

Why video conferencing is so tiring and what you can do about itĬhanging our focus towards this new thing called Standby.

What’s the biggest IT challenge you’re currently facing? Beyond that? Not so much – we have very few third-party dependencies in our system. The actual hardware we buy from Dell – they've been a close technology partner to us for really the history of StarLeaf. Do you have any preferred technology vendors that you especially invest in? PostgreSQL is a really common database technology and it's just rock solid. If I had to call out one, the one I'd pick would be the database technology. Which piece of technology would you say is most critical to achieving this? So, somehow, it's just always more features. I feel like for us in engineering, it's about delivering the right product features on time, while keeping the platform stable and without impacting current customers.

I work quite closely with our product team and they always want another feature – if there's another feature that we can sell, it'd be great for customers. What’s your biggest priority within the business? We're actually buying Dell blade servers and getting them installed into colocation facilities around the world, writing all the code that runs on them ourselves. We run our own private cloud, so we're not based on Amazon or Azure, or similar. What does your core infrastructure currently look like? We caught up with Jansen to find out more about the technology StarLeaf relies on. Starleaf didn’t stop there, though, launching the enterprise communications failover service Standby in October 2021, which businesses rely on to manage disruptive events, like outages.
