E13: Open-Source Data Streaming with Vectorized & Redpanda
About this episode
Alex Gallego, Founder & CEO, Vectorized
Alex is Founder & CEO of Vectorized, the data streaming platform that released the open-source real-time streaming project Redpanda. Redpanda has 3.1K GitHub stars and a 1.2K person Slack community. Objectives for Vectorized are providing a faster version of Kafka and an amazing developer experience.
In this episode, we discuss Alex’s journey from technical architect to CEO, why experimentation is important for open-source companies, what a great developer experience means, the tradeoffs between monetization and happy open-source users, coming up with a pricing model (Vectorized had Confluent as a benchmark), and building a high-quality team in today's environment.
Get every episode summarized
Each time Open Source Startup Podcast publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
Hosts & guests
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from Open Source Startup Podcast
E203: From Sentry to Modem - Rethinking How Product Teams Listen
Open Source Startup Podcast
E202: How the Largest MLOps Community Was Built
Open Source Startup Podcast
E201: Building Your Agent Army with Paperclip
Open Source Startup Podcast
E200: Open Sourcing Warp’s Terminal
Open Source Startup Podcast