Kevin Hurley grew up in a multi-kid house, which is where he got his competitive nature. He used to play 2 on 2 with his Dad and siblings at home. He went to school for electrical engineering, and funny enough, interviewed for a computer science job by accident, effectively stumbling into the trade. Outside of tech, he spends his free time with his fiancé, planning for the wedding, and visiting Manhattan beach for a good walk .Kevin was part of the team that attempted to launch crypto at Facebook. Although that didn't work out, they realized that the backbone of the system needed to be built on something more common - and something that was lightning fast.This is the creation story of Lightspark.SponsorsP0 SecuritySpeakeasyQA WolfLinkshttps://www.lightspark.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-p-hurley/Our Sponsors:* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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We started out by running a full L&D node for each customer. Obviously, that wasn't something that would be scalable or efficient long term. If you have to spin up an AWS pod for every single customer, if you have hundreds or millions of customers, that's obviously not going to scale well. So we started off taking that as we want to get something out on the market.
We want to be able to prove that we can actually simplify how Lightning works and make it so that customers can easily integrate. And from there, we'll be able to figure out how we scale better and actually make the right trade-offs later on. But we didn't want to overcomplicate things at the start until we actually felt like we had something that was going to be valuable. I'm Kevin Hurley.
I'm the CTO and one of the co-founders at LightSpark.
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Kevin Hurley grew up in a multi-kid house, which is where he got his competitive nature. He used to play two-on-two with his dad and siblings at home. He went to school for electrical engineering and, funny enough, interviewed for a computer science job by accident, effectively stumbling into the trade.
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