DeveloperWeek 2019

Over 18,000 hours of engineering time has been spent developing and refining Pilosa, an open source tool which creates knowledge representations of the underlying database. Due to market feedback and a shift in open source licensing, Pilosa will be launching a new managed service, Molecula, in April. They are riding the razor’s edge between maintaining Pilosa for the wider developer community, while simultaneously building a ‘closed-source’ offering for it in a fully managed service to enterprise customers. In this talk Pilosa’s Director of Community, Sarah King, will discuss their evolution of open-source development and licensing, and what market indicators moved them into a closed-source strategy.