Today we find out how building a product at Big Tech can be very different than a startup. Lauren Long has done both. Building parts of Firebase and eventually taking the things she learned to build Ampersand. We discuss what Ampersand is and go into detail about what the back end looks like. We even drop some hot takes about serverless and Kubernetes. We think you’ll love it!Show Highlights(0:00) Intro(1:00) What is Ampersand?(3:00) What is the backend?(4:00) What is Lauren’s background(6:00) How are people using it?(10:00) How is Temporal used?(14:00) How to keep APIs in check(21:00) What did you learn?(24:00) What has broken?(26:00) Why use Kubernetes?(32:00) What have customers done?(38:00) What’s next?About Lauren LongLauren Long is the CTO and co-founder of Ampersand, an API integration and workflow engine for enterprises to integrate their data with hundreds of applications. Lauren co-founded Ampersand after working at Google on their serverless products and saw a need for a different kind of integration for customers. She’s a developer with a great intuition on how to build reliable and scalable systems.Sponsor the FAFO Podcast!http://fafo.fm/sponsor

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