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

<center> <small>Sponsored By:</small> <a href="https://promo.linode.com/sustain/" target="_blank"><img src="https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/2/27729c65-f4a6-4496-8c86-820e7f13b285/DAsVtWUA.png" width="150px" heigh="58px"></a> </center> Panelists Justin Dorfman | Richard Littauer Guest Dr. Carlos Maltzahn Show Notes <center>💬 Discuss this episode (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/center-for-research-in-open-source-software-with-dr-carlos-maltzahn/414/2?u=jdorfman)</center> 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 Dat