Smith: Rainforest QA runs on Heroku, saving up to four ops hires
Russell Smith · Infrastructure for Non Devs: What CEOs Really Need to Know in 2017 · Jan 1, 2018 · at 14:49
Rainforest QA CTO Russell Smith discusses the operational headcount savings of building on managed PaaS platforms like Heroku.
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“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 are shipping product.”
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