S8 E29: Zach Wasserman, Fleet

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Zach Wasserman lives near Vancouver, but grew up a child of the 90's in Berkeley, California. The .COM boom was happening around him, so he found himself fascinated with this era in tech, with little understanding of the details. He was a skater kid, riding around the Bay Area, typically on a short board over long board. Nowadays, he is more into the outdoors, as a mountain biker, rock climber and back country skier. He enjoys the vast selection of Chinese food at his home near Vancouver. In 2014, Zach was working at Facebook. During that time, a team member wanted to build a platform where they could know what was going on with all of their assorted machines. They ne eded a way to ask questions without writing code, and more quickly get answers about their community of devices. This is the creation story of Fleet. 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	It's not just the throughput, but it's also there's some, I think, user experience-related
0:07.0	latency considerations. Those humans want to see responses quickly. It's often that the human-based
0:14.5	API endpoints need to have low latency, but also relatively low throughput. Then when you look at
0:20.5	the API endpoints that the devices, the agents on the devices are
0:23.9	using to check into, the latency actually tends to matter a lot less, but the throughput
0:28.4	matters a lot more.
0:30.4	And so we have to think about these things a bit differently.
0:34.0	I'm Zach Wasserman, and I'm the CTO at Fleet Device Management.
0:41.7	This is Code Story.
0:44.5	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:47.5	It's six months moonlighting.
0:48.9	There's nothing out of the backcountry.
0:50.9	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:53.4	I don't exactly know what to do next.
0:55.4	It took many goes to get right.
0:57.3	Who built the teams that have their back.
0:59.9	The company is its people.
1:01.4	The teams help each other achieve.
1:02.6	Most proud of our team.
1:04.2	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:06.8	All that infrastructure is a pain.
1:08.0	Yes, we've been fighting it as we've grew.
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