Rita Kozlov

So, yeah, you know, that's why we've been working on the NodeCompat stuff and I think that containers is going to go a really long way there of just giving people something to hold on to that feels familiar and kind of get started from that. But, yeah, I think that the second thing that's really interesting here is, to your point, it did...

So, yeah, you know, that's why we've been working on the NodeCompat stuff and I think that containers is going to go a really long way there of just giving people something to hold on to that feels familiar and kind of get started from that. But, yeah, I think that the second thing that's really interesting here is, to your point, it did...

All of that compliance stuff didn't matter to you when you were building as an individual. And at the same time, you know, that difference between like $15 and $45 felt really significant to you. And I feel like that's where things sometimes get lost in the Twitter conversation too. You know, I think it's great that there's such a big community of people. You know, I think we're both that way.

All of that compliance stuff didn't matter to you when you were building as an individual. And at the same time, you know, that difference between like $15 and $45 felt really significant to you. And I feel like that's where things sometimes get lost in the Twitter conversation too. You know, I think it's great that there's such a big community of people. You know, I think we're both that way.

We just like to build stuff in our spare time. And it's a great way to learn new technologies. But what you need for, you know, your business, blog or your side project or whatever is so different from the requirements of a company. And that's where, yeah, knock yourself out setting up Docker on a $5 VPS. It just doesn't matter.

We just like to build stuff in our spare time. And it's a great way to learn new technologies. But what you need for, you know, your business, blog or your side project or whatever is so different from the requirements of a company. And that's where, yeah, knock yourself out setting up Docker on a $5 VPS. It just doesn't matter.

But when you're running in production and you're doing this as a part of a multi-million, multi-billion dollar business where literally every second of latency correlates with revenue, where, yeah, you have compliance requirements to meet, where, you know, people's time really adds up.

But when you're running in production and you're doing this as a part of a multi-million, multi-billion dollar business where literally every second of latency correlates with revenue, where, yeah, you have compliance requirements to meet, where, you know, people's time really adds up.

If you think about, you know, the cost of an engineer, $100,000 even starts to look pretty small compared to, you know, all of the alternatives. Yeah.

If you think about, you know, the cost of an engineer, $100,000 even starts to look pretty small compared to, you know, all of the alternatives. Yeah.

Yeah, I think that's going to become even more interesting in some ways in the AI age where... the productivity of a single person can go so much further in some ways, right?

Yeah, I think that's going to become even more interesting in some ways in the AI age where... the productivity of a single person can go so much further in some ways, right?

And so, yeah, I do wonder if especially, yeah, like as a small startup, as a team of three, you can go so far so fast just bootstrapping things and building in a serverless way that, yeah, I wonder if there's going to be like even more and more scrutiny over, you know, build versus buy and what's the, you know, liability of growing a team.

And so, yeah, I do wonder if especially, yeah, like as a small startup, as a team of three, you can go so far so fast just bootstrapping things and building in a serverless way that, yeah, I wonder if there's going to be like even more and more scrutiny over, you know, build versus buy and what's the, you know, liability of growing a team.

I think also to your point about if you're managing a bunch of servers and then you look at something like the cloud and you're like, oh, that's so much more expensive and I'm still managing Servers, if you've been doing that and you have a team that has that in-house expertise, then it makes sense to keep doing that in some way.

I think also to your point about if you're managing a bunch of servers and then you look at something like the cloud and you're like, oh, that's so much more expensive and I'm still managing Servers, if you've been doing that and you have a team that has that in-house expertise, then it makes sense to keep doing that in some way.

But if I think back to your comment about the product is growing, we need to hire more people in order to keep up with customer demand and all of that. The availability of talent, I think, is something that everyone in this industry struggles with. And so then I think the question also becomes, you know, I think your odds of being able to hire someone that's really capable and

But if I think back to your comment about the product is growing, we need to hire more people in order to keep up with customer demand and all of that. The availability of talent, I think, is something that everyone in this industry struggles with. And so then I think the question also becomes, you know, I think your odds of being able to hire someone that's really capable and

I think that there's this aspect of, sorry, I'm struggling to think of the word, but barrier to entry effectively. You can get a really smart engineer that if you give them the tools that they need vis-a-vis serverless can get running just slinging code versus I think finding people

I think that there's this aspect of, sorry, I'm struggling to think of the word, but barrier to entry effectively. You can get a really smart engineer that if you give them the tools that they need vis-a-vis serverless can get running just slinging code versus I think finding people