Going Open Supply at Convex with James Cowling
Convex is a serverless backend platform to simplify fullstack utility growth. Its underlying database is written in Rust, and it makes use of TypeScript to combine with reactive UI frameworks.
The platform is rising, which has offered new causes to make the code open supply, and Convex not too long ago launched the supply code for a self-managed model of their platform.
The query of whether or not or to not open supply is one which many corporations take into account. We have been curious to discover the choice making panorama round open sourcing, and in the present day are talking with James Cowling, the Co-Founder and CTO at Convex.
James joins the present to speak about prioritizing developer expertise, the selection to open-source, dangers of open sourcing, software program licenses, and rather more.
Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Convex.
Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Beforehand, Gregor was a CTO throughout cybersecurity, cyber insurance coverage and basic software program engineering corporations. He has been primarily based in Asia Pacific for nearly a decade and may be discovered by way of his profile at vand.hk.
