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title: "The Blast Radius Nightmare: Real-Time Predictive Change Intelligence"
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# The Blast Radius Nightmare: Real-Time Predictive Change Intelligence

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders — S12 E1: The Blast Radius Nightmare: Shifting from Blind Static Terraform Plans to Real-Time Predictive Change Intelligence with Dylan Ratcliffe, Founder & CEO of Overmind Listen to Episode S12 E1: The Blast Radius Nightmare: Shifting from Blind Static Terraform Plans to Real-Time Predictive Change Intelligence with Dylan Ratcliffe, Founder & CEO of Overmind Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders 0:00 32:55 1× Dylan Ratcliffe lives in San Francisco (for less than a year), but grew up on a farm in the bush in Australia, riding motorbikes and playing video games. He fondly remembers the days whenever you could get a free version of Age of Empires from a cereal box. He was always into computers, and earned a scholarship to head into Melbourne for University. He left his first job as an auditor with KPMG to join a startup called Puppet. Outside of tech, he still rides motorbikes, and has a super small one now (it's actually meant for kids). He loves all food, but prefers Asian and Indian cuisine. Dylan was deploying Puppet at a financial services company, and was pushing to get a win. When a late Friday afternoon deployment went haywire, he decided to leave his company and set out to build something to automatically discover dependencies on a network, to prevent deployment outages. This is the creation story of Overmind . Sponsors Unblocked (https://getunblocked.com/codestory) TECH Domains (https://get.tech/codestory) Mezmo (https://mezmo.com/codestory) Braingrid.ai (https://braingrid.link/code-story) Alcor (https://alcor.com/podcast) Equitybee (http://codestory.co/equitybee) Terms and conditions: Equitybee executes private financing contracts (PFCs) allowing investors a certain claim to ESO upon liquidation event; Could limit your profits. Funding in not guaranteed. PFCs brokered by EquityBee Securities, member FINRA. Links https://overmind.tech/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylanratcliffe/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://cash.app * Check out Plaud AI and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://plaud.ai Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Latest Season of the Podcast is Sponsored By