Ep 03 — Bob Builder on small-scale infrastructure

Ep 03 — Bob Builder on small-scale infrastructure

How Bob runs the platform for ~50 small businesses out of a single rack in his garage, and why he thinks that's actually the right answer for most people.

· PT35M12S · with Bob Builder

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Show notes

Bob has been on a one-man crusade against “you must use the cloud” for about a decade. This episode is the case for the opposite: a single rack of bare metal in a garage, well-monitored, serving real customers, for years.

We get into:

  • What “good enough” reliability actually means
  • The economics of bare metal at small scale
  • What Bob would change if he started over

#infrastructure · #small-business