The Sourcegraph Podcast

Mar 20 2023 127
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The Sourcegraph Podcast is a new show about developer tools and their creators. It can sometimes feel like a full-time job just staying on top of the latest libraries, frameworks, plugins, extensions, CLI tools, and developer apps. We want to help you do that, by giving you a window into the minds of some of the best and brightest people working at the forefront of developer productivity. You'll hear from dev tool company founders, open-source authors, and developer efficiency leaders inside some of the best engineering organizations. Our guests share war stories, origin stories, worldviews, histories, prognostications, and the tools and technologies they're most excited about today. If you're a programmer who is passionate about leveling up your own productivity or perhaps an aspiring dev tool creator yourself, this podcast is for you.

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Samuel Colvin, Founder and Lead Maintainer of Pydantic

Mar 20 2023 39 mins  
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,

Daniel Stenberg, Founder & Lead Developer of cURL

Feb 14 2023 58 mins  
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. Jo

Jason Warner, Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures

Oct 25 2022 54 mins  

Jean Yang, Founder and CEO of Akita Software

Aug 22 2022 51 mins  

Adam Berry, Senior Staff Engineer at Amplitude

Aug 03 2022 55 mins  

John Kodumal, CTO and Co-founder of LaunchDarkly

Jul 14 2022 62 mins  
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

Ravi Parikh, Founder and CEO of Airplane

Jun 02 2022 61 mins  
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 softw

Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and founder of tea

May 19 2022 71 mins  
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 imp

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

Mar 21 2022 68 mins  
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

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

Mar 01 2022 70 mins  
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, sha