S10 Bonus: Darko Fabijan, Semaphore
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Darko Fabijan is originally from Serbia, and splits his time between their and the US. He got is first computer in 1994, and eventually started tinkering and playing with Linus. He went to university in 2003, and then started a company with a college friend, which was a rails consultancy. Outside of tech, he is married, with 2 kids - ages 3 and 9. The older one is into athletics, and the younger one is more into art. He enjoys spending time in nature with his family, and got into trail running a few years ago - recently running a 64km trail. He enjoys business books because he likes to see how other people "did it", when it comes to their successes and failures.
In 2011, Darko was running his consulting shop with 7 or 8 people. As they were developing applications, they couldn't find anything for continuous integration where you just "signed up" and it worked. That was enough for them to get out there and build it on their own.
This is the creation story of Semaphore.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rohan Kare Mandy. |
| 0:01.5 | And I'm Phil Hawthorne, and we're the hosts of the Home Assistant podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | We're guessing you're into technology. |
| 0:06.5 | Home Assistant is the number one open source contributor project on GitHub, with a focus on privacy and local control. |
| 0:12.5 | Join us every other week as we'll break down the latest features of Home Assistant |
| 0:16.0 | and talk to everyday users who are automating their lives with Home Assistant. |
| 0:19.5 | From feeling like you're living in Star Trek with lights turning on in rooms when you walk in, |
| 0:24.9 | to automating, flushing the toilet. |
| 0:27.0 | Home Assistant can integrate with virtually anything, |
| 0:29.4 | and we've interviewed everyday people like yourselves, |
| 0:32.1 | and that have done some pretty crazy automations. |
| 0:34.5 | Listen to the Home Assistant Podcast wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts, |
| 0:37.3 | or find us on |
| 0:38.3 | YouTube or visit home assistant.fm. |
| 0:45.0 | So we decided to focus exclusively on Rubion Rails framework initially and only on that |
| 0:51.4 | part of running your test as fast as possible. |
| 0:55.0 | So what we cut off for ourselves, we initially did not support PHP, Python, any of those |
| 1:03.0 | technologies. |
| 1:04.0 | We also didn't make anything for that deployment phase to say. |
| 1:08.0 | Okay, something is green and then I click a button and then it gets deployed into |
| 1:12.7 | production center. |
| 1:14.4 | That helped us to be focused. |
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