CF6: Developer Platform for Scale | Elias Schneider
simplyblockOctober 22, 202400:42:01

CF6: Developer Platform for Scale | Elias Schneider

In this episode of Cloud Frontier podcast, we sit down with Elias Schneider, the founder of Codesphere. Elias shares his journey from working at Google and SAP to launching Codesphere, a platform designed to streamline the entire development lifecycle in the cloud. Elias explains how the company initially struggled to find product-market fit, eventually realizing that their solution was most valuable to large enterprises, particularly those managing complex development processes and diverse infrastructure environments. We also discuss the evolving landscape of cloud infrastructure, the growing interest in hybrid and on-prem solutions, and Elias’s thoughts on the future of cloud, including new chip architectures like RISC-V.

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📔 Chapters:
00:00 - Preview
01:21 - Guest Introduction
05:13 - Elias's Experience with founding startups
09:56 - Looking for the right product-market fit
11:48 - How Codesphere is helping enterprises
18:48 - Rising costs, how to sell, and implementation
25:46 - On-prem vs cloud?
38:58 - Where does Elias learn about the industry?
40:00 - What does Elias see in the cloud infra space?
41:49 - Conclusion

📋 Show notes:
Guest links & episode links:
Elias Schneider's Linkedin: /elias-dev
Codesphere Website: https://codesphere.com/
VMware: https://www.vmware.com/
IBM Acquisition of Hashicorp: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm
Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/
Kafka: https://kafka.apache.org/
LocalLlama subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
RISC-V: https://riscv.org/

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