OpenGov with Andrew Clark

Podcast Thursday, January 28 2016

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“By the time I joined, people were already starting to have this microservice fatigue.”

Software is changing every domain including Marketing, Healthcare, and even Agriculture. Government is one specific area where the potential for improvement is obvious. Governments are often defined by abstract rules, transactions, permissions and hierarchies, grounded on some fundamental principles – this is striking similar to the same tenets that software and computer science are based on. In that sense, could software be leveraged in this unique industry to create massive change?

OpenGov is one company trying to find out through application of software in local city and state governments. The company currently offers a web-based financial visualization software that focuses on making government budget and financial data accessible by modeling and presenting it in a user-friendly way. But it is not farfetched to see the potential being greater and broader in scope. In this episode, Jeff discussed with Andrew how OpenGov is using technology to improve government. Their conversation focuses in on the front-end technologies used to create the webapp, as well as “microservice fatigue” and the other various architectural concerns within the team.

Andrew Clark is a software engineer at OpenGov.