Episode 39: How $2 Million Dollars Helped Build CROSS with Dr. Carlos Maltzahn

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Maltzahn Show Notes

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Hello and welcome to Sustain! In this episode, we have a
really interesting guest, Dr. Carlos Maltzahn, who’s 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
he’s been directing for a while. called CROSS. He also walks us
through how to get involved and what’s 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 “Ceph Storage System” 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 he’s so many successes thus
far, have there been any other success stories he’s 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 he’s been reading that he highly suggests reading
called, “Designing Data- Intensive Applications,” by Martin
Kleppmann. [00:30:33] If someone wants to enroll in CROSS, Carlos
tells us four possibilities how to do this. Spotlight [00:32:52]
Richard spotlight is ROpenSci, an awesome project to help people
get into the sciences and keep it open source and collaborate.
[00:33:27] Justin’s spotlight is an article on ZDNet, “Mozilla
starts funding open source coronavirus tech projects.” It’s a good
read! [00:34:06] Carlos’s spotlight is an incubator project at
CROSS called “Popper,” by Ivo Jimenez. Quotes [00:04:56] “It turns
out there’s 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.” [00:06:22] “That is only
possible with this open source concept, where you basically make it
available, and that’s good for reproducibility of the science, but
it’s also good too for learning, for bringing in the classroom all
these things.” [00:11:03] “We 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.” [00:19:42] “One of the key factors
that made Ceph successful was that it fit into the ecosystem of
OpenStack.” Links Dr. Carlos Maltzahn
(https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/dev/) CROSS at UC Santa Cruz
(https://cross.ucsc.edu/) Ceph (https://ceph.io/) SkyhookDM
(https://sites.google.com/view/skyhook-programmable-storage)
“Designing Data-Intensive Applications” Martin Kleppmann
(https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable/dp/1449373321/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=martin+kleppmann&qid=1589575060&sr=8-1)
ROpenSci (https://ropensci.org/) “Mozilla starts funding open
source coronavirus tech projects,” ZDNet
(https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-reveals-research-awards-for-open-source-coronavirus-projects/)
Falsifiable-Popper Project (https://falsifiable.us/) Credits
Produced by Justin Dorfman at CodeFund Edited by Paul M. Bahr at
Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by
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