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Anthony Eden - Making Business Look Simple

In this episode we’re excited to be talking with Anthony Eden , founder & CEO of DNSimple . For those who haven’t come across it yet, DNSimple is a service that makes managing domains and DNS simple and developer-friendly. Like DNS, DNSimple has been around many years. I first met Anthony years back at Less Conference in Atlanta, around the time DNSimple…

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  1. How Did Anthony Eden Become an Early Dot Com Seller? at 4:55

    Anthony Eden passed the technical accreditation test to become a domain registrar in seven days in 1999, during deregulation of the dot com namespace, and… Full answer

  2. How Did Rewriting an Encrypted Job Application in Two Weeks in January 2004 Start Years of Work on .mp? at 10:44

    On IndieRails, Anthony Eden says the story that got Anthony Eden into .mp began on New Year's Day in January 2004, when somebody in Hawaii reached out. Full answer

  3. How Did Postgres Copies Cut Australia's Hour-long Reload? at 31:14

    On IndieRails, a name server in Australia could take almost an hour to reload because it connected to the core database and pulled all the zone data, while… Full answer

  4. What Hot Mess Pushed Anthony Eden Into Long-haul Domains? at 33:06

    Anthony Eden says a domain name system business only runs at any sort of scale when the operator stays willing to continue evolving over time. Full answer

  5. How Did Anthony Eden Make Blameless Incident Reviews Routine? at 37:44

    Post-incident reviews were institutionalized so every incident follows one set process. Even internal incidents still get a post-incident review. Full answer

  6. How Did Building a Knowledge Base Refocus DNSimple? at 1:02:12

    On IndieRails, DNSimple made a conscious decision to do a set of things and do them well. Full answer

  7. Why Does Anthony Eden Leave Space Open for New Ideas? at 1:05:02

    Anthony Eden says optionality means you prepare and you open up so you are ready. If you do too much to fill all of your time, you have no optionality. Full answer

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