Cory O'Daniel is the CEO and co-founder of Massdriver, a cloud platform and visual development environment. Massdriver aims to simplify cloud infrastructure management and DevOps processes, allowing engineering teams to focus on building products rather than managing complex cloud setups. Prior to Massdriver, Cory spent over a decade working on backend, cloud, and platform - Massdriver started out as an internal tool he build to help automate much of that work.

In today's episode, we talk about:

* where to find the best taco's in Los Angeles

* recurring frustrations with ops and cloud that led to the start of Massdriver

* creating a platform for both engineers and operation teams using a diagram interface backed by infrastructure as code

* why devops is bulls**t

* facilitating platform engineering through better tooling

* pivot from pure service play to professional services

Where to find Cory:

* X

* LinkedIn

Closing Questions

* advice to current founders: prioritize automation and simplicity. choose boring tech. don't just take VC advice on face value and don't be afraid to push back

* offer: Attend Massdriver’s weekly webinars for practical insights on cloud and DevOps topics, and suggest new topics you’re interested in learning about.

Ask or Offer

* ask: Check out the Platform Engineering Podcast if you're a developer founder in the dev tools or cloud space and want to discuss problems and customer solutions.

Referenced

* TACO

* Infrastructure as Code

* Devops is Bullshit

* Platform Engineering Podcast

* MassDriver

* OpenTofu

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