{"id":10637,"date":"2020-06-01T16:37:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T11:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/?p=10637"},"modified":"2020-06-02T18:58:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T13:28:51","slug":"shikhils-take-on-building-vs-buying-tools-digital-ocean-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/talks\/shikhils-take-on-building-vs-buying-tools-digital-ocean-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Shikhil&#8217;s Take on Building Vs Buying Tools | Digital Ocean TIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Digital Ocean is a growing community of 60,000+ developers from all over the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with providing a cosmopolitan platform for developers to come together and share their knowledge, learning, and resource on Cloud computing, DevOps, and a range of other topics, Digital Ocean also maintains a vast repository of Dev tutorials, Product documentation, and QnAs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shikhil Sharma, Founder &amp; CEO, Astra Security Suite, was invited to the DO TIDE event as a speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked to share his take on whether to \u201cBuild or Buy\u201d (software) when running a startup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shikhil says, \u201cCore of the solution is (sic) in-house, with a lot of dependency on open-source.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also shares how as a Founder he shifted from obsessing over building everything in house to what he calls a \u201ccard-swiping company.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A \u201ccard-swiping company\u201d? What is that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch this video and know for yourself \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Astra Security&#039;s founder talks about security at Digital Ocean event\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4oFMdPajTSU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Ocean is a growing community of 60,000+ developers from all over the world.&nbsp; Along with providing a cosmopolitan platform for developers to come together and share their knowledge, learning, and resource on Cloud computing, DevOps, and a range of other topics, Digital Ocean also maintains a vast repository of Dev tutorials, Product documentation, and &#8230; <a title=\"Shikhil&#8217;s Take on Building Vs Buying Tools | Digital Ocean TIDE\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/talks\/shikhils-take-on-building-vs-buying-tools-digital-ocean-tide\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Shikhil&#8217;s Take on Building Vs Buying Tools | Digital Ocean TIDE\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":10655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[596],"tags":[598,599,600,597],"class_list":["post-10637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-talks","tag-digital-ocean","tag-digital-ocean-tide","tag-dveops","tag-entreprenuership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10657,"href":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions\/10657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getastra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}