In this episode of Startups for The Rest of us, Mike and I talk about our key takeaways for MicroConf Europe 2019.

This is Startups for the Rest of Us, episode 469.

Welcome to Startups for the Rest of Us, the podcast that helps developers, designers, and entrepreneurs,

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Whether you've built your fifth startup, or are you thinking about your first.

I'm Rob.

And I'm Mike.

And we're here to share our experiences to help you avoid the mistakes we made.

So where this week, sir?

Not much, just working on my security audit for Google.

I was going to ask about that.

That's kind of the running thread.

I think in the next couple weeks, we should get back a full updates episode, but talk

me through it briefly.

Well, it started earlier this week.

So I scheduled it for the week after MicroConf Europe, because obviously I wasn't

going to be here last week.

So I didn't want to start it the week that I wasn't here because it's expensive.

And so we went through, had a kickoff call. They said, you know, which environments do you want? And then they asked, like, how much can your server handle in terms of requests per second?

And I hesitated a little bit because I wasn't real sure what to tell them. It's like on one hand, I want them to do a good job, but the other hand, I don't want it to fall over and die on itself. So I don't know. I said try to be a little

careful, but I should be all right generally. And if anything happens, just email me right away

and be done with it. So I just kind of turned them loose. Do you think it was a good call to do it immediately after microcomph Europe? I know, I guess you flew back on

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