Cloud Do You Do?
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Cloud Do You Do? is a podcast full of interviews about cloud and IT related topics with special guests from the world of startups and corporates. When you build or scale business everything seems more important than IT infrastructure. We show you the opposite is the truth. Get comfy in the cloud with us. Powered by Revolgy.
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May 14, 2023
Lukáš Putna: Technology at Heureka Group, Europe's largest price comparison website
9 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, over 23 million visitors per month, and a network of over 55,000 online stores - this is the Heureka Group, Europe's largest price comparison website and online shopping advisor. Join us on this "Cloud Do You Do" episode as we chat with Lukáš Putna, CTO of Heureka Group. Lukáš shares his career path and the strategic importance of hiring for technical roles. He also discusses the significance of the HeurekaDevs community. The conversation pivots to Heureka's cloud journey, their choice of Google Cloud, and the transformation since migration. Lukáš shares plan and risk mitigation strategies. Don't miss this insightful chat with a tech leader guiding a tech giant in the cloud era.
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Apr 24, 2023
Karel Šimánek: Unraveling the AI revolution - from cloud power to AGI horizons
We interviewed Karel Šimánek from BigHub. They are experts on applied AI and using the cloud to help companies understand their data and implement ML. We talked with Karel about the current Chat GPT models and AI and AGI's future. And also about the cloud, which they leverage for the clients. Should we be afraid that artificial intelligence will take over the world? And which blog to read to get the latest AI/data industry information? Listen to the whole episode.
Current AI models and methodologies provide immense potential for any business ready to embark on this journey. By harnessing the power of cloud computing, data engineering, data analytics, and data science, BigHub supports clients from fundamental data management to sophisticated machine learning techniques. Learn more about them at https://www.bighub.cz/
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Apr 14, 2023
Jaakko Sarno: Mastering the game development and playing games to plant trees
Jaakko Sarno is an experienced game designer who has worked on several successful games in the mobile gaming industry. He worked with Angry Birds creator at Rovio for eight years and is now the Head of Design at Heroic Games. He works on a unique impactverse project - the first Heroic City mission - they’re going to plant trees with their friends at Ecologi company! Play games to plant trees and compete on who makes the most impact! We discussed cloud technology in the gaming industry, game development, and other super exciting things.
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Mar 20, 2023
Nikola Balaban: How Dispo Market uses the cloud to optimize data and avoid empty truck driving
Do you know that 25% of the trucks on the road are empty? Štěpán Kaiser discussed this sustainability and logistic topic from a technology point of view with Nikola Balaban, CEO at Dispo Market. Why don't they use Oracle cloud and use AWS? How does he benefit from experience with Google infrastructure at Outfit7 now? How do they use the cloud for optimizing data and processes?
Dispo Market, a Slovenian startup, addresses the issue of wasted space in small and medium-sized company road freight transport. Due to time constraints, these businesses struggle to analyze past cases for improvement, leading to increased fuel consumption, pollution, and congestion. Dispo Market team is developing a system that uses computer vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data to identify available vehicle space and sell it to compatible clients. This approach also prioritizes safety by monitoring weight distribution on truck axles.
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Feb 6, 2023
Jüri Tomingas: Product management at the Estonian unicorn Pipedrive
Jüri Tomingas is Senior Product Manager for a mobile app at Pipedrive, a cloud-based global CRM tool and the Estonian unicorn. How different is his Jüri's job from previous experience at Swedbank? What is an Aggressive Ornithology? :) How to manage the product and not slow down its development? Jüri shared his product management experience, cloud-related challenges, why is the cloud like Roblox and many more.
Pipedrive started in 2010, Estonian founders wanted to build a customer relationship management (CRM) tool that helps users visualize their sales processes and get more done. They knew from experience that in sales, as in life, you can’t control your results but you can control your actions. So, they created Pipedrive around activity-based selling, a proven approach that’s all about scheduling, completing and tracking activities. The company has more than 1,000 employees in its eight offices across Europe (Tallinn, Tartu, Lisbon, London, Prague, Dublin, Riga and Berlin) and two offices in the US (New York and Florida). Its CRM is used by over 100,000 customers around the world. In 2020, Pipedrive became the fifth Estonian-founded unicorn.
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Jan 13, 2023
Idan Mashaal: Cloud in 2009 and today - how different it is and what has changed?
Idan Mashaal, the Product Strategist and Field CTO at JumpCloud, works with cloud technologies since... seems like forever. He worked at Plus500 for 13 years, solved robust cloud challenges back in 2009, and developed automation and pipelines in times when DevOps practically didn't exist. Now, he works at JumpCloud - an open directory platform that simplifies IT management. They call him General Problem Solver, why? Listen to what Idan has to say about SaaS, zero trust, remote work history, and device and access management challenges.
JumpCloud is SaaS that reduces costs with a unified device and identity access management. JumpCloud helps IT teams make (Remote) work happen by centralizing management of user identities and devices, enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to adopt Zero Trust security models. JumpCloud has a global user base of more than 180,000 organizations, with more than 5,000 paying customers including Cars.com, GoFundMe, Grab, ClassPass, Uplight, Beyond Finance, and Foursquare. JumpCloud has raised over $400M from world-class investors including Sapphire Ventures, General Atlantic, Sands Capital, Atlassian, and CrowdStrike.
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Jan 4, 2023
SPCSS: Public cloud and cybersecurity at state institutions
We dived deep into cloud technology and cybersecurity topics with the team from our Czech public sector customer The State Treasury Shared Services Center (or hereinafter the SPCSS). SPCSS provides information technology services and specialises in the operation of the state's critical infrastructure. We talked with Jiří Krula (CTO) and Tomáš Šimeček (Head of UNIX/LINUX Technology) about the multi-cloud strategy, tech-trends they see and leverage, cloud and application operations and their security.
SPCSS is a state-owned company which operates a national data centre, ensures the operation of state management applications and provides various ICT services that are intended solely for state administration entities with a high emphasis on cyber security.
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Nov 14, 2022
Lacework: Secure from code to cloud
Lacework is a modern, SaaS-based security and compliance platform. They automate the delivery of cloud security so businesses can innovate rapidly, but do so safely. In this episode, we discuss cloud security from A to Z with Tomas Lempera and Ivo Schoenamaker. Tomas is on the business side of Lacework, talking with partners and customers. Ivo is a service and technical person. They are changing security forever, and we mean it! They believe cloud security is a unique challenge that requires a solution built from the ground up to solve. Listen to what they have to say about today's security challenges and how to tackle them successfully.
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Sep 1, 2022
Ervin Weber: Cloud enables you to be local for everyone and everywhere
Ervin Weber is a community activist, and founder of Google Cloud developer community in Tallinn (Estonia) who currently works as Infrastructure Lead at Pactum AI. Štěpán Kaiser and Ervin talked about his passion for computer science, his road from Toggle to Pactum AI, and about developer community or e-Residency and e-Government in Estonia.
Pactum is an AI-based system that helps global companies to automatically offer personalized, commercial negotiations on a massive scale. The system adds value and saves time for both the Pactum client and their negotiation partner by aligning their values to determine win-win agreements via an easy-to-use chat interface that implements best-practice negotiation strategies. The company is based in Mountain View with engineering and operations in Estonia. Pactum is backed by founders of Skype and TransferWise and built by luminaries from Skype, Starship Technologies and the Government of Estonia’s e-Residency program.
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Jul 1, 2022
Live at Latitude59: Cloud talk with Klaus, Pipedrive and Comodule
Revolgy brings you an exclusive live session recorded at Estonian startup conference Latitude59. We invited technical leaders from Pipedrive, Klaus and Comodule to talk about cloud and money! When you build or scale a business everything seems more important than IT infrastructure and its cost. In this session, our customers will show you the opposite is the truth. They talked about the principles of cloud cost operations, f**k ups they survived, its adoption in companies, and modern FinOps leadership at scaling startups.
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Jun 22, 2022
Carge: Cloud simplifies charging electric vehicles wherever you go
Carge is the first e-Mobility Service Provider that helps EV drivers to seek, book, plug & pay at all charging stations throughout Europe - by using smart algorithms for grid balancing. Vlad Birsan and Dominik Hašek had a nice chat with founders Eleftherios Karabatsakis (CEO) and Peter Benos (CTO) about electromobility and its marketplace, cloud technology connection, and their amazing solution for charging pain points for all drivers across Europe.
Sorry about the sound quality, the internet connection was particularly bad that day.
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May 18, 2022
Roland Meertens: Will robots and self-driving cars dominate our future?
Roland Meertens is Machine Learning Engineer at Annotell, the company whose mission is to make safe perception possible. Their software platform and teams make it possible to get the right data to develop and validate autonomous cars' safe perception systems. As he says, he builds self-driving cars and makes robots, he can even make an IKEA table autonomous! What is the process to make a thing autonomous? What does he think about the nearest future of technology? And where does cloud computing stand in all this?
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May 6, 2022
Jan Špitálník: Whatever we do at Showmax, we do for customers
Jan works as a CTO at Showmax and DStv. Both are huge and very successful subscription video-on-demand services in sub-Saharan Africa under the MultiChoice brand. Fergus and Matej asked about the work style in engineering teams, about life in the company, and of course, they talked about cloud and technical challenges Showmax has. Which cloud provider do they use and why? What is the main difference between Europe and Africa in terms of technology? What about security challenges? Listen to what Jan has to say about it.
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Mar 31, 2022
Matúš Kocka: Cloud, DevOps and cycling at Rouvy
Matúš Kocka is a cycling enthusiast and Infrastructure Team Lead & Senior DevOps Engineer at ROUVY, a globally famous application that allows you to bring the cycling experience of Alpine climbs into your home. ROUVY, based in Vimperk (a little Czech town in mountains), offers unique software for indoor cycling that uses virtual reality to bring real cycling routes. Rouvy app runs on Google Cloud for a long time now and their infrastructure team is very experienced in the GCP environment. They can scale the infrastructure easily based on the demand of the market, optimize the cost, and use unlimited computing power to handle demanding tasks (processing large video files, data-intensive operations etc).
But how does the backend of Rouvy app works in terms of cloud infrastructure and the cycling industry? What are the biggest challenges?
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Feb 3, 2022
Arpad Kun: Multi-cloud and independent strategy at a full-featured mobile CI/CD
Arpad Kun, VP of Engineering and Infrastructure at Bitrise, talk about cloud strategy, company culture and new challenges in the world of mobile apps and DevOps. Bitrise is a full-featured mobile CI/CD in the cloud. They create an end-to-end platform for mobile development that automates core workflows, shortens release cycles and provides a better understanding of how new pieces of code will affect live apps before their release. Why do Bitrise use the multi-cloud strategy and how do they find balance? How do they manage and invest in fast-scaling teams around the world? Listen to what Arpad has to say about a mobile DevOps company with a cute cat.
As more of the world shifts to doing everything from their smartphones, the ability to build better iOS and Android apps has to move with it. Bitrise aims to be the go-to company closing the gap between that mobile demand and a company’s ability to get apps out faster while also balancing all of the moving parts and complexities.
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Dec 14, 2021
Miinto: Public cloud is like a brilliant playground with better toys
Piotr Marczyszyn (Director of Engineering) & Marek Brach (CTO) work at Miinto Group - one of Europe’s largest e-commerce fashion platforms with more than 5000 brands and a presence in 13 different markets. We talked about leadership, remote work and the IT stack they have at Miinto Group. How do they deal with the complexity of the technical environment in a huge company with teams in many countries? How do they support company culture and employees? Is the public cloud a solution for everything in e-commerce? Listen to what Piotr and Marek have to say about it.
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Nov 19, 2021
Stanislav Komanec: Working at Kiwi isn't just a job, it's a lifestyle
Stanislav "Stano" Komanec, VP of Engineering at Kiwi.com, created and currently manages the Platform team in the hyper-growing travel platform. Stano describes cloud technology challenges they face in Kiwi, why they use cloud and how exactly. What "comes" next in terms of using the cloud? How do Kiwi manage an enormous data stream? Why do they want to go global with cloud infrastructure? Listen to what Stano thinks about cloud in the travel industry.
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Nov 8, 2021
Twisto: Millions of payment transactions and cloud technology
Lukáš Hurych (Chief Portfolio Officer) and Viktor Stískala (CTO) from ‘buy-now-pay-later’ platform Twisto talk about FinTech industry, cloud technology, product and people challenges in the fast-growing startup. How do they handle cloud infrastructure? Is it possible to stay "punk", keep an agile mindset, handle millions of payment transactions and successfully grow? Listen to what Lukáš and Viktor have to say about work-life balance, leadership, and a new era with Australian fintech company Zip, which acquired Twisto in March 2021.
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Oct 20, 2021
Mitja Kravos: Create a world we want to live in
Mitja Kravos, CTO at Login5 Foundation (and ex-GM at Outfit7) describes how to build a data-driven framework of sustainable and ecological farming on a big scale. Mitja talks about his experience in the gaming company Outfit7 famous for its Talking Tom Cat and about its fascinating connection with Login5 Foundation focused on eco topics and planet Earth. He talks about how important are data for farmers, for the future of our planet and how is his team leveraging available data on the public cloud. Listen to what Mitja thinks about sustainability in technology and much more.
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Oct 7, 2021
Denis Širokii: We want to make human conversation effective and meaningful
Denis Širokii, Founder and Managing Director at Apifonica, talks about his experience in entrepreneurship and the mission of the company, which provide tailored voice and messaging solutions for communication between a business and its customers. Vlad Birsan and Kristjan Jõgiste ask Denis, how they use the public cloud, what are his experiences with cloud solutions and what is Dzinga. Listen to what Denis thinks about communication services, Apifonica's future infrastructure projects and much more.
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Sep 23, 2021
Alen Krmelj: The cloud technology inside the crypto world
Fergus O'Callaghan had the honour of interviewing Alen Krmelj, who works for Bitstamp as their Infrastructure team lead. Bitstamp is the oldest digital asset exchange and facilitates trading between fiat currency, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
They talked about the future of digital assets, decentralised finance, DevOps culture and of course cloud technologies and the importance it has played in helping Bitstamp scale securely. Listen to what Alen thinks about crypto winters, who he thinks might be the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitstamp’s future infrastructure projects and much much more.
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Jul 23, 2021
MADFINGER Games: Killing zombies as a challenge for Back-End and Analytics
Petr Matoušek (Cloud Back-End Developer) and Pavel Fryblík (Lead Data Analyst) from indie gaming studio MADFINGER Games talk about back-end and analytics in the world of mobile gaming and cloud. Erik Ferencz (Cloud developer and Full Stack Engineer) asks about how they work with analytics and users data, and how they handle their huge infrastructure.
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Jul 20, 2021
Jiří Maňas: Is the future of IT in serverless, no-code or in orbit data centre?
Jiri Manas is an innovative IT guy, disruptive and inspirational team leader, longevity enthusiast, CTO at Tesco CE and ex-CIO in Home Credit Vietnam. He speaks about disrupt leadership in IT, discovering the potential of a human body with technology, possibilities of blockchain, and about the best way how to implement new technologies and tools in big corporations.
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May 14, 2021
Ravi Ramos: Connecting dots of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and the gaming industry
Ravi Ramos (gaming SW engineer in Ubisoft, expert in ML/AI and Bioinformatics) speaks about trends, possibilities and limits of AI/ML and data science with Erik Ferencz (Google Cloud Developer, full-stack engineer, Revolgy). Ravi shares his impressive professional experience in the gaming industry, cloud technology, science and the way from Brazil to Brno, Czechia. Ravi is a real expert in ML/AI, so enjoy technical deep dive!
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Apr 22, 2021
Anthony Rouillot: Why is necessary to think about code in a holistic way?
Anthony Rouillot, CTO at Adcash, talks about moving to Estonia, DevOps culture, legacy systems, and why is necessary to think about code, apps and company culture in a holistic way. Listen to what he thinks about the cloud, innovation and challenges in his team, and many more.
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Feb 24, 2021
Marek Šottl: What hacking and cloud security have in common?
What hacking and cloud security have in common? Marek Šottl, hackitect (and ethical hacker) contemplate about security of the public cloud, shared responsibility model, hacking games and much more with Erik Ferencz, Google Cloud Developer and full stack engineer. Technical deep dive included!
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Jan 22, 2021
Pixel Federation: Gaming and the Cloud. How to make it work and don't waste time and money?
This is a special episode about gaming for all technical folks! Erik Ferencz - Backend Developer and Cloud Team Lead for a gaming studio talks to Pixel Federation, a social game developer and publishing company that primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. Listen and find out how difficult is to run games in the cloud and how to make it work.
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Nov 9, 2020
Joonathan Mägi: From front-end team at Skype to CTO role at Klaus
Joonathan Mägi, CTO of Klaus talks about his former career at Skype, current position at Klaus, love for cloud-native technologies and relationship with cats.
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Oct 2, 2020
Petr Baudiš: Will AI steal our jobs or help us do them better?
Cloud Do You Do, Petr? Special guest Petr Baudiš from a czech startup Rossum.ai talks about the next “evolution phase” of AI, customer centric approach, sustainability and his love for a Go game. Listen to what does an expert with a PhD. in AI has to say.
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Sep 10, 2020
Nordeus: Mobile gaming on on-premises servers or cloud based?
Srdjan Dutina and Strahinja Kustudić from Serbian company Nordeus talk about the backend challenges of the mobile gaming business and what kind of technologies they use to resolve them.
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Jul 30, 2020
Michal Simon: Serverless and other "buzzwords". Are they a blessing or a curse?
Cloud Do You Do Michal Simon? In this epizode we were talking about Michal's fascinating journey to Silicon Valley right after his studies and about his startup Codeac.io. What does he think about cloud-native, serverless and other "buzzwords"? Are they a blessing or a curse?
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Jun 29, 2020
Cloud Do You Do, Agur Jõgi? Public Cloud in Fin-tech Industry
Is it ok for a fin-tech business to run their IT infrastructure on the public cloud? Agur Jõgi (askRobin, Deloitte) talks about his experience from the corporate and startup environment.
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