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Notes Don is headed to Gainesville for the Gator 100 ceremonies where both of his firms are being recognized as top 100 firms for growth by University of Florida alumni Randy worked as a substitute teacher for the Northwestern Coding Bootcamp full-time program for two days AspirEDU went straight to Heroku for their hosting Randy started with a desktop computer that sat in the middle of the room, to a closet rack system, to outsourced co-location Some of the biggest negatives of cloud vs in-house is cost or lack of control/flexibility When Amazon Web Services East goes down, everyone seems to be going down at the same time, but you can let AWS techs take care of it Nobody seems to talk about the dev ops people required to run a system if you switch away from a managed provider Everytime you need to go directly to AWS, there's a significant time investment to get things launched The less work our team handled on-site or on-team always had benefits from an efficiency standpoint Thanks to Jeremy Lasich for his contribution to our Patreon campaign to produce transcripts for each episode. Links Gator 100 recognizes the 100 fastest-growing Gator-led businesses in the world Northwestern Coding Bootcamp Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Microsoft Azure Heroku - Managed hosting on AWS Now – Realtime Global Deployments Linode - Linux azure.server hosting Netlify - app hosting Wes Bos - tutorial producer Don recommends a list called the Inc 5000 Inc 5000 Apply Guide Randy recommends Stephen Grider, an excellent tech tutorial producer Patreon: CTO Think Podcast is creating Episode Transcripts for Accessiblity ClosingThanks for listening to the CTO Think Podcast.Shownotes and previous episodes can be found on our website at www.ctothink.comReviews on Apple iTunes are always appreciated and help promote the show.Patreon contributions help us to produce transcripts, which allow people that are deaf or hard-of-hearing to access the show.For questions, comments, or things you'd like to hear on future shows, please email us at hello@ctothink.comShow music is Dumpster Dive by Marc Walloch, licensed by PremiumBeat.comVoiceover work by MeganVoices.comYou'll hear from us next week!