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S9 Bonus: The Death of Localhost: Engineering Dev Container Orchestration and Terraform-Powered Cloud Workspaces with Kyle Carberry, Co-Founder & CTO of Coder Nov 29, 2023

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Kyle Carberry grew up in a very small town in Saskatchewan, Canada. He was always into tech, but mainly the pirating side of things on his dial up internet connection. He got into pogromming when he got is first Xbox, and started modding it - followed by Minecraft servers and building tools for the internet. Outside of tech, he just moved to New York and prefers the hustle and bustle over the small town quiet.

Kyle and his co-founder had the abstract idea that eventually, people won't be coding on their laptops. Sort of by accident, they started in by building a consumer friendly version, but quickly pivoted to the enterprise - and took off.

This is the creation story of Coder.com.

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S9 E1: From Turning Down a Competitor to Powering Roblox and GameStop: Scaling a Global Edge Network Without Wall Street Capital with Matt Levine of CacheFly Nov 28, 2023

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Matt Levine grew up in Toronto, and played sports as a baseball catcher. During his teens, he got injured and had to sit out during the season. And during that time, he started to dig into computers, and became hooked. He started several businesses in High School, and later founded eFront. Outside of tech, he is married with a couple of kids, and likes top lay golf.

While working in Arizona, Matt was approached by a now competitor called LimeLight. He knew the founders, and he was approached to become a team member - specifically to help start a network. He felt that it wasn't a good time to do that - BUT, it was a good time to start and build a CDN.

This is the creation story of CacheFly.

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Season 9 Trailer Nov 24, 2023

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What if you had a window into the digital startup world?

What if you could ask the tech veterans what it feels like to create a world class product?

...how to recover from critical mistakes...

...how to scale your solution to the masses?

How do you get from an idea on the back of a napkin, to a fully functioning product?

What if you could hear the human stories about how they delivered technology?

What if there was a show where you could hear those stories?

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S8 Favorite: The AWS Blueprint for Consumption: Decoupling Cloud Metering from Billing Architecture with Puneet Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO of Amberflo Nov 23, 2023

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For Puneet Gupta, his professional work and personal hobbies collide. He has been enamored with tech since his early days, and finds coding to be quite therapeutic. He spent many years launching prominent cloud solutions, and has a track record for success there. Outside of tech, he is a family man with 2 boys, living in the Bay Area with his extended family. He is into motorcycles, and is falling in love with reading again.

The story of Puneet's current venture goes back over 10 years, when he found himself in the middle of the dawn of cloud computing at AWS. During that time, he was introduced to SaaS models, and how these models can grow exponential growth. Fast forward to 3 years ago, and through observing industry progression, he decided to create a solution to aid in usage based pricing models.

This is the creation story of Amberflo.

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S8 Favorite: The Linux Kernel Maverick Rewriting SQLite in Rust: Scaling Micro-Databases for AI Agents with Glauber Costa, Co-Founder & CEO of Turso Nov 21, 2023

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Glauber Costa is a family man, with three kids at home. So he admits, that with a startup and kids, there is not much space for anything else. He made mention that the jump from 2-3 kids was hard, and we joked that he playing zone defense now over man to man. AS of this recording, he had already seen the Mario movie 3 times with his kids, and enjoys playing video games with them. But, his game to play is Civilizations, which he is highly addicted to.

Glauber comes from a heavy database and systems programming background, as does his co-founders. They noticed that the buyer persona of database tech is changing. More and more frontend developers or full stack developers were responsible for these decisions. After iterating on a few projects, they figured the pillar of their data edge solution... which was SQLLite.

This is the creation story of Turso.

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S8 Favorite: The ClickOps Cure: Automating Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Discovery and Code Drift with Sefi Genis, Co-Founder & Late CTO of Firefly Nov 16, 2023

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Sefi Genis lives in Tel Aviv, and started in with technology early on in his life, maintaining the school website when he was younger. He served in the Israeli military, specifically in the cybersecurity unit, followed by working at some interesting and successful startups. Outside of tech, he loves to travel, ninja warrior, and scuba diving. One of his favorite places to dive was Thailand, which I've added to the list for my family.

Sefi understood all things related to infrastructure as code (IAC). Once he was introduced to his co-founders, they set out to build a solution that helped platform and DevOps teams manage their entire cloud footprint - and do so at scale.

This is the creation story of Firefly.

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S8 Favorite: The Language of Money: Re-Engineering Messy Transaction Data for the Era of AI Agents with Naré Vardanyan, Co-Founder & CEO of Ntropy Nov 14, 2023

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Naré Vardanyan has a statistically unlikely story. She grew up in Armenia, without electricity during a war. She recalls that her parents gamified the experience, which allowed her to experience it much differently than the hardship it was. Her upbringing was very community driven, focused on caring for others. Eventually, she went to work for the United Nations, in her words, so she could save the world - though eventually she was disillusioned by how slow things moved. It was at this point, where she shifted over to tech. Outside of tech, she used to love reading, but now that she has a child, she sticks to audiobooks. And, she thoroughly enjoys art, specifically, 20th century Russian-Jewish artists.

When Naré started to travel abroad, she noticed that for some folks, the ability to obtain things in life, like a Visa or Passport, was a given. Yet, others were not enabled to obtain these types of things, as the process was much more difficult or unavailable. She set out to create the great equalizer, through enriched financial data.

This is the creation story of Ntropy.

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S8 Bonus: From the Tech Behind 'Toy Story' to a Global Workforce OS: Overcoming Engineering Bottlenecks and Flatlining Infra Costs with Alex Yarotsky of Hubstaff Nov 09, 2023

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Alex Yarotsky got into tech as a little kid. In fact, he remembers watching the movie Toy Story, and wanting to learn how to build the tech that drove its creation. He got into University, but eventually, dropped out, and went the standard Eastern European software route, by joining a consultancy. Post that, he joined his first tech startup, and hasn't looked back since. Outside of tech, he is married with 2 fat cats. He and his wife enjoy MMA, and traveling.

Twelve years ago, the founders of Alex's current venture noticed that the demand for freelancers was growing in the market. They also noticed that very few time tracking solutions existed, and they wanted to tackle this niche. Later, Alex joined the crew to take the product to the next level, as CTO.

This is the creation story of Hubstaff.

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S8 Bonus: The 1 Trillion Flag Architecture: Decoupling Deployments from Releases and Mastering In-Memory Edge Evaluation with Pato Echagüe, Co-Founder & CTO of Split.io Nov 08, 2023

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Pato Echague was born and raised in Argentina, and as such, is a huge soccer fan. He played soccer and tennis growing up, and enjoys following the Boca Juniors. He also admits to being influenced by the Messi effect as well, liking Barcelona and now the States. He is a father of 2 young kids - who also play soccer - so there are a lot of nets and practice tools in his backyard.

At his prior startup, which was acquired by Salesforce, Pato and his co-founders observed that the faster they shipped things, they faster they broke production. After giving into his co-founders persistence, he decided to jump in and build a feature flagging to fix the problem.

This is the creation story of Split.

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S8 E30: The Modernization Factory: Overcoming a $1.5 Trillion Technical Debt and Automating Monolith-to-Microservice Extraction with Moti Rafalin, Co-Founder & CEO of vFunction Nov 07, 2023

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Moti Rafalin was born and raised in Israel. He spent half of his life there, and the rest of his life in the states. He is a father of 3 kids, 2 of which are in college. His family and he lives in the Bay Area, and he likes to play tennis and travel. In fact, he has been to over 65 countries in his life, and has lived in 2 continents.

After attending AWS re-invent, Moti left with the knowledge that the amount of innovation happening continued to grow and grow. At the same time, there wasn't a good way to ensure that applications weren't just "lifting and shifting" but were fully taking advantage of proper functionality during their modernization process.

This is the creation story of vFunction.

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