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Beyond Coding Podcast with Patrick Akil
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Outline
00:00:00 – Intro00:00:25 – Where to dock your boat?
00:02:49 – Patrick's friends bought a boat
00:03:31 – Malcolm sold his house and bought a boat
00:05:52 – Relaxing on a boat
00:07:47 – Living small and minimalistic
00:09:22 – Taking the plunge twice
00:10:32 – Terrateam is a TACoS
00:11:47 – What is OpenTofu?
00:14:33 – Why people work on OpenTofu
00:16:05 – Terrateam and github actions
00:17:40 – Total cost of ownership
00:19:03 – The idea to start Terrateam
00:22:53 – Starting a business with a close friend
00:24:41 – Offering high quality support
00:25:44 – Full responsibility to choose the technology
00:28:13 – Choosing OCaml as backend language
00:31:16 – Ocaml solution directions
00:35:01 – Escape hatches
00:36:34 – Computers are really fast
00:38:10 – AI for developer productivity
00:41:55 – Generating the code doesn't reduce the bottleneck
00:44:25 – Productivity in a 2-man team
00:47:06 – Should engineers talk to customers?
00:49:39 – Offering flexibility and accommodating
00:52:59 – Rounding off