Episode Details

In this conversation, Jeremy Snyder, the founder and CEO of FireTail.io, an end-to-end API security startup, shares his professional journey and perspectives. Specifically, 

• How he got into IT in the late 90s, when technology was coming into businesses
• Early experience in Linux, VAX and Unix and implementing solutions for a translation agency
• Being responsible to evaluate, implement and integrate with various systems and thereby increasing the empathy for users and their situations
• Moving to work with one of the solution providers and taking up tech support roles and trying his hand at software development
• Getting into and liking the infrastructure related roles
• His experience, as an IT infrastructure professional, of working with software developers
• The ‘healthy’ struggle between the two roles and how IT teams would specify the environments to develop and deploy into
• IT teams wanting to conserve resources and giving very limited capacities for developers
• Days when 98% availability was taken as acceptable and when crashes occurred, devs and IT teams would work overtime to find fault with the other team
• Starting with Amazon AWS in 2010 when cloud computing was just evolving
• Understanding the power of virtualized environments and why that needs a different way of thinking about data centers, getting away from the server-hugger mentality
• The need for users to develop trust in the cloud model of working
• The experience with gaining customer confidence in the cloud model in terms of stability, security etc
• The harder aspect of addressing cultural issues triggered by fear of losing jobs by IT personnel
• Taking up other roles in smaller companies and understanding the security and vulnerability risks that companies could get exposed to
• Perimeter controls, endpoint protection, logging and monitoring etc
• From replicating data center structures to auto scaling infrastructure using containers and serverless architectures
• These resulting in more and more API based architectures

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