Simplifying Developers’ Lives with Ivar Østhus

Data in the Wild

Today, we’re joined by Ivar Østhus, CTO and co-founder of Unleash. He talks to us about the inspiration behind Unleash, why they have two different APIs in their platform, and more.

• Unleash
• Check out Unleash on GitHub
• Follow Ivar on Twitter
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Chapters

• (00:33) - What is Unleash?
• (01:05) - Tall tale about the inspiration behind Unleash
• (02:37) - How Ivar learned about continuous delivery
• (10:04) - The two APIs in Unleash
• (16:33) - Backward compatibility and deprecation strategy
• (22:51) - Users, permissions, and roles
• (31:25) - How Unleash gets enterprise customers
• (39:29) - Ivar’s data model tip

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About the Hosts

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Around the same time, Captain Ola bought a Macintosh SE for his high school with the proceeds from the school newspaper he started.

These days, you’ll find them building web apps live on stream and doing developer marketing work for clients. They are both passionate about the web as a platform and the joy of creating your own thing.

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