I always tell like the company, like, a premature of optimization is the root of all evil.

Sometimes you don't really care about scaling.

You don't need a system that is like 1,000x more scalable, like if it requires a lot of manpower.

And a lot of the early conversation that we had inside the R&D was me telling them,

I understand the perfect solution would include SQS, SNS, S3, Postgres and Redis.

But what would be a fine solution that will hold us up for like the next year?

Because who knows if that particular feature is really that important.

My name is Et al Sharks. I'm the CTO and co-founder of Commonwealth.

This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and leave a team that has your back.

I'm your host, Noah Labhart, and today how E.TL Schwartz built the platform to monitor your Kubernetes and discover root causes to your info problems.

All this and more. OnCote Story.

For E.T.L. Schwartz, it's hard to remember life before his current venture. He studied computer science and psychology in school, and during that

time he started working for eBay. He's 32 years old, he thinks, and is married with a young

family. Outside of hiking and binge watching TV, he's a big fan of coffee and bakeries.

In spending a lot of time in the infrastructure world, he found out that in the world of DevOps,

troubleshooting, there's a lot of chaos to sift through.

He thought it would be amazing to build a tool to impact Kubernetes and the entire infra ecosystem.

This is the creation story of Commodore.

Commodore is a troubleshooting, Kubernetes troubleshooting platform.

We help DevOps and developers to find, detect and solve issues in Kubernetes very fast, very easily.

And basically, we take all of this very complex process of understanding what the hell change,

what the hell happened inside my Kubernetes cluster.

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