Russell Smith

Co-founder & CEO, 9 Mothers · 1 appearance on the record.

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Russell Smith co-founded Rainforest QA, an automated software testing platform, where he served as Chief Technology Officer and scaled engineering operations. He later co-founded and leads 9 Mothers, a defense technology startup developing autonomous counter-drone hardware.

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Smith: Rainforest QA runs on Heroku, saving up to four ops hires

“So, at Rainforest, we run almost exclusively on Heroku. We use some other stuff as well, but that means we don't have very many ops people. This has brought us tons of focus. It saved us two, three, four ops people. We don't have a team. All those engineers ar…”

Russell Smith Jan 1, 2018 ▶ 14:49 Infrastructure for Non Devs: What CEOs Really Need to Know in 2017

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Smith: Skipping continuous delivery loses half of cloud infrastructure's benefits

“So, like, this is probably one of the most important trends is, if you're using this infrastructure, make sure you're using it with continuous delivery as well, because otherwise, it's just, you lose half the advantages of using this.”

Russell Smith Jan 1, 2018 ▶ 16:46 Infrastructure for Non Devs: What CEOs Really Need to Know in 2017

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Smith: Buying SaaS costs more money but buys team focus

“Remembering outsourcing stuff, buying SaaS, you're buying your team focus. It costs more, but you don't have to have humans doing it.”

Russell Smith Jan 1, 2018 ▶ 18:55 Infrastructure for Non Devs: What CEOs Really Need to Know in 2017

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Infrastructure for Non Devs: What CEOs Really Need to Know in 2017	Jan 1, 2018	2m

Russell Smith

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