Tech Founder Decisions and Challenges with Malcolm Matalka from Beyond Coding

Tech Founder Decisions and Challenges with Malcolm Matalka

53 minutes Posted Dec 20, 2023 at 3:00 pm.

Intro

Where to dock your boat?

Patrick's friends bought a boat

Malcolm sold his house and bought a boat

Relaxing on a boat

Living small and minimalistic

Taking the plunge twice

Terrateam is a TACoS

What is OpenTofu?

Why people work on OpenTofu

Terrateam and github actions

Total cost of ownership

The idea to start Terrateam

Starting a business with a close friend

Offering high quality support

Full responsibility to choose the technology

Choosing OCaml as backend language

Ocaml solution directions

Escape hatches

Computers are really fast

AI for developer productivity

Generating the code doesn't reduce the bottleneck

Productivity in a 2-man team

Should engineers talk to customers?

Offering flexibility and accommodating

Rounding off

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Connect with Malcolm Matalka:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolm-matalka-a6527382

Full episode on YouTube ▶️

https://youtu.be/htpxkxyCX9I

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