How to stop juggling & start shipping product — Surya Oruganti // Argonaut

Quotes

• "When we need to ship software and send features for our users, there's a significant amount of time that goes into managing the infrastructure and building out the tooling so that engineering teams are efficient at shipping features." - Surya Oruganti

• "One of the significant issues within platform engineering, or infrastructure teams, s that since they're not money-making teams, they're looked at as a cost center in larger organizations. This takes a backseat and is not given the right kind of emphasis. Staffing is never done, and they're always struggling for capacity. Now, this leads to many inefficiencies." - Surya Oruganti

• "You can sign up with Argonaut, connect your account, and start. And you don't have to worry about juggling other pieces in the pipeline. You don't have to worry about the lower-level details like subnets. And VPC is a security group and provisions all the infrastructure properly." - Surya Oruganti

• "Something that we've taken a lot of care in crafting is all the underlying layers of the configuration of all the underlying layers of code that has generated, let's say, TerraForm code, or, you know, the Kubernetes configurations, or lambda container configurations, et cetera, right? All of those are accessible to our end users. So that there is no limitation, there's no ceiling. And there's complete flexibility where users can have any customization they need for their applications at any point in time." - Surya Oruganti