How Open Source changed my life
summary
Maintains 240+ modules and describes building LevelGraph, Mosca and Pinot; Mosca is a MQTT broker with ~300 production dependencies and 7,000 downloads/month and proves hard to maintain; Pinot generates $50,000/month with 120 dependents, 7 direct dependencies and 26 indirect in production; describes concrete tooling (LevelDB, Docker, flamegraphs, benchmarks), concrete outcomes (conference invites, consulting work, travel) and concrete problems (burnout, reviewer workflow, need for additional committers).
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:26Childhood passion to career struggles
- 3:56Facing depression and setbacks
- 6:08Discovering open source in PhD
- 9:23First contributions and impact
- 11:56Transition to professional open source
- 14:28Popular libraries and talks
- 16:35Lessons from large projects
- 19:10Community and co-maintainers
- 21:57Open source burnout
- 24:29Good open source citizen
- 26:13Responsibility of users
- 27:00Success with Pinot
- 28:50Why I do open source
- 30:13Current work and future
