In this episode, Lane talks to Dax Raad, a well rounded engineer that is currently a developer for SST, a framework that helps people build Full-Stack applications on AWS with ease. Today, they talk about personal opinions on industry practices, scale, financial decisions, infrastructure mistakes, reflections on long-term company commitments and many more!
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- (00:00) - Introduction
- (00:51) - Dax's Tweets and Personal Branding
- (01:31) - You have to learn to be yourself
- (02:56) - Intrusive thoughts
- (03:33) - When did Dax become active in the Tech Twitter scene
- (06:30) - What was the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon (ZIRP) in the tech scene
- (09:33) - Should people choose fun early in their career?
- (12:22) - Lane's take on the expertise when abstracting
- (14:15) - SST's Philosophy in regards to abstractions
- (16:35) - Merging roles
- (19:28) - People don't want to care about the cloud
- (21:31) - Less stressed about work = better results
- (24:10) - Managers vs leaders
- (25:20) - Dax shares stories about managing vs leading
- (29:36) - Did Dax ever have users?
- (31:24) - Most Startups Fail
- (32:09) - Dax's reason for joining startups
- (33:25) - Staying at a company for decades
- (35:53) - Main downside of staying at an established company for a long time
- (36:34) - The World changes, so don't look at how already established companies do things
- (37:57) - Scale has a different meaning for different companies
- (40:07) - So much goes away when you have less people at the company
- (41:51) - Sometimes not saving money is a better option
- (43:35) - Moving off Stripe
- (46:54) - Rolling your own payment processor
- (49:05) - Which debate on Tech Twitter annoys Dax the most
- (50:52) - Stored Procedure debate
- (53:31) - What's a BIG mistake in the infrastructure space?
- (57:31) - Kubernetes
- (01:02:58) - What Dax misses from Google Cloud
- (01:03:19) - Is Sundar Pichai a bad CEO?
- (01:04:51) - Where to find Dax
