.tech podcast by Form3

Ep 2 .tech: Making an Open Source Go project a full time job with Ashley Jeffs

Episode Summary

In this episode of the Form3 .tech series, Kevin Holditch is joined by Ashley Jeffs, creator of Benthos. Benthos is an Open Source stream aggregator written in Go, designed to bridge messages between different brokers. Ashley took the step to turn it into his full time work this year and discusses the advantages of using Golang to develop Benthos in.

Episode Notes

Our new .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing what's going on in the engineering community an shedding light about how engineering works at Form3.

Topics/questions covered in this episode:

• How did Ash get into Go?
  • Was it difficult?
  • How easy was it to pick up?
• Benthos's use case in the beginning
• Developing an open source project alongside work
• C++ vs Go and the issue of Memory Leaks in C++
• Using Benthos for projections and transformations
• How Ash deals with Pull Requests and the community driven nature of Benthos
• Open Source contribution to Benthos
• Go adoption
• Benthos Graphic style

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