Mike Perham, Creator of Sidekiq and Inspeqtor

Mike Perham has successfully built a wildly profitable one-man business built on his open source efforts. We discuss what it's like balancing the seemingly opposing forces of open source and a for-profit business, managing support for the open source version as well as paying customers, and how businesses are all-too-willing to pay for things that provide value or help them save time.

• MikePerham.com
• Sidekiq — Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby.
• Inspeqtor — Application infrastructure monitoring, reimagined.
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