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Open Source Ready

Heavybit
Open Source
Artificial Intelligence
Kubernetes
Github
Turso
Sqlite
MCP (model Calling Protocol)
Ingress NGINX
AMP (coding Agent)
ASCII Motion
Unikraft
Continuous AI
Dagger
Consent Management
Rust
Amazon
Web Browser Death
Daytona
Model Context Protocol
Vibecheck

Exploring the evolution of open source software and its impact on the Tech landscape.

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On episode 38 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Graham Christensen, CEO of Determinate Systems, about the evolution of the Nix ecosystem and why more organizations are embracing reproducible infrastructure. They discuss ... more

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On episode 37 of Open Source Ready, Brian and John speak with Stormy Peters about the evolving relationship between AI and open source software. Together, they unpack the growing challenges maintainers face, why traditional “good first issues” may be... more

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On episode 36 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Jesse Vincent. They explore how Jesse’s Superpowers project turns AI coding tools into structured, reliable development systems. The conversation dives into agent orches... more

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On episode 35 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Den Delimarsky. They explore the rapid evolution of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), from its early RFC days to a structured, industry-backed ecosystem. The conversatio... more

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Stormy Peters
Open Source Strategy and Marketing Lead at AWS
Amazon Web Services
Episode: Ep. #37, Is AI Killing Open Source Software? with Stormy Peters
Den Delimarsky
Member of technical staff at Anthropic working on MCP, SDK, API, CLI
Anthropic
Episode: Ep. #35, The Evolution of MCP with Den Delimarsky of Anthropic
Sunil Dhaliwal
Investor, Amplify Partners
Amplify Partners
Episode: Ep. #34, Technical Founders in the AI Era with Sunil Dhaliwal
James Strong
Co-founder at Stealth
Stealth
Episode: Ep. #33, Retiring Ingress NGINX with James Strong & Marco Ebert
Marco Ebert
Insider reliability engineer at TransWarm
TransWarm
Episode: Ep. #33, Retiring Ingress NGINX with James Strong & Marco Ebert
Glauber Costa
Founder/Contributor working on Turso, a rewrite of SQLite
Turso
Episode: Ep. #32, Rewriting SQLite for the AI Era with Glauber Costa
Felipe Huici
Engineered Unikraft / Unikernel leader
Unikraft
Episode: Ep. #30, Inside Unikraft and Unikernels with Felipe Huici
Cameron Foxly
Prolific open source maintainer and designer behind ASCII Motion
GitHub (former co-worker)
Episode: Ep. #29, Building ASCII Motion with Cameron Foxly
Adam Hevenor
Software developer and creator of Vibecheck
Vibecheck
Episode: Ep. #27, Rethinking AI Evals with Adam Hevenor

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Brian Douglas
Host of Open Source Ready; involved in OSS strategy and marketing initiatives; associated with Heavybit and Open Source Ready.
John McBride
Co-host of the show; long-running figure in Open Source Ready discussions; frequently leads conversations with engineers and practitioners.

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Ep. #16, Building Tools That Spark Joy with Mitchell Hashimoto
Q: What do you think about open source governance and foundations in the context of large projects like Terraform and Kubernetes?
He discusses the trade-offs of donating to foundations, the cost of maintenance, and how governance and stability often come with significant financial considerations, especially for large projects with substantial salaries and investment needs.
Ep. #16, Building Tools That Spark Joy with Mitchell Hashimoto
Q: Walk us through the rellicensing experience and what was going on behind the scenes at HashiCorp.
Mitchell explains that the license change was driven by practical corporate leadership decisions, acknowledges the disappointment within the Open Source community, and frames it as a tension between sustainability and openness.
Ep. #19, Kubernetes at Scale with Josh Rosso of Reddit
Q: What are the biggest challenges of the open-source model from a vendor versus end-user perspective?
The challenges include justifying the business value of upstream investment, navigating licensing and governance, and balancing the need to contribute upstream with the realities of tight product roadmaps and enterprise priorities.
Ep. #19, Kubernetes at Scale with Josh Rosso of Reddit
Q: Can you give us an idea of what Reddit's scale actually looks like in terms of clusters and nodes?
Reddit operates on a multi-cluster setup with on the order of a hundred clusters and thousands of nodes, with diverse workloads that require careful lifecycle management and orchestration.
Ep. #21, Continuous AI with Chad Metcalf of Continue
Q: How does Continuous AI fit into the broader lifecycle of software development?
Continuous AI extends beyond code generation to support the whole lifecycle, including code generation, testing, code review, build and release, and even monitoring and triage, enabling faster iteration with trust built through incremental, verifiable steps.

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A thoughtful look at the evolving open source landscape, with frequent emphasis on governance, sustainability, and the intersection of open source with AI and enterprise tooling. Conversations span maintaining large OSS projects, the economics of AI-enabled development, security and governance in distributed systems, and the practical implications of protocols, runtimes, and tooling like MCP, ASP, and agent frameworks. Notable throughlines include the tension between open collaboration and corporate backing, strategies for scaling maintainership, and pragmatic paths to governance, licensing, and sustainable funding. This show tends to attract listeners who build, maintain, or invest in open source infrastructure and AI-enabled software, and... more

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