E114: How OctoML Helps Developers Build with Llama 2 & Stable Diffusion

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In this episode, we uncover the grim details of the Bag Murders, the systemic failures that allowed the killer to evade justice for years.

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OctoML has raised $132M from investors including Amplify, Addition, Madrona, and Tiger.

In this episode, we discuss the importance of supporting multiple models, the advancements from LLaMA and Stable Diffusion this year, building the TVM and OctoML communities, predictions on GenAI in the enterprise (hybrid ML, for example), whether GenAI is over-invested in & more!

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E114: How OctoML Helps Developers Build with Llama 2 & Stable Diffusion

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OctoML has raised $132M from investors including Amplify, Addition, Madrona, and Tiger.

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Brian Raymond is Founder & CEO of Unstructured , the platform to extract and transform complex data for use with every major vector database and LLM framework. Their open source project has 7K stars on GitHub and includes libraries and APIs that let users build custom preprocessing pipelines for labeling, training, and production machine learning pipelines. Today, they have over 6M downloads and 50K companies using their tools. Unstructured has raised $65M from investors including Bain, Essence VC, and Menlo Ventures. In this episode, we dig into Brian's process of talking to 100 data scientists before launching Unstructured, why the long tail of data matters for LLMs, competing with their own open source, why being a "boring company" is valuable for today's LLM stack, why they liked having government design partners, why world-class design & marketing are huge differentiators for open source companies & more!…

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E133: Reinventing Authorization with Google's Zanzibar Paper 39:25

1 year پیش39:25

39:25

Jake Moshenko is Co-Founder & CEO of AuthZed , the scalable authorization platform based on Google's Zanzibar white paper. Their open source permissions database spiceDB has 5K stars on GitHub and enables fine-grained access control for customer applications. AuthZed has raised $4M from investors including Work-Bench and Amplify. In this episode, we dig into the Zanzibar approach to auth, branding themselves as a database, building for big companies from the get-go, their Hacker News launch and how getting on the front page kickstarted their project's growth, monetizing early & more!…

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E132: From General Purpose to Specialized Databases 40:03

1 year پیش40:03

40:03

Joran Dirk Greef is Founder & CEO of TigerBeetle , the open source financial transactions database. Their project, also called tigerbeetle , has over 7K stars and is a database designed for mission-critical workloads and performance. TigerBeetle has raised $6M from investors including Amplify. In this episode, we discuss why general purpose databases don't scale for high volume transactional workloads - and the need for specialized databases generally, open source vs. source available, the enterprise commercial stack of management, monitoring, security, and identity, their unique take on monetization & more!…

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E131: Why the Next Generation of Time Series Databases Will Be Multimodal 34:21

1 year پیش34:21

34:21

Niko West is Co-Founder & CEO of Rerun , the open source visualization engine for streams of multimodal data. Rerun has raised over $3M from investors including Costanoa. In this episode, we discuss how Rerun found early success in gaming, why building in Rust was important, how open source expanded the segments Rerun could serve, why they thought about monetization early, the importance of visual and video content & more!…

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E130: Orchestrating AI Workloads with Union AI 38:43

1 year پیش38:43

38:43

Ketan Umare is Co-Founder & CEO of Union AI , the scalable MLOps platform focused on AI orchestration based on the flyte open source project. Union AI has raised $29M from investors including NEA & Nava Ventures. In this episode, we dig into the differences between Union AI and Airflow, what's unique about orchestrating AI workloads, bringing software engineering practices to AI & more!…

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E129: The Race to Help Build Custom AI Models 38:39

1 year پیش38:39

38:39

Sahil Chaudhary is Founder of Glaive AI , the platform to build models that are faster, cheaper and outperform general purpose models with the help of synthetic data. In this episode, we discuss why education is so important for GenAI infra companies at this stage, how synthetic data helps companies move from prototype to production, why synthetic data may be a better approach vs. cleaning data, why they're targeting AI native startups as an initial market & more!…

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E128: Simplifying Complex Infrastructure with Encore 33:49

1 year پیش33:49

33:49

André Eriksson is Founder & CEO of Encore , the backend development platform for startups building event-driven and distributed systems. This is Andre's second time on the Open Source Startup Podcast (first episode here ) and, in this episode, we dig into their GTM strategy, why it was important for them to add Typescript support (in addition to Go), whether companies should still build with kubernetes & more!…

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E127: Reimagining VPNs with Tailscale 43:19

1 year پیش43:19

43:19

Avery Pennarun is Co-Founder & CEO of Tailscale , the Wireguard -based VPN that reimagines secure, private networks. Tailscale has raised $115M from investors including Heavybit, Accel, CRV, and Insight. In this episode, we dig into what caused the team to reimagine zero trust security at the networking level, why they focus both on individual developers and large enterprises with a bottoms-up and top-down business model, why they leaned into the VPN comparison, how they create a personal tone for their blog & more!…

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E126: RisingWave's Take on Launching a New Database 40:27

1 year پیش40:27

40:27

Yingjun Wu is Founder of RisingWave , a new open source stream processing database. RisingWave has raised $40M from investors including Yunqi Partners. In this episode, we discuss RisingWave's approach versus Apache Flink and other stream processing frameworks, why stream processing is important for real-time monitoring use cases, why they initially focused on startups and how free support helped develop trust with these early users, key decisions around their product and why Postgres compatibility was crucial & more!…

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E125: Let's Help Engineering Teams Productionize AI 43:29

1 year پیش43:29

43:29

Andrew Hoh is Co-Founder of LastMile AI , the AI developer platform for engineering teams to productionize LLM applications. They take an "open periphery" stance on open source with projects like AIConfig to help developers build AI applications. LastMile AI has raised $10M from investors including Gradient, AME, Exceptional Capital, and Firsthand Alliance. In this episode, we discuss LastMile's approach to simplifying AI for developers and why they decided to build an end-to-end solution, LastMile's open periphery approach to open source, where we are on the experimentation-to-commercialization curve with GenAI, why Azure is the top cloud provider when it comes to AI support & more!…

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E124: Re-Focusing on Security - the Sysdig Story 44:51

1 year پیش44:51

44:51

Loris Degioanni is Founder & CTO of Sysdig , the observability and container security company behind the Falco and Sysdig open source projects. Both projects are widely adopted, with 7K GitHub Stars each. Sysdig is a $2.5B company that has raised over $700M from investors including Insight, Accel, Bain, DFJ, Goldman Sachs, Third Point & Permira. In this episode, we dig into Sysdig's roots in infrastructure and the pivotal decision to focus on security 2 years into the company journey, Sysdig's culture of experimentation (and some paranoia) that has helped make them successful, why they thought about their paid product early & much more!…

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E123: Real-time Video & Audio Infrastructure for Conversational AI 44:15

1 year پیش44:15

44:15

Russ d'Sa is Founder of LiveKit , the real-time streaming audio, video, and data infrastructure platform for developers. Their open source project, also called livekit , provides the end-to-end stack for WebRTC and has over 6K stars on GitHub. In this episode, we dig into LiveKit's unique founding story with the idea coming from the founders' experience building a Clubhouse competitor and using Agora, early interest from companies like Pinterest that gave indications that there was a need for an open source alternative to Agora and Twilio, why Conversational AI will be a big driver for LiveKit & more!…

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E122: How Orkes is Building a Great Company on Conductor 42:29

1 year پیش42:29

42:29

Jeu George is Co-Founder & CEO of Orkes , the orchestration engine based on the Conductor project . Conductor was originally created at Netflix but they have since discontinued support of the project. The team at Orkes has forked the project and is building a company around it. In this episode, we talk through the Conductor journey - from creating the original project at Netflix to forking the project, why an orchestration engine is critical to companies building with microservices, signs that there was company potential behind the project (aspirational companies using it, production workloads, etc.) & more!…

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E121: Coding in the Cloud with Coder 41:27

1 year پیش41:27

41:27

Kyle Carberry is Founder & CTO of Coder , the self-hosted remote development platform. Their project, also called coder , enables users to provision remote development environments via Terraform and has over 6K Github Stars. In this episode, we dig into the evolution of the browser-based coding movement, how Coder massively improved developer experience & productivity, their early focus on enterprise customers & more!…

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E120: Building Better Python Tooling 42:26

1 year پیش42:26

42:26

Charlie Marsh is Founder & CEO of Astral , builders of next-gen python tooling. Their first project, ruff , is an extremely fast Python linter and code formatter written in Rust and has 22K GitHub Stars. In this episode, we dig into why they started with a linter, getting to 8.5M monthly downloads, the impact of building with Rust, how they developed deep 1:1 relationships with their community, growth unlocks (when companies like Hugging Face started using them, for example), how Charlie put his authentic voice into their content, what parts of Python tooling they'll take on next (package manager, testing, documentation) & more!…

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E119: Building With Monorepos Using Nx 41:23

1 year پیش41:23

41:23

Jeff Cross is Co-Founder & CEO of Nx , the build system for maintaining and scaling monorepos, both locally and on CI. Their project, also called nx , has over 20K stars on GitHub. Nx has raised $25M from investors including a16z & Nexus. In this episode, we discuss the benefits of using monorepos and the types of teams and codebases it works well for, crucible moments for the company (ie. when they went beyond the Angular framework), learning how to support large enterprise customers by starting a consulting business first, what great DevEx means to them (speed, automatic migrations, scale) & more!…

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E118: Building React Framework Gatsby 35:38

۲ years پیش35:38

35:38

Kyle Mathews is Co-Founder & CTO of Gatsby , the front-end web development platform. Their open source framework, GatsbyJS , is widely adopted with 55K GitHub Stars. In Feb 2023, Gatsby was acquired by Netlify . In this episode, we discuss how GatsbyJS was able to grow incredibly fast, what features matter most for front-end development frameworks (speed, approachability, etc.), learnings from going after a smaller portion of the market and over-hiring & more!…

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E117: Taking on Datadog with Open Source Observability 37:46

۲ years پیش37:46

37:46

Pranay Prateek is Co-Founder of Signoz, the open source observability platform with OpenTelemetry-native traces, metrics, and logs. Their open source project, also called Signoz , has over 15K GitHub Stars and helps developers monitor their applications and troubleshoot problems. Signoz has raised $7M from investors including SignalFire and Uncorrelated Ventures. In this episode, we discuss why observability is a good category to use open source, why Signoz started with tracing and then added on other types of observability, the growth of OpenTelemetry and why Signoz decided to build with it, how the release of logs unlocked growth, the importance of simple pricing in this category & more!…

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E116: From Open Source DataHub to Closed Source Metaphor 48:59

۲ years پیش48:59

48:59

Mars Lan is Co-Founder and CTO of Metaphor , the modern data catalog that is described as the "Social Platform for Data." Metaphor was created by the founders of ⁠DataHub⁠ which is known as the leading open source metadata platform. Metaphor has raised over $10M from investors including Amplify, a16z, and Point72 Ventures. In this episode, we dig into the story behind Metaphor's creation - and why the team didn't build a managed service on top of DataHub, why Metaphor isn't open source, why sales funnel is the biggest benefit of building a company using open source & much more! For more on Metaphor's story, check out the link here…

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E115: End-to-End AI Lifecycle Management with ClearML 34:51

۲ years پیش34:51

34:51

Moses Guttmann is Co-Founder and CEO of ClearML , the end-to-end AI lifecycle platform for deep learning, machine learning, and Gen AI models. The company's project, also called clearml , provides experiment management, MLOps and data management capabilities and has 5K stars on GitHub. In this episode, we dig into the process of spinning out a project, the pros & cons of starting with a broad product offering, the closed vs. open source debate for GenAI, LLaMA 2 vs. GPT-4 & more!…

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E114: How OctoML Helps Developers Build with Llama 2 & Stable Diffusion 42:50

۲ years پیش42:50

42:50

Tianqi Chen is Co-Founder and Chief Technologist of OctoML , the compute infrastructure platform for tuning and running generative models in the cloud. OctoML was founded by the creators of Apache TVM , the machine learning compiler framework for CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators. OctoML has raised $132M from investors including Amplify, Addition, Madrona, and Tiger. In this episode, we discuss the importance of supporting multiple models, the advancements from LLaMA and Stable Diffusion this year, building the TVM and OctoML communities, predictions on GenAI in the enterprise (hybrid ML, for example), whether GenAI is over-invested in & more!…

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E113: Making AWS Security Dead Simple (and Open Source) 37:34

۲ years پیش37:34

37:34

Toni de la Fuente is Founder of ProwlerPro , the cloud security platform built on top of Prowler , the open source security tool that helps companies implement security best practices including assessments, audits, and scanning. In this episode, we dig into the importance of good documentation, the industry events that helped Prowler gain momentum, shifting focus from AWS only to all major cloud platforms, the need for patience with open source & more!…

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E112: How to Deploy GraphQL Backends Super Fast 39:35

۲ years پیش39:35

39:35

Fredrik Björk is Founder & CEO of Grafbase , the API platform for developers to deploy high performance, scaleable GraphQL APIs. Grafbase has raised $7M+ from investors including Next47 and Uncorrelated Ventures. In this episode, we dig into what a “unified data layer” is and why it’s needed, how they found their early adopters in industries like e-commerce and IoT, Grafbase "Launch Weeks" and more!…

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E111: The Highs & Lows of Open Source with Adam Jacob of System Initiative & Chef 43:22

۲ years پیش43:22

43:22

Adam Jacob is CEO of DevOps platform System Initiative and Co-Founder of infrastructure automation platform Chef . This is Adam's second time on the Open Source Startup Podcast, and this episode is packed with learnings. We discuss the distribution benefits of open source and why some products should be open source and others should not, challenges with the Open Core business model, HashiCorp's license change and the community's response to fork Terraform to create OpenTofu , and much more!…

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E110: Building Functionality for Terraform 40:42

۲ years پیش40:42

40:42

Soren Martius is Co-Founder & CEO of Terramate , the infrastructure-as-code management platform that sits on top of Terraform. Their open source project, also called Terramate , has 3K GitHub stars and adds capabilities such as code generation, stacks, orchestration, change detection, and data sharing to Terraform. In this episode, we discuss building the Terramate community alongside the Terraform community, focusing 70% of the team's effort on Terramate cloud, how HashiCorp's license change impacts the open source community and Terraform builders, and much more!…

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E109: Tracking The Open Source Metrics That Matter With Common Room 43:37

۲ years پیش43:37

43:37

Linda Lian is Co-founder & CEO of Common Room , the community-led growth platform. Common Room has raised $53M from investors including Greylock and Index. In this episode, we discuss the DevRel role and Common Room's journey from being a DevRel tool to a GTM tool, how Common Room solves a top 3 problem for their users, and much more!…

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E108: LLM-Powered Search For Your Own Data 44:21

۲ years پیش44:21

44:21

Amr Awadallah is CEO of Vectara , the LLM search engine that's powered by users' own data. Amr was previously the Founder & CTO of Cloudera and brings many learnings from that experience to Vectara, including what to open source vs. keep proprietary. Vectara has raised $29M from investors including Race Capital. In this episode, we dig into the importance of ease of use and building for the average developer instead of the Silicon Valley developer, taking an "open periphery" approach to open source, how the GenAI wave is similar and different from the Big Data wave, Amr's 3-pronged GTM strategy including sales-led-growth, product-led-growth, and partner-led-growth, and more!…

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E107: What Does Life Look Like Post-SQL? Ask EdgeDB. 42:14

۲ years پیش42:14

42:14

Yury Selivanov is the Co-founder & CEO of EdgeDB , the open-source database designed as a successor to SQL and the relational paradigm. Their open source graph-relational database, edgeDB , has a built-in migration system and a next-generation query language. EdgeDB has raised $19M from investors including Accel, Nava Ventures, and Pear VC. In this episode, we discuss how they took a first principles approach to building a truly developer-first database (ie. building with postgres), the importance they put on having a short learning curve for their database, how they think about breaking through the noise of the many competitive developer-first databases that have launched in recent years, why all open source databases should use the cloud model to monetize & more! Go to edgedb.com to register for the upcoming EdgeDB 4.0 and Cloud launch!…

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E106: Defining Your Own Auth System with Oso 35:06

۲ years پیش35:06

35:06

Graham Neray is Co-founder & CEO of Oso , the authorization-as-a-service platform that created open source oso - a batteries-included framework for building authorization into applications. Oso has raised $26M from investors including Felicis and Sequoia. In this episode, we dig into the first thing Oso founders built (a programming language created for authorization called Polar ), how they decided on the right open source license, how Oso is positioned in the highly competitive auth space, how user requests have driven their monetization strategy, and much more!…

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E105: Bringing Great Developer Experience to Data Teams with Dagster 45:19

۲ years پیش45:19

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Nick Schrock is Founder of Dagster Labs & Creator of Dagster - the open source orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets. Dagster Labs has raised just under $50M from investors including Sequoia, Index, and Georgian Partners. In this episode, we discuss how Dagster is bringing software engineering principles to the data space, what a great developer experience means for data engineers, how to think about launching the cloud version of your open source project & much more!…

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E104: The Future Is Browser-Based with Drifting in Space 30:20

۲ years پیش30:20

30:20

Paul Butler is the Founder of Drifting in Space , the company focused on making browser-based applications accessible to everyone. They've created Jamsocket , a platform for building applications with session backends, and Plane , the open-source server that powers it. In this episode, we dig into the future of browser-based tech and how industrial companies will be likely early adopters, the different components of the Drifting in Space platform & more!…

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E103: Competing with CoPilot to Give Developers AI Superpowers 37:42

۲ years پیش37:42

37:42

Varun Mohan is Co-founder & CEO of Codeium , the AI-powered coding platform for developers. In this episode, we dig into competing with a behemoth like GitHub Copilot, how developing their own infrastructure has enabled incredible scale, building a 30K person community , and much more!

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E102: Building the Most Popular Headless CMS for JavaScript Developers 39:31

۲ years پیش39:31

39:31

Pierre Burgy is Co-Founder & CEO of Strapi , the open source Node.js headless CMS. Their open source project has over 55K stars on GitHub and is 100% JavaScript, fully customizable, and built developer-first. Strapi has raised $45M from investors including CRV, Index, and Accel. In this episode, we discuss the project's origins and impressive growth trajectory, their community-based approach to product roadmap, why they waited 5 years to monetize the project, why Pierre sees cloud as the best open source GTM model & more!…

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