Kartik Rao
CEO, Contentful. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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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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Everything Kartik Rao said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
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…”
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.”
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.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Kartik's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 a16zLEDGER | CEO, Contentful | 2 | 4 | — | full record on the a16z Podcast → |