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Tomorrow’s World Today® PodcastDigital by Design: How DigitalOcean Builds for the CloudWhat does it take to go from a curious nine-year-old tinkering with computers to leading product strategy at some of the world’s most powerful tech companies?In this episode, Gabe Monroy reflects on his path through the tech world. Raised by a single mom who ran her own bookkeeping business, Gabe got his start helping set up computers for her clients. That hands-on experience sparked a lifelong passion for technology.Over the years, Gabe would go on to sell two startups (including one to Microsoft), serve as a leader in cloud innovation, and hold th...2025-07-3035 min
The Stack Overflow PodcastHow to keep the servers running when your Mastodon goes viralA Principal Engineer at GitHib, Kris is president of the Nivenly Foundation and an admin at Hachyderm, an instance of the decentralized social network powered by Mastodon. The ongoing changes at Twitter have fueled interest in alternative, decentralized platforms like Mastodon and Discord.Read Leaving the Basement, Kris’s post about scaling and migrating Hachyderm out of her basement.Watch Kris’s conversation with DigitalOcean Chief Product Officer Gabe Monroy about building decentralized IT platforms.Find Kris on Twitter, GitHub, Twitch, or YouTube.Congrats to Lifeboat badge ...2023-03-3127 min
Techstrong Two PodcastEpisode #4 - Techstrong Two, Thursday, February 23, 2023Hello Everyone and welcome to the Techstrong Two Podcast. Today is Thursday, February 23rd, and I am your host William Willis. In today’s show, we will hear about building decentralized IT platforms with Kris Nóva from Hachyderm and Gabe Monroy from DigitalOcean. Then, we hear about the shifting responsibility for application security with Dean Agron from Oxeye.
In this Episode:
Building Decentralized IT Platforms - Kris Nóva, Hachyderm and Gabe Monroy, DigitalOcean
Shifting Responsibility for Application Security in 2023 - Dean Agron, Oxeye
2023-02-2334 min
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | InvestorsSaaStr 633: Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins with DigitalOcean CPO Gabe MonroyAs Chief Product Officer at DigitalOcean and a developer-turned-entrepreneur himself, Gabe Monroy is deeply familiar with some of the pitfalls that founders encounter on the road of product development. In this session, Gabe will discuss how founders can avoid the trap of over-engineering products, as well as why focusing on the must-haves (developing “painkillers” for your customer’s problem) will better serve your business versus focusing on the nice-to-haves (developing “vitamins”). Video: https://youtu.be/KwWxIURQVRg Want to join the SaaStr community? We're the 🌎largest community for B2B software. Subscribe for...2023-02-1028 min
The New Stack PodcastHachyderm.io, from Side Project to 38,000+ Users and CountingBack in April, Kris Nóva, now principal engineer at GitHub, started creating a server on Mastodon as a side project in her basement lab. Then in late October, Elon Musk bought Twitter for an eye-watering $44 billion, and began cutting thousands of jobs at the social media giant and making changes that alienated longtime users. And over the next few weeks, usage of Nóva’s hobby site, Hachyderm.io, exploded. “The server started very small,” she said on this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast. “And I think l...2022-12-2226 min
What the Dev?How to avoid over-engineering - Episode 170In this week's episode, we spoke with Gabe Monroy, chief product officer at DigitalOcean, about how developers can fall into the trap of over-engineering their products and how to avoid this. He gives tips on how to find a balance between adopting new technology and delivering value to the customer. 2022-07-2616 min
The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceThe impact and future of Kubernetes (Interview)From KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 — Brendan Burns (Kubernetes co-founder) and Gabe Monroy (creator of Deis) joined the show to talk about the origin, impact, and future of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
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Google Cloud Platform Podcast – Google Cloud Platform weekly podcast is whe...2018-02-0245 minChangelog InterviewsThe impact and future of KubernetesFrom KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 — Brendan Burns (Kubernetes co-founder) and Gabe Monroy (creator of Deis) joined the show to talk about the origin, impact, and future of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Command Line Heroes – A new podcast about the epic true tales of the developers, hackers, and open source rebels revolutionizing the tech landscape from the command line up. Presented by Red Hat.
Google Cloud Platform Podcast – Google Cloud Platform weekly podcast is whe...2018-02-0245 min