430: Interview with John Overton of Kove, Software Defined Memory

video: youtu.be/viTzTFszR_Q

In this episode of Destination Linux, we interview the founder of Kove, Dr. John Overton, about the journey from co-inventing distributed hash tables that powered the early cloud to his latest breakthrough Kove:SDM, a Software Defined Memory system that literally lets servers "download more RAM". Overton dives into the open source ethos that shaped his career. If you’re passionate about Linux, composable infrastructure, or tech that bends the laws of physics, this conversation is a must watch.

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Hosted by:

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Michael Tunnell = michaeltunnell.com

Links:

• kove.com

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:21 Why we turned a 3-minute booth chat into a full interview

00:02:40 John Overton of Kove

00:03:48 Early career & inventing distributed hash tables

00:16:10 Foundational tech that made today's cloud possible

00:24:56 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad]

00:26:48 John's take on AI

00:39:52 The birth of Kove SDM – why it started

01:03:16 Making "download more RAM" real – memory-pool magic

01:17:40 Kove SDM vs. Compute Express Link (CXL)

01:24:54 What are there new challenges in computing you’re excited to tackle?

01:35:39 Lightning round – guilty pleasures, movies & more

01:40:03 Outro