Tolga Tarhan's guest appearances

Tolga Tarhan

Geeks Who Lead Podcast (formerly CTO Connection)

Cloud Unfiltered

Critical Mass Business Talk Show | Orange County‘s Longest-Running Business Talk Show | Hosted by Ric Franzi

Adam Miller

Brian Johnson

Clint Arthur

Chris Westfall

John Locke

Jonathan Keyser

David Meltzer

Anurag Gupta

Garrett Sutton

Jeff Rose

Kathy Fettke

Jeff Weiss

Dan Rust

Mike Flynn

Wayne Breitbarth

OwlTail

Tolga Tarhan has more than two decades of experience leading companies. He was an early pioneer of cloud native thinking, popularizing developer and automation-focused workflows and serverless application development.  In 2013, Tolga co-founded Sturdy.cloud, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, which popularized these concepts as one of the most innovative AWS partners. In 2017, Sturdy was acquired by Onica, where Tolga continued to lead the industry by pushing cloud native concepts into the Fortune 500 and building Onica into the largest cloud native AWS-focused professional and managed services company, worldwide.  In 2019, Onica was acquired by Rackspace Technology for $323 million and Tolga joined the Rackspace executive team as the Chief Technology Officer, where he helped Rackspace return to the public markets with an IPO.  Most recently, Tolga founded Kibsi (https://kibsi.com/), an end-to-end, low-code platform designed to build custom vision-enabled apps with ease, eliminating complexity, risk, and expense. In Q3 of 2021, Kibsi raised a $4m seed round led by NTTVC, and is expected to launch their platform in late 2022.  Tolga continues to show thought leadership in the field through his extensive speaking engagements at events, industry conferences, and educational groups. Tolga holds an M.B.A. from the Graziadio Business School at Pepperdine University. In this edition of Critical Mass Business Talk Show, Tolga Tarhan joins host Rich Franzi to share his entrepreneurial journey and insights as the founder &amp; CEO of Kibsi.  --  Critical Mass Business Talk Show is Orange County, CA's longest-running business talk show, focused on offering value and insight to middle-market business leaders in the OC and beyond. Hosted by Ric Franzi, business partner at Renaissance Executive Forums Orange County. Learn more about Ric at www.ricfranzi.com.  Catch up on past Critical Mass Business Talk Show interviews...  YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gHKT2gmF LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/g2PzRhjQ Podbean: https://lnkd.in/eWpNVRi Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gRd_863w Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gruexU6m #orangecountyca #mastermind #ceopeergroups #peergroups #peerlearning #collectiveintelligence #southerncalifornia #criticalmassbusinesstalkshow #kibsi

Tolga Tarhan has more than two decades of experience leading companies. He was an early pioneer of cloud native thinking, popularizing developer and automation-focused workflows and serverless application development. In 2013, Tolga co-founded Sturdy.cloud, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, which popularized these concepts as one of the most innovative AWS partners. In 2017, Sturdy was acquired by Onica, where Tolga continued to lead the industry by pushing cloud native concepts into the Fortune 500 and building Onica into the largest cloud native AWS-focused professional and managed services company, worldwide. In 2019, Onica was acquired by Rackspace Technology for $323 million and Tolga joined the Rackspace executive team as the Chief Technology Officer, where he helped Rackspace return to the public markets with an IPO. Most recently, Tolga founded Kibsi (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXJvQy04WXBVYWxxcWdRc3lOQzJ1dEVXOVRId3xBQ3Jtc0tuQTl3bUtRN0tzal9iSGgxcFVwYl9DX21PSVl4MG1iYm1yeDFUQVpVcFVpNU5Pa1NhR2NVaElGYnFIekZZcExSMkY4RTJ0ZFM2ZnlvYlpnYVB5T3lieXNVSTFKaEVjQV9kREozVHdyR1d4Qk9YQjM1UQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fkibsi.com%2F&amp;v=u43CDcvl65E" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://kibsi.com/</a>), an end-to-end, low-code platform designed to build custom vision-enabled apps with ease, eliminating complexity, risk, and expense. In Q3 of 2021, Kibsi raised a $4m seed round led by NTTVC, and is expected to launch their platform in late 2022. Tolga continues to show thought leadership in the field through his extensive speaking engagements at events, industry conferences, and educational groups. Tolga holds an M.B.A. from the Graziadio Business School at Pepperdine University. In this edition of Critical Mass Business Talk Show, Tolga Tarhan joins host Rich Franzi to share his entrepreneurial journey and insights as the founder &amp; CEO of Kibsi. -- Critical Mass Business Talk Show is Orange County, CA's longest-running business talk show, focused on offering value and insight to middle-market business leaders in the OC and beyond. Hosted by Ric Franzi, business partner at Renaissance Executive Forums Orange County. Learn more about Ric at <a href="http://www.ricfranzi.com." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.ricfranzi.com. </a> Catch up on past Critical Mass Business Talk Show interviews... 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Critical Mass Business Talk Show: Ric Franzi Interviews Tolga Tarhan, Founder & CEO of Kibsi (Episode 1357)

Ready for a juicy technical episode that doles out super-strategic advice at the same time? Excellent. Because in this half-hour Tolga explains what he meant when he said VMs are in fact becoming obsolete in a recent Forbes article. He and Pete also go deep into a discussion about whether or not "serverless first" is becoming a thing, and who serverless may not actually work for. We also talk about whether public cloud is cost effective, and what you might be doing wrong if it's not at your company; why you don't need to be worried about lock-in anymore, the right and wrong ways to move to the cloud, and the importance of embracing automation.  Whew! It's a great episode. Technical goodness stacked near the front half--strategic discussion takes place in the back half. Enjoy!

Ep107: Are VMs Becoming Obsolete? feat. Tolga Tarhan

Tolga Tarhan got his start single-handedly running all the technology in his high school. Fast forward to today in which his experience during the dot com bust and incremental steps at various development firms have led him to the belief that the cloud is the ultimate goal of any organization.On today’s episode of CTO Connection, Tolga shares wisdom and advice on how to find the right mechanisms for your business so you can gradually shift to a cloud native architecture. For Tolga, the key is not “lift and shift,” but making a gradual shift that will enable your company to innovate quickly.[01:26] - How Tolga became a technologist and engineering leader[04:01] - Specializing in AWS at Rackspace[05:55] - Getting started adopting the cloud[09:39] - Dealing with problems of scale[11:11] - Bringing professional software development to the serverless world[13:28] - Experimenting with Serverless Framework[20:45] - What are microservices?[22:41] - When to consider more than one service[26:58] - Talking to clients about resilience[28:34] - Observability requirements[29:40] - Becoming cloud nativeSpecial thanks to our global partner – Amazon Web Services(AWS). AWS offers a broad set of global cloud-based products to equip technology leaders to build better and more powerful solutions, reach out to aws-cto-program@amazon.com if you’re interested to learn more about their offerings.CTO Connection is where you can learn from the experiences of successful engineering leaders at fast-growth tech startups. Whether you want to learn more about hiring, motivating or managing an engineering team, if you're technical and manage engineers, the CTO Connection podcast is a great resource for learning from your peers!If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to CTO Connection in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show.Podcast episode production by Dante32.

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tolgatarhan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tolga Tarhan</a> got his start single-handedly running all the technology in his high school. Fast forward to today in which his experience during the dot com bust and incremental steps at various development firms have led him to the belief that the cloud is the ultimate goal of any organization.On today’s episode of CTO Connection, Tolga shares wisdom and advice on how to find the right mechanisms for your business so you can gradually shift to a cloud native architecture. For Tolga, the key is not “lift and shift,” but making a gradual shift that will enable your company to innovate quickly.<ul><li>[01:26] - How Tolga became a technologist and engineering leader</li><li>[04:01] - Specializing in AWS at Rackspace</li><li>[05:55] - Getting started adopting the cloud</li><li>[09:39] - Dealing with problems of scale</li><li>[11:11] - Bringing professional software development to the serverless world</li><li>[13:28] - Experimenting with Serverless Framework</li><li>[20:45] - What are microservices?</li><li>[22:41] - When to consider more than one service</li><li>[26:58] - Talking to clients about resilience</li><li>[28:34] - Observability requirements</li><li>[29:40] - Becoming cloud native</li></ul>Special thanks to our global partner – Amazon Web Services(AWS). AWS offers a broad set of global cloud-based products to equip technology leaders to build better and more powerful solutions, reach out to <a href="mailto:aws-cto-program@amazon.com">aws-cto-program@amazon.com</a> if you’re interested to learn more about their offerings.<a href="https://www.ctoconnection.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CTO Connection</a> is where you can learn from the experiences of successful engineering leaders at fast-growth tech startups. Whether you want to learn more about hiring, motivating or managing an engineering team, if you're technical and manage engineers, the CTO Connection podcast is a great resource for learning from your peers!If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to CTO Connection in <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cto-connection/id1104346760?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2N0b2Nvbm5lY3Rpb24%3D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3GKpjcEH3ydikWnDDDBpLv?si=vm0dges2QiKoLehoFAR24g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a> or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cto-connection/id1104346760?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>. It really helps others find the show.<a href="https://www.dante32.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podcast episode production by Dante32.</a>

Moving to a Cloud Native Architecture with Tolga Tarhan