What launching rockets taught this CTO about hardware observability

Austin Spiegel, CTO and co-founder of Sift, tells Ben and Ryan about his journey from studying film to working at SpaceX to founding Sift. Austin shares his perspective on software development in high-stakes environments, the challenges of hardware observability, and why paranoia is valuable in safety-critical engineering. Bonus story: Austin invited Elon Musk to speak at his student club…and he came! https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/10/14/what-launching-rockets-taught-this-cto-about-hardware-observability/

Created 5mo | Oct 15, 2024, 9:10:03 AM


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