steff tells spooky happenings in the small town of Bachelors Grove. We talk about a possible "murderous caretakers' spirit", a "woman in white", and a "phantom dog". AAAHHHHH so spooky!!!By Steffani and Jessica

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Haystack and Intelligent Search with Milos Rusic 30:32

1+ y ago30:32

30:32

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by Milos Rusic (@rusic_milos) to discuss Haystack, the open-source NLP framework for leveraging Transformer models and building intelligent search systems. Milos and his colleagues at deepset were early contributors to Hugging Face’s Transformer models, and began building pipelines for searching large document …

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Cube and the Semantic Layer with Artyom Keydunov 23:39

1+ y ago23:39

23:39

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) talks with Artyom Keydunov (@keydunov) about Cube, the semantic layer for building data applications. Cube helps engineers bridge data warehouses and data experiences, and provides access control, security, caching, and more helpful features. The project began in open-source and has evolved quite a lot over the last few …

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The Hillside Stranglers 44:44

1+ y ago44:44

44:44

Jess talks about a very rough set of Serial Killers, Angelo Buono, and Kenneth Bianchi. We talk about the terrible lives they led and how they began doing the horrible murders. BIG TRIGGER WARNING!!!!!! This episode is really hard to listen to so just a fair warning. Please if you cannot handle it we won't be offended if you don't listen to this on…

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Mothman 25:52

1+ y ago25:52

25:52

We dive into the cryptid Mothman, a Virgina Urban Legend. Jess shares history and spooky sightings of the creepy cryptid since the 1960's!By Steffani and Jessica

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Remembering Jeff Meyerson with Erika Hokanson 18:42

1+ y ago18:42

18:42

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Erika Hokanson (@erikawh0) remember the life of Jeff Meyerson, creator of the influential podcast Software Engineering Daily. He passed during the summer of 2022. Still, his work lives on - thousands of episodes, talks, music, a book, and a community of dedicated listeners and engineers whose lives were touched by Je…

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Testcontainers and Confidence with Sergei Egorov and Eli Aleyner 40:33

1+ y ago40:33

40:33

We’re kicking off the new year with a conversation between Eric Anderson (@ericmander), Sergei Egorov (@bsideup) and Eli Aleyner (@ealeyner). Sergei and Eli founded AtomicJar to maintain Testcontainers, the family of open-source libraries that allow developers to write and run integration tests locally, and treat them as unit tests. Testcontainers …

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The case of Mary Bell 56:23

1+ y ago56:23

56:23

We discuss the case of the child murderer Mary Bell, who had just turned 11 at the time of the grisly murders. Was it childhood abuse that caused her to lash out in such a sinister way, or something more unsettling- her nature?By Steffani

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Mito and Smarter Spreadsheets with Nate Rush and Aaron Diamond-Reivich 30:21

2y ago30:21

30:21

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) is joined by Nate Rush (@naterush1997) and Aaron Diamond-Reivich (@_aaronDR) to talk about Mito, the open-source spreadsheet that generates Python code for data analysts. Mito is a Python library and acts as an extension to a Jupyter Notebook. Tune in to find out how the Mito team is bridging the gap in data science betw…

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Featureform and the Future of MLOps with Simba Khadder 32:14

2y ago32:14

32:14

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Simba Khadder (@simba_khadder) explore Featureform, the “virtual” feature store platform that aims to standardize data pipelines for machine learning. Contributor is no stranger to feature stores, but Simba has a broader definition than most. Join us to learn how Featureform enables data scientists and machine learni…

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Directus with Ben Haynes 32:01

2y ago32:01

32:01

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) hosts Ben Haynes (@benhaynes), CEO and co-founder of Directus. Directus is an open-source data platform that layers on SQL databases to provide an instant API, and includes a no-code data studio interface. Listen in to find out how Directus is aiming to democratize the modern data stack for everyone. Subscribe to Contrib…

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