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Appsmith with Arpit Mohan

May 13th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  49 mins 8 secs

javascript, open source, ui

Appsmith is an open-source project created to put customizable app tools directly into developers’ hands. Arpit Mohan, CTO of Appsmith, joins us to talk about how he wants to help engineers accomplish more, how Appsmith is used daily by over 1,000 teams, the difficulty of managing microservices, and more.

RedwoodJS: Part 2 with Amanda Giannelli

May 3rd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  26 mins 32 secs

javascript, open source, redwoodjs

Redwood is a fully integrated, end-to-end, production-ready, fully tested framework. We talk to Amanda Giannelli, Software Engineer at Auth0 and a member of the RedwoodJS core team, about Redwood V1 and more.

Tinybird with Jorge Gomez Sancha

April 8th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  29 mins 55 secs

data, open source, startup

Tinybird helps data teams deliver realtime answers at scale through analytical API endpoints built in minutes, not weeks. Co-Founder and CEO, Jorge Gomez Sancha, joins us to talk about data management, ClickHouse, Tinybird's recent series A announcement, and more.

Open-source supply chain security with Feross Aboukhadijeh

March 22nd, 2022  |  Season 2  |  44 mins 8 secs

open source, security, web development

Feross Aboukhadijeh is the creator of WebTorrent, StandardJS, and Wormhole. We talked to Feross about Wormhole back in June and he joins us now to talk about Socket.dev, a new security company that can protect your most critical apps from supply chain attacks.

NuxtJS with Alex Lichter

March 1st, 2022  |  Season 2  |  45 mins 58 secs

nuxt.js, open source, vue

Nuxt is a meta-framework based on Vue.js that makes developers' lives easier and makes developing full-fledged applications a breeze. NuxtJS core maintainer, Alex Lichter, joins us to talk about Nuxt, Vue 3, and making the web snappy.

Benthos and blobfish with Ash Jeffs

February 9th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  41 mins 55 secs

open source, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

We talk to Ash Jeffs about Benthos, a declarative data streaming service with a unique mascot and documentation that is both informative and entertaining. In this episode, we discuss stream processing, burnout, and the blobfish.

Founder Friday: Fred Schott of Astro

June 25th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  29 mins 53 secs

frontend development, open source, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

Why is it still difficult to build a website that's fast? Fred Schott returns to PodRocket to talk about Astro, a new kind of static site builder that delivers lightning-fast performance with a modern developer experience. Learn more in this episode.

Founder Friday: Johan Eliasson of Nhost

May 28th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  22 mins 50 secs

computer programming, database, open source, software engineering, startup, tech, technology, web development

Johan Eliasson joins us to talk about Nhost, an open-source, Backend-as-a-service with a GraphQL API. How does Nhost compare to Firebase and Supabase? Learn more in this episode.

Open source at Facebook with Dmitry Vinnik

May 11th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  32 mins 8 secs

developer advocate, developer relations, open source, open source technology, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

Facebook Open Source now has over 600 publicly available projects in its portfolio including some well-known projects like React, React Native, PyTorch, Docusaurus, GraphQL, Jest, and more.

Listen to this episode of PodRocket to hear Dmitry Vinnick, a Developer Advocate at Facebook Open Source, talk about what it means to be open source at Facebook, how to manage such a large portfolio, and what it's like to engage with a community remotely.

Feathers with David Luecke

February 23rd, 2021  |  Season 1  |  31 mins 51 secs

computer programming, frontend development, frontend web development, open source, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

Ben and Kate talk to David Luecke, creator of Feathers, a framework for real-time applications and REST APIs. They talk about where Feathers fits in the fullstack framework space, pros and cons of building a modular framework, and what it has been like to maintain a project that needs to keep up with React. Spoiler alert: it’s hard.