SaaS for Developers

My Job is to Predict the Future


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Sam Ramji is an odd duck. He is full of curiosity, insights and ideas. He is also is the Chief Strategy Officer of Datastax. 

In the most wide-ranging conversation I've ever recorded, we discussed the most interesting ideas in computing. From the 1980s - all the way to 2032.   Along the way you'll learn how to craft a career as an odd duck with talent for strategy, how to transform an organization, how to create a strategy, and you'll hear 3 future predictions and 3 big data trends that are happening right now.  


Related links:
- The data architecture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovWiOD6AG78
- Sam's Podcast: https://www.datastax.com/resources/podcast/open-source-data
- Hacking SaaS, the latest and greatest of everything developers need to know when building SaaS: https://hackingsaas.substack.com/
- SaaS Community Slack, join the conversation! https://launchpass.com/all-about-saas

00:00 - Intro: Ducks and curiosity 

2:43 - Brief history of computing 

6:00 - Career as an odd duck 

8:00 - Product Management 

12:20 - Microsoft, you have a SaaS problem 

20:00 - Clouds, APIs and scale 

28:45 - How do we think together 

29:53 - APIs are eating the world 

33:00 - Advice for engineers in a transforming company 

43:40 - The Developer Experience Architect 

45:00 - How to Strategy 

56:10 - 3 Futuristic Predictions  

01:02:47 - 3 Trends in Data 

1:14:37 - D&D 5th Edition

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