Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers

Episode 499: Uma Chingunde on Building a PaaS

<p>Uma Chingunde of Render compares building a PaaS with her previous experience running the Stripe Compute team. Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Chingunde about the role of a PaaS, building on public cloud providers, build vs buy, choosing features, user experience, managing databases, Series A vs later stage startups, and why internal infrastructure teams should run themselves like product teams.</p>

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