Startups Advice: How to build the right application architecture

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You’ve got a great idea and you’ve started building and it’s a race to get an MVP so you can test your idea. And what happens when it works? What are your next steps? How big is your technical debt? No matter the maturity of a startup, we often cut corners that eventually have to be dealt with. In this session, Spencer Kimball, CEO and co-founder of Cockroach Labs talks through his personal journey across a series of startups as he dealt with his mountains of technical debt. We discuss his personal experience with these startup issues: • The minimal viable tech stack for your MVP • Where it makes sense to cut corners • What next-gen tech will get you to MVP faster • How to start fast but still build for scale • The role of the database in all this, of course! 00:00 Introduction to Spencer Kimball, CEO & Co-Founder of Cockroach Labs 01:22 - 03:10 Spencer Kimball on choosing a tech stack 04:34 - 07:13 The Definitive Guide to CockroachDB 07:13 - 09:22 Who is Spencer Kimball 09:23 - 11:02 Kubernetes and the evolution of stateful infrastructure 11:03 - 15:05 Viewfinder and A-Z 15:05 - 19:47 How did they build Viewfinder? 19:47 - 21:23 Working on both the application and infrastructure side of things 21:23 - 26:35 Why did they have to migrate to Dynamo DB? 26:35 - 33:48 Advice for starting a company 33:48 - 40:28 Role of serverless in the future 40:29 - 44:05 Serverless vs VMs 44:06 - 46:13 How to build a service across multiple cloud providers 46:14 - 48:11 What is the biggest challenge in building a serverless product? 48:11 - 54:18 How to pick the right cloud provider 54:19 - 56:18 Advice for choosing the right cohorts 56:18 - 1:00:36 Working on the next generation of Google File System Colossus You can check out our Startups page for more useful content about application architecture for startups: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/solutions/verticals/startups/ We also released a new SQL Skills Path specifically built for application developers: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/cockroach-university/sql/