I spoke with Tom Wilkie, CTO of Grafana about what it’s like scaling open source projects while building a commercial company around them. Discussed the challenges, lessons, and what goes on behind the scenes of a tool so many of us use. Want to be a guest on the show? I’m always looking to chat with builders, founders, and engineers working on interesting problems. Connect with me at contact@techwithkunal.com, I’d love to hear your story.
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I spoke with Tom Wilkie, CTO of Grafana about what it’s like scaling open source projects while building a commercial company around them. Discussed the challenges, lessons, and what goes on behind the scenes of a tool so many of us use. Want to be a guest on the show? I’m always looking to chat with builders, founders, and engineers working on interesting problems. Connect with me at contact@techwithkunal.com, I’d love to hear your story.
In this episode of Lessons from Production, I’m joined by Bhanu from TiDB and Nikhil from ElasticRun. We dive into what it really takes to run open source databases at scale, from architecture choices to reliability challenges, performance tuning, and real-world war stories. Whether you're managing distributed systems or just curious about how companies like ElasticRun use TiDB in production, there's a lot to learn from this one. TiDB Cloud free trial here. Shoutout to them for sponsoring th...
Lessons from Production
I spoke with Tom Wilkie, CTO of Grafana about what it’s like scaling open source projects while building a commercial company around them. Discussed the challenges, lessons, and what goes on behind the scenes of a tool so many of us use. Want to be a guest on the show? I’m always looking to chat with builders, founders, and engineers working on interesting problems. Connect with me at contact@techwithkunal.com, I’d love to hear your story.
