S9 Bonus: Avi Freedman, Kentik

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Avi Freedman became obsessed with tech at age 8. He was given a BASIC programming book by his Uncle in 1978, and at that point - he was hooked. Outside of tech, he has been married for 30 years, and likes to play Pot Limit Omaha (which is Poker) and to Taekwondo to keep his body healthy. Avi ran the network group at Akamai, and thought that networking observability was a solved problem. After he left, he noticed that in fact, it wasn't. He moved to the Bay Area and got started building a solution for just that. This is the creation story of Kentik. 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	I knew from the very beginning, running always on infrastructure in cloud is a sucker's bet.
0:07.0	And you cannot build a good business doing that.
0:10.0	And ultimately, we need to build a good business.
0:13.0	We run net booted bare metal.
0:15.0	Started before Kubernetes was really a thing.
0:17.0	So our own orchestration system with containers, our database was designed to scale and be
0:24.1	fast in a multi-tenant environment, not let any customer slow down the infrastructure. That's been a
0:29.7	big focus of mine. I run Usenet as a hobby, 30 gigabits a second, hundreds of terabytes a day,
0:35.9	big distributed system. It's relaxing for me.
0:39.1	My name is Avi Friedman, and I'm a co-founder and the CEO at Kentig.
0:46.7	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	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	Just took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.7	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
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