Building Reliable Open-Source Social Media with Jake Gold

Screaming in the Cloud

English - June 27, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 87 ratings
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Jake Gold, Infrastructure Engineer at Bluesky, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss his experience helping to build Bluesky and why he’s so excited about it. Jake and Corey discuss the major differences when building a truly open-source social media platform, and Jake highlights his focus on reliability. Jake explains why he feels downtime can actually be a huge benefit to reliability engineers, and why how he views abstractions based on the size of the team he’s working on. Corey and Jake also discuss whether cloud is truly living up to its original promise of lowered costs.

About Jake

Jake Gold leads infrastructure at Bluesky, where the team is developing and deploying the decentralized social media protocol, ATP. Jake has previously managed infrastructure at companies such as Docker and Flipboard, and most recently, he was the founding leader of the Robot Reliability Team at Nuro, an autonomous delivery vehicle company.

Links Referenced:

Bluesky: https://blueskyweb.xyz/Bluesky waitlist signup: https://bsky.app