Building Efficient App Architecture w/ Alloy Automation’s Gregg Mojica

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Learn how Alloy Automation is building efficient app architecture with Gregg Mojica, Co-Founder and CTO of Alloy Automation. In this conversation Gregg explains the value of multi-region architecture, serverless tools, scaling up and down with Kubernetes, and how Alloy solves problems for merchants all over the world. Gregg will share his insights on how to build an efficient tech stack that solves problems for ecommerce companies by helping them integrate apps and platforms. We'll dive into technical decisions that Gregg and his team have made related to AWS, DynamoDB, Kubernetes, EKS, and more. Serverless architecture comes up often in the context of serving a global audience, dealing with bursts of traffic and trying to be cost efficient (and operationally efficient) at all times. Listen to the full episode: https://cockroa.ch/3kIkMHL We discuss: • Experience growing a company through YC • Multi-region architecture for serving end users all over the world • Strategic use cases for serverless functions • The efficiencies of paying by consumption with serverless • The challenges/benefits of Kubernetes • Stacking updates by location Link to the podcast: 0:00 Introduction 0:58 Gregg Mojica’s Backstory 3:48 The Y Combinator Program 10:26 What does Alloy Automation do? 13:42 How did COVID-19 impact Alloy Automation? 17:36 Behind the architecture 21:43 Leveraging serverless features and functions 28:15 The Kubernetes experience 31:44 Rearranging for latency 37:43 What Gregg is most excited about in 2023 #cockroachDB #ycombinator #BigIdeasInAppArchitecture #DistributedSQL #AlloyAutomation