Plural’s Navigation of the Open-Source Ecosystem with Michael Guarino
The Business of Open Source30 Mars 2022

Plural’s Navigation of the Open-Source Ecosystem with Michael Guarino

Michael Guarino, founder of Plural, a unified platform for open-source management platform entirely hosted on Kubernetes which creates a fully functional ecosystem around deploying Airflow. Though working in Kubernetes and more, Plural can be used across a wide spectrum of open source projects. Many of which Plural is specifically targeting to make their product appealing to users.


In this episode, Michael talks about how Plural works within the open-source space, and how in using it with Airflow they’ve helped to elminate much of the work needed there. Michael lays out how using Plural makes using Airflow easier on the user, versus taking a DYI approach. Michael discusses avoiding lock-in, the various open source tools they use, working through the early days in COVID, the history of building Plural, and more!

Highlights:

  • Introduction to Michael and Plural (00:00)
  • The open source projects that work with Plural and its advantages (01:30)
  • How using Plural is easier than DYI and avoiding lock-in (04:06)
  • How Plural came to be (08:26)
  • The unexpected difficulties, and the unexpected ease (15:06)
  • Plural and open-source (18:40)
  • Navigating potential roadblocks to community building (23:09)
  • Monetization (26:20)
  • Michael’s thoughts on the future of open-source (28:11)

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