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Beyond Coding Podcast with 🎙Patrick Akil
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OUTLINE
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:25 - 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