Community Over Code Europe 2024 (formerly called ApacheCon) will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia, June 3-5 2024. Come join us! https://feathercast.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/community_over_code_eu_2024.mp3 Prefer video? That’s HERE. Links: Event site: https://eu.communityovercode.org/ How to get there: https://eu.communityovercode.org/ho…

Lenny Primak talks about Apache Shiro, the most recent release, and his journey at the Apache Software Foundation. https://feathercast.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/shiro_lenny_final.mp3 Prefer video? That’s on YouTube. Links: Project website: https://shiro.apache.org/ Github: https://github.com/apache/shiro…

The Apache Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) offers travel grants for individuals to attend ASF events, as an investment in our projects and our communities. I spoke with Atita Arora and Chris Dutz, past TAC recipients, about their TAC experience, and how it has affected their career and communities. https://tac.apache.org/ Prefer video? That’s her…

At Cassandra Summit 2023, in San Jose California, I spoke with Mick Semb Wever about a variety of topics around the Cassandra Community, the new Cassandra Catalyst program, and open source at the Apache Software Foundation. Cassandra: https://cassandra.apache.org/ Cassandra Summit: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/ Cassandra Cata…

At Cassandra Summit 2023, in San Jose California, I spoke with Jon Haddad about his decade on the project, and the changes he’s seen during that time. We also talked about what’s coming in the 5.0 release. Cassandra: https://cassandra.apache.org/ Cassandra Summit: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/ If you prefer video, that’s here…

At Cassandra Summit 2023, in San Jose California, I spoke with Rahul Singh about some of the challenges facing the Cassandra project. Cassandra: https://cassandra.apache.org/ Cassandra Summit: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/ If you prefer video, that’s here: https://youtu.be/KQVWDze1yvs https://feathercast.apache.org/wp-content…

At the recent Cassandra Summit in San Jose, California, I had a chat with Aaron Ploetz about the ways people use Cassandra, and what’s coming in the next months and years. Cassandra: https://cassandra.apache.org/ Cassandra Summit: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cassandra-summit/ If you prefer video, that’s here. https://feathercast.apache.org/w…

On December 17th, 2003, the Apache Logging Services project was created. In this video, I talk with three members of the Logging Services project about the past 20 years, and what’s coming in the next 20. Important links from the interview: Project website: https://logging.apache.org/ Mailing list: https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@logging.apa…

https://feathercast.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/beam_summit_v3.mp3 This week we hear from Pablo Estrada about the upcoming Beam Summit, in Austin Texas, July 18-20. More details at https://2022.beamsummit.org/ More about Beam at https://beam.apache.org/ Prefer video? That’s at https://youtu.be/Sjkh7SezetE A discount code for listeners: BE…

Apache Heron (Incubating) is “A realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine” Project member Josh Fischer talks with me about what that actually means. https://feathercast.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/heron_josh.mp3 Project info: https://heron.apache.org/ Prefer video? https://youtu.be/QD1Pto-HQzc…

Myrle Krantz is a member of the Apache Fineract community, which is an open source project which supports microfinance providers. https://feathercast.apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fineract_feathercast_final_edit.mp3 She will also be giving a keynote at the upcoming ApacheCon in Montreal. Fineract: http://fineract.apache.org/ ApacheCon North…