The Infoq Podcast

In this podcast, Daniel Bryant sat down with Anurag Goel, Founder and CEO of Render. Topics covered included: the evolution of cloud platforms; simplifying developer experience; running large-scale workloads on Kubernetes; and the future of tooling and platforms within the cloud native computing space. Why listen to this podcast: - Render is aiming to be the next generation of cloud provider. Developers deploy and manage applications via a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) -like experience using custom simplified YAML configuration. - Render is built on top of Kubernetes, but the internals and configuration of this orchestration framework is not exposed to end user developers. - Many large scale usages of traditional cloud vendor platforms require the formation of specialised in-house “DevOps” teams. The provision of virtualisation and API-driven operation via the cloud providers was revolutionary, but it didn’t fundamentally change the existing platform paradigm. - Arguably platform usability may have taken