Hardware Podcasts

285: A Chicken Getting to the Other Side

Embedded.fm · 11 Apr 2019 · 1h 14m · Episode 285

What this episode covers

Carlos Maltzahn, adjunct professor at UC Santa Cruz and founder of the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS), discusses his initiative to help PhD students transition into open source software leadership. He details three incubator projects: Black Swan by Ivo Jimenez, which applies DevOps techniques to make scientific research reproducible; Skyhook by Jeff LeFevre, which uses programmable storage in Ceph to scale PostgreSQL; and Tracery by Kate Compton, a tool for casual creativity and bot building. Maltzahn explains how CROSS is funded by industry members to bridge the gap between academic research and sustainable open source communities.

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early-stage companies

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Companies
CROSS, UC Santa Cruz, Apache Foundation, Red Hat, Oracle
Products
Linux, Ceph, PostgreSQL, Tracery, Black Swan, Skyhook, SEF, OpenStack, BSD, Spark
Tools
Ansible, Git, GitHub, Conda

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