S7 Bonus: Björn Kolbeck, Quobyte

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

When asked about his life outside of tech, Björn Kolbeck stated "Is there anything outside of tech?". He has made his hobby into his job, being exposed to his first computer at 11 and dreaming of being a programer. Outside of tech, he is a father of 2 kids. He loves going to the gym and traveling, which he mentioned was a luxury at his current venture. For personal travel, he loved visiting Costa Rica, as the people are friendly, the country is beautiful - and it's safe. Björn started a PhD program, and was part of a large project with the goal to build a distributed version of Linux. Within this program, he met his now co-founder, and they were responsible for a package within that project, surrounding data management. Little did they know that their exciting part of the project would later turn into a separate distributed file system. This is the creation story of Quobyte. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	The scale is like security and reliability. If you don't build it in from the start, if you
0:06.3	don't develop your algorithms and concepts with scale and resiliency in mind, you can't add
0:12.3	it later on. And it's also one of the things that is the hardest to describe when people
0:16.2	ask me, so what's the secret sauce? The secret sauce is not necessarily one thing.
0:22.6	It's a hundred decisions and ways in how we designed the architecture
0:27.6	and the algorithms to be scalable that makes difference, that allowed us to scale.
0:32.6	If this had happened with the development of the MVP, I think we would still be in the lab.
0:39.1	I'm Björn Kovic. I'm a co-founder and CEO of Quabite.
0:46.6	This is Code Story. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.7	There's nothing at the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	It took many goes to get right.
1:02.2	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.1	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure is up the aid.
1:12.9	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
1:14.6	Total waste of time.
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