E37: SeMI & Open-Source AI-Based Database Technology

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Bob van Luijt is the Co-Founder & CEO of SeMI Technologies, the company behind the open-source project Weaviate which is a vector search engine for ML models.

Weaviate uses machine learning to vectorize (ie represent) and store data in order to more easily find answers to natural language queries.

The project has 2.5K stars on GitHub and an almost 1K person Slack community of data scientists, data engineers, and software engineers.

The company has raised over $17M from investors including NEA, Zetta, and Cortical Ventures.

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E37: SeMI & Open-Source AI-Based Database Technology

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MP3•خانه قسمت

Bob van Luijt is the Co-Founder & CEO of SeMI Technologies, the company behind the open-source project Weaviate which is a vector search engine for ML models.

Weaviate uses machine learning to vectorize (ie represent) and store data in order to more easily find answers to natural language queries.

The project has 2.5K stars on GitHub and an almost 1K person Slack community of data scientists, data engineers, and software engineers.

The company has raised over $17M from investors including NEA, Zetta, and Cortical Ventures.

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#Tech #Robby (Cowboy VC) & Tim (Essence VC #Robby (Cowboy VC #Tim (Essence VC

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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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