Episode 39: How $2 Million Dollars Helped Build CROSS with Dr. Carlos Maltzahn
Sponsored By:
Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer
GuestDr. Carlos Maltzahn
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Hello and welcome to Sustain! In this episode, we have a really interesting guest, Dr. Carlos Maltzahn, whoâs a Professor at University of California at Santa Cruz. He teaches Computer Science and Engineering and specializes in storage systems. Carlos is going to teach us all about his project CROSS (Center for Research in Open Source Software). He will tell us how they get projects, how they get funded for projects, and he will explain the Ceph storage system to us as well as SkyhookDM. Interested in finding out how to enroll in CROSS? Go ahead and download this episode to find out!
[00:01:45] Carlos explains a project that is dear to his heart and heâs been directing for a while. called CROSS. He also walks us through how to get involved and whatâs the life cycle look like for people.
[00:04:21] Carlos explains funding Open Source Autonomous Vehicles. He tells us how they get the projects and how they get the projects funded.
[00:09:25] Carlos explains about the funding part. He talks about âCeph Storage Systemâ that Sage Weil created as part of his PhD project. Great story here!
[00:19:33] Find out here the key advice CROSS got from Sage Weil about OpenStack.
[00:23:53] Richard asks Carlos since heâs so many successes thus far, have there been any other success stories heâs had? He shares some good news here.
[00:26:25] Carlos tells us about SkyhookDM, a programmable storage for databases.
[00:30:07] Richard mentions a great book heâs been reading that he highly suggests reading called, âDesigning Data- Intensive Applications,â by Martin Kleppmann.
[00:30:33] If someone wants to enroll in CROSS, Carlos tells us four possibilities how to do this.
Spotlight[00:04:56] âIt turns out thereâs a lot of interesting things going on in the university and the faculty are kind of discovering the usefulness of open-source software in their research.â
[00:06:22] âThat is only possible with this open source concept, where you basically make it available, and thatâs good for reproducibility of the science, but itâs also good too for learning, for bringing in the classroom all these things.â
[00:11:03] âWe asked Sage whether it would be nice to give back a little bit to the university. And so, he gave me 2 million dollars to essentially build CROSS. It was the second largest gift ever given to the School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz and it was a big deal.â
[00:19:42] âOne of the key factors that made Ceph successful was that it fit into the ecosystem of OpenStack.â
LinksDr. Carlos Maltzahn
CROSS at UC Santa Cruz
Ceph
SkyhookDM
âDesigning Data-Intensive Applicationsâ Martin Kleppmann
ROpenSci
âMozilla starts funding open source coronavirus tech projects,â ZDNet
Falsifiable-Popper Project
CreditsSpecial Guest: Dr. Carlos Maltzahn.
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