From humble BlogSpot beginnings to millions of pageviews a month, TechRaptor has grown beyond CEO and Founder Rutledge Daugette’s expectations.

We sit down with Rutledge in this episode of the Craft of Code podcast to hear his story, including all the challenges he’s come up against while scaling his website. After experiencing hosting issues thanks to his fast traffic growth, Rutledge turned to Linode for its flexibility, cost, and support.

In this episode, he explains what it’s been like working with Linode and why having a slow and steady approach to scaling has been key to his success.

In this episode, we discussed:

• How TechRaptor first began
• Rutledge’s early goals for the website
• The problems in the gaming website industry
• How TechRaptor navigated hosting and traffic challenges
• How Rutledge built a virtual private server as a solution
• Why Rutledge picked Linode to partner with
• Why using Linode has enabled TechRaptor to grow
• Advice for other content creators
• Why Rutledge prefers to pick partners over vendors

You can find out more by visiting https://www.linode.com/craft-of-code/

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TechRaptor: https://techraptor.net/

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Large organizations use multiple cloud providers to meet increasingly growing needs for things like better economics and redundancy and find a better fit for their application and data workloads. But smaller organizations don’t have the budget or resources to manage custom-built platforms that make multicloud possible. So what can they do?

That’s where Zeet comes in. Zeet launched to help developers create reusable, self-serve cloud infrastructure. CEO and Co-Founder Johnny Dallas joined the Craft of Code podcast to tell us all about it.

Johnny explores the idea of the multicloud, how his users build multicloud solutions, why platform engineering is so important, and how Zeet worked closely with LiveKit. We also hear his top advice for anyone working in the DevOps or platform engineering space on how to combat multicloud challenges.

In this episode, we discussed:

• How Zeet first got started
• Why Zeet takes an unorthodox approach to multicloud
• What platform engineering is and how it differs from DevOps
• Different ways Zeet clients are using multicloud
• How Zeet worked with LiveKit to deliver the performance they needed
• Johnny’s advice for clients and those facing multicloud challenges

You can find out more by visiting https://www.linode.com/craft-of-code/

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Zeet: https://zeet.co/

Follow Zeet on Twitter: https://twitter.com/zeet_co

Zeet on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/F6hWtCV

Connect with Johnny on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theonlyjohnny/

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Think about the last time you went online to ship a package. You begin to enter your address at checkout and BAM…the address bar auto-populates.

Things have changed since the early days of e-commerce and your favorite companies are using sophisticated data intelligence technology to pinpoint your exact address and provide their best possible service. Many are doing this with a platform called Smarty.

Founded in 2011 as Smarty Streets, they are used by huge corporations like Microsoft, Netflix and even NASA to process “colossal amounts of location data at breakneck speed”, as explained on their website.

In season 3, episode 7, we are joined by Smarty’s founder, CEO and CTO, Jonathan Oliver.

Jonathan discusses how he began coding at age 8, his route into the industry and how the industry has evolved since the 1990s.

Plus, he takes us back to the early days of Smarty and mapping technology and touches on Smarty’s partnership with Linode.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Jonathan was introduced to coding at age 8
• How the industry has changed since the 1990s
• Challenges Jonathan faces in his job
• How he started Smarty Streets
• Why the company rebranded to Smarty
• Smarty’s involvement with Linode
• Smarty’s tech choices

You can find out more by visiting https://www.linode.com/craft-of-code/

Important Links & Mentions

• Smarty: https://www.smarty.com/
• Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-oliver-2ab0533/?trk=pub-pbmap
• Follow Jonathan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonathan_oliver?lang=en
• Linode – Jonathan Oliver Customer Story: https://www.linode.com/content/jonathan-oliver-customer-story/

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