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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Digital Ocean Platform with Cody Baker and Apurva Joshi
Description: Cloud platforms are often categorized as providing either Infrastructure-as-a-Service or Platform-as-a-Service. On one side of the spectrum are IaaS giants such as AWS, which provide a broad range of services for building infrastructure. On the other are PaaS providers such as Heroku and Netlify which abstract away the lower-level choices and focus on developer experience. Digital Ocean has carved out a sizable niche in the cloud hosting space by targeting the middle ground- a streamlined cloud platform built for developers, which still offers the ability to choose, customize, and manage infrastructure. The release of Digital Ocean’s App...