134: Ephemeral Environments with Benjie De Groot

134: Ephemeral Environments with Benjie De Groot Download How do you test changes to your web backend or database?  Many people have a "production" and one "development" database, but the development database can easily become broken by one engineer and thus unusable for the rest of the team.  Also, how would two engineers make changes in parallel to the development environment?  What if you could spin up hundreds or thousands of development databases as you need them? Today we have Benjie De Groot, Co-Founder and CEO of Shipyard to explain ephemeral environments and how virtual machines and containers have made massive improvements in devops!   00:00:15 Introduction 00:00:24 Introducing Benjie De Groot 00:01:26 Benjie’s Programming Background 00:06:34 How Shipyard started 00:09:17 Working in Startups vs. Tech Giants 00:19:28 The difference between Virtual Machines and Containers 00:26:17 Local Development Environment 00:40:27 What is a DevOps engineer and what does it entail? 00:45:42 Zencastr 00:50:12 Shipyard as a company 00:55:29 How Shipyard gets clients 01:06:48 Farewells           Resources mentioned in this episode:   Benjie De Groot, Co-Founder & CEO at Shipyard:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bueller/Podcast: https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-kubelist-podcast/ Shipyard:Website: https://shipyard.build/Careers: https://shipyard.build/careers/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shipyardbuild/Twitter: https://twitter.com/shipyardbuildCommunity Website: https://ephemeralenvironments.io/GitHub: https://github.com/shipyard Heavybit:Website: https://www.heavybit.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heavybit/Twitter: https://twitter.com/heavybit                     If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/   Reach out to us via email: programmingthrowdown@gmail.com   You can also follow Programming Throwdown on  Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM    Join the discussion on our Discord Help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★