The infrastructure behind a PaaS (Ship It! #108)

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Render founder/CEO Anurag Goel joins us for a look behind their platform. An application native hosting option that hides the lower levels still requires a LOT of infrastructure.

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Featuring:

• Anurag Goel – Twitter, LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

How things break

• Google’s post mortem
• Ars technica’s writeup

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:52)

https://sentry.io/

3. The opener (00:04:39)

4. Welcome Anurag Goel (00:07:42)

https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2177dfc90125a992504d30434b04bca3.jpg?s=400&d=mm

5. Anurag's role at Stripe (00:11:32)

6. What makes Render different? (00:12:55)

7. Easy to start = hard to debug? (00:16:54)

8. Teaching innovation (00:20:21)

9. The bottom of Render (00:23:20)

10. Are you still on Kubernetes? (00:24:41)

11. Biggest challenges building Render (00:25:48)

12. Open source contributions (00:31:57)

13. Platform architecture (00:33:03)

14. Isolating Kubernetes (00:35:53)

15. Managed Kubernetes? (00:39:11)

16. On-prem vs cloud (00:42:43)

17. Observability (00:53:20)

18. Thanks for joining us! (00:55:52)

19. Sponsor: Neo4j (00:56:24)

https://graphstuff.fm/episodes/2023-finale-llms-and-knowledge-graphs-throughout-the-year?&utm_campaign=UCGenAI&utm_content=AMS-SrDev-ToFuDev-UCGenAI-Audio-None-GenAI1-GenAI-NonABM&utm_medium=Audio&utm_source=PracticalAI&utm_justglobal=

20. The closer (00:57:28)

21. How things break (00:59:21)

22. Outro (01:17:47)