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Having personally gone through licensing and re-licensing challenges with Dgraph, Manish Jain brings firsthand relevant experience to evaluating Elastic's relicensing decision.

As founder and CTO of Dgraph Labs, Manish Jain had previously navigated his own company's licensing and re-licensing struggles, making him a fitting voice on Elastic's relicensing fight with AWS. ✦ AI generated

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Manish Jain is the founder and CTO at Dgraph Labs. We talked with Manish a little over two years ago on episode #322 about their challenges with licensing and re-licensing Dgraph — so, we thought it would fitting to get him on this episode.

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Manish Jain

Manish Jain is the founder and CTO at Dgraph Labs. We talked with Manish a little over two years ago on episode #322 about their challenges with licensing and re-licensing Dgraph — so, we thought it would fitting to get him on this episode.

The Changelog #322: There and back again (Dgraph’s tale) with Manish Jain

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