Oct 04 2021 44 mins
Groupsite.com is a community-building platform that optimizes asynchronous communications. In this episode of Life in the Cloud, host Kris Reddy interviews their CTO, Kamal Hood.
With an extensive tech background, Kamal was taking programming classes in high school. This was before the internet was fully deployed. For over a decade while freelancing, he developed custom databases, CRMs and helped companies shift over to the cloud.
"When you move to the cloud, it frees you from having to maintain hardware that isn't your core business."
Kamal has a way of breaking down complex tech topics into understandable bits. From the start, he explains, solid performance logging and monitoring will help smooth out cloud operations.
He shares how he helped reduce costs with their operation, simplifying systems to their minimum required usage. For instance, they were running five app servers with four workers. Now only using two servers and two employees, they're still able to provide live updates, even with their thousands of users on their platform at any time.
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