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The Golden Toilet Rule: Don’t Ignore Your Cloud Infrastructure

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Your product can look great and still be sitting on terrible plumbing.

Dan Griffith sits down with Tom Sas, a cloud infrastructure architect with more than 20 years of experience, to explain what he calls the Golden Toilet Rule and why founders should stop treating cloud infrastructure as something that simply “runs in the background.”

Tom breaks down a common trap: software developers build the product, keep the infrastructure working, and everything seems fine.

Until the company starts scaling.

Then costs rise, security gaps appear, systems become harder to manage, and…

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