Ep. 014, Competing against free is really hard

In Episode 014 I talk to Tim Callaghan, VP of Technology at Crunchtime. Tim has some great stories from a previous job where they embraced open source, extended it, and competed with it on occasion. His story about attending a presentation that (surprise!) ended up being about his benchmarking code at a worldwide MongoDB conference is a must-listen! We also talk about inspiring the next generation of coders and cloud provider merits. Tim on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcallaghan/ @tmcallaghan (twitter) acmebenchmarking.com (blog)   The mongodb presentation - slide 7 was where it all started! https://www.mongodb.com/presentations/mythbusting-understanding-how-we-measure-performance-mongodb   Tim's benchmark applications @ github https://github.com/tmcallaghan/sysbench-mongodb  https://github.com/tmcallaghan/iibench-mongodb  mongodb 3.0 bug hunt winners https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/announcing-mongodb-30-and-bug-hunt-winners mongodb 2.6 bug hunt winners https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/bug-hunt-winners-for-mongodb-26-rc0 Tokutek’s fork of Mongodb https://www.percona.com/blog/2013/06/19/announcing-tokumx-v1-0-tokumongo-you-can-have-it-all-2/ Cloud provider usability http://www.acmebenchmarking.com/2015/12/cloud-provider-usability.html