#213: You've been tasked with bringing a new SaaS product to market. Where do you start? Logically, or maybe not so much so, it's important to start by defining your target audience, understanding their needs, and developing a solution that meets those needs. You’ll also probably end up fighting the build from scratch versus modifying something that already exists battle. In this episode, we speak with Mav Turner, CTO of DevOps at Tricentis, about his thoughts on how to correctly assemble teams to get a product successfully launched and learning to love constraints.   Mav’s contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mav-turner-b5542a4/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#212: Let’s assume for a moment that you are building a SaaS that you want to turn into a product. Sure, you need to make sure your authentication works, but that’s really step 1 of potentially thousands of steps. Should you create all the services you really need to run a SaaS or should you pull something off the shelf? In this episode, we speak with Anton Zagrebelny, the co-founder and CTO of Stigg, about some of the reasons why you should use solutions that solve your problem instead of trying to build it yourself.   Anton’s contact information:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-zagrebelny/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#211: With the advent of video games like Minecraft and Roblox, kids are starting to learn to code at much younger ages than before. The question is are these kids going to be ready to become the computer programmers for the next generation?  In this episode, we speak with Jim Douglas, CEO at Armory, about the reality of what programming will look like in the future and what skills we need to be learning now if we don’t want to be displaced by middle school students.   Jim’s contact information: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jidouglas/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints  https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#210: If you're feeling frustrated and overwhelmed due to your current database deployment and management process not working as expected, then you are not alone! Think about how many times you’ve needed to maintain the schema of your database and then you give up because it’s either going to break things or it’s going to take too long for a migration to happen.  In this episode, we speak with Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale, about how running your own database should be considered a thing of the past and that you really shouldn’t be scared to make changes to your database schema when it's as simple as doing a rewind.   Sam’s contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/isamlambert LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isamlambert/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

#209: Many people think they want to take their applications and run replicas of those applications on different cloud providers to mitigate risk. What if instead you created your applications to leverage the benefits of all the different cloud providers? In this episode, we speak with Chetan Venkatesh, CEO and founder of Macrometa, about why using multiple cloud services to run cookie cutter versions of your applications is actually a bigger problem than it might seem on the surface.   Chetan’s contact information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/chetan_ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chetanvenkatesh/   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/