Builder journey to streaming data platform

This week Adam is joined by Alex Gallego, Founder & CEO at Redpanda Data, to share his builder journey to create the Redpanda streaming data platform.

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Featuring:

• Alex Gallego – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Redpanda

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - On Founders Talk...
(00:51) - Start the show!
(02:46) - Graduating young
(07:17) - Now you're an engineer
(11:43) - Playing with hardware to learn
(15:50) - Three poor kids from Brooklyn
(18:44) - On being a first-generation immigrant
(23:55) - Sponsor: Sentry
(26:14) - Digging into Redpanda
(33:32) - Building for NVMe
(39:26) - Missing on Cloud
(44:02) - The lack of latency
(46:07) - The importantacnce of sovereignty
(48:05) - Sponsor: Square
(51:00) - Infrastructure choices
(53:23) - The state of Redpanda Cloud
(56:16) - Choosing the BSL license
(1:02:25) - Going public is next
(1:04:27) - Hack the Planet scholarship
(1:08:55) - Up next on Founders Talk