More Open Source Startup Podcast episodes
Published 15 Jan 2026
Duration: 00:39:54
This open source backup platform addresses modern data backup challenges with secure, scalable, and efficient features such as encryption, deduplication, and a custom storage engine.
In our latest episode, co-hosts Robby and Tim talk with Julien Mangeard, Co-Founder of open source backup platform Plakar. Plakar's open source, also...
The podcast explores Placar, an open source backup platform developed to tackle contemporary data backup challenges such as ransomware threats, expanding data volumes, and the shortcomings of conventional backup systems. Placar is built with a focus on security, scalability, and efficiency, incorporating features like end-to-end encryption, data deduplication, and a custom storage engine named Closet. It ensures data resilience through multiple copies and secure third-party delegation, while also providing a centralized dashboard for backup management.
The platform is designed to be flexible and vendor-agnostic, supporting a wide range of data sources and avoiding lock-in with a single provider. Placar operates through a dual model of community-driven development and enterprise-oriented monetization. The podcast also highlights the increasing need for backup education, especially among small businesses and organizations that often lack the resources for robust data protection infrastructure.
3 Aug 2026 E201: Building Your Agent Army with Paperclip
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27 Jul 2026 E200: Open Sourcing Warps Terminal
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14 Jul 2026 E199: Rethinking Infra-as-Code for the AI Era
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9 Jun 2026 E197: The Evolution of Building Open Source Businesses from HashiCorp to Flox
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3 Jun 2026 E196: Shifting Developer Portals to Agent Portals with Port
Port is an agentic engineering platform streamlining developer workflows through AI-driven automation, self-service infrastructure, cloud resource management, and integration with Kubernetes and observability systems, offering a cohesive enterprise solution with open-sourced integrations and proprietary features to address fragmented tools, scalability, and AI workflow governance.