There’s a lot of monotonous development work that goes into building solutions. 

Blake Burch wants to relieve some of that burden for developers and help them waste less time on unnecessary tasks. 

Blake co-founded Shipyard, a data orchestration platform, to give data engineers the tools to quickly launch, monitor, and share resilient data workflows. 

He talked to us about the importance of inter-tool communication, how Shipyard is working to improve the developer experience, and why you shouldn’t focus on your infrastructure.

Show Topics

• Get rid of monotonous development work
• Run compatible code
• Be prepared to meet your client's needs
• Don’t separate out your tools
• Let your tools talk to each other
• Improve the developer experience 
• Deal with new tools
• Consolidate tools
• Prevent data leaks
• Focus on the problem you want to solve

Show Links 

• Check out Shipyard 
• Follow Blake Burch on LinkedIn or Twitter

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