Your MVP doesn’t need a Kubernetes cluster
Ryan welcomes Anurag Goel, CEO and co-founder of Render, to discuss why most startups shouldn’t start by managing their Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. They discuss how frustration with spinning up nodes at Stripes led him to build a company, a future where your application itself may allocate its own compute, and why DevOps jobs aren’t going anywhere.
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Render calls itself the cloud for builders, intuitive infrastructure for scale.
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Building for application developers (Interview)
Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they’re doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80M they don’t even need and they’re poised to solve boring problems like object storage, and less boring things like building for the AI era.
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Show Notes:
$80M to reimagine the cloud for the AI era
Changelog Interviews #621: Building the developer cloud with Kurt Mackey (CEO of Fly)
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Motivated by play (Friends)
Annie Sexton has been on quite a journey since she was last on the show back in early ‘22. On this episode, Annie takes us on that journey, shares her new-found perspective & tells us about how she’s approaching her side project this time around.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Git your reset on (Changelog Interviews #480)
I’m rebuilding my notes app, Typist, and here’s why
Ben Gillin on Instagram
How to talk to LLMs | Storybot demo - YouTube
AI video post-processing in the cloud | Sieve + Daily - YouTube
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Git your reset on (Interview)
This week we’re joined by Annie Sexton, UX Engineer at Render, to talk about her blog post titled Git Organized: A Better Git Flow that made the internet explode when she suggested using reset instead of rebase for a better git flow. On this show we talk about the git flow she suggests and why, how this flow works for her when she’s hacking on the Render codebase (and when she uses it), the good and the bad of Git, and we also talked about the cognitive load of Git commits as you work.
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Featuring:
Annie Sexton – Website, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Git Organized: A Better Git Flow
I wrote a thing (on Twitter)
A User’s Guide to the Brain - by John J. Ratey, M.D.
How to Squash Commits in Git
Move assets to S3 #400
What is executive function?
Dopamine
Norepinephrine
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