808labs · unboxing808

Tracking the
ground floor
of what's next.

Developer ecosystems and AI strategy — before they become obvious. Interviews, analysis, and firsthand coverage since 2011.

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Recent Shorts

Short-form video covering developer tools, AI strategy, and the people building what's next.

Mendral — CI/CD Is Broken, AI Made It Worse
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The #1 Security Threat Developers Need to Know
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John Willis — AI Agents: We Need to Redefine Security
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Not another person with a camera. A historian of the ground floor.

2012 · DevOpsDays Austin
Interviewed co-founder Alexis Le-Quoc at DevOpsDays Austin — before the IPO, before the ubiquity. One of the first cameras in the room.
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2015 · OSCON · 1.0 Launch
Interviewed Craig McLuckie of Google at OSCON Portland for the Kubernetes 1.0 launch. On the floor when orchestration changed everything.
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2011 · Inaugural Design Summit
Interviewed Rackspace's president of Cloud at the very first OpenStack design summit in Austin. Before "cloud-native" was a phrase anyone used.
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Barton George

Founder, 808labs. Developer ecosystem strategist and active participant in the open source community for over two decades — not just covering the story, but helping shape it.

At Sun Microsystems, I was part of the Open Source Program Office, leading Sun's Linux strategy and product management. At Dell, I founded and led Project Sputnik — a line of Linux-based developer laptops and workstations that started as a $40K experiment and scaled to tens of millions in annual revenue.

400+ interviews. Two decades on the ground floor. Now running 808labs independently, tracking where developer ecosystems and AI strategy intersect.

400+
Interviews published on YouTube
15+
Years covering developer ecosystems
$100sM
Project Sputnik revenue over 10+ years at Dell
2011
First year on the ground floor

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