The Sourcegraph Podcast
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.
Episodes
41 episodes
Samuel Colvin, Founder and Lead Maintainer of Pydantic
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 g...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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39:04
Daniel Stenberg, Founder & Lead Developer of cURL
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 Sw...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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58:51
John Kodumal, CTO and Co-founder of LaunchDarkly
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 a...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:02:27
Ravi Parikh, Founder and CEO of Airplane
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:01:46
Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and founder of tea
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 Lin...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:11:22
Creating one CI to rule them all, with Fedor Korotkov, founder and CTO of Cirrus Labs
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 develop...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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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
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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1:10:46
Building the code editor dreams are made of, with Max Brunsfeld, co-founder of Zed
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-pr...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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1:10:03
Creating the GitHub of databases, with Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScale
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 en...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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Disassembling and building developer tools, with Nelson Elhage, creator of open source code search engine Livegrep
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 T...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:19:13
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Building technical communities, with Swyx, Head of Developer Experience at Temporal
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 stre...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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1:15:26
Arming the rebels of the metaverse, with Joseph Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Roboflow
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 Jose...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:26:35
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Pioneering the developer advocate role, with Cassidy Williams, Director of Developer Experience at Netlify
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 co...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:10:32
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Building the foundation of code search with Han-Wen Nienhuys, creator of Zoekt
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 th...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:07:53
Taking the warts off C, with Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig Software Foundation
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 sp...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:12:34
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Making security more accessible for developers, with Sam Scott, co-founder and CTO of Oso
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 authori...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:27:57
Redesigning the future of feature flags, with Ivar Østhus and Egil Østhus, co-founders of Unleash
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 comp...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:11:30
Designing delightful docs, with Orta Therox, TypeScript Compiler Engineer at Microsoft
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 le...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:07:15
Connecting the right ideas with the right people, with Christopher Chedeau, creator of Excalidraw, co-creator of React Native
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:02:26
Decomposing a massive Rails monolith with Kirsten Westeinde, software development manager at Shopify
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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51:49
The future of the code economy, with Devon Zuegel, creator of GitHub Sponsors
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 m...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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