Airflow, Cedar, and Beyond: Open Source Innovations Explored
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Ricardo Sueiras, an Open Source advocate at AWS, sheds light on his 20-year journey with OSS. He speaks about some challenges he faced in integrating open source software into a conservative company and developing an understanding and advocacy team for open source technology there. Sueiras talks about his interest in teaching and sharing about open source, his experience with DJing and Apache Airflow, a workflow orchestrator. Referencing AWS project Cedar, an open source domain-specific language for authorization, Sueiras explains its use, function, and process of development. He also discusses the versatility enabled by open source, allowing users to tweak things as needed.    00:00 Introduction and Meeting 00:32 Journey into Open Source 02:21 Overcoming Resistance to Open Source 02:50 Educating Legal and Procurement Teams about Open Source 03:16 Building an Advocacy Team for Open Source 05:43 The Story of DJ Tasty Taste 10:16 Exploring Cedar: An Open Source Project 16:33 Apache Airflow: A Workflow Orchestrator 20:32 Conclusion and Future Plans Resources: AWS open source newsletter Airflow container orchestration demo (GitHub) Guest: Ricardo Sueiras Over 30 years spent working in the technology industry, and over 20 years working with open source. I help customers solve business problems with open source technologies and cloud. Currently I am a Developer Advocate at AWS focusing on open source.
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