Best Beyang and Quinn Podcasts (2024)

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Samuel Colvin, Founder and Lead Maintainer of Pydantic 39:04

1y ago39:04

39:04

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 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 …

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Daniel Stenberg, Founder & Lead Developer of cURL 58:51

1y ago58:51

58:51

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 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 P…

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Jason Warner, Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures 54:59

1+ y ago54:59

54:59

By Beyang and Quinn

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Jean Yang, Founder and CEO of Akita Software 51:55

1+ y ago51:55

51:55

By Beyang and Quinn

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Adam Berry, Senior Staff Engineer at Amplitude 55:27

1+ y ago55:27

55:27

By Beyang and Quinn

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John Kodumal, CTO and Co-founder of LaunchDarkly 1:02:27

2y ago1:02:27

1:02:27

Beyang 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 t…

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Ravi Parikh, Founder and CEO of Airplane 1:01:46

2y ago1:01:46

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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 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 musicia…

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Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and founder of tea 1:11:22

2y ago1:11:22

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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 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-pla…

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Creating one CI to rule them all, with Fedor Korotkov, founder and CTO of Cirrus Labs 1:08:20

2y ago1:08:20

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Why 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…

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Changing the web one tool at a time, with Kelly Norton, principal software engineer at Mailchimp and creator of Hound 1:10:46

2y ago1:10:46

1:10:46

Why 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 wo…

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Building the code editor dreams are made of, with Max Brunsfeld, co-founder of Zed 1:10:03

2y ago1:10:03

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Why 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…

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Creating the GitHub of databases, with Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScale 1:12:13

2+ y ago1:12:13

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Why 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 …

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Disassembling and building developer tools, with Nelson Elhage, creator of open source code search engine Livegrep 1:19:13

2+ y ago1:19:13

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Why 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 c…

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Building technical communities, with Swyx, Head of Developer Experience at Temporal 1:15:26

2+ y ago1:15:26

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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-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 …

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Arming the rebels of the metaverse, with Joseph Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Roboflow 1:26:35

2+ y ago1:26:35

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When, 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 experi…

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Pioneering the developer advocate role, with Cassidy Williams, Director of Developer Experience at Netlify 1:10:32

2+ y ago1:10:32

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How 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 sof…

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Building the foundation of code search with Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of Zoekt 1:07:53

2+ y ago1:07:53

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How 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 …

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Taking the warts off C, with Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig Software Foundation 1:12:34

2+ y ago1:12:34

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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 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 n…

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Making security more accessible for developers, with Sam Scott, co-founder and CTO of Oso 1:27:57

2+ y ago1:27:57

1:27:57

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 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 visio…

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Redesigning the future of feature flags, with Ivar Østhus and Egil Østhus, co-founders of Unleash 1:11:30

2+ y ago1:11:30

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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 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 a…

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Designing delightful docs, with Orta Therox, TypeScript Compiler Engineer at Microsoft 1:07:15

2+ y ago1:07:15

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How 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 …

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Connecting the right ideas with the right people, with Christopher Chedeau, creator of Excalidraw, co-creator of React Native 1:02:26

2+ y ago1:02:26

1:02:26

On 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…

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Decomposing a massive Rails monolith with Kirsten Westeinde, software development manager at Shopify 51:49

2+ y ago51:49

51:49

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? 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 ho…

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The future of the code economy, with Devon Zuegel, creator of GitHub Sponsors 1:12:36

2+ y ago1:12:36

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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 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: …

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Kelsey Hightower, Kubernetes and Google Cloud 59:32

3+ y ago59:32

59:32

As 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, servi…

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Beyang And Quinn Podcasts

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The Sourcegraph Podcast

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Samuel Colvin, Founder and Lead Maintainer of Pydantic 39:04

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Daniel Stenberg, Founder & Lead Developer of cURL 58:51

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Jason Warner, Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures 54:59

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Jean Yang, Founder and CEO of Akita Software 51:55

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Adam Berry, Senior Staff Engineer at Amplitude 55:27

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John Kodumal, CTO and Co-founder of LaunchDarkly 1:02:27

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Ravi Parikh, Founder and CEO of Airplane 1:01:46

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Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and founder of tea 1:11:22

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Creating one CI to rule them all, with Fedor Korotkov, founder and CTO of Cirrus Labs 1:08:20

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Changing the web one tool at a time, with Kelly Norton, principal software engineer at Mailchimp and creator of Hound 1:10:46

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Building the code editor dreams are made of, with Max Brunsfeld, co-founder of Zed 1:10:03

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Creating the GitHub of databases, with Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScale 1:12:13

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Disassembling and building developer tools, with Nelson Elhage, creator of open source code search engine Livegrep 1:19:13

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Building technical communities, with Swyx, Head of Developer Experience at Temporal 1:15:26

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Arming the rebels of the metaverse, with Joseph Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Roboflow 1:26:35

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Pioneering the developer advocate role, with Cassidy Williams, Director of Developer Experience at Netlify 1:10:32

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Building the foundation of code search with Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of Zoekt 1:07:53

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Taking the warts off C, with Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig Software Foundation 1:12:34

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Making security more accessible for developers, with Sam Scott, co-founder and CTO of Oso 1:27:57

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Redesigning the future of feature flags, with Ivar Østhus and Egil Østhus, co-founders of Unleash 1:11:30

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Designing delightful docs, with Orta Therox, TypeScript Compiler Engineer at Microsoft 1:07:15

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Connecting the right ideas with the right people, with Christopher Chedeau, creator of Excalidraw, co-creator of React Native 1:02:26

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Decomposing a massive Rails monolith with Kirsten Westeinde, software development manager at Shopify 51:49

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The future of the code economy, with Devon Zuegel, creator of GitHub Sponsors 1:12:36

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Kelsey Hightower, Kubernetes and Google Cloud 59:32

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