Kartik Rao

CEO, Contentful · 2 appearances on the record.

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Karthik Rau is the CEO of Contentful and the co-founder and former CEO of cloud observability platform SignalFx, which was acquired by Splunk for $1.05 billion. Previously, he served as VP of Product Management and Worldwide Marketing at VMware through its 2007 initial public offering.

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Insight

Karthik Rao: Software Deployment Velocity Shifted From Annual Updates to Tens of Thousands

“Instead of doing two or three updates a year, you could be doing thousands or tens of thousands of updates a year. And so, you know, the entire development lifecycle, deployment lifecycle, the entire toolset is evolving to support velocity. So how you design y…”

Kartik Rao Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:49 a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps

Opinion

Rao: Operations will persist but require software engineering skills

“I still think there's an element of operations around these workloads though, right? It's just the skill set and the type of people who are doing it are different. It's not your Classic DBA sysadmin. It's going to be someone more of an engineering skill set.”

Kartik Rao Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:02 a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps

Insight

Rao: Developers instrument code when held responsible for production pages

“The developer does have an incentive to instrument his or her own code, because if something goes wrong, they're the ones that are going to get paged.”

Kartik Rao Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:32 a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps

Insight

Rao: Two-year release cycles risk delivering obsolete enterprise software

“Ultimately, even in the enterprise world, markets are changing very quickly, and so if you're taking two years to get something out, the markets have probably changed in those two years.”

Kartik Rao Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:30 a16z Podcast | Harnessing the DevOps Movement -- Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls

Appearances (2)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps	Jan 2, 2019	3m
a16z Podcast \| Harnessing the DevOps Movement -- Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls	Jan 2, 2019	3m

Kartik Rao

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