Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S10 E18: Cory O’Daniel, Massdriver

Cory O'Daniel has had an interesting path to technology, growing his career in a number of cloud architect roles at Ripple, DealScience and The RealReal. He has rich experience in DevOps, the cloud and platform engineering. But outside of tech, he is married with 2 kids, living in Southern California. He loves driving (and destroying) RC cars - like the ones that go 65-70 miles per hour. He jumps them off a lot of ramps, his highest jump behind 20 feet upwards... which of course, he landed.

Cory noticed that there is a huge knowledge gap regarding the cloud, especially during his time doing professional services. He would leave a project post completion, and see a major gap in how the client understood what was built. He and his co-founders had the idea to build a product to allow platform engineers to diagram their infra - and fuel developers engineering process.

This is the creation story of Massdriver.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 2.4.25

Alabama

  • Federal judge refuses to block a scheduled execution here in AL
  • Sen. Britt talks about recent helicopter/plane collision over DC airport
  • US attorney says 10 illegal aliens arrested in AL in past 3 months
  • Senior pastor of Church of the Highlands to retire after 24 years
  • Home sales in AL for 2024 saw an 18% drop compared to 2023
  • Children's of AL hospital starts is online Valentine card to patients program

National

  • Mexico and Canada to comply with Trump over border & drugs in order to avoid 25% tariff on goods sold in US
  • The USAID exposed for its waste and corruption involving US taxpayer dime
  • The FCC should have CBS interview transcript in hand as the agency investigates possible editing of Kamala Harris response
  • TX governor authorizes National Guardsmen to make immigration arrests
  • Big business to flee Delaware after activist judge rules against Elon Musk

Honestly with Bari Weiss - Simon Sebag Montefiore: History Is Not Over

Did you know that Joseph Stalin could sing with perfect pitch? Or that he was so scared of his wife that he would hide from her in the bathroom? Did you know that Peter the Great liked to surround himself with naked dwarfs? Did you know that Catherine the Great—long smeared as a nymphomaniac—was actually a lovelorn monogamist? Or that King Herod’s genitals once exploded with maggots?


Most historians bore you with dry accounts of battles and treaties, and it’s hard to remember any of it. But not Simon Sebag Montefiore, who writes 900 pages that you cannot put down.


Sebag is one of the most important historians alive today. His many books, like Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great & Potemkin are essential to understanding power, politics, revolution, dictatorships, and above all, human nature.


While most of Sebag’s books are biographies of people, Jerusalem is a biography of a city—a city, as he writes, that is “the house of the one God, the capital of two peoples, the temple of three religions, and the only city to exist twice in heaven and on earth.” The book takes you through Jerusalem’s 3,000-year history, from King David to Bibi Netanyahu. It is a must-read. It has sold more than a million copies, and it has just been reissued in paperback.


With the ceasefire deal underway in Israel and with Trump a few weeks into his second presidency, we could not think of a better person to talk to than Simon about this moment and how to understand it. 


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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Battle of Stalingrad

From August 1942 to February 1943, the Germans and the Soviets engaged in what would become the most brutal and bloodiest battle in human history.

The battle took place in a city that probably had greater psychological and propaganda value than it did actual strategic value.

The battle, in many respects, was the high water mark of Nazi Germany and the turning point of the enter war in Europe.

Learn more about the Battle of Stalingrad and how it changed the entire course of the Second World War on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Ann Schmiesing, “The Brothers Grimm: A Biography” (Yale UP, 2024)

Ann Schmiesing, Ph.D. is Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, with research interests spanning 18th and 19th-century German and Norwegian literature and culture. In our interview we discuss her new book, The Brothers Grimm: A Biography (Yale UP, 2024), their first biography in over half a century. We talk about what led her to Germanic studies and fairy tales in particular. We discuss the revelations in her book dealing with their lives and work, their antisemitism as reflected in their correspondence and the stories they published and its long-ranging consequences. We talk about some of her favorite fairy tales and what makes them special.

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What A Day - Trump’s Tariff Showdown

As of Monday evening, President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on Canada and Mexico are on hold for at least 30 days. But that could all change as the Trump administration continues to negotiate with U.S. allies. Scott Lincicome, Vice President of General Economics and Trade Policy at the Cato Institute, tells us what a trade war is and how it affects all of us.

And in headlines: Democrats put out a 10-part plan to “push back against the far-right extremism,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he’s the acting director of USAID, and President Trump signed an executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund.

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The NewsWorthy - Tariff Truce, Transplant Milestone & New TikTok Plan- Tuesday, February 4, 2025

The news to know for Tuesday, February 4, 2025!

We'll explain why President Trump paused tariffs against America's top trade partners. 

And there is new pushback over his plan to close one government agency.

Also, where are people seeing more than a month's worth of rain in just a couple of days?

Plus, a new government investment fund could end up saving TikTok; OpenAI is figuring out how to be persuasive, and the NBA is making big moves. We're talking about what's being considered the most shocking trade of all time. 

Those stories and even more news to know in about 10 minutes! 

 

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Pod Save America - Elon Musk’s Nerd Coup

With Donald Trump's blessing, Elon Musk and a small crew of inexperienced software engineers take near full control of the government, moving to shut down USAID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and taking control of a critical payment system at the Treasury Department. Trump delays his trade war with Canada and Mexico by a month after securing minor concessions that were probably already in the works. Meanwhile, congressional Democrats begin to push back harder—though whether it'll be enough is still an open question. Jon, Lovett, and Tommy break down all the latest, and Lovett speaks with former Obama and Biden economic adviser Brian Deese about just how bad things could get if a real trade war kicks off over the next four years.

 

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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #464 – “Boasting Through It”

In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys are, once again, hangin' out all by their lonesome at Disgraceland Studios. We start this one off by talking about weird ass ice cream flavors. Then we chug a DELICIOUS energy drink that our friend Chica Marx picked up for us in Texas. We check out a manifesto that Rivers and Sam were given by a guy on the street while streaming live on Hollywood Blvd. Rivers puts the renegade dentist "Painless Parker" in the Goods from the Woods Hall of Fame and we've got a JAM OF THE WEEK from Uncle Kracker! Give us a listen, y'all.  Follow the show on all the socials @TheGoodsPod   Rivers is @RiversLangley  Sam is @SlamHarter  Carter is @Carter_Glascock  Subscribe on Patreon for the UNCUT video version of this episode as well as TONS of bonus content!  http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod   Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt here:  http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod

The Best One Yet - 🥞 “Maple Syrup Mayhem” — Trade War’s wild 24 hours. Robinhood’s Super Bowl bet. Levi’s Baggy Secret.

The first 24 hours of Trade War II were wild… We’re breaking down the surprise tariff deals with Mexico and Canada.

Robinhood is the top stock since Election Day... and now you can bet on the Super Bowl.

How did Levi identify the baggy daddy jeans trend before anyone?... A secret deal with Google.


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