This show hosts Michael Jerger, a German entrepreneur who has successfully built a small empire of selling services around FLOSS components which his company has contributed to the community over the years. So if you always wanted to know how federated version control systems actually work, how to program Kubernetes using a functional programming language instead of using boring Helm charts and what the deal with China, trademarks (Linux Inlaws and perhaps other trademarks) is, you really, really don't want to miss this episode!
Links
Meissa GmbH (in German): https://meissa-gmbh.de
Tübix (in German): https://www.tuebix.org
Forgejo: https://github.com/forgejo
Gitea: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
Gogs: https://github.com/gogs/gogs
Codeberg: https://codeberg.org
Popularity of source code hosting sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_source-code-hosting_facilities#Popularity
Convention 4 Kubernetes (c4k): https://github.com/DomainDrivenArchitecture/c4k-common
Clojure: https://clojure.org
c4k-keycloak: https://repo.prod.meissa.de/meissa/c4k-keycloak
Fefes blog (in German): https://blog.fefe.de
Microsoft's Typescript move: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port
Lina Khan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Khan
Lina's seminal paper on anti-trust issues: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.pdf
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LI_S02E43_Valkey
In this episode Martin and Chris host Kyle Davis and Dmitry Polyakovsky, two members of the Valley technical steering committee. Apart from a trip down memory lane (Kyle used to be a partner in crime when Martin and Chris were still working at Redis), this episode features insights into this more-than-instantly-popular drop-in replacement for Redis, the road ahead and how the project will ultimately contribute to the world domination of the Linux Foundation (if that stage has yet to be reached :-) - stay tuned). Plus - yes, wait for it - more bonus content on Rust, our favourite pet in the programming language zoo. Very few dry eyes in the house guaranteed with this episode, so you don't want to miss this.
Links
Kyle Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-davis-linux
Dmitry Polyakovsky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitrypol
Redis: https://redis.io
Redis license change (2024): https://redis.io/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/
Redis license change (2025): https://redis.io/blog/agplv3
Valkey TSC: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/blob/unstable/MAINTAINERS.md
Valkey: https://valkey.io
RSAL + SSPL: https://redis.io/legal/licenses
Open source licenses episode (S01E36): https://archive.org/details/hpr3399
Valkey module crate: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkeymodule-rs
FalkorDB episode (S02E41): https://archive.org/download/LI_S02E41_FalkorDB__3076
Rust client: https://github.com/redis-rs/redis-rs
Apple's container project: https://github.com/apple/container
WSL: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL
DistroWatch: https://distrowatch.com
Salvatore's web site: https://antirez.com/latest/0
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LI_S02E42_LoCode_and_NoCode
This show is witness to Martin and Chris dabbling in the area of programming. Since both of them come from a computer science background, you may be forgiven to assume that this comes natural to them. Quite the opposite in fact. The lazy chaps that they are, they don't want to learn this either (which is quite challenging given their old age anyway). In order to avoid any related effort they discovered low code and no code tools and decided to do a show on their findings. So here it is :-). Plus bonus content on why artificial intelligence in general and large language models are just wrong, wrong and wrong. Never mind evil. Well, most of the time anyway. And - given the episode number of this show - why 42 is still a force to be reckoned with.
Links
42: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
The Gargleblaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaphod_Beeblebrox#Pan-Galactic_Gargle_Blaster
Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu
Snap!: https://snap.berkeley.edu
Charles Babbage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
Budibase: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
Tooljet: https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet
Joget: https://github.com/jogetworkflow
MIT App Inventor: https://github.com/mit-cml/appinventor-sources
Microsoft redundancies: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/microsoft-is-cutting-3percent-of-workers-across-the-software-company.html
Formula One: https://www.amazon.com/Formula-Official-History-Maurice-Hamilton/dp/1802797785/ref=sr_1_1?crid=62NZPG9HCBB1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.H1DKo7Bz9A5KvT2DYx4xDGPyw3bnt4N8OoMAJ1CBSlpSKxQCVkr1daNkgI44XHpbyD8bzAtNq9Kw4e_dNlSEwZdp5h5S3xgBDD3JroY-9vNFAXFqjkY5YCFPwH65k7Bcghv0il4XXGku4gtRVpu1hKAUACCe8TZYvU0oME8Pauq_D_eOZFAuZ7bL-p1cQPrft0qlMJcZ0VLfIPfgBOr3r9OfJphaWDcw1t4UH8FAEVM.5f1QTYOpcQfT_uxY2r2vgypVIJt5eBq3gjU5mOsovRc&dib_tag=se&keywords=Formula+1%3A+The+Official+History&qid=1748759984&sprefix=formula+1+the+official+history%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1
Gone Girl (movie): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2267998
Gone Girl (novel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Girl_(novel)
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LI_S02E41_FalkorDB
This episode introduces FalkorDB, a graph database and much more as it turns out. Some old partners in crime (Guy Korland and Roi Lipman) from Martin's and Chris' days at Redis have taken the RedisGraph codebase (an extension turning native Redis into a full-blown graph DB) to new heights. Confused? Don't be - just listen to the episode. All will be revealed - and more...
Links
FalkorDB: https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB
Redis: https://github.com/redis/redis
Redis modules: https://github.com/orgs/RedisLabsModules/repositories
RedisGraph: https://github.com/RedisGraph/RedisGraph
OpenCypher: https://opencypher.org
RedisAI: https://github.com/RedisAI/RedisAI
Ontologies and LLMs: https://www.docdigitizer.com/blog/ontologies-large-language-models-guide
Server Side Public License (SSPL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License
ElasticSearch and OpenSearch: https://medium.com/@TechTim42/elastic-search-and-open-search-a-brief-history-of-the-license-war-8f474743e2ff
Valkey @ Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community
DeepSeek: https://github.com/deepseek-ai
Courvoisier: https://www.courvoisier.com
Dick Turpin: https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/made-up-adventures-of-dick-turpin
George Lucas: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000184
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LI_S02E40_FLOSS_in_education
In this episode our two hosts tackle the difficult subject of FLOSS in education. Beyond the ubiquitous Microsoft training courses thinly disguised as computer science classes in just too many second and third level education institutions. Plus bonus content: Chris sheds some light on his shady past as an assistant lecturer in computer science. Never mind obscure British cars. If you're into shady things never mind computer science, this is the show you don't want to miss!
Links
Ford Prefect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Prefect
Dual studies in Germany (Frauenhofer example): https://www.iosb.fraunhofer.de/en/jobs-and-career/apprenticeship-and-dual-studies.html#DualesStudium
Chris' seminal paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S074373159690091X
Chris' book: https://www.amazon.com/Advances-Object-Oriented-Metalevel-Architectures-Reflection/dp/084932663X
PDP-11 (@ museum): https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/minicomputers/11/366/1946
Copr: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org
Molly and Max in the future: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21426456
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