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Kurt Mackey

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Founders Talk Founders Talk #80

Iterating to globally distributed apps and databases

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2021-09-03T20:00:00Z #startups 🎧 8,507

Today Adam is joined by Kurt Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Fly.io — a platform for running full stack apps and databases close to users. This conversation with Kurt talks through his journey as a developer and entrepreneur, fundraising, getting into Y Combinator (twice), and how they’ve iterated on the Fly platform since 2017 to get to where they are right now.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #303

Programmable infrastructure

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2018-06-27T11:00:00Z 🎧 22,706

Jerod Santo is riding solo talking with Kurt Mackey, co-founder of Fly. He talked to him about his work at Ars Technica, his prediction on tabs being a fad, and Kurt being a founding member of MongoHQ, which was later renamed to Compose and acquired by IBM. Jerod also talked to him about lighthouse scores, performance, and an interesting program Fly is instituting to compensate open source project maintainers.

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