S8 E30: Moti Rafalin, vFunction

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Moti Rafalin was born and raised in Israel. He spent half of his life there, and the rest of his life in the states. He is a father of 3 kids, 2 of which are in college. His family and he lives in the Bay Area, and he likes to play tennis and travel. In fact, he has been to over 65 countries in his life, and has lived in 2 continents. After attending AWS re-invent, Moti left with the knowledge that the amount of innovation happening continued to grow and grow. At the same time, there wasn't a good way to ensure that applications weren't just "lifting and shifting" but were fully taking advantage of proper functionality during their modernization process. This is the creation story of vFunction. 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	The nature of software is that it accumulates technical debt over time.
0:07.0	If you look at the portfolio of applications, the agility, the value goes down over time,
0:14.0	while the cost, complexity and risk go up over time.
0:17.0	And the reason for that is really the accumulation of technical debt, the applications
0:21.3	become more and more complex.
0:23.8	And that is sort of the fundamental problem that we want to help organizations deal with.
0:29.1	So we identify, manage, and help remediate architectural technical debt in applications. My name is Motira Philein, and I'm the co-founder and CEO at V-Function.
0:46.5	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.4	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.7	There's nothing at the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	It took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.1	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure was up the aid.
1:12.9	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
1:14.6	Total waste of time.
1:15.9	The stories you don't read in the headlines.
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