Deploying and managing cloud workloads is a complex task that requires developers to handle

infrastructure, scaling, CICD pipelines, and database hosting.

Configuring and maintaining Kubernetes, ensuring smooth deployments, and integrating various

services efficiently is a common challenge.

Will Stewart is the co-founder and CEO of Northlank, which is a platform focused on streamlining application deployment and management.

In this episode, he joins the show to talk about the contemporary challenges and solutions around workload deployment.

This episode is hosted by Sean Falconer. Check the show notes for more information on Sean's work and where to find him.

Well, welcome to Sean. Great to be here. Yeah, thanks for doing this. I'm looking forward to it.

I was digging into your background a little bit, and it seems like, you know, outside of some time that you spent in university, most of your career has been sort of like founding companies.

I'm kind of like what has been that interest in being a founder? And how did you go from

where you grew up to essentially now founding and running a major infrastructure company?

That's absolutely true. Most of my professional life have been a founder. Whilst at school,

I was always trying to work on side projects, deploying game servers, trying to build a

game server hosting platform whilst at university. And then we

realized that myself and my co-founder that potentially that was an opportunity for us to do full-time.

We want to take on that opportunity. And during my university years, we learned how to program

and iterating on things were being able at source like Rancher and Mezos,

and we were able to really start pushing the boundaries with container deployment whilst at

university as a side project. And then we started to think, did we want to get full-time jobs,

or could we build a company? Could we build a platform? And we were having a look, you know, could we join an accelerator

program? And there was an accelerator in Europe called the family. And that really put us on a

journey of building a startup and meeting the right people. So, transparently for me, I was in a

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