The developer's guide to making money in the open source galaxy
summary
JobRunr starts as a Java port of Hangfire and becomes a DB-backed job store with a tiny jar, dashboard, Kubernetes-friendly servers polling the database, and DB-backed job store persisted jobs that enable instant retries with exponential backoff. Early growth: 7K Maven downloads in May 2022, first Pro customers in 2020, one client runs ~8 billion jobs/year. A V6 deadlock is fixed in 6.2, performance tuning yields ~10x on MariaDB, pricing shifts to per-production-cluster and reaches 980k EUR 2025 revenue.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:57Career beginnings
- 2:47Philosophies on work-life
- 3:46The .NET transition
- 8:10The Fintech challenge
- 9:53Prototyping JobRunr
- 10:43Architecture and design
- 13:18Turning point: full-time
- 14:40Introducing JobRunr Pro
- 15:06Gaining traction
- 17:21Open source community
- 20:19Scaling and enterprise
- 22:24Monetization doubts
- 23:08Sales improvements
- 23:23Incubation and growth
- 25:57Co-founder setbacks
- 26:08Technical bugs and stress
- 27:41Debugging success
- 28:43Scaling the business
- 37:02Financial sustainability
- 37:21Optimization and v8
- 39:15Operational shifts
- 40:06Social impact
- 40:54Conclusion
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