Episode 105: John Amaral and Kyle Quest on Slim.ai

Guest John Amaral | Kyle Quest Panelists Richard Littauer | Eric
Berry Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we
talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we are
excited to have two guests with us from Slim.ai, which is a company
that focuses on developer experience. Joining us is John Amaral,
who is the CEO of Slim.ai and Kyle Quest, who is the CTO of Slim.ai
and creator of DockerSlim. We are going to learn all about Slim.ai,
who is using it, tools they are building, and why Kyle created
DockerSlim. Also, John and Kyle fill us in what they’re doing to
give back to the communities and why they have the best developer
focused investors. Go ahead and download this episode now to find
out much more! [00:02:24] John tells us what Slim.ai does.
[00:04:10] Kyle expands on the ‘ai’ part of it which stands for
“Application Intelligence,” and what aspects he would go in and
modify. [00:08:22] We learn who is primarily using Slim.ai. and the
tools they are building. [00:10:53] Kyle fills us in more about the
governance of DockerSlim, how he ended up having more contributors
contribute to it, and how it maintains itself as a free project
with all the work he’s putting in. Also, he mentions Gitpod as a
great tool. [00:14:31] John tells us how they are paying themselves
and their developers. [00:19:46] Eric asks Kyle and John if they
see a shift in the community to where there is more attention and
new avenues that containerization is providing, and if they see the
developer environment of the future primarily being in the Cloud.
[00:24:03] When Richard thinks of the Cloud he thinks of large
business practices, which are interested in paying other large
projects to host their stuff, and he asks Kyle to share his
thoughts on this. [00:26:15] We hear how John and Kyle are
maintaining their core value of helping developers do better and
their amazing investment partners. [00:29:01] Kyle and John explain
what they’re doing to give back to the communities. [00:36:03] Find
out where you can follow along with Slim.ai, John, and Kyle and get
involved with their communities. Quotes [00:11:42] “There are many
ways to contribute: It’s not just about code, it’s about feedback,
ideas, and suggestions.” [00:14:52] “We believe in open source as a
foundational way to build value with developers.” [00:15:06] “We
work in a way that is designed around interacting and giving to
developers.” Spotlight [00:37:02] Eric’s spotlight is Lazydocker
built by Jessie Duffield. [00:37:29] Richard’s spotlight is Pieter
van Noordennen. [00:38:21] John’s spotlight is Railway.app.
[00:39:25] Kyle’s spotlight is Docker. Links SustainOSS
(https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter
(https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) John
Amaral Twitter (https://twitter.com/amaral_john) John Amaral
Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-amaral-a359241/) Kyle
Quest Twitter (https://twitter.com/kcqon) Kyle Quest GitHub
(https://github.com/kcq) Slim.ai (https://www.slim.ai/) DockerSlim
(https://github.com/docker-slim/docker-slim) Gitpod
(https://www.gitpod.io/) Sustain Podcast-Episode 85: Geoffrey
Huntley and Sustaining OSS with Gitpod
(https://podcast.sustainoss.org/85) boldstart
(https://boldstart.vc/) Sustain Podcast- 2 Episodes with Dave Gandy
(https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/dave-gandy)
Lazydocker-GitHub (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker)
Pieter van Noordennen Linkedin
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/psvann/) Railway.app
(https://railway.app/) Docker (https://www.docker.com/) Credits
Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by
Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/)
Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound
(https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guests: John Amaral and
Kyle Quest.