Sriram Panyam on SaaS Control Planes

In episode 636 of “Software Engineering Radio,” Sriram Panyam, CTO at DagKnows, discusses SaaS control planes with host Brijesh Ammanath (https://se-radio.net/team/brijesh-ammanath/). The discussion starts off with the basics, examining what control planes are and why they’re important. Sriram then discusses the reasons for building a control plane and the challenges in designing one. The episode further explores the key architectural decisions when building a SaaS control plane and the key differences between the data plane and the control plane. We provide summary excerpts next; to hear the full interview, visit http://www.se-radio.net or access our archives via RSS at http://feeds.feedburner.com/se-radio.—Robert Blumen and Karthik Vaidhyanathan