Tag: open source
Episode 541: Jordan Harband and Donald Fischer on Securing the Supply Chain
Open source developers Jordan Harband and Donald Fischer join host Robert Blumen for a conversation about securing the software supply chain, especially open source. They start by reviewing supply chain security concepts, particularly as related to open source, and then explore: package managers and open source; attacks on open source projects; challenges in validating software […]
Episode 538: Roberto Di Cosmo on Archiving Public Software at Massive Scale
Roberto Di Cosmo, professor of Computer Science at University Paris Diderot and founder of the Software Heritage Initiative, discusses the reasons for and challenges of the long-term archiving of publicly available software. SE Radio’s Gavin Henry spoke with Di Cosmo about a wide range of topics, including the selection of storage solutions, efficiently storing objects, […]
Episode 511: Ant Wilson on Supabase (Postgres as a Service)
Ant Wilson of Supabase discusses building an open source alternative to Firebase with PostgreSQL. SE Radio host Jeremy Jung spoke with Wilson about how Supabase compares to Firebase, building an API layer with postgREST, authentication using GoTrue, row-level security, forking open source projects, using the write ahead log to implement real time updates, provisioning and […]
Episode 413: Spencer Kimball on CockroachDB
Spencer Kimball, Co-Founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs talks about CockroachDB, an open source distributed database system. Host Akshay Manchale spoke with Kimball about his past experience with relational databases that convinced him of the need for a better open source distributed database. . Spencer talks about challenges involved in using a sharded single node […]
Episode 382: Michael Chan on Learning ReactJS
Michael Chan of the React Podcast discusses React, a front end JavaScript framework. Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Chan about what React is, when to introduce it, and how to learn it without being overwhelmed. Michael explains how JSX combines JavaScript and HTML-like markup to build components and how it decides how to automatically manipulate […]
