Syrus Akbary, CEO of Wasmer

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For centuries, members of the B’doul Bedouin tribe lived in the caves around the ancient city of Petra, Jordan. Then, in the 1980s, the government forced the tribe to move in the name of preserving the geological site for tourists. But if the residents are forced to leave, and if their heritage has been permanently changed, then what exactly is being preserved? SHOW NOTES: Meet The Man Living in The Lost City Carved in Stone Jordan: Petra's tourism authority cracks down on Bedouin cave dwellers The tribes paying the brutal price of conservation “There is no future for Umm Sayhoun” Jordan’s Young Bedouins Are Documenting Their Traditions on TikTok Check out Sami's company Jordan Inspiration Tours Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices…

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Syrus Akbary is the founder and CEO of Wasmer, the startup behind the open-source web assembly runtime that's doing for WebAssembly what Docker did for LXC. Syrus explains what WebAssembly is, why it matters outside your browser, and how it compares to other virtualization technologies. He shares the pains that motivated him to look into WebAssembly and eventually led him to create a new WebAssembly runtime and a new company around it. We dive deep into WebAssembly as a technology, its portability and performance characteristics, and talk about the importance of prioritizing community and developer experience when building new development platforms.
Show notes and transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/syrus-akbary

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Syrus Akbary, CEO of Wasmer

The Sourcegraph Podcast

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

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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 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! Highlights [00:00:59] Beyang gives us his understanding of what Pydantic does, and Samuel tells us two things that people appreciate about Pydantic. [00:02:48] Samuel tells the story of what motivated him to create Pydantic, what the state of the world was at the time, and how it started. [00:04:11] When Samuel first created Pydantic, he tells us if he had a particular use case in mind, and we hear the most common way people use Pydantic and other ways it’s used. [00:05:46] Beyang is looking at the Pydantic docs and goes over an example of how you use the base model today. Samuel talks about the new Pydantic V2. [00:07:23] We hear about Samuel's interaction with the FastAPI maintainers. Did he know them, and why does he think they selected Pydantic for their core piece of framework? Samuel mentions Django Ninja, which integrates Pydantic and Django, and Beyang mentions there are many highly starred cool projects using Pydantic and Django. [00:11:53] The new version of Pydantic is written almost completely in Rust, so Samuel reveals why he decided to do the rewrite and what motivated him to use Rust. [00:15:09] Beyang and Samuel discuss some of the Rust bindings so you can see what invoking Python from Rust looks like. [00:21:03] The aspect of Pydantic, which is about translating from Python-type annotations into the core schema, Beyang wonders if that’s changing from Pydantic V1 to V2, and Samuel explains that it’s all rebuilt. [00:24:03] Beyang wonders if anyone is using the not yet released Pydantic V2 yet. Samuel’s response: “I hope for nothing serious because it will change a lot!” [00:24:40] A question in the chat came up for Samuel on Twitch: What motivated you to make the default behavior coercion rather than throwing an error? [00:27:52] Will there be any changes to the public API from Pydantic V1 to V2? Samuel tells us there’s one thing that’s probably going to make people angry and he explains. [00:29:33] Samuel gives an example of the output from serialization. Beyang wants to help Samuel out and tells him how Sourcegraph can potentially help him. [00:34:25] There are some exciting things coming up for Pydantic that Samuel can’t announce quite yet, but he is excited about Pydantic V2 being released. Also, we hear they have GitHub sponsors, but another announcement about sponsors is coming soon. [00:35:35] Samuel announces he would love for you to come and contribute to Pydantic.…

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

2 years ago58:51

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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 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.…

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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

3 years ago1:02:27

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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 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 school. John shares how he pursued his interest in programming languages throughout higher education and then discusses his employment experiences at Coverity and Atlassian. He talks about how the lessons and experiences from his prior jobs ultimately led him to found LaunchDarkly in 2014 with former classmate, Edith Harbaugh. John dives into how did he first got into feature toggles and feature flags, and then talks about the engineering challenges LaunchDarkly has encountered. John concludes by sharing how he has witnessed LaunchDarkly impact the developer experience and the ongoing, transformational benefits of utilizing their feature management platform. Sourcegraph: https://about.sourcegraph.com…

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

3 years 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 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 Heap’s growth from an analytics tool geared towards developers to a full-fledged analytics platform with users across product, sales, and marketing. Ravi explains the seed concepts that led to the founding of Airplane and then demos how to use Airplane to turn a one-off support script into an internal mini-app that you can reuse again and again. The conversation concludes with a discussion of what’s next for Ravi and Airplane. Show notes & transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/ravi-parikh Sourcegraph: https://about.sourcegraph.com…

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

3 years 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-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 open-source funding problem with a decentralized protocol that uses NFTs and an understanding of the package dependency graph to distribute funding to open-source maintainers. Show notes & transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/max-howell Sourcegraph: https://about.sourcegraph.com…

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

3 years 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 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 Kubernetes, can spin up a new container in two seconds. Show notes & transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/fedor-korotkov/ Sourcegraph: https://about.sourcegraph.com…

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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

3 years ago1:10:46

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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 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 shares his thoughts on the developer tools market. Show notes & transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/kelly-norton/ Sourcegraph: https://about.sourcegraph.com…

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

3 years 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 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. Show notes & transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/max-brunsfeld/ Sourcegraph: https://about.sourcegraph.com…

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

3 years 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 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.sourcegraph.com/podcast/sugu-sougoumarane/ Sourcegraph: about.sourcegraph.com…

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

3 years 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 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 nonlinear and why investing in developer experience should be axiomatic. Show notes & transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/nelson-elhage/ Sourcegraph: about.sourcegraph.com…

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

3 years 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 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 post earned two job offers. Show notes & transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/swyx/ Sourcegraph: about.sourcegraph.com…

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

3 years ago1:26:35