Listen "Open Source Adoption, DevRel, and FOSS: Learning from Apache Cassandra w/ Patrick McFadin - EP. 26"
Episode Synopsis
Patrick McFadin, VP of Developer Relations at DataStax and Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra, joins the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast on Episode 26 to deep dive into open source. In this episode Patrick talks about:- His time working in open source database community, including Apache Cassandra's journey and upcoming developments.- The role of evangelism and contributors in driving adoption and getting people to try your project.- The challenges and mistakes companies make when commercializing open source, with lessons he has learned from his time in the database community.- How new features are chosen based on his experience with Cassandra highlighting features such as transactions and open-source tool Guardrails?- Does open source innovation slow down as products mature?- What is cloud-native anyways? And what does it mean in the database context?- Building a diverse and gloabl team by building trust.- DevRel Best practices includeing, how do you measuring DevRel success.- Patrick McFadin's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-mcfadin-53a8046/- Learn more about Apache Cassandra: https://cassandra.apache.org/Checkout our other interviews, clips, and videos: https://l.hosbp.com/YoutubeDon’t forget to visit the open-source business community at: https://opensourcebusiness.community/Visit our primary sponsor, Scarf, for tools to help analyze your #opensource growth and adoption: https://about.scarf.sh/Subscribe to the podcast on your favorite app:Spotify: https://l.hosbp.com/SpotifyApple: https://l.hosbp.com/AppleGoogle: https://l.hosbp.com/GoogleBuzzsprout: https://l.hosbp.com/Buzzsprout
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