S8 Bonus: Pato Echague, Split.io

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Pato Echague was born and raised in Argentina, and as such, is a huge soccer fan. He played soccer and tennis growing up, and enjoys following the Boca Juniors. He also admits to being influenced by the Messi effect as well, liking Barcelona and now the States. He is a father of 2 young kids - who also play soccer - so there are a lot of nets and practice tools in his backyard. At his prior startup, which was acquired by Salesforce, Pato and his co-founders observed that the faster they shipped things, they faster they broke production. After giving into his co-founders persistence, he decided to jump in and build a feature flagging to fix the problem. This is the creation story of Split. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	So when you build a product like this, internal tools, someone has to be the first one to use.
0:05.0	So one of our friends, a front-end engineer at the time he had never released software himself.
0:10.0	We pushed them into production and his code actually broke the website.
0:15.0	So we walked in through that internal tool.
0:17.0	There was only one flag, that was his flag.
0:20.0	So we say, hey, click the kill button.
0:22.7	30 seconds the site came back up.
0:24.5	No need to travel the shoot on a Friday afternoon.
0:27.2	That person moved on.
0:28.6	I went to camping, came back a long weekend on Tuesday.
0:31.4	We fixed the software, push it again, restore the kill flag in the rest of history.
0:36.9	I'm Pato Echawa, co-founder and CTO at Split Software.
0:44.2	This is Code Story.
0:46.9	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:49.9	It's six months moonlighting.
0:51.4	There's nothing out of the backhand.
0:53.3	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:55.9	I don't exactly know what to do next.
0:57.2	She took many goes to get right.
0:59.7	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:02.4	The company is its people.
1:03.7	The teams help each other achieve.
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